Vitamin String Quartet
Vitamin String Quartet (also known simply as The String Quartet) are a collective of Los Angeles based string musicians and producers/strangers who record for Vitamin Records. Their albums typically focus on one band per album, and the covers are instrumental classical versions of that band's songs, note for note. VSQ has covered a diverse amount of artists. [1] If you like orchestral music, then you might want to check out their cover album(s) of your favorite bands & artists.
Vitamin String Quartet provides examples of the following tropes:
- Archive Panic - They've released 232 albums!
- As of 5/15/2011, that number is 377.
- Beyond the Impossible: Through the Fire and the Flames. Somewhere, Charlie Daniels feels inadequate.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: This cover of Queen's "We Will Rock You".
- 99% of everything they cover
- Fan Nickname: Several different artists are on each album. They became collectively known as the Vitamin String Quartet, or VSQ, due to the name of the rcord label.
- Nightmare Fuel: When they cover dark songs, the result can be this.
- Narm Charm: Some of the songs covered by VSQ include Linkin Park's "Breaking the Habit", Three Days Grace's "Animal I've Become", and Slayer's "Dead Skin Mask". This should sound totally cheesy, and yet, it's not.
- ↑ Tori Amos, Marilyn Manson, Alice in Chains, The Cure, Shania Twain, Muse, Led Zeppelin, Tupac Shakur, Madonna, Garbage, Aerosmith, Sade, Arcade Fire, Limp Bizkit, Avenged Sevenfold, Garth Brooks, ACDC, Bjork, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, Disturbed, Flaming Lips, & Metallica are just some of the musicians they have covered.