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Best use of an unconventional instrument in a pop or rock song
Posted by Jed Clampett on 5 October 2009 - 6:20pm.
Bon Scott's bagpipes maybe?
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as usual, a stylophone is the answer
"Sapace Oddity"
the horns of dilemma
who played with the Violent Femmes(featuring a Cajon Box amongst other strange and exotic handmade string instruments).
and of course the famous use of ocarina...
ISB
and Gimbri, on Chinese White.
Einstürzende Neubauten
Industrial plumbing, bits of masonry, joists etc
Sounded fantastic
Swell Maps
On their debut LP 'A Trip To Marineville' utilised a vacuum cleaner. Some would say their kind of music sounds like one when just made with conventinal instruments anyway, so why not? Actually a pretty good album as it goes.
ah the humble vacuum cleaner
i once saw a gig with the Batchelor Pad, and they had hooked up an old hoover to a set of guitar pedals... the soundman was probably in a faint at the thought of it.
course, there is always the Root Searchin' Metal Bashin' Nyah Fearties(think the pogues meets Einsteinde Neubauten) who i saw onstage playing with about 20 odd carpet-roll tubes miked-up to various fx.
Cow solo
There are at least two Lee Perry productions that have a cow mooing worked into the rhythm, does that count?
Well there is
Scott Walker's meat beating
on The Drift. Seen here v darkly live.
Also on Pet Sounds, Brian's dogs Banana And Louie are called in to lay down their tracks for the end of the album. And there is a great bit on one of the takes where Brian wonders aloud 'Can we get a horse in here?' and someone asks incredulously 'Excuse me, Brian?'