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Ha ha ha! Laughter in song lyrics

Started by thecuriousorange, November 19, 2018, 08:05:48 PM

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Shit Good Nose

#30
November 20, 2018, 01:50:41 PM
And predictably I'm going to post this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccs2rt0oSzQ

Surprised it hadn't been posted already as it's one of the obvious ones.

MiddleRabbit

#31
November 20, 2018, 01:54:11 PM
Quote from: Durance Vile on November 19, 2018, 09:17:09 PM
I like horrible forced laughter in songs: Peter Sarstedt's a-hahaha in Where Do You Go To My Lovely and Joni Mitchell's terrible fake giggle in Big Yellow Taxi.

Me too.  No hashtag.

I'd add Lloyd Cole's Joni Mitchellesque chortle in 'My Bag'.  The song.  He doesn't live in my bag.  I don't possess anything that counts as 'my bag' really.  Except a Lloyd Cole record with insincere laughter on it.

Norton Canes

#32
November 20, 2018, 02:00:13 PM
Holly Johnson's villainous cackle at the end of Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Gulftastic

#33
November 20, 2018, 07:37:23 PM
'La La La He He He' by Prince.

Here's the full 12" version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kF0RoE1tX0

Some killer bass noodling by the great man at around the 5 minute mark.

Funcrusher

#34
November 20, 2018, 07:47:26 PM
Some manic chuckling at 1:48 here, and any excuse to repost this again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtZYdVNflsA

magval

#36
November 20, 2018, 10:40:21 PM
"Doris the finkasaurus [giggling]"

gilbertharding

#38
November 21, 2018, 02:26:39 PM
Ha Ha Said the Clown, by The Manfreds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3JPTzHpUHc

And there's actual laughter in the famous 'laughing version' of Lonesome Tonight by the King:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwbzxENP2eE

LORD BAD VIBE

#39
November 21, 2018, 04:01:26 PM
Lydon was always fond of a quick cackle at the beginning of songs - Public Image and Anarchy in the UK, for instance.

nedthemumbler

#40
November 21, 2018, 04:22:27 PM
Bowie's  gnome jumped out of my mind gleefully, pretty much instantaneously.  Couldn't for the life of me match aural synapses to a title or word of English.

Could have put money on some CAB poster having the exact thought with page 1 though, so was happy to be patient and let the hive mind do its thing

QDRPHNC

#41
November 21, 2018, 04:43:35 PM
HTMLFlowers, after saying they'll watch the Simpsons, "strictly seasons 7 thru 9".

The joke there, of course, is that seasons 7 thru 9 aren't funny.

(that's a reference to the Partridge / Best of the Beatles fiasco).

purlieu

#42
November 21, 2018, 06:39:13 PM

Jockice

#43
November 21, 2018, 06:39:23 PM
Apparently the late Stuart Adamson's favourite moment on any record ever. They got Burton suits - huh - they think it's funny. Well Strummer certainly seemed to think so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkM5lrrnq_Y


He's laughing at The Jam you know.

DrGreggles

#44
November 21, 2018, 06:53:34 PM
Quote from: Jockice on November 21, 2018, 06:39:23 PM
He's laughing at The Jam you know.

Bruce Foxton's mullet, no doubt.

Jockice

#45
November 21, 2018, 07:29:24 PM
Quote from: DrGreggles on November 21, 2018, 06:53:34 PM
Bruce Foxton's mullet, no doubt.

There's nothing like a fucking good wank, is there?

Dex Sawash

#46
November 22, 2018, 04:27:23 AM

jobotic

#47
November 22, 2018, 03:40:49 PM
Quote from: gilbertharding on November 21, 2018, 02:26:39 PM
Ha Ha Said the Clown, by The Manfreds.


Been going through my head ever since reading the title of this thread, but neglected to mention it. Well, two lines of the chorus have, over and over again.

MiddleRabbit

#48
November 23, 2018, 01:10:54 PM
Quote from: Jockice on November 21, 2018, 07:29:24 PM
There's nothing like a fucking good wank, is there?

Starlust.  Quality.

jenna appleseed

#51
November 23, 2018, 01:52:48 PM
Quote from: olliebean on November 21, 2018, 08:49:02 AM

(Or the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdgEMSAZjrs)

^ fuck me.
Well that's my hat well and truly fucked.

Lordofthefiles

#52
November 23, 2018, 02:22:57 PM
Quote from: jenna appleseed on November 23, 2018, 01:52:48 PM
^ fuck me.
Well that's my hat well and truly fucked.


Likewise!
I think my hat may be pregnant!!

Icehaven

#53
November 23, 2018, 03:23:43 PM
Paul Draper did guest vocals on a Joy Formidable song 'Greyhounds in the Slip' a few years back and at the end there's what sounds like hysterical laughter by either them or someone else in the studio, and it's just as annoying as it always is when someone's pissing themselves laughing and you have no idea what's so fucking funny, a bit like when news presenters are cracking up at something that's happened off-camera.

non capisco

#54
November 23, 2018, 11:07:50 PM Last Edit: November 23, 2018, 11:19:42 PM by non capisco
Learning tonight that the theme tune from Wizbit was originally by Leadbelly of all people has convinced me that I'm not quite the jaded husk I occasionally tell myself I am and perhaps life still has the capacity to delight and surprise after all.

Now you're gonna like this, you're gonna like it
(Not a lot! Not a lot!)
You're gonna be delighted, get excited
(Maybe, but not a lot!)
You're gonna see a whole lot of magic
Look at this trick and that trick
And when he says it's not a lot
You'll agree it's such a lot
Meet the man who excels
Paul Daniels!
:- Blind Lemon Jefferson

olliebean

#55
November 23, 2018, 11:17:14 PM
The weird thing is, the only reason I knew that Lead Belly thing was because it came up on Google the other day when I was trying to find out who wrote the Paul Daniels Magic Show theme. (Anyone know, btw? Google was no help.) For some reason I'd found myself imagining whoever it was desperately trying to think of a rhyme for "Daniels" other than "spaniels," and only managing it by emphasising the wrong syllable.

non capisco

#56
November 23, 2018, 11:21:27 PM
I'm guessing Ronnie Hazelhurst on an off day. It has to be the same vocalists who sang 'Blankety Blank'.

Satchmo Distel

#57
November 24, 2018, 04:26:38 AM
The Beatles have several moments of dubbed laughter. I think the "seagulls" on Tomorrow Never Knows are Paul's laughter put through various tape loops. I Am The Walrus, the Sgt Pepper opener and the end of Within You Without You have dubbed laughter; the latter must have pissed off George Harrison somewhat. The run-out groove at the end of the Pepper album has some laughter followed by, allegedly, Fuck Me Like A Superman played backwards.

buzby

#58
November 24, 2018, 10:53:52 AM
Quote from: non capisco on November 23, 2018, 11:21:27 PM
I'm guessing Ronnie Hazelhurst on an off day. It has to be the same vocalists who sang 'Blankety Blank'.
Ken Jones was the series musical director from the start ,and he was also a prolific feem toon writer. He did Steptoe & Son's theme when Ron Grainer was asked to do Dr. Who at the last minute, and the themes from Sykes, IIt's Arty, Only When I Laugh and Aspel & Company.
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