Syprux says: I ♥ Music

Saturday, May 31, 2008,10:04 PM

Piano Driven

I have to admit. I am pretty much easily hooked on piano centered music (well, not all of them of course). You know, those songs where they have the haunting sounds of a piano being played in the background, or the piano being featured prominently besides the singer's voice, or just merely the piano in all it's splendor. Yeah. I'm a sucker for piano driven songs.
I've been gladly surprised over the years that piano drive rock have been featured rather prominently by certain rock bands and songs are actually rather fantastic. Well, i'll list some of my favorites: Syprux's Haunting Melodrama presents-
+ Coldplay - Trouble. There are a fair number of coldplay songs which prominently feature Chris Martin's voice and piano prowess. His haunting voice and his haunting piano tunes. Such a nice combination.
Trouble

+ Keane - Everybody's changing. Here's a band who has such a talented pianist. All of Keane's songs feature the piano (well, they don't have a guitarist, and there's only so much of Tom's baby-ish voice can one take before you feel deranged)but in my opinion,this is one of the songs where Rice-Oakley clearly demonstrates his creativity with the piano .Rice-Oakley is brilliant at the piano. He can play out such gentle haunting tunes, and also strong melodies. Brilliant.
Everybody's Changing

+ Radiohead - Karma Police. Damn, piano driven rock without Karma Police is like.. like.. Garlic naan without tandoori chicken (sorry. couldn't resist that reference). Song starts off with heavy chords before Yorke's (slightly) deranged sounding voice starts crooning "Karma Police..". Brilliant.. then again, Radiohead IS brilliant. but their music isn't for everyone. Damn i love these guys.
Karma Police

Well, it's kind of ironic that i like piano rock, while my brother is into guitar rock. You should see us blasting our collections side by side. Guitar rifts with piano chords. Madness.

Pop music has had it's fair share of piano drive pop too. (and no, i'm not going to recommend boybands, as much as i like them, i refuse to succumb!)
+ Robbie Williams - Angels/Feel. I'm not a huge fan of Robbie. But these two songs particularly stand out to me (well, not only because it sounds good), but the piano playing makes this song sounds so very unique, and catchy too.Angels
Feel

And let's not forget classical music. One particular classical piece (apart from beautiful blue danube), was the recent live performance by Hancock and Lang Lang at the Grammys. Rhapsody in Blue.(for the life of me, i can't seem to find that video. damn you youtube!)
Here's a substitute. Enjoy