Rank SinatraStart voting
▶ Listen and vote
Song tier list
Low Rider
War
?No votes yet. Be the first to rank it.
Vote on this song
- Album
- Why Can't We Be Friends?
- Released
- 1975
- Genres
- Length
- 3:11
- Tempo
- 140 BPM
- Label
- Avenue Records
▶ Listen and vote
About this song
The song's most distinctive feature is its driving bass line, which runs through nearly all of it. It ends with a siren-like noise that turns into a saxophone solo, a passage that later inspired the sample driving Flo Rida's "GDFR (Goin' Down For Real)". The song was also shaped by the gas crisis the United States faced in the late 1970s.
What it's about
The song is a tribute to the Chicano practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars, extending that image into a whole lifestyle.
Fun facts
- Sampled in 25 other songs, like “Slow Ride by Beastie Boys”.
- Covered 7 times, including “Low Rider by Phish”.
- Written by Howard Scott, B. B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar and Papa Dee Allen.
- Produced by Howard Scott, Lonnie Jordan and Jerry Goldstein.
- Recorded at Sound City Studios.