Entertainment For Lively Minds
Laughing Records
Posted by David Wright on 13 April 2011 - 11:05am.
Just been listening to (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais by The Clash and I always chuckle when Joe Strummer laughs at 2mins 46 seconds in.
Mark Knopfler also can be heard to chuckle on Money For Nothing.
What other records can giggles be heard on?
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The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Fanboy alert. I even know WHY Michael Stipe is laughing there. Apparently they'd done endless takes of the vocal, and every single time, Stipe sang "Zeus" rather than "Seuss". The laugh is the sound of them going for one last try, and him STILL not getting it right. They pressed on anyway, and left the laugh in.
New Adventures In Laughing
I'd forgotten about that one, but cheers for the story behind it. I think the laugh adds to the record, as many laughs do.
Remember When You Were Young?
(chuckles)
You shone like the sun.
And there are random giggle at the start of Dark Side Of The Moon. And someone guffaws at the beginning of Roxanne as well.
Yes
Of course, how could I have forgotten the Floyd!
Wipeout
by The Surfaris
Slicing up eye balls HAHAHAHAHA!
Best freaky laugh in rock from Pixies.
Does that count?
"A-ha-ho-ho" is part of the written-down lyrics. He's not actually *laughing* by mistake.
< /pedantry >
That's means The Laughing Gnome wont count.
Damn.
Or WHIWOFBS by Morrissey
Or Wipeout, now I think about it.
Go On Then.......
I thought of Laughing Gnome, I think we'll let you have it, still matches up with the thread title!
Bowie...
...seems to genuinely start laughing at the end of the song, just as it's fading out, so it certainly counts.
Andy Warhol.
Hol. As in Hols.
As always...
...the answers comes in the form of broodingly sexy (this opinion is held by me and my Auntie Gloria only) Peter Sarstedt:
He sent you a racehorse for Christmas
And you keep it fun, for a laugh a-ha-ha-ha.
Of course, he's not really laughing so it doesn't count, but I do like to quote 'Where Do You Go To, My Lovely' every few months or so.
You...
and Auntie Gloria are not alone. It's that combo of meaty 'tache (and it is a 'tache and a half) and those dark burning eyes. A-ha-ha-ha indeed.
Did he ever find out where his lovely went to?
I don't think he did...
...but as he wanted to look inside her head, that is probably a good thing, as chopping someone's head in half is not groovy at all.
There's an alternative take of that song
By folk comedian Bob Williamson (who was reasonably well known in the 1970s) called "Where do you go to my ugly?". I have the LP (ask your mother what that is).
The lines you refer to are rephrased as
"He gave you a cucumber for Christmas
And you play with it, just for fun, for a laugh, a ha ha ha".
Like I said, it was the seventies.
Don't be unkind
Oh, go on, you know you want to...
The Cure & 10cc
Loads of their stuff has a LOL in.
Bob Dylan's
115th Dream for genuine cracking up; Joni's Big Yeloow Taxi for fake.
Laughter
New Order
"Every second counts, when I am with you
I think you are a pig, you should be in a zoo"
Chuckling by Bernard through rest of next line.
Aw, I was gonna say that one...
...when it came out I always thought it sounded more like Hooky singing, I am not sure though?
Definitely Bernard..
Live version here (no laughing here though):
Dreams Never End is the only New Order track with Hooky singing I think
Yes...
Yes, was just trying to remember the name of this song!
For some reason I have this in iTunes as 'Every Little Counts' on Brotherhood and 'Every Second Counts' on the BBC Radio 1 live in concert album...
Doesn't Hooky sing lead vocal
on "Doubts Even Here" as well?
"Writing -
fifty times..."
Does Big Yellow Taxi count?
I'm never sure if its a real laugh or not
The most crap, insincere laugh on record.
Makes my teeth grate.
Agreed
Intensely irritating.
"I'm A Cuckoo" - Belle & Sebastian (Avalanches Remix)
I adore the joyous laughter at the end of this, from the women of the Southern Sudanese Choir. If you hate Belle & Sebastian, just cut to about three minutes in. I urge you.
You know, I almost like that.
Probably because the only bit of B&S left in there is Stuart Murdoch's vocal. And the melody. Which is still annoying but the clever lads from The Avalanches have performed a miraculous bit of turd-polishing there.
Exactly.
And the ending makes life worth living.
Laughter is "the most civilised music in the world", as Peter Ustinov said, when he wasn't droning on about dining with diplomats.
Hee hee
Yeah that's brilliant.
Not too Belle and Sebastian-y (good thing) and very reminiscent of the choir music from The Thin Red Line (another good thing).
Funny you should say that...
I watched "The Thin Red Line" last week for the first time in ages and immediately bought the CD of Melanesian choral singing: http://amzn.to/hxwgOS Extremely uplifting stuff - and extra moving in the context of the film.
There's manic, cackling laughter
in Ebeneezer Goode by the Shamen.
Also, Running Away by Sly and the Family Stone,
"Ha ha, hee hee, you're wearing out your shooooooeeeees."
Red House Painters
'Evil' at the start of one of their self-titled albums (the one with the bridge on, as it is known)
The Beatles
What about the take of 'And Your Bird Can Sing' on Anthology 2. The notes in the booklet states "someone or something -the tape does not reveal what - was causing them to giggle"
Hmmm !
Blancmange and Yazoo
One of their songs starts with Neil Arthur laughingly saying "I've just been shopping!" which is then responded to by a lady soul diva-type voice that bellows in an expert way "I've just been shopping".
Alison Moyet laughs quite scarily in Yazoo's I Before E Except After C.
They're coming to take me away
ha-ha!
The demo of
"And Your Bird Can Sing" from Anthology II:
I suspect substances may have been taken...
This Strange Engine after ten minutes silence, but I suspect you know that, and it's not really part of the song anyway.
Fakey Kate Bush laughter between Love and Anger and The Fog on Sensual World.
And not forgetting
the ever-so-slightly deranged Kate Bush laughter on A Sky Of Honey, between 'Nocturne' and 'Aerial' IIRC
no no no no no
As self-appointed keeper of the 'Bush-shrine' round here, I have to point out it is on Aerial (the last track). And is only one of many fantastic "Kate laughs like a pervert" moments over the years:
'ello, 'ello, what's all this?
Don't forget Charles Penrose's 'the Laughing Policeman'!
A shameless rip off
Check this out
Scared to Dance - the Skids
Some jolly stuff from Richard Jobson:
So now I walk behind you
And you don't hear
Until I'm right beside you
Until you bleed (Ha! Ha! Ha!)
One of the tracks on Lizard
by King Crimson, features a slightly desperate, hysterical laugh at the end.
Mott The Hoople
Roll Away The Stone
Andy Warhol
doesn't Bowie gaffaw at the end?
Berkshire Poppies..
from Traffic's 1st album has all manner of wheezy/stoned/giggling mates in the studio stuff going on.
Old Stakkers
Happy In The Lord, tittering at the start and manic laughter at the end.
Renta Prog
I believe Marillion’s The Last Straw has some creepy laughing on it after the track has ended. I think it’s Fish, but it sounds like Mr Claypole from Rentaghost!
best laughing song ever
I will accept no others
Orb Laugh
I think you can hear David Gilmour smirking on the last Orb album they did with him. It's not a laugh, more of a sigh I guess.
Not a bad album, but it never seems to quite get going. some interesting moments on it though.
Elis Regina and Tom Jobin
Just a wonderful, wonderful song which they obviously had a ball making. The laughing while singing really kicks in at about 2.45 onwards.
Bonzos: Nothing but laughs...
...which I think was the point of this heartbreaking swansong...
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Their most famous track Thou Shalt Always Kill has a bit where the rapper has a fit of the giggles.
Probably dozens of different mixes and versions and maybe it doesn't happen on all of them, but it happens on this one:http://open.spotify.com/track/7tNxc9yna0syeDmb0Xpher about 2'25" in.
Chortle chortle
Don't forget Loudon Wainwright and Unrequited to the Nth degree!
Exactly the one I was thinking about.....
...it's an audience parcipitation song too!!
ha ha ha ha
ho ho ho ho
chuckle chuckle chuckle chuckle
snicker snicker snicker snicker
guffaw guffaw guffaw guffaw
yuk yuk yuk yuk
chortle chortle chortle chortle
It starts about 15 sec in
The Fall - Dr Buck's Letter
Fantastic tune.
When MES gets to the checklist and laughs at 4:30 mins in,
"5 - Amex card. They made such a fuss about giving it to me, but I spent more time getting it turned down".
http://open.spotify.com/track/6tKmgQJd644Ul6hs4wkMU1
double post
this is my favourite ... at least I hope it is
Can't preview clip from my phone, so I'm blindly posting what I hope is Elvis Presley failing to make it though Are You Lonesome Tonight thanks to a spectacular fit of the giggles.
oops
So good I posted it twice
Mama told me not to come by
Mama told me not to come by Tom Jones & The Stereophonics has a great laugh
And
and of course Bob Dylan's 115th Dream at the end of the first line he dissolves into the giggles
Here's the story from A to B
Deliberate laughing yes
Taught the Butthole Surfers all they know...
Er...apologies Spt
...but scroll up about ten posts...
aha yes
but neither of us was first I fear... Still it's brilliant so bears repeating.
Chuck Prophet
The start of Automatic Blues on his No Other Love album opens with laughter from, presumably, Stephanie Finch.
Iggy Pops goofy laugh
after Debbie Harry tells him to fuck off at the end of their version of 'Well Did You Evah?'
That's definitely
a cartoon laugh, isn't it? "Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk"
A song I mentioned
on the 'scary songs' thread, The Smiths' 'Suffer Little Children', includes perhaps the least laughable laugh ever recorded. So much to answer for...
What about
that creepy laugh Phil Collins does in 'Mama'. Nearly died laughing at an old Adam & Joe show where Ad recreated it last night. at about 2:10
also that over the top laugh in teh middle of 'Rainy Day Women' that makes Dylan crack up
Jefferson Starship - Sunrise
Ends with about 30 seconds of a distorted drone and then Grace Slick giggling.
Sinister goblin chuckle
Part of the magic of Terror Danjah, almost his trademark, best heard in the instrumentals album Gremlins.