Popular Songs That Include The Sounds Of Machinery Or Household Items

[Better Midlands]

Stardust's Music Sounds Better With You sounds like it's got a dot matrix printer in it, but doesn't.

Finitribe - 101 has a dot matrix printer (I think) at 2m48s

[DrGreggles]

Just heard Get Back by The Beatles on the radio and, if you listen closely, you can make out a pneumatic drill in the background.

EDIT: Scratch that. There's a bloke drilling outside my window.

[olliebean]

Come to think of it, back in the day a piano used to be a relatively common household item, so that opens up the field a bit...

[poodlefaker]

Hairdresser On Fire by Morrissey has a hairdryer
Margaret on the Guillotine by Morrissey has a guillotine
Well I Wonder by The Smiths has a deep fat fryer

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There Goes Concord Again by The Native Hipsters .  Probably the only record to feature a typewriter solo.

[olliebean]

There's The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson (otherwise known as the theme tune of The News Quiz).

[LORD BAD VIBE]

Summer in the City by The Lovin' Spoonful has car horns and a pneumatic drill in the middle.

[DrGreggles]

Summer in the City by The Lovin' Spoonful has car horns and a pneumatic drill in the middle.

I had a word with him and he said he'll be finished by half four.

[phantom_power]

Telephone and Rubber Band by Penguin Cafe Orchestra uses a telephone and a cafe orchestra. No, that's not right...

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There's The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson (otherwise known as the theme tune of The News Quiz).

Right, I take it back - that's great!

[Norton Canes]

David Gray's microwave going off in Please Forgive Me

[Fabian Thomsett]

Apeman by The Kinks has car noises at the beginning of it.

[Inspector Norse]

Matmos have made a career out of this kind of thing. A long while since I listened to any of their stuff - I remember seeing them live in what must have been 2007 and it being an impressive do - but they released an album performed on plastic objects last year, for example.

[Sean Ymphs]

The drum sounds in Alberto Balsalm by Aphex Twin sound like they're all household sounds. Scissors, banging a radiator, scraping a chair across the floor, that kind of thing (it's also one of the best tunes ever).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5rLfFzdXoc

[flotemysost]

Psapp - Tricycle features cat toys as percussion, apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Z4PWXJM64

[SteK]

Red Barchetta by Rush - lots of car noises....

[BlodwynPig]

Pink Floyd have form for this. The clocks at the start of Time are another example. Not to mention the unreleased album "Household Objects" that was originally going to be their follow-up to Dark Side of the Moon. (Some of the recordings of wine glasses made for that album found their way into the opening of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, so that's another one.)

They packed it in because they reckoned the elastic band solo was more effective on a stratocaster

[Satchmo Distel]

Telstar starts with an aeroplane engine used to represent a space rocket taking off

[bgmnts]

Superman by Black Lace (the greatest song of all time) contains the sound of an aerosol spray. Is an aerosol spray a household item?

[the]

Superman by Black Lace (the greatest song of all time) contains the sound of an aerosol spray. Is an aerosol spray a household item?

No it's classified as farm equipment

Theme From S'Express has an aerosol sound used as the open hi-hat.

Which reminds me, Beat Dis by Bomb The Bass also has a (I think) Braun alarm clock in it.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Finitribe - 101 has a dot matrix printer (I think) at 2m48s

I'd forgotten all about them, I've got the evergreen ep.

[wosl]

Joy Division's Insight features the recording of a lift in operation at the start.  The Last Day by Dif Juz briefly features the plaintive ring of an old-school telephone on it.

[idunnosomename]

My household has a guitar in it. Heh checkmate suckers

[mojo filters]

Simon & Garfunkel - Baby Driver has an actual engine roar pan briefly from left to right, just after the instrumental section with the two brass instruments.

[NoSleep]

Toast by Streetband features the scraping of burnt toast with a knife (as well as an early appearance of Paul Young).

[TheMonk]

Other songs with car sounds.
Love Is The Drug- Roxy Music
Movin' Out- Billy Joel (I think it's that one) and You May Be Right
Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car) - Billy Ocean

[Jockice]

On David's Last Summer by Pulp part of the drumming is on a fire extinguisher

[Jockice]

There Goes Concord Again by The Native Hipsters .  Probably the only record to feature a typewriter solo.

Classic.  And then I mentioned a song that someone else had already mentioned. Silly me.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Prodigy's Poison has the sound of someone pushing buttons and using a datawheel and a phone ringing.

[the]

Prodigy's Poison has the sound of someone pushing buttons and using a datawheel and a phone ringing.

From the sound of the buttons and the datawheel it's either the Roland JV-1080 (most likely) or possibly the Boss SE-70.  _{Neither of which really coming under 'machinery or household items' :)}