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)

[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

[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.

[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..."

[moecurlythanu]

Again from The Wall, and I don't know why, but the snippet of film dialogue "Can Lorca ride?"

From The Tubes "What Do You Want From Life?"

"Well, you can't have that, but
If you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
A heated kidney shaped pool
A microwave oven--don't watch the food cook
A Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home
A kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum
A foolproof plan and an airtight alibi
Real simulated Indian jewelry!
A Gucci shoetree!
A year's supply of antibiotics
A personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
And Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number
A beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick
Rosemary's baby!
A dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams
A new Matador
A new mastadon
A Maverick
A Mustang
A Montego
A Merc Montclair
A Mark IV
A meteor
A Mercedes
An MG
Or a Malibu?
A Mort Moriarty
A Maserati
A Mac truck
A Mazda
A new Monza
Or a moped
A Winnebago-- Hell, a herd of Winnebago's, we're giving 'em away
Or how about a McCulloch chainsaw?
A Las Vegas wedding
A Mexican divorce
A solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot
Or
A baby's arm holding an apple?"

[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."

[Digital_Man]

Again from The Wall, and I don't know why, but the snippet of film dialogue "Can Lorca ride?"

From The Tubes "What Do You Want From Life?"

"Well, you can't have that, but
If you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
A heated kidney shaped pool
A microwave oven--don't watch the food cook
A Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home
A kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum
A foolproof plan and an airtight alibi
Real simulated Indian jewelry!
A Gucci shoetree!
A year's supply of antibiotics
A personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
And Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number
A beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick
Rosemary's baby!
A dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams
A new Matador
A new mastadon
A Maverick
A Mustang
A Montego
A Merc Montclair
A Mark IV
A meteor
A Mercedes
An MG
Or a Malibu?
A Mort Moriarty
A Maserati
A Mac truck
A Mazda
A new Monza
Or a moped
A Winnebago-- Hell, a herd of Winnebago's, we're giving 'em away
Or how about a McCulloch chainsaw?
A Las Vegas wedding
A Mexican divorce
A solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot
Or
A baby's arm holding an apple?"

For some reason I missed your post but kind of forgot about that one anyway but it's a very good example. Also, at the beginning of the song "Mondo Bondage" from the same album you hear what sounds like a producer saying something like "this is 11 keep rolling." I'm pretty sure there's other examples from the Tubes. I know there's a lot of weird stuff on their Love Bomb album that features spoken word but it's been a while since I heard it and can't give specific examples.

I see the toilet flushing from the end of White Punks on dope was mentioned too. I don't know the Chicago song off the top of my head but on Allan Holdsworth's Wardenclyffe Tower album there's a track that features a flushing toilet followed by someone saying "Jazz? Is that what you call that? I hate Jazz." I'm sure someone on here knows exactly what track that is.

Apparently the Beach Boys did a lot of talking between songs and stuff like that also (if that counts).

[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."

[SunRunner2]

I have always enjoyed the heck out of Rockpommel's Lands strategically placed "announcements", which serve as comedy relief to the bombastic and gorgeous music heard on this album.

Announcements:

Here we come, here we are all around
Taking forth our stoney sound,
Stoney arms, stoney legs, stoney brain
One two three and again

Totally exhausted Ernie went off this severe place and followed a way leading to the mountains. Half an hour later he rested in the shade of a HOWARD JOHNSON'S where he began to consider whether he should turn around the record or have another hot dog...

This evening a huge bird was seen carrying a little boy on his back in a height of about 3000 feet right above sector 0/16. The bird was carrying some beer-bottles, a bag with vegetables, was lit contrary to regulations and was smoking a pipe. We instruct all planes cruising this sector to observe this incident. Over...

[Zeuhlmate]

Johnny Winter chuckles at the beginning of "I love everybody"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7SezI3PgTI

[Dave (in MA)]

on Allan Holdsworth's Wardenclyffe Tower album there's a track that features a flushing toilet followed by someone saying "Jazz? Is that what you call that? I hate Jazz." I'm sure someone on here knows exactly what track that is.

It would make a nice segue leading into this:

[SunRunner2]

Alan Parsons Project - "A Dream Within A Dream"

"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not
thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to
adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely.
Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental
health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the
confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I
captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within
a dream."

[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.

[ThomasKDye]

Alan Parsons Project - "A Dream Within A Dream"

"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not
thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to
adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely.
Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental
health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the
confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I
captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within
a dream."

What's funny is that wasn't on the album originally but was added with the reissue. And I can't imagine this album without it, because it completely sets the mood.