Animals
House of the Rising Sun
Retrospective
(1967)

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bachbeet
Apr 30, 2013 - 20:44
Terrific song. They put their own take on this blues song and it was an instant classic. Eric had a great blues voice.


Huey
Apr 09, 2013 - 23:17
You mean "Frijid Pink", I checked all three covers, I liked them all !! Still Tracy wins by a nose.

25demayo wrote:

And I'll put up Frigid Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY
andreicio wrote:
amyjpr
Feb 27, 2013 - 06:41
Oh my god I hate this song. I have no idea what anyone enjoys in it. Repeated listenings just reinforce it. Hate. The worst.


25demayo
Feb 27, 2013 - 06:40

And I'll put up Frigid Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY
andreicio wrote:
I'll see your Sivert cover and raise you Tracy Chapman . One of the most interesting covers I've heard of this song.

2cats wrote:
HazzeSwede
Nov 25, 2012 - 06:22
Hasan wrote:
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Pick most any song from '64. It's a bunch'o folks singing a song.

Not this! This guy sang a whole new universe!

How can I not give it a 10?


"This guy sang a whole new universe" .... {#Notworthy} ..I totally agree !


andreicio
Jul 22, 2012 - 12:06
I'll see your Sivert cover and raise you Tracy Chapman . One of the most interesting covers I've heard of this song.

2cats wrote:
Hey girlfriends, listen to this:
Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun:
http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug
Link provided by Calypsus






Hasan
Jul 22, 2012 - 11:45
I was 11 in 1964. Roy Rogers and Father Knows best on the TV. Square dances in the school gymnasium. The Ed Sullivan show had all kinds of silliness, but then one Friday evening, this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcpxUWZf5Y

... washed over me like a hot shower after a lifetime in the wilderness.
They look as mundane as did everything else in 1964 suburbia. The setting is simple. It's black'n white. The song is simple yet it bursts with passion and majesty.

Pick most any song from '64. It's a bunch'o folks singing a song.

Not this! This guy sang a whole new universe!

How can I not give it a 10?



kingart
Apr 18, 2012 - 11:17
The song is kind of a 7 or an 8, but its classic stature, and the chills I still get from hearing this timeless tune, makes it a 12. The keyboards player, Alan Price, you may know, mastered one of moviedom's great soundtracks, O Lucky Man. Play some of that one, Bill, it would follow on quite nicely with this or another Animal track.


burinka
Mar 19, 2012 - 11:47
classic :>


Proclivities
Jan 14, 2012 - 06:16
ozzie1313 wrote:

More scintillating,spinal shrills. Every high school and college and clubs with bands I ever went to played this song. All garage bands on the planet included this song in their repetoire.



It's probably one of the first songs most guitar players ever learn.



drivingunit103
Jan 14, 2012 - 06:05
ozzie1313 wrote:

More scintillating,spinal shrills. Every high school and college and clubs with bands I ever went to played this song. All garage bands on the planet included this song in their repetoire.



...Heard this a gazillion times driving the truck - every station in North America has overplayed it - but - it still holds at an 8 for me!



2cats
Dec 13, 2011 - 11:47
Hey girlfriends, listen to this:
Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun:
http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug
Link provided by Calypsus



terryp17
Dec 13, 2011 - 11:46
First heard this song on 'Ready Steady Go' way back when...didn't understand it, and neither did my mum when I asked her...hmm.


ozzie1313
Dec 13, 2011 - 11:45

More scintillating,spinal shrills. Every high school and college and clubs with bands I ever went to played this song. All garage bands on the planet included this song in their repetoire.




nalle
Dec 13, 2011 - 11:44
B3, love it.


sirdroseph
Oct 11, 2011 - 05:23
billbangert wrote:
I think we've all heard this song enough. Stop playing it.


Prolly so, that tempers my rating to only a 7.


allabout
Oct 11, 2011 - 05:21
Behave yourself, its ERIC billbangert wrote:
I think we've all heard this song enough. Stop playing it.





billbangert
Sep 09, 2011 - 18:30
I think we've all heard this song enough. Stop playing it.


WonderLizard
Aug 09, 2011 - 10:11
calypsus_1 wrote:

Sivert Høyem - The House Of The Rising Sun:
http://youtu.be/q8kzUwg00Ug

Artist: Sivert Høyem
Album: Moon Landing (Bonus CD)*
Year: 2009
Release date: 28th September 2009
* This song included in Bonus CD

Line up:
Sivert Høyem: Sings/Plays/Composes
Cato Salsa: Strings/Keys
Børge Fjordheim: Drums/Shaker/Tambourine
Rudi Nikolaisen: Bass(Live)
Kalle Gustafson Jerneholm: Bass (On Record)

"Knallversjon som føyer seg inn i en hel rekke av knallåter fra Høyem, personlig har jeg vært fryktelig lei av denne låta, men jaggu ga denne versjonen låta en vitaminpille!!" rellllings


Moose Trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA.





WonderLizard
Aug 09, 2011 - 10:05
rez wrote:
Except it's not a B3. I think it's actually a Vox Continental which has quite a different sound (if you know your organs!)

I stand corrected. Here's an atypical web exerpt:

"Price's organ playing did as much for the Vox Continental Organ as it did for Price. The "Connie" was introduced in 1962 and rapidly became a favorite among touring musicians. It approached the sound of a superior Hammond or Wurlitzer, but it was half the size. The 1960s musicians dedicated to their Vox Continental included Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly. This is a formidable pedigree, but it was Price's organ work in "House of the Rising Sun" that sent every would-be keyboard player to the Vox showroom."


The link is: http://www.shmoop.com/animals-house-rising-sun/music.html
And I'll let the "know your organs" go unmolested... {#Wink}


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