Songs With "Penny Lane" Trumpet - Piccolo or Otherwise...

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I think there's quite a few of these tho, as far as I'm concerned, adding a Penny Lane-style trumpet to your song is the last refuge of a (musical) scoundrel. What yer group is basically saying is, we've written (or we're endeavouring to write) a song that sounds like the Beatles but, just in case you hadn't noticed, WE WILL MAKE IT GLARINGLY FUCKING OBVIOUS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOUND LIKE THE FUCKING BEATLES. Case in point:

The Raspberries, I Reach for the Light

Great song but LOSE THE FRIGGIN' TRUMPET!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 7 October 2005 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"This craze for explicitation! Every i dotted to death ... What next! .... Where do you think we are? In Patagonia?"

... as Samuel Beckett wrote... but not about "I Reach for the Light" by the Raspberries... unfortunately...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 7 October 2005 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Nick Heyward - My Heavy Head

― mms (mms), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Utopia: Hoi Polloi

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Tears For Fears, "Sowing the Seeds of Love" -- in fact, I'm fairly sure Roland Orzabal was heard to state in one 1989 MTV interview, "we've written a song that sounds like the Beatles but, just in case you hadn't noticed, WE WILL MAKE IT GLARINGLY FUCKING OBVIOUS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOUND LIKE THE FUCKING BEATLES."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Utopia: Hoi Polloi

I love Deface The Music; I remember hearing Paul Gambacini playing I Just Want to Touch You when the album came out, and it was linke hearing Please Please Me for the first time. Anyway, Hoi Polloi now sounds to me like Beatles via Aerovons ... thanks again for sending me that one by the way.

I'll add Fantaastic Day (HC 100) to the list.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, McCartney's Family Way soundtrack ... released around the same time.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

1910 Fruitgum Co, Keep Your Thoughts on the Bright Side

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 7 October 2005 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"Doubleback Alley" by the Rutles, although in this case I think it is okay.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I see no harm in wanting to sound like the Beatles, as long as the performer ADMITS it - or at least doesn't explicitly deny it, even tho it's obvious. And as long as it doesn't suck, of course.

At any rate, I think Fishbone's "Sunless Saturday" had that type of trumpet part. And so did Led Zep's "All My Love", except that it was actually John Paul Jones and his Yamaha GX1.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn it, Myonga beat me to "Sunless Saturday".

"Love in an Elevator" by the Aerosmith, I believe, has one towards the end.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

...which is somewhat ridiculous.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Dead or Alive - John Cale, and I like it.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, forgot about that one.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

XTC - "Easter Theater"

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Gore Veil on the new Deadly Snakes record has one. Though it could be argued that it is a Love - Alone Again Or Trumpet/Piccolo or Whatever.

― Jerry Brooksanddunnheimer, Friday, 7 October 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

Oh, this is one of my threads! Anyway, Pilot, "Girl Next Door".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbpS5PSbbjQ

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link

“dear mary” by steve miller band

^ nice tune imo

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link

Trumpet solo at 1:18.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XZ39qHV94

This is like "Vanity Fair" by Squeeze, who were certainly Beatles enthusiasts in their own right, with trumpet solo grafted on.

― composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link

Oh, and last 10 seconds borrow one more Beatles trope.

― composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link

Daft punk digital love

― brimstead, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvRQYwpvx3I

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:52 (five years ago) link

Love this one. These guys were from Singapore. (Think it's a french horn, but...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egAmrt2K46k

― timellison, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kUn3cALn2o

― MaresNest, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link

Did YouTube not exist when this thread was started? Because I would surely have posted the song that kicked off the thread, "I Reach for the Light" by the Raspberries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyks2W4jsso

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link

YouTube official launch was December, 2005.

― composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link

Echobelly - i Can't Imagine The World Without Me (towards the end)

― Maltrsnapper, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link

Primrose Hill is Madness's Penny Lane, IMHO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnIVAIWXH_M

― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

The Kinks, "Sitting In My Hotel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joz7WkjhfMQ

(Ripping off the Beatles, Ray? Explain yourself, man)

― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 November 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link

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