100 songs that seem straightforward enough, until an unthinkably massive fuzzed-out guitar solo rises from the ocean floor to swallow everything in sight

#1 (~3:00 in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tORZKysheo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvhgQpYgxKc

#3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxq3GD93GS0

#4 (rumblings as early as the 4-minute mark, but leviathan doesn't breach the surface until 6:05 or so)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9EJg4o9-s

feel like there might be other BtS tracks that might fit the criteria but I can't think of them right now

(bonus points if everything gets quiet for a little while so that you can hear the fuzzbox being stomped on)

#5 (1:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrOk4Ko5jiw

nearly forgot this one until Pillbox's post reminded me

I don't wanna rain on anybody's parade, but the solo in that Andy Burrows song, while unexpected and totally bitchin', strikes me as straightforward wailing guitar, i.e. not so obnoxiously loud and abrasive that it overpowers the drummer and sends casual fans running for the exits, i.e. not exactly what I'm looking for here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5fghDMtlq4

#7 Not straightforward per se, but sudden entrance of fuzz guitar + Dennis Edwards? Hell reaches forth with both arms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgaqZ4A6MTE

okay reverend, you have successfully piqued my curiosity

also, wait: how did I not know there was a temptations album called Psychedelic Shack—this has to be amazing, right?

8) Any excuse to post this song again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-3w1Fx-Ko

The guitar first puts in an appearance about 1:13 and then slowly gets fuzzier and more acidic until the rest of the song just ~melts~ in the face of its psychedelic awesomeness.

9. Obvious choice, probably, but a classic of this sub-genre imo. Album cover art is oddly fitting for this thread title, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGc6KRIBIlY

this has to be amazing, right?

oh yeah

xp Ugh, the complete and utter Charlie Brown-ish humiliation of a failed YouTube embed. That was supposed to be Wye Oak's "Civilian."

a temptations album called Psychedelic Shack—this has to be amazing, right?

absolutely

in fact, that's probably the 2nd weakest song on the album

oh wow this Wye Oak track SLAYS

never listened to this band before, making note to fix that

(I'm listening to all of these and it's been delightful—thanks everybody and keep 'em coming!)

#10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW9XJBQduHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhZUoqQ9enQ

#12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkeT9XfNp60

#13
http://youtu.be/LPCXRpu6F6I

oh wow this Wye Oak track SLAYS

Whole album is great; they're awesome at twisting the Yo La Tengo soft song/loud guitar formula so it always feels new. "For Prayer" from their previous album is also a favorite of mine in this style

Dunno if this qualifies as it starts pretty messy too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP2c07Y-68Y&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP2c07Y-68Y&feature=youtu.be

failed to post Velvet's I Heard Her Call My Name, twice. Give up!

a temptations album called Psychedelic Shack—this has to be amazing, right?

My favorite Temps album

Gavin's Ghost track reminds me that Damon & Naomi's "This Car Climbed Mt. Washington" is particularly gorgeous example, too. There's no YouTube of it, but the track is on Spotify

The granddaddy of them all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdg87FeJXrE

more impressions (now with capsule reviews+full track info, for the benefit of youtube-embed-disabled users, and/or historians of the future):

#10. Mercury Rev, "The Funny Bird" — awesome track, good gtr, could be louder. still, they get props for incorporating it into the arrangement well, those big whooshy backwards cymbals(?) are great. B+

#11. Boris w/Michio Kurihara, "You Laughed Like A Watermark" — aaaaahhh nice one! I used to own this album but for some reason it's not ripped to this computer and I don't know where the CD is, haven't heard it in forever! A

#15(?)

Miracle Mile by Silkworm...love how this barges in the track, the 'plug in' sound especially

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0II0ooeQfY

Not fuzz per se, but listen for an out of nowhere Duane Allman slide explosion @ 1:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDDB3RzQO_A

^^Clarence Carter's "The Road of Love" btw.

I dunno how "straightforward" this song is and the solo actually starts at 2:15 or so but then comes the 3:00 mark...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2q23sF79vo

you can hear the click of Eddie hittin the fuzz pedal

This is the perfect thread to kick off my autumn listening

I've sorta lost track of the numbers at this point but...

#19.A. - Shearwater, "Pushing the River"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf2-U0UX0wY
(slightly stretching my own definition, but I think the guitar that comes in at 3:40 is sufficiently loud, unexpected, and abrasive to qualify. mostly, though, I wanted to post this one so I could celebrate its spiritual forefather...)

#19.B - Talk Talk, "After the Flood"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9HsGsB-MCM&feature=player_embedded
(I'm actually not even sure whether the noise stretching from 4:00-5:15 is a guitar or a fucked-up telegraph signal or what, but either way I am rocked to my very bones by it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByfQVDOCacg

3:19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZr6u9fT1I
3:46

also, something by the smashing pumpkins ?

Fucking love that Rainbow song posted above.

Realize I'll get shouted down here, but can we just link to YouTube instead of embed? This is gonna kill my browser soon.

t jon: ya good call—not sure I actually know how to do that tho??

(^^^ not an idiot, mostly I'm wondering whether to use url or url= tag)

I feel like I did it "the wrong way" one time and the whole effort just borked

Great thread, great recommendations. I think the definitive Built to Spill song in this style is probably "Broken Chairs," right? Perfect album closer, and perfect concert closer when the solo becomes a 12-minute plus marathon

oh dang upper mississippi beat me to "miracle mile," maybe the ultimate example of this and one of my fave solos ever

also maybe the only realistic song about "life on the road" for 99 percent of bands

yes. so depressing.

listening to "Miracle Mile" right now but haven't reached the relevant part—Silkworm's a band I'm slightly embarrassed to say I've never heard, though I certainly know them by name/reputation. must admit, this song is doing a good job of playing it close to the vest...

... oh wow that was great

re: Built to Spill: one thing I'm struggling with is that even their noisiest work strikes me as being closer to the Neil Young - "Like a Hurricane" end of the spectrum, where the guitar is too busy soaring into the clouds and pouring out SUPER-EMOTIONS to properly focus its destructive energies upon the other musicians

dinosaur jr - in a jar

for smashing pumpkins, "soma" and "rhinoceros" seem to fit ok, although there's a build throughout both songs and the solo doesn't necessarily swallow everything in sight. I feel like there's another song that perfectly nails this description but i can't think of it.

not really straightforward but something from Psychocandy maybe?

dinosaur jr - in a jar

yes!

plus there's a dude, like, literally singing from the jar he's trapped in or something at the end of that song. So awesome.

feel like "freak scene" is the dino jr. song that best fits here, though maybe it's "too busy soaring into the clouds and pouring out SUPER-EMOTIONS"

Mercury Rev's "Chasing a Bee" has a wonderfully monstrous, earth-shifting guitar solo. Can't find a YouTube link to the album version.

Frittering, too

I would argue that those MR tracks are more steady builds, but yeah, both have awesomely mind-melting solos. Actually I was looking for the Luna track "Hey Sister" on YT to post itt, which also features a beautifully tortured Grasshopper solo. Dude was a genius w/ that stuff back in the day - too bad he doesn't seem so inclined to unleash the noize in recent years.

er 'hasn't seemed'

Nah, that Chasing A Bee solo really does suddenly pull the earth out from under you (at least the first few seconds). The song builds a little, but not enough to prepare for the quake.

oooh that Mogwai track ("Yes I Am A Long Way From Home") is good—I often feel like I'm 'over' post-rock (in the sense that I never get the urge to actively listen to it) but I bet they woulda been fun to see live c.this album

Ty Segall & White Fence painting an idiot grin across my face—exactly the kind of thing I (didn't know I) wanted! thanks for posting this one nostormo, would you recommend the album it comes from?

xxp - okay, yeah I'll give that to you. Found it btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cr2HJn2k3Y

earth-shifting commences @ 3:05

Crutis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDiHqIG6C9M

x-post cheers for hunting that down

Guitars too clean, perhaps, but it still fucking rips! And the final screams top it off nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri1tEmJwNdc

And maybe not exactly straightforward, either. Sorry. I'll read the headline next time.

1:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YouRxJJCfIA

1:55!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Yfe1-Ge2A

listening to "Miracle Mile" right now but haven't reached the relevant part—Silkworm's a band I'm slightly embarrassed to say I've never heard, though I certainly know them by name/reputation. must admit, this song is doing a good job of playing it close to the vest...

... oh wow that was great

― Strokes crushed to death by a giant statue of Johnny Thunders (bernard snowy), Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:09 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

glad i got someone to listen to silkworm! they are one of the great indie rock bands of all time! or at least i think so. there are no casual silkworm fans. you'd see them in minneapolis and there'd only be like 60 ppl there, but then you'd run into a group of dudes that drove all the way from canada to come see them.

The guitar slide at 1:33 in this is my new favorite thing. Also, that it's called ART GUY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FjrbI1ZfZ4

oh wau this cooks

(completely off-topic but what Silkworm album is best to start ??? tia)

I'm loving even the non-fuzzy guitar on this United Soul track!

AC Marias - Time Was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAKZe-JHjdI

great feedbacked guitar explosions around the 2 min mark

Bernard, I think Lifestyle by skwm

Neil Young "Don't Cry" (1:08 & 3:05) - Eldorado EP version w/extended guitar stranglage

amazing fuzz/wah insanity at 2:40. the gtr tone kinda reminds me of those vicious leads by james williamson on raw power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PKrTozxdtI

^^^lost gem of an album

It's a Cub cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAbDko_uR3A

The song by Slap Happy Humphrey is fucking amazing.

Little girl sits on a swing hanging from a tree, swaying slowly... She looks at the ground and sings a lonely song to herself, expressing sadness, but everything will be ok in the end. Meanwhile, her imaginary best friend sits beside her, a 30 foot tall creature from the black lagoon who politely and patiently waits for his friend to finish her 3 verses before shredding blackmetal noise with the world's most gigantic 40-string guitar plugged into a mile high wall of marshall cabs.

ya that was a great one—I ran into a muso buddy yesterday after posting this thread and asked him for recommendations, and he independently suggested SHH! definitely gonna be checking out the album

also, can't believe I forgot about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxcclA3ckoc
(The Microphones, "I Am Bored")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQLAZVI5tAE
Herbie Mann- Hold on, I'm coming

It's going along as a standard jazz fusion soul cover until the second guitar solo at 5:41. That may not be fuzztone, but it sounds fuzzy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jxpBkp9OQ

@ 3:09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgIdJrMoFCE

For me this is the ultimate example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5G9RRbw56E

Love - Love is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never (from the Out Here LP)

Obviously Slapp Happy Humphrey owns this thread (need to dig that out, haven't played it for a few years), but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkGqSjH8kIo
(1:33)

No Youtube link but Luna- Hey Sister fits the bill for me.

^ otm - http://open.spotify.com/track/1PChcviXTzSPJg8QGDvz2l

I'd totally forgotten that I'd done a playlist for this thread. I'm listening to it now for the first time and it's pretty awesome

http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/7suyp75W1NT8O9VLnbdH8D

Thanks!

that playlist is tempting me to finally register with spotify

also, I can't remember whether I already posted it to the thread but: "Supervixens" by A.R. Kane, although bathed in shoegaze-y shimmer from the word 'go,' takes it to another level with the craziness that starts around the 3-minute mark (immediately after the cheezy keyboard string patch that sustains a single piercingly high note for like 45 seconds)

... although the 'solo' is actually heavily tweaked duelling gtr+keybs, and I think it may be the super-distorted pitchwheel divebombs that are responsible give the resulting ~2 minutes of sound its world-devouring quality