[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Antagon

 

From a 2014 Wire article on St. Vincent:

The gold standard for fucked up guitar solos in mainstream pop was set by Robert Fripp in the late 1970s and early 80s, when Bowie recruited him for "Heroes" and Scary Monsters. The earsplitting scree that disembowels a song like "Beauty And The Beast" still packs a punch, and finds a keen echo in Clark's own approach. This period of Bowie has a special resonance for her. "The most perverse solos that you've ever heard!" she enthuses. "Fripp's stuff on Scary Monsters, I could listen to that forever. Like on "It's No Game", his playing adds a total mania to a song that's already crazy! It's absolutely scary and evil, and it's awesome. He can be clinical and precise and clean and beautiful, but he can go to the far reaches of the universe as well."