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Title: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: dparrott on January 07, 2020, 09:50:01 PM: Just looking for pop/rock/prog songs with a theremin in it. I only know of one, which is my favorite Blur song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9MaYYQQEY
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: Buddyhunter1 on January 07, 2020, 09:54:43 PM: I know Caverns by Thank You Scientist has one right after the second chorus, but it's just used for a brief transition and isn't a primary instrument in the song or anything.
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: The Walrus on January 07, 2020, 10:09:38 PM: Dragonforce's Reasons to Live uses it at the start
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Post by: Cool Chris on January 07, 2020, 10:34:02 PM: Is that the thing in Good Vibrations?
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Post by: El Barto on January 07, 2020, 11:36:44 PM: Quote from: Cool Chris on January 07, 2020, 10:34:02 PM
Is that the thing in Good Vibrations?
It's the same sound, but not technically the same device. The instrument used in Good Vibrations was the same principle of tone generation, but it was controlled differently to make it more precise.

edit: Oh, Bonamassa uses on behind the solo in Ballad of John Henry.
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: Zydar on January 08, 2020, 12:13:32 AM: Quote from: Cool Chris on January 07, 2020, 10:34:02 PM
Is that the thing in Good Vibrations?

It's an Electro-Theremin. And speaking of the Beach Boys, they use one in the song Wild Honey too (played by the same session man).
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: Kwyjibo on January 08, 2020, 01:11:55 AM: A Flash Before My Eyes by Spock's Beard, especially the opening sequence of The Ballet Of The Impact
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Post by: Bentower on January 08, 2020, 04:07:22 AM: I'm not entirely sure whether it ended up on any studio songs or not, but Ulver featured a wicked good "Moog Theremin" player around the Shadows of the Sun era.
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Post by: Luoto on January 08, 2020, 04:25:20 AM: Von Hertzen Brothers - I Came for You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx4SowEpytA)
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Post by: DTA on January 08, 2020, 05:42:26 AM: Deep into pop-punk territory is Stab My Back by the All-American Rejects.
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Post by: Max Kuehnau on January 08, 2020, 05:45:00 AM: Zaz' live version of Tous Les Cris Les SOS features her improvising on Theremin.
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Post by: Stadler on January 08, 2020, 07:56:27 AM: I'll have to look up the exact songs, but Jimmy Page used one (live with Zeppelin, and on some of his soundtrack work) as did Brian Jones (pretty sure it's on 2000 Light Years From Home, from Their Satanic Majesty's Request).
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: The Walrus on January 08, 2020, 08:04:45 AM: Quote from: Stadler on January 08, 2020, 07:56:27 AM
I'll have to look up the exact songs, but Jimmy Page used one (live with Zeppelin, and on some of his soundtrack work) as did Brian Jones (pretty sure it's on 2000 Light Years From Home, from Their Satanic Majesty's Request).

Whole Lotta Love for the Zeppelin one? That part of the song is one of my all-time favorite classic rock 'things' for lack of a better term.
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: millahh on January 08, 2020, 12:29:01 PM: Ghost has one in the intro for Spirit.
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Post by: Sacul on January 08, 2020, 01:32:25 PM: Portishead - Mysterons
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Post by: SoundscapeMN on January 08, 2020, 04:10:13 PM: The Wooten Brothers - The Hands of Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoQ-ODc45H8

pretty much funkier than anything else in this thread :hat
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: dparrott on January 11, 2020, 09:27:02 AM: Quote from: SoundscapeMN on January 08, 2020, 04:10:13 PM
The Wooten Brothers - The Hands of Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoQ-ODc45H8

pretty much funkier than anything else in this thread :hat

that's freakin amazing!
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: ? on January 11, 2020, 11:17:48 AM: The Gathering - Rescue Me
Title: Re: Songs with a theremin?
Post by: Ben_Jamin on January 11, 2020, 11:28:38 AM: Tesla - Edison's Medicine, I know for a fact they use that live.

Coheed and Cambria - The Final Cut, he uses it live.
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Post by: Dave_Manchester on January 11, 2020, 12:13:43 PM: Claudio Simonetti (of the band Goblin, and main composer for Dario Argento's films) wrote this ditty for Argento's God-awful 2012 film Dracula. The tune's decent enough though, if you're into the Evanescence/Nightwish sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erBgihW3xDs