Top 100: Songs sung by adults that feature a children's choir

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1. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2
2. Manu Chao - Merry Blues
3. Pato Banton - Go Pato
4. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
5. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
6. Guts - Want It Back
7. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
8. Four Tet - No More Mosquitoes
9. King Creosote - Bluebell, Cockleshell, 123
10. Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band - Sunshower
11. Martika - Toy Soldiers
12. Radiohead - 15 Step
13. Justice - DANCE
14. The Smiths - Panic
15. Cornershop - Staging the plaguing of the raised platform
16. Ride - I don't know where it comes from
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane
18. Smog - No Dancing
19. Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War v. 2

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:10 (nine years ago)

Here's a spotify list of what I've got so far:

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/1jTwU1FUfeUPMrGE2hhwdF

Missing: Smog, Radiohead.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:11 (nine years ago)

20. Leonard Cohen - Last Year's Man

I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:11 (nine years ago)

21. Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (duh)

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:13 (nine years ago)

21. Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (duh)

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive)

not a children's choir?

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:15 (nine years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can't_Always_Get_What_You_Want

London Bach Choir not children.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:16 (nine years ago)

Although 'Ride - I don't know where it comes from' was based on the RS song and that one does feat a children's choir.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:22 (nine years ago)

Hmm, the soprano voices sound qualitatively like boy sopranos though. Wonder if there's a definitive source saying there weren't children singing with the choir?

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:26 (nine years ago)

Red Hot Chili Peopers-Aeroplane

Bob Dylan-They Killed Him

beamish13, Monday, 12 October 2015 05:26 (nine years ago)

Pat Benatar-We Belong

beamish13, Monday, 12 October 2015 05:28 (nine years ago)

Aeroplane was already mentioned.

21. Bob Dylan-They Killed Him
22. Kanye West - We Don't Care
23. Pat Benatar - We belong

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:29 (nine years ago)

Hmm, the soprano voices sound qualitatively like boy sopranos though. Wonder if there's a definitive source saying there weren't children singing with the choir?

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive),

Don't know how official it is but this guardian article reassures it's not a children's choir.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/12/children-choirs-singing

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:30 (nine years ago)

24. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 October 2015 05:35 (nine years ago)

I think they're both awful so I'm not including them on the 'top 100' whatever that means but but other songs with children's choir I remember right now:

Passion Pit - Little Secrets
Terrorvision - Tequila

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:37 (nine years ago)

25. Cramps - people aint no good

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:41 (nine years ago)

I can't find any credits that confirm this: Sonic Youth - Little trouble girl? Is it a children's choir or just Kim's vocals overlayed?

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:43 (nine years ago)

"Little Trouble Girl" definitely doesn't have a choir on it

beamish13, Monday, 12 October 2015 05:47 (nine years ago)

BTW, my sister-in-law was the "alien" in the video for it!

beamish13, Monday, 12 October 2015 05:48 (nine years ago)

Another one which makes a great use of a children's choir:

26. Gotan Project - Rayuela

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:50 (nine years ago)

"Little Trouble Girl" definitely doesn't have a choir on it
BTW, my sister-in-law was the "alien" in the video for it!

― beamish13

That's really cool :) Isn't the opening chorus (and the subsequent chorus) sung by a choir? I'm hearing like 3 or 4 voices in there. What I can't define if it's children singing it or a Kim Deal recording of the same part several times.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 05:53 (nine years ago)

27. Talk Talk - Happiness Is Easy.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 12 October 2015 10:08 (nine years ago)

28. Denim - It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry
29. Denim - Grandad's False Teeth

soref, Monday, 12 October 2015 12:12 (nine years ago)

30. Take That - Never Forget

Frederik B, Monday, 12 October 2015 12:18 (nine years ago)

31. The Clash - Career Opportunities (Sandinista Version)

thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 October 2015 13:07 (nine years ago)

Pretty sure the children's choir on "Panic" is actually Morrissey's voice treated in some way. Or perhaps I'm thinking about "Bigmouth Strikes Again"

mahb, Monday, 12 October 2015 13:46 (nine years ago)

32. Talk Talk - Time it's Time

banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 October 2015 15:24 (nine years ago)

33. Mew - Sometimes Life Isn't Easy

Frederik B, Monday, 12 October 2015 15:28 (nine years ago)

Xxpost: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_(The_Smiths_song)

Nope, it says they're schoolchildren (doesnt specify which one tho)

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 15:41 (nine years ago)

34. Gucci Mane - Lemonade
35. Trick Daddy - I'm a thug

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 October 2015 15:54 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 12 October 2015 17:33 (nine years ago)

36. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

J. Sam, Monday, 12 October 2015 17:46 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

37. Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will

Lee626, Friday, 6 November 2015 02:41 (nine years ago)

Not really children I think it might be a high pitch version of the original Gaye song but sounds like children

Circle research - stop listen to your heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv8y6lrCOi0

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 November 2015 07:21 (nine years ago)

Great thread. A couple obvious ones that haven't been mentioned

School's Out by Alice Cooper
Youth of the Nation by P.O.D.

Is the choir in "Move Along" by The All American Reject's a children's choir? I dunno.

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 6 November 2015 14:12 (nine years ago)

Delgados - no danger - kids choir mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIKx0HRSCuk

kinder, Friday, 6 November 2015 14:17 (nine years ago)

Christian Rich, DWNTWN & Now Faith Apostolic Church - Better To

nashwan, Sunday, 8 November 2015 13:02 (nine years ago)

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 8 November 2015 13:21 (nine years ago)

as well as the shitty remake by Neil Diamond

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 8 November 2015 13:21 (nine years ago)

The Church — 'It's No Reason'

austinato (Austin), Sunday, 8 November 2015 17:24 (nine years ago)

six months pass...

46. Juca Chaves - take me back to piaui

meisenfek, Monday, 9 May 2016 17:53 (nine years ago)

47. Tokyo Jihen - Souretsu (Live at Budokan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDotMg5_cA4

Milton Parker, Monday, 9 May 2016 18:35 (nine years ago)

48. múm - Weeping Rock, Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSi_6DdPqxU

(the liner notes credit the 'la la las' to 'Girls from Austurbæjarskóli', but they are obviously a ghost choir. I love how the song ends with their collective inhalation of breath)

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 9 May 2016 21:02 (nine years ago)

50. Kid Creole And The Coconuts - You Can't Keep A Good Man Down
51. The Housemartins - Bow Down

(both featuring St. Winfreds School Choir, of "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" infamy)

soref, Monday, 9 May 2016 21:28 (nine years ago)

(though that was a few years earlier so presumably it wasn't the same actual children)

soref, Monday, 9 May 2016 21:30 (nine years ago)

Lou Reed - The Kids
(sort of)

MatthewK, Monday, 9 May 2016 22:23 (nine years ago)

49. Soul II Soul - Get a Life

cock chirea, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 02:38 (nine years ago)

53. Big Boi - Shoes for Running

Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 02:45 (nine years ago)

54. Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 03:04 (nine years ago)

55. Alan Parsons Project - To One In Paradise

sheesh, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 03:15 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

56. Genesis - Supper's Ready

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:15 (five years ago)

57. Sia - Cheap Thrills

old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:18 (five years ago)

58. Talk Talk - I Believe In You

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 22 June 2019 06:52 (five years ago)

59. Madonna - God Control

ufo, Saturday, 22 June 2019 07:13 (five years ago)

60. Thom Yorke - Twist

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 27 June 2019 06:04 (five years ago)

61. John Cale - There Was A Saviour (alternatively, one of the other songs from the Falklands Suite of Words For The Dying)

Valentijn, Thursday, 27 June 2019 06:37 (five years ago)

62. Pastor TL Barrett & The Youth for Christ Choir - Like A Ship... (Without A Sail)
- maybe the best thing listed
63. Gaz Coombes - Wounded Egos
- not so much

nashwan, Thursday, 4 July 2019 22:07 (five years ago)

eleven months pass...

64. Austra, Cecile Believe - Mountain Baby

nashwan, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:37 (four years ago)

65. Neil Young - The Way

nth, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:11 (four years ago)

eleven months pass...

66(6). Elena Tsagrinou • El Diablo

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 24 May 2021 20:55 (four years ago)

The first single from our new album ‘We Will Always Love You’ (ft. Blood Orange) dropped a year ago today.

Tony recorded the backing vocals with The Australian Boys Choir / Auburn Uniting Church , Melbourne. pic.twitter.com/mBuvrYNB0P

— The Avalanches (@TheAvalanches) February 18, 2021

the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:02 (four years ago)

I suppose ABBA’s “I Have A Dream” is the designated elephant in the room, I will play along

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:02 (four years ago)

oh yah i guess mine was

67. avalanches - we will always love you

the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:12 (four years ago)

James Brown: "Say It Loud-I'm Black And I'm Proud"

blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:13 (four years ago)

69. Paul Janz - Believe in me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PucGFRAWIrE

Kim, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:01 (four years ago)

To answer a question from 2015, "Little Trouble Girl" has Kim Deal, Lorette Velvette and Melissa Dunn on b-vox. Also, doesn't it show up in (and maybe was written for) Alison Anders' movie "Grace of My Heart"? It would explain the Shangri-Las quote.

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:01 (four years ago)

70. Lost boys soundtrack / Gerard McMahon - Cry Little Sister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMLMV6E4CM

Kim, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:09 (four years ago)

71. There's no choir or other vocalists credited, but I would count the voices that come in singing something about "le petit soldat" in "A Life (1895-1915)" by Mark Hollis.

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:57 (four years ago)

72. "Grace Darling" by the Strawbs (you can hear the kids being coached before the song begins).

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 20:08 (four years ago)

one year passes...

73. Kenny Loggins - I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdEvuQE6t5c

peace, man, Friday, 23 September 2022 16:18 (two years ago)


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