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100 great songs featuring only vocals and one, single-timbral, instrument

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You get the point?
Single-timbral means using lots of different sounds from the same synth doesn't count.

1. Aztec Camera: Down The Dip
2. Fra Lippo Lippi: Coming Home
3. Oasis: Married With Children
4. Oasis: Talk Tonight

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

5. Robert Wyatt - Muddy Mouth

― sleepingbag, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

i remember being amazed when i realized after listening to the song a whole bunch of times that the only instrument is piano. it's so atmospheric!

― sleepingbag, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'll take a stab at this-"The Fish" from Yes? Does that count?

― Bill Magill, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

The Fish contains at least three instruments: guitar, bass and drums.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

4. Oasis: Talk Tonight
-- Geir Hongro, Friday, September 28, 2007 8:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

but what about the handclaps?

― stephen, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think a lot of "demo" recordings would qualify for this - the one that comes immediately to mind (which is demo stuff, but officially released) is PJ Harvey's 4-Track Demos, which contains PJ classics from the first 2 records like "Snake" "Ecstasy" "Easy" "Yuri-G" "Rid of Me" "Legs" "Reeling" "50ft Queenie" all done with voice and electric guitar, nothing else as far as i recall.

― stephen, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

also

Radiohead "True Love Waits" live version, from I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings

― stephen, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

All of Pink Moon. I guess there's piano on a couple of tracks, tho'. So, not those.

― ellaguru, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

?. neil young - journey through the past

― ciderpress, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Can Harry Nilsson's "Living Without You" (Randy Newman wrote it) count? There are a lot of layered vocals.

― morningsaystoidleon, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sisters of Mercy - 1959

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 29 September 2007 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

tiny tim

― highschoolworld, Saturday, 29 September 2007 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

but what about the handclaps?

Good point, although being man-made they may count as "vocals". :)

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 29 September 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Neutral Milk Hotel-Oh Comely

― taint, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

that's definitely got some horns

― ciderpress, Sunday, 30 September 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

yeah

but "Two-Headed Boy" counts (as does "Two-Headed Boy, Part 2" if you exclude the intro)

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 30 September 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)


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