If rock albums had skits...

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...I might actually listen to something like Franz Ferdinand or Arcade Fire if they had "comedy" interludes featuring menages a trois and fake phone calls from groupies.

― European Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

GET ONE BASEHEAD ALBUM

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

(well Not In Kansas Anymore specifically)

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

...they'd be Cheech and Chong albums.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, it certainly wouldn't hurt with John Mayer.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

I think that I'd be much more appreciative of early 90s classic Nevermind if it featured a skit where Kurt Cobain convinces a girl that blowjobs are a "normal part of sex," followed by slurping noises. Wait no, thats just gross.

― deee (djdee2005), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Prince's symbol album: the skits with Kirstie Alley as the investigative reporter. DUD

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

What about the fake interview on Bright Eyes' "Fevers and Mirrors"?

― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS YOUR RELIGION

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

INTERPOL - ANTICS

1. Paul's Intro (skit)
2. Next Exit
3. Evil
4. Take You On A Cruise (skit)
5. Slow Hands
6. Cosloy's Message
7. Not Even Jail
8. Public Pervert
9. Carlos D Has Herpes
10. C'Mere
11. Length Of Love (skit)
12. A Time To Be So Small
13. Public Pervert (Reprise)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

the Replacements thing where the cops come bust the party feels like a rap skit, but i think it was real....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

YMO to thread.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Theres Nothing Wrong With Love by Built to Spill has a skit tacked onto the end of it.. its kinda funny..

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Its not really a skit but at the end of DI Go Pop there is a funny little tiff between the band and neighbors.

― jmeister (jmeister), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

The radio station skits on QOTSA's "Songs for the Deaf" were massively dud also.

― jason., Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

they weren't all THAT bad, there were just too many of them!

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

"Mr Tyler, going down"

I feel like some metal bands have done this.

Oh yeah, Mortician does this a lot, except the skits are mostly excerpts from horror movies.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

did it start with janet jackson " 1814" ?
de la soul "3 foot high and rising" had a million skits.

― magic number dj, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

YMO to thread.

"Ahahahaha. Ahahah. Haha. Do you understand?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

"...YOU FUCKING DIE!!!"

― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

marissa marchant's "interview" would fit in perfectly on an album of hers.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Mike Watt leaaving a voicemail message for Thurston Moore about some lost weed always had an air of Cheech and Chong to it. Only with two Tommy Chongs.

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I'd say that Frank Zappa was possibly the originator of these. He certainly popularized them, anyway. (Something else to blame him for!) His first few late-60s LPs were full of 'em, Uncle Meat in particular. Same with Trout Mask Replica. A mixture of scripted bits and candid clandestinely-recorded documentary recordings.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

DON'T STAND ME DOWN, PEOPLE

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

GET ONE BASEHEAD ALBUM

(Every time I see this little "one" trope in action, I get annoyed that I don't know its origin. Can someone fill an ignoramus in?)

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Myonga's right. Wasn't "The Blimp" off of Troutmask the first phone-message skit?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

It would be even better if they had aliases they used in skits like Wu-Tang used to with those mobster-movie style skits. Jonny Greenwood could be, like, Fingers McGee, and Phil Selway could be called Q-Ball.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I think the one thing was cuz someones said "go to ONE Wolf Eyes show" or something like that on a noize thread.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Hey has anybody mentioned "No Anchovies Please" by J Geils yet?

I feel like there might be one on some Tom Petty album too....

And speaking of Cheech and Chong, what about when they were on *Court and Spark*? Does that count?

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I can't call Cheech & Chong on "Twisted" a skit, since it's not separated out from the song in the track listing or in any other real way.

But now that I say that, the William Hung album has skits, or at least spoken-word quasi-introductions to several of the songs.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Sun City Girls got mad skits, yo.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if Joe Walsh ever had any. He should have, if he didn't.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

the Replacements thing where the cops come bust the party feels like a rap skit, but i think it was real....

Indeed it is real, and it's a young Dave Pirner yelling "fuck you!" at the cops.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

The Who's Sell Out?

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 21 April 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

If rock albums had skits...

...then i might just consider buying a ryan adams album.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 21 April 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

the first track on the first Ryan Adams album is a skit!

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

...they'd be '80s hardcore albums by DRI, Zero Boys, and Adrenalin OD.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Myonga OTM about Frank Zappa. Also, Sebastian, LIFTED - the Bright Eyes album - is chock full of skits, at least at the beginning and I think the end. Okay, so not chock full. Either way, they are kind of annoying in the way you gotta skip through them to get to the actual songs... um, I mean, WHO THE FUCK LISTENS TO BRIGHT EYES? (convincing?)

― Dave M, Friday, 22 April 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

marcello, those transcend 'skit'. if i could i would have every record bleed talking and singing and life together like that one.

― Josh (Josh), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

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