instances of involuntary laughter in songs

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clash - white man in hammersmith palais ('you got *something* suits, huh, you think it's f-f-(laughter)-funny, turning rebellion into money')

that bob dylan song where he cracks up in the beginning

and my favorite, new order "every little counts/when i'm with you/i think you are a pig/you s-s-s-hhahaha, sh-should be-e-e-e, ha, in a zoo"

― bloated diachronicist mentality (cerybut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Zoviet France, Bring Hessa

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

... now there's a fucking ILM answer if ever there was one

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

"feelin on yo booty" by r.kelly?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

"summer babe" pavement? that "drop bombs *giggle*" part...

― hot doorknobs (hot doorknobs), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Summer Babe: Pavement

SM laughs in the middle of the verse that starts "Minerals, ice deposits"

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight: REM

Stipe laughs after the line "And a reading from Dr. Seuss"

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

REM, "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight"....If I remember correctly, Stipe laughs after he sings, "A reading from Dr. Seuss, Seuss"

― PB, Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Ha. Wow. Talk about not reading the final post before inserting your own.....

― PB, Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Dylan laughs in "Ballad of a Thin Man" too ("you try so hard...")

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't Iggy Pop lose it a little at the end of "Success"?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Miss Kittin / The Hacker, "Frank Sinatra" (Plus most other Miss Kittin songs, actually.)

Nouvelle Vague, "Too Drunk to Fuck"

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Someone in the background is laughing after Hanna's first 'rammalangadingdong' in 'Deceptacon' (the DFA mix at least).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

And how do we know when it's involuntary? Strummer might have though it'd be good to laugh with "y'think it's funny" coming up.

― 666 (Robust Cookies), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Nurse With Wound/Whitehouse, "The Registered Nurse"

- and even better ILM answer than my first one!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

doesn't Screamin' Jay Hawkins start chortling maniacally during "I Put A Spell On You"?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he does. I wonder what was so funny that he couldn't help himself and nearly ruined the song by laughing like that?

― 666 (Robust Cookies), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

whiskeytown - bar lights (broke a string)

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

the end of ya mama by the pharcyde, when they crack up listing insults.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

The version of "and your bird can sing" off Anthology 2.

By the Beatles ICYDK.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I put that on when a friend was kind of stoned the other day and it freaked him out a bit.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what was so funny that he couldn't help himself and nearly ruined the song by laughing like that

a whole lotta alcohol

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boys, "Barbara Ann"

― PB, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if that's real or staged: Mark E Smith at the end of PARANOIA MAN IN CHEAP SH*T ROOM, laughs as he says "Speculate"

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Bowie starts laughing at the end of "Laughing Gnome," but methinks that may have been intentional.

― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

The Beasties gigglin' at the end of 'What Comes Around' after Adrock says "Doris the Finkosaurus!"

The female singer during 'Yr Room' by The Shortwave Set (the entire song is apparently recorded in one or two separate takes where after she cracks up, she has to be reassured by one of her bandmates, while she in turn reminds him that he has to watch the footie in 20 mins. She gives up at the end. It's very sweet).

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

For some reason I feel very confident the laughing in "Summer Babe" is there on purpose.

― Guayaquil, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

There's that Spoon song near the end of "Kill The Moonlight." That laugh is Brit's natural chuckle right?

― tegle, Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

"feelin on yo booty" by r.kelly?

definitely the most hysterical instance of this.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash starts cracking up in the middle of "Dark as the Dungeon" on At Folsom Prison.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

In "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" on Abbey Road, Macca laughs during the line "writing (snigger) 50 times I must not be so..." and on Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing", Mark Knopfler laughs on the last word of the line "bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee"

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

maxwells silver hammer - i think it's when he sings "writing 50 times"

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

you fucker.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Jim Morrison laughs on a lot of Doors songs ("Five to One," "Soft Parade" come to mind) but I think they were all planned.

Also, about 3/4 of the lines in Jimi's "Crosstown Traffic."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

That "And Your Bird Can Sing" is so great.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

can't believe nobody mentioned Elvis

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
"Hey, hey - they say I better get a chaperone [laughter]"

I like to think this is involuntary but who really knows?

― Paul outta Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

at the end of "hair of the dog", when slash lapses into the riff
from "daytripper", there is the most forced sounding involuntary
laugh ever commited to record, but who is the culprit? Duff? Izzy?

― axl, Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

black arkestra otm - "Are you lonesome tonight"

― willem (willem), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

doubtful that it's involuntary, but on Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It," he chuckles a bit in between the lines "you tryin' to flex on me?" and "don't be silly".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

"Brak Can't Stop Laughing" on Space Ghost's Surf and Turf, pretty much the entirety of the song.

"I'm slobberin' on myself!"

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I imagine the laughter in Video Aventures' "Sequences N2O" was unintentional when it was recorded. I remember Ian Gillan flubbing/laughing at one point on a concert recording - maybe it's on "Made in Japan"? I can't remember what song it was.

― Pangolino 2, Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Q-Tip giggles near the end of his last verse on the Beastie's Get It Together.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

George W. Johnson: The Laughing Song (1908)

http://www.garlic.com/~tgracyk/johnson1.htm

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

The first time I heard laughing on a song was The Monkees, "I'm gonna buy me a dog". As a little kid, I felt that was pretty zany. For the most infectious laughing in a song, but clearly voluntary, it's Fishbone's 'Post Cold War Politics'.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boys - Little Pad
(oh, wait, that was substances at play)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Group X - "Mario Twins"
Porky Pig - "Blue Christmas"!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

There's some snippet of either Rufus Thomas or R.L. Burnside cracking up and saying "I know where I'm goin' now" somewhere on the JSBX's Now I Got Worry. (My favorite album by them by a fur piece.)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Mike Skinner and his buddies cracking up at the end of "Don't Mug Yourself". Not sure if it's planned, it sounds like they were messing around and just decided to leave it in.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

haha, whoa, group x. just thinking about that part is making me laugh

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I think a lot of these were probably planned, including possibly these two...

Elis Regina e Tom Jobim - Aguas de Marco
Stew - Naked Dutch Painter

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

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Elizabeth Fraser to the fucking thread immediately! THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

"Glass Candle Grenades", "Half-Gifts (BBC Version)", "Golden Vein (BBC Version)", "Shallow Then Halo", and many many more.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

One of the choruses in Nirvana's "Milk It" has Kurt laughing on the "Test... meat" bit.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Flipper doing "the old lady who swallowed a fly" on Sex Bomb Baby (at "swallowed a minister, isn't it sinister?")

― Nideo Homo, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

hummingbirds "leilani"
kenickie "montrose gimps it up for charity"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Nirvana "Milk It," after the solo, before he says "taste meat."

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Ross Johnson in "Baron of Love Pt. 2"

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

61 posts and no mention of "Heroin"?

"It's my life. And it's my wifenervousgiggle"???

jeenYUS!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 17 June 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Even more genius is that apparently no one's misread the thread title as "instances of involuntary slaughter in songs."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

elvis on a live version of "are you lonesome tonight". it was on a b-side of a cd single a few years ago. he laughs through the whole song and can barely finish it. quite fresh.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

i love the Milk It chuckle.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

this should be called "instances of involuntary laughter in songs, and what the fuck do you think they were laughing at?"

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

"The walls are melting *giggle(tit)s*!"

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Dylan AGAIN laughing at the word "breast" in Girl from North Country

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

HMS Ginafore chuckles sweetly on the lovely L'Argent De La Mer.

― bg (creamolafoam), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Jane Birkin "En Melody" - being tickled with a feather by Serge Gainsbourg throughout, apparently

― bham, Friday, 17 June 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Jandek is having fun and giggling once singing Mothers Day Card.

― Ludo (Ludo), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

25 Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight (laughing version) Mar 1982

That was no b-side...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

Todd Rundgren, "You Left Me Sore". Runt struggles to hit a note and one of the back-up singers laughs out loud.

― Deluxe (Damian), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Joni Mitchell - In France They Kiss On Main Street

chortles during the word "Jesus" in the line "looking to raise Jesus up from the dead"

― henry s, Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

Velvet Underground - "Temptation Inside Your Heart" (which, when you get right down to it, is "I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog" for arty people)

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

the fall - lay of the land

― Zeno, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

Robert Plant's little chuckle at the very start of Whole Lotta Love.

― Vast Halo, Sunday, 17 May 2009 09:49 (seventeen years ago)

My favourite is Orange Juice..

(spoken)I'll be your consolation prize
Although I know(/spoken)

*chuckle*
*guitar line*

I'll never be man enough for you...

― Dingy Boat McCrap Crap (Mister Craig), Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

Beck in "Bogusflow" - he barely gets out the word "California." I think California is funny, too.

Speaking of Joni, the most fake 'involuntary' laughter ever is at the end of "Big Yellow Taxi" but I always found it kinda sexy for some reason...

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 17 May 2009 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

taylor swift - hey stephen

"hey stephen, i could give you 50 reasons why i should be the one you choose; all those other girls, well they're beautiful - but would they write a song for you?"

― lex pretend, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

Sleater-Kinney, "Hollywood Ending"

― "the whale saw her" (gabbneb), Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

shortwave set -yr room

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

"Every Little Counts" by New Order

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

"Hiding All Away" - Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - nick cracks up the backup singers, so cuet

― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

the "bogusflow" laugh makes me laugh every time.

bowie laughs on "andy warhol" as well. i'm a bit surprised no one's pointed that out yet, unless there's an unspoken consensus that the laughter is forced.

― borntohula, Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

Once again, Dylan. Involuntary or not, you can hear a sort of evil chuckle near the end of "My Wife's Home Town."

― Brad C., Sunday, 17 May 2009 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

New Muzik - 'Warp'

― nashwan, Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:15 (five years ago)

More here

― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:44 (five years ago)

Ween - Blackjack, they sound like they might be on mushrooms or nitrous.

― ringworm, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:11 (five years ago)

Wait no mention in either of these threads of Springsteen in "Glory Days?" David Lee Roth in "Dance the Night Away?"

"Force Ten" by Rush begins with a outtake sample of Aimee Mann giggling.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:24 (five years ago)

Westerberg can barely keep it together in the Replacements' "Lovelines."

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:27 (five years ago)

The Frogs in general

― PaulTMA, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:47 (five years ago)

Springsteen in "Glory Days"

I don't recall this (and I heard that song a zillion times back in the day) - will have to revisit...

― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Sunday, 18 October 2020 19:30 (five years ago)

(Is it when he says, "He could throw that speedball by ya / Make you look like a fool boy"?)

― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Sunday, 18 October 2020 19:33 (five years ago)

In “psoriatic” by Scott Walker there’s a bit where instead of singing what’s in the lyric sheet he adlibs “stuff the chancellor” and in the next line he starts to break up

― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Sunday, 18 October 2020 19:34 (five years ago)

At the end of the Who’s “Happy Jack,” Pete Townshend chuckles while shouting “I saw ya!” to Keith Moon. He had been hiding behind the mixing desk while the others were recording vocals, and kept trying to get them to laugh and/or fuck up the take.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 18 October 2020 19:53 (five years ago)

The Byrds - whats happening?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:38 (five years ago)

The late Gordon Haskell at the end of King Crimson's Indoor Games.

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 18 October 2020 21:35 (five years ago)

Never figured out if Bono's weird laugh in 'Wire' is real or acted.

― Maresn3st, Sunday, 18 October 2020 21:59 (five years ago)

chet atkins/dolly parton "do i ever cross your mind"

the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ZENR3HlUg

― ✖, Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:07 (five years ago)

In the first few seconds of R.E.M.'s "Stumble" there's a sound that might be a match striking; Stipe laughs, says "Tea," and we hear the opening notes of the song

― Brad C., Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:18 (five years ago)

I don't recall this (and I heard that song a zillion times back in the day) - will have to revisit...

It's at the very end!

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:41 (five years ago)

He giggles like a little kid.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:41 (five years ago)

Love the little chuckle Elvis does near the end of "Baby Let's play house" where he cracks up over the repeated bbbb-baby babys

― closed beta (NotEnough), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:36 (five years ago)

Grand Puba singing Billy Joel and cracking up at the end of his verse on Feels So Good.

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 19:45 (five years ago)

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