Songs With Fake Scratches, Vinyl Noise etc

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The Monkees, Magnolia Simms
The Mothers of Invention, Mother People

and, of course,

Stanley Unwin, Hi-De-Fido

― Tad Sneery (Dada), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

The last track on one of the Ultra Vivid Scene albums - Rev, was it?

And didn't His Name Is Alive do an entire album like this?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

The sound of hopping needle that had reached the end of the single at the end of "Candy Candy" by Medicine. It always used to catch me out.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Primus - Defy the laws of tradition

― emekars (emekars), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

portishead 'cowboys' does this, i think.
-- a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (miltonpinsk...), September 13th, 2006.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't it part of Portishead's method that they actually had some of their multitracks pressed as vinyl and mixed from that? Or is that some kind of daft myth I've picked up?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty sure there's a little of this at the beginning of "Where It's At," on the album anyway. And like five million other things.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

mj: oh shit yeah that might be right, the big poseurs.

i said what doctor casino said last time we had this thread.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

The thing on "Odelay", between "Jack-Ass" and "Where It's At" is, you first hear the record's side 1 ending, and then the record being turned over and side being started. Classic vinyl sounds.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Stereolab "Golden Ball" to thread.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mystic Fugu Orchestra. On paper, it sounded like the best thing ever - Zorn and Eye doing kaballistic jewish music. In practice, it's unlistenable and in no small part due to the layers of surface noise that ostensibly makes it sound like a found recording.

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uhort.no/artist/Hongroe/sang/5247 ;)
(OK Tape noise rather than vinyl noise, but I guess that counts as "etc")

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

HEY MAN YOU RUINED MY RECORD, I JUST BOUGHT IT!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's "earache my eye." I just wanted to have it in it's own post.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

could've sworn i've posted this to similar thread before but...

there's a Quickspace ep *on cd* where each side starts and ends with sfx of a needle being dropped / lifted. Superplus, i think.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

aha found it:

tunes that prominently (and fetchingly) feature needle static

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Not quite the same tho

― Tad Sneery (Dada), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

... for instance:

The Mothers of Invention, Mother People + Stanley Unwin, Hi-De-Fido both contain the sound of a needle being scraped across a record

While The Monkees, Magnolia Simms includes a record sticking, the needle being lifted and then put back on the rcord

― Tad Sneery (Dada), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i can see it'd be a BIG derail to talk about that on the other thread...

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Way back when I was a kid, I polished the cover of my stereo while an album was playing. The static raised the stylus arm, and the arm dragged/bounced across the LP and off.

So, imagine my surprise when on a later date, playing the goodies "sing songs from the goodies" LP, the exact same noise occured and I hadn't done anything to the stereo cover. Yep, a very convincing fake vinyl noise.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Redman - Blow Your Mind (Remix)

― mucho (mucho), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

- The Beatles, "Honey Pie"
- XTC, "Respectable Street"
- Matthew Sweet, the gap between "sides" 1 and 2 on Girlfriend
- The bit at the end of that one Monty Python album where the guy goes, "Sorry, squire. I've scratched the rec-scratched the rec-scratched the rec..."

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Pop Will Eat Itself to thread!

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Soul Coughing, "Screenwriter's Blues"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Velvet Pants by Propellerheads? It's been a while. I think it's there though.

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

baby fox - johnny lipshake

― xe non (xen), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

All Saints, "Under The Bridge"
Björk, "All The Modern Things"

― LC (Damian), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Neil's heavy concept album: "Cosmic Jam" deals with, amongst other things, the problems of your roommates leaving peanut butter on your chill-out records. With weird smudgy sounds of course.

― everything (everything), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

90's hip hop,

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

oval amirite

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Amateur", Aimee Mann

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Thursday, 14 September 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

Pole's entire career.

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes - "Tales from Topographic Oceans."

Actually, that might be real scratches.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Primitive Radio Gods - "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"

I recall Sparklehorse doing it once or twice as well. Perhaps at the beginning of Good Morning Spider?

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't it part of Portishead's method that they actually had some of their multitracks pressed as vinyl and mixed from that? Or is that some kind of daft myth I've picked up?

From here:

On Portishead's second album, there's a track called "Western Eyes". Near the ending of the song, you can hear Geoff Barrow scratching up a copy of the 1957 Starfish Records recording of "Hookers And Gin" by The Sean Atkins Experience, a record so hideously obscure that, even in my extended circle of record-geek mates, no-one has ever managed to find a copy of it, and it's never turned up on a compilation of any description. This might have something to do with the fact that it doesn't exist. Refuting their rep as dour, depressing Bristolians without a sense of humour, what Portishead actually did was record themselves performing this "song", of which they then pressed up an acetate, which they then covered in grit, salt and sundry other shite to get an authentic 50's surface noise effect, and then sampled and scratched-up on the fade of "Western Eyes". Sean Atkins was the name of their mate, who sang the "hookers and gin" part. All this just to get a laugh at the expense of trainspotters who covet the scarcest of sample sources for no other reason than [x] sampled it on [y] (but there was a different sample on the remix).

― Ben (crispyben), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

While The Monkees, Magnolia Simms includes a record sticking, the needle being lifted and then put back on the rcord

And also, one of the stereo channels is totally silent, just to confuse prepubescent Monkees' fans even further!

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I was alway surprised that "Sean Atkins" thing fooled anyone, as I'd sussed that even in the fifties, no-one would have reffed "hookers" in song.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

MMMBop
Complicated

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 15 September 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

_While The Monkees, Magnolia Simms includes a record sticking, the needle being lifted and then put back on the rcord_And also, one of the stereo channels is totally silent, just to confuse prepubescent Monkees' fans even further!

Just discovered this

― Circle Sky Pilot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 December 2021 01:27 (four years ago)

“Wish You Were Here”

― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Friday, 24 December 2021 02:03 (four years ago)

Todd Rundgren has a few tracks that do this

― frogbs, Friday, 24 December 2021 02:27 (four years ago)

you first hear the record's side 1 ending, and then the record being turned over and side being started

They did this on Up to Here by the Tragically Hip, sort of an arty touch for a record that doesn't sound like it has any other overdubs or extra sounds at all.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 24 December 2021 19:13 (four years ago)

"Wish You Were Here" actually features radio static instead of vinyl noise, though?

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 24 December 2021 19:25 (four years ago)

Orbital's "Planet of the Shapes"

― Vast Halo, Friday, 24 December 2021 19:37 (four years ago)

xp guess I’m interpreting the “etc” liberally

― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Friday, 24 December 2021 19:55 (four years ago)

Between the vinyl noise and the drum sample, it doesn't get more 1993 than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbD8dbrB1TM

― ... (Eazy), Friday, 24 December 2021 21:17 (four years ago)

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