listing of rock songs w/mando

Elton John
Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters!

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Originally Posted by Plamen Ivanov

Hello,

I tried to put all of your suggestions so far in the list. Here it is:

A perfect circle (What so funny 'bout)peace, love and understanding
Aerosmith Crazy
Al Stewart Road to Moscow
Alan Parson Project Pavane
At war with self At war with self
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Billy Holmes Anybody`s Guess
Billy Holmes Vigilantes of Love
Blind Melon Walk
Blue Rodeo Bad timing
Blue Rodeo Up on that cloud
Bruce Hornsby Mandolin rain
Bruce Springtsien Into The Fire
Byrds Path of victory
Byrds Ballad of easy rider
Carbon Leaf
Charlie Sexton Probably Saved my Life
Church Antenna
Counting Crows
Cypruss Hill
Death cab for cutie Soul meet body
Flogging Molly
Goo Goo dolls Iris
Grateful Dead Ripple
Hall & Oates Lady rain
Hall & Oates Better watch your back
Heart Half moon
John Hiatt Cry love
Jars of clay Liquid
Jars of clay Lonely people
Jars of clay Love song for a savior
Jars of clay No one loves me like you
Jars of clay On jordan's stormy banks
Jethro tull Weather cock
Joan Osborne Saint Teresa
John Paul Jones Freedom song
John Kruth The Cherry Electric
Kinks Supersonic rocket ship
Led Zeppelin The battle of evermore
Led Zeppelin Boogiwe with stu
Led Zeppelin Gallows pole
Led Zeppelin Going to California
Los Lobos
Steve Miller band Dance dance dance
Mark Heard Satelite Sky
Michele Shocked Memories of east Texas
Michele Shocked The L&M don't stop here anymore
Mike Oldfield Taurus 3
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells 2
Mott & the Hoople I wish I was your mother
Muse Blackout
O'keanes This ain't love
REM You are everything
REM Mandolin strum
REM Loosing my religion
Rod Stewart Maggie May
Rod Stewart Mandolin wind
Rod Stewart Leave Virginia alone
Rory Gallagher I'm not surprised
Slash the nash I'll wait for you
Slash the nash Guns and sandwiches
Split Enz Maybe
Split Enz Matinee Idyll
Split Enz Titus
Split Enz Sweer talking spoon
Steve Earle Copperhead Road
Styx Boat on the River
Swingers True or false
Tea Party Shadow on the mountain side
Tea Party Sister awake
The Band When I Paint My Masterpiece
The Band Atlantic City
The Band Rag Mama Rag
The Band Evangaline
The Hooters
White Stripes Little Ghost
Yes Wonderous Stories

Good luck!
Plamen

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Chris Cornell
'Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart'
https://youtu.be/C1TvJarzQyw

The Mountain Goats - The Magpie
Boygenius - Cowboy Take Me Away, Souvenir
Also most (all?) Judah & The Lion songs

Plamen's list above omits the Rolling Stone's version of "Love in Vain" with Ry Cooder doing a great mando solo.

Sweet! (from the above list)



Byrds Ballad of the Easy rider

Death Cab For Cutie Soul meets Body

:mandosmiley:

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Originally Posted by ellebrille

I started mandolin recently and I find there is not enough of that instrument in rock songs. Here are the songs I've found so far. It would be nice to build

Band Chanson/Song


Alan Parson project Pavane
A perfect circle (What so funny 'bout)peace, love and understanding
At war with self At war with self
Blind Melon Walk
Blue Rodeo Bad timing
Blue Rodeo Up on that cloud
Byrds Path of victory
Byrds Ballad of easy rider
Church Antenna
Death cab for cutie Soul meet body
Rory Gallagher I'm not surprised
Goo Goo dolls Iris
Hall & Oates Lady rain
Hall & Oates Better watch your back
John Hiatt Cry love
Heart Half moon
Bruce Hornsby Mandolin rain
Jars of clay Liquid
Jethro tull Weather cock
John Paul Jones Freedom song
Kinks Supersonic rocket ship
Led Zeppelin The battle of evermore
Led Zeppelin Boogiwe with stu
Led Zeppelin Gallows pole
Led Zeppelin Going to California
Steve Miller band Dance dance dance
Mott & the Hoople I wish I was your mother
Muse Blackout
Mike Oldfield Taurus 3
O'keanes This ain't love
REM You are everything
REM Mandolin strum
REM Loosing my religion
Slash the nash I'll wait for you
Slash the nash Guns and sandwiches
Split Enz Maybe
Split Enz Matinee Idyll
Split Enz Titus
Split Enz Sweer talking spoon
Al Stewart Road to Moscow
Rod Stewart Maggie May
Rod Stewart Mandolin wind
Swingers True or false
Tea Party Shadow on the mountain side
Tea Party Sister awake
Yes Wonderous stories

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I think of Seals and Crofts in the 70’s as introducing the mandolin in “Soft rock” music as pioneers. Dash Croft’s use of the mandolin is downright amazing, especially in the early albums. I also like the Waterboy’s Fisherman’s Blues. I play mostly 70’s era rock music with my mandolin and a whole lot of it sounds great on the mandolin, especially the more acoustic oriented artists and bands, ( Cat Stevens, America, John Prince, etc, etc.).

Fisherman’s Blues, The Waterboys
(with lyrics in Spanish)


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wmAtykYy5rQ

I didn't hear any mandolin from Hootie and the Blowfish's "Running from an Angel"...but there is mandolin from Hootie's song "I Only Wanna be with You".
I think there's mandolin in The Murmurs "You Suck".
There may be mandolin...or a capo guitar on Lisa Loeb's "Stay (I Missed You)".
Here's a latest song with mandolin...The Divine Comedy's "I'm a Stranger".
Barenaked Ladies played an electric mandolin on the last part "Intermittently"...and that IS a Barenaked Song as well...don't ask!
The Moody Blues have a song with Mandolin played by Justin Hayward..."Dawning is the Day".

There is a mandolin in the Scorpions' "Born to touch your feelings", a great piece to add to your list...

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Originally Posted by zombywoof

Sid Griffin played mandolin with the Long Ryders and his other groups afterwards.

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I happened to be listening to the 3 CD version of their final (before reunion) album in 1987 "Two-Fisted Tales" and thought about this thread and whether any specific songs had ever been mentioned. Mandolin credited to Stephen McCarthy (and prominent), though Sid Griffin definitely played mandolin with other projects.

The Long Ryders - The Light Gets in the Way (w/David Hidalgo on accordian)
The Long Ryders - Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry Me Home

(Sorry, no youtube links, blocked at work. Maybe later when I'm at home)

The 3rd disc is a live show from Palm Springs in 1987 and features those same two songs also featuring mandolin.

It's hard to believe that, in the 14 years of this thread, nobody has mentioned...

Sonny & Cher - Baby Don't Go

... where the pre-chorus vocal lines are overlaid by very sweetly tremoloed mandolin.

(No, I didn't actually re-read all 311 posts above, but I did search the Cafe finding no reference.)

Sorry for my late posting, but I just joined this forum a few weeks ago, and noticed this thread. I got one that goes way back in time. One of my all time favorite songs by any artist: It's Now or Never by Elvis Presley. If I am not mistaken, the mando on the recording was played by Tommy Tedesco.

A few years back, I mentioned Shocking Blue "known for "Venus"), as I'd discovered they used mandolin on a couple songs. Lead singer Mariska Veres came up in conversation on facebook today. Somehow in the ensuing fb conversation and researching, I found another song of theirs featuring mandolin. :cool: Indeed, in the live footage (not live audio), the player switches between mandolin and sax. :disbelief: Perhaps someone can identify the make of the mandolin. :mandosmiley:

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Hey folks. I'm hoping to have some free time coming up early next year, and plan to update the list. If anyone has new entries, start posting them. Just please check first to make sure they're not repeats. Use the "search thread" function. Thanks! :mandosmiley:


Oh, and ... Been doing more research on Shocking Blue, and found this. I submit this as being the earliest use of mandolin as the driving force in a rock song, as it's from 1972. And furthermore, that it is still to this day the most potent use of mandolin this way. Even more so than "Copperhead Road," which is saying something IMO.

If I find a song I like but can't find it in Mando Tab. I find it as a piano score. Then I send it to guy that converts to Mando Tab. I can give his info if you like.

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Originally Posted by Gus & Sophie

If I find a song I like but can't find it in Mando Tab. I find it as a piano score. Then I send it to guy that converts to Mando Tab. I can give his info if you like.

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You might be in the wrong thread. Seems a non sequitur. :confused:

The mandolin player from Landisfarne played the Mando part on "Maggie May".

No! :disbelief: Really? According to whom? :confused:

Do you know if any of them played a '56' Fender Mandolin?

No idea. This is just a listing of song titles and artist names, not an in-depth musicological investigation. ;) Such exacting information is rarely if ever provided on older albums. Heck, on a lot of these albums, "mandolin" probably wasn't credited. :disbelief:

Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Mississippi Kid'.

That's cool about the Shocking Blue

One of Us, Abba, Visitors album

Fabulous Poodles, some tracks on their album Unsuitable, and I assume other records of theirs

I think there's mando on Horslips records

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Originally Posted by ALCO

Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Mississippi Kid'.

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I had completely forgotten that one until i read Nile's post from 2008 with his list of rock and blues mandolin. I doubt that much has been added since then.

Of course it's blues, by a blues/rock group.

https://youtu.be/v_jMBh7GCYo