The Most Fucked-up Guitar Sounds... Ever!!
The electric guitar is one of the best instruments to fuck around with, which plenty of rock guitarists have done in the past 30 years or so. Here's a list of some of my personal faves |
| 1 | The Velvet Underground
I Heard Her Call My Name
Listen to the fucking solo on this one! It sounds like 10-year-old trying out his daddy's guitar for the first time and accidentally turning the amp up too loud. |
| 2 | Faust
No Harm
The guitar sounds like it was found on a dump and then recorded inside a trash can. |
| 3 | Sonic Youth
Ghost Bitch
What the hell are those foghorn-like sounds at the beginning? Is that a sample from metal machine music or something Lee and Thurston are actually playing? It's impossible to tell. |
| 4 | Lou Reed
Metal Machine Music (the whole album)
...Which leads us to our next candidate. This is pretty much just feedback but pretty crazy anyway. |
| 5 | Boredoms
Bore Now Bore
Begins with a riff that wouldn't be unfitting on a 90's "grunge" album, then turns into something completely undescribable |
| 6 | Acid Mothers Temple
Atomic Rotary Grinding God/Quicksilver Machine Head
Some more shit from Japan. There's two guitars on this one and it sounds like a fucking wall of noise. Takes three or four listens to figure out there's some structure to it. The initial howls of feedback always give me the image of a giant kraken reaching for you with its tentactles for some reason. |
| 7 | The Stooges
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Gimme an S, gimme an L, gimme a U, gimme a D, gimme a G, gimme an E! Especially the part where the wah-wah comes in sounds indescribably weird. |
|
