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Spoken word samples at the start of records

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by cliquester

St Etienne's are usually fantastic. Especially the bit from the PEEPING TOM film at the start of RAILWAY JAM.

What are anyone else's faves?

cliquester | 09 Jul '08, 21:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

obvious choice

but that godspeed one


yes!

definitely definitely.


I am an architect

They call me a butcher

Surely?


I am an architect.

They call me Pat Butcher.


I'm Alfie Moon.

They call me Pat Butcher.


Ha!

I was thinking of "I wonder who you think you are, You damn well think you're God or something, God give life, God take it away, not you,I think you are the devil itself".


I bought an album years ago based on the following and the song that followed it

Ahhhhh, it's time to relax,
and you know what that means,
a glass of wine, your favourite easy chair,
and of course this compact disc playing and your home stereo.
So go on, indulge yourself,
that's right, kick off your shoes, put your feet up,
lean back and just enjoy the melodies.
After all, music soothes even the savage beasts.


^

Ah, the sound of my teenage years :D


ahhh

the first 'rock' album I ever got into.


:D

youth revisited!


i know this

but i can't remember who it is. help?


THE OFFSPRING!

thanks to nobody for helping.


the French bit from the start of

"Counting Stars on the Ceiling" by Stars


Jeffrey Lewis

If You Shoot The Head You Kill The Ghoul.

I think the spoken word part is from Night of the Living Dead.

Great song.


it sounds more like

someone quoting night than a sample from the film itself.

still cool.


it sounds more like

someone quoting night than a sample from the film itself.

still cool.


I aint talking about Primal Scream here:

Well we wanna be free.. We wanna be free to do what we wanna do We
wanna be free to ride.. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being
hassled by the man.. and we wanna get loaded!


+Mudhoney...

Though I'm not entirely sure which one came first, they are both around the same time...possibly Mudhoney's.


I was going to say "In And Out Of Grace"

Get out of my head, Phil.


Your weight on the moon

-man or astroman

the one about telling the temperature by crickets on that Money Mark LP

Frogmen - Mr Scruff (not really the intro but all good)

very 90s


Spazz and Charles Bronson

in particular have some great ones.

'the guy youve gotta look out for is spazz.' 'spazz?' 'hes a sex machine'

queue a song shorter than the sample :D

theres one about gang hand signs and nicknames that always makes me laugh too


Charles Bronson

Damn, I need to lsiten to Discocrappy again..the Priest samples on the live bits are hilarious.


ive not listened to them for a while either

discocrappy is great though


The talking

at the beginning of the Stars record 'Heart' is what first came to my mind...and is horrific.


Erm Bright Eyes

does a huge speaking part on 'I'm wide awake and its morning' but I cant remember what he says.


*sip*

So there's this woman and she's sitting on an airplane, flying to meet her fiance, sailing high about the-the largest ocean on planet earth. And she was seated next to this man who she-she had tried to start conversations, but really the only thing she heard him say was to order his Bloody Mary and...and she was sitting there and she was reading this really arduous article about a third world country that she couldn't even pronounce the name of. And she was feeling very bored and v-very despondent... And *sip* then suddenly, there was this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out and they just started falling, thirty thousand feet. And one of the pilots was on the microphone and he's saying "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Oh my god!" Apologising...And she looks at the man and she says: "Where are we going?"

And he looks at her and says: "We're going to a party. It's a birthday party. It's your birthday party. Happy birthday darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very much."

And he starts humming this little tune and it goes something like... 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4


I typed this out from memory

and no one cares


Well done

*claps*


that spoken bit makes me cringe

worst recorded music bit of bright eyes ever i think.

not as gross as that horrible video with couples with headphones on just dreamily looking into each others eyes. urrgh. sick.

still, bloody love bright eyes.


^ Correct.

Spoken word bits do not stand up to repeated listening.

Let's have an end to all this nonsense.


I love the Bright Eyes

spoken word stuff at the start of I'm Wide Awake... and Fevers and Mirrors.


Dillinger Four are good at this.........

especially right before O.K.F.M.D.O.A at the start of Midwestern Songs of the Americas


YES


"you fucking die!" - Steve Albini on the Pixies

or

does anyone remember 'Opal Mantra' by Therapy? Anyone? Starts with 'We sold our souls to the man....'

Oh and there was a Ned's Atomic Dustbin song that used a sample from Apocalypse Now in surely the best sample / worst song combination.


ALL I KNOW, IS THERE WERE RUMOURS...

THAT HE WAS INTO FIELD HOCKEY PLAYERS...


YES YES YES

Opal Mantra. YES.

That's all.


Femme Fatale - Fat It Down

"Are you ready to die?"

"Man, I'm ready to die! I'm ready to go anywhere! Do anything! See anybody! Walk! Talk! Be smart! Be anything! To do what I gotta do, man...And I'll die. Dyin' means nothing to me man"

DUNDUN! DUNDUNDUN! DUNDUN! DUNDUNDUN!


^^Tune

the ones off The Holy Bible are great. And the random bit at the start of Silence by Portishead.


dEUS!!!

I'm talking 'bout my philosophy, MY PHILOSOPHY! You know, you've got to be...you've got to be you're own dog. Do you know what I'm talking 'bout? You're supposed to say YES - like a James Brown thing!


"somewhere in space

this may all be happening right now.."
from Psyence fiction


like that

ALOTTT


I can tell you about the punk rock.

Punk rock is a word used by dilletantes, and uh, heartless manipulators, about music that takes up the energies and teh souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it, and they give everything they have to it

etc.

There's also a bit at the end of a track off Comity's first album that has a woman screaming "YOU ARE NOT A MAN OF GOD!" over and over on top of loads of feedback, it's hell of awesome.


"When there's nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire"

Stars

Also, Say Anything...Is A Real Boy

"I'm having some anxiety about doing the spoken word intro..."


another obscure one here

and it's the end of a record (I think).

Therapy?'s 'Potato Junky' had a very unnerving sample on it - a child talking about being touched or something, very very creepy. Does anyone else remember this or know where this was from?


"like a was shot .... like i was shot with a diamond ....

a diamond bullet right through my forehead"

from some old track by loop.


^ also Apocalypse Now

Damn, but that is one fine film.


That bit from The Thin Red Line

is on Those Who Tell The Truth... by EITS and I'm sure it's on the song Eye For An Eye by UNKLE. It's very good anyway.


Everything The Books do

is generally fantastic in this department.


All The Children Are Dead

by Venetian Snares.

"and he looked at me, and he said "do you believe in monsters? Do you believe in demons?"


*

this isn't at the start of a record.
oops.


The Long Blondes

their new album fills me with anger


Poison Idea :The Badge

great Taxi Driver sample at the start . "Suck on this!"


no mention of the

"this band is unstoppable" at the beginning of Retreat! Retreat!


Another great one!

:D


Si Begg

does this on lots of his records. Ones about buying evil hip hop before bangin in soem fat hiphop beats and samples is pretty cool.


Mr Oizo

has some funny ones on When Analog Worms Attack.


grinderman

I had to get up to get down to start all over again
Head on down to the basement and shout
Kick those white mice and black dogs out
Kick those white mice and baboons out
Kick those baboons and other motherfuckers out


1000 Hurts

"Shellac of North America. Catalogue number TG211CD. Audio compact disc. Forty-four point one kilohertz sample rate. Sixteen-bit word length. Samples represented in twos compliment binery. Eight to Fourteen expansion. Set reproducer for reference level. 1000 Hurts."


Or

"He invites this storm, he lives by instinct, with fears that are not fears' but prickles of ecstacy."

Anyone like that one?


thats actually

a homage to a sixties album but i forget who its by...


They told me that the classics never go out of style but,

they do, they do.

Somehow baby, I never thought that we do too.

Class.


ha

I can't believe I forgot that one!


can't believe no-one's mentioned...

the one true classic:

"A great philosopher once wrote...naughty, naughty, very naughty...."


The one at the start

of 13th Floor by Mondo Generator. Buggered if i'm going to type it out though.


He's on the street

He's got him beat
They're at the stoplight
They're laughing at him
They want to know
What's the deal with the surfboard?
The beach is nearly two hours away from here
And why have you been cruising up and down this street all day
But he just ignores them
And revs his engine
Then the the light turns green
Oh yeah he's a...

Sikh in a baja volkswagon bug
Sikh in a baja volkswagon bug
Sikh in a baja volkswagon bug
Sikh in a baja volkswagon bug
Sikh in a baja volkswagon bug
Sikh in a baja volkswagon bug
Sikh in a baja volkswagon bug


he's got a lot of love in 'im...

off 'Untrue' by Burial.

and yeah, the dEUS ones are class.

for comedy value, the start of 'Well Ard' by Caspa and the Others is awesome... "he was so 'ard, even his nightmares were scared of him"
BOOM!


Mother Leopard

I have your cubs.

'Enfilade' by ATD-I would win this for me every time


ah good call

i agree


The start

of the new Grace Jones song...

Petrifying.


.

Gay For Johnny Depp- She Said I Like This One and Kill The Cool Kids
Agoraphobic Nosebleed- Thanksgiving Day


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I like the Annie Hall sample at the start of Jawbreaker - Jet Black.