Spoken word in music S/D

My favourite parks are car parks,
grass is something you smoke,
birds are something you shag.
Take your "Year in Provence
and shove it up your arse.

Shatner ownz this thread IMHO - but there are a lot of great individual tracks with spoken bits from all sorts of people.

Robert Ashley to thread! Check out "Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon" or "Yellow Man with Heart with Wings"

and so many good spoken bits on songs by Black Flag, the Gun Club (intro to the Las Vegas Story), Erase Errata (every major change seems destructive), Minor Threat (bit about fucking and golf), The Books, Sonic Youth (smoke and flames, alright! so nice! the beautiful paint job hopelessly marred etc.)

Sunday 10 October

Join Stuart Maconie for three hours of the weird and the wonderful from 1700-2000.

In Honour of National Poetry Day on 07 October The Freak Zone presents a Spoken Word Special!

With contributions ranging from Ivor Cutler to The Streets, Tom Waits to Atilla The Stockbroker, and Sir John Betjeman to John Cooper Clarke, it will certainly be entertaining and educational

D: Robbie Robertson, "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" (that song just gives me the giggles)

Tindersticks - "My Sister"
Melvins - "Skeeter"
Drop Nineteens - "Drop the Tragedy"
Inflatable Boy Clams - "I'm Sorry"
Buick - "Lucy Conrad, Excellent Liar"

I'd love to hear recommendations for more cuts like this ... spoken word songs from bands that otherwise didn't do them.

Plus ...
the whole Steven Jesse Bernstein record
the whole Moon Patrol record

The most recent Matmos album uses spoken word really well.

Lots of Minutemen.

4 Hero & Ursula Rucker "Loveless"
Nick Holder & Jemeni "America Eats Its Young"

S: The Treble Spankers - araban
S: Last Poets - when the revolution comes

I don't like the one The Clientele do (Emptily Through Holloway?) much.

I very much like Woozy With Cider by James Yorkston, though.

gil scot heron?

Search: The Go-Betweens' River of Money. A lot of people don't like it, but it's one of their most genuinely affecting songs, and I wish we'd heard more of the same.

So I'm sittin right here now man
It's June 3rd haha, 2:08 AM
Nigga I won't say win, lose or draw
Man we congratulate you already homie
See I motivate the thugs right
You motivate us homie, that's what it is
This a hands on policy, y'all touchin me right nigga
Yeah, first black president, win, lose or draw nigga
Haha, matter of fact, you know what it is man
Shouts out to Jackie Robinson, Booker T, Washington homie
Oh you ain't think I knew that shit?
Sydney portea what dey do?
Haha, my president is black
I'm important too though, my Lambo's blue
I was, I was the first nigga to ride through my hood in a Lamborghini yeah haha

My list..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6oS9Q4nijg

Tom Waits' "Frank's Wild Years" belongs on your list, either right above or right below "Is That All There Is".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoMAjmHfmAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPqpEnrGv6U

topically since I just saw his obituary in yesterday's paper.
Melvin Van Peebles Rated X By An All white Jury which compiles his first 3 lps in one place. Only thing that I could see that would improve this is a list of who played on it. I don't think they are on the original sleeves which might explain their absence but still would have been good to know. Quite a cooking band or bands.
Found it dead cheap in a shop in Dublin that i used to frequent in the late 90s and it was something they scored a load of at the time so hope there were a number of people who picked it up at the time.

Reflections by Iceberg Slim which shares some of the same qualities I think.

I rep for “Reminisce (Part One)” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners – possibly my favorite thing they ever recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-6KmqOD4U4

Jarvis can do it really well. "I Spy" being about his greatest moment.My favourite parks are car parks,
grass is something you smoke,
birds are something you shag.
Take your "Year in Provence
and shove it up your arse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDWHIRkFL-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awY1MRlMKMc

"Blue" Gene Tyranny - A Letter from Home
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (parts of)
Philip Glass, Robert Wilson et. al. - Einstein on the Beach (parts of)
John Cage & David Tudor - Indeterminacy
Peter Ablinger - Voices and Piano (recordings of various historical figures with piano accompaniment)
Robert Ashley - Private Parts (and many other works)
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened
Underworld - Two Months Off
Prefab Sprout - I Trawl the Megahertz
King Midas Sound - Solitude
Jacqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom - Talk 1 and Talk 2 from Daytime Viewing
Eno & Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (parts of)
Dry Cleaning

Moor Mother

The Small Faces, "Happiness Stan"

Bits:

The opening of "Do You Love Me" by The Contours. Probably my 2nd favorite spoken intro, after "Have You Seen Her" which Alfred listed.

It feels like half of "Atlantis" by Donovan is spoken.

"Comment te dire adieu" by Francoise Hardy makes effective use of spoken word.

Haiti, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o90x2e98IdA

Vinicius de Moraes - Samba da Benção (spoken middle bit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz0eddwTjnk

TS: Donovan's "Atlantis"

Vs. Spinal Tap's "Stonehenge"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhfUbuvAaY

Does “Coney Island Baby” count?

Every Lou Reed song counts.