It was an hour of electric guitar feedback, and not what many people thought was music.
The song is notable for being one of the first uses of guitar feedback in popular music.
However, when they released the single, they used the mix that kept the guitar feedback in the song.
There is a brief lull, some guitar feedback and then a group shout of "Here's to love songs!"
But not being that good a guitarist, he used to just sort of crash chords and let the guitar feedback.
A sustained shriek of guitar feedback and a bashing, lumbering beat answered him.
According to Reed (despite the original liner notes), the album entirely consists of guitar feedback played at different speeds.
A line of guitar feedback was played by Marr through a wah-wah pedal throughout the song.
A barred D flat major chord with guitar feedback completely ends the song.
They also used classical instruments on their recordings and guitar feedback.