Songs with great use of vocals as another instrument
 

The Pixies- Tame
The Beatles- Girl

College-Animal Collective

How's the voice another instrument in Tame now?HOW?

Anything by Loop.
A lotta Cocteau Twins.

And a favorite example:

Davis Bedford - "Some Bright Stars For Queen's College" on his fantastic LP, Nurses Song With Elephants.

This is a great piece composed for 80 girls' voices and 27 plastic pipe twirlers. Awesome!

The fucking breathing part porkie.

If I'm rembering right, you must mean the part where he sounds a bit like a monkey.

A copulating monkey.

Sigur Ros
Everything on Loveless.
Some Wolf Eyes...
A local band (Varge!) has this song with a wierdly tuned acoustik and then electrik on top just making noise and stuff, with the vocals going the entire lenght, realllly fast... it's an amazing song.

Laurie Anderson's O Superman springs to mind (the looped 'O, O, O, O' which forms the rhythm section). I'm entirely certain she borrowed the idea from the number bits in Philip Glass' Einstein...

Stockhausen did a peice of vocalese... was it Stimmung? My memory fails me.

Alvin Lucier's 'I am sitting in room' is another obvious choice.

Meridith Monk and Diamanda Galas all use extended technique to make a more noisy use of the voice, as does Patty Walters. I'm not sure if you could call this 'voice as other instrument' though, otherwise you'd be including yodelling and throat singing and any number of extended techniques.

Sainkho Namchylek does some fucking outstanding things with her voice. Listen to her.

The entire(erm.....almost) Cocteau Twins catalogue.

See, I'm not entirely sure using non-words counts as another instrument... there's a long tradition of forming chords with voices. I'm almost entirely sure that's not what the original intention of this thread was, but I'm going to be a pedant, and to hell with the consequences.

On a different note, how fucking great are the Cocteaus?

With the exception of Heaven Or Las Vegas, I call that shit awesome.

Very very great and in fact,wait!,i'm gonna put 'Blue Bell Knoll' on and give you a battering on that one.

* record starts with blue bell knoll,breathtaking song and all that*

Made up language,sure(to the extent that some people think that she is singing in french somehow),but how does her voice layer on the rest of the instruments there?EH?

You might know this already but the Cocteaus are one of Prince's favourite bands.If anyone can be cooler than that on the human scale,i'm looking forward to a happy planet.

Fuck it!I love this record so much i don't even care about what this thread was about to start with.

most cat power songs would be shit without the tune the vocals are sung in.

any good black metal, death metal or grindcore.

Almost any Animal Collective pre-Feels.
Acoustic Xiu Xiu - Sad Pony Guerilla Girl
Sigur Ros
Wolf Eyes
Yellow Swans

Oh, these people: Mieskuoro Huutajat.

 

Finnish Mans Shouting choir.

The moans on 'Paranoid Android'. In fact, almost all of OK Computer.

Pavement shitznat.

Pet Sounds.

everything by sigur ros.

pink floyd - careful with that axe eugene

Bjork's Medulla - Many of the sounds are of vocalists mimicking instruments. On "Ancestors", Tanya 'Tagaq' Gillis sounds like two animals copulating.

TVOTR, mostly stuff off bloodthirsty babes and a few off cookie mountain.

master-dik, by way of the loops in the background.

the skaters
birchville cat motel
a whole lot of other drone/noise stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpvSasR6d8

That.

MIKE PATTON

That is horrible.

It's a wonder it took so long into this thread for any mention of the "moan-wave" set! Several of these artists such as the Skaters almost entirely make their music by manipulation of mouthsounds.

But since everyone's wearing kneepads here for Cocteau Twins, what say you 4AD junkies about the Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish album by Colin Newman?

Whether she's raising hell or cooing a lullabye, nearly everything by Inca Ore rules me.

Early songs by KK Rampage qualify for this as well I think.

DJ Rick is probably the only person who knows what I'm saying.

vashti bunyan on the prospect hummer ep
some raccoo-oo-oon.

Yeah, she was great on that. I bought Another Diamond Day. It should be arriving at my house in about a week...

Certainly we share a committed fandom of KK Rampage, but I do disagree on this particular point. Early KK Rampage songs qualify only for making a case that these guys are the most improved band of 2006.

I've written extensively about KK Rampage on a different message board today, so I'm kinda tapped out when it comes to further explaining that. But I do intend it to be a compliment more than a slam.

When I think of their newer songs and their early meanderings around the edges of songforms, I generally think of the guitar and drums as being no less than 90% of the driving force. Perhaps this leaves one more area of development for KK Rampage as a band. But even if they continue to make EPs in the mold of Lies, Deception, & Tall-Tales, they will just solidify themselves as a band that has grown from being largely antics-based to a band that can make really good and intriguing songs.

Well, there...I went ahead and explained myself, I guess.

i said that on the prospect hummer ep because that's the only vb i've heard so far, i'm certainly curious about her own stuff.

does lightning bolt count? you can't really make out of what brian is singing anyway so it becomes like another sound in the mix.

another one: monosodic.

I just meant it in the way that their vocals don't seem to have any lyrical content and were more or less just going along and sounding like another instrument. Especially with releases like Friend Face and Anesthetize and Degrade. I completely understand what you said, though, man.

I heard three songs, and I wanted to buy the CD. I really like the song "I'd like to walk around in your mind". Some great folk stuff...

i'll be sure to check her stuff out.

more bands that fit this: sunburned hand of the man, the residents (sometimes) and smegma

"Soon"-MBV