Great Music Gimmicks

[chrisfoll577]

i'm a sucker for E.L.O. style keyboard loops
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[bookem_dan-o]

Songs that actually spell out the words of the title or other part of the lyrics.

I never get tired of how D.M.U.B. that is.

[jane]

1.  Yamatsuka Eye legendarily bulldozing through a club's wall in his band, Hantarash.  Sight-Sound-Physicality?  At what cost? I ask.

2.  Putting the whole mix of every song through a fuzz/distortion peddle (ala Guitar Wolf, Musica Transonic and many others)

3.  Wha Wha guitar - check out this gem.  Look at Jeff Beck's facial expressions.  Is this not the blueprint for Nigel Tufnel's every mannerism in TIST? 

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4.  The talk box implemented by Peter Frampton and more recently Bon Jovi as demonstrated by Jeff Beck in the video above.

5. Double kick drums playing triplets or eighth notes, or something –dididi dididi dididi dididi, you know, like Slayer on “Reign In Blood”

6.  Varying the dropping of massive amounts of coins, and calling it music

7.  Amplified tables, great for use with dropped objects of all shapes and sizes

8.  Sticking crap in your piano, Ferrante, Teicher, Cage-like

9.  That Grunge/Nirvanaesque penchant for starting a song slow, and quiet-like, then building to a never unexpected crescendo after the first few bars (ok, Zep did this on many things such as, “What Is And What Should Never Be”, “Babe I’m gonna leave you”, etc.  Ok, many other songs feature this, but still, so characteristically cliché grunge.

10.  Field recording tracks such as leaves rustling, moving trains - Did you know that the sound made by the cicada is far and wide a lot different from that of the grasshopper and even more so, the katydid?  Something about the way the organs rub differently, or some shit, somehow.

11.  Screwdriver in the guitar string ala Sonic Youth

12.  Chadbourne’s rake and porthole – has to be seen live to be believed!

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13.  Singing into water (!), as per Josef Anton Reidl’s “Vielleicht-Duo (1963/70)”
download in “flac” format here:
http://agp.williamts99.com/agp01/Riedl%2009%20Vielleicht-Duo.flac

 What else?

[Sarah]

9.  That Grunge/Nirvanaesque penchant for starting a song slow, and quiet-like, then building to a never unexpected crescendo after the first few bars (ok, Zep did this on many things such as, “What Is And What Should Never Be”, “Babe I’m gonna leave you”, etc.  Ok, many other songs feature this, but still, so characteristically cliché grunge.

No doubt you already know it, but, if not, you'll get a kick out of Corky and the Juice Pigs' "The Grunge Song."

Also, what a nice, well-spoken boy that Jeff Beck was.  Too bad about the weak flesh on his fingers.

[jane]

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Also, what a nice, well-spoken boy that Jeff Beck was.  Too bad about the weak flesh on his fingers.

Yeah, that made me laugh. 
That singing into water, Reidl thing I posted is pretty silly too.  All that sputtering and gurgling sounds like someone drowning in a movie or something.  It's beautiful, creative and disturbing all at the same time.

[Stan]

3.  Wha Wha guitar - check out this gem.  Look at Jeff Beck's facial expressions.  Is this not the blueprint for Nigel Tufnel's every mannerism in TIST? 

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You know, I've thought the same thing since I saw this movie. Christopher Guest, you owe Jeff Beck One Thousand Million Dollars.



Pay up, motherfucker.