Bovine

One of my favourite sub-genres of rock music is cowbell rock. This is not a real type of music, it just loosely refers to songs that rock a cowbell. Many bands try their hand at the cowbell at some point or another, probably because it is awesome. Most of them succeed, because it is hard to be disappointed with anything after someone beats a cowbell in your face.

Here is a playlist that will get you banging the bell like Will Farrell.

1. The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey.
2. The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
3. Deep Purple - And The Address
4. Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times
5. Black Sabbath - The Wizard
6. Mountain - Mississippi Queen
7. Free - Alright Now
8. The James Gang - Funk #49
9. Leaf Hound - Freelance Fiend
10. The Groundhogs - Cherry Red
11. Humble Pie - Stone Cold Fever
12. Sir Lord Baltimore - Loe and Behold
13. Captain Beyond - Raging River Of Fear
14. Dust - All In All
15. Queen - Liar
16. Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
17. Montrose - Rock The Nation
18. KISS - Nothin' To Lose
19. Nazereth - Hair Of The Dog
20. The Dictators - The Next Big Thing
21. Aerosmith - Last Child
22. Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
23. Scorpions - Pictured Life
24. Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
25. Van Halen - Dance The Night Away
26. Bad Brains - Pay To Cum
27. Warlord - Lucifer's Hammer
28. Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages
29. Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
30. Guns 'n' Roses - Night Train
31. The Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies
32. Guided By Voices - Rhine Jive Chick
33. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Monkey Puzzle
34. Spiritual Beggars - Magic Spell
35. Cathedral - Heavy Load
36. Radiohead - Electioneering
37. Pantera - Drag The Waters
38. Clutch - Wishbone
39. Fu Manchu - Blue Tile Fever
40. The Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister
41. Priestess - Run Home
42. Sloan - Live On
43. Dungen - Mon Amour
44. Snail - Cleanliness
45. Boris - Statement

Enjoy. Don't blow this for us, Gene.

*I've revised this note somewhat, and may continue to do so in the future. My lust for cowbell knows no bounds. May plan is for this playlist to be definitive, with a limit of one song per band. Once you've used the cowbell once, its basically assumed that the instrument becomes a mainstay of your sound anyways. It's just as important when its not playing as when it is, except less awesome.*

**I've discovered this list of songs that feature the cowbell. It's far more definitive than mine, but there is a lot that is irrelevant to the kind of cowbell rock I'm talking about here. I guess the Beastie Boys song on my list is hard to fit in with the context of the rest of the list, but it's my blog and that song fucking rules.**

*** I added GBV's "Rhine Jive Click" for my buddy J.P. A classic cowbell rocker. Mr. Pollard knows what he's doing.***