Top 5 Red Songs
awesome autumn art by Sarca @ caughtmegaming
Red is one of the purdiest autumn colours.
It also lends itself nicely to song imagery & song titles, here are 5 that proved redder is better!
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5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Red House
Aw move over Rover and let Jimi take over.
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4. Emmylou Harris, Red Dirt Girl
Some recency bias to be sure, but a great tune all the same
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3. Peter Gabriel, Red Rain
So good.
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2. Prince, Little Red Corvette
A fine tune from 1983’s 1999. It appears his music videos lack audio on youtube, so a New Girl clip in lieu!
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1. treble charger, Red
Perhaps best described as early Pavement meets early Sloan? A beautifully messy/messily beautiful ballad.
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Excellent list! Love all of those.
May I add 25 more?
Rush – Red Barchetta, Red Sector A, Red Lenses, AND Red Tide
Willie Dixon – Little Red Rooster
UB40 – Red Red Wine
Sublime – Saw Red
David Bowie – Red Sails
Chris De Burgh – Lady In Red
Serena Ryder – Little Bit Of Red
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
Pearl Jam – Black, Red, Yellow
Slayer – Blood Red
Neko Case – Deep Red Bells
Harry Connick, Jr. – Blue Light, Red Light (Someone’s There)
Maria McKee – If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags)
Iron Maiden – The Red And The Black
Tom Waits – Murder In The Red Barn
U2 – Red Hill Mining Town
Pixies – Brick Is Red
Wilco – Red-Eyed & Blue
Judas Priest – Red, White & Blue
Mad Season – Artificial Red
Reverend Horton Heat – Big Red Rocket Of Love
Jack Johnson – Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology
I could go on for a while! 🙂
Haha heck, for #26, what about Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer? 🙂
I practically insist you add 25 more!
Well listed – forgot Red Barchetta, that coulda been a contender here!
Haha that oughta keep you going for a while! 🙂
Rush is ALWAYS a contender!
Good stuff. Isn’t Gabriel’s ‘Red Rain’ one of the strongest opening album tracks ever?
I’d also like to offer Split Enz ‘I see red’ for consideration.
Bruce I can only assume that was a rhetorical question – as we both already know the answer!
‘Twas indeed Geoff. Glad you agree tho’!
Very much so, it sets the atmosphere of the album up so nicely
I’d like to add:
Red-Headed Woman, by Bruce Springsteen
Lil’ Red Riding Hood, by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy), by Rob Zombie
Lady Red Light, by Great White
Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, by The Royal Guardsmen
Red Hot, by Motley Crue
Black Out In The Red Room, by Love/Hate*
*special thanks to Mr. 1537
You’d like to add them – and Danica, I like that you’ve added them, it’s an impressive colour! I think Black may give it a run for its money though
No Sammy Hagar? The Red Rocker?! Shame on you!
I shall try to redeem myself by calling ‘Black Metal’ an autumn colour!
That won’t satisfy Sammy. He mad now.
I imagine he’d speak in the 3rd person when angered – Sammy not satisfied, Sammy mad!
Sammy think Van Halen better when he sing! Sammy angry!
Sammy’s acting like an ass.
But there is only one RED Rocker and that’s Sammy, the king of all songs “red”. Taylor can kiss his arse!
*Sammy fists clenched, smashing hands on table*
BRING SAMMY TEQUILA!
I could criticize for your exclusion of Fiona Apple’s ‘Red, red, red, ‘ but since you also excluded Taylor Swift I’ll let it slide.
Who knew there were so many ‘red ‘ songs?
So I suppose I broke even – the sheer quantity of red tunes was surprising!
Sammy Hagar. That is all. Thank you.
Nice list … may I add a couple more? (some already mentioned) Michael Nesmith’s Little Red Rider, Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand, Fiona Apple’s Red, Red, Red, Gillian Welch’s Red Clay Halo, The Red Telephone by Love, Neko Case’s Deep Red Bells and Pearl Jam’s Red Mosquito and Fountains of Wayne’s Red Dragon Tattoo … and Taylor Swift’s Red.
Gillian Welch, good call J!
Had anyone mentioned King Crimson yet?
King Crimson, One More Red Nightmare, there someone had to do it
THOR!
Red Rain is AWESOME. Great list! 🙂 lol – I have My Top Ten Color Songs to post at some point – Red Rain MIGHT make the list… 😉
Found one in my own collection: PoundHound – “Red”, from 1998’s “Massive Grooves”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Grooves_from_the_Electric_Church_of_Psychofunkadelic_Grungelism_Rock_Music
This may or may not coincide with music I am working on for my next series. I cannot confirm nor deny.