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I enjoyed today's list basesd game today at work. Think of songs where something they leave some "chatter" on.
Arctic Monkeys "Library Pictures" starts with Alex Turner mumbling "I'm in a vest" or the end of Jamie T's Brand New Bass Guitar". Both contrived, but complimentary to their respective songs.
There must be some classics but I can't think of any.
CCR's version of Brown Eyed Girl
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
7A!
Helter Skelter - The Beatles
"I've got blisters on my fingers!"
There's one by Pixies, IIRC, which involves a fair amount of profanity, and Elbow have one as well, not in a position to check the tracks at the moment.
There's likely a lot more, I can't think of any more of the top of my head.
Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon.
'Gallons of rubbing alcohol flows through the strip' - bonus track from Nirvana's In Utereo.
Roy Harper's Tom Tiddlers ground. I can't type out what he said as I'm at work and it's in reference to illegal narcotics.
Smashing Pumpkins - Bury Me 'Boys lets do it'
The Beatles - Hide your love away 'Pauls broken a glass, broken a glass' & 'Oh, you ready, Macca?'
The Masterplan, Oasis.
Who drove the Red Sports car - Van Morrison. vans intro.
That chatter at the start of Ryan Adams Heartbreaker (about Morrissey)
Bit of a cheat but the outtake of I Shall be Released - Flying Burrito Bros (would you miss my guitar if I didn't play it?).
Kim: ...girls and ****ed 'em at school. All I know is that there were rumours he was into field hockey players, there were rumours...
Frank: So I applied basically
Kim: He was gone the next day
Frank: I went out for the team
Kim: It's like - he was go...they'd just like. It was like so hush hush They were so... quiet about it And then the next thing you know...
If you listen closely you can hear the drummer shouting **** after he drops his drumstick in the Kingsmens version of Louie Louie.
Somewhat bizarelly the FBI investigated the song for containing profanity (on another issue - there was a belief that the lyrics were different to what was published) but the investigators completly missed the **** bit 😀
@ nickc - same album, maybe, all that "touch my stuff; you ****ing die" etc
Surfer Rosa. Steve Albini's idea, apparently. Thinks now he imposed himself too much on the production.
Warhol as in holes. Are you ready?
great bit at the end of cocaine - jackson browne & some other geezah wibbling on
Omar, yep... 😆
Also, Get Back the rooftop version has John hoping that they passed the audition.
Lots of Wu-Tang does!
Related topic, "conversation" songs.
Nada Surf, "Popular"
"Shall we roll it Jimmy?"
"We're rolling on, erm one."
"Oh, one again"
*coughs*
"Trying to get this airplane on."
"Nah, leave it, yeh."
Black Country Woman, Led Zep
Plastic Jeezus, The Levellers
Metallica's cover of Tuesday's Gone (Thanks Fatso!)
Streets - Don't mug yourself.
@ nickc - same album, maybe, all that "touch my stuff; you **** die" etc
Yeah, that's the bit I was thinking of.
Tenacious D - Cock Pushups 😉
how about
50% of lee scratch perry's back catalogoue
savage pub quiz music round. Just play the chatter but just ask for the artist (or album or track)
I Dig a Pygmy by Charles Hawtry and the Deaf Aids.
Phase 1 in which Doris gets her oats.
Poison by The Prodigy
The Ocean, Led Zep
[i]edit someone else mentioned The Streets.[/i]
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
Telephone rings.......
"Liam, the someone on the phone for ya".
"F, sake, I'm trying to writ this f'ing tune man".
The prodigy, poison from music for the jilted generation.
Edit: oops, already been done!!
Laura Nyro's version of Jimmy Mack from Gonna take a Miracle. Not a very exciting one though!!
Paul McCartney says "f****** hell' in Hey Jude at 2.57.
Prodigy - Poison
"Hello, yeah, hold on a sec. Liam there's someone on the phone for you.
Oh, ****'s sake, I'm trying to write this ****ing tune, man."
Pennywise - Bro Hymn
"This is how Jason woulda wanted it. Party down for Jason"
Flaps - no he doesn't. It's Lennon snapping a string.
I've always loved this one from Corrosion of Conformity:
thepurist - Member
Warhol as in holes. Are you ready?
I think you'll find its "Warhol- as in [i]hols.[/i]"
Anyway:
"Jumbo" by Underworld.
Quite a lot of Fall songs.
"Love In Vain" Rolling Stones/Stripped. Ronnie Wood and his Arthur Pellagio...
The Ash album 1977 has a hidden track at the end, of the band members vomiting. Which is always embarrassing when I forget it's still on.
It's not studio talk, but the album version of Ash's 'Jack names the planets' has some excellent mutterings by a drunk dutch bloke who reckons his town Niuew-Vennup is the centre of the universe and hence why the plant should be named Nieuw-Vennup......
http://www.ash-official.com/article/tim-on-writing-jack-names-the-planets/
There's a bit of studio talk on the Wedding Present 'George Best' album, before 'Something and Nothing' - seems one of the engineers asks David Gedge if it sounds nice and he responds that that's where they're being paid for, to make sure it sounds nice!
But my favourite definitely isn't studio talk - on St Etienne's So Tough before 'You're in a bad way' and is a great sample from Billy Liar. Which I repeat every time I take my daughters into London. Including using anything to hand as a echo chamber
The Housemartins - Step Outside.
Intro has Paul Heaton saying "It's faster Stan" just before a restart.
Always makes me smile for some reason that one 🙂
Early Art of Noise tracks have barely audible studio chat that you're only really aware of listening on earphones, you can't make out conversation as such but it makes you keep taking the earphones off because the voices don't seem to be in the same space as the music and you think someone in the room is trying to get your attention. As a youngster still living at home this was doubly the case because Anne Dudley sounds quite a lot like my mum.
I was listening in bed one night remarking to myself just how much the faint voices under the track sound like my mum when the lights came on - and it turned out the noises that sounded so much like her on this occasion because she'd had to come and point out to me that my earphones weren't plugged into the hifi.
"Nibbled to death by an okapi"
The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette. Could be Smash It Up but I could be wrong
Siouxsie & The Banshees, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse, at the end of one song, Fireworks I think, Someone (Budgie?) says in a broad Lancashire accent "did you get that?"
Somewhere on an Amy Winehouse album she says "I'm sorry Charlie Murphy, I was having too much fun.".
Taken from Charlie Murphy's true Hollywood stories on Rick James, from the exceptionally funny Chappelle's Show.
Watch it on Amazon.
Enjoy yourselves, bitches! 😀
Not so much 'studio chatter' as 'Fife tearoom chatter', but there's a lot of chatter at the start of First Watch - King Creosote and Jon Hopkins.
Pixies- "you ****ing die....."
First listen of that for me was on a walkman and it started as I walked into a building at Uni. I stopped and swivelled around expecting to be a attacked.
Wedding Present - Something ornothing on 'George Best' - Gedge having a rant at a techy who asked if it "sounded alright"
Still raining still dreaming from electric ladyland, hendrix
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain. Someone (I think it was Lindsey Buckingham) whispers f*ck at the start.
Machinehead - The blood, the sweat, the tears - 'I hope that was it, coz I'm gonna pass out' at the end.
The Bad News album is mainly chatter with the odd song thrown in.