Comments on: Turn it up to eleven and lean the guitar against it...

Question: Turn it up to eleven and lean the guitar against it...

merocet — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:32:04 -0800

I'm looking for songs which contain guitar feedback.

Easy huh? Nope, I need songs that have sections of guitar feedback where there are no other instruments playing. Of course there's Metal Machine Music, also the beginning of Bauhaus' Dark Entries has a great example but more? They escape me.

Extra points for ear-hurty-ness!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:38:42 -0800

Jimi Hendrix's version of the Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:40:41 -0800

Just beat me to it. Here.

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:42:07 -0800

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Boris - Feedbacker
SUNN O)))

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:42:36 -0800

oh whoops, didn't see MMM in your MI

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:43:55 -0800

also, growing

By: pupdog

pupdog — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:46:39 -0800

The end of Drown by Smashing Pumpkins is pretty good for this, but get the version from the 'Singles' soundtrack.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:49:45 -0800

The opening of 100% by Sonic Youth is pure feedback.

Streetmasse by Jefferson Airplane begins with gorgeous feedback (first track on After Bathing at Baxter's). That feedback alone is enough to cleanse your mind of all the horrible music that came after that album.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:55:32 -0800

Stupid fingers, I wasn't through yet. The end of that Pumpkins track is nothing but feedback and e-bow. The cut that made 'Rotten Apples' is only 4 and a half minutes, it's over 8 on the soundtrack...

By: mkultra

mkultra — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:56:18 -0800

Arc

By: alms

alms — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:05:38 -0800

Feedback (yes, that's it's name), by the Grateful Dead.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:24:32 -0800

Sonic Youth - Scooter & Jinx (video mildly NSFW)

Non-guitar feedback: Steven Reich's Pendulum Music, in which four mics swing over their amps.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:27:27 -0800

Silver Session for Jason Knuth is a 1998 EP by Sonic Youth. Its eight tracks consist entirely of guitar feedback with occasional drum machine. Jason Knuth of the album's title was a Sonic Youth fan who committed suicide, and proceeds from the record's sales were donated to San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:31:42 -0800

There's a great extended feedback outro on the last track of Meshuggah's Chaosphere. God I love that album.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:33:20 -0800

Oh and that track definitely qualifies for ear-hurty-ness, especially if you accidently fall asleep listening to that album with headphones.

By: merocet

merocet — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:00:57 -0800

Excellent suggestions all! Keep 'em coming!

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:05:52 -0800

The unlisted track on Course of Empire's "Initiation".

By: erikgrande

erikgrande — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:29:16 -0800

The unlisted track on Course of Empire's "Initiation".
posted by neckro23 at 9:05 PM on December 5 [+] [!]

I haven't thought of CoE in a while, reminds me of good times at Trees.

Anyway, Smashing Pumpkins' Pisces Iscariot has a couple of nuggets, though I'm not sure these would meet any minimum length you might be looking for (and none of these touch the aforementioned Drown):

8) Obscured, 4:45 - 5:15
10) Starla, 10:15 - 10:40
12) Girl Named Sandoz, 3:15 - 3:30

By: The Wig

The Wig — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:30:30 -0800

The first and last couple seconds of essentially any song by Scholastic Deth. Unfortunately someone has clipped a lot of the feedback of the tracks on this myspace fan page. On all their albums, the gap between every song is filled with feedback.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:50:22 -0800

Crawl Away by Tool has a nice feedback intro.

By: Doctor Suarez

Doctor Suarez — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:56:05 -0800

Not quite what you are asking for, but Van Halen's "Poundcake" uses a sound created by running a power drill right next to the guitar pickups.

By: Doctor Suarez

Doctor Suarez — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:57:06 -0800

Also, "I Feel Fine" by the Beatles has some sort of screwy sound at the very beginning.

By: knave

knave — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:39:25 -0800

I'm not sure if this counts, because I'm not sure if it's really feedback or just an effect on top of a repeated note: Tool's Lost Keys.

By: peep

peep — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:51:20 -0800

There is a sudden, startling screech (that I think is feedback) at the beginning of Nirvana's cover of Turnaround (on Incesticide).

By: momzilla

momzilla — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:04:40 -0800

"Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" by Nirvana has several instances of feedback throughout the song.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:13:02 -0800

There's a bit of bass guitar and the last track has some drums on it, but Earth 2 is along the lines of what you're looking for. Twenty minutes of feedback straight through.

By: magwich

magwich — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:14:42 -0800

Beatles - "I Feel Fine" - rather classic feedback opening.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:12:07 -0800

The Breeders - Happiness is a warm gun, has some

By: edgeways

edgeways — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:16:38 -0800

Velvet Underground - European Son

By: blastrid

blastrid — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:49:36 -0800

At the end of Jimmy Eat World's old song "What Would I Say To You Now" has a good 29: of wonderful squealing feedback.

Tool's "Lost Keys" is a sustained note with heavy effects.
And it's a fucking overwhelming, bathing sound when heard live.

By: handybitesize

handybitesize — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:45:16 -0800

Juliana Hatfield's Down On Me has a few seconds of controlled feedback for its intro.

Thanks for the opportunity to redeclare my love for her

By: alona

alona — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:19:04 -0800

The Strokes - New York City Cops. Try the first few seconds and the last few seconds.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:02:00 -0800

The guitar part for the chorus of Uncle Tupelo's "Wait Up," is just feedback (provided by Peter Buck).

The Beatles' "It's All Too Much" opens with a nice wall of feedback.

By: hybridvigor

hybridvigor — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:00:30 -0800

Anthrax by Gang of Four.
There is a good 1:40 of pure guitar noise before the drums kick in.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:52:13 -0800

The middle part of Better Living Through Chemistry by Queens of the Stone Age is a drawn out guitar feedback part with no other instruments.

It starts at about 2:30 in this live video, but it's on the album version on Rated R, too.

By: artdrectr

artdrectr — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:11:18 -0800

Beatles "I Feel Fine" is a plucked A harmonic.

By: hominid211

hominid211 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:57:18 -0800

Oh, where to begin?

"We Invent You," the opening track from Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound has a beautiful 2+ minute feedback opening.

"Drowning" off the album of the same name by the band Cavity (although, pretty much every song fits the criteria). This is painful, overmodded feedback. Along these lines really any of the 90's sludge movement is just Black Sabbath put through absurd amounts of distortion, which led to lots of guitar feedback. See also: Eyehategod, Buzzov-en, Grief.

By: GPF

GPF — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:13:38 -0800

You've just given me a great excuse to listen through "Band of Gypsies" from Jimi Hendrix. Feedback all over the album, but I'll keep an ear open for *just* feedback.

Heck any Hendrix album will probably have something you're looking for.