[Music] Favourite tracks featuring a VIOLIN

[Pogue Mahone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_2R1rjbD8

 

[marlowe]

Quite a few Neil Young ones to choose from. This one's Comes a Time.

https://youtu.be/qxH_4e7W7hc

 

[marlowe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6xCwNKtnQ

Before I even opened the thread that was the first song that came to my mind.

 

[marlowe]

Kashmir - Led Zep

https://youtu.be/sfR_HWMzgyc

 

[Napier]

Kate Bush - Violin

 

[1066familyman]

http://stringsmagazine.com/learn-the-difference-between-violin-and-fiddle/

 

[Gwylan]

The first one that came to mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKYGaEafv4g

 

[marlowe]

Pedant alert: This features a viola rather than a violin. Looks and played the same, just a slightly bit larger.
I love the discordant viola playing of John Cale on Velvet Underground's Venus in Furs...

https://youtu.be/AwzaifhSw2c

 

[Albalbion]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This.

 

[marlowe]

Fairport Convention's version of Dylan's "If You Gotta Go" sung in French featuring Dave Swarbrick on violin.....

https://youtu.be/AmmCSOpPzZc

Here's the Peel session of the same song where the fiddle playing is more to the fore..

https://youtu.be/NiBC6z0goMo

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj8FA8dmFWY

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The great Simon House, later of Hawkwind. This is pure class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJbf7aPPUss&list=PLEMzLROuENR2TrnybowmwRELji6w26THM&index=4

 

[pasty]

Jig from Gustav Holst St Pauls Suite

Never particularly liked violin based music until I heard this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crs1-7DVvrw

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Saw these at the top rank, and at the Dome supporting Bebop Deluxe. They started their Dome set with this and some of the little teenage girls who came to see Bebop actually started crying

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

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AulNvAR0u5c

 

[Uh_huh_him]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJjj0hHBvDg

 

[piersa]

Whatever - Oasis.

 

[schmunk]

Potential singing from the Belgian league:

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

I was going to go with this