Songs with great use of vocals as another instrument
 

The Pixies- Tame
The Beatles- Girl

College-Animal Collective

How's the voice another instrument in Tame now?HOW?

Anything by Loop.
A lotta Cocteau Twins.

And a favorite example:

Davis Bedford - "Some Bright Stars For Queen's College" on his fantastic LP, Nurses Song With Elephants.

This is a great piece composed for 80 girls' voices and 27 plastic pipe twirlers. Awesome!

The fucking breathing part porkie.

If I'm rembering right, you must mean the part where he sounds a bit like a monkey.

A copulating monkey.

Sigur Ros
Everything on Loveless.
Some Wolf Eyes...
A local band (Varge!) has this song with a wierdly tuned acoustik and then electrik on top just making noise and stuff, with the vocals going the entire lenght, realllly fast... it's an amazing song.

Laurie Anderson's O Superman springs to mind (the looped 'O, O, O, O' which forms the rhythm section). I'm entirely certain she borrowed the idea from the number bits in Philip Glass' Einstein...

Stockhausen did a peice of vocalese... was it Stimmung? My memory fails me.

Alvin Lucier's 'I am sitting in room' is another obvious choice.

Meridith Monk and Diamanda Galas all use extended technique to make a more noisy use of the voice, as does Patty Walters. I'm not sure if you could call this 'voice as other instrument' though, otherwise you'd be including yodelling and throat singing and any number of extended techniques.

Sainkho Namchylek does some fucking outstanding things with her voice. Listen to her.

The entire(erm.....almost) Cocteau Twins catalogue.

See, I'm not entirely sure using non-words counts as another instrument... there's a long tradition of forming chords with voices. I'm almost entirely sure that's not what the original intention of this thread was, but I'm going to be a pedant, and to hell with the consequences.

On a different note, how fucking great are the Cocteaus?

With the exception of Heaven Or Las Vegas, I call that shit awesome.

Very very great and in fact,wait!,i'm gonna put 'Blue Bell Knoll' on and give you a battering on that one.

* record starts with blue bell knoll,breathtaking song and all that*

Made up language,sure(to the extent that some people think that she is singing in french somehow),but how does her voice layer on the rest of the instruments there?EH?

You might know this already but the Cocteaus are one of Prince's favourite bands.If anyone can be cooler than that on the human scale,i'm looking forward to a happy planet.

Fuck it!I love this record so much i don't even care about what this thread was about to start with.

most cat power songs would be shit without the tune the vocals are sung in.

any good black metal, death metal or grindcore.

Almost any Animal Collective pre-Feels.
Acoustic Xiu Xiu - Sad Pony Guerilla Girl
Sigur Ros
Wolf Eyes
Yellow Swans