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What songs do you know that have sounds in them that you thought were coming from elsewhere when you first heard them?

For example, the U2 song I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For contains a sound which is just like the old doorbell at my parents' house. Which meant I rushed to open the door when I first I heard it on the radio, only to find no-one there!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Gosh!

I'm off for a beer.

― yawn, Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

also Wendys' In A Long Time has phone sounds in it, but not quite similar enough to mine to lead to confusion.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that the RIAA should insert AIM noises into mp3s.

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to think one of the yelps in Billie Jean was my mum shouting "Nicky!!" up the stairs. I'd turn it down and shout "What?" back.

The reverse of this: for a while I used to hear the 'closing doors' pips on the tube as the start of Sorted for Es and Whizz.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the bells on the tannoy announcement in the train station always make me think of "Bill is Dead" by the Fall.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - yeah!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

the shins - fighting in a sack and stereolab - lo boob oscillator (i think that one) both have sounds that have me looking around to see whose phone is ringing

― common_person (common_person), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it "Sure Shot"? One of the songs on Ill Communication has a random dog bark in it, and it used to freak my cat out!

― Huck, Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I know of a squeaky fridge door that sounds like it's a sample from James White's Offwhite album.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I always check my watch to see if the hourly chime is set when the little casio beep happens in the Flaming Lips' "What is the Light?"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

this is a wonderful thread.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 June 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

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