Non-instruments being used for a musical effect

[Rayge]

Fleetwoods Come Softly to Me, percussion is lead singer shaking his car keys
Galens Baby I Do Love You, gimmicky whoops provided by Glen Campbell playing an amplified saw
The companion 12" to the first Psychic TV album featured human thigh bones among other unlikely 'instruments'

[clive gash]

Such as Gary Porridge’s voice.

[Rayge]

Such as Gary Porridge’s voice.

Better than Fagen's

also
Trouser Press, Robots, Carrots, Spoons, etc credited on various Bonzo Dog albums

[clive gash]

I’m reviewing the situation

[pcqgod]

Galens Baby I Do Love You, gimmicky whoops provided by Glen Campbell playing an amplified saw

Interesting.

[pcqgod]

Does Eugene Chadbourne's electric rake count?

Yeah, buddy.

[Rayge]

Galens Baby I Do Love You, gimmicky whoops provided by Glen Campbell playing an amplified saw

Interesting.

I really don't need a lot of encouragement
It was a weird sound for the time, straight down the middle fifties high school vocal group singing something based on a German folk song (just found this out) with incongruous, even alien noise going on in background

[pcqgod]

I really don't need a lot of encouragement
It was a weird sound for the time, straight down the middle fifties high school vocal group singing something based on a German folk song (just found this out) with incongruous, even alien noise going on in background

You hipped me to that record back at IMDb, several years back. I love it.

[pcqgod]

After posting this thread, an approximate 2 year old memory popped into my head of having seen some Austin group performing a rendition of "Bike" by Pink Floyd in which a hairdryer was being used for the oscillating effect.

[Deebank]

Fleetwoods Come Softly to Me, percussion is lead singer shaking his car keys
Galens Baby I Do Love You, gimmicky whoops provided by Glen Campbell playing an amplified saw
The companion 12" to the first Psychic TV album featured human thigh bones among other unlikely 'instruments'

Is that on their version of Set The Controls...?

Strictly speaking the thigh bone is turned into a kind of flute or recorder by drilling holes, I think.

What about the annoying and pointless jug noises on every 13th Floor Elevators tune?

[Darkness_Fish]

Vocals by British rock n' roller Vince Taylor, bicycle played by Jac Berrocal:



Live footage of shopping trolley solo:

[Darkness_Fish]

Everything on this album was created via light bulbs:


Everything on this album was created from the bible:

[Darkness_Fish]

"All sounds were derived from bioelectrical recordings I made from a living mycelium of Agarikon (Laricifomes officinalis)"

I couldn't find Aquatic Synapse, which included live mixing of the gents urinal in the venue.

[Deebank]

Test Department used a steam engine on a rolling road going at full tilt at one of their gigs!

Beat that!

[Darkness_Fish]

Not sure if this is a bit too field-recordery to count, but Allan Lamb's excellent Night Passage is just the sound from telegraph wires in the Australian outback:

[clive gash]

Everything on this album was created via light bulbs:


Everything on this album was created from the bible:

An old friend of mine put that Aube record out. Ah, sweet memories!

[Hightea]

Julian Koster of Neutral Milk Hotel uses a musical saw.

Saw Chris Cutler play live with a pot of boiling water he also used metal trays and an egg-slicer.


Fred frith at the same show had a metal box full of weird things to play slide on his guitar.






Anglagard uses a balloon:

[joklend]

The quaver crunch reverb on Joy Division's Autosuggestion.

[pcqgod]

Instrumental novelty track, possibly dating from the late 50's.