Help me find some good blues-rock songs
December 10, 2007 7:06 PM
Can you think of any other blues-rock songs with the same rhythmic pattern as Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and ZZ Top's "La Grange"?
"Hot For Teacher" by Van Halen has the same John Lee Hooker riff as La Grange.
posted by sourwookie at 7:21 PM on December 10, 2007
posted by sourwookie at 7:21 PM on December 10, 2007
Bad Seed by Metallica is syncopated like that, strumming between the beats.
posted by Khalad at 7:34 PM on December 10, 2007
posted by Khalad at 7:34 PM on December 10, 2007
Tom Petty's "Saving Grace"
The Four Horsemen "Nobody said it was Easy"
Not blue's rock at all: Dio's "Holy Diver"
posted by davey_darling at 8:29 PM on December 10, 2007
The Four Horsemen "Nobody said it was Easy"
Not blue's rock at all: Dio's "Holy Diver"
posted by davey_darling at 8:29 PM on December 10, 2007
Help Me - Sonny Boy Williamson II
Green Onions - Booker T. and the MGs
Shake Your Hips - Slim Harpo (and the Rolling Stones)
posted by timeistight at 8:54 PM on December 10, 2007
Green Onions - Booker T. and the MGs
Shake Your Hips - Slim Harpo (and the Rolling Stones)
posted by timeistight at 8:54 PM on December 10, 2007
I would call that rhythm "boogie".
For blues-rock, definitely Canned Heat's On The Road Again.
posted by alb at 5:19 AM on December 11, 2007
For blues-rock, definitely Canned Heat's On The Road Again.
posted by alb at 5:19 AM on December 11, 2007
"Electric Worry" by Clutch.
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" covered by George Thorogood. John Lee Hooker original, right?
Here are a few ditties that have a much heavier version of that rythym, but you can hear blues roots (somewhere under the screaming, hehe). These probably won't appeal to ears born after 1975, so fair warning. I said "probably".
"Thumb" by Kyuss.
"Eyes of the South" by Down. At least the intro and the verse.
"Methamphetamine" by Eyehategod.
posted by disaster77 at 7:32 AM on December 11, 2007
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" covered by George Thorogood. John Lee Hooker original, right?
Here are a few ditties that have a much heavier version of that rythym, but you can hear blues roots (somewhere under the screaming, hehe). These probably won't appeal to ears born after 1975, so fair warning. I said "probably".
"Thumb" by Kyuss.
"Eyes of the South" by Down. At least the intro and the verse.
"Methamphetamine" by Eyehategod.
posted by disaster77 at 7:32 AM on December 11, 2007
hmmm....I think (but I'm not totally sure) that everyone above ripped off all of that from Bo Diddley (minus John Lee Hooker and Sonnie Boy Williamson).
Try to find a track called Bring it to Jerome, or just "Jerome"...let me know if I'm right.
posted by sully75 at 11:31 AM on December 11, 2007
Try to find a track called Bring it to Jerome, or just "Jerome"...let me know if I'm right.
posted by sully75 at 11:31 AM on December 11, 2007
Not blues rock but using that riff - OOH LA LA by Goldfrapp
posted by canoehead at 8:19 PM on December 11, 2007
posted by canoehead at 8:19 PM on December 11, 2007
Canned Heat and the Chipmunks - The Chipmunk Song
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posted by hydrophonic at 10:56 AM on December 24, 2007
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posted by hydrophonic at 10:56 AM on December 24, 2007
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Funny you posted this -- I heard "Spirit in the Sky" today and realized how much I hate that song, in particular Norman Greenbaum's incredibly white interpretation of the blues rhythm you mentioned.
posted by dhammond at 7:11 PM on December 10, 2007