"Elevator" by Box Car Racer. cello solo at the end
"Good Riddance" by Green Day. violin/cello

I play cello. And i really wan´t to play a new music. I´m fedup with the old classical music. does anybody knows, where I can buy pop music -notes to cello?

Hey!!!! You should definitily check out a band called "Cursive". They added a cellist "Gretta Cohn" about 4 years ago. (Amazing in concert) They are more along the lines of Indy Rock... very passionate... I think you might find it interesting. As a band they have, I feel, a very real...and very unique style. Some of the songs were really, you can tell, written around the Cello.
Go to limewire, or any mp3 download page and search for "Cursive" and the song is titled "Excerpts From Various Notes Strewn Abound The Bedroom Of April Connolly Feb. 24, 1997" its a very cool sounding cello in it. Check out anything from the Cursive album "The Ugly Organ". Everything was written with, or around the cello. I think its definitly shows how versitile this intrument can be... often times it plays such a strong supporting role but isn`t quite the feature... at least in most hard rock-n-roll applications.
Let me know what you think;-)

i am a very adement cello player and there are some very nice cello lines in popular music but they are realy easy there designed for grades 1-4 ish and realy not worth the time i learnt the angel theme tune and i had longed for it for ages but it was not as impressive when the notes were in front of me, the highest it goes is the G in 4th posistion on the A string. there are some worth while classical peices, i advise J. S.Bach "six suites for violoncello solo" (ref. BWV 1007- 1012) and if your looking for something thats a bit more popular there is a nice cello line in "Schindler`s List" if you havr a string quartet. by the way if any one has any a good reccomendation i would like to know i am working towards grade 6 although ive been playing grade 8 music for the last year or so.

Tom Mcrae

gorilaz has a cello played by issabell something

Cursive is an excellent band which has featured a cello ever since the addition of their newest member, Greta.

Travis` `Why Does It ALways Rain On Me` has a short cello solo at the start.

Nick Drake`s album, Five Leaves Left features the cello in most of his songs

yay - glad someone mentioned tom mcrae - and the genius that is oli kraus

really interested in this topic cos im currently searching for pop song music - but i was also hoping to try and do a vyvienne long type thing and adapt popular songs for cello - thought it would help with my musical development as well - does anyone else here play around with this at all?

You should check out `Apocalyptica`. They are known for playin Metallica songs only on 4 `cellos. They are awesome, they also play other modern music, it`s worth a look!!!!

Good luck finding stuff!!!

the apocalyptica stuff is cool - i have some but need to spend some time getting to grips with it

ive worked out a couple of the tom mcrae bits as well

the link to the vyvienne long isnt live anymore - what track was it?

and does anyone know where we can get the sheet music to any of these tracks?

Check out these bands for cello: Echo & the Bunnymen and their song Never Stop, Rob Szabo and his song Breaking Even, the band Sea Ray.

Also Damien Rice and his song Volcano

"Disarm" from the Smashing Pumpkins has a great cello piece . . .