Up the Beach - Janes Addiction

The first one may have - hooked on a feeling - is that by tom jones.

The second is from the Was not was song.

Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

Sigur Ros

parts of Mas Que Nada--Brasil 66
(what a kick ass song!)

Aw crap. That beats my Rubber Biscuit.

Edit: And you know, it makes me wonder how that song was done. Did they write the "vocals" as part of the overall musical piece and then find someone to sing it? Or did they just let the obviously talented woman come in and just do what she wanted, they they put their music to it after? Or was it like stage directions *insert amazing vocals here.* I should google this.

Edit again: Wikipedia has a cool article on it. She just came in and improvised based on very vague instructions from the band. Only got paid 30 pounds for it, and sued decades later for songwriting royalties and won.

Peter Frampton's guitar talking

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Monk chants are words. Just because they are in Latin and you don't understand what "Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem" means doesn't make them not words.

My favorite non-lyric lyrics are from Hocus Pocus by Focus, which also gets the best song and group title combo award

It's fascinating how that actually works. The guitar plugs into a little black box, with a 50 watt amp and a small speaker, sealed inside. The box has a plastic tube which the output from the speaker is forced out of. The operator tapes the tube to their microphone, and inserts it into their mouth. Now, the guitar is being amplified to the inside of their mouth. As the operator changes the shape of their mouth, the output from the guitar is influenced by the cavity it is being broadcast into. The resulting sound is captured by the vocal mic, and is heard through the main PA system.

Awesome description. I had always heard it was a mouth thing, but not the details. I thought the guitar had nothing to do with it. I thought it was just an effect put on the microphone's signal after normal singing. This is way cooler.

My brother used to have one. I played around with running a drum machine through it.

Later on, I heard Carmine Appice would run his snare drum through a wah-wah pedal.

That's not what these guys are saying...



I used to put this cd in to fall asleep to.

Prayers in Tibetan or Sanskrit or whatever, but they are still prayers. They aren't just toning, although that technique is also used in meditation.

I know a bunch of Native American chants ... some of them are of the "Hey Ya" variety, but others have translatable lyrics.