100. Dead Can Dance - "Threshold"99. Cabaret Voltaire - "Eastern Mantra"
― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Saturday, 11 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine comes explosive! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 11 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)
94. The Cure - "Shake Dog Shake"
― Ian Riese-Moraine comes explosive! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine comes explosive! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 11 June 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)
― Jeanne (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 11 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 11 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)
― jake b. (cerybut), Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)
― PB, Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)
between "paint it black" and the yardbirds, yeah, i think there are 100 there.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)
*the little Arabian flourish in these songs is very similar*
― PB, Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)
― john'n'chicago, Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)
Though Steven Luscombe did go on to do loads of kinda authentic eastern-inflected stuff after that, so it's perhaps a touch unfair to label it 'faux' in such a pejorative way ...
― darren (darren), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 11 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 12 June 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)
'Cos the Egyptian Lover uses that same generic-Egyptian motif in so many songs.
71. The Egyptian Lover - Girl
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)
― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 June 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)
― iva bowie davies, Sunday, 12 June 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 12 June 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)
― freiden4xl, Sunday, 12 June 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)
― Deluxe (Damian), Sunday, 12 June 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 12 June 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)
― danny boy, Sunday, 12 June 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)
― Sami (Sami), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)
---peepee
Heh heh...surely you realize that you kinda just did so YOURSELF, right? :)
But whatever - I'll appease you by not citing "Bazaar". And "Fire In The Head" would be redundant with "Kashmir" already mentioned. So, instead...
60.Robert Plant, "Wreckless Love"
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)
― Skelter68, Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)
― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)
― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)
― Telephonething, Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)
― etc, Monday, 13 June 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)
― iva bowie davies, Monday, 13 June 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)
― jen s., Monday, 13 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
(Not hearing it in "Love Will Tear Us Apart," BTW, but Ear of the Beholder and all that. Sounds Western to me.)
― The Mad Puffin, Monday, 13 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)
48. Alanis Morrisette, "Baba" 47. Sting, "Desert Rose" (yeesh!)46. Ray Stevens, "Ahab the A-rab"
and at least half of everything 3 Mustaphas 3 ever did.
― Vornado, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)
― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 13 June 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)
43. Cabaret Voltaire-Yashar
42. Sara Goes Pop-Arab O-habab of Arabia
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)
― Flaneur, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)
― Flaneur, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)
I don't really hear the arabic riff in "Shake Dog Shake" though.
― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)
WTF? They're both about as Western-sounding as it gets.
― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)
I think it's a bit more obvious on the Concert version.
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)
33. Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother34. Jeff Buckley - What Will You Say?
― ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:30 (seventeen years ago)
oops32. etc
― ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:36 (seventeen years ago)
31-Rainbow-Stargazer
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)
30. tool - 4 degrees
― borntohula, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:50 (seventeen years ago)
29. Camper Van Beethoven - ZZ Top Goes to Egypt28. Men's Recovery Project - Egyptian Assassin
― bendy, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 18:37 (seventeen years ago)
27 - Dungen - Mina Damer Och Fasaner (?) But that riff can be Hindi-Indian...
― jaydaven, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 21:18 (seventeen years ago)
26. Space Cossacks - The Space Victory Theme25. Avengers VI - Heartbeat24. The Ghouls (Richie Podolar) - Coffin Nails23. The Atlantics - Bombora22. The Apemen - Bahareba21. Huntington Cads - New Dimension20. The Volcanos - Whirl Pool19. The Nocturnes - Third Star To The Left18. Satans Pilgrims - ¿que Honda17. The Treble Spankers - Araban16. The Prodigy - Medusa's Path
― meisenfek, Thursday, 21 May 2009 02:27 (seventeen years ago)
15. The Nebulas - T-1614. Django Twango - The Sheik Of Hips13. Dave Myers & The Surftones - Moment Of Truth12. Al Casey - El Aguila11. The Sentinals - Latiña10. Frankie Laine - Jezebel9. The Pharaos - Pintor8. Roger Abbound - Beirut Chillout
― meisenfek, Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:49 (seventeen years ago)
7. the cramps - "the most exalted potentate of love"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 21 May 2009 23:03 (seventeen years ago)
6. gal costa - "tuareg"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 21 May 2009 23:10 (seventeen years ago)
^ hoping to start debate of tropicalia = western tradition y/n
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 21 May 2009 23:22 (seventeen years ago)
lotta this on secret cheifs 3 records
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 21 May 2009 23:27 (seventeen years ago)
chiefs, even
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 21 May 2009 23:28 (seventeen years ago)
there's one caetano veloso arrangement that was ripped off for a mario 64 world
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 21 May 2009 23:31 (seventeen years ago)
Manics- Tsunami (5)Depeche Mode- Everything Counts (4)
― Morley Timmons, Friday, 22 May 2009 05:28 (seventeen years ago)
3. Mandy Moore - In My Pocket
― Josefa, Friday, 22 May 2009 05:50 (seventeen years ago)
2. Holy Wars - Megadeth
― Marty Innerlogic, Friday, 22 May 2009 09:18 (seventeen years ago)
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.
― Derelict, Friday, 22 May 2009 13:15 (seventeen years ago)
-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?
― chap, Friday, 22 May 2009 19:00 (seventeen years ago)
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.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)
(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
― meisenfek, Sunday, 20 November 2011 06:34 (fourteen years ago)
MBV - Swallow
― Chris S, Sunday, 20 November 2011 06:40 (fourteen years ago)
Sun City Girls to thread
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet)
+1 + Sir Richard Bishop
― Moka, Sunday, 20 November 2011 08:11 (fourteen years ago)
"The Blood" by the Cure https://youtu.be/v9_Xvpxdwcg
― moeSC, Monday, 22 April 2019 17:33 (seven years ago)
Not "rock" but just heard it in the radio today so"The Fakir"- Cal Tjader, arranged and composed by Lalo Schifrinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AU_91XRstM
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 April 2019 18:29 (seven years ago)
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
― Stevolende, Monday, 22 April 2019 21:06 (seven years ago)