Ideas for tunes you'd like to make/hear

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The other day I listened to "Rain From The Sky" by Horace Andy, a reaggae standard that I believe has been sung by quite a few singers. Then I listened to "Twilight Mushrooms" by Slum (soon to become the Parsley Sound), who are a kind of lo-fi tweeist pop band with breathey female indie vocals a la My Bloody Valentine. So I was walking around and realised that it would be fantastic if Parsley Sound covered Rain From The Sky. Therefore I think I'm going to have a go at it.

Anyone else got ideas for songs you'd like to make? They don't have to be covers, just good ideas.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

A bassline-driven rock song with no strummed guitar but two e-bows going at the same time, panned hard l and r, one playing the tonic note of each chord and the other playing the dominant.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

How exactly does an ebow work?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

it uses an electromagnet to make the strings on the guitar vibrate by themselves without being plucked. So it sustains for as long as you hold the ebow above the string.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

If you play it right, it sounds like a hard, steely cello with tons of harmonic overtones. Or you can make it squeal like a pig.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

oooh..! I want!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

An entire Echo & the Bunnymen song based around the drum/handclap break in "Never Stop".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I can't play blues for shit, so I will say I'd like someone else to do a really raw, skronky blues jam about when your mouth is full of peanut butter and you realize you have no milk in the house.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Is there a bass ebow yet?

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to see Brian Eno and Ian McKaye do an album together.

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Nick, I have a friend named Anna who spends her days making such songs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I want to make a calypso version of Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" with a chorus of singers singing:

"Canta... loupe island... cantaloupe island!
Canta... loupe island... cantaloupe island!
Cantaloupe island, yeahhhhhhhhhhhh
Cantaloupe island, yeahhhhhhhhhhhh"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 22 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I want to make a song sampling and distorting the main guitar riff from Primus' "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" and merge that with the rhythm section of some wonderful #1 disco hit like "Love Hangover" or "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- and the basslines would be dubbed out and the snares would be phasered like mad. I also want to mash-up the rhythm section of that Quad City DJs hit with Brooke Valentine's "Ghetto Superstarz" and have relentless chanting of "Ride the carousel, ride the pop carousel!" over it.

― Kitten, the body needs it, the body cries out for Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 22 July 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

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