Songs Which Are Benefitted from Their Out-Of-Tuneness

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The Supremes - "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart"
The bass is noticably too sharp, but it doesn't really detract
from the song. In fact, it adds to Diana's first few lines a
strange, raga-like starkness. These are the kind of happy
accidents that are proscribed in these days of pro tools.
There must be more examples of
out-of-tune instruments benefitting the tune, anyone?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 28 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

cap'n jazz to thread

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 28 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh instruments

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 28 May 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the raincoats

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Cap'n Jazz sucked.

My Bloody Valentine to thread instead.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

You think there are any "happy accidents" in Loveless?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Aphex Twin - "Ageispolis"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 May 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd "Apples and Oranges"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 28 May 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You think there are any "happy accidents" in Loveless?

no but there's def some out-of-tuneness.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Well yeah, but Kevin & Co. prob'ly spent weeks getting just the right detunement.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything John Coltrane plays soprano on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the title of this thread does not benefit from its grammar, btw.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The entirety of Like Flies on Sherbert...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes, it's just kind of charming. The bass is out of tune on some of the Hackamore Brick album. I like it. Same goes for the '70s Korean band San Ul Lim. I just listened to Van der Graaf's Aerosol Grey Machine and the acoustic guitar is out of tune on that great first track, "Afterwards." I like it; it's charming.

What's out of tune on "Apples and Oranges?"

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 28 May 2004 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Velvet Underground - the guitar and violin clashing in "Venus and Furs"
Burning Spear - the horns in "Marcus Garvey"

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

the lead guitar part that opens "Apples and Oranges" is totally out of tune. And it stays out of tune for the rest of the song.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 28 May 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Velvet Underground - the guitar and violin clashing in "Venus and Furs"

dude microtonality don't count.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

pastels to thread

also, "teenage riot," which is kinda the template for chugging feedbacky out of tuneness

― jake in portland (cerybut), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty much all of Sonic Youth and Pavement's respective catalogs.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 28 May 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

colors-pharoah sanders

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth and Pavement were more cases of alternate tunings were they not?

Cap'n Jazz sucked.

They might suck, but I like them. I feel some shame for this. Even more for the Promise Ring song I like.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth and Pavement were more cases of alternate tunings were they not?

Well, in terms of the instruments, yeah, you can definitely say that. You can't make that argument about their singing, though.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"The lead guitar part that opens "Apples and Oranges" is totally out of tune. And it stays out of tune for the rest of the song."

He's just doing a lot of string bending. Sounds fairly in tune on the parts where he's not.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 28 May 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

LUMIDEE TO THREAD

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Venom - "Sons of Satan"

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Start setting up cheap guitars in odd tunings or with strange string sets and I would almost guarantee the intonation is rarely going to be dead on across the guitar.

― earlnash, Friday, 28 May 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

jandek and truman's water to thread

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post: Not to mention the fact that any guitar has to be set for intonation and a lot of people certainly go into the studio without it having been done.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 28 May 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Shaggs, the best band ever.

― Elvis is Dead, Friday, 28 May 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Start setting up cheap guitars in odd tunings or with strange string sets and I would almost guarantee the intonation is rarely going to be dead on across the guitar.

The intonation isn't really dead on for a guitar even in standard tuning and recently set up for whatever strings are on it. Guitars are simply not perfect instruments.

Also, any guitar with a single-piece bridge (like most acoustics) will never have perfect intonation since strings cannot be adjusted individually.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 28 May 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Three Dog Night, "One" (the closing notes, which, I've read, were not supposed to go like that -- I can't imagine hearing them any other way)

― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 29 May 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

― Mikhail Capone (Mikhail Capone), Saturday, 29 May 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Sunday, 30 May 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh-oh!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

all songs with pharrell williams singing. although i dont necessarily think they benefitted.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 30 May 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 30 May 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

in "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It," the "nana na na nana na"s

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Sunday, 30 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Clock DVA's '4 Hours'

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 31 May 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue"

― Rottenhole, Monday, 31 May 2004 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

it's taken THIS LONG for a Neil Young mention? that's kind of amazing. specifically, "Borrowed Tune," haha oh the irony.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 31 May 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Soft Cell: "Say Hello Wave Goodbye"

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 31 May 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've double checked. No Fall. One pick at random: the intro to "My New House"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 31 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

um:
http://www.sandboxautomatic.com/massive/bizmark/bizmark.jpg

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 31 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

everyone: don't
look at biz markie's tongue or
you'll be HYPNOTIZED

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 31 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Is he coated with confectioner's sugar?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 31 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

that is NOT sugar
and it's NOT a confection
(except in denmark)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 31 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 31 May 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

the bass on "she smiled sweetly" is much too sharp but it gives it a certain charm.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Monday, 31 May 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Postcard-era Orange Juice.

And my Fall pick: the keyboard break in "Bingo Master's Breakout".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

blue cheer!! "summertime blues"!!

― duane, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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