Favorite unexpected sounds in songs

Assuming there's no thread like this already. (Is there?) Prompted by a relisten to "Showroom Dummies" and the 'and we break the glass' bit, followed by a huge crashing noise of breaking glass that comes from out of nowhere based on the rest of the song up to that point. Even though I know to expect it now it's still strangely and perfectly jarring.

The doorbell sound in "Radium Eyes" by Count Zero.

"I met this girl she looked like Axl Rose/Got drunk and took her home and we slept in our clothes" CRASH!!!

loads and loads in hip hop tracks.

Naturally! But your *favorites*, sir.

The intro in "Meat Is Murder" has this machine-sounding thing that gives me the creeps (in a good way) every time.

the squealing baby in "1999" and "Are You That Somebody?"

Having been alerted to the "quack" in The Tuss's Last Rushup 10, I can now never not hear it.

But that might be because I love so much the "mind like a bathroom, splishy splashy bathroom with little rubber ducks ::quack::" line in the Jazz Butcher's Mind Like A Playgroup.

QUACK

(There's one in the Birdman of Alkatrash, as well, isn't there?)

Yes! Just after "clever fellow, isn't he?" "yes, very clever" "QUACK!"

"what kind of joint is this?"

"QUACK! QUACK!"

never fails to bring me utter glee.

what's the Boredoms song with the comedy slide whistle? That one.

The abrupt dead signal noise that ends Pink Cigarette by Mr Bungle.

xp is it even fair to include Boredoms songs on a list like this?

"the shot that was heard around the world, for a second..." *booooom*

The abrupt dead signal noise that ends Pink Cigarette by Mr Bungle.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:59 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

This.

The breaking glass in "Disintegration".

The breaking glass at the beginning of Billy Joel's 'You May Be Right'.

The breaking glass at the end of Kate Bush's 'Babushka'.

thread topic is one of my favorite things in music

the "turkey gobble" in toto's "roseanna"

i've brought it up somewhere else on here before a few years back. listen closely to the quiet "now she's gone and i have to say" part to hear what i'm talking about.

xp is it even fair to include Boredoms songs on a list like this?

― cynthia batter blaster (Stevie D), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 17:00 (55 minutes ago)

probably not, but that one in particular stands out for me. Whichever one it is. Gonna have to listen to everything they've done to find it now.

What sounds like a vocodered shout of "FREAK!" at 1:29 in 'Sussudio'.

Dog barks at the end of "Holiday Road"

The weird sound just before the line 'you fool, you married me instead' in 'Head' by Prince.

the distortion at the end of '30 seconds over tokyo' always catches me off-guard

There's a couple of sounds at the beginning of 'Red Right Hand' that sound to me like striking a match/flicking a cigarette lighter. Love that.

On the remastered Sweetheart of the Rodeo in the song "Hickory Wind" you can hear someone cough/clear their throat after the line "In South Carolina/there's many tall pines"

A cricket can be heard chirping at the end of "I'm Gonna Love You Too" by ... Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
Beach Boys own this thread.

And of course, "I saw you!!" at the end of "Happy Jack."

Lee Scratch Perry's cow moo toy.

The slide whistle noise and more or less the whole toy soldier rhythm track on Aphex's "Logan Rock Witch"

The barking sounds in the chorus of "Hold Me" by Fleetwood Mac.

the feedback squeal in "Night Shift" before the second iteration of the chorus

Whatever those sounds are after the lines "You men should remember how we used to fight" in the Who's "The Dirty Jobs" (not on the 1996 remix, for some reason).

And it's not really an unexpected sound, but the massive volume jump for the solo in Neil Young's "Don't Cry" always surprises me.

If you listen closely to the final moments of Simon and Garfunkel's "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright," it sounds like someone is shouting "Enough already, Artie." Or at least that's what I'm hearing.

"So LONG, already!"

The bit on Tortoise's Djed where it sounds like your CD player just stopped working.

The little baby burble at the sudden end of Prince's Delirious

The first appearance of Viv Stanshall's voice towards the end of side 1 of "Tubular Bells."

The high pitched whistle for the dogs and locked groove babble at the end of Sgt Pepper

and the burst of laughter at the end of Within You Without You

The breaking glass in "One More Shot."

That horrible mewling coming out of George Harrison throughout "Dark Horse" (just the song, the album is too much of a "favorite unexpected" thing).

Chair drag/bottle break in VU - "European Son"

The syncopated bugs & birds that opens XTC - Skylarking

Any tap dancing, but especially Electric Light Orchestra - "Jungle"

The sudden, loud subway sweeping away the music in the middle of Pink Floyd - "Atom Heart Mother"

The distant, atmospheric subway in Eurythmics - "This City Never Sleeps"

The train ambience in Yoko Ono - "Greenfield Morning..."

The zipper in The Art of Noise/Tom Jones version of "Kiss"

The coin drop at the start of The Who - "Music Must Change"

The frogs in New Order - "Perfect Kiss}

The stuff being thrown around the studio ending with a spinning hubcap that closes X - "I See Red"

Back to Kraftwerk (and close enough to QUACK): in "Das Modell", how the line "Sie trinkt im Nachtklub immer Sekt" is followed by the utterly unkraftwerkianly enunciated "KORREKT!"

Slamming the door and walking down the stairs outside the studio in Labradford's Untitled (#whatever off E Luxo So).

the dog bark sound in "holiday road"

percussion solo in Can's "Moonshake"

Ah I've got one - the first track on the first Os Mutantes album that stops abruptly to be replaced by the sound of a dinner-party in full swing.

The breaking glass in "Disintegration".

― kkvgz, Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:15 PM (Yesterday)

YES. Gave me a chill just reading it.

'scalding creek' by gbv - there's a humongous crash at 0:29 caused by an amplifier being knocked over, that oddly sounds so good in context of lo-fi strum that they kept it in

The Legend of Zelda style sound of a boomerang being thrown and coming back in "When I Grow Up" by Fever Ray.

There's a couple of sounds at the beginning of 'Red Right Hand' that sound to me like striking a match/flicking a cigarette lighter. Love that.

Nice one!

Those little syncopated slaps right before "Fool's Gold" by the Stone Roses

The strange fumbling with some contraption (a tape machine? I forget) that ushers in "It's No Game (Part 1)" by Bowie.

The monkey chant in Jocko Homo, on Devo's first album.

xp sounds more like an espresso machine

If you listen closely to "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, there are these kinda disturbing high-pitched shrieks buried deep in the mix. When I first noticed them I was really creeped out by it, but they do add an interesting contrast to such an airy and light song.

neil young - "weight of the world": the weird walky-talky voice that says "WORLD" during the chorus

bottles colliding in "pool hall richard" by faces

also, not so unexpected because she uh.. announces it but <3 the swooping jet sound in kate bush - "the big sky"

harry nilsson's vine st. has that one clapping noise that I love

The interruption (from Kosmo Vinyl) about hitting the three-minute mark in "Armagiddeon Time" by ye olde Clash.

and

"C'mon Dave, Gimme a Break" in "Unchained by Van Halen

a-ha 'The Sun Always Shine On TV' - the synth that sounds like an eagle screeching at 3:18

COOKIE

record-skip noise in Stereolab's "Golden Ball"

The "will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get some sleep" at the end of George Michael's 'Too Funky'.

The 'boing' in The Prodigy's Out of Space just before the sample comes in.

Not really unexpected given the overall vibe of the album, but the muffled screams in "The Becoming" and "The Downward Spiral" (both on NIN's The Downward Spiral album) are two of the most unsettling, initially jarring "sounds" I encountered in my formative years.

New Order - the sheep bleating as Fine Time fades

that weird noise at around 8:50 of Truckers Atlas, whatever the hell it's made by

The whole weird vibrating and whaling coda at the end of "Long, Long, Long" on the White Album. Used to scare the crap out of me (as did many things on that record).

That sound, of course, be wailing and not whaling. There is no nautical element to said song.

The brief and strange gurgles and yelps at about 2:00 in Ashes to Ashes.

The sound of the clicking revolver on Tricky's "Strugglin'"

The rolling sound followed by a CRASH in "European Son."

Chair drag/bottle break in VU - "European Son"

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― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:50 (Yesterday)

Opinion varies on what that is - I thought that it was the toilet in Warhol's Factory flushing, followed by the sound of a metal dish being thrown into a sink.

the electronic bleeps in "Reflections" by The Supremes

this one ~maybe~ fits here:
in the opening of "Back in the USSR", @ :09, before the rhythm guitars come in, there's a sort of bent note or notes that says "ugh"