Some of you wondered whether strange sounds should have been separated as a topic from unusual instruments, but the more I thought about this, the two seemed inextricably linked. … So many songs feature breaking glass, milk bottles, revving cars and motorbikes, dogs barking, bird calls, slamming doors, chainsaws, beeps from calculators and computers, typewriters, telephones, gunshots and anything on hand that it is worth rubbing, stroking or hitting – or … …

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