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There's a shrill sound about half way through The Who's "The Good's Gone" that sounds EXACTLY like my mom calling "CURT!" from the foot of the stairs up to my bedroom in the house my family lived in all those years ago when I first played The Who Sings My Generation on my Philco record changer and the last thing I wanted was to have my rebel sound fantasies interrupted by mom's invitation to fishsticks and coleslaw. How a pack of pasty English 19 year olds conspired to get a Midwestern housewife into a London studio in 1966 for her singular yelp I'll never know, let alone why. To this day, it jerks me to attention even when I hear it on CD in my car, hundreds of miles from mom and decades from living at home.

Tell me about noises artists have inserted into their songs in order to get your attention.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 12 September 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

They took mom out of the deluxe remastered thing that just came out.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 12 September 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

There's that bit at the end of "Subway Song" by the Cure (a piercing scream), which manages to shock the snots outta me every time.

The bizarre sucking-into-one speaker effect at the tail end of "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd on WISH YOU WERE HERE always manages to startle me.

The vast power chord that anchors Skinny Puppy's "Jahya" on their final studio album, THE PROCESS is quite an audio kick in the pants if you're not ready for it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 September 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Weird, Curt. Embarrassing to admit the song for me with the SAME effect was "Time Again" by Asia. I remember in high school I had just bought the record, & I was blasting it in my room. It was right about the time my mother would have been getting home, and there's this one part that sounds just like her yelling "DAAAA VID" to turn it down. I turned it down and came downstairs.. but she ain't home!

I heard it every time after that too. Glad I don't play that record anymore.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 12 September 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

theres a manix song, on one of the reinforced eps, where it sounds like someone shouts 'gareth' in the background...

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 12 September 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

i remembering hearing a distant, shouted, muffled 'mitchell' in a song too, i just can't remember which one. and in the dismememberment plan's "the other side", there's the (unintentional? it's quite low in the mix but audible on headphones) sound of a door being shut that makes me jump up when i forget to listen for it.

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 12 September 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

weird/nice! i have had the exact same experience as Curt and dave225. the song that contains a fragment in which it sounds like my mom is calling out for me at the bottom of the stairs is David Bowie's Fashion. And I still hear it/her when I play the song. Let me check this now *puts on Scary Monsters album*

yep, it's 2:13 into the song, a weird sound over/behind the music... and it's my mom!

― willem (willem), Thursday, 12 September 2002 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a song on 'Strangeways Here We Come' with a buried sound that sounded exactly like the doorbell in my old family home. Can't remember exactly which one (although I think it might have been 'I started something...') because I haven't been there for years and the trick don't work no more. I always used to run downstairs to check if there was anyone there.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 12 September 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

speaking of doorbells, theres a faint sound in the background of Les Savy Fav - Tragic Monsters at one point which sounds exactly like the chime it makes. drives me insane. great song tho.

― igavethecatacid, Thursday, 12 September 2002 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

you are all mentalists

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 13 September 2002 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Aaaargh, there's a Prodigy track that mentions my name but I'm dashed if I can remember what it's called.

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 13 September 2002 05:18 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

scarynoises:

That bit in Neu '75 where it's all quiet and then that clanging scarynoise comes in.

the weird screaming bit at the end of Never Learn Not to Love by the Boys Beach

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

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