Non-instruments being used for a musical effect
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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'
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'
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Such as Gary Porridge’s voice.
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nev harp wrote:Such as Gary Porridge’s voice.
Better than Fagen's
also
Trouser Press, Robots, Carrots, Spoons, etc credited on various Bonzo Dog albums
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I’m reviewing the situation
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Rayge wrote:Galens Baby I Do Love You, gimmicky whoops provided by Glen Campbell playing an amplified saw
Interesting.
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Harvey K-Tel wrote:Does Eugene Chadbourne's electric rake count?
Yeah, buddy.
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pcqgod wrote:Rayge wrote: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
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Rayge wrote:
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.
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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.
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Rayge wrote: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?
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Vocals by British rock n' roller Vince Taylor, bicycle played by Jac Berrocal:
Live footage of shopping trolley solo:
Live footage of shopping trolley solo:
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Everything on this album was created via light bulbs:
Everything on this album was created from the bible:
Everything on this album was created from the bible:
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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"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.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Test Department used a steam engine on a rolling road going at full tilt at one of their gigs!
Beat that!
Beat that!
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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:
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Darkness_Fish wrote: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!
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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:
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:
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The quaver crunch reverb on Joy Division's Autosuggestion.
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Instrumental novelty track, possibly dating from the late 50's.
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