Need some good rock songs with Violin in them, any suggestions?

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  • Zanne
    Zanne Posts: 899
    Kansas. Dust in the wind for sure.

    Nights in white satin - Moody Blues

    ELO (Do ya, Evil Woman)

    Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

    Blackwater - Doobie Brothers


    nice list.
    Just me
  • the Raconteurs - Old Enough
    i'll trade you my tee shirt for a grilled cheese
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Violin by Kate Bush. :)
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Several songs from Wilco's Summerteeth album. Yet another reason to get a great album.
  • "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    Andrew Bird. All of him.
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    edwho wrote:
    Rain Song

    others too

    jpj
    Isn't that a Mellotron instead of violin???
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • edwho wrote:
    Rain Song

    others too

    Uh....no.
  • drew0
    drew0 Posts: 943
    Kashmir, Dave Matthews Band
    Pittsburgh 6/23/06
    Madison Square Garden 6/25/08
  • Nearly everything by The Levellers

    Kind of pogues-esque folk mixed with punk
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    The Verve - Lucky Man is the best rock song with violin
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson

  • Never mind about the violin, the bird cage is the new instrument. Thanks to My Morning Jacket.

    Bands that included violin and not the bird cage, or Arcade Fire are:-

    1. Yellow Card - great rock violin. The violinist in this band plays it like a guitar. Brilliant stuff.

    2. Dusty Rhodes - they were mainly country. Their 'First You Live' album houses plenty of punk attitude.

    3. Gordo Bordillo - plenty of Ukrainian Polka, but also having a strong punk attitude.

    4. Camper Van Beethoven - they did any music including Chinese, Mexican, Country, Punk, Progressive rock and Metal. Mainly they featured on World and alternative college music.
    Jonathan Segel who played violin for this band is also found on the Artichoke Project, Victor Krummenacher's Patriarch's Blues and his own records concentrating on rock and electronica.
    Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun - W.H. Auden
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Doesn't APC have some electric violin on the first album.
  • There's a couple songs with it on the newest Raconteurs album, I remember Old Enough had it, I dunno if any other ones had it.
  • Side One of Neil Young's "American Stars And Bars"
  • suns rival
    suns rival Posts: 15,926
    i stay away
    scratching my butt...
    kinakamot ang aking puwit...
    me rascando pompis...
    krap mijn reet...
    boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
    bahrosh teezy...
  • wcsmith
    wcsmith Posts: 165
    all the way to page three and no mention of

    Willie the Pimp - Frank Zappa

    for shame, people, for shame!
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Let's see. You could play a lot of The Waterboys: The Whole of The Moon and Fisherman's Blues are obvious contenders.

    Beat me to it. :)
    Happiness is only real when shared
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Gogol Bordello has a violinist. Here's "Start Wearing Purple":

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LYE8Vjih2cs

    At ACL Fest in September it seemed like every other band had a chick playing violin, including David Byrne and Foo Fighters.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • Springsteen's "the rising" album has several good ones
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all