I Want Your Sax (Saxophone Appreciation Thread)

[Stadler]

Thanks to @chknptpie, I've had the Careless Whisper riff going through my head for most of the morning. 

[pg1067]

Despite my general distaste for reed instruments in rock music, one song I really like that heavily features sax is Long, Long Way from Home by Foreigner.  I'm not sure if Ian McDonald used tenor or bari sax (or layered both), but it's got a lot of warmth that rock sax typically lacks.

Also, this:



Also also, if someone could find a way to incorporate this bad boy into a hard rock/metal song, I'd definitely check it out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiW2mVKk0w

[?]

R.E.M. - Fireplace is one of the more unexpected sax songs (but awesome).

Can't believe I'd forgotten about this one, even though I'm an REM fan Anyway, thanks for the reminder - it's on my playlist of cool sax songs now!

[pg1067]

I have no memory of that Quarterflash song, and I watched MTV a ton in the early days.  Hmmm.

I think this was probably their biggest hit then. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4q4NDGRyb0

I think Harden My Heart was probably their bigger hit. I certainly remember those songs, but I honestly had no idea who it was.  They might have been alright, dunno, but Pat Benatar pretty much owned that slice of the musical pie. Not really enough room for two groups doing the same thing, and while they had a couple of radio hits, Pat was cranking them out on the regular, album after album.

Harden My Heart is the only Quarterflash song I've ever heard.  Definitely a one-hit wonder, and not much like Pat Benatar at all (beyond Rindy Ross's vague resemblance to Pat).

[Stadler]

Despite my general distaste for reed instruments in rock music, one song I really like that heavily features sax is Long, Long Way from Home by Foreigner.  I'm not sure if Ian McDonald used tenor or bari sax (or layered both), but it's got a lot of warmth that rock sax typically lacks.

Also, this:



Also also, if someone could find a way to incorporate this bad boy into a hard rock/metal song, I'd definitely check it out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiW2mVKk0w

I kind of was expecting the guy in the GIF to be in the video...

[SoundscapeMN]

Brazil - Metropol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_vSEUTND_s

The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAozbX4yt_4

Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFlq3zQhQ0

The Mask of the Phantasm - The Final Night at the Duplex
https://open.spotify.com/album/3HJOxfI1xGnrAzg3JjVf8b

Marillion - Deserve
https://open.spotify.com/track/0BBwYJSOQ6Jnd3c6XdoRin

The Dear Hunter - Ring 7 - Industry
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Glb19gtGNPkmTqB8WL1t7

"Sax & Metal" list on rateyourmusic
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/titusfox/sax_and_metal/

Ihsahn - Grave Inversed
https://open.spotify.com/track/2CAXUeCEGPKdUP7aamCcqR

Subterranean Masquerade - The Rock N Roll Preacher
https://open.spotify.com/track/2CAXUeCEGPKdUP7aamCcqR

In Vain - Floating of the Murmuring Tide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnOh47h_6H0

[King Postwhore]

True - Spandua Ballet.

https://youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U

[T-ski]

Glenn Frey “You Belong to the City”.

Foreigner “Urgent”.

Alan Parsons Project “Don’t Answer Me”.

[Kwyjibo]

Amorphis - Daughter Of Hate

[pg1067]

Despite my general distaste for reed instruments in rock music, one song I really like that heavily features sax is Long, Long Way from Home by Foreigner.  I'm not sure if Ian McDonald used tenor or bari sax (or layered both), but it's got a lot of warmth that rock sax typically lacks.

Also, this:



Also also, if someone could find a way to incorporate this bad boy into a hard rock/metal song, I'd definitely check it out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiW2mVKk0w

I kind of was expecting the guy in the GIF to be in the video...

 

You know where he's from, right?

[King Postwhore]

He's on the Top 10 list show on AXS TV show.

[Stadler]

Despite my general distaste for reed instruments in rock music, one song I really like that heavily features sax is Long, Long Way from Home by Foreigner.  I'm not sure if Ian McDonald used tenor or bari sax (or layered both), but it's got a lot of warmth that rock sax typically lacks.

Also, this:



Also also, if someone could find a way to incorporate this bad boy into a hard rock/metal song, I'd definitely check it out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiW2mVKk0w

I kind of was expecting the guy in the GIF to be in the video...

 

You know where he's from, right?

Pornhub?

[King Postwhore]

Hint hint.  Keifer Sutherland movie.

[Stadler]

Hint hint.  Keifer Sutherland movie.

Lost Boys? 

HAHA. Thankfully, I don't think I've ever seen that guy swinging his horn before.

[King Postwhore]

You must have blanked it out. Lol

[KevShmev]

Nobody has mentioned Dave Matthews Band yet, but #41 is a definite sax highlight.

Yep, they have more songs with sax highlights than we can shake a stick at.

True - Spandua Ballet.

https://youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U

I feel like that song gets the 80s cheeseball tag, but it's a good tune, and that saxophone solo is pretty great.  I can heard it in my head now. 

[King Postwhore]

It's such a well written tune.

[pg1067]

Despite my general distaste for reed instruments in rock music, one song I really like that heavily features sax is Long, Long Way from Home by Foreigner.  I'm not sure if Ian McDonald used tenor or bari sax (or layered both), but it's got a lot of warmth that rock sax typically lacks.

Also, this:



Also also, if someone could find a way to incorporate this bad boy into a hard rock/metal song, I'd definitely check it out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BiW2mVKk0w

I kind of was expecting the guy in the GIF to be in the video...

 

You know where he's from, right?

Pornhub?

[nick_z]

Oh yeah!

Tears for Fears - The Working Hour is always one of the first to come to mind, but there are tons more.

Also, doesn’t get much better than King Crimson’s Starless.

The Working Hour is such a great song….

[frogprog]

Lotta sax in INXS songs

[coz]

Good call on DMB, HOF.  Leroi Moore was an integral element of the DMB soul that, I feel, sadly died with him.
Also, reference the Billy Joel thread.

[ZirconBlue]

Great White's album Sail Away features Clarence Clemons on multiple tracks.  That whole album is very different from Great White's usual schtick.  It's one of my favorite albums for nighttime driving.

[Stadler]

Great White's album Sail Away features Clarence Clemons on multiple tracks.  That whole album is very different from Great White's usual schtick.  It's one of my favorite albums for nighttime driving.

For what it's worth, I LOVE Jack Russell's voice (even if he's sort of a character, to say the least).  I might check that out.

[DragonAttack]

Springsteen and the Big Man, various Supertramp songs, and then there's Boots Randolph.  My Mom bought his 'best of' album along with my first turntable, that had the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 45 on the spindle in December '75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAJB6HsYiNA

Yup, better remembered as the theme or closing for Benny Hill

[pg1067]

Springsteen and the Big Man, various Supertramp songs, and then there's Boots Randolph.  My Mom bought his 'best of' album along with my first turntable, that had the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 45 on the spindle in December '75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAJB6HsYiNA

Yup, better remembered as the theme or closing for Benny Hill

Is the second girl from the left Jane Leeves (aka Daphne from Frasier)?  It's possible it's not her, but she was on several episodes, and that looks a lot like her.