Is there more music like 'Providence' off of Daydream Nation?

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Because if there is I have never heard it.

Probably my favourite song on my favourite album.

So: broken amps and piano melodies this way.

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

THURSTON

DIDJA GET YER SHIT

DIDJA CHECK IN THE TRASH CAN THURSTON?

― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

sorry

― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

that's the one, Chris.

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

if you really wanted to hear more songs like that, you could try listening to your voicemail/answering machine while playing william basinski in the same room

― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

good call.

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

but then i need to actually buy an old-skool answering machine to create the desired effect.

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

i should made an album completely made of distortion+piano melodies+slowed down answering-machine messages!

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

it would sell millions!

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

The first track on Slipknot's Iowa.

I don't think this is what you were looking for, but it's something I remembered.

― ajlee, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

philip jeck

― mono tony, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

is awesome

― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

mogwai - young team

more specifically, 'young portfolio' for distortion/piano melodies, second half of 'tracy' for the weird answering machine messages

― TAO (daggerlee), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe something from Rachel's, System/Layers?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Fitter Happier."

Listen to it again, but imagine hearing it without the computer voice and then you'll see what I mean.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

daydream nation, young team, ok computer..

short/transition track of lo-fi voicemail + distorted piano
it's such a common device!
there must be many other popular albums that use this

― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos/Gate/Dead C

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember this Sonic Youth track, but from the description, I think there are a few Tool tracks like this. Try "Message to Harry Manback," for example.

― punis (punis), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

i hate tool.

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

but thanks.

― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Butthole Surfers' "Strangers Die Everyday" is quite similar to "Providence", which it predated by a year or two. It's from Rembrandt Pussyhorse, and sounds absolutely nothing like any other song in their songbook. A depressing dirge consisting of mournful organ, looped voices chanting the title over and over, and very little else. It was played over teh end-credits of Richard Linklater's "Slacker".

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

Prefuse 73's "Seventh Message" makes good with the ansaphone sadness.

― Action Tim Vision (noodle vague), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

all post rock.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

The last track on "Neu" (i.e. Neu 1)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

The last track on "The Modern Dance" Pere Ubu

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

There's a Kathleen Hanna answering machine message TO Mike Watt on "Heartbeat" from Watt's "Balhog or Tugboat?" album.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

i was using Providence in a CD mix i was making the other day! great song.

― late to the bloom to the er (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Loop just the intro to the album version of XTC's "Respectable Street" over and over and over again.

Lots of early Severed Heads would qualify. "Alaskan Polar Bear Heater" would qualify...