100 Western "rock" songs with (faux-)Arabian/Arabic riffage

43. Cabaret Voltaire-Yashar

42. Sara Goes Pop-Arab O-habab of Arabia

I don't really hear the arabic riff in "Shake Dog Shake" though.

WTF? They're both about as Western-sounding as it gets.

I think it's a bit more obvious on the Concert version.

33. Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
34. Jeff Buckley - What Will You Say?

oops
32. etc

31-Rainbow-Stargazer

30. tool - 4 degrees

29. Camper Van Beethoven - ZZ Top Goes to Egypt
28. Men's Recovery Project - Egyptian Assassin

27 - Dungen - Mina Damer Och Fasaner (?) But that riff can be Hindi-Indian...

26. Space Cossacks - The Space Victory Theme
25. Avengers VI - Heartbeat
24. The Ghouls (Richie Podolar) - Coffin Nails
23. The Atlantics - Bombora
22. The Apemen - Bahareba
21. Huntington Cads - New Dimension
20. The Volcanos - Whirl Pool
19. The Nocturnes - Third Star To The Left
18. Satans Pilgrims - ¿que Honda
17. The Treble Spankers - Araban
16. The Prodigy - Medusa's Path

15. The Nebulas - T-16
14. Django Twango - The Sheik Of Hips
13. Dave Myers & The Surftones - Moment Of Truth
12. Al Casey - El Aguila
11. The Sentinals - Latiña
10. Frankie Laine - Jezebel
9. The Pharaos - Pintor
8. Roger Abbound - Beirut Chillout

7. the cramps - "the most exalted potentate of love"

6. gal costa - "tuareg"

^ hoping to start debate of tropicalia = western tradition y/n

lotta this on secret cheifs 3 records

chiefs, even

there's one caetano veloso arrangement that was ripped off for a mario 64 world

Manics- Tsunami (5)
Depeche Mode- Everything Counts (4)

3. Mandy Moore - In My Pocket

2. Holy Wars - Megadeth

Not 1. Calling your attention to the album and project Baghdad Heavy Metal (myspace link), which I just came across this week. It posits itself as a wartime crossing of paths, but in reality it seems to be a one-off by some musicians associated with travelling troupe "Bellydance Superstars": Steven Last (keys/prog) of Galactic Caravan, Steve Hunter (guitar) of Lou Reed's band, and percussionist Issam Houshan, along with a rotating cast of guest vocalists (including Sammy Hagar). Overall sound is a lot like Rachid Taha's rock crossover, and the album sounds like its auditioning for incidental music on an HBO miniseries. But I don't have a problem with that. Special commendation for "Blue Sky Goodbye" (featured at the myspace), as vocalist Woroud is very good in a Natacha Atlas overdub emphatic mode.

-1. Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
-2. David Bowie - Yassassin
-3. Inertia Creeps - Massive Attack
-4. Dirt - Alice in Chains

Quite a lot of metal sounds a bit Middle Eastern to my ears, maybe because of a propensity for minor keys?

This is not western rock, but it is rock, which means it is sort of western, and it is not Arab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSn39O-1v0g

(And once again thanks to the Electric Mole crew for providing good leads.)

(due to a sudden moment of clarity in my corroded memory, remembering this 90s project)

Turkish Delight - saburie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72HHlq8lKN0

MBV - Swallow

Sun City Girls to thread

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet)

+1 + Sir Richard Bishop

"The Blood" by the Cure https://youtu.be/v9_Xvpxdwcg

Not "rock" but just heard it in the radio today so
"The Fakir"- Cal Tjader, arranged and composed by Lalo Schifrin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AU_91XRstM

Blaak Heat a band i discovered through the Svart label shop sale . Whole lp Shifting Mirrors has an arabic theme running through it, not sure about teh 2 lps they cut before they shortened the name