Favorite random non-musical bits on albums

[ThomasKDye]

One day I realized that one of the most quoted/remembered things about Pink Floyd's The Wall is "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!" I was bemused at how, over the course of two records in a double-album set, what stuck with a lot of people was Roger Waters shrieking this bizarre phrase between songs.

So I'm thinking, what are some non-musical pieces of randomness on albums that people really like? I'm volunteering "I can't get out!!" at the end of Jethro Tull's "Baker St. Muse" (Minstrel in the Gallery). It's a great example of Anderson's sense of fun and ALWAYS makes me smile.

[Mister Triscuits]

“That was Can You Dig It by Georgie Wood. And now we’d like to do ‘ark the Angels Coom.”

[bill g]

Can't say it's a favorite, but 'The Wall' also boasted Gomer Pyle's 'Surprise, surprise, surprise', while Roger sang of the crap on TV, which is another quotable moment.

[NogbadTheBad]

Ground Control to Pilot from Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed & Starfighters. Loads of great quotes in that album.

DSOTM - "Well I mean, they're gonna kill ya, so like, if you give 'em a quick sh...short, sharp, shock, they don't do it again. Dig it? I mean he got off light, 'cause I coulda given 'im a thrashin', I only hit him once. It's only the difference between right and wrong innit? I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh?"

[Zeuhlmate]

Wouldn't say its a favorite, but interesting somehow: The end of cabaret voltaire:The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord track: whip blow: Charles Manson getting a bit startled that he was lumped as a Hippie, when he thought of him self as a Beatnik.

Or the insane reverend on this track

[per anporth]

"Where's that confounded bridge?"

"We've only got ham or cheese."

"I'll play it, & tell you what it is later." (Miles, before counting in If I Were a Bell)

[syncopatico]

"I'll play it, & tell you what it is later." (Miles, before counting in If I Were a Bell)

Speaking of Miles Davis, there's that very famous comment from Miles during the first take of The Man I Love from December 24, 1954, at the Rudy van Gelder Studio, Hackensack NJ, where Miles says to engineer Rudy Van Gelder, "Hey Rudy, put this on the record, man – all of it!" (which he does), after Thelonious Monk stops the take in progress because he's not sure when he should come in.

[GuitarGeek]

Speaking of Miles Davis, there's that very famous comment from Miles during the first take of The Man I Love from December 24, 1954, at the Rudy van Gelder Studio, Hackensack NJ, where Miles says to engineer Rudy Van Gelder, "Hey Rudy, put this on the record, man – all of it!" (which he does), after Thelonious Monk stops the take in progress because he's not sure when he should come in.

There's a great exchange between Miles and Teo Macero on the complete Bitches Brew sessions box:

Teo: Is this part two, or...
Miles: It's part 8, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?!
Teo: Alright, alright...
Miles (under his breath) motherfucker
Teo: This is part something

[proggy_jazzer]

Seems like Led Zeppelin had a lot of these. My personal favorite is the airplane sound and Page's "Nah leave it" at the beginning of 'Black Country Woman".

[bigbassdrum]

"Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control." - Rush

"Ask not what your country can do for you .." - Living Colour

"I'm perfect. Are you?" - ELP

[Digital_Man]

"Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control." - Rush

"Ask not what your country can do for you .." - Living Colour

"I'm perfect. Are you?" - ELP

I was listening to "times up" by Living Colour today in my car and I noticed that album has a lot of stuff like that especially on the track "Elvis is Dead" which even features a section by Little Richard.

That Rush is a good example too. They were messing around with this device prior to recording 2112 and when they were recording that track they decided to use some of those samples. I think they did those a year or two earlier though. It was mentioned in the red Rush book that I have.

One of my favorites has to be this one: "As I mentioned at the close of the last record this record what you are now playing is another example of the completion backward principle. If you can possibly manage the time, please play both sides at one meeting." That's from the beginning of the album "the completion backward principle" by the Tubes.

The first one that popped into my head was probably "The way I see it Barry" from the beginning of Frank Zappa's Lumpy Gravy album. However, that whole album has a lot of spoken word parts(as in half the album) so that probably doesn't really count.

Of course there's this one from Yes that you can barely hear: "Come on old boy you had much better had the thing out at once.....well, that is exactly what dentists always do. Now, go on! Tell me the whole thing."

[veteranof1000psychicwars]

"Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control." - Rush

Anyone else ever noticed that
"Attention all planets of the Solar Federation" is 7 words repeated 3 times, adding up to 21, and
"We have assumed control" is 4 words repeated 3 times, adding up to 12?
Knowing Neil this had to be something he did on purpose, just to see if anyone caught it...l have never seen it mentioned anywhere.

[Digital_Man]

Anyone else ever noticed that
"Attention all planets of the Solar Federation" is 7 words repeated 3 times, adding up to 21, and
"We have assumed control" is 4 words repeated 3 times, adding up to 12?
Knowing Neil this had to be something he did on purpose, just to see if anyone caught it...l have never seen it mentioned anywhere.

I never knew that but I kind of doubt it was an accident. I think some bands put these "easter eggs" in their music deliberately. Obviously the Beatles were pretty well known for that but they weren't the only ones.

[veteranof1000psychicwars]

I never knew that but I kind of doubt it was an accident. I think some bands put these "easter eggs" in their music deliberately. Obviously the Beatles were pretty well known for that but they weren't the only ones.

Yes l am sure Neil did that just for fun. Even though he is gone it is nice that he is still messing with us.

[Digital_Man]

Yes l am sure Neil did that just for fun. Even though he is gone it is nice that he is still messing with us.

Did you ever noticed Alex playing "the 1812 overture" towards the end of "overture?"

[bill g]

Tomas Bodin, on 'An ordinary nightmare...' I think has lots of strange random comments. The ones I best remember are, 'It looks weird from the outside' (sound like they're talking about a space ship, but...?)

[progmatist]

The Flower Kings Paradox Hotel, which starts with a NASA countdown, ending with a game of ping-pong.

[Digital_Man]

The Flower Kings Paradox Hotel, which starts with a NASA countdown, ending with a game of ping-pong.

It also sounds like a game of ping pong during the opening track "rhythm of life" from the Retropolis album with the words "rhythm of life" repeated followed by what sounds like someone breaking a glass or something and saying "ow."

[progmatist]

It also sounds like a game of ping pong during the opening track "rhythm of life" from the Retropolis album with the words "rhythm of life" repeated followed by what sounds like someone breaking a glass or something and saying "ow."

But it's funnier with the NASA countdown on Paradox Hotel, IMO.

[Digital_Man]

But it's funnier with the NASA countdown on Paradox Hotel, IMO.

Being funny doesn't seem to be a prerequisite for the thread though. Some of them just turn out that way.

[JKL2000]

“Problems?! Don’t give me your problems!”

- Script for a Jester’s Tear

[Dave (in MA)]

I like all the knick-knack people and other nonsense used to link together all the solos in Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar.
It was a little disappointing when Guitar and Trancefusion showed up without that sort of thing.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

At the end of the first Tubes album, the song "White Punks on Dope", which has already faded out and back in once or twice, ends suddenly with the sound of a toilet flushing. (The same effect was used in Chicago's "Elegy" suite, third album, at the end of the "Progress?" movement.) Anyway, after that, a voice that sounds like Cheech Marin laughs and says, "Izzat all right?", followed by a deep, resonant voice saying something in a foreign language that I've never quite made out -- sounds something like "Achino, tetaromba." I've been told that it was Mexican Spanish, I've been told that it was Japanese; for all I know, it could be Lower Slobbovian or Elbonian.

[Progbear]

I was just listening to 666 by Aphrodite’s Child, which has a wealth of this kind of thing.

“That...was...the Wedding...of...the Lamb. Now...comes...the Capture...of...the Beast!”

[spellbound]

On Jerry Garcia's first solo album, during a tune called "Late For Supper," there is what sounds like a newscast over the music:

"Maybe, but we don't think so
Maybe, but we don't think so
Maybe, but we don't think so
We don't think so
We don't think so
Don't think
Don't think
Don't think..."