What good rock songs have nontraditional instruments in them?!


Question: What good rock songs have nontraditional instruments in them!?
like sax - shine on you crazy diamond (pink floyd)

or trumpet - silent scorn (megadeth)

xylophone - one night in the city (dio)

bonus: there's one on black sabbath's never say die album!.!.!.what is it!?Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
expanding on the earlier mungo jerry- in mother f@cker blues and my friend they have a kazoo!.

beach boys good vibrations had a theremin

the beatles used a sitar in several songs

tom waits used all sorts of crazy things, accordian, violin, glockenspiel, marimba, mellotron, farfisa organ, optigan

i dont know if anyone knows the band toubab krewe, but they play a kora a kamelengoni and a soku

one last one- roky erkisons first band the thirteenth floor elevators had a dude who played a mean electric jug, i cant say that i have ever heard anyone play a jug quite like it!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Sax solo on Incubus - Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Song)!.!.!.also Hoobastank used a lot of sax on their 1st album, which was actually really really good!! Now they suck pretty much!.!.haha!!

Flea plays trumpet on a Mars Volta song!.!.!.can't remember which song!.!.!.it's on Frances The Mute album

Wherever I May Roam - Metallica!.!.!.sitar in the beginning, a lot bands have used the sitar (System of a Down, Steve Vai, GNR, etc) but that is probably the most recognizable sitar riff in rock I can think of!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

She by Tenpenny Joke sounds like it opens with a sitar or sitar guitar!.

Hall of the Mountain King performed by Apocalyptica uses cellos!.

The Blue Man Group creates some bizzare instruments including using plumbing pipe as a percussion instrument!.

"The Go! Team" uses a flute, a recorder, a xylophone and a key-flute in their live songs!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Well the Velvet Underground used a lot of "non traditional" instruments in most of their songs one of the members John Cale usually played the viola or piano and sometimes bass!.!.!.and in one of their songs "Sister Ray" he played the organ here's a link to the song it is in 3 parts
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=cyhCG6GT2!.!.!.
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=cIU0hlzfW!.!.!.
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=kgnbzBZ0q!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I could write a very long list of Mike Oldfield songs here!.!.!. Tubular Bells, anyone!?!

Hurdy-Gurdy : '25 Years' ~ Blackmore's Night


In fact, Blackmore's Night could have a long list too!. Many of their songs feature several more unusual instruments!.

For full list of BN, MO, and Jethro Tull, please see here :
http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index!?!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

this isn't rock but I know you will be okay with this leech!. any Britney Spears or justin timberlake they have well, whatever in their music that shouldn't even be sold at the dang music store!. things that I cant even identify, things that should be sold at the torture paraphernalia store!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Look up any folk metal band, not rock per say but they all use very obscure instruments!.
Try Enfisirum
Turisas,
Pagan Reign
Kerplanki

http://web!.mac!.com/minnesota_mayhem/iWeb!.!.!.
listen to episode 7 and 8Www@Enter-QA@Com

Violent Femmes - "Gone Daddy Gone": xylophone

kickass song http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=KZXhlwYOy!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

An asian instrument (don't know the name) on Aqueous Tranmission by Incubus!. It's by a rock band, but this song isn't really rock!. But it is awesome!Www@Enter-QA@Com

jimi hendrix little wing(glockenspiel)
jimi hendrix crosstown traffic(kazoo)
korn uses bagpipes sometimesWww@Enter-QA@Com

Mungo Jerry!.!.!.!.!.in the summertime
http://www!.youtube!.com/watch!?v=3sgrPXP1n!.!.!.
they even have this Dude blowing a jugWww@Enter-QA@Com

Losing My Religion- REM (mandolin)

Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve (some strings)Www@Enter-QA@Com

Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly (violin)
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apocalyptica redid some metallica songs with violins!.!.!.lol that's just one of few!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper

(cowbell)Www@Enter-QA@Com

Aqualung, I think theres a flute in thereWww@Enter-QA@Com

Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog has a bagpipe!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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