100 best organ solos, or breaks, or general performances that might not be considered "riffs"

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100. Del Shannon: Runaway

99. Deep Purple: Rat Bat Blue

98. Grateful Dead: Cold Rain and Snow (album version)

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

97. Steppenwolf - Hodge Podge Strained Through a Leslie

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

96. Everything else Goldy McJohn ever touched, but I'll just stick with the long, grinding "solo" on Magic Carpet Ride.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

Everything by Larry Goldings, Larry Young, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith, Joey deFranceso, and Davell Crawford. Etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

95. Brenton Wood - Oogum Boogum

― angel duster, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

94. Karn Evil Nine First Impression whatever whatever
93. Roundabout
92. 96 Tears
91. "Sexy Boy" by Air
90. The entire M83 album from last year

― otto, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago) link

Presence of the Lord - Blind Faith
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic (That bit at the end, dig?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

92 is a riff!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

89. "Whiter Shade of Pale" Protocol Harum

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

re 92, I didn't read the question properly.

New 92: Harmonia [i]Deluxe[i/], the entire album

― otto, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

make that, [i]Deluxe[/i]

― otto, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago) link

88 Time Of The Season - The Zombies
87 Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
86 Hush - Deep Purple

― billstevejim, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

consider me an [i] idiot [/i].
to make up for board clogging, I offer

85. "Queen of You" Monster Magnet

― otto, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

84. XTC - Science Friction

― mzui, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

83. The Clique - Wormin' (VA Totally Wired #3)
82. Nino Ferrer - Mirza
81. Pleasure Beach - Smells Like Teen Spirit
80. Makin' Time - Where The Rhythm Takes You
79. Alan Moorhouse - Expo In Tokyo
78. The Out Cast - Kimamana Shelly (VA, GS - I Love You)
77. The James Taylor Quartet - The Money Spyder
76. Theo Schumann-Combo - Korallenriff

― eleki-san, Friday, 30 January 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

75. Deep Purple - Child in Time

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

74. Sun Ra - Atlantis

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

(Oh, a first Sun Ra entry... Was high time. Cheers, udu wudu!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

73. The Band - "Chest Fever"

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

74. Crowded House, "Don't Dream It's Over"
75. The Clean, "Tally-Ho!"
76. Jimmy Cliff, "Many Rivers to Cross"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago) link

time-sly&family stone
another the letter-wire (may be a riff at times tho)

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

70. Faust - Teutonentango (actually difficult to pick one, the organ playing is always brilliant)
69. Soft Machine - Hibou, Anemone and Bear (see above)
68. Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (the winner by several light years)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

aint sister a riff tho', dadaismus?.. cuz somebody got chewed out on another thread for some such shit...but i feel you, yo!

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

Tim Friese-Green's life.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

That's no riff Thomas, that's a symphony

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

amen

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

67. Deep Purple-Lazy
66. Lyres-She Pays the Rent
65. Plan 9-I Like Girls

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 31 January 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

Brian Auger "Light My Fire"

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 1 February 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago) link

63. Miles Davis - RATED X
62. The Damned - I JUST CAN'T BE HAPPY TODAY

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 08:04 (twenty years ago) link

61 DJ Shadow - "Organ Donor"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 1 February 2004 08:17 (twenty years ago) link

60.) Electric to Me Turn~Bruce Haack

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 1 February 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

59. When the organ breaks in at the beginning of "Love and Happiness" by AL Green. For me, its an all-time great moment!

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 1 February 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

58. Yo La Tengo: "Sudden Organ"

― Ryan Pitchfork, Sunday, 1 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

eleven years pass...

57. Dick Hyman - the liquidator
56. The Greg Foat Group - dark is the sun (part 1 main theme)

― meisenfek, Thursday, 30 April 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link

55. Jack White - Missing Pieces
54. Deep Purple - Highway Star

― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 May 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link

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