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Spoken bits in songs

Started by Chedney Honks, January 16, 2021, 07:45:44 AM

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I gotta say I really enjoy a lot of William Shatner's music too. The albums Has Been and Seeking Major Tom especially. His covers of Planet Earth, Struggle and - of course - Rocketman are amazing.

markburgle

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on January 16, 2021, 02:05:02 PM
I generally can't stand them, although there's some good ones that are either done by proper actors/voice actors or are taken from other media, such as Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds and a lot of the Manics Holy Bible.

That's reminded me of that version of Comfortably Numb on the youtubes where it's a Gilmour solo gig and Benedict Cumberbatch is guesting doing the verses. You'd think an actooor like him would get into the role but he just seems a bit stiff

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


bgmnts

Greta Garbo, and Munroe,
Dietrich and DiMaggio,
Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean,
On the cover of a magazine.

Chedney Honks

Quote from: markburgle on January 16, 2021, 09:45:39 AM
I think they're class.

If you find someone talking in a song ballsy, charismatic and 'going out on a limb', you should dare to wear odd socks some day. It'll blow your cunt inside out.

Some half decent examples here, cheers, but as a general principle, turns out I was absolutely spot on.

DrGreggles

Quote from: Rizla on January 16, 2021, 01:57:28 PM
You probably think this is rubbish, don't you? You idiot. You fucking idiot.

Fucking love that. Hadn't heard it in YEARS.

shh

Steven Wilson's a fan of this. Elton John even turns up in his latest. The first 25s of this are the cringiest though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vdhuHmjrw8

Kate Bush (snow) gets a pass.


shagatha crustie

Walking on Thin Ice

I knew a girl
Who tried to walk across the lake
'Course, it was winter
And all this was... ice...

Rizla

Quote from: DrGreggles on January 16, 2021, 04:11:29 PM
Fucking love that. Hadn't heard it in YEARS.
Innit. Seem to remember Mark Radcliffe playing it on the old late night show and afterwards saying something like "Cock, and indeed, very much, ON".

Jerzy Bondov

"All aboard!"
"Britney, before you go, there's something I want you to have"
"Oh, it's beautiful! But wait a minute, isn't this?"
"Yeah, yes, it is"
"But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end"
"Well, baby, I went down and got it for ya"
"Aw, you shouldn't have"

Absolute art

Sin Agog

#40
I always adored Bo Diddley's Cops & Robbers.  Doesn't sound like anything else he ever did.  It's almost like if a young Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch speak-sung a day in his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyi918Fq-B8

In a similar vein, from the supermurgitroid 3-disc comp 'The Beat Generation,' Oscar Brown Jr.'s But I Was Cool (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEN04trcKU4).  Contains the best 'shit' in the history of the record industry.

(Edited in a Ralph Bakshi animated vidya for the second track).

BJBMK2

Frat boy one hit wonders read from book, to out of tune college rock backing (to give this it's alternative title).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFuD-S-e_E

Trigger warning: is AGGRESSIVELY "America in 1996".

MiddleRabbit

On balance, I think I always enjoy a spot of talking on pop records.  I can't think of any talking bits that I haven't enjoyed on some level.

Laughing though, I've struggled with that.  Lloyd Cole on, what is it?  My Bag, or something.  Fucking dreadful.   Joni Mitchell at the end of Big Yellow Taxi.  Just flat bab.

Maybe the start of Anarchy In The UK, but that's not funny ha-ha laughing, is it?

shagatha crustie


PlanktonSideburns

Quote from: Hooverbag Sherlocks on January 16, 2021, 12:34:39 PM
Likewise Gary Numan in 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' where he opts for some bizarre mid-Atlantic/Cockney hybrid with even stranger intonation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lllHxxj_Yhc&t=01m31s

das is ver cringe

olliebean

Quote from: Chedney Honks on January 16, 2021, 07:45:44 AMIt's like when you have a not especially funny but likeable friend who says something actually funny and because they're not used to the laughter, they feel that electricity surging through their spine and gooch and they instantly start talking in a kind of performance mode, like Americans do when they're aware they're speaking in public, and they're trying to ride the wave and eke out a few more laughs but each successive comment is worse and worse and you have to say maaaaatttte, just enjoy that one bolt of lightning before my bollocks implode.

Parklife!

No mention yet of Jimmy Nail's finest vocal performance?

She's Lying

Jockice

I think there was a single version of Disco 2000 by Pulp that had a pointless bit of talking on it. You never hear that version on the radio nowadays.

And another one I can't find on youtube, as the single version of The Undertones' last original line-up single Chain Of Love that had a bit of talking added to it from the album version.

I like them.

Favourite example? The outro in Belle & Sebastian's I Could be Dreaming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xH-NyBij_c&ab_channel=JeepsterRecordings

badaids


I HONESTLY CAN'T BELIEVE NO ONE HAS MENTIONED THE BEST SPOKEN WORD SONG EVER YET:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7XOI7KbWkE

Then you have 'Maggie, what have you done... To England' on Floyd's best album.

Then there is this, which is burned into my brain for years:

https://youtu.be/uPJBNBilh7M?t=232




Shoulders?-Stomach!

https://youtu.be/t68k3lmGDao

What about the band A House which had a lot of spoken stuff?

Captain Z

A few questions that I need to know

flotemysost

Quote from: Sin Agog on January 16, 2021, 01:51:19 PM
It's probably something to do with the artist suddenly taking their melodic guard down and getting all up in your grill.

For me, it's not so much this that's offputting, it's more just that it often comes across as trying a bit too hard to be dramatic/sincere/edgy (and so just ends up feeling cheesy or cringey), rather than it being uncomfortably intimate.

Songs that are entirely spoken are a different beast, IMHO. They let you know what you're in for from the get go, no pretenses, while many of those spoken word middle-eight type bits do feel like they've been chucked in as an afterthought for instant gravitas.


I.D. Smith

The mid-song rant from Axl in 'Get In The Ring' by Guns And Roses is particularly cringey, even more so for me personally as I thought it was the coolest thing ever at age 13, and quoted it to a girl in school to try and impress her. Still cannot listen to it to this very day, even when searching for it for this Youtube link:

https://youtu.be/Z2QCORi-u0U?t=168

(2:48 if the link doesn't work)

Seedsy

Ride - Deep inside my pocket. Horrible spoken word in it

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

Quote from: non capisco on January 16, 2021, 10:06:08 AM
Good practitioners of this - Jarvis
As the only Pulp fan in my school, seemingly, I frequently had to rebut claims that Cocker only talks in their songs.

Similar dismissals are often made of rap music.

BJBMK2