Recordingography >>distortion-ography

Tracks with Distortion
Distortion is an essential part of rock and roll. It fills pop music. Add your favorite examples of distortion to the list by posting at the bottom of this page.

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

First Use of Analog Tape in Professional Audio

Sound and Vision

Been Caught Stealing

Money for Nothing

Sweet Emotion

For What It’s Worth

Kinder Murder

You Really Got Me

Rumble

Rocket 88

First Distortion Pedal

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Don’t Worry

Erase Me

1979

The Mosquito

Merry Go Round

Oh! Darling

Reelin’ In The Years

So What’cha Want

I’m Alright

To Bring You My Love

Zoo Station

Sympathy for the Devil

Riot Van

One Headlight

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Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

Rolling Stones Distortion: Keith Richards plays his Les Paul Custom Black Beauty with exquisite distortion, in open G tuning, for the iconic opening riff, panned hard right.(...)
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Don’t Do Me Like That

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Pitch Shift: Engineer Shelly Yakus fabricate a high harmony vocal in each chorus by pitch shifting Tom Petty's lead vocal by a fixed interval of(...)
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Hold Me My Daddy

XTC Chorus: Lush thick chorus appears on tasty guitars throughout. Pitch Shift: Note the 1-octave-down layer beneath the electric guitar solo. It's not about making the(...)
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