Songs that begin with tick-tock electronic percussion

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“Dream Baby Dream” - Suicide

Apollo and the Aqueducts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:50 (three years ago)

“Enola Gay” - OMD

Apollo and the Aqueducts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:51 (three years ago)

Time Captives - Kingdom Come

Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 10:54 (three years ago)

"Like Clockwork" Boomtown Rats

Mark G, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:18 (three years ago)

or does it have to be electronic?

Mark G, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:18 (three years ago)

Preferred electronic but maybe will have to open it up.

20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:22 (three years ago)

I might even want to allow “Mamma Mia,” for example.

20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:24 (three years ago)

Sparks - Beat The Clock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoMCip83GZ4

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:30 (three years ago)

Akufen - Psychometry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVwVqXqw0M8

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:32 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAfaOJuchn4

xzanfar, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:34 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_UfFL3wxM

xzanfar, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:35 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFlx0XY2aU

xzanfar, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:36 (three years ago)

Time Beat by Ray Cathode

fetter, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:36 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tI1_KlO6xI

xzanfar, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:54 (three years ago)

hotline bling

Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:18 (three years ago)

Squeeze - "Take Me I'm Yours"

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:29 (three years ago)

"Clock Strikes Ten" Cheap Trick

Tubesocks Secure (punning display), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:30 (three years ago)

XTC - "That's Really Super, Supergirl"

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:30 (three years ago)

Treble Boys - Julie-Anne

Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:34 (three years ago)

^good one! I had occasion to email one of the Treble Boys in recent years.

Good work all around in fact.

20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:40 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD19IaJQSJI

Pil - Four enclosed walls. Mickey Mouse watch through an harmonizer

fpsa, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:43 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El9x7zHCfj0

Lipps Inc cover of How long

fpsa, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:45 (three years ago)

A few appearances form the Rhythm King or Rythym Ace drum machine here, so this playlist will probably help:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3uf6UUNJjl4HzdMTvI7u69?si=088ea2ea4f274380

fetter, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:08 (three years ago)

The Chills. "Doledrums"

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

Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:15 (three years ago)

Alex Anwandter - Siempre Es Viernes En Mi Corazon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTUWwUUa1WE

Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:19 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19PWdj9x860
"T.T.T (Turntable Tennis)" - Takako Minekawa
Bonus points for starting out with Ping Pong Percussion.

20 Preflyte Rock (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:29 (three years ago)

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

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:59 (three years ago)

I'll never not like ping pong percussion

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:09 (three years ago)

Akiko Yano - Highland

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

frogbs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:13 (three years ago)

Ariel Pink - Not Enough Violence

nostormo, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:37 (three years ago)

The full-length version of "Heart of Glass"

Vast Halo, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:27 (three years ago)

Phenix - Clockwise

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

stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:44 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q7qvWYpXIU

magma - udu wudu

fpsa, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:02 (three years ago)

^^^ one of those "oh shit this isn't the right album" moments the first time you hear it

frogbs, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:04 (three years ago)

LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby

nate woolls, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 19:21 (three years ago)

The full-length version of "Heart of Glass"

― Vast Halo, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 6:27 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

The Teardrop Explodes "Serious Danger" has the same intro

Mark G, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 21:59 (three years ago)

Pink Floyd - "The Gnome"

Lee626, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 10:40 (three years ago)

Peter Gabriel “Games Without Frontiers”

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 12:06 (three years ago)

"No More Words" - Berlin

Josefa, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 12:22 (three years ago)

also "Rush Rush" by Debbie Harry which is actually the same rhythm track as "No More Words"

Josefa, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 12:31 (three years ago)

Throbbing Gristle, "Persuasion"

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

Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 13:31 (three years ago)

Doesn't satisfy all the original requirements of the thread but gets close and actually has "tick tock" in the openinglyrics, along with naming a percussion instrument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEM_63_P0CY

Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:24 (three years ago)

Some versions of "Night and Day" dispense what that intro, although Ella's and Fred Astaire's don't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydxcHACwX4Y

Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:26 (three years ago)

^also some interesting percussion choices there!

Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:26 (three years ago)


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