Piano rock

[enim]

does anyone know any good "rock" songs featuring a piano? i am doing this for my sister, who is obssed with Evanescence, and we want to get her a new cd similar to that. thanks in advance

[DeathHawk]

90 Day Men

[kukumangamango]

muse definately cuts the cake here. any song by them is great im looking for their tablature myself...

[s0ldsoul4roknrol]

Pretty much anything By Queen. Especially Bohemian Rhapsody.

[Kingofdudes]

^I wish I had a cool, original Avatar like that :rolleyes:

Check out the band Keane

[s0ldsoul4roknrol]

^I wish I had a cool, original Avatar like that :rolleyes:


Thank you. Made it myself. Yep.

[Kingofdudes]

*puts battery into sarcasm detector*

[s0ldsoul4roknrol]

*puts battery into sarcasm detector*

*...Knows you were being sarcastic...*

[Tails]

She might like Dream Theater, James Labrie has an operatic style of singing and they have an amazing keyboardist as well.

[Throw.This.Away]

Type O Negative - October Rust.

Buy that for her, immediatly.

[enim]

thanks for the advice...but is anyone else getting a warning saying that the site wants to dl code? if not TURN OFF ALL SCRIPTS...its a bad kinda code

[MaidenPumpkin]

^I wish I had a cool, original Avatar like that :rolleyes:

Check out the band Keane

:lol: :lol: Very well put, you get a thumbs up from me :thumb:

to threadstarter Are you talking piano only or keyboards too?

[Lateralias]

Nightwish have some songs with nice piano in it...

[Kage]

Muse...I'm listening to Absolution right now and it is an incredible CD. Some great piano work as well as guitar and the singing is amazing.

[mordredozzy124]

Coldplay... theyre one of the better bands out nowadays, and they have some cool piano. Also the doors use lots of piano and theyre great. Dream theater is excellent aswell.

[sr800bkBassist]

Radiohead- "Karma Police"

[IwantAcookie]

i am doing this for my sister, who is obssed with Evanescence, and we want to get her a new cd similar to that.
right...

/sarcastic

[MxKashmir]

the band "Muse" has great piano

[captivatedbyhim]

Listen to Queen, they are possibly the most piano oriented rock band ever. Listen to like Don't Stop Me Now, or Somebody to Love- although Bohiemian Rapsody is a good piano part, i disagree (if your looking for rock) becuase at the time in the song when Freddie used the piano, it wasn't really rock, it's more of a ballad. Don't Stop Me Now is a really great rock tune, and the whole song features the piano. If you wanna get these songs, i suggest just picking up a greatest hits album, cuase there are a lot them, and they cover the varitey of Queen pretty well, and if she likes them pick up some actual albums, you won't be disapointed.

[RadKeysPlayer]

check out the song "faithfully" by journey. a nice piano rocker

[another guy]

hey check out these songs by Hellacopters: "throw away heroes", and "by the grace of god"

[FrailandBedazzled1979]

Styx....just about anything lol

[Det_Nosnip]

Arcturus. She'll LOVE them. :lol:

[Ruth]

does anyone know any good "rock" songs featuring a piano? i am doing this for my sister, who is obssed with Evanescence, and we want to get her a new cd similar to that. thanks in advance


Baba O'Reilly by The Who was originally done on piano.

If you're into lighter fare, Elton John has a legion of them, such as Crocodile Rock, and Saturday's All Right For Fighting, plus the next song after Funeral For a Friend.

Along similar lines of rock n roll piano talent is Billy Joel. Brian Wilson is the original genius and keyboardist of the Beach Boys. My favourite of his will always be Good Vibrations.

If it's your thing, check out any of Christine McVie's work in Fleetwood Mac. She and husband John, Mick Fleetwood, and Peter Green were the original line-up of Fleetwood Mac years before they found Bob Welch, followed by the almost-starving American couple, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

Paul McCartney played quite a few good slow rock songs on piano: Hey Jude, Let It Be, and Lady Madonna. Their buddy, Billy Preston, played a lot of their faster songs.

Tori Amos is the quintessential queen of piano. I recommend you check her out.

Course, there is the original Rock Piano Master: Jerry Lee Lewis. Anything he did was great. Let's not forget Little Richard, a major inspiration for Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix.

Also I recommend you check out Leon Russell. He was the pianoman for Joe Cocker -- and a helluva songwriter -- before touring on his own. I saw the man twice: in a huge arena in 1972 and a couple meters in front of me in a small lounge fifteen years later, with Edgar Winter. Fantastic.

For heavy blues, I recommend Muddy Waters' Mannish Boy. He did an awesome version of it live on The Band's Last Waltz film and record. Joe Perkins provided the piano.

The keyboards on Emerson, Lake, & Palmer were far-out, absolutely. I was at a concert of theirs in which they channelled their sounds through four giant, 7 or 8 feet stacks of speakers at the four outer corners of the arena. When that guy hammered on his keyboards, our minds were gone. Try the album with the skull on it.

Ritchie Blackmore, of Deep Purple, is probably one of a handful of the greatest lead guitarists on the planet. However, his keyboardist, Jon Lord, is a madman. Anything this great band did was fine, and, yes, if you're into them, you'll probably hear Machine Head, but do have a listen to their previous album with the Hieronymus Bosch paintings. Their version of Donovan's Lalena could even send Donovan into a mind-spin.

Probably my favourite rock keyboardist of all time is Rick Wakeman of the band Yes. You've gotta listen to his album Journey to the Center of the Earth, which I still find myself singing and quoting. Not to mention the six wives of Henry the Eighth. And of course, listen to any song of Yes' on the albums Fragile and Yessongs. Nobody compares to this man, in my opinion, nobody. I had the privilege and pleasure of seeing him in concert with Yes twice. Ahhhh!

I hope any of this helps.

Cheers, from Ruth who used to be a keyboardist before maiming her hand. :amaze:

[Defender0FmetaL]

savatage

[StreetlightRock]

Definitately Jerry Lee Lewis for some rockin'. Jon Lord of Deep Purple and the fellow from Dream Theater are awsome as well.

[lilpete86]

ben folds?

[aerohead]

1st of all, tell your sis to quit evanecense. ((i'm sure pple agree with me, especially their guitarist(hu's teacyher is kirk hammet) already quited))

Back to ur question, if your sis like rock songs with piano, try lynyrd skynyrd. they always have piano solos on the music. although "freebird" doesn't hav, the live version sure has. keep in mind they have a full-time pianist, billy powell. they have lots of piano.

or for keyboard solos, try deep purple.

hope this is helpful ;)

[evilmenhavenosongs]

Type O Negative - October Rust.

Buy that for her, immediatly.

:lol: Oh she'll love that. To clarify, do you want more pop-rock like Evanescance or something metal or classic rock because I'm not sure she'd like something like Queen or Elton John.

[Paranoidd]

1st of all, tell your sis to quit evanecense. ((i'm sure pple agree with me, especially their guitarist(hu's teacyher is kirk hammet) already quited))

Back to ur question, if your sis like rock songs with piano, try lynyrd skynyrd. they always have piano solos on the music. although "freebird" doesn't hav, the live version sure has. keep in mind they have a full-time pianist, billy powell. they have lots of piano.

or for keyboard solos, try deep purple.

hope this is helpful ;)

Yeah, that seems real helpful. Tell her not to listen to what she likes then recommend bands she obviously won't like.

Your sister is obviously into happier sounding stuff...she'd probably like Linkin Park, some of their songs use a piano. Lacuna Coil is a little similar to Evanescence, although they're much better. Coldplay, Muse, and Radiohead were already recommended but I second that.

Somebody said Tori Amos as well, she 0wns, but it may be a little melancholy for your sister.

[the2stranger]

chceck out Jordan Rudess' solowork :thumb:

he's the keyboardist of dream theater


the others, mentioned before are great as well

[humdilea]

piano is'nt meant to be in rock you'll really only find it in old rock bands

[radianteclipse]

The Gathering has a couple really really amazing piano songs...some of the best being "Shrink", and "Like Fountains" (The one off of the Sleepy Buildings album).

[Killseng]

Avenged Sevengold-Warmness of the soul.

[jerrydablindfish]

eric clapton- layla best piano song the last 3 mins are piano not the live version the album version

[Paranoidd]

piano is'nt meant to be in rock you'll really only find it in old rock bands

/dunce ++

[evilmenhavenosongs]

Actually, if you think about it. If the old rock bands were the only ones to use piano, seeing as they were the innovaters of rock, surely it means that rock IS meant to have piano in it seeing as its creators used a piano?

[Paranoidd]

My thoughts from your...uh...keyboard?

[ivy]

wen i liked evenescance (i was twelve, ok?) i also used to listen to HIM n stuff like that. some of their songs are keyboard-based. also lacuna coil n amaran

[evilmenhavenosongs]

^^^ listen to that guy, HIM are great, buy her some HIM. Or Icon And The Black Roses, possibly Charon.

[Gittermonkey11]

Queen and styx are the two best piano rock bands that come to my mind.

[MildlyAmusingWankCushion]

I'm positive she would like Ben Folds , or the Ben Folds Five which was the band he was in previously to going solo. He's a fantastic pianist and makes some great upbeat piano music which can be enjoyed by almost anybody.

[LoveMuscle]

Listen to Dope's ablbum Life, it has keyboards in it.

[bowlingforpoop]

borknagar uses a lot of piano in their songs

i dont know if that would work for your sister though.....

[sr800bkBassist]

piano is'nt meant to be in rock you'll really only find it in old rock bands
isn't "meant" to be in rock? who wrote a book saying what is allowed in rock and what isn't? i find that instrumments such as piano, keyboard/synths, flute, violin, mandolin, bongos, etc, make rock music twice as awesome.

[3FingeredHoek]

One Angry Dwarf and 200 solemn faces by Ben Folds Five.

[Doop]

School by supertramp has an awsome piano solo.

[The_One]

Muse.

[enim]

Well first, sorry for stalling out so long. I have been unable to access my comp for my then 5 minuets for a long time. (school+work=NO FREE TIME)

First off, props to Paranoidd who reminded me of Lacuna Coil, i totally forgot about them.

and many of those suggestions were good but she isnt big on the screaming guitars, and death metal (sarcasm). but seriously i think that the hardest type of metal she will go will be Lacuna Coil

thanks everyone

[SethMcBride]

Listen to Piebald - I haven't tried it...real good piano rock

[Johnny B. Good]

What about the Doors they have an organ that tears it up

[sonicst0rm]

Check out Dark Tranqillity - Chartacter

features a lot of piano.

[Det_Nosnip]

I wouldn't call their music "rock," though. :)

[DanD]

Man Man, the main instrument in their sound is a piano, although they are nothing like Evanescence. They are more upbeat, and a little off of the wall.

[Danger Bird]

I remember this thread!

[Joe]

Me too.

Wow, as a musician, it's kind of embarassing that neither Billy Joel nor Elton John is in this thread. They're two of the greatest piano players without a doubt.

[lak89]

Dream Theater has some nice keyboard in it, maybe check that out

[Joe]

Dream Theater has some nice keyboard in it, maybe check that out

I assumed he was talking just about piano, not keyboards too. There are a ton of good keyboardests throughout metal.

[classicrockman]

"Wait for Sleep" by Dream Theater has great piano.

[-The Frank]

warren zevon

[TevanescenceT]

old ,old thread but it was a cool thread someone can help me?
i love evanescence as you see but im searching some sheets for the piano and im lost :confused:

[Sleeper]

MuseMuseMuseMuseMuseMuse

[musicforlife]

I don't wanna miss a thing- Aerosmith

[Werny]

Arcturus. She'll LOVE them. :lol:

The Sham Mirrors has my favourite piano work of any band.

NP: Arcturus - Star Crossed

[Kingofdudes]

I cant remember making those posts in this thread


wtf I used to have a capital D

[Clunge]

Muse, older Coldplay, Radiohead and Dream Theater get my vote.

[rata]

you could just get her

Tori Amos or Fiona Apple

[Spiritofmosa]

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