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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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