Favourite tremelo guitar songs?

RandallFlagg

I just got a Strymon Flint and am on a bit of a tremolo trip, I think the wife's feeling a bit queasy with all the wibbly wobbly tones coming out of the man cave...

What are your favourite tremolo guitar songs?

I think this is mine: Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Need You. Ed King's Fender Strat into a 60's Brownface Princeton (or so I have read)

RandallFlagg

The simplicity of guitar, amp, reverb & trem is joyous!

Limehouse_Blues

CCR Born on the Bayou

RandallFlagg

U2 - Silver & Gold

RandallFlagg

Limehouse_Blues said:

CCR Born on the Bayou

Yep, loving that! I need to dust down my CCR albums, haven't played them in a while.

AlexC

Calexico - The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
Got the Spaghetti Western vibe going on.

Fuengi

How Soon Is Now is the first one that comes into my head when talking about tremolo.

Wicked Game has a nice trem I think? Have not heard it for ages so might be wrong. 

Fuengi

...might be thinking vibrato for Wicked Game

EricTheWeary

Gimme Shelter usually gets mentioned.

Rumble by Link Wray when the tremolo comes in part way through.

Scratch My Back ( aka Baby Scratch My Back) either the original by Slim Harpo or the Fabulous Thunderbirds cover. It’s the only song Jimmie Vaughan has a pedal for ( Boss tremolo). 

Theres a recent Discussion on Harmonic Tremolo and Lonely Sea by The Beach Boys as the prime example of that. 

Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra, possibly the defining tremolo song. 

IIRC there is a tremolo part in the middle of Dawning of a New Era by The Specials - the guitar sounds are pretty ropey but it stands out as one of the few obvious uses of a guitar effect on their recordings. 

rpr

tone1

My Fav’s have already been mentioned...Rumble Link Wray and CCR Born on the Bayou....R.E.M. What’s the Frequency Kenneth is cool 

MagicPigDetective

Absent Friend by Bark Psychosis.
https://youtu.be/j4OSxc9XYRc

ICBM

Lloyd Cole - For Crying Out Loud.



A little more subtle than some, but perfect.

I also love the tremolo bass in U2's Love Is Blindness.

brooom

Here's a pretty good one with tremolo:

KKJale

Amos Garrett on Bobby Charles' Tennessee Blues.

not_the_dj

The intro to Counting Crows Catapult 

https://youtu.be/B5EX7FSBUzA

DarnWeight

Mission Of Burma - Trem Two

SimonC

Cant beat Richard Hawley for a bit of trem.

proggy

Am I allowed Silence Is Golden?

That's by The Tremeloes.

Legionreturns

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth... I think.

Trem plus natural harmonics. Lovely. 

Unless I'm remembering it wrong

Nitefly

Bo Diddley - Mona.  Of any of his others with the Bo Diddley beat.

@Legionreturns - good shout for Buffalo Springfield.