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Best stuttering songs
Posted by Sting Ono on 28 January 2009 - 4:33pm.
1. M-m-m-my Generation - The Who
2. Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes - David Bowie
3. (B-b-b-b-b-b-b-Baby) You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - B.T.O.
4. B-b-b-Benny And The Jets - Elton John
5. M-m-m-My Sharona - The Knack
Any others?
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Not certain if this counts...
....but it's an amazing version of a classic song. It almost stutters..Billy Stewart and 'Summertime'....
That Georgia's always on my
my my my my my my my my......mind.
Anything by...
... Jive Bunny!
In commercial terms
there are only two great stutters (even if they are maybe not real stutters)
- Chaka Khan at the start of I Feel For You. A rubbish song, but Chaka Khan resurrected a career on the strength of that opening stutter.
- Nineteen. Redefined for a whole generation how a number was pronounced.
How fitting that the only stutters on songs are put on...
as it is impossible to stutter for real when one is singing, as stutterer RT recently pointed out.
Can't believe that no-one's mentioned...
... "Stutter Rap" by Morris Minor and the Majors
Oh, maybe I can...
I keep singing them sad, sad songs
Sad songs is all I know.
Your turn.
'Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)' - Otis Redding
N-n-n-n-Nineteen
That is all.
Or should we differentiate between sung stutters and stutters that are a result of sampling?
Waiting For The Floods
Armoury Show
Fa fa fa fa fa fah
Ooooh, also:
Psycho Killer by Talking Heads. I don't need to quote the lyric here, right?
Su-su-sudio
Phil Collins 80's parpy trumpet 1999 rip-off.
Eclipsed in joylessness by his own appalling Dance into the Light a few years later. Parping trumpets injected to make it sound like a party. You don't get parping trumpets in pop songs anymore.
Elvis Costello - Let Them All Talk
"Listen to the sad song that the radio plays
Have we come this fa-fa-fa to find a soul cliche"
Also I'm sure there's a Roxy Music one somewhere, and a Dexys...I'll do some listening and get back to you....
John Lee Hooker
Had a song called Stuttering Blues. You can imagine exactly how it goes, and you'd be exactly right.
Almost forgot
S-s-s-Single Bed by Fox.
What a great record that I'd forgotten
I'm off to track it down for the iPod. The other big hit was "Only You" I think. No stuttering but none the worse for that.
Edit: It was "Only You Can" and it plus "Single Bed" and "Imagine Me, Imagine You" are all on eMusic. Excellent.
Oh yes. Noosha, if memory serves.
Ah-ha, Ah-ha, Ah-honly-you-oo-oo.
Impossibly sexy.
[shame]
Boom Boom (Shake the Room) by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
(ahem)
The the f-f-f-f-fresh p-p-p-prince is wh-who I am
So tell my mother that I never wrote a whack jam
But some times I get n-nervous and start to stutter
And I f-fumble every word for word I utter
So I just try to ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chill
But it gets worse-a but worse-a but-but-but worse still
I need the c-c-c-crowd to k-k-k-kick into it
They help me calm down and I can get through it
"And you thought I had to look that up? Ha!" (High Fidelity, Nick Hornby).
Terrible memories of a holiday on the Isle of Wight when I was a bairn.
[/shame]
What about stuttering guitars?
Gives me excuse to do this: 四人幫 = Gang of Four - At Home He's A Tourist.