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.

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.

Twangothan | 13 May 2008 - 4:43pm

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.

Jon | 13 May 2008 - 4:58pm

Wilson Pickett

Must have done a good scream somewhere.
Land of 1000 Dances perhaps?

Paul | 13 May 2008 - 5:00pm

Hard Days Night

I minute 18 seconds. Short but pretty blood-curdling

Richard Lowe | 13 May 2008 - 5:02pm

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.

backwards7 | 13 May 2008 - 5:19pm

Popular music

didn't this win eurovision for switzerland 1983.
How how about Jame Brown must the most recognizeable one after v'whoo

Chris G | 13 May 2008 - 5:31pm

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.

Joe Muggs | 13 May 2008 - 7:03pm

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Having clicked 'reply' twice...

Jason Carter | 13 May 2008 - 7:32pm

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.

Jason Carter | 13 May 2008 - 7:31pm

Pixies

Most tracks really
Tame off of Doolittle for starters...

badartdog | 13 May 2008 - 7:42pm

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".

Nick White | 13 May 2008 - 7:46pm

Sons Of Leon

The last Kings Of Leon single had a bit of screaming on it, if I remember rightly.

David Wright | 13 May 2008 - 8:29pm

Wendy James

At the beginning of Transvision Vamp's "Baby I Don't Care"


itf | 13 May 2008 - 8:36pm

Ever heard Yoko Ono singing?

It's where I'd start...

Lucas Hare | 13 May 2008 - 8:56pm

Frankie Teardrop

Frankie Teardrop by Suicide. Quite a few bloodcurdling screams throughout - not really a pleasant listening experience though.

Stephen G | 13 May 2008 - 8:56pm

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.

PaulB | 13 May 2008 - 9:06pm

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.

Dr.Robert | 14 May 2008 - 12:06am

Jim Morrison

At the beginning of When The Music's Over.

Also, some 1969-1970 Lennon. Cold Turkey's pretty good.

Lucas Hare | 14 May 2008 - 7:17am

fatima mansions

C major 7 from Valhalla Avenue by the Fatima Mansions opens with a real blood curdler

badartdog | 14 May 2008 - 8:28am

More Jim......

Father, I want to kill you......
Mother, I want to AAAAAAAAAAARGH
(Same song)

Does "Werewolves of London- owoooooooo" count?

Retropath2 | 14 May 2008 - 8:39am

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.

Sven | 14 May 2008 - 8:45am

Heee--ha....

It it counts...

Brian Connolly at the start of "Hell Raiser"

Nodge1970 | 14 May 2008 - 9:52am

2 more screamy women.......

Diamanda Galas.
Carina Round.

Retropath2 | 14 May 2008 - 9:55am

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!

mat_riches | 14 May 2008 - 10:05am

Maniacal laughter versus screaming

A subset genre of scream?
Fire/Arthur Brown
Race with the Devil/The Gun

Retropath2 | 14 May 2008 - 10:20am

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.

bluez maverick | 14 May 2008 - 12:32pm

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.

Con_Coleman | 14 May 2008 - 12:34pm

Elvis Costello

The intro to Man Out Of Time.

CarlP | 14 May 2008 - 1:53pm

Wilson Pickett?

I'd go for his version of Engine No 9 for some excellent scream action.

Azeem | 14 May 2008 - 3:05pm

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?

Chimney Singing Crow | 14 May 2008 - 3:39pm

The start of 'Get Offf' by Prince

followed by impressions of an unanaesthetised cat having a caesarian....

martin1959 | 14 May 2008 - 7:30pm

Scream!

I suppose Timbaland's current chart hit 'Scream' doesn't count? Dare Imention his name in The Word?

andy gallant | 15 May 2008 - 3:28pm

How about


As heard every time I see another picture of Cherie Blair in the papers.

Paul | 15 May 2008 - 5:06pm

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.

kinkywolfgang | 15 May 2008 - 7:21pm

The 'Tramp

Crime of the Century. School. 1'44". It's all you really need

Rufus T Firefly | 15 May 2008 - 11:37pm

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!

MikeHull2u | 19 May 2008 - 8:10pm

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.

andy gallant | 20 May 2008 - 2:35pm

You mean

The scream I mention in the original question?

;-)

Fraser Lewry | 20 May 2008 - 2:39pm