Greatest use of feedback in a song?

[Sheets of Easter]

Ever since John Lennon claimed to be the first guitarist to use intentional feedback in a song (on "I Feel Fine"), it's been an added accent to many songs. Which one is your favorite?


I'm not a smashing pumpkins fan by any stretch, but their song "Drown" has some amazing feedback & guitar noise at the end (I had read that Billy Corgan uses an e-bow at the end of the song to get that effect).

There's many others, but I can't think of any right now.

edit- here is a link to "Drown"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO0BisJNIxw

[MrCoffee]

1. Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whW7oVPcCYo


Really, any Sonic Youth song would apply.

[Sheets of Easter]

3. That goes without saying.

:thumbsup:

[Westegg]

11. The final many minutes of "Diamond Sea" are pure bliss!...

...The whole song's brilliant. Drives me wife crazy, though. She prefers opera and Ella.

[Rambis]

2. Link Wray

One of the more influential guitarist of the Fifties, Link Wray introduced the distorted fuzz-tone sound on his million selling single. "Rumble." Link Wray is credited with having more influence than his track record might indicate. Pete Townshend of the Who has referred to him as "the king." Ray has been called the godfather of the guitar power chord and the father of heavy metal rock. In fact, he might be this and more.



http://www.history-of-rock.com/link_wray.htm

[MrCoffee]

8. I gotcher power chord right here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0aRKnyzpc

Great tune.

[Richardo]

4. New Pornographers "Sing Me Spanish Techno"

Just at the intro, but it's cool. :smoke:

[livetohike]

5. The master of use of feedback - Hendrix "Star Spangled Banner"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_nO0F4ugss

[Sheets of Easter]

7. That also goes without saying.

Hendrix was probably the first to be able to control & manipulate feedback in a creative form.

[Lilith Velkor]

6. Rollins Band - Ghost Rider

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g6muaWlZGE

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. This Thread has to have some Jimi --

just would NOT be right without some JIMI HENDRIX

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/jimi-hendrix-foxy-lady/3970272698

But if one feat of his remains paramount it would be his ability to play with feedback, control it, and make it melodic. I had heard Peter Townsend of the Who say that he had pioneered the use of feedback. I spent a few hours going through all of the Who's shit without ever hearing anything that approached Hendrix's control or melodic use of feedback within a song.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n2_v29/ai_17534777

[Rambis]

12. Jimi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFLy8eGtSYo

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. I'm gonna vote for "Zoot Allures"

Here's Dweezil playing it,:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KGnP396baE

Unfortunately, while there is a stellar version of Frank playing it in '84 at the Pier, there are no videos (that I can find in five seconds) of any of the older versions when Frank used a lot more feedback than he did in later years.

[kwassa]

13. Purple Haze, by Hendrix

Why? It was the first big feedback hit, and the first hit for Hendrix.

Hendrix did more melodically with feedback than anyone, too. It was an essential component of his total sound,

[Redbear]

14. Neil Young is the master

Hey Hey My My (Out of the Blue and Into the Black)

Keep On Rockin' In the Free World

Cowgirl In the Sand

Like a Hurricane

[av8rdave]

21. Absolutely!!!

[puerco-bellies]

15. Foxy Lady by Jimi

[commander bunnypants]

16. Echoes

by pink floyd

CB

[Danger Mouse]

28. Echoes destroys all competitors.

[Twillig]

17. Satriani

Flying in a Blue Dream.

[Resuscitated Ethics]

18. Gang of Four "Anthrax"

makes me moist (sniff)

especially live it shows the love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdq0CftfN8o

[SoxFan]

19. Sidewinders-"What She Said"

Sadly, I can't find it online. On the same album, there is a nearly unrecognizable cover of "Solitary Man", which is far closer to Crazy Horse than to Neil Diamond.

[Forkboy]

20. Every song ever recorded by Sunn O)))

Amplifier worship at it's finest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnG6EHh1N4&feature=related

[Twillig]

22. THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME!!

That's the kind of stuff you just wouldn't find unless it's linked by cool peeps like you!

My first amplifier was an Alpha 112. That was the shit. Fifty nifty watts. I understand the worship.

Had to sell it though. Later on, in the Army, I put my money into an Ibanez RG 550 and bought a POS practice amp and it was cool until my platoon mate brought his Beta Lead (and shit guitar) from back home.

He wouldn't sell.

So I didn't let him play my guitar. :-)

[Forkboy]

23. Any band naming themselves after an amp can't be all bad.

Seeing them live is almost a transcendental experience. You don't just hear it, you feel it, like a force on all sides enveloping you in sound and pushing in on your body. The last time I saw them we were waiting for them to come on stage, and as usual the club was playing crap music between bands. Finally, the lights dim, and the club starts piping the last song from Sunn's last CD over the PA. They're not even on stage yet mind you, and there's a part in the song where the bottom just drops out, and I literally felt it in my stomach, like I was in an elevator that just dropped ten stories in a few seconds. That was before they hit the stage.

Then the show itself was awesome. They get pretty fucked up when they play, passing a wine bottle about at all times. After about 90 minutes Stephen O'Malley had to call it a night, but the other guitarist, Greg Anderson, kept playing and playing for another 25-30 minutes until the club turned the lights on to stop him.

Quite an experience, and I've seen a ton of live shows. It was like being in a womb of amplifier feedback. I can see why people wouldn't like these guys...but I can see why I do. :)

[many a good man]

24. That was hilarious!

Lawd a'mercy!

:yourock:

[amerikat]

29. The sand people fron Star Wars got new robes and guitars too. (NT)

[PeaceNikki]

25. I like Rollercoaster of Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-lbIfaqm0U

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. ...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

27. St. Stephen... Grateful Dead

accidental at first, but became part of the song

[mitchum]

30. This thread contains some of my favorite songs

I love feedback