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When indie rock bands add pedal steel guitar to songs

This is never actually a good thing, right?



  • it usually is i think

    gimme specific examples

  • Hefner?

    • Yes!

      Thats exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote this thread. Just sounds like an overdone attempt to 'develop' the songs.

  • Dosent Bright Eyes

    do this quite alot thats pretty cool.

  • i think

    MMJ use it on "The Way That He Sings", it sounds awesome there.

    • The Triffids

      Graham "Evil" Lee, was a great pedal steel player.

  • though i adore Bright Eyes

    the use of pedal steel often makes me feel ill. i think that's all Mike Mogis' fault, though.

    • yeah

      I don't really like it in most of Bright Eyes' stuff... but there is one key exception, I think it sounds amazing on old soul song.
      assuming pedal steel is what i think it is :b

  • Glorious on the It's A Shame About Ray album.

    Plus there's some on Father To A Sister of Thought isn't there? And that's double plus good.

    • ^ this

      especially Hannah & Gabi. I still think it works on some Hefner stuff though - the end of Lee Remick, for example, is almost unbearably lush.

  • I'm pretty sure Red Sparowes have shitloads....

    ...of pedal steel on their stuff. And they rule.

  • not a fan

    I think it makes some songs (bright eyes and weakerthans are guilty of this i think) sound a lot blander than they really are

  • Incorrect.

    Steel Pedal guitar makes practically everything better. In fact, I'm off right now to mash in some pedal steel onto some Bangra.

    • ^^ agreed....

      It can only improve things.

  • Buffalo Tom used it pretty effectively I think

    • depends

      if its done well. SFA use it pretty well - 'Run Christian Run' 'Sex War and Robots' amongst others. as did Hefner.

      Idlewild's, and several others, attempt are a bit more ill fated...

  • i just want to add

    "The pedal steel guitar: God's own instrument." - John Peel

  • There's some really good pedal steel

    at the end of 'Acid Food' by Mogwai.