Screams wanted
I'm going to attempt to build an extremely amateurish web-thing featuring the great screams of popular music. I'm thinking Roger Daltrey on Won't Get Fooled Again, Prince at the end of Darling Nikki, and Roger Waters on Careful With That Axe Eugene.
Any more suggestions? Ideally, they'll be solo screams (i.e. those with minimal musical accompaniment).
Thanks.
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Ian Gillen
Sweet child in time! The live version is more full voiced.
Planty at the end of "Whole lotta love" (or most of the Zep cannon, thinking about it) is good too.
Another Floyd
Right before the album version of Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2.
Intro to TV Eye by the Stooges has a good one, I think, or possibly Loose. Or both.
Wilson Pickett
Must have done a good scream somewhere.
Land of 1000 Dances perhaps?
Hard Days Night
I minute 18 seconds. Short but pretty blood-curdling
Bethlehem - Schatten aus der Alexander welt...
...has some bloodcurdling screaming on it. You might have trouble separating it from the music.
You can find the song on youtube. I won't link to it directly as the image for the link is of a naked woman, streaked with blood, standing in front of a crucifix. This is why you preview posts.
Give me a week and I can probably provide you with the tortured screams of either Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow or Ronan Keating.
Popular music
didn't this win eurovision for switzerland 1983.
How how about Jame Brown must the most recognizeable one after v'whoo
The Boiler
by Rhoda & Special AKA has the most chilling scream in all recorded music (in context, at least)
But BROTHER BROWN's must be the most recognisable by far! And there are hundreds of shrieks and whoops to choose from.
nothing to see here
Having clicked 'reply' twice...
Jan Tiegen:
Jan Tiegen's original Nul Points Eurovision entry for Norway: Mil etter Mil
The scream's at 02.40...
Failing that, the way Prince screams 'Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with' near the end of Kiss...
Oh, and of course James Browns 'WAAOOH!' from 'I Feel Good'. Or 'Get Up Offa That Thing'.
And then there's 'Psycho' by The Sonics.
Pixies
Most tracks really
Tame off of Doolittle for starters...
Scream Test
Here's a few that come to mind. I hope quick yelps and yeahs are allowed. Quality not quantity.
Psycho - The Sonics (0m2s) (Woah!! at the start & towards end)
Revolution - Beatles (0m5s)
Personality Crisis - New York Dolls (0m6s)
As Jon suggested, you've got to include an Iggy one.
The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll - Mott The Hoople 2m30s
Bellbottoms - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (2m20s) (Yaayah!!)
Mutiny In Heaven - The Birthday Party (0m0s + background screams throughout)
Stagger Lee - Nick Cave (4m9s) (I think it's Blixa Bargeld)
20th Century Boy - T-Rex (the background scream at 0m3s)
And I know it's not quite what you're looking for, but Pixies-era Black Francis is my favourite screamer: see "In Heaven", "Wild Honey Pie" and the maniacal laughter on "Debaser".
Sons Of Leon
The last Kings Of Leon single had a bit of screaming on it, if I remember rightly.
Wendy James
At the beginning of Transvision Vamp's "Baby I Don't Care"
Ever heard Yoko Ono singing?
It's where I'd start...
Frankie Teardrop
Frankie Teardrop by Suicide. Quite a few bloodcurdling screams throughout - not really a pleasant listening experience though.
2 for now
Your Iggy solo scream should be the one at the start of TV Eye (original Stooges version) and your Ian Gillan the long, very long solo scream at the end of Deep Purple's Strange Kind of Woman (live version, Made in Japan). You might also want to consider Bowie's 'aaaahhhhh' just before 'wham bang thank you ma'am' - certain I don't need to say the track and album here.
How about...
The Girl Can't Dance by Bunker Hill.
Johnny Burnette & The Rock n Roll Trio's All By Myself has some fine screaming in it as well.
Jim Morrison
At the beginning of When The Music's Over.
Also, some 1969-1970 Lennon. Cold Turkey's pretty good.
fatima mansions
C major 7 from Valhalla Avenue by the Fatima Mansions opens with a real blood curdler
More Jim......
Father, I want to kill you......
Mother, I want to AAAAAAAAAAARGH
(Same song)
Does "Werewolves of London- owoooooooo" count?
The End
There's a Nico version on her album called The End - she does the scream at the same moment but it's pretty different and rather strange to say the least.
Heee--ha....
It it counts...
Brian Connolly at the start of "Hell Raiser"
2 more screamy women.......
Diamanda Galas.
Carina Round.
Hello, can I suggest a
Hello, can I suggest a couple that can be found on the Afghan Whigs' Black Love albumrecordcd...midway through Bulletproof and at the end of Faded...(although its more of a yeah yeah yeah in this one)
Mighty roars both!
Maniacal laughter versus screaming
A subset genre of scream?
Fire/Arthur Brown
Race with the Devil/The Gun
Dickinson/Gillan
Bruce Dickinson - Aces High and Hallowed Be Thy Name come straight to mind - he hits a lowish note and starts to rise up and up into a scream. But to be fair he does shout a lot !!
Ian Gillan - Child in Time (with Deep Purple) I think he gives Plant a run for his money on this. Some of his solo stuff had some pretty good screaming in as well. Stuff like Nightmare, Mutually Assured Destruction, Born to Kill, Hadely Bop Bop, No Laughing in Heaven etc.
Might be more of a howl, but...
...Bobby Parker really lets rip on 'Watch Your Step'. It's right up there with Wilson P, imho.
Elvis Costello
The intro to Man Out Of Time.
Wilson Pickett?
I'd go for his version of Engine No 9 for some excellent scream action.
It feels wrong
not to include Mr Cobain here - can I notimate the chorus of Scentless Apprentice or perhaps the 'shiver' moment in the cover of Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
The start of 'Get Offf' by Prince
followed by impressions of an unanaesthetised cat having a caesarian....
Scream!
I suppose Timbaland's current chart hit 'Scream' doesn't count? Dare Imention his name in The Word?
How about
As heard every time I see another picture of Cherie Blair in the papers.
Joe Cocker
With A Little Help From My Friends. Preferably the Woodstock version. Now that's what I call screaming. 4.57 in to the track, he really gets going.
Otherwise, anything by Extreme Noise Terror or Whitehouse. Come to think of it, Media Friend by Rudimentary Peni is one continuous scream. Yesterday Has Gone by Cupid's Inspiration has its moments. Tin Soldier by The Small Faces. Let us not forget the tremendous 26 minute Cambridge '69 by John and Yoko.
Actually, that's my favourite. John & Yoko.
The 'Tramp
Crime of the Century. School. 1'44". It's all you really need
Scream
How about Roy Harper's 'True Story' from the Unknown Soldier album, where he acts out the screams Edward II made when murdered by having a red hot poker shoved up his arse!
Screaming for England
You lot have missed rocks most essential scream, namely that in 'Won't Get Fooled Again' issued forth by one Mr Daltrey.
You mean
The scream I mention in the original question?
;-)