Weirdest Mid-Song Exclamations; Nominate Yours Here

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...And I don't mean classic rock fuxx shouting "take it away!" before a guitar solo. I mean utterly inexplicable, out-of-the-blue stuff. For instance...

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

...Madonna barking "Sigmund Freud! Analyze this!!" in the middle of an instrumental break in "Die Another Day."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

john lennon saying "cookie" in that weird voice in "hold on".

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Remember Bewitched? In their biggest song one of girls said "Fight like me dad, boy!" near the end. What?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

tin roof rusted!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

In the unreleased-until-the-Anthology track, "If You've Got Troubles," a desperate Ringo Starr trying to energize the track by shouting, before the guitar break, "Aw, rock on, anybody!"

― phil d., Monday, 9 August 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

In Silverhead's "Long-Legged Lisa", a basic glam song about lusting after a hotty named Lisa, singer Michael Des Barres finds it necessary to yell out "Martin Luther King...can teach us all how to sing!"

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Morrissey's two yips in "This Charming Man," but I'm not sure they're weird or out of character.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The bit in the middle of Bonzo Dog Band's "My pink half of the drainpipe" where the music stops and says....

"I'm a wobbly jelly, You're a pink blancmange
I'm a sherry trifle, you're a chocolate sponge
My dad wears a paper hat, yours inflates balloons
Whoops, deedledee dee pop
Here comes the spoon."

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dog will hunt!"
- "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver," ~ Primus

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Garibaldianne owns this thread so far.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

are there any songs that use that mortal kombat soundbite where dude steps out from behind a tree and goes "toasty!"?

umm, just wondering.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown's cornucopial litany on "Make It Funky": "Smothered steak! Candy yams! Turnips!"

Paul Kantner in an acid haze on "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooniel": "Armadillo."

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Freddie Mercury at the end of "One Vision":
"I want FRIED CHICKEN!!!"

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

In the middle of Gary Young's [ex- Pavement]"Plant Man," all of sudden he exclaims "Shirt."

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The end of The Doors' "Touch Me". "STRONGER THAN DIRT"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

middle of Alex Chilton's "Tennis Bum"

"THIS SOUNDS JUST LIKE WOOLY BULLY", cracking himself up.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Scooter! So many to choose from. I think my favourite is "Repect to the man in the ice cream van!"

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Not exactly a non-sequitor in the context of the song, but still cracks me up...

Dead Milkmen, "Ringo Buys a Rifle"..."hey Paul, you asshole, DUB THIS!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the police, "be my girl sally"--if you can call dragging on for a couple minutes an exclamation

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The DLR-Ted Templeman(?) conversation over the studio intercom in 'Unchained'.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In the middle of Big Gay Al's "Super Thanks for Asking" he shouts "Skittles!" for no reason.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

He was tasting the rainbow, silly!

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to count that thing on the Pixies "Surfer Rosa" where Charles is all "you fucking DIE!... no, I was talking to Kim!" but thats not actually IN a track. Its still pretty funny though.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"DAR... that's the Dykes of the American Revolution"

- Phil Ochs on a live recording of "Love Me, I'm a Liberal". Just seems a bit at odds with the politics, dontcha know...

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotta be The Guess Who's "Rain Dance" ("Where'd you get the gun, John?")

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"what's he like, what's he like anyway" in the middle of Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance. It's mostly that crazy accent she says it in.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god yeah her shitty faux-cockney "know wot oi mean?" thing. Gah!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"then I'm gonna kiss your PINEAPPLE!" - Fred Schneider on the B-52's "Strobelight"

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I beat Myonga von Bontee to this one:

MX-80 Sound - Boy Trouble, Girl Trouble
When the boy meets the girl and to the show they go then for weeks it goes and goes and then she does not show has the boy not learned that a match of wood will burn fa ce la bore my cherie amour Michelle ma belle Michelle ma belle."

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Neneh Cherry hate!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, what the HELL does "tin roof!!...rusted" mean anyway??

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

She's describing the corroded condition of the Love Shack.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

really?? HAHAHHAHAHAHAA shit i just woke up the dog. that's really funny.

What a shithole, that Love Shack.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OK OK OK OK I got a follow-up question, then: Why does Fred Schneider say "You're WHAT?" before that, then? That doesn't make any sense. You'd expect her to go "Pregnant!" or something, the way he asks. But no. "TIIIIIIIIN ROOF! Rusted."

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's meant to be "your"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Craptastic.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

As in "My tin roof rusted." "Your what?" etc. Ok, I'm really going to bed.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

homer simpson: 'get to the "work out" part!!!!'

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck's "In a Cold Ass Fashion" is full of these:

"O.G.: original glue sniffer"
"squeegee"
"cold... ass... fashion"

The last two are in a robot voice.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Also love Becks "get crazy with the cheese wizz!" in the middle of "Loser".

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Beck rules this thread.

"Turn this shit off man! What's wrong with you man? Get the other record! Damn."

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"Lady Godiva's Operation," where Lou Reed busts in "Sweetly" and "Neatly pumpin'" strikingly loud in the 'wrong' channel

― Troy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dinosaur Jr cover of "Just Like Heaven"

i kissed her face i kissed her HAIR

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This spoken part during the middle of David Bowie's "All the Madmen"

"Where can the horizon lie
When a nation hides
Its organic minds
In a cellar...dark and grim
They must be very dim"

You also hear a voice saying, "organic growth is ....." with the voice trailing off and "He followed me home, Mom....Can I keep him?", which sounds like Bowie's voice made to sound like a little boy.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That was no doubt the laughing gnome the little boy wanted to keep.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a weird female voice calling/wailing in Duran Duran's "Rio" that my friend Donna always thought was her sister beckoning her from somewhere in the house.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"November Spawned a Monster" - Morrissey

More weird female yelping/wailing.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bazdad/State-Cog/Analyst"

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

There's the dialog in the middle of the "Bizarre Love Triangle" video:

"I don't believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!"

"You know, you're a real up person."

― locus solus, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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Morrissey again - that sneeze towards the end of 'Interesting Drug'

― bham, Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Dag Nasty, "Under Your Influence:"

"You know, I walked by you on the street the other day. You were going one way, I was going the other, and we both walked right by and we don't say a word. We used to be this close! We used to be like brothers! But now, because of one time, one word, one phrase...it's all over."

― mike a, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Daniel Johnston lets loose with a big burp in the one CD of his that I have. Was that self-produced (the disk, not the burp) or did his producer think that added to the "authenticity" to leave it in?

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The moment where the choir yells "ALASKA!" in the middle of Neil Young's "Be The Rain" always freaks me out.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey man, that suit is you. You'll get some leg tonight for sure. Tell us how you doooo!"

"C'mon Dave, gimme a break"

"One break, comin' uuupppppp!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Is "THIS! IS THE WORST VACATION EVER! I'M GOING TO CUT OPEN YOUR FOREHEAD WITH A ROOFING SHINGLE!" too obvious?

― Simon H., Friday, 13 August 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Sandor Czihar of Satankittenripper screams on Gorefest for Noddy Part 2 in Hungarian what sounds to my ears as if, "I rape your Christian God thricely", or maybe it is "thusly" I am not so sure. Anyway this is strange to me so to speak as in previous song, Gorefest for Noddy Part 1, he has already declared God not in existence. So this would appear inconsistent. Which is to me strange.

― Janne Karlsson, Friday, 13 August 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty obvious one - Pete Townshend shouting 'I saw ya' at Keith Moon in the final seconds of Happy Jack.

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince does this stuff all the time, but it's difficult to tell it it's intentional or not.

Marvin Gaye saying "Don't wanna hafta masturbate" as Sexual Healing grinds down should count...

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 August 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"If this gon' be that kinda party, I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes!"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 13 August 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Smiths - Barbarism Begins At Home

Hope no one beat me to that one. I usually like Morrissey Yelps, but they screw with the song's momentum in this one.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Friday, 13 August 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"New York buildings are *very* high! And not at ALL defensive... lock the door this time!"

Not to mention "Electricity comes from other planets!!!"

All weirdoes but goodies from "Temptation Inside Your Heart" by Velvet Underground.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

From MX-80 Sound's "Boy Trouble/Girl Trouble":

"When the boy meets the girl and to the show they go then for weeks it goes and goes and then the girl does not show has the boy not learned that a match of wood will burn fa c'le a bore mon cherie amour Michelle Ma Belle Michelle Ma Belle."

The words themselves aren't weird in context, just the delivery: a breathlessly fast uninterrupted run-on sentence with no inflection whatsoever.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 13 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

DO THE DOG

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"If you don't like my arrogance, you can suck my socks!"

- "Don't Care" by Klark Kent (really Stew Copeland)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Magnum leaps from his car
Eyes glint in the hot hot sun
"Hey guys, where's that plane bound for?"

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

This is a great thread, but I'm mystified as to how Einar from the Sugarcubes never showed up with any of his grating and irrelevant declarations.

I also feel like Paul McCartney's career should be full of these, but off the top of my head the only one I can think of is "Boil Crisis," where Paul yelling "Prick the blighter!" makes some amount of sense, but Denny Laine's "Cut his head off!" seems considerably less relevant to the song's narrative of people with life-destroying pimple problems.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

"OK, OK! Don't PUSH us when we're HOT!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

No Funkadelic, no credibility.

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

In the middle of the guitar solo on the Soft Boys' "Ugly Nora," Robyn Hitchcock shouts "lookout for that cat!"

― mike powell (mike powell), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I nominate the Smashing Pumpkins' "X.Y.U." for: "And into the eyes of a jackal I say KAAAAAAAA-BOOM!"

― LC (Damian), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Faith No More's version of Lionel's "Easy".....right before the solo:

"EWWWWW!"

― Ben Crazee (Ben Crazee), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't have thought of it if I hadn't just listened to the song, but the part in the Silver Jews' "Federal Dust" right after "They don't cry / and they don't die, in South Dakota", when SM quietly sings to himself "just like a seagull..." was always a wtf moment for me.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Communication Breakdown", when Plant shouts "Suck it!"

"Suffragette City", when Bowie shouts "Wham! Bam! Thank you ma'am!"

― Euler (Euler), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's not 'mid-song', but I love the beginning of 'Brain Dead' by Happy Mondays when Shaun Ryder shouts "You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous!", for no reason whatsoever.

Also, no forgetting the classic, "You're twisting my melon, man", etc. Ryder's the king of this sort of thing.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Every time I hear the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There," I get weirded out right before the solo when Mavis vamps, "Daddy, oh Daddy" as if Pops is taking her . . . there.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

How is "tin roof rusted" a metaphor for pregnancy?

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

i don't suppose it's that out of place, but the "james brooooooown. james brooooooown!" in the middle of the tom tom club's "genius of love" always makes me laugh.

― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ozzy Osborne - "Flaps." in No Bone Movies.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Vanity 6 - He's So Dull. Song fades out then there's all these crazy noises at the end.

― an eighth polish (an eighth polish), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

The mighty Scooter are the kings of this:

"Siberia, the place to be, the K, the L, the F, the theology!"

"Is it a bird, is a plane, no it's Dave, he's on the train!"

"Three AM, the painted cow!"

"Hiya Kylie!"

And many many more.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Jam were full of this shit, but the only one that sticks out is: "Youth Explosion!!!"

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

Blues Explosion, for no good reason

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

doobededoowap say what yeahhhh
-when the shit hits the fan

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

right so when springsteen barks like a rabid dog in the middle of that "state trooper" song off nebraska. that is an odd moment. i think he's really frustrated about being pulled over (really).

there's also "I GOT BLISTAS ON ME FINGAS!!" which incredibly hasn't yet been said. maye cuz it's at the end of the song. so honorable mention then.

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Thursday, 15 June 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

"New York buildings are *very* high! And not at ALL defensive... lock the door this time!"Not to mention "Electricity comes from other planets!!!"All weirdoes but goodies from "Temptation Inside Your Heart" by Velvet Underground.

OTM

― Two Little Hit Parades (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 02:52 (five years ago)

It’s not exactly unexpected considering the title, but the layers of sci-fi techno production certainly don’t seem like an obvious setting for Carl Craig to demand his chicken noodle soup in BFC’s “Chicken Noodle Soup.”

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 03:13 (five years ago)

Loving the Tin Roof Rusted discussion upthread. FWIW, I also thought it had something to with Tin Roof ice cream/sundaes (vanilla with fudge swirls and dark chocolate dipped roasted peanuts), which would have been a particularly southern thing to sing about.

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 03:26 (five years ago)

there's some Elvis song where it sounds like he yells out "awwww WALKY TALKY" and it always makes me laugh

― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 03:28 (five years ago)

Thought I posted this before, but there's a live version of Mr. Bungle playing the Super Maro Bros. Theme and halfway through Patton asks the crowd "Safeway?"

― Vinnie, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 03:56 (five years ago)

Taking sides: Temptation Inside Your Heart vs. the Monkees' I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog.

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 05:28 (five years ago)

It's not 'mid-song', but I love the beginning of 'Brain Dead' by Happy Mondays when Shaun Ryder shouts "You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous!", for no reason whatsoever.

Not entirely random:

In "Brain Dead", Ryder's opening line "You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous!" is a quote from the film Gimme Shelter, in which it is uttered by Sam Cutler, referring to the set at the Altamont Free Concert.

― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 06:45 (five years ago)

When Elvis says "Somebody Goofed!" in the middle of "Good Luck Charm"

I was off an airplane and walking to baggage reclaim when I heard this over the speakers, and for a damn millisecond I thought they were live in the departure lounge!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:00 (five years ago)

p.s. Yeah, "Blue Suede Shoes" xpost

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:01 (five years ago)

GOT ANY UNDERLAY?!?!?

― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:11 (five years ago)

*gratutitous rug reference

(Sorry, The Shamen are absolute kings of this sort of thing.)

― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 07:12 (five years ago)

Re: “Tin roof ... rusted!” I always thought it was like rhyming slang. The cops are banging on the door and... you’re busted!

Re: weird exclamations, Uncle Dave Macon hollering “KILL YO SELF” in the middle of “Way Up the Old Plank Road” owns this.

― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 12:51 (five years ago)

Kingdom of Loss by Pain of Salvation breaks from its usual razor-sharp social commentary to offer this bit of trenchant-ness mid-song

"See, it's really all about time and choice. The fast food saves us enough time to squeeze lunch in exactly when we want it. The elevators save us just a little more, the stairmaster let us choose exactly when to walk the stairs. Time is so important these days, it's becoming a fucking disease, and I guess in a way it is since it's bound to kill us all in the end. Now with all the time and money we stashed away on others' expenses, I can only assume that the tickets to hell are really expensive. For some reason, it's important to be first in line."

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 15:27 (five years ago)

Kitten! oh yeah, oh yeah, Kitten!

― BrianB, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 16:52 (five years ago)

Does this odd bit in the middle of Young Americans count, it does come completely out of the blue.

"Do you remember...your President Nixon? Do you remember the bills you have to pay, or even YESTERDAAAAAY!"

― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Friday, 4 September 2020 13:35 (five years ago)

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