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Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/7/2010 12:10:17 AM
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luvsrickforever
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Everyone knows that when you first hear those guitar chords, that the song is Smoke On The Water. How about some other songs whose first few notes make you go that's that song and your right?
I can think of 2 Beatles songs. All You Need Is Love and Twist And Shout. Groovin' by The Young Rascals. Green Onions by Booker T & The MGs. Africa by Toto.
I thought of so many more and my mind is a blank. I hope someone else can come up with more.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/7/2010 8:20:46 AM
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The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic.
Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues
Levon - Elton John
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Layla - both versions
Flood - Jars of Clay
Do You Feel the Mountains Tremble - Delirious
Consuming Fire (live)- Third Day
Take Five - Dave Brubek
Aqualung - Jethro Tull
Thick as a Brick - Tull
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Boris the Spider - The Who
In the Mood - Glenn Miller Orchestra
Sing, Sing, Sing (with a swing) - Benny Goodman Orchestra
Say Goodbye to Hollywood - Billy Joel
Cross the Heartland - Pat Metheny Group
American Garage - Pat Metheny Group
San Lorenzo - Pat Metheny Group
To the End of the World - Pat Metheny Group
Squonk - Genesis
Dance on a Volcano - Genesis
Los Endos - Genesis
I got a million of 'em!
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/7/2010 4:02:46 PM
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me too, I couldn't begin to list all of them.
...... to list one that I heard this morning, 'time in a bottle'
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/8/2010 12:01:22 AM
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luvsrickforever
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You guys listed some good ones and some I haven't heard of yet so I can't say I would recognize them. I thought of more today and I know I will think of more as the days go by.
Light My Fire - The Doors
Over Under Sideways Down - The Yardbirds
In My Life - The Beatles.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/8/2010 7:10:34 AM
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So many songs, so little time...
a few that come to mind immediately:
Satisfaction, the Stones
I Want to Hold Your Hand, the Beatles
Ticket to Ride, the Beatles
Back in Black, AC/DC
My Generation, the Who
New York, New York, Frank Sinatra
I could go on forever...
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/8/2010 9:09:13 AM
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purple haze was the first to come to mind.
never heard smoke on the water.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/8/2010 10:27:37 AM
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There are WAY too many to list. If I were to even begin though, I would start with the 150+ Audio Adrenaline songs I know.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/8/2010 11:13:57 AM
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sweet home alabama
american ride
i saw the light
courtesy of the red white and blue
theme froim miami vice
back in black
hell's bell's
bad medicine
just a small few of them
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/8/2010 6:29:05 PM
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Rock The Casbah - The Clash
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/8/2010 11:04:28 PM
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Anything from the DLR days of Van Halen! Eddie's guitar work (and unfortunately some of his keyboarding too) is some of the most recognizable ever.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/9/2010 12:16:49 AM
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The one that pops immediately to mind is Final Countdown, by Europe.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/9/2010 9:37:41 AM
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One for My Baby and One More For the Road - Sinatra
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Tuesday Afternoon - Moody Blues
The Knife - Genesis
Redemption Songs - Bob Marley and the Wailers
No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
Pretty much anything by The Beatles
Late In the Evening - Paul Simon
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
Hands to the Sky - Earth, Wind, & Fire
And more to come!
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/10/2010 12:45:25 AM
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Today I heard more. Sweet Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac and This Magic Moment by Jay & The Americans, and , if you turn on the song in the middle, that sax part will tell you what song it is. How many songs can do that?
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/10/2010 4:53:23 AM
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don't stop believing - journey
the final countdown - europe
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/10/2010 6:51:15 AM
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"In the times of our Lives" by Iron Butterfly. (but can you really call the first sounds of the track "notes?")
"Innagaddavida" by Iron Butterfly
"25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago
"Pinball Wizzard" by the Who
"More Love" and "Betty Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes. Her keyboard player had such a unique sound.
"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/10/2010 7:53:46 PM
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Almost anything by Styx, Nickelback, Metallica, Skynyrd...
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/10/2010 8:45:13 PM
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I remember being at a Foghat concert(back in the days when they got top billing, not their auto-show days) and the first riff from Tull's "Aqualung" was played over th PA system. The crowd roared like the show was starting.
(speaking of Foghat)Slow Ride- I recognize the drums immedieatly
Pink Floyd's Run Like He**
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/12/2010 12:52:49 AM
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I should have worded the thread differently. I meant the songs where the singer doesn't start singing right away, and you hear just music for a bar or 2. That's what I meant. Thanks for all the cool songs. Now you are making me want to make a mix tape! LOL
For Your Love - The Yardbirds and Herman's Hermits.
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees and probably that Christian group who covered it, although I haven't heard that version in quite a while.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/12/2010 10:42:48 AM
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ORIGINAL: luvsrickforever
I meant the songs where the singer doesn't start singing right away, and you hear just music for a bar or 2. That's what I meant. Back in the late 60s and 70s there were many songs that had repetitive hooks that were the hallmark of that song. Some of the metal bands continued the practice at least into the 90s, but it disappeared from soft rock, soul and pop music.
Songs like Inagaddavida, Sunshine of Your Love, 25 or 6 to 4, Into the Sun, Tears of a Clown, What Does it Take (Jr Walker and the All Stars), One Way Out (Allman Bros), Summertime Blues (Who) and a host of others.
Any of those hooks brings the song to mind, and on the 1971 live album by 10 Years After, Alvan Lee quoted several of the hooks in a very long guitar solo in the middle of "Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes."
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/12/2010 3:55:12 PM
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Speaking of 10 Years After, how could I forget "Going Home"?
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/13/2010 5:10:21 AM
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My opinion is that any song a person has heard enough times can be recognized within the first several notes.
Long ago, I worked as an overnight stocker in a grocery store. The guys I worked with all loved "classic rock" and listened to it incessantly. While we worked through the night, the guys would tune the store PA system into a local Classic Rock station. They had a contest of who could identify the most songs and artists first. At the end of the night all of the losers would buy the winner something for their last break of the night.
When I started the job, I had never listened to "classic rock" in my life, at least on purpose. I grew up on classical, jazz, OLD oldies (early Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, etc), big band, and Christian. The names Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, etc etc meant NOTHING to me.
But, it only took me a week or two before I began to be able to beat the guys in calling out song/artist before them. I had a lot of break snacks bought for me.
Anyway, the moral of the story is that ANY song can be identified by the first few notes if you have heard it enough.
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/16/2010 7:08:27 AM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: ManimalX
My opinion is that any song a person has heard enough times can be recognized within the first several notes.
Not "any" but most. There are some that have almost identical intros, including several that I have heard hundreds of times that still throw me off.
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When I started the job, I had never listened to "classic rock" in my life, at least on purpose. I grew up on classical, jazz, OLD oldies (early Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, etc), big band, and Christian. The names Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, etc etc meant NOTHING to me. And now that you are familiar with these artists, what is your opinion?
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RE: Songs that you recognize by their first few notes. - 3/20/2010 4:04:08 PM
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Love song for a savior-Jars of Clay
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