S&D: songs with short a cappella sections

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always a risky move for even the most capable vocalist to pull off the trick where the instruments/beat drop out for a second to give a lyric particular effect or just sound cool, etc.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 7 December 2002 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy: so so many. some recent ones that come to mind....the end of Jay-Z "A Dream", the end of a new RHCP song i just heard on the radio, the end of Nas "Made You Look"
and of course Smashing Pumpkins "Zero"

Search: the end of the Dismemberment Plan "Gyroscope", the beginning of Elvis Costello "No Action"

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 7 December 2002 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: the long a cappella intro of Curlew's "Let's Sit Right Down/The Passing", feat. Amy Denio (A Beautiful Western Saddle)
&
the chorus bit rowards the end of The Residents' "Neediness" (around 3:45,if memory serves) from Demons Dance Alone

on the other hand (D?), the 'LAA-la-la, LAA-la-la, LAAA-LAA-LA-LAAA' carousel that gets a-whirlin' before the, ahem, grand finale of Uriah Heep's "The Shadows and the Wind" sounds -- at least in my mind's ear -- rather shrill

― t\'\'t (t''t), Saturday, 7 December 2002 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Search the scat break in the D-Plan's "One Too Many Blows to the Head"

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 7 December 2002 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

...bloody hell! of course Sparks as well as Queen (the singing festival's worth of layered choral acrobatics in da middle o' Prophet's Song, say) must've made loadsa stuff of actually both varieties, Search-y and Destruct-o

― t\'\'t (t''t), Saturday, 7 December 2002 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

blimey, you asked for SHORT a cappella sections
so the Prohpet Song doesn't count, does it?

― t\'\'t (t''t), Saturday, 7 December 2002 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"i'm the one" by van halen has one of the best examples of this

― brains (cerybut), Saturday, 7 December 2002 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Sublime's 'what i got'

...always liked that song...

― B, Saturday, 7 December 2002 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

How short is short ?

I mean, I think the classic "short a cappella section in a pop song" is in "Sloop John B", but is that too long for this thread ?

If so, then ..the bit after the intro of Marc Almond's 1984 (?)single "Tenderness is a Weakness" when he goes "She... was ... (then, as the srings pile back simultaneously) always alone..". Admittedly, there's some reverb on his voice, but, hey, it's Marc.

― darren, Saturday, 7 December 2002 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i just meant, y'know, not the whole song, just part of it, preferably shorter than the accompanied sections. so no need to break out the stopwatch for qualification.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 7 December 2002 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Zombies - "Changes"

(The one that starts, "I knew her...", from Odessey & Oracle)

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 7 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"two lips two lungs and one tongue" by nomeansno

― bob snoom, Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

search: that weird bit in the middle of lost and found by djshadow

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Rod Stewart's Reason To Believe.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

dance to the music : sly and the family stone

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 8 December 2002 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

mo ho bish o pi - "hear the air"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 9 December 2002 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles - Paperback Writer

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 9 December 2002 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

surfin' bird

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 December 2002 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice one, Kim.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 December 2002 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Missy owns this thread.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 9 December 2002 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

search: "D" Train, "You're the One for Me"
Michael Jackson, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Beach Boys, "Sloop John B" (the a cappella is the best part of the record)

destroy: Billy Vera & the Beaters, "At This Moment"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 9 December 2002 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Leonard Bernstein!"

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 9 December 2002 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

'Send me an angel' by Lewis Taylor, when the music stops and he does his Brian Wilson thing.

In fact, any Lewis Taylor song where the music stops and he does his Brian Wilson thing.

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one on Van Halen - "I'm the One"?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

En Vogue owns this thread.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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