Songs with cool cowbells

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Well I may be of the opinion that all cowbells are cool, we've done snaps, claps and chinese fingertraps so please, songs with cowbells in front and center please.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

approx 1/3 of the neptunes output, New Order - Perfect Kiss.

― ed, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the drummers from long fin killie had a nice assortment of cowbells.

― keith, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This is so commonplace in salsa, though often brilliantly done, that I don't know where to begin.

Cow Bell Thread from rec.music.afro-latin

I hope this link works, since the url is unwieldy, to say the least.

― DeRayMi, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Honky Tonk Women?

― clotion, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Power in the Darkness" by the Tom Robinson Band.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How come noone said TWO MONTHS OFF?!

― Chupa-Cabras, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Because we're mean.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

phuture - acid trax

most anything by esg

― stirmonster, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've got a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell.

― JM, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So to answer your question, Blue Oyster Cult, (Don't Fear) The Reaper.

― JM, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"the way" by mod wheel aka tom middleton. there are some cowbells buried deep within the mix, but once you hear them, you will realize they are driving the whole song forward. it is a brilliant house record.

― Aaron G!, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

...with "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth right behind it. "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Stones also.

― J Blount, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's a sample, of course, but "Hey Ladies" by the Beastie Boys

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fugazi's drummer has one. It's all over Repeater.

― bnw, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wish I could think of something that uses the TR808 cowbell (somebody help me out?). It sounds absolutely nothing like a real cowbell but it's a very distinctive electro/'80s sound that you all know, even if you think you don't. Actually I've just thought of one - 'Hanging on a String' by Loose Ends. Great record as well.

― David, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

isn't there a cowbell at the beginning of Rawhide on Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter...

― baxter wingnut, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kiss, "Ladies Room"
"Nightrain", Guns'n'Roses

― dave q, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Missy Elliot - "We Did It"

― Tim, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

GOLDCRUSH!!!

ha-hem.

― kate, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mitch Ryder's DETROIT's version of "Rock & Roll" by Lou Reed: BEST cowbell ever, check it out. Bonus points to "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain, "Sucker" by Mott the Hoople, "Low Rider" by War. More to follow, cowbells are my thing.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Don't let that stop you from feeling the groove of the cowbell Kate.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dictators, "Faster and Louder".

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

def leppard

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"We're An American Band" -Grand Funk Railroad

― Arthur, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Funkytown"-Lipps Inc.
"Calling Dr. Love"-Kiss

― Arthur, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Skid Row used a cow bell on the first single from their second album. Liked the song but can't remember the name. Alas, they were never heard from again. Maybe the heavy metal crowd wasn't ready for that kind of "experimentation".

― rat, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeesh, "Rock the Bells" (the b-side longer mix) by LL Cool J! I forgot. Anything by Trouble Funk is bound to have bangin' bells. "Time Has Come Today", Chambers Brothers, and of course, "Shake It" by the Limbomaniacs!

― Matt Riedl (veal), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, and "Is It Live", Run DMC.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rock Lobster (hang on, that's not a cowbell is it?)

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Fall "City Hobgoblins" Junkyard Band "The Word/Sardines"

― tacit, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mahler's Symphony No.6!
(alright, not a "song", but Mahler did put songs in his symphonies)

― Jeff W, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The song by JSBX on Orange where they sing "Baby, baby, you sure like to fuck," over and over again.

― Nick A., Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The song by JSBX on Orange where they sing "Baby, baby, you sure like to fuck," over and over again.

Full Grown. It's like "Honky Tonk Women" meets...some other cool song with cowbell.

What about "Hot in Herre" or that one song on Dark Magus that's really slow and has the cool cowbell?

― dleone, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...

"House Of Jealous Lovers" by The Rapture.

― carlakahdksd, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link

"mongoose" fu manchu

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link

A lot of tracks from Afro Finger and Gel by Mu have got some awesome cowbell on. I think Let's Get Sick is the best example.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Un Poco Loco by Bud Powell

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"She'd Rather Be With Me" by the Turtles. (Say whatever you want, I love it. My definition of cool may vary from yours...)

― James, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Sanford & Son Theme.
Go! - Tones on Tail .. (I guess it's cowbells, aint it?)

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Alter Ego - 'Rocker'
Bis - 'Secret Vampires'

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

is that a cowbell on the second and fourth beats of She's Lost Control?

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, the cowbell, "that most satisfying of all the percussion instruments" (Rick Johnson, CREEM, 1985). Go-go, "Honky Tonk Women", Guns 'n Roses and the entirety of the 1970s wouldn't be the same (wouldn't EXIST, practically) without 'em. I nominate Captain Beefheart's "Sun Zoom Spark", Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and War's "Low Rider", probably my favourite groove of all eternity.

― Myonga Von Bovine (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Lard - "70's Rock Must Die"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Dunno what Rat was talking about here - cowbell was always a staple of even the most faceless, generic metal bands of the '80s. Like, not in EVERY song, but I'd say most bands used it once or twice. I'm thinking of particular songs by Ozzy, Crue, and (uh) Ratt, aside from the ones already mentioned. Something vaguely sleazy about the instrument, I think, evoking farmers' daughters or some such.

Lard - "70's Rock Must Die"
-- zaxxon25

Heh heh...I hope they used it ironically! (See my remarks above.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

uncle tupelo - graveyard shift. man, its so cheesy, but it works.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"good times, bad times" - led zep

― cb, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"Sixteen" - Iggy Pop

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Lose That Girl - Saint Etienne

― maj, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

A-Frames "Transgenic"

― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Poison "Back To The Rocking Horse"

― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drf300/f351/f35109rf9kc.jpg

― Da Whole Ting, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Kerri Chandler-Bar-A-Thym

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Aimee Mann, "Goodbye Caroline"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 22 December 2005 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Andy Montanez (with Daddy Yankee): "Se Le Ve"

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Budgie - "I Can't See My Feelings"

― todd (todd), Friday, 19 May 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

anything by Milton Ousland (Yankees' bleacher creature cowbell guy)

― and there are lot's of other sites, but all of them are fake... (sanskrit), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

is it just me or does "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" actually feature woodblocks, not cowbell?

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Bridge" Cactus World News

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 19 May 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Panico - Transpiralo
Hot Chip - Over And Over

― Cracks (Crackity), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Every good Guns n Roses song has a cowbell on it I think.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

"Grazing in the Grass" by Hugh Masekela.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

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