Intros and outros
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 30 January 2008 - 8:10pm.
Sometimes it's the little moments that truly capture the spirit of rock n' roll... the intros and the outros, the vocal interjections in the middle of great records.
Charlie's drum roll and Keef's shout of "Yeah!" at the end of 'Brown Sugar'...
John Bonham's "We've done four already, but now we're steady and then they went... 1, 2, 3, 4" at the start of 'The Ocean'...
Hendrix' "Here I come baby, comin' ta getcha!" in 'Foxy Lady'...
Any other little nuggets you can think of?
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"Let's Go To Work"
So good that a live album was named for it. It summed up the greatness of Rory Gallagher. He'd bounce onto stage with his band, do a cursory twang or retune of a string at great volume, pause and shout in that hoarse little boy's voice, 'let's go to work'' and then he did.
Bowie bit
The "Dew-ah" bit on the beginning of 'Beauty and the Beast'wasn't the same without out on the best of comp's.
Won't Get Fooled Again
"Do ya!?"
One of my...
favourites!
Russian Roullette
the sound of ms Shocked walking up to the mic, plugging in the guitar, the feint hum of the amp and then "twang"
cliched as old socks but I love it
Move over Rover
And let Jimi take over
You know...
what I'm talkin' about.
Here comes that GROAT again
Hal Blaine's 6/8-time "Bap! Bap! Bap! Bap! Bap! Bap!" in the fade-out of "Be My Baby". Gets me every time.
It was a mistake too
It was a mistake too. Have a dim memory of Hal Blaine talking about this in a documentary years ago. I don't know anything about drumming technique so can't expain exactly what happened but he did some fill the wrong way round or whatever during one of the countless rehearsal takes of BMB and Phil Spector told him to leave it in and use it.
Sorry, got that slightly
Sorry, got that slightly wrong i.e. I'm talking about a weird little drum roll he does just a bit later on from the part you're talking about.
Here's a few of my faves
On Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse's version of Valerie, Amy's apology before she starts singing: "I'm sorry, Charlie Murphy, I was just having too much fun."
Marc Bolan "Take 10...One and Two and Buckle my shoe" - Lean Woman Blues
Any Felice Brothers fans out there? On Hey Hey Revolver, there is a click and sound of thunder at the start of the track. Lightning strikes the building where they are recording. I thought I had a badly ripped MP3, until I read a bit more about them...
Another good Bonham moment is the end of My Time of Dying when he says "that's got to be the one hasn't it". I wore out the first pressing, on the second one I bought the outro had been missed off, it was never quite the same. Until I got the remastered CD and it was restored of course...
And there's Bob Dylan's 115th Dream "take 2".
The Wild Ones
by Suede never ever fails to raise a smile because of Brett Anderson's fantastically OTT 'mmmmMMMMMMMMNNNNNnnnnNNNNNNNNThere's a song playing, on the radio'.
On the flipside, all the stage chat and rubbish jokes on the full version of The Who's 'Live At Leeds' I could really live without. Great gig, chaps, but just get on with it.
The Tull
Of course, trust Ian Anderson to overdo it... On Tull's "Minstrel In The Gallery" album, "Baker Street Muse" begins with Anderson's muttered "Baker Street Muse, take one". Acoustic guitar intro begins, but is messed up, then: "Shit, shit, shit - take two". The track then ensues without further incident, until the end, after which we hear Anderson's footsteps receding down a corridor, singing as he goes: "Well, I'm a Baker Street Muse...". Sound of door handle being rattled furiously, then a shouted "I can't get out!". Not contrived at all, no sir!
"Guitar"....
....just before the duly accredited elsewhere solo in "Come up and see me" by Cockney Rebel.
"Play up, Martin" on "Breathe a little"/Chilli willi and the Red Hot Peppers
"Lets crawl awhile" and "aeeeuh"(spelling?) on the Doors version of "Crawling King Snake". Or indeed the second "Boom" in "Cars hissed by my window", also on L.A. Woman: sonic boom (boom!)
One more...
but only because of the extreme poignancy of it, the palpable pain of the fluffed intro to "If it's in you"/Syd Barrett on Madcap Laughs. If ever there were a warning about the dangers of mind altering drugs........ "Dark Globe" I love, traditionally seen as his most needy, but I feel like a guilty voyeur (whats the auditory equivalent?) with "If it's in you", as a brain turns to jelly in front of your ears.
On your own head be it!
'Allo
Ian Hunter - Once Bitten Twice Shy
speaking of Ian Hunter
the comments at the end of 'All the Young Dudes' where he seems to proposition 'you in the polyester and the glasses, yeah, i want you' always makes me giggle in a Gene Hunt sort of way
"waking up the army of guitars"
Jimmy's zzzzng-ga-zzzzunga-zzzzngggg at the start of Black Dog.
Good...
shout. And "We can't get this airplane on." "Nah, leave it! Yeah!" at the start of 'Black Country Woman' on Physical Graffiti.
Bo Diddley/Dr Feelgood
Intro: 'Whatchoo say man? Quit mumblin' and talk out loud' from Mumblin' Guitar.
Outro: 'We gonna put him so far back in jail this time that they gonna have to pump air in to him' from Cops And Robbers.
Middle bit: Lee Brilleaux's 'Eight bars of piano', followed by eight piano free bars in 'Down At The Doctors'.
Still alive and well
On Johnny Winter's "Still alive and well" the eponymous track starts with a great exchange between Johnny and the bass player.....
(live studio hum/crackle)
JW - "I'm hungry, let's do this fucker"
BP - "Hit it"
JW - One......(interrupted by..)
BP - mistakenly hits first note of song
JW - "Don't hit it now...hit it on four - ONE< TWO THREE FOUR"
Blasts into stunning clearly totally live performance. Rock 'n' roll!
The Wedding Present - Something and Nothing
On George Best, the bit at the beginning where Gedge is bollocking the sound engineer always raises a smile.
Cool Interjections
Delroy Wilson does a cool "Good God!" interjection in Cool Operator, just after the 1st verse Ithink.
In the live version of No Xmas for John Quays on Totale's Turns, MES (with some justification) exhorts his band to "f***ing get it together for Christssake". Hilarious.
Also, always enjoy hearing Iggy's howled "Lord" which opens TV Eye.
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Buzz. Crackle. Riff begins. And just as the drums come in:
'Let's begin!'
Glorious.
Seconded.
God, I haven't listened to that song in years... must do.
Shouty
'Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard, I say Oh Bondage Up Yours!'
'Is she really going out with him?' both versions
'1,2,3,4,5,6'
'You're all laughing, it must be good'
Name those tunes. Bands and songs.
Ooh! Quiz!
I know three and a half out of five.
What ...
...you got? Go on, tell us.
Is she going out with them?
3 versions, Mr D, "noo wave" original, acapella and "choral": check out the fella in questions live dble LP, which has all 3 on it. Acapella is the best, in my humble.
No Way
No way three versions, I demand a recount.
Unless you mean....
.....versions by different people or a different song with the same name. Do you?
i mean...
...spoken intro to a song, I know of two beginning with 'Is she really...', I'd love to know the third if there is one.
Are you thinking Joe Jackson?
Sorry, got you now.......
I was meaning 3 versions of the song, "Is she really going out with him?", dingus that I clearly am. I now understand why your seemingly random quiz was there now.......
Well, then, 'tis leader of the Pack/Shangri La's and Kill/Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias....
Accept my humble apols.
No Apols needed
In fact now there are three known examples of Is she Really...was unaware of Albertos one, shame on me, and I have a very unplayed LP by them. Will I dig it out this weekend? I doubt it.
Snuff rock
Its on the EP (but possibly also on the greatest hits onetime available) Same track from which I commend the 2 note guitar solo in another strand.
But what is the 3rd one, if we are confined to spoken bits?
That'll be...
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
New Rose - The Damned
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman
And some other stuff.
3...
...outta 5 ain't bad.
Jimi at Montrerey...
...Like a Rolling Stone, in the intro, where he says...
'S'kuse me while I play my guitar...'
...and he does.
Ok so...
1) X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage
2 and 3)Is She Really Going Out? - Shangri La's - Leader of The Pack and The Damned, New Rose
4) 1,2...6 - Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers
5) You're all laughing - Show Me - Dexys Midnight Runners.
Taxman
The count in over noise and coughing then straight into Taxman. Such a good track it's still being ripped off by all and sundry.
The first 16 seconds of Frank by Squeeze when Jools Holland answers the question 'who counts' with 'fatty', followed by 'I'll take that back' after a voice takes umbrage.
Whole Lotta Love
Is it me or what?
Someone found it very funny at the very start of this as there is a distinct laugh.
Oysterband's "Blood Wedding" where it's clearly heard "Keep your hands off mine!" at the end.
Little acorns and that...
but the 6 rimshots behind the line "Robbing people with a six-gun" in "I Fought the Law".
The way the feedback from the guitar makes Ringo's snare buzz on the start of "I Feel Fine". Only get that from the drums being in the same room as the amps.
"Get back on" - The Jean Genie
Intro/Outro
1) Liam Gallagher at the begining of the live version of I Am The Walrus: "What's Up? Doesn't matter if it's out of tune. Doesn't matter if it's out of tune, cos you're cool."
2) The backwards singing at the end off the album version of Find The Answer Within by The Boo Radleys. "You're gonna get you f****** heads kicked in" played backwards sounds so sweet.
3) Cum On Feel The Noize. "Baby baby baby"
Slade
it's chriiiiistmaaaaaassssss!!