Favorite Spoken-Word/Faux "radio broadcast" bits within the body of songs...

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There are few to choose from, of course....be it Phil Rizutto's play-by-play within Meat Loaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" through Allen Ginsberg's cameo in the Clash's "Ghetto Defendant."

My faves include Jaz's Big Brotheresque rant in "Are You Receiving?" (This is an Order from the New Government!), but the all-time greatest has got to be the imperious BBC-ish newscaster hate-rant within "Power in the Darkness" by The Tom Robinson Band.

"Today, institutions fundamental to the British system
of Government are under attack: the public schools, the house of Lords, the Church of
England, the holy institution of Marriage, even our magnificent police force are no
longer safe from those who would undermine our society, and it's about time we said
'enough is enough' and saw a return to the traditional British values of discipline,
obedience, morality and freedom.
What we want is:

Freedom from the reds and the blacks and the criminals
Prostitutes, pansies and punks
Football hooligans, juvenile delinquents
Lesbians and left wing scum
Freedom from the niggers and the Pakis and the unions
Freedom from the Gipsies and the Jews
Freedom from leftwing layabouts and liberals
Freedom from the likes of you..."

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Yours?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 April 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The one on "On the Radio" by Cheap Trick should be better than it is, but it isn't.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

This is Rock & Roll Radio with the Ramones

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 14 April 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like all the stuff on the QOTSA alb. The alb's good, but I can't listen to it with all the lame radio skits.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 April 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)"?

Maybe my memory's foolin, but didn't they work that one out in such a way so that the local stations could insert their own plug in there? "...94 T-Y-X, Jackson!"...and so on.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew...
I think that song was specifically about SanFran, so I doubt if that local station angle happened. I wouldn't be surprised if you're right though, after all, commercial radio is not exactly deft when it comes to context.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

the beginning of "Underneath It All"! this song rules every category!

also there's a terrible one right before "1983... A Merman I Should Turn to Be" isn't there?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the beginning of "Underneath It All"! this song rules every category!

Just admit this is your "Soon" and be done with it. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if this counts as being in the body of the song, but I ove the beginning of 'Burn it Down' from 'Searching for the Young Soul Rebels'.

Bizarrely enough, this was one of my first threads: Big Jimmy? Yeah! Al? Yeah! For God's sake tell me more...

― Bill E (bill_e), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

There's also that '7 o'clock news/silent night' track on Simon & Garfunkel's 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme' LP tho' that's TV I think.

― Bill E (bill_e), Monday, 14 April 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh, I hate that "Silent Night" track.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 14 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't Janet do something like this on "Rhythm Nation"?

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Public Enemy: By The Time I Get To Arizona
G'n'R: Civil War
Most of Labradford's 'Mi Media Narranja' album. Although it's 'just' indecipherable tuning band noise.
Kashmir: Leather Crane

... and the worst: all that shit on the new Li'l Kim album. How lame is that?

best spoken word (not radio) part:
Millie Jackson: If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Wanna Be Right)

― Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

All the WBALLZ silliness on Dogg Pound Smooth...

-And now we're gonna take some calls...
-Yo this is Barry White...

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

house music to thread!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

NWA - 100 Miles and Running
Ice-T - Shut up, be happy
Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Jimi Hendrix - Exp
Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (ummm.. I think...the one that goes "Wu-tang AGAIN?" at the start)
Public Enemy - Contract on the World Love Jam
Redman - Journey Throo Da Darkside

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The dub version of Lee Scratch Perry's "Satan Kicked the Bucket" ("Satan Dub"?) has some sorta agri-business news broadcast running through it.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Moodymann's "Radio" on MAHOGANY BROWN.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the opening to the residents' 'mark of the mole'

― milton, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

a couple of Electroscope tracks

(Electroscope dude is a BBC announcer too, and it certainly sounds like it)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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