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Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19757 05/09/09 08:28 PM Joined: Apr 2007 italy I Ivan Basso OP Member OP Ivan Basso Member I Joined: Apr 2007 italy excluding the obvious Marguerite Duras inspired one ? I'm going for the light rock/Folky Scotsman Breath taking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7LR46zrQU (Year of the Cat Al Stewart for those who can't open it )

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19758 05/09/09 09:17 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Southampton, England Birdsong Administrator Birdsong Administrator Joined: Dec 2006 Southampton, England Easy - Kate Bush 'The Saxophone Song' from The Kick Inside or should that be 'The Sexyphone Song :p For archive snippets, sparks of electroflesh and news about this website follow me on Twitter @foxxmetamatic

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19759 05/09/09 10:32 PM Joined: May 2008 Eindhoven, The Netherlands Lody Herst Member Lody Herst Member Joined: May 2008 Eindhoven, The Netherlands Also sexy and : DB: Sound & Vision.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19760 05/10/09 07:30 AM Joined: Apr 2008 Chicago, IL, USA Lele Member Lele Member Joined: Apr 2008 Chicago, IL, USA When I was a teenager Lora Logic (X-Ray Spex, Essential Logic) was one of my heroes, so this could have been a difficult choice for me, but then I thought of Bowie's "Young Americans" and Roxy Music's "Song for Europe," and I still wound up settling on the Psychedelic Furs' "Sister Europe" instead. Go figure.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19761 05/10/09 05:08 PM Joined: Feb 2009 Cheltenham, UK O OurFriendAnalogue Member OurFriendAnalogue Member O Joined: Feb 2009 Cheltenham, UK Oh come on, it's got to be The Working Hour by Tears For Fears! Not exactly heavy stuff but the atmosphere is just otherworldly.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19762 05/11/09 07:07 AM Joined: Dec 2006 A radio station somewhere in O... M Mr.Ilektrik Member Mr.Ilektrik Member M Joined: Dec 2006 A radio station somewhere in O... Love Theme from Blade Runner. Dick Morrissey on sax. She's Got Claws was a close second. Mick Karn on sax.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19763 05/11/09 10:10 AM Joined: Apr 2007 Italy MemberD Member MemberD Member Joined: Apr 2007 Italy Gerry Rafferty's ' Baker Street ' springs to mind, although on more geeky note I have to mention Martin Cooper's saxy contribution to OMITD 's debut album with Mystereality . We had some laughs with Madness tho didn't we? Didn't we?

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19764 05/11/09 11:52 AM Joined: Dec 2006 Sheffield, UK Alex S Member Alex S Member Joined: Dec 2006 Sheffield, UK The one from Blade Runner is cool. "Start" from Peter Gabriel 3 is also good. Dick Morrisey also did some decent sax on some of Gary Numan's 80s stuff, although I'm not much of a fan of the Numan/sax combo. I'm a fan of "The Wedding" and "Looking for Lester" on Bowie's Black Tie White Noise album. In fact all the sax on that is cool.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19765 05/11/09 11:54 AM Joined: Apr 2007 Italy MemberD Member MemberD Member Joined: Apr 2007 Italy Quote: Originally posted by Alex S: Dick Morrisey also did some decent sax on some of Gary Numan's 80s stuff, although I'm not much of a fan of the Numan/sax combo. No that's when i stopped listening! Mind you it worked well on She's Got Claws as mentioned earlier.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19766 05/11/09 12:14 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Sheffield, UK Alex S Member Alex S Member Joined: Dec 2006 Sheffield, UK Take the backing vocals and sax off Wariors and you'd be left with a stunning album... actually you could say the same with Berserker and The Fury.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19767 05/11/09 01:18 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Southampton, England Birdsong Administrator Birdsong Administrator Joined: Dec 2006 Southampton, England Soft Cell used a lot of sax to great effect. I particularly like the intro to the 12" of Torch For archive snippets, sparks of electroflesh and news about this website follow me on Twitter @foxxmetamatic

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19768 05/11/09 04:09 PM Joined: May 2008 Eindhoven, The Netherlands Lody Herst Member Lody Herst Member Joined: May 2008 Eindhoven, The Netherlands Onnne step beyooondd! We did D, we did!

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19769 05/11/09 04:29 PM Joined: Dec 2006 A radio station somewhere in O... M Mr.Ilektrik Member Mr.Ilektrik Member M Joined: Dec 2006 A radio station somewhere in O... Hazel O'Connor- 'Will You'

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19770 05/11/09 08:50 PM Joined: Jan 2007 New York USA c23 Member c23 Member Joined: Jan 2007 New York USA Roxy Music/Brian Ferry cover of Lennon's "Jealous Guy"........ The entire Jon Anderson/Vangelis album "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" Lots of Dick Morrisey sax on that record.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19771 05/12/09 02:18 PM Joined: Jan 2007 Dislocated NerveJam Member NerveJam Member Joined: Jan 2007 Dislocated Quote: Originally posted by Alex S: The one from Blade Runner is cool. "Start" from Peter Gabriel 3 is also good. Yes, I remember that. It's one of the b-sides to Games without Frontiers. Quote: Originally posted by Mr.Ilektrik: Hazel O'Connor- 'Will You' I remember that, too. She obviously had a bad head-cold while recording that.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19772 05/16/09 04:17 PM Joined: May 2009 Market Harborough John Member John Member Joined: May 2009 Market Harborough Quote: Originally posted by Mr.Ilektrik: Hazel O'Connor- 'Will You' This is my favourite as well, but as it's already been mentioned, I'll plump for 'Rat Trap' by The Boomtown Rats, complete with Bob Geldof aping the sax with a candelabra on TOTP.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19773 05/20/09 12:37 PM Joined: Dec 2006 new york maryann Member maryann Member Joined: Dec 2006 new york Quote: Originally posted by OurFriendAnalogue: Oh come on, it's got to be The Working Hour by Tears For Fears! Not exactly heavy stuff but the atmosphere is just otherworldly. One of my favorites of theirs. I have to agree with this choice.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19774 07/18/09 02:15 PM Joined: Dec 2006 ''in a grey suit'' newvox Member newvox Member Joined: Dec 2006 ''in a grey suit'' Quote: Originally posted by Birdsong: Easy - Kate Bush 'The Saxophone Song' from [b]The Kick Inside[/b] Thats one of mine too, along with 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' obviously.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19775 07/18/09 02:18 PM Joined: Dec 2006 ''in a grey suit'' newvox Member newvox Member Joined: Dec 2006 ''in a grey suit'' Quote: Originally posted by John: I'll plump for 'Rat Trap' by The Boomtown Rats, complete with Bob Geldof aping the sax with a candelabra on TOTP. Me too. Strangely it reminds me of my school days, not just because the year.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19776 07/18/09 06:59 PM Joined: Dec 2006 new york maryann Member maryann Member Joined: Dec 2006 new york David Bowie: Life on Mars?

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19777 07/23/09 11:40 AM Joined: Jan 2007 Paris to Berlin and every disc... RadioBeach Member RadioBeach Member Joined: Jan 2007 Paris to Berlin and every disc... Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach...far away in time...

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19778 07/23/09 09:32 PM Joined: Dec 2006 ''in a grey suit'' newvox Member newvox Member Joined: Dec 2006 ''in a grey suit'' Gary Numan - 'The Image Is'. Yes i know its a Numan middle years shock horror thingy.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19779 12/14/09 08:17 PM Joined: Apr 2007 italy I Ivan Basso OP Member OP Ivan Basso Member I Joined: Apr 2007 italy A joint gold medal Sax winner alongside Mr Al Stewart JOAN ARMATRADING LOVE AND AFFECTION A truly marvellous song Apologies to all for reviving this moribund thread of mine

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19780 12/15/09 11:11 AM Joined: Jul 2008 Japan solenoid Member solenoid Member Joined: Jul 2008 Japan The The. 12" version of "Uncertain Smile" (has flute too) - probably in my top ten all time faves! Album version is so dull in comparison!

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19781 12/17/09 12:36 PM Joined: Feb 2009 Birmingham,UK Q quietrumrunnerman Member quietrumrunnerman Member Q Joined: Feb 2009 Birmingham,UK Jungleland - Springsteen.Clarence Clemons...PLAY IT LOUD! Rio - Duran Duran.Andy Hamilton...DITTO!

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19782 12/18/09 05:54 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Rochester, NY USA Andy Kalish Junior Member Andy Kalish Junior Member Joined: Jan 2008 Rochester, NY USA Saxophone on "Hiroshima Mon Amour. Simple but very special to me. Blade Runner soundtrack is a very close second.

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19783 12/26/09 10:45 PM Joined: Dec 2006 Finland M Mr Normall Member Mr Normall Member M Joined: Dec 2006 Finland Japan - Swing

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19784 01/12/10 06:25 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Rochester, NY USA Andy Kalish Junior Member Andy Kalish Junior Member Joined: Jan 2008 Rochester, NY USA Quote: Originally posted by Mr Normall: Japan - Swing Excellent choice!

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19785 01/13/10 08:15 AM Joined: Apr 2007 Italy MemberD Member MemberD Member Joined: Apr 2007 Italy David Bowie - Blue Jean

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19786 01/13/10 09:56 AM Joined: Dec 2006 Likes: 1 6 "Miles Away" from Lichvegas,... Brian Member Brian Member Joined: Dec 2006 Likes: 1 6 "Miles Away" from Lichvegas,... One step beyond,Madness

Re: Your favourite song with a saxophone in it #19787 02/05/10 03:41 PM Joined: Jul 2008 Midlothian C core memory Member core memory Member C Joined: Jul 2008 Midlothian Magazine: The Thin Air