RFI: Melodica

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so I'm listening to this Pole liveset ( http://realserver.ex-centris.com:8080/ramgen/mutek/2003/pole.rm ) and I am rembering how much I like the sound of the melodica in dubby stuff. Reccomend some more songs with this instrument.

― tylero, Friday, 6 June 2003 05:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

word

― tylero, Friday, 6 June 2003 05:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

er, Augustus Pablo to thread!

Also, New Orders 'Love Vigilantes', 'Regret' (Weatherall remix)

― Bill E (bill_e), Friday, 6 June 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mad Professor to thread

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 6 June 2003 05:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hohner Instruments to thread.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 6 June 2003 05:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

i got one for my birthday last year. one of the coolest things to do with it is to play two notes close to each other low in the bass register. the vibrations and drone are so beautiful.

also. search Gang of Four's "Entertainment" album. i forget which track, but there's some great melodica playing.

also Clinic's albums have melodica (and clarinet which for some reason sounds like a melodica)

TS: playing one handed with the mouth piece VS two handed with the tube

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 6 June 2003 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gang of Four -> 5:45
Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy (I think?) I think there's something on Look Sharp as well.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

oi colin mims got a melodica, no? i have anyway.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

múm to thread.
and i remember seeing belle and sebastian use one on stage, but i can't think of the exact song or if it's on the albums...
but augustus pablo rules, sure (oh, and primal scream trying to sound like him).

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 6 June 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

new order to the thread!

― ddb, Friday, 6 June 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

oops, new order is already here...ignore me!

― ddb, Friday, 6 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.digitalinterviews.com/digitalinterviews/images/views/worrell_lg.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

bark psychosis - absent friend.

fucking marvelous.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 6 June 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gorillaz to thread.

*ducks*

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Friday, 6 June 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sleater-Kinney 'Quarter to Three'. I've got one of these, gorgeous but they fill up w/spit pretty easily

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 7 June 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

5:45 has melodica yeah, and the CD reissue of Entertainment! has 'It's Her Factory' as a bonus track which is also great. 'I Will Be A Good Boy' from the second (?) album has one too.

(How much do these things tend to cost?)

― Ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 7 June 2003 01:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait till you find one in a secondhand/junk shop, it won't be too much. $20 US or so, maybe?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 7 June 2003 01:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anything by Augustus Pablo, although Classic Rockers, and Skanking With Pablo are good starting points.

"Star" by Primal Scream also features AP on the melodica.

― blutroniq (blutroniq), Saturday, 7 June 2003 03:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Though I generally dislike them, I've gotta give props to Tortoise for the cover of Joy Division's "As You Said" (actually a Warsaw tune) from that Means to An End tribute compilation. They take what was a short, skeletal song and flesh it out with a memorable original melody, performed on Melodica.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 7 June 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, Gaz, Miriam had a melodica. She has two I think, at different pitches. Not sure if your mum's got one though, why don't you ask her?

She was influenced by Augustus Pablo in her playing I think. I had a nice melodica too, but someone bloody hocked it.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 7 June 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

whats that about me mum?

the kids broke the mouthpiece of mine, i wonder if you can get spares...

(in the 70's in england kids were given the choice of recorder or melodica at school, well my sister was. i'll ask her if she got to play pablo tunes)

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 7 June 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh sorry, I meant you mim, whatever that is.

All we got was the bloody recorder at school. And we had to play the Aussie national anthem. The recorders came out of a turps solution, and were often greenish around the mouthpiece. It cured me of music for ten years.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 7 June 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

lucksmiths 'smokers in love'

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 7 June 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Hey Duke, you forgot to revive this one!

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Whoops.

Wish I could, but, as was pointed out earlier, when you toot your melodica too much, it gets clogged wif da spit.

But I'll kick this discussion up a notch by adding some melodica nicknames which are certain to fill hearts young and old with a short-lived sense of glee and wreckless abandon:

pocket piano
toot-flute
blow accordion
wind piano
melodeon
melody-horn
pianaca
hooter

― Duke Dubuque (Duke Dubuque), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Toot-flute? Strange. I thought this was a toot-flute. ("Grab your wienerwhistle and learn the toot!")

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not even mentioning what the results of a Google image search for "hooter" are.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/h/o/hooters93381.jpg

― a. begrand (a begrand), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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