And no wonder, dougie, since it’s about 25% swearing. My kind of album. Were you wondering about how they made these sounds, or just the lyrics? As to the how, I would hazard a guess that they simply recorded various car noises (beeps, engine revs, engine turning over, etc.) and put them in at various points.
For some real weird stuff, try listening to The Art of Noise’s Close to the Edit. Power tools and other odd things galore. Cool stuff.
He weathered a firestorm of agony and did not break.
And while Yori raged against his unbending
courage, we took Kyuden Hiruma back.
His loss is great, but so is the gift his suffering brought.
-Yakamo’s Funeral
Einstuerzende Neubauten is a german industrial band that has 2 albums called “Strategies Against Architecture 1 & 2”. all the songs are played by banging on items inside buildings and construction sites.
There’s some sort of strange dog howling in the Titanic song My Heart Will Go On (I think that’s the title, I’,m usually wrong on such things however…)
Hey, Flypsyde: perhaps you might be able to answer my original question about how they made the sound effects in “Overjoyed,” “Theme from MASH,”* and “Goodbye Cruel World?” Nobody else seems interested in doing so… Thanks very much.
And while we’re on the subject of Einstürzende Neubauten, let’s not forget the piece “Maifestspiele”, which incorporates the sounds of one of the annual Berlin May Day riots, recorded by one of the band’s members at great risk to life and limb. There’s even a tear gas canister going off right next to him at one point.
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
The balloon-on-hair instrument described in the OP sounds like a cuica. I haven’t seen MAS*H in forever, but this instrument is a friction drum - a drum not struck but played by running a moistened finger on a stem which is attached at right angles to the drum head. Can you picture that? Anyway, the point is, it sounds like a bird call, or a person with a WEIRD voice talking, or running a balloon across your head. It’s featured, IIRC, in Brazilian and other South American music.
In the Beastie Boys’ song “3 Minute Rule” (from Paul’s Boutique, one of the best albums ever made), the sound of a Ping-Pong ball bouncing can be heard at the beginning. Geniuses, I tell you.
“The world is everything that is the case.” --Ludwig Wittgenstein
U2’s early hit, “I Will Follow”, features the sounds of bottles being dropped and broken during the instrumental break. Not the band’s brainchild, but the idea of innovative producer Steve Lillywhite.
The Aerosmith song “Rag Doll” (one of their worst, IMHO) includes members of the band playing the ‘flesh bongos,’ slapping with their hands on the bare asses of some willing female-type groupies.
You may be able to discern it as the song is fading out.
I always liked in “The Logical Song” by Supertramp how they use the interception sound from the old Coleco Pocket Quarterback.
That’s what our video games were like, ya young whipper-snapper, and we were THANKFUL!
“In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” - Ecclesiastes 1:18
The technique is called “music concrete”. “Concrete” is pronounced “con-CRET”. Using it makes you sound very hip…
John Cage and Edgard Varese were among the very first to use this device. Although it is not really the same thing, the earliest non-traditional sound in a Rock & Roll song that I can think of is Buddy Holly’s “Every Day”. The drummer is playing the percussion part on his lap (or on a vinyl chair, depending on the story you believe).
