Songs that start as noise then become "normal"

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There was a thread on the opposite of this a while back. Let's flip it around.

LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Michael Jackson - Scream
Janet Jackson - If
Nelly Furtado - Afraid

― It's Rodney, chocolate-covered, freaky, and habit-forming! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Pharoah Sanders - The Creator has a Masterplan

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

Unwound - "We Invent You" (does two minutes of drone count as "noise"? (does an Unwound song count as "normal"?))

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Tool - Stinkfist

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Let me throw down the gauntlet to Beatles-hataz and say:
"I Feel Fine"

Also,
The Electric Prunes, "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night."

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

slayer "raining blood"

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Dntel - "This is the dream of evan and chan"

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

probably every song ever with a feedback intro

― latebloomer lives in a fucking castle that is so sweet (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

- "Machines" - Lothar & the Hand People
- "Money" - Pink Floyd
- "Nobody But Me" - Human Beinz (so obvious it must have been on you-all's minds)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

a number Pale Saints songs off of 'Comforts of Madness'.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pere Ubu - "Non-Alignment Pact"

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't start as noise does it?

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

sugababes - freak like me starts with a bell thingy and goes into some gary numannn

― Rudy Katoch (rudykatoch), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Pink Floyd do this a lot -- see also "Time".

This is also 45% of Sonic Youth's entire schtick.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

ooooohhhhhhh just though the best one i can think of:

goldfrapp - twist (Jacques Lu Cont Perversion Mix)!!! that's a noise lol like some machine starting up and this reverb beat w/e

(does it qualify cos it is a remix, and a darn good one too yay)

rudy xx

http://www.myspace.com/katoch

― Rudy Katoch (rudykatoch), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Kraftwerk, Autobahn

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Swimming - Martha & the Muffins

?A Day in the Life? (can't remember how it starts .. maybe something else I'm thinking of)

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

The Boo Radleys.

Particularly "I will always ask you where you've been, even though I always know the answer"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

if twee can pass for "normal", then...

The Sweetest Ache - Heaven Scented World

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

most of the best Autechre tracks do this.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wilco - "Misunderstood"

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Foxy Lady"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Cannonball--Breeders

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

'have you seen your mother baby?'

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

> The Sweetest Ache - Heaven Scented World

the noise is actually a Ride single played backwards. it's a bit more obvious at the end than at the beginning.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

All Too Much - starts with that amazing plume of feedback/drone and then turns into... well, ten minutes of George Harrison wibbling indian drone, but still. It's a pop song because it's the Beatles, right? [/geir]

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

the noise is actually a Ride single played backwards. it's a bit more obvious at the end than at the beginning.

that's funny, will have to listen more closely next time.
do you know what song? from the sound in my memory i'm thiking it's maybe a slowed-down version of "close my eyes" or something?

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's something off the first ride ep. i just put the needle on it and wound it backwards and it was pretty clear despite the speed being wrong. these days, with your fancy computers, it'll be a doddle.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

that's even funnier because you know what got me into Sarah way back when? an early interview with Ride (in Select, iirc) where Lol namechecked Sarah records as a big influence on Ride. after that i started seeking out stuff and my first find was Snowball and i was hooked after that.

ahh, life before the internet

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

a song on my band's new album

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Does any non-musical sound effect count as noise? Because in that case, the first track from Voxtrot's Mothers Sisters Daughters & Wives EP. It's the title track, I believe. Sounds like someone kicking a guitar amp that has the reverb turned up or something.

Also, the first track on Oh No! Oh My!'s self-titled album - Walk in the Park.

Starting off the opening track of an indie pop record with a crazy noise is the thing to do these days.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Handsome Boy Modeling School - 'Metaphysical'
Shiina Ringo - 'Tsumi To Batsu', 'Stoicism', 'Ishiki'
Neil & Iraiza - 'Dream On The Weaver'
The Prodigy - 'Everybody In The Place (133 And Rising)'
Flipper's Guitar - 'Groove Tube', 'Winnie-The-Pooh Mugcup Collection'
AndyVotel - 'Return Of The Spooky Driver'
Capsule - 'Megalopolis'
Deltron 3030 - '3030'
Cornelius - 'Concerto No. 3 From The Four Seasons (Pink Bloody Sabbath)', 'Monkey', 'Free Fall'
Rovo - 'KNM'
The Charlatans - '9 Acre Dust' (Chemical Brothers Remix)
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - 'Channel No. 17', 'Rock To The Future', 'Spray Plastic Muzik/Launch A Space Ship Into Space' (with Valvola), 'fiddle-dee-dee!!', 'starship.6', 'rival'

'Freak Like Me' - think it's from the videogame Frogger. See also 'Finest Dreams'.

― Headspin (Barima), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Puffy AmiYumi - 'Asia No Junshin' may be my fave/smoothest example of this too.

― Headspin (Barima), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Spank Rock - Rick Ruban

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

one of the good songs (track 2?)from that akron/family & angels of light split

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Mum & Dad - pretty much the entire eponymous album.

― Headspin (Barima), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Like every Nine Inch Nails song Broken - The Fragile.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Detroit, Rock City.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sigur Ros - "Vel Til Loftarasa"

A gorgeous song after the subway tunnel feedback.

― Ben Crazee (Ben Crazee), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

agreed: it's their best ever, and means a lot to me in many ways. but i love the noise too :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Re: It's All Too Much,
When I first got into the Beatles, I thought George's
raga-influenced songs were long and monotonous. Then I
got way into psychedelic music, and I came to the
belief that George was just a brilliant songwriter.
'Specially "Blue Jay Way" (it's one of the few beatles
songs that I'd describe as creepy) and "The Inner Light."

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

yo la tengo - deeper into movies

― held tony (held tony), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

the big bombastic "metal" intro of "bat out of hell" simmers down into a relatively mellow first verse.

― jacques lu c on t (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers"

Eh? (Or maybe my mp3 is missing something.) I'd say it becomes noise when the singer opens his mouth, though.

― It's Rodney, chocolate-covered, freaky, and habit-forming! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

no, it does start out noisy and then becomes a more refined song-like noisy.

― jacques lu c on t (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

Spoon "Don't Buy the Realistic"

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

no, it does start out noisy and then becomes a more refined song-like noisy.

Are the album and single versions different? The mp3 I have starts out with the drumbeat and bassline.

― It's Rodney, chocolate-covered, freaky, and habit-forming! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

The "HOJL" track on album starts while the end of the fairly noisy song before, "the Coming of Spring," is still going.

― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

(ride track mentioned above is 'Close My Eyes'. snippet here, first forwards, then backwards. this thread also made me dig out 'Jaguar' for this afternoon's listening, so that's good.)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know whether to be pleasantly surprised that I could figure out (from memory) that the backwards sound was in fact "Close My Eyes" or to be concerned that I've listened to both records *waaaay too much*

either way, thanks for the snippet, koogy. it's just made me start my day with a bunch of Sarah stuff too.

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

As we're talking about Ride how about OX4? I too am going to dig out my battered copy of Jaguar. There is a really 'new ordery song' on it with lots of keyboards that transcends the wibbling twee, and I like the Wickerman type thing at the start too.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

everything on "you're living all over me"

― ryborg3k (Badarts), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

"I Feel You" by Depeche Mode.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

god yes...like a mate already said...each and every song of NIN.

― bam psycho (bam_psycho), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

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