Wagnerian rock

Wagnerian rock is the merger of 20th-century rock and roll and 19th-century opera reminiscent of Richard Wagner or Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

Origins and characteristics

The term was coined by writer and producer Jim Steinman (to describe Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums)[1][2] and is sometimes used ambiguously in rock writing, referring to a bombastic Teutonic style, or fantasy lyrics.

gollark: We have some ideas sleeping furiously over in Ideatic Containment Site-01864.
gollark: It's programmed to approximately maximize that and a ton of other broadly defined things in a weird heuristic way.
gollark: It's not programmed to do that. That would be *rational optimization* for some goal, which brains are bad at.
gollark: I have no idea how to do fun comparison across species, and food scarcity and misery sounds not fun.
gollark: It matters to current-me, so I don't want to do that.

See also

References
  1. Crawford, Jeff (March 3, 2004). "'Old Ham' using his loaf". Messenger - Guardian.
  2. Brearley, David; Waldren, Murray; Butler, Mark; Shedden, Iain (August 9, 2003). "25 classic albums that never get played...and the 25 good reasons why not - ROCK monuments". Weekend Australian.
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