Songs with sleigh bells in them?

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(Or I guess tambourines would count, too.)

I'll start:

Captain Sky - Super Sperm

― Harrison Fjord (Harrison Fjord), Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

most brian jonestown massacre songs have tamborines...seeing joel geon play it so stylishly inspired me to go buy one myself!

― buyabiznatch, Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes - Awaken

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Replacements - "Kiss Me on the Bus"
Stooges - "I Wanna Be Your Dog"

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

also see:
Best Use of Tambourine (and/or Sleigh Bells)

― richard wood johnson, Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Steely Dan's "Charlie Freak" has my favorite use of sleigh bells in a non-Christmas song.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

That song off the second Ride album.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

There are some good sleigh bells on "Back to You" on Matthew Sweet's Blue Sky On Mars album.

― monkeybutler, Saturday, 29 October 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

favorite use of sleighbells: "Stand by Me" by Cassius Clay

― Roe Joe, Saturday, 29 October 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Caribou - The Pixies

― Harrison Fjord (Harrison Fjord), Saturday, 29 October 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Airbag - Radiohead

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

there are some sleighbells on the second walkmen record.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

"Goldfinger - Part 2" by Jimmy Smith

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

"john cale" by don lennon

― par, Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

"Common at Noon" by Real Kids

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Mark and Lard used to do a very funny feature on their Radio 1 show about this.

― Raptor, Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Hives - Walk Idiot Walk

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Toni Braxton - "Please"

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

A fair amount of On the Corner.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Magnetic Fields-I Think I Need a New Heart
Supergrass-Road to Rouen

― jamesdeanner, Monday, 31 October 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

Best song (that isn't a Christmas Song) with Sleigh Bells in it.

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Monday, 31 October 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Donner & Blitzen - Badly Drawn Boy

― bham, Monday, 31 October 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

mah sleigh bling be blingin at da end of "snownigga" on mah hott shiznit "english hood" album yo XTC KREW RINGIN OUT ON WESSIDE SWINDON PROPS TO YO BRO C-MONEY MOULDING WE BE FRONTIN FOR NIGEL

― gangsta andy partridge, Monday, 31 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Phil Spector to thread. (all his songs sound like xmas songs, so dunno if that counts)

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 31 October 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

The Go! Team - "The Ice Storm"

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 31 October 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Coltrane Interstellar Space has sleigh bells on it.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

SLick Rick - It's A Boy (Large Professor Remix)

― mucho, Monday, 31 October 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Marshall Crenshaw, Someday Someway
Average White Band, Schoolboy Crush (totally swimming in sleighbells)
3rd Base, Pop Goes The Weasel
Wilco, OuttaMind Outtasite
Ramones, Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Liz Phair, Fuck and Run
Shuggie Otis, Strawberry Letter 23
Beach Boys, God Only Knows

― reno3001, Thursday, 10 November 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

"Average White Band, Schoolboy Crush (totally swimming in sleighbells)"

BTW, this is the source of the sample on Microphone Fiend

― reno3001, Thursday, 10 November 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Eric B. & Rakim - Microphone Fiend!

Monster Magnet - TAB (Forget About Life I'm High On Dope version)

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

there are like 200 rap songs that sample "schoolboy crush"

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 10 November 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

>>>>>>>>there are like 200 rap songs that sample "schoolboy crush"

― reno3001, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Sally Timms - Snowbird
Luna - Eggnog

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

>>>>>>>>there are like 200 rap songs that sample "schoolboy crush"

Are any of them better than Microphone Fiend?

― reno3001, Friday, 11 November 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

"better"?

"Halftime" by Nas is one example. Depends on what you think of Nas and Rakim I guess. Lots of early 90s folks used those schoolboy crush bells.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Snowflake Music: Mark Mothersbaugh (a lil beauty)

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Lavender Diamond - You Broke My Heart
Wu Tang Clan - Hell's Wind Staff

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 12 November 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Lots of early 90s folks used those schoolboy crush bells.

pete rock to thread.

― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Saturday, 12 November 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Prince - Around The World In A Day
Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow
Tom Jones - several songs from "Sings The Sixties" none of which I can recall right now

Thanks to you all for the thread. I now have my Christmas 2005 CD ready to go - and it doesn't have any Christmas songs on it!

I still love my Christmas records, but, being a snob, I can't stand hearing, say, E singing Everythings Gonna Be Cool This Christmas when I'm shopping at Pottery Barn. That song used to be mine, all mine, unreleased promo-only CD EP blah blah blah humbug!

― reno, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Mahler's 4th symphony, IIRC

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Paul Young - Love Of The Common People

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

"Que Vida!" by Love.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

Jellyfish - Baby's Coming Back

― underrated aerobies I have flung (how's life), Friday, 6 June 2014 12:33 (twelve years ago)

Run the Jewels - A Christmas Fucking Miracle

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:39 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4NCC0dUXks

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:50 (twelve years ago)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDM7IwmtHho

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:58 (twelve years ago)

Tracey Thorn said she wanted to put more sleigh bells in her Christmas album but she found that once sleigh bells start up in a song, they have to stay in til the end or it sounds wrong

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:06 (twelve years ago)

The chorus of this track has some big time sleigh bells:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbmyUaNV6PA

― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Friday, 6 June 2014 14:47 (twelve years ago)

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

Sleigh bells at intro, they disappear during verse, reappear in the mix during the choruses, reappear in their original configuration near the end before the finale.

― Ant Man Bee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 June 2014 22:11 (twelve years ago)

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