We need more songs with a random 3 minute section in the middle where they just let the saxophonist go wild - ThreadSky

nameshiv.bsky.social • 13 days ago

We need more songs with a random 3 minute section in the middle where they just let the saxophonist go wild

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introvertcollin.bsky.social•12 days ago

I could use a return to the 80's like that

squeevening.bsky.social•13 days ago

NOnonononoooooooo 🤣🤣🤣

ob1moroney.bsky.social•13 days ago

Don’t forget Madness

ob1moroney.bsky.social•13 days ago

Haircut 100, early 80s band. Lotsa sax

storylibrarian.bsky.social•13 days ago

The eighties excelled at this, from Squeeze to Duran Duran to so many others!

captaininertia.bsky.social•12 days ago

Absolutely, we should arrange society to be more like Eurovision, I’ve always said this

margypens.bsky.social•12 days ago

Pink Floyd

groanrivers.bsky.social•13 days ago

Forget me Nots by Patrice Rushens checks the box

asadiablo.me•12 days ago

The world needs more good sax.

turnerjoy.bsky.social•13 days ago

If you haven’t heard it, you should check out the Halo: ODST soundtrack. Lots of Smokey sax.

There have been some groups in the “Synthwave” area that have been bringing back more of the sax.

misterrora.bsky.social•12 days ago

The greatest use of saxophone in rock history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_xxPqQHS0

codespace.bsky.social•12 days ago

Might I suggest GUNSHIP's "Dark All Day" specifically, and retrowave in general?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ruvzfXQoE

sauthoff.bsky.social•13 days ago

I now have INXS stuck in my head.

kendrawrites.com•13 days ago

No. Reed instruments are the worst and I say this as a former clarinet player who stopped using wooden reeds her senior year (they taste bad! they mold!) in favor of plastic reeds which sound worse but feel better.

kendrawrites.com•13 days ago

I play the ukulele now (poorly, I was a better clarinetist. But that's how much I hate reeded instruments)

hollylecraw.bsky.social•13 days ago

No no no. Two words: rock flute

maxthyme.bsky.social•12 days ago

Jethro freaking Tull.

I also hate people who can play the flute, my lips don't do the little oval right.

omfproductions.bsky.social•13 days ago

I switched from oboe to bassoon to bass. There is a clear path there, heh.

ghostyspook.bsky.social•12 days ago

I am with you but I played trumpet and am all about trumpet solos and backups! Big band all the time

savluvx.bsky.social•13 days ago

They make plastic reeds???

I am 84 years old 🥹

jsilverplatinum.bsky.social•13 days ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/_MAXlkWLpfM?si=wKnJ1qxQka9ddUW5

panda-mouse.bsky.social•12 days ago

you need to listen to The Midnight

carterwickstrom.bsky.social•13 days ago

let the 90s go shiv

carterwickstrom.bsky.social•13 days ago

if we were talking flutes or pipes, I might be with you

aerinea.bsky.social•13 days ago

This song just popped into my head for some reason. It's called "Editions of You"
https://youtu.be/O6fFL-1fclI?si=mgpIN2KfAk4ecQC9

sdwolfpup.bsky.social•13 days ago

Gerry Rafferty knew what was up.

chetsandberg.bsky.social•13 days ago

Not the saxophonist! The flautist!

slatteroo.bsky.social•12 days ago

Please! We have bills!

chroniclebill.bsky.social•13 days ago

Pink Floyd

neal-stanifer.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh great! Now I'm earwormed with Jethro Tull!

bluemanaann.bsky.social•12 days ago

Other musicians can get a solo, but the saxophonist specifically must be unleashed.

digitaldiscipline.bsky.social•12 days ago

[The E Street Band and Men At Work have sauntered jauntily into the chat]

asadiablo.me•12 days ago

[Coughs in Jerry Rafferty]

brainmist.bsky.social•13 days ago

OK, but what about songs with 3 cumulative minutes of saxophone?

https://youtu.be/A1dY6OkPb7E?si=8itggofo9tBxcr-y

duhmocracy.bsky.social•12 days ago

Thank you for not failing me. Came in here hoping to see exactly this. Because…
I still believe.

brainmist.bsky.social•12 days ago

I still believe!

*woo woo wHOOOOO!*

neal-stanifer.bsky.social•13 days ago

Now I've got "Baker Street" stuck in my head and I have to pee because of the drizzly rain. Thanks, man.

lucacenta.bsky.social•13 days ago

Literally anything from John Zorn
https://youtu.be/gc-7BHjwW1o?si=VTc9g3BvXk3WRxoS

gpetersen.bsky.social•13 days ago

Suggest you check out some Rivers of Nihil, the only metal band with sax solos!

torsade.bsky.social•13 days ago

Stormy by the Classics IV has a great sax solo.

an240tyler.bsky.social•11 days ago

You reminded me of this, tho it's not 3 minutes saxophone lol
https://youtu.be/-bnx_Qwy7w4?si=L6dmo1G7FrwnSc_B

jctenton.bsky.social•13 days ago

saxophonist jobs really collapsed after the 80s

jctenton.bsky.social•13 days ago

that's why clinton had to run for president

chronicleflask.katday.com•13 days ago

Or the drummer? I appreciate a random drum solo

sarahvb.bsky.social•13 days ago

Baker Street, a perfect song.

puahhope.bsky.social•12 days ago

Also king crimson "starless" (but only in certain versions...)

puahhope.bsky.social•12 days ago

Pink Floyd "us and them" yep

anothergreyrock.bsky.social•13 days ago

more gratuitous sax, pls

pumpkinhoundpdx.bsky.social•13 days ago

Thinking of M83’s “Midnight City”

britpoptarts.bsky.social•13 days ago

furbism.com•13 days ago

Are you familiar with Marian Hill (obligatory Go Birds) and the saxophone stylings of Steve Davit https://youtu.be/8wjbY0Tyfr4

drew4484.bsky.social•13 days ago

Miasma by Ghost has been in the mix lately

strangelyhuman.bsky.social•12 days ago

It’s from a video game soundtrack, but “Sightless Shepherd” by Darren Korb for Hades II features Sam Gendel going nuts and it absolutely rules!

ronniesmart.bsky.social•13 days ago

Just not Kenny G. Please.

ok-sure.bsky.social•13 days ago

Counterpoint: we need to outlaw saxophones

digitaldiscipline.bsky.social•12 days ago

Adolph Sax's early life was the universe repeatedly trying like hell to stop him from inventing it.

cadmium-orange.bsky.social•13 days ago

But then you’d risk just having rouge saxophonists barging into songs and forcing three minute interludes.

gaildrakes.bsky.social•13 days ago

I think you meant “rogue saxophonists,” but the image of sun-kissed saxophonists having the run of the place made me chuckle…☺️

cadmium-orange.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yeah. But no edit button, and sometimes you’ve just got to move on in life. At least the saxophonists are living their best life, enjoying the sunshine and vitamin d.

gaildrakes.bsky.social•13 days ago

Exactly! And who says they aren’t both blushing and bold? 😉

abecedarian.bsky.social•13 days ago

Street saxophones playing the Flintstones theme? Yes, that's true.

nameshiv.bsky.social•13 days ago

That would be giving in to kalyug

matthewskelton.com•12 days ago

As a trumpeter, I see your assertion as a serious threat 😜

#TooMuchSax

oldmanant.bsky.social•12 days ago

AOR exists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U2Eu0x0EZQ

mathildamoo.bsky.social•13 days ago

beeker street. So much of the seventies was just giving the sax player a bong hit and recording the results

priznat.bsky.social•13 days ago

I was just talking to someone today about Soundgarden's "Room a Thousand Years Wide" that has a pretty rad sax breakdown at the end, one of my fav tunes of theirs.

tjpadden.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sounds like you need Saxsquatch in your life
https://youtu.be/Am7kr_lLbsw?si=VhKPAG_0ZMCZqVYv

ghorn.bsky.social•12 days ago

I suggest more Morphine.
The band, not the drug.

elliotghoul.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’m convinced to only reason sax players in rock bands exist is they couldn’t cut it playing jazz but had a good friend take pity on them

chatsubo657.bsky.social•13 days ago

The 1980s was the wild sax solo of the 20th Century.

coconnor8.bsky.social•13 days ago

This whole tune

https://youtu.be/gc-7BHjwW1o?si=2rr_Gl8f7u9Th26W

pendell.bsky.social•13 days ago

any song with a random nearly-freeform instrumental solo in the middle is a good song by default, it's ranked above all songs that don't do that

communalbrother.bsky.social•13 days ago

Endless Place by Pallbearer is a great doom metal track from last year that has a sax show up out of nowhere in the middle of the song. It works really well

sarcasmo.bsky.social•12 days ago

Now I have the sax part of Springsteen's Jungleland in my head and I'm not mad about it.

hlpfiver.bsky.social•13 days ago

I still believe!!

shadowselfca.bsky.social•12 days ago

🎷three... sax... noooooooootes 🎷

lifelivedwildly.bsky.social•13 days ago

My saxophonist husband agrees completely.

mountainmusings.bsky.social•12 days ago

Climax Blues Band

seahawksonly.bsky.social•13 days ago

haha you know you can just listen to jazz if you want!

hairybusiness.bsky.social•13 days ago

Dave Matthews knows what's up

nameshiv.bsky.social•13 days ago

Squeeze was a thoroughly average band that produced legit bangers simply because they understood this truth

jwhite.bsky.social•13 days ago

But all their best songs don’t have one!

nameshiv.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hourglass exists you know

jwhite.bsky.social•13 days ago

Strong argument. I like Annie Get Your Gun, Pulling Mussels, and Up the Junction the best.

amutepiggy.bsky.social•13 days ago

i agree with this assessment of Squeeze, which is why it is extra funny that when i was 23 i dated a guy who got the cover of argybargy tattooed on his arm.

evansutton.bsky.social•13 days ago

I'm tempted to say you've discovered the truth

abecedarian.bsky.social•13 days ago

I remember when they were the "next Beatles".

queersatanic.bsky.social•13 days ago

That does make this cover version leap way up in quality.

(7:40 is when the performance starts, 10:40 is when the trumpet and saxophone really get going for a couple minutes)

davidleheny.bsky.social•13 days ago

With the pride of Sapporo, Erena Terakubo on sax

dearyvettebakes.bsky.social•13 days ago

Sir Duke & Stanley Clarke

jasjennings.bsky.social•13 days ago

Anything with Maceo~

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