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About This Track
“Low Rider” is a song written by the band War and appearing on their album Why Can’t We Be Friends?, released in 1975. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number 7 on the Pop Singles chart.
According to the All Music Guide review of the song, “the lyric takes the cool image of the low rider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle”.[1] The song’s most distinguishable feature is its driving bass line, which is present for nearly all of the song. It also ends with a siren-like noise that then becomes a saxophone solo.
The writers and performers of “Low Rider” have formed the Lowrider Band. The band consists of Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott, B.B. Dickerson and Harold Brown.
Cover versions
* The song has been covered by the following artists:
o Blues Traveler
o Peter Cetera
o George Clinton
o Epsilon Minus
o Exodus
o Gary Hoey
o JFA
o Terry Kath
o Korn
o Latin Alliance
o Phish
o Popa Chubby featuring Galea
o Quando Quango
o Son Of Dave
o Barry White
o Yukon Kornelius
* “Low Rider” was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of “Pretty Fly For A White Guy”.
* War’s “Low Rider” was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track “Slow Ride” on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill.
* The song “Jorge Regula” by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from “Low Rider.”
* Sublime sampled the song in the bassline of Forman Freestyle on disc 2 of their posthumous release Everything Under the Sun.
According to the All Music Guide review of the song, “the lyric takes the cool image of the low rider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle”.[1] The song’s most distinguishable feature is its driving bass line, which is present for nearly all of the song. It also ends with a siren-like noise that then becomes a saxophone solo.
The writers and performers of “Low Rider” have formed the Lowrider Band. The band consists of Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott, B.B. Dickerson and Harold Brown.
Cover versions
* The song has been covered by the following artists:
o Blues Traveler
o Peter Cetera
o George Clinton
o Epsilon Minus
o Exodus
o Gary Hoey
o JFA
o Terry Kath
o Korn
o Latin Alliance
o Phish
o Popa Chubby featuring Galea
o Quando Quango
o Son Of Dave
o Barry White
o Yukon Kornelius
* “Low Rider” was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of “Pretty Fly For A White Guy”.
* War’s “Low Rider” was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track “Slow Ride” on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill.
* The song “Jorge Regula” by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from “Low Rider.”
* Sublime sampled the song in the bassline of Forman Freestyle on disc 2 of their posthumous release Everything Under the Sun.
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Shouts
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linkntinks wrote:
cheech ~n~ chong memories lol!!!
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Ottavianoants wrote:
ahhhhhhhhhh, OUR WEDDING SONG~~~
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EarlGreyBlack wrote:
a nice girl...a bottle of wine...and this song!!!!
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shedonist wrote:
"such a song u get blazed to and then eat cheezits..." LOL!
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oyveychris wrote:
Bye bye, lardass!
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Jester0one wrote:
Oh I am a bad man...
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KingFahtah wrote:
terrible version
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aubrexxi wrote:
song of the year, every year.
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begbeg42 wrote:
such a song u get blazed to and then eat cheezits...
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southstarmusic wrote:
oh yeah!!!
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lzcool wrote:
Sempre bom ouvir.
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zoneD100 wrote:
I got this song so I could do epic things like take down cult leaders without them brainwashing me [3]
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Nit89ram wrote:
I got this song so I could do epic things like take down cult leaders without them brainwashing me [2]
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mackpm wrote:
cali days
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Priceles wrote:
This is me and my daddy song. It reminds me of the fun times me and my little brothers had when we was station in Germany with my momie and daddy.
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kbomb001 wrote:
Derp, George Lopez, Herp
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sandiegodreamin wrote:
Take me back to City Park...awww!!
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Sulisk wrote:
"Up in Smoke" Mega
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pogopatterson wrote:
I always wondered who was behind this track- must have been in an advert in the UK- because it is immediately familiar- anyone out there know the ad?
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Sasha_Tyan wrote:
I love this one <3
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