Songs containing the sound of footsteps

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Michael Jackson: Thriller
Taco: Puttin' On The Ritz
Roxy Music: Love Is The Drug

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Angry Samoans: They Saved Hitler's Cock
Mel Brooks: The Hitler Rap
Mekanik Destructiw Komandoh: Berlin
Sex Pistols: Holidays in the Sun

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

sunny day real estate: tearing in my heart

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Alive, the 1985 live album by The Leather Nun (the one with the big ass spider picture on the front) starts with footsteps and a door opening and finishes with a door closing and footsteps.

Which isn't actually an answer to your question, is it? Sorry.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

On The Run - Pink Floyd

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Crass - Big A Little A

― Brad Laner (Brad Laner), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

oasis - all around the world (reprise)

i feel a little ashamed for being able to supply that answer

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Neutral Milk Hotel - "Two Headed Boy, Part II"

― cws (cws), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

There are about a million Frank Zappa songs that consciously mimic other songs.

Here's a great example:

Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth

Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
Say a prayer for his wife and his children
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth

And when i search a faceless crowd
a swirling mass of gray and
black and white
they don't look real to me
in fact, they look so strange

Raise your glass to the hard working people
Lets drink to the uncounted heads
Lets think of the wavering millions
Who need leaders but get gamblers instead

Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio

And when i search a faceless crowd
A swirling mass of gray and
Black and white
They don't look real to me
In fact, they look so strange

Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth

Lets drink to the hard working people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
Lets think of the two thousand million
Lets think of the humble of birth

- Salt of the Earth, Rolling Stones

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Lord, have mercy on the people in England,
for the terrible food these people must eat.
( Errrr, excuse me )
And may the lord have mercy on the fate of this movie
and God bless the mind of the man in the street.

Chorus:
Help all the rednecks and the flatfoot policemen
through the terrible functions they all must perform.
God help the winos, the junkies, and the weirdos,

Female Soprano:
And every poor soul who's adrift in the storm.

Chorus:
Help everybody, so they all get some action,
some love on the weekend, some real satisfaction.

Female Soprano:
A room and a meal
And a garbage disposal
A lawn and a hose'll
Be strictly genteel.

Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan:
Reach out your hand to the girl in the dog book,
the girl in the pig book, and the one with the horse.
Make sure they keep all those businessmen happy
and the purple-lipped censors and the Germans of course.

Chorus:
Help everybody, so they all get some action,
some love on the weekend, some real satisfaction.

Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan:
A Swedish apparatus with a hood and a bludgeon
with a microwave oven. "Honey, how do it feel?"

Everybody:
Yeah
Ahhh

Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan:
Lord, have mercy on the hippies and faggots
and the dykes and the weird little children they grow.

Help the black man.
Help the poor man.
Help the milk man.
Help the door man.
Help the lonely, neglected old farts that I know.

- Strictly Genteel, Frank Zappa

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys- West End Girls

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Marble House, The Knife

― white heat (white heat), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

disco inferno: footprints in snow.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

the new AFI song Love Like Winter

― Colleen Hanlon-Smith (C. Hanlon-Smith), Sunday, 8 October 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Bjork - 107 steps from the Dancer in the Dark soundtrack, Selmasongs.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 8 October 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

OMG SHANGRI LA'S TO THRED U PPL

― Jimmy Mod is COMPLETELY MISERABLE SAN DIEGO (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 9 October 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
ELO - Fire on High
The Who - Sea and Sand (Actually, I think it's a little reprise of "Sea and Sand" somewhere else on Quadrophenia)

Does tap dancing count?

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Monday, 9 October 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

THERE IS a bright eyes song with footsteps

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Monday, 9 October 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

Grimly Fiendish beat me to my answer.

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Monday, 9 October 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Supertramp - Easy Does It
Love Jones - Here's to the Losers
Jeff Lynne - Stormy Weather

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Monday, 9 October 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonite

New Birth - Mr. Dream Merchant

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 9 October 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

jonathan richman - when i'm walking

― anonymous celebrity (anonymous celebrity), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm making one.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)

hope i'm remembering correctly, but on FRAGILE, aren't there footsteps/door slamming on We Have Heaven, also continues to another song - South Side Of The Sky?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Momus - Shaftesbury Avenue has some at the start right?

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

"everyone is beautiful", mark eitzel. the whole song revolves around a loop of recorded footsteps, actually.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 9 October 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

"Walkin' The Blues" by Willie Dixon (1955), and also recorded that same year by Jack Dupree and Mr. Bear.

"The Lonesome Road" by Dean Elliott (1962)

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:25 (twenty years ago)

"Frosti / Aurora" by Björk (2001) has sound of boots stepping in snow.

― monocle (Sean Miguel), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:29 (twenty years ago)

also the second Autechre track from Chiastic Slide (1997). I obviously can't remember the name of the track for the life of me.

footsteps again: Wham! - 'Club Tropicana' (1983).
Pink Floyd - the segue between R. Waters's 'Grantchester Meadows' and 'Several Species of Small Furry Animals' on Ummagumma (1969).

I think Kate Bush might have used the sound of footsteps, but I really can't recall where right now.

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

Carla Bruni - Raphael
Scott Walker - Jolson And Jones

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:08 (twenty years ago)

Dire Straits - Private Investigations

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

spice girls - wannabe

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Zeena Parkins "Necklace" is apparently made of 16 feet accompained by cello but you can't hear the sound of 1 or 16 feet, apart from a cpl of secs, where it could easily sound like the body of the cello is being stroked.

good song tho'.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Stan Freberg - Banana Boat Song

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I think Kate Bush might have used the sound of footsteps, but I really can't recall where right now.

One of the songs on "Forever And Ever", but I don't recall which one. Ramzi to thread. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:34 (twenty years ago)

does marching count as footsteps?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure we could allow "Holidays In The Sun."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

ok then!

Foetus - I'll Meet You In Poland Baby

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

The Kate Bush song is "All We Ever Look For".

Also, "It's Not Too Beautiful" by The Beta Band (very creepy, as I recall....)

― Tom B (Tom B), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

They Might Be Giants' "32 Footsteps" (this song has one of their more Kermit-esque vocal takes).

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:17 (twenty years ago)

We Love You by the Rolling Stones has footsteps and a (prison) door closing.

― andyjack (andyjack), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

who's afraid of the art of noise has a track made up of lots of footsteps

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

.. but then again - thats not a song as such really.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Jethro Tull - Baker Street Muse

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

John Lee Hooker, much of the older stuff.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

The Goons - Ying Tong Song and Bluebottle Blues

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

quasimoto - come on feet

― Tom Hatton (kl0pper), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Swell's 41 album opens with "In The Door, Up The Stairs" and closes (well, there's some crazy shit after this, but it's the last track proper) with "Down The Stairs, Out The Doors". Both contain footsteps (and a janitor opening and closing a door, resp).

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

pink floyd - the trial

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Pig Destroyer's Terrifyer opens with the sound of someone running towards the microphone (i.e. you, in this case) from across a large room.

― mike powell (mike powell), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

björk - 107 steps

at least one of the songs off the drift ('clara' perchance?)

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Kahimi Karie - Clip Clap

― PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (PappaWh, Monday, 9 October 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

The Zombies' "The Way I feel Inside"

― Bob McNichol (bmcnee), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

argh i'm pissed i missed the question earlier.

yes, Kate Bush's All We Ever Look For on Never For Ever.

those are some loud footsteps too

― Ramzi Awn (rra123), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

intro to Amerikkka's Most Wanted
some Christian Marclay installation w/records on the ground containing recordings of footsteps, meant to be walked on/scuffed by foots meta-music

― held tony (held tony), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone mentioned Tilly and the Wall yet? Does tapdancing count?

― N Mallin (DocMartensBoots), Monday, 9 October 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

pentamerous metamorphosis, gamma phase - global communication. so pretty.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

There's a Ghost In My House (R Dean Taylor)
Also, the start of (I think) Where Did Our Love Go by the Supremes is the sound of the secretaries at Motown marching up and down in their stilletoes or whatever.

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Slade - "Get Down and Get With It" (if stomping counts)

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Holger Czukay - All Night Long

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Thing is, if we allow marching/stomping, we have to include the entire Honeycombs and Slade back catalogues (near enough).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Pink Floyd - Bike

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Ghostface - Run

― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Marching is something else, really, as is also stepping. Even though, strictly speaking, both are indeed the sound of footsteps in a way.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Euphoria - Ill Be Home to You

(and damn if I wasnt going to post Taco)

― nothingleft (gravydan), Friday, 26 February 2010 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

The Who, "Music Must Change." Keith Moon was too far gone by this point to play the song's 6/8 time signature (something that was no problem for him in years' past), so they just used Townshend's footsteps from his demo.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 26 February 2010 05:23 (sixteen years ago)

the shadow ring - the riverside

― Joint Custody (ian), Friday, 26 February 2010 05:29 (sixteen years ago)

Low - "The Lamb"
Laurie Anderson - "Three Walking Songs" (footsteps played on the tape-bow violin)
Simon & Garfunkel - "Punky's Dilemma"
Robert Fripp - "You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette"
Beck - "Today Has Been a Fucked Up Day" (I think. Is this the one where he sings part of it from across the room, then runs back up to the mic?)

Nobody ever answered the questions "Does tap dancing count?", so I say it does:

Bonzo Dog Band - "Hello Mabel" (and probably several others)
Elton John - "I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself" (tap performed by the Bonzo Dog Band's own Legs Larry Smith!)
ELO - "Jungle"

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 26 February 2010 06:03 (sixteen years ago)

The Church - Just For You

Doesn't just has footsteps but doorknocks and a guitar being put aside to answer it (I always loved that little bit)

― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Friday, 26 February 2010 11:45 (sixteen years ago)

Hüsker Dü - "Standing in the Rain"

― National Sockpuppet Helpline (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 February 2010 11:46 (sixteen years ago)

nine years pass...

nyusha - Наедине

― dyl, Thursday, 30 January 2020 06:09 (six years ago)

Saw this thread and immediately thought of "On The Run", but I guess I already posted that 13 years ago.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 30 January 2020 06:33 (six years ago)

Holger Czukay, "All Night Long"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cXshWlOkc4

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 07:41 (six years ago)

nyusha - Наедине

Nice! An old favourite

― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:37 (six years ago)

the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewdap2FX-uE

― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:41 (six years ago)

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