the illegitimate son of convention

[AFK]

The later is also called a voice-wah.

It was used by Motely Crue in "Kickstart My Heart"
There's also a famous classic-rock tune that features it to, but I'm spacing out on the title and the artist. 

[Triple Zero]

yeah talking guitars = FTW

[LMNO]

Frampton, "Do you feel like we do?"

Also, I have a feeling the beginning of Bon Jovi's "Shot through the heart" uses it too.




LMNO
-needs to take a bath, now.

[Triple Zero]

i'm pretty sure somebody once told me there was this bon jovi song with a "vocoder" in it.

i never really bothered to check it out, though.

[LMNO]

Pink Floyd's "Pigs (3 different ones)" uses it too.

It shows up on a lot of the Animals tracks, actually.

[Triple Zero]

pink floyd is on my list of "stuff i really need to download and give a good listen to", anyway

because everybody says it's so good and all

[Darth Cupcake]

EEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh.

Maybe if you smoke enough pot.

[Triple Zero]

enough?

[Darth Cupcake]

Enough = a lot

Pink Floyd seems to be rather stoner music. I mean, some of it is decent, but I never perceived anything really remarkable about it.

To each their own, however. You may find you like it. It's been a hefty while since I last listened to any of it, so I can't remember if it has any attributes that are up your alley.

[That One Guy]

pink floyd is on my list of "stuff i really need to download and give a good listen to", anyway

because everybody says it's so good and all

Animals and Meddle are amazing, subtle (sometimes anyway) and excellent albums of the post-Syd era. I'd recommend starting with those (and avoiding the hugely commercial ones, even though Dark Side is incredible), hitting Umma Gumma (the live disc of that is great, especially the Careful with that axe, Eugene), then Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets (for the quality Syd stuff). While the Syd-era stuff is more "standard rock", it's well worth a listen. Also, check out the Live at Pompeii film for no other reason than the "making of" stuff for Dark Side (and the AMAZINGLY large ego of Roger Waters - it's impressive).

Even if you don't enjoy it (although I'd bet money you'll enjoy Animals and Meddle, 000), it's been a huge influence on the electronic music genre and the incorporation of purely electronic instruments in popular music as they were one of the early pioneering groups that established many of the common sonic, thematic and expressive elements of using synths in popular and experimental music.

[AFK]

nein!  nein!    

You do not have to be stoned to be into Floyd.

Anyway, if you want to sample a whole album, Dark Side of the Moon is the way to go.  But you've gotta take it in from beginning to end.  

Comfortably Numb, from The Wall, features one of the best guitar solos ever.  
I'd stay away from anything that doesn't involve Roger Waters.  

[Triple Zero]

i think i'll get the animal thing first then, because that one 's got the voicebox/vocoders in it

[LMNO]

Yes.  Animals, i feel, is one of their best albums.

Dark Side is good as a "listen from beginning to end in one sitting" album, but kind of crap if you listen to individual songs.  Each song builds on the previous; without that, they kind of fail.

[AFK]

I don't know.  I think Time and Us & Them, and Money stand pretty well on their own.  But I'd agree with the rest of the songs.  It's really annoying when a radio station plays Brain Damage but doesn't continue into Eclipse. 

[Payne]

Made my old dear listen to the nose flute experiment. IN FULL.





I'm still (barely) alive.