Top 10 1980s Pop/Rock Sax Solos Part II

[Acorparation]

Disliked cuz of careless whisper. Sorry guys but anything Kenny G ever played is in my bad books

[Raikoninja11]

@Acorparation That's a stupid reason to hate on Careless Whisper. I will also like to say fuck Kenny G, but don't hate on a song that was sexy when it was originally made.

[Acorparation]

@Raikoninja11 point taken =) But seeing as this is a world in which individual opinions are allowed I will retain the right to express mine. And ya, fuck Kenny. I feel kinda bad for his kid sometimes

[RamiroEspin0]

OMG! Caribbean Queen *-* fking awesome! xD

[MiguelTron666]

where can i find that live video of "i'm going down"?

thanks

[KlaraIm]

@MiguelTron666 2:19 ;)

[dangoist]

@MiguelTron666 I couldn't find any vid for it so I put some video from Born to Run over the sound.

[philgoyette1982]

Great stuff here...but I think you need to edit the 2 vids down into 1 using a bracket-style tournament. The riff from "Harden My Heart" has to be the #1 seed due to number of weeks spent in the brain after hearing it.

[seavoyagerful]

I from Brazil and in Brazil there is excelent sax solos!! in 80s

[seavoyagerful]

you like john cafferty how me..hahha...awesome memory!!

[ThePhilimander]

lol third clip gave me a siezure

[whoduffy]

How about Junior Walker on Foreigners Urgent?

[TheNoblesGuild]

THANKYOU! Been looking 4 Steve Gregory 4 lik an hour. I was startin to think it was gonna b 1 of those multi-year long searches.

[ieshaparsons]

thumbs up for kirk pengilly and kenny g

[madbonjovifan]

great vids man but I gotta ask, no love for Huey Lewis & the News?

[dangoist]

@madbonjovifan A few people have rec'd I want a new drug.

[ArthurGuedesSax]

Michael Brecker Não Fez este sodo da Musica do DIRE STRAITS

[originalmusicworks]

better than those "other" 80's saxophone greats videos :) hehe

[dangoist]

@originalmusicworks maybe i should've posted this one first.

[saxking1508]

michael brecker owns all of these

[skupas]

Somebody forgot Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here I think that it is the most awesome sax solo in the history :).

[asdf123454444]

no "who can it be now"?

[Haiyami]

Damn i miss these days when the Saxophone was popular in pop/rock music.

[TomTrix99]

Thanks for putting these videos together! The sax solo on "caribbean queen" has always been my favorite:)

[ciyoduhkriter]

finally! i found the first song.

[horrorshow5659]

you are missing work by Rafael Ravenscroft, one of the best sax players of all time. his work can be heard on the final cut album by Floyd,2 suns in the sunset and the gunners dream. also on pictures at 11 album by Robert plant in the song pledge pin. i know baker st was in 78' but it should get honorable mention??? you gotta have some "Raf"on your list or its still incomlete imo. that being said you did say recognizable sax solos, which some of these may not be to most.

[dangoist]

@horrorshow5659 It's on my 70s vid.

[SeverityOne]

Just a small comment... it appears that your list mostly contains American entries (yes, I noticed Nena, Dire Straits, Wham! etc.), some of which I've never even heard about. Now this isn't entirely surprising, because I grew up on the other side of the Big Pond and am more familiar with European acts. Now I'm trying to think of a couple... in hindsight, it seems like every pop song had a sax solo in it in the eighties, but it's hard to think of any. Anyway, how about Going home (Local hero)?

[thomasbryn1]

Your Latest trick ....DIRE STRAITS ???

[dangoist]

@thomasbryn1 um, it's on there.



[saxshooter]

branford with sting, phil woods with billy joel

[BravoTeam127]

The Rolling Stones had some of the best sax solos!

[greywolf1958]

@BravoTeam127 Pity it wasn't actually a member of the band that was playing, eh? Mind, if you're going to bring in a ringer it may as well be one of the best ;o)

[vicko620]

Why most of the sax solos are performed by tenor sax :(

[Trebuchet221]

my fabourit sax-solo is the one from 'baker street' by gerry rafferty

[thomaslejon]

" lily was here" where??

[BuffalonianWolverine]

RIP CLARENCE CLEAMONS

[sritger]

Ahh...I love good sax... ;-)

[Flabtke316]

Santa Claus is really rocking out on that second track!

[zalkin83]

How about "Lily was here". Surely that should have been on the number one spot?

[joeypropeller]

1:29 it isn't a sax solo.  it's a synthesizer.

[caxassax]

carebean queen

[sampool2001]

yo pienso . que danguist. tocaba la saxophone... yo tambien... sampool2001 .muy bien seleciones de sax..gracias.

[Fanixen989]

big black guy is amazing! :D <3

[SaxopwnJazzCombo]

good choices but the 80's need steve norman man!

[skaterman1112foru]

go george michale

[fourblues]

やっぱSmoothJazz好きの自分にとっては、グローバーが­肌に合う♪

それにしてもいきなりオシャレだなー、グローバーは♪

[tutdark]

Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now (1981)

[arahalsax]

very good, but he.snot michael brecker (dire straits) he is chris whiter.

[nomadcairo]

good job man thx

[alanalanalain]

the solo from Waterboys - A girl called Johny is missing...

[nicherna]

thumbs up if you all want the saxophone brought back into songs like this!

[BluAngelfish]

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 

[Microfuture]

that's great. be continuos do it.

[Microfuture]

excuse me sir, I am brazilian, and my english is not good, and translator is bad.

but I found the full music and don't like, your is better, much better (muito melhor).

:D

[dangoist]

@Microfuture Thank you.

[MrJunkmail178]

@Microfuture Another brazilian! :)

[Puck90a]

You left out Smooth Operator by Sade!!!!!!!

[Microfuture]

I found, but is didn't think about that music

[Microfuture]

I prefer all, but the CLARENCE CLEMONS "I'm Going Down" Bruce Springsteen that's it,

great

:D

[Microfuture]

did you have the originally music in this video?? I don't found the youtube this music with a sax, please tell?

[dangoist]

@Microfuture All of the songs or just a particular one?

[yoyoyoy500]

does any1 think that the saz would do all right in today's electropop-esque scence?

[StevenCharlesJazz]

I also nominate Michael Brecker's funky, funky solo on Cameo's CANDY!

[newquaybare]

What no Madness.

[maccarryn]

If you keep adding, consider the sax on Supertramp's Logical Song. Most of the ones you've got are the raunchy style which  certainly fits with the rock genre. For some reason that Supertramp solo seems to be a genre bender. Thanks for the music.

noelm

[TheRayya]

Hey if you like 80s songs that includes the sax you HAVE TO check this out -

tim capella-i still believe

[beast6228]

Glenn Frey - You Belong To The City, that's another epic song.

[X3InuHyuugaOX]

No Haircut 100 at all here? really????

[Traducteur1]

Terminal Frost by Pink Floyd (done by John Helliwell) is among my favorites!

[factoryoutlet]

Hows about the mighty : Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now (1981),

On that note, does anyone recall any sax players with "lazy eye" condition like the lead singer for Men At Work?

I once sat in the front row for Dizzy Gillespie - Ya almost misses the music just looking at them elastic cheeks!...His playin' was like buttah though..he took you out of this world while you were sitting in your seat... i digress or was it tangentisizin'...tanks

[dakotah185282]

@factoryoutlet BEST ONE EVER ITS MY FAVOURITE

[harrybjackson]

I'm gonna kill everyone that disl-Oh wait, no one dislikes it... :L

[harrybjackson]

I'm gonna kill everyone you dis- Oh wait, no one dislikes it....

[DanzSAncho]

dance hall days . awesome sax solo

[mrkandyman1911]

AMAZING LOVE IT!

[guellow23]

Foreigner Urgent?

[rockandrollsax]

You need my 86 page "THE HISTORY OF “TOP 40” SAXOPHONE SOLOS-1955-2005" to keep adding these excellent clips.

[dangoist]

@rockandrollsax Is your book available on Amazon?

[rockandrollsax]

@dangoist . This book (over 440 pages) is on CD and I sell it directly but I also have a free 86 page list to send to anyone who wants a copy. I do have a book on Amazon titled Rock & Roll Saxophone, 2nd edition with Scott Page on the cover.

[Microfuture]

@dangoist where I found it??

[dangoist]

@Microfuture I don't understand your question. Sorry. Are you looking for the full videos of the songs these solos were taken from, or sheet music, or something else?

[takemeHOME102493]

No Huey Lewis? Hip to Be Square or I Want A New Drug on next edition PLEASE!

[takemeHOME102493]

No Huey Lewis?

[machmenace]

not bad but where was phil collins' if leaving me is easy and hazel o'connor's will you?

[BrownCow1919]

What about Spandau Ballet's True? That was a pretty amazing sax!

[whaledone100]

i like the solo in "I Confess" by The Beat at about the 2 minute mark.

[Kaleston]

where passage from Foreigner - Urgent ?

[TheSaxophone2010]

VOTE UP IF YOU THINK TENOR SAX RULES

[MaxTheBariSax]

@TheSaxophone2010 sorry i play tenor and right now its my main instrument, but i still think that bari is way better

[BravoTeam127]

@TheSaxophone2010 I don't know man, I had some good times on the Bari.

[6400az]

@BravoTeam127

I played tenor, but one can really get down with the Bari. Playing salsa, if you can zero in on a tumbao..........watch out !!

[fredwhiteduke]

Cool ,Iloooking for Icehouse "dont believe anymore "Joe camilleri on sax & Waterboys "a girl called Johnny"

[crazygrainger2006]

and I forgot to add this one in: Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen (I'm not sure who did the solo)

[crazygrainger2006]

If you do plan to make another video like this, my recommendations for Sax solos are:

Simply the Best (another Tina Turner chart)

I Send A Message (another INXS chart)

Simon Lloyd's Sax solo in Electric Blue (Icehouse)

The solo from Joe Cocker's cover of "You Can Leave Your Hat On".

Asides from that, great selection in both of your videos.

[gibo316]

A better Tim Capello solo is the one on One Of The Living or his song from Lost Boys - I Still Believe!

[StevenCharlesJazz]

Nice compilation....but, really how can you possibly leave out Jr. Walker's killin sax solo on URGENT, by Foreigner???

That was one of the greatest sax solos of that decade, yet out of 22, his was left out, I don't get it....

[dangoist]

@StevenCharlesJazz I put it in the first vid but I had to take it out because of a copyright claim. It's too bad because it's definitely the first solo I think of from that decade.

[StevenCharlesJazz]

@dangoist OK cool, I was literally a bit dumbfounded that it was missing. Eventually the labels will realize it's better for them to let their music be seen & heard! What do they gain by limiting exposure of their artists, it's crazy...

[dangoist]

@StevenCharlesJazz I agree 100 percent. It's wrongheaded for the labels to demand videos be taken down without even considering the nature of the video. In this case, it's a compilation with brief clips from the songs...it's a tribute video, as opposed to an attempt to steal someone else's work and make money off of it. (Seems like there are more gray areas in the copyright area than there used to be.)

[Skyman2596]

...Epic ... Again :)

[dangoist]

@Skyman2596 Thank you.

[paulw6119]

great could listen alnight

[036hugo]

AWESOME