kool keyboard sounds

i bought the album solely for that piano.

ps: the guys must have some nice VSTs, huh? ha ha.

1.Velvet Underground, "Sister Ray" (white-noise nuclear-meltdown organ by John Cale)
2.Funkadelic, "Loose Booty" (Bernie Worrell's sproingy Hohner Clavinet(?)-thru-wah wah)
3.Edgar Winter, "Frankenstein" (extremely volatile ARP 2600 eruptions)

His performance of this tune on the Old Grey Whistle Test DVD is hilariously awesome - he takes four solos on four separate instruments.

other favorites of mine:
soft machine vol. 1 - "hibou, anemone..."
oneida - "jazz is the preacher..."
alice coltrane - "my favorite things"
terry riley - just about anything he ever did
billy joel - "just the way you are" (no shit)
funkadelic - "free your mind..."
the fall - "garden" (peel session)
broadcast - "tender buttons"
bob dylan - "ballad of a thin man"
can - "spoon," about a trillion other things
most neptunes productions, esp "drop it..."
donna summer - "i feel love"
eno - "paw paw negro blowtorch"
roxy music - "editions of you"

SUPERSTITION, BITCHES.

With honorable mentions to the PPG waveterm sound in Steve Winwood's "While You See a Chance," and the Mitchell Froom's Mellotronish chirpy organ on those Crowded House tracks. There is freedom within, there is freedom without...

-- The Mad Puffin (pfnwrit...), January 26th, 2006.
do you think hte organ solo of "don't dream it's over" was inspired by procul harum "whiter shade of pale"

There are a million better ones that I'm not thinking of though

And RYE-OTT's entire list is equally OTM 'Specially that Dylan track and its THREE distinct kbds!

Ooh, and then there's that track on the Human Beinz '68 Evolutions LP in which they completely demolish a piano live in the studio.

David Sylvian "Maria"

The Entirety of Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Lack of Love" Game Score

Early King Crimson or anything featuring a Mellotron

Robert Rich's trademark "Glurg" and "Shimmer"

Vangelis' trademark CS-80 string pad

Vangelis' trademark CS-80 melting giant trumpet sound

Derrick May's Yamaha DX-100

The Mellotron

Herbie Hancock: Mr. Hands. In it Herbie decides he doesn't really need a band, so besides some guest drummers, bassists and guitarists he plays most of the stuff himself on keyboards - including such things as synth guitars and synth steel drums. This was released in 1980, and you can hear the change from funky keyboard sounds of the 70's to the colder, smoother sound of the 80's, but if you can get past the plasticness (or if, like me, you love plastic), this is a great LP.

Planet Patrol: Planet Patrol. This is the epitome of old school electro maximalism. The variety of funky, cool, weird and absurd synth sounds, combined with the five-piece vocal group, makes this probably the best electro funk LP I've ever heard. They even cover Gary Glitter, and it sounds great!

The Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot Of My Baby's Love
The Rivieras - California Sun
Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions
Del Shannon - Runaway
Beach Boys - California Girls

To name a few.

Deep Purple, Rat Bat Blue -- the solo with organ and synth together, or whatever the fuck it is. So rad.

Any good recording of Steve Reich, Piano Phase.

Rod Argent's pianet.

The entire recorded output of the Vox Continental, with special nod to Augie Meyers.

The Fall, Shoulder Pads.

Soft Machine, Third.

Any Booker T organ sound from before 1975.

Any Meters song from before 1979, but esp on the Josie records.

Larry Young, Unity and Love and Peace.

Fats Waller's organ -- some kind of Hammond, no doubt.

Dave "Baby" Cortez, The Happy Organ.

The Wendigo, Gimme Some Lovin.

Spencer Davis Group, I'm a Man.