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mine tip for the top spot in this category has to be elephant man on "fuck u sign"... just the sheer force of the "nnnnnngggghhhhhh!" in this record makes me crack up... other suggestions please. obv mark e smith does not count because he is lame.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"And it goes a little something like this.........HUH."

Run DMC.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: James Brown vs Celtic Frost

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a tiny break in "Kings & Queens" by Killing Joke (from the Night Time album) where the band stops on a dime, and drummer Big Paul Ferguson lets loose a cathartic "Urrgghhhh" before everything kicks back in and Geordie bludgeons you with the riff. Most satisfying.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"WAR ... HUUNNNHHHHH!!!"

good god y'all, the only possible answer to this is edwin starr.

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bobby Bland's bizarre throaty grunt / croak is my favourite, nobody does it like him (actually that's a lie, Geater Davis does it just like him but that's another matter).

I recently heard a trivvic record by C-Mone in which she manages to grunt in a Nottingham accent. I was very impressed.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like Ja Rule's grunts leading up to his verse in Jay-Z's "Can I Get A...", especially in the video where it cuts to people dancing then him grunting and sneering then people dancing then him grunting and sneering, etc. In fact, I like these grunts better than anything else he's ever done.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom G. Warrior, first track on the "Tragic Serenades" EP (I think it's called "Jewelled Throne")

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

fact checking cuz ends the thread.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Faith No More's cover of "Easy", Mike Patton right before the guitar solo.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

That never struck as a grunt so much as a declaration of disgust.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It always sounded to me like a very pained orgasm.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Helge Schneider, "We Gotta Rock, We Gotta Roll". Before the title bit is sung, but after the "Ve gunnah FUCK-ah tonight" bit.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Constipation Blues..

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(Token ILM answer) Dave225 wins ILM forever. Have a good life and so on...

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

james brown on "that's life"
(live apollo volume 2)
grunts!, over violins:

halts those pizzicato
fuckers in their tracks and
wins the prize for me

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Morten Harket's UhhHUHHs on the first few AHA hits?

"He likes a bit of reading on the subway home..

oohooohhhooo UhhHUHHs!"

Always made me laugh, anyway.

― Marcel Gallingez (Marcel Gallingez), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

at the beginning of !!!'s single, really lacklustre grunts too preoccupied with laid back cool. yep, i'd have to go with the ba-ha men, who indeed did let the dogs out? or do they count as barks rather than grunts?

― chicken tonight (chicken tonight), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Check out the one on Dave Gahan's newest solo album I forget the track but it's at the onset of it, and boy is it a doozie!

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

also search: Gerogerigegege for plenty of grunts.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Red Octopus (haha thank you all very much you've been a wonderful audience good night)

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis Presley! (gittit?)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

chambers brothers 'time has come today'.

― william (william), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Boredoms.

but the best ever recorded pained squeal is Accept's "Son of a Bitch" - there's a part in the middle that needs to be heard to be believed

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Syl Johnson - "Different Strokes" (see about a billion "golden era" rap records)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know is it's the best, but Andrew WK's grunt at the end of "Party Hard" is pretty cool. Especially in the video.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Friday, 5 September 2003 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm picking hairs cos he uses actual words, but that "GOOOHD LAWWWWWWDDDDD" from bloody "Crunchy Granola": by Neil Diamond is pretty damn funny (any Australian out there who ever saw Tony Martin talking about this on the Late Show should be laughing now...)

Also you can't go past the "sounds like he's having a puke" "UNNNNNGH" sound at the start of "TV Party" by Black Flag - classic!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 5 September 2003 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Carl Puttnam's wwwwows take some beating, in Cud's Living in the Past.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 5 September 2003 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The cantonese bands The dragons cover of the Anarchy in the Uk has a great grunt in the end of the song.

Also Flying lizards version of Sex machine have some good grunts!

― Jens (brighter), Friday, 5 September 2003 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Iggy in Loose!

― Ommmm, Friday, 5 September 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

People I know always talk about Iggy's "burp" at the beginning of "Raw Power," but it has always sounded like a grunt to me, and a very nice one. Unimpressed, like.

Bonzo Dog Band's "The Strain"?

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 5 September 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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