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Offline dparrott

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Songs with a theremin?
« 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
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2020, 10:09:38 PM »
Dragonforce's Reasons to Live uses it at the start
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2020, 10:34:02 PM »
Is that the thing in Good Vibrations?
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2020, 11:36:44 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.
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2020, 12:13:32 AM »
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).
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #6 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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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #7 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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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2020, 04:25:20 AM »
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #9 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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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #10 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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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #11 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).

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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2020, 08:04:45 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.
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2020, 12:29:01 PM »
Ghost has one in the intro for Spirit.
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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2020, 01:32:25 PM »
Portishead - Mysterons

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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #15 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

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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2020, 09:27:02 AM »
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

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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2020, 11:17:48 AM »
The Gathering - Rescue Me

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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #18 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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Re: Songs with a theremin?
« Reply #19 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
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