Favorite Rock-N-Roll Song featuring the Organ

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Poll question: Favorite Rock-N-Roll Song featuring the Organ

heh. I said organ.

[SoxFan]

1. Don't Give It Up Now-The Lyres

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=docmgx3y3zg

[Tikki]

2. Three fine grinders...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FpDubag4Uw
"Happy Organ"....Dave 'Baby' Cortez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIgnPAl5eI
Augie Meyers..."Mendicino"....Sir Douglas Quintet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfhk2WxfV2c
Felix Cavaliere....The (Young) Rascals..."People Gotta Be Free"


Tikki

[Withywindle]

3. Sister Ray - the Velvet Underground

I could only find it in 2 parts on YouTube - it is 17 and a half minutes long after all.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDtqbS7DK2s

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EfSapCA5ls

(There's no bass - the low notes are John Cale on the organ, and he lays into a melt-your-face-off solo just a couple minutes in)

[miscsoc]

19. A friend of mine

said the organ is really some sort of processed electric viola played by cale. When I said - "the organ on this is good"

[Withywindle]

23. No, it's not.

I play violin and viola. I WISH Cale had used his viola more (My all-time favorite VU tracks are "Venus In Furs" and "Heroin") Cale was really a pianist at heart, though, and this is all organ.

I bonded on this with my ex, who is a classically-trained pianist and Farfisa garage rocker. I actually kind of think some of our sex life was based on both wanting to be Cale by proxy. :evilgrin: Nevertheless, we know the difference.

[miscsoc]

24. i'll tell my mate that he was wrong

and bask in my rock nerd superiority

I have no idea what a sex life based on wanting to be John Cale by proxy would be like, but it sounds fun.

[Withywindle]

27. Just make sure it's John Cale in the 60s

That pretty long-haired Welsh-accented boy who came out of the John Cage avant-garde scene...kind of relatively naive, still burning from Aaron Copland's hand on his knee....(Read his autobiography, it really happened.)

It's not really about him personally. It's about the way his viola sounds on 'Venus in Furs.' Most. Erotic. Single. Musical. Sound. Ever.


But the piano/organ was really his greatest weapon. That's him at the end of "Waiting For the Man" too.

[miscsoc]

28. so not this john cale?

(sadly puts hockey mask back in drawer)

[Withywindle]

31. I must admit, I can't resist that one either.

Fear and Slow Dazzle are VERY high on my list of favorite albums of all time.


Alright, what do you want me to admit?



That I'd gladly nail him even now? No shit, Sherlock.



But I STILL would beg him to play viola, either before or after, his choice. :D

[Withywindle]

32. Truth be told, my favorite incarnation of John Cale

was the one who worked so hard as a producer, arranger and instrumentalist for Nico on The Marble Index, Desertshore, and The End.

Even though her voice was clunky, it was so sincere, and his arrangements were SO intense. Especially 'Das Lied der Deutschen' on 'The End," which was like some kind of fucked up sexy WWII catharsis.

[miscsoc]

33. Well, I sort of want to

hear that now - "fucked up sexy WWII catharsis". Although I don't speak German, I'll have to get out the babelfish.

[Withywindle]

34. all on iTunes

Nico:

'Marble Index'
'Desertshore'
'The End'


(Cale produced and played most instruments on the first two; Eno and Manzanera of Roxy Music weighed in on the latter.)

[mitchum]

41. Have you seen this?

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

Fantastic

[mitchum]

39. I also think that Cale is a living god, but I have to confess ny favorite Velvet organ...

is Doug Yole's playing on "What Goes On"
Particularly on the Live 1969 version.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. No contest....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZSnAkQc4c

[Withywindle]

7. GET OUT OF MY HEAD

I was just about to post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WFLUhSym80

(best I could find for the studio version)

[Chemical Bill]

9. I like this one better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6x8GGXrCFQ

[triguy46]

5. Chest Fever, the Band

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. Not one of my favorites, but GEEZ...

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... no Iron Butterfly in that poll?
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heh. you DID say organ.
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and now I have, too.
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[Withywindle]

8. I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU LEFT THIS ONE OFF THE POLL.

? and the fucking Mysterians, 96 fucking Tears, motherfuckers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolH-kzx4c

[Dr. Strange]

10. Does this song have an organ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg

[AwakeAtLast]

16. I think that's synthesizer

but in the early 80's the lines were blurred.

[Chemical Bill]

11. Country Pie/Brandenburg Concerto No 6 by The Nice

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

[Robeson]

12. Whipping Post by the Allman Bros.

[Swede]

13. Paul Rever and the Raiders - Indian Reservation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuG1Ge8MTU

[Iggo]

35. That outro is badass. (n/t)

[nolabear]

14. Inna Gadda da Vida (after all these years I can't spell it!)

But it still rocks.

[GreenPartyVoter]

61. yep!

[Skittles]

15. Won't Get Fooled Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q

[jobycom]

17. In that list, I like the Animals song best, but I like Procol Harem's use of the organ better.

If that makes sense. I love the mood of that song.

[WillyT]

18. 96 Tears - Question Mark And The Mysterions

:hi:

[miscsoc]

20. any steely dan song with

the rhodes-phaser thing.

[Steely_Dan]

29. I Hear ya!

[miscsoc]

55. haha, man of taste here

listening to Snowbound by Donald Fagen. Nice keyboard fills in there

[miscsoc]

21. no wait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hlm8KbtlRU

don't know if that's an organ or keyboard but oo

[abq e streeter]

22. It wasn't wine that I had too much of, it was a ...DOUBLE SHOT OF MY BABY'S LOVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgMQkEz5Uvs


Liar Liar, House of the Rising Sun and I'm a Man are extremely close runner ups...but gotta go with the Swingin' Medallions

[Capn Sunshine]

25. Lee Michaels-Stormy Monday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7PpXSC1NN4
he's playing solo.

or (tie) Allman Bros Same tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDhR1R3S0s

[sakabatou]

26. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

[Amerigo Vespucci]

47. You can never go wrong with the music of I. Ron Butterfly

:toast:

[RainDog]

30. Penis!

oh, sorry, I'm on the wrong thread.

[begin_within]

36. Your Time is Gonna Come, Incense and Peppermints, Let it Be, Green Onions, Burn, Child in Time

[Skip Intro]

37. ...

:shrug:

[MilesColtrane]

38. I've got Robeson's back.

The answer is "Whipping Post".

[mitchum]

40. Bill Wyman's organ playing sounds quite sinister on "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

[datasuspect]

42. did anyone say highway star yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRt3PIDER94

[Sebastian Doyle]

51. See post #4

First song I thought of.

[BulletproofLandshark]

43. Boston "Smokin" n/t

[Urban Prairie]

44. Uriah Heep

July Morning

[bif]

45. Whiter Shade of Pale"- Procal Harum

[guitar man]

46. Can't forget Magic Carpet Ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkP5gTX6Hc&feature=youtube_gdata

too many great rock songs with great organ parts to choose a best one...the mighty Hammond B3 shaped a whole generation of music :)

[Tom_Foolery]

48. The Happy Organ!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FpDubag4Uw

[pintobean]

49. My Ding A Ling

Chuck Berry


Edit: Oops, wrong instrument

[KamaAina]

50. Gotta go with my homie Carlos

but what about "The Happy Organ"? :shrug:

[Lindsey]

52. I don't know it it actuallly featires the song but I'm going with

Elton John's "Funeral for a fried".

[CBGLuthier]

53. Green Onions. Booker T.and the MGs

[Rambis]

56. 2nd (nm)

:kick:

[GreenPartyVoter]

62. +1

[rug]

54. Speaking of organs, here's Ballad of a Thin Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yfO3xchTzE

[edbermac]

57. Light My Fire

[pink-o]

58. I was gonna say LA Woman.

Ray Manzarek: any Doors song because of him. But LA Woman is my favorite, just an anthem to the City they loved.

[SteppingRazor]

59. "Like a Rolling Stone," by Bob Dylan. The organ that opens that song...

has got to be one of the best moments in rock history.

[RainDog]

65. Ballad of a Thin Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIYTu0SNkQ

[AllenVanAllen]

60. I got 3

By Faith No More - Mouth To Mouth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HoEHWw4vY


MR. Bungle - Quote Unquote/Travolta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kGhzf5cESU

Mr. Bungle - Stubb (A Dub)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RBSrUtX0bA

[GreenPartyVoter]

63. "You Keep Me Hanging On" - Vanilla Fudge cover, "Mean Mistreater" - Grand Funk Railroad

[Burma Jones]

64. Magic Carpet Ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGtT4cv5HFQ

[GumboYaYa]

66. Cissy Strut is the best organ piece ever played in rock music.

Nothing else mentioned so far even comes close to comparing. It is one of the most sampled pieces of music ever recorded.