Title: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: claws on August 29, 2012, 03:19:55 PM Just wondering where you stand.
Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: voltron on August 29, 2012, 06:56:43 PM Hmmm...really depends I guess. If it's No Wave it's cool. I'm not sure - oh s**t, wait - Swervedriver has a sax song and it was cool. Talk Talk used a lot of jazz instrumentation on Laughing Stock and it was great. Pink Floyd used sax on The Final Cut. I might be wrong but I think Amorphis may have used sax on their later period albums as well. So, condidering all that I guess you could say I think it's cool. :smile:
Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: zombie no.one on August 29, 2012, 08:13:31 PM swervedriver are cool, was it on one of their long druggy sounding tracks?
I used to be quite good friends with the son of roxy music's sax player when he lived a few doors down from me. can't be dissing the sax in rock situation :smile: Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: Mofo Rising on August 30, 2012, 02:15:11 AM Well, it depends on the song in question.
I have always been of the viewpoint that any instrument is fair game as far as rock music goes. There's no reason that rock music should be only guitar, bass, drums, and sometimes keyboards. If it works to add brass, wing that mother. That being said, the saxophone is probably the instrument that lends itself to a wankfest as ready as lead guitar. We get it, guy, you enjoy playing on your organ. But take this, Midnight Oil's "Power and the Passion." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKPNnk-JhE It's a normal enough rock/pop song, but the introduction of horns at the end turns it into a blistering finale. You may or may not like that song, but take away the brass section and it loses more than it could gain without. Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: RCMerchant on August 30, 2012, 05:08:36 AM Like Zoltron and Mofo say-depends on the song...and the band-
now heres cool,baby- X Ray Spex with the late Poly Styrene....!!!!! OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmZQrTONME&feature=related ...and then you got astonishingly annoying sax on Billy Joel's It Still Rock and Roll to Me...but I can't-won't!-torture with that dirge of dire drek. Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: AndyC on August 30, 2012, 08:18:00 AM I would see a saxaphone as a fairly conventional rock instrument, not really out of place per se.
Although, there are some songs that make really good use of it, and I'm particularly fond of some that have incorporated things like a string or a horn section. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGfPrst29Y Great horn section in that one, but it does fit in well. You aren't overwhelmed by brass and woodwind, but it adds a lot to the music. Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: zombie no.one on August 30, 2012, 10:19:11 AM Steely Dan are masters of the tasteful sax solo (Deacon Blues and Dr Wu spring to mind, loads of other tracks too)
Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: voltron on August 30, 2012, 10:50:20 AM swervedriver are cool, was it on one of their long druggy sounding tracks? Yup. It was "Never Lose That Feeling / Never Learn".Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: Jack on August 30, 2012, 11:53:07 AM A sax is right at home in certain bluesy rock stuff. It's an extremely expressive instrument - in the hands of the right person :smile:
Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: tracy on August 30, 2012, 12:09:38 PM A sax is right at home in certain bluesy rock stuff. It's an extremely expressive instrument - in the hands of the right person :smile: Exactly. I've always liked the depth a good sax solo can add to a song. :wink: Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: Allhallowsday on August 30, 2012, 11:02:13 PM Many classic Rock songs include sax.
Title: Re: Saxophone in Rock Music - Cool or Annoying? Post by: Trevor on August 31, 2012, 03:37:33 AM The saxophone solo in Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street makes the song. :smile:
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