This week I finally got to see my favourite swedish band, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and while listening to a great version of Saturation Wanderers I got inspired to make a post about perhabs the best kind of rock: piano based classic rough rock'n'roll. Adding piano to electric guitar, a simple drum beat and bass in the right way - like in the examples below - makes magic.
Starting out with Stones, who really mastered this kind of rock on their masterpiece Exile on main street:
After their raw debute, Guns came back with slick and bombastic productions on Use your illusions I and II, including a lot of piano:
Movin' on up by Primal Scream was released the same year as Use your... and is a bright spot on an otherwise mediocre album (Screamadelica):
Last but not least our swedish heroes TSOOL, and the song named above in a aucustic version:
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