Horn Sections in Rock Music

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by bucklind17

I'm very familiar with Chicago. While I'm a fan of all of their eras, it's the grittier early stuff that I really dig as far as appreciating the horn section. The more upbeat and loud plus brass, the better.

Yes they mellowed out in the later years.I always love music with horns in them.some tunes get boring with just the normal instruments.

[LukeA]

While I think horn sections are awesome in just about any type of music, I greatly appreciate the use of mariachi style (violin+trumpet+guitar) accompaniments- and especially on these particular tracks.

• My Guardian Angel by Pistoleros

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and, of course..

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by LukeA

While I think horn sections are awesome in just about any type of music, I greatly appreciate the use of mariachi style (violin+trumpet+guitar) accompaniments- and especially on these particular tracks.

• My Guardian Angel by Pistoleros

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and, of course..

I remember that George Harrison song was in the movie Goodfellas!

[chiliD]

The Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life"

The Beatles - "Savoy Truffle"

The Beatles - "Penny Lane"

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women" (and almost ALL of Exile On Main Street

The Ides Of March - (I'm Your) Vehicle

Heck, nobody's mentioned the obvious:

Fleetwood Mac - "Heroes Are Hard To Find"

Fleetwood Mac - "Stop Messin' Round"

[sarahw]

Bruce and his E Street Band......Clarence wails on his sax. Adds so much to Bruce's early stuff......Spirits in the Night, Jungleland, She's the One........to name a few.

[bucklind17]

Originally Posted by sarahw

Bruce and his E Street Band......Clarence wails on his sax. Adds so much to Bruce's early stuff......Spirits in the Night, Jungleland, She's the One........to name a few.

I'm a sucker for Jungleland, I can listen to that all afternoon! Also, the sax solo on Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" is one of my faves.

Brass just gives music so much more pizazz.

[bucklind17]

A few of my current faves:

[GarboSpeaks!]

Blood, Sweat & Tears baby. Horn groviness. Pure 70's a/m radio syrup.

[Zombie]

Does this count?



It probably says something about my character that the first song I thought of with a horn section in it was a GWAR song, but hey! Horn section!

After I thought about that, though, I also thought of Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," and Devin Townsend's "Bad Devil."

[jaycee]

Dad's been thrashing The Soft Parade a lot lately, so here's a song from that - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFub2Zn8TZg. All the songs from that album include horns and brass, to a greater or lesser extent. Much to The Doors disappointment, TSP is my favourite album of theirs.

[iamnotafraid]

From Elvis In Memphis Sony/BMG Legacy Edition 2009

Elvis used the Memphis Horns on his studio work in 1969.
Some of his best work. His comeback was reaching it's peak
from '68 through '70.

[Stew_Matthews]

Foreigner's Urgent must have the best sax solo in any rock/pop song.

[~*BellaDonna*~]

Jungleland - by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It features a terrific, haunting sax performance from the late great Clarence Clemmons, aka: "The Big Man"

[Macfanforever]

I rather hear the horns more then the noisy guitar in rock music .I never was a fan of guitar rock.

[FuzzyPlum]

I remember the 1980's as being a big time for horn sections. From memory the biggest 'horny' acts were the likes of Phil Collins, Huey Lewis, Billy Ocean.
Notably Dexy's Midnight Runners got rid of the horn section of the band;
Jackie Wilson Said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMudkU6kTuE
...and replaced them with a violin section to completely change their sound.

More recently Amy Winehouse's Jazz/Blues/Soul-infused style really lent itself to horns;
Tears Dry On Their Own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdbDYahiCQ

and off the top of my head Radiohead went through a major experimental phase with horns- most notibly on Kid A (not everyones cup of tea, I'm sure);
The national Anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLQ9S5D_mxw