
Sonic Youth “Kool Thing” isolated guitars, cont’d ✨The guitars on Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing” are subversively avant-garde. Besides being tuned unusually (F# F# F# F# E B), Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo use their instruments to create a soundscape of microtonality, noise, feedback and drones as well as more “typical” riffs: a unique mix of cacophony and melody. There’s both an F# drone and a layer of pure feedback running underneath the entire song, something you didn’t hear in a typical Bon Jovi song on the radio in 1990…or, indeed, today! ✨On the latest One Song podcast we break down the stems & stories behind “Kool Thing” by Sonic Youth
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