Please list and YSI: Pop songs that feature prepared piano

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Only one I can think of offhand is Tori Amos - "Bells for Her"
(http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1FF9AXUALK3MS173U43ZO9BFI4 in case you weren't a dweeb in the 90s). I think I've heard a Dead tape with some prepared piano but I don't know of any particular songs. I'm not sure if the Aphex Twin tracks count or not.

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano#In_popular_music

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks!

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... That wiki wasn't as helpful as I would have thought (ie., I would've thought there are more).

iTunes shuffle just tossed up some Fiona Apple. Most of the time people talk about her technique, but does anyone know whether she ever plays a prepared piano?

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 4 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

That is helpful.

I always felt Ferrante and Teicher were underrated and a lot of their music is still difficult to find unless you just stream it on Youtube.

I still don't know which tracks of theirs use prepared piano.

Surely there is more stuff than what Wikipedia has!

Gonna check out that Aphex Twin anyway!

― Picture of Chairman Mao (I M Losted), Monday, 26 December 2022 19:55 (two years ago)

David Sylvian on “Backwaters” and “Pollen Path”. Pink Floyd on parts of “Sysyphus”.
The Grateful Dead song mentioned above is the studio version of “That’s It for the Other One”.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 26 December 2022 20:11 (two years ago)

The Residents on "Numb Erone".

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 17:12 (two years ago)

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