More cowbell
Most
songs just get better when you add a cowbell - so, music information
retrieval researchers that are trying to build the perfect 'hit
predictor' need to be able to detect whether a song has a cowbell or
not - a good training set for building the cowbell detector can be
found at The Cowbell Project. There are hundreds of cowbell songs. Some examples:
| Procol Harum | Whiskey Train |
| Puddle of Mudd | She Hates Me |
| Queen | We Will Rock You |
| Queen | Keep Yourself Alive |
| Queen | Bohemian Rhapsody |
| Queen | Crazy Little Thing Called Love |
| Queensryche | Silent Lucidity |
| Quincy Jones | Sanford and Son Theme |
| R.E.M. | Ignoreland |
| Radio Four | Dance To The Underground |
| Radiohead | Creep |
| Radiohead | Electioneering |
| Rage Against The Machine | Killing In The Name |
| Rage Against the Machine | Freedom |
| Rainbow | Still I'm Sad |
| Ramones | Suzy is a Headbanger |
A good paper on detecting and annotating cow bell (and other percussive intstruments) is COLLECTING GROUND TRUTH ANNOTATIONS FOR DRUM DETECTION IN POLYPHONIC MUSIC