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Help me find music with great use of Hammond Organ

anyone mentioned the Cooking on 3 Burners hammond fiends? lot of it sounds like James Brown TBH but their rehash of Feel Good Inc on the Baked Broiled and Fried album is a beaut! grade A hammond led B-Boy tune. if you like that sort o' thing.
 
love this thread. just listened to he 6 for the first time and my ears will never be quite the same again.

I mean that in a good way.
 
No-one has mentioned the Stranglers yet. For shame.

From the same period the Hammond on the Jam's Town Called Malice is difficult to beat - actually kept the Stranglers' Golden Brown off the top spot in the charts, though that was unusually for them a harpsichord and piano dominated piece (in 13/4 time no less - or 3 bars of 3/4 and one bar of 4/4 repeated throughout).
 
Worth checking out Booker T's new album "Potato Hole" which comes out later this month.

Mixture of original tunes and some weird covers ("Hey Ya" :D ) -Great grungey Southern-fried backing from Drive-by Truckers and Neil Young :cool: atmospheric rather than acrobatic Hammond style..
 
The Charlatans were very organ heavy on their first album 'Some Friendly' from 1990. Check out the singles "The Only One I Know" and "Then". Sadly keyboardist Rob Collins died in 1996 after a car accident.
 
Jimmy Smith is my personal fav, with the album 'The Cat' being a great place to start:
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Great liner note about The Cat ' - "equally at home in the penthouse or in the alley..." < really sums up the music too...

Lalo Shifrin's big band arrangements make this record dynamite.
A taster:

More hammond jazz here:
http://www.hammondjazz.net/

I think Jackie Mittoo takes the crown for best Jamaican Hammond

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this blood and fire release is all you need

I have a soft spot for The Doors myself (Strange Days especially), and Ray Manzarek on the organ (plus other keys) adds a lot:
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... Inspiral Carpets were an organ heavy act (but I dont think it was a Hammond, but a Farfisa fact-fans!)
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was just listening to some Meters today and never realised how organ led their classic cuts are, though again, looking at this picture it looks like its a Farfisa, not a Hammond:

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I'd go with the Small Faces' "Tin Soldier" too (Ian MacLagan's a great player), also the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Loving."
 
Manfred Mann played a mean organ in the 60's too, especially on "Ha Ha Said The Clown" (like that track a lot). I think it was a Hammond but I can't be sure.
 
Dave Greenfield from the Stranglers gave good organ.

Also Inspiral Carpets for lots of hot farsifa action.

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