Songs containing sounds that you hear as noises around you rather than part of the music.

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Let's play the psychotic listening game:

Ok, this happens to me on a couple of songs... maybe there are others? In the song "The Longest Time" by Billy Joel, there's something in it that sounds exactly like my Nokia mobile phone on vibrate mode... every time I hear the song, I think my phone's going off. Bizarre.

There's also... "Country Grammar (Hot)" by Nelly... was on the radio a lot a few years back - part of that sounds exactly like my mum shouting "Andrew" (my name, duh!) from downstairs. How many times did it take me to realise it wasn't her shouting? More than it should.

So... anyone else care to venture into this nether world of musical mental disorders?

― Andrew Munro (andyboyo), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew, where's your mother RIGHT NOW? Come on, you can tell me.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

I've got it with mobile phones and sirens, yeah.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

Mum & Dad's 'Bird With A Broken Leg' has a recurring 'phone ring' like sound immersed within it that fooled me the first time.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

The "Cookie!" bit in John Lennon's "Hold On" startles me when I forget it's coming, like I think Cookie Monster is sneaking up on me or something.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I'm not alone:

by Stoney on 04-13-2004 @ 09:24:04 PM
Is it me or does the part where he says "cookie" scares the shit out of you when he says it. It's such a calm song and then you hear this evil voice say "cookie." What is with that anyways???

by ultraviolet420 on 06-28-2004 @ 01:15:00 AM
Thats my fav. part. its so random!!

by cowyow on 12-07-2004 @ 07:03:48 AM
yes it does scare the crap out of me too, even when i know its coming up!! also on the track "remember" with the explosion at the end, eek!.
so random, lol....

by Laraken on 08-16-2005 @ 07:32:47 PM
I like it when he says "cookie" because it's just so random; it makes me smile. This is a great song.

by underoath_55 on 01-09-2006 @ 09:03:30 PM
i hate the cookie part ..it would ruin the whole song if the rest of it wasnt great .but i think "God" is the best on the plastic ono album

by elephant_range on 03-31-2006 @ 05:21:33 PM
Thie songs were sequenced well on this album, alternating the Janov therapy screams/rants with interludes like this. The 'cookie' is obviously Sesame Street-influenced. This is 1971, after all!

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Almost anything by Einsturzende Neubauten. "Silence is Sexy" for example. Sounds like the dentist's office at times.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

There's a noise through Toy Soldiers by Martika that sounds exactly like my msn 'new message' alert. Though, I dont know how I know that as I never listen to Martika obviously......[shuffles off nervously]

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

there's a gyorgy ligeti piece, don't remember the name of it off hand...it's conducted by pierre boulez, on deutche gramophone...anyway, it sounds like police sirens going by, and gets me every time.

"Country Grammar (Hot)" by Nelly... was on the radio a lot a few years back - part of that sounds exactly like my mum shouting "Andrew" (my name, duh!) from downstairs. How many times did it take me to realise it wasn't her shouting? More than it should.

same thing happens to me on the who's "young man blues," the version on the kids are alright soundtrack...a stray feedback squal sounds exactly like my mom calling me, and still startles me 16 years after moving out of the house.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dwarves "Insect Whore" contains a disturbingly loud insect buzz that always makes me jump and look around.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

There's on track on the last Neurosis album that has made me go check if someone's trying to break into the garage.
Twice.
Good grief.

― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Comin Round" by Bubba Sparxxx has a tire squeal that invariably makes me jump up stick my eyebrow to the rearview. The first track (I think) on Hypermagic Mountain has a police siren sound deep enough in the mix to make it sound like you're 4 seconds away from being t-boned by an errant cruiser.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

keith rowe's "groovy situation" has background noises in the beginning that are just like those often made the people always walking by outside my window..

also 'fair, love & war' by killarmy must have some cell phone thing embedded in the sample, cause when it's on & i'm driving, it took until the fifth time it happened to remember it was just in the song

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

keith rowe's "groovy situation" has background noises in the beginning that are just like those often made the people always walking by outside my window..

yeh that song makes me jump!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

That car horn in Take A Load Off Your Feet (Beach Boys) always used to make me look out the window. They'll put you in the drivers seat (beep beep)... The stereo separation makes it sound like someone's driving past the house and honking at me. Now I just wave.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Heh... I'm another Andrew, and while I don't remember it from that song, there've definitely been a few of these over the years. Of course, the problem is, I can never remember which songs.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and the car horns in Modest Mouse's "Medication". I know they're coming, and only coming in the gaps between repetitions of the riff, but one still catches me off-guard every once in a while. not a good song to listen to while driving.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

"country honk"

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

In the beginning of Bright Eyes's "Haleigh..." there's a phone-off-the-hook sound that fools pretty much everyone into digging between cushions for an errant receiver upon first hearing it.

― Brian Howe (Brian H.), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's a QOTSA song where I think I hear the Outlook new email sound. Or during Usher's "Yeah", I feel like Uncle Leo: "pick up that damn phone!

― pinder (pinder), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I'm not alone

Nope, far from it!

Who Was the First Band to Use Cookie Monster Vocals?

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

In New Order's Age of Consent at 3m50s Sumner does a high pitched "ooo" that sounds remarkably like the little tone that plays when someone messages you on slsk.

― McE'er, M. (mattmc387), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Talking Heads' "Fear of Music" is full of moments like this ... little growls, sirens, bells, vocal effects and the such that you can't be sure at first actually belong to the songs. One of the songs, I swear contains a sound that the first couple times I heard it was my father yelling my name. That was odd.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

My parent's dogs used to rush to the window when Jane's Addiction's "Been Caught Stealing" came on, to see what all the barking was about.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

On this song by On!Air!Library! I think they sample the door opening/someone has signed in sound effect from AOL Instant Messenger, and it was so annoying, becuase I used AIM at the time, and it's not like it sounds good either.

― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought that "Cookie!" thing was John referring to another one of his alter egos, Dr. Winston O. Cookie.

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

the exact same thing happened with the nelly song with me! except my name is jonathan. it was so weird. my mom thought i was going crazy.

― jonathan - stl (jonathan - stl), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

there's this song on the Dwarves' Blood Guts and Pussy which has a panning bee-buzzing sound effect, which freaks me out every time i hear it. i am terrified of bees and wasps.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

There's some song on Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld that has a fly buzzing back and forth between the two speakers. First time I listened to it on headphones, I found myself swatting at nothing. Course, the Orb is full of moments like this.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Somewhere in Radiohead's Let Down there's a small click that used to sound exactly like a 56k modem dropping the line. Back when it first cmae out, I'd quite often be listening to Ok Computer while I was online, and EVERY time it'd make me stop what I was doing and try to reconnect. I just listened to it again though, and couldn't hear it. So I guess my subconscious has forgotten what a line-dropping click sounds like.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

part of that sounds exactly like my mum shouting "Andrew" (my name, duh!) from downstairs.

Haha, doesn't happen to me, but my girlfriend Madeline always thinks it's her mum, even though she lives 150 miles away. I believe the vocal is actually saying "madness", which I suppose is kind-of halfway between Andrew and Madeline (ish).

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Chainsaw-Ramones

a chainsaw

― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Motherless Child, by Martin Gore on his first solo EP has this table saw noise that for ages made me think it was my dad cutting wood outside (he was a builder) rather than something on the record.

My name is Andrew too, and swear I've heard my mother calling my name subliminally from the grooves of many a record...

― Shooz (shooz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

At the end of Aphex Twin's "Yellow Calx" (I think) there's a really soft trebly buzzing noise that makes me think I'm gurgling subconsciously from the back of my throat.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

There's some weird meowing noise buried in the mix of Madonna's "Cherish". It's most noticeable towards the end, during the fade-out. It used to kind of freak me out.

Also: the breaking/ripping noises in "Gunboats" by the Swell Maps really freaked me out the first time I heard it. Alone in my apartment at night with it turned up really loud. I thought someone was coming through the wall.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

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