Songs That Open with a "Zoop!" Guitar Riff

⚡︎ one of the best zoops according to zooplovers.com

 

White Queen.



I think the technical term is "pre-bend and release" but "zoop" is a slide up to a given note, so maybe I haven't grasped the concept. Then there's the whammy bar depress to drop a tone, like the Chris Isaaks above.

 

It may not be a "zoop", but I like the beginning of T-Rex's Monolith.

 

!wow...I've never heard this version before, possibly a great zoop:

The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me

 

That reminds me of the opening to "I Feel Fine"...

 

I like that song but the opening doesn't really sound like a zoop. [using zoop with a straight face, feeling no fear]

 

I had thought that the terms "beef tongue" and "pork tongue" were routinely used to describe a full-bodied slide down the neck and up the neck (or maybe vice versa), but i am having trouble finding any references. I think I read this in Crawdaddy way long ago.

 

I just wanted to say that I knew exactly what the OP meant by "zoop" and that the first thought that came to my mind was "I Wanna New Drug".

 

I know there is a Hendrix song that does this, but my mind is blanking on it at the moment.

Meanwhile, here's a Muddy Waters song that starts with a very brief zoop that is repeated throughout the song:

 

I'm a King Bee - Rolling Stones

Slim Harpo's original version has it, but the zoop is much more prominent in the Stones cover

 

How about "Siberian Khatru" by Yes...is that a "zoop" riff?

 

My best shot at a zoop, a perfect one, perhaps?. The James Gang-Do It.

 

Zoop guitar riff, eh?

Like that character Jane Curtin used to play on SNL who pronounced "soup" as "zoop"?

 

Oh, and..

 

Then there's John Entwistle's bass zoops on The Who's-I'm The Face.

 

Not quite, Siberian Khatru starts exactly the same as Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe, mentioned earlier in the thread. It's an open E string with a D to E hammer-on on the B string, so not a bent string.

 

Prince - Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad