Do you agree? Top ten saxophone solos from the 1980s (a youtube compilation)

[Flaxbee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDmlnHRNWgc&feature=related


How about these, from the 1970s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKXpyrspyI&feature=related

[Arugula Latte]

1. There were some great ones, there (especially the 70s)

I can't really judge such things, but I know I love the sax riff in the Steely Dan song "Peg," as well.

[bluesbassman]

2. All good ones. How about this too...

Bobby Keys on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" - Rolling Stones 1971.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzKczV_k6I4

[Radical Activist]

4. That one is better

than any in those two videos.

[Flaxbee]

7. thanks for posting! Can't believe I've never heard it before

(cringes).

My husband likes this one in Billy Vera's "At this Moment"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS32KFIruxc&feature=related

[Radical Activist]

3. Suddenly I realize why I never liked the sax.

My first exposure was crappy 80's sax. ugh
David Lee Roth and Billy Joel? Come on! 80's pop is the lowest form of music known to man.

[Flaxbee]

8. NOOOOO! I grew up on 80s pop!

:D

[Radical Activist]

11. me too

you have my sympathies. for years i thought i didn't like modern music in general.

[Flaxbee]

14. lol.

I can't help it, pure nostalgia. Though I was a kid in grade school in the 70s in San Clemente and my sisters are 10 & 12 years older than I am, so I got a very healthy dose of 70s music - also puts me in a nostalgia tailspin.

I loves me some Benny Goodman, though. But toss in Tears for Fears (and David Lee Roth's "Just a Gigolo" will forever remind me of Newport Beach) and I'm happy, too.

[Radical Activist]

16. I was in grade school

in the 80's. I got my dose of 70's music from my much older brother. I was very happy when grunge came along. Well, depressed but musically happy.

[cemaphonic]

12. Yeah, those horrid sax solos were one of the worst things about 80s pop.

E Street Band gets a pass, but their sax player was well-integrated into the band's sound long before the 80s rolled around.

[Radical Activist]

15. the e street band

would have been a lot better if they had ditched the 80's synthesizer. But you're right that their sax was better utilized that other sax of the era.

[cemaphonic]

18. Yeah that's true

It's weird, because it's not like they didn't use synthesizers pretty regularly in their earlier recordings too. But those brassy 80s FM synths don't really gel with the rest of the band.

My favorite 80s Sprinsteen recording (by far) is Nebraska anyway.

[Iggo]

5. Is "Pick Up The Pieces" in there anywhere?

If not, then it's bullshit.

[Flaxbee]

9. this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpZb3XPrXw

no, it wasn't in the list. (Not my list, by the way. Just one I found cruising youtube)

[Iggo]

17. Not quite.

That was interesting. Cute girl, too.

I meant this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUb-b4Nhqug&feature=related

The lead starts about 2:25, and while not the greatest sax solo I've ever heard, it's one of the best I've ever heard on rock radio.

[Flaxbee]

21. thanks --

lotsa footage of Candy (the girl-saxophonist) on Youtube ;)

[Iggo]

23. Yeah, I saw that.

Never heard of her before. But I'm quickly becoming an expert...lol.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Ah, but that's from the 90s - here she in in the 80s - "Lily Was Here"

with Dave Stewart (just gets in, release in November 1989, according to Wikipedia)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XhSx8uKdD5o

I was going to say Candy Dulfer should have been in there.

[bridgit]

6. 80's!?!?!? What? Relive it all AGAIN!! Quarterflash - Harden My Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9iX7Zzgs8

[bridgit]

10. Sting - Branford Marsalis - Roxanne, a song from the 80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvKYSX46Idk

[bridgit]

13. Clarence Clemons & The Red Bank Rockers PARADISE Boston 1983

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8H4R66Hkj0

[crimsonblue]

19. I disagree.

[Flaxbee]

20. How about Junior Walker & the Allstars - How Sweet it Is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84so3w4EH0E

[MilesColtrane]

22. Let's not forget the late, great Michael Brecker with Cameo in "Candy".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiSkgkkr0A&feature=related

Short solos at 2:50 and 4:04.

[HuskerDU]

24. Here are a couple of my faves:

80's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41z0ad32Oo

70's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4sg15ggcY

My favorite is the solo at the end of the New York Dolls' "Human Being" but I could not find a youtube of the original recording.

[bbernardini]

26. Glad to see Michael "Tunes" Antunes getting some love.

A lot of people dismissed John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band as a Springsteen ripoff, but I never saw it that way. Cafferty, Antunes, and whoever he has with him still put on an amazing show to this day.

[Fire Walk With Me]

27. The sax solo in Men At Work's "Who Could It Be Now?".

;)

Perhaps the sax solo in Romeo Void's "Never Say Never".

[Flaxbee]

28. Men at Work - yeah, that is a good one

thanks for including it! :hi: