Suggestions for piano-led rock songs for my movie!

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Hi,

I am completing a short film project which needs a piano-driven rock song, preferably with a melancholic or nostalgic feel. Lyrics are okay, though the more oblique, the better. Instrumentals would be excellent!

Things I have considered:

Eric Clapton-"Layla" (the end anyway, a bit too grand and it's been done before anyway)
Patti Smith-"Frederick" (not bad, but lyrical content a bit too diverting)
Al Stewart-"Year Of The Cat" (probably the best so far)

Any more? Thanks!

― Antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Tori Amos ownzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz this thread.

Try
'Hey Jupiter'
'Little Amsterdam'
or some of the other stuff from 'Boys For Pele' or whatever that album was called.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, oh, oh, oh, and also radiohead: the pyramid song, if your audience aren't too familiar with it already.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one song on Air's Virgin Suicides soundtrack, I'm pretty sure it's the one called "Ghost Song", that has some amazingly intense grand pianoing on it, totally instrumental, one of those SPEAKERS JUST WON'T GET LOUD ENOUGH jams.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Warren Zevon just reclaimed his thread from Tori Amos.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wait, I just realized the taking-songs-from-a-movie-to-put-in-another-movie thing might not be a good idea, huh?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What about that first song on the Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness? That's pretty melancholy.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wait, I just realized the taking-songs-from-a-movie-to-put-in-another-movie thing might not be a good idea, huh?

-- nickalicious (nza2342...), November 25th, 2003.

Or it just might be the best idea in the history of ideas!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

In which case "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann OWNZ.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

or the instrumental version of 'Nothing Is Good Enough'

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The part with the piano in Bob Seger's "Against the Wind"

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Aladdin Sane or Lady Grinning Soul

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Amorena - Elton John from Tumbleweed Connection. (but it was used in the opening of Dog Day Afternoon) Or Ballad of a Well Known Gun or almost anything off that record.

― kar, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Mott the Hoople "All the Way from Memphis"
Mott the Hoople "Roll Away the Stone"
Ian Hunter "Just Another Night"
Ian Hunter "Wild East"
Ian Hunter "Cleveland Rocks"
Ian Hunter "Life After Death"
Iggy Pop "Rich Bitch" (on 'Metallic KO' the piano is mixed higher than the guitars)
Ian Hunter "Once Bitten Twice Shy"

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The Saddest Vacant Lot in all The World - Grandaddy

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the Chris O'Riley's piano workings of Radiohead songs. Admittedly, I've never heard them but it just popped in my head so I thought I'd share.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

A Silver Mt Zion - Track 4 me thinks it is from He Has Left Us Alone But Sometimes Shafts Of Light Still Grace The Corner of the Room
[Actually called He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms according to AMG but I was close]

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Sloan - Rhoades Jam [sadly a pain in the ass to find]

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The last 90 Day Men album has a lot of kinda wierd proggy but groovy minor key piano action.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Shipbuilding" by Elvis Costello is what truly owns this thread.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

No, "Borrowed Tune" by Neil Young does.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

David Axelrod---"Holy Thursday", "The Human Abstract"
both of those are melancholic, nostalgic instrumentals

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Piano's Been Drinking, Not Me" Tom Waits

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

my cricket, leon russell

― hef., Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Drake - "Saturday Sun"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sisters of Mercy - "1959"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"down and out" - the black lips

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Many of these are great, though I should add- I would like to stay away from anything too recent, unless it has a kind of "classic" sound - dave q seems to have the right idea, but the majority of these are worth a try! Thanks! More please!

― Antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

DaveQ is a booozer.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Elton John ownz dis fread.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, yeah, the deft placement of "Goodby Yellow Brick Road" (even though I have no idea what it's about, the song or your movie) would reduce me to a sputtering mess of tears. ANY DAY OF THE MONTH.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

for instrumentals, check out either "one step at a time" or "monday will never be the same" from husker du's "zen arcade."

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Matthew's "Shipbuilding" suggestion OTM (although very subject-specific lyrics); however, Robert Wyatt's version is far better. On that note, check out Robert Wyatt -- "Ruth is Stranger Than Richard" and "Dondestan" both have a lot of piano-centered songs.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

something by Lapsus Linguae

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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