Songs with funny noises

After listening to Spike Jones I wondered if there are songs in todays rockmusic with funny noises but not being slapstickfilmmusic
those come to my mind:
The Beta Band's "number 15" (a dog barking, a woman screaming and a very funny cuckoo "coo coo cuckoo"
a lot Beta Band songs have funny noises, that bubble noises in "Not too beautiful" and other space rock influenced songs)
Faith No More - Das Schützenfest (can't help thinking the keyboarder has the same soundfiles on his instrument like the one of The Beta Band...woman and dog sound very similar and I think, a cuckoo would have fitted in too in that "typical Germany" funsong )
Kevin Ayers - Oh what a dream (the rhythm loop contains a duck! )
Pink Floyd - Flaming (cuckoo!)
Tom Waits - 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six (bottles)
Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus (a rooster)

and somehow I think those two serious songs fit in too
Elbow - Powderblue Andy Votel Remix (toy hooter?) (I always think it sounds a bit like Party noises at the cold turkey-couple's wedding day... )
Yes - Owner of a lonely heart (gun shot) (black humor)

So do you know more "noisy" songs?

The only two I can think of (in rock music anyway) are XTC - Senses Working Overtime and Supergrass - Seen The Light - which both feature sheep going "baaaaa!"

oh and Radiohead - Karma Police has the sound of a Sinclair Spectrum or some other 8-bit computer loading at the end.

Lee Spoons wrote:

Supergrass - Seen The Light - which (...) feature sheep going "baaaaa!"

yea, I remember, just before that crazy guitarsolo which sounds like an electric hedge trimmer

Hmmm, first one that comes immediately to mind is the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Always loved that as a kid, beause of the silly sound effects!

Funny enough, I think it was Steve Lamacq talking about weird sounds in song on the radio the other day. New Order's Perfect Kiss got a special mention 'cos of its frogs. Ribbit.

Yea, and the carcrashnoise on the ending is also quite crazy

mrswoman wrote:

Funny enough, I think it was Steve Lamacq talking about weird sounds in song on the radio the other day. New Order's Perfect Kiss got a special mention 'cos of its frogs. Ribbit.

ha, forgot about that! Very much a case of "we've got a new sampler" methinks... trying to out-Art of Noise Art of Noise

yea, Art of Noise were quite funny too sometimes...that Peter Gunn Cover was hillarious.
I think, the noises in "Owner of a lonely heart" came from that direction too (Trevor Horn?)

TamedLamia wrote:

yea, Art of Noise were quite funny too sometimes...that Peter Gunn Cover was hillarious.
I think, the noises in "Owner of a lonely heart" came from that direction too (Trevor Horn?)

You're right, Trevor Horn and the other members of Art Of Noise produced Yes's album and formed Art of Noise shortly afterwards.

Don't quote me on this, but I *think* Owner Of A Lonely Heart was the first ever hit record to include a sample of another record (that "boom-boom-BASH ticky-boom" drum break at the start) - taken from Kool Is Back by Funk Inc. I'm probably wrong though.

Audience with the Pope - radiator

Lee Spoons wrote:

Don't quote me on this, but I *think* Owner Of A Lonely Heart was the first ever hit record to include a sample of another record (that "boom-boom-BASH ticky-boom" drum break at the start) - taken from Kool Is Back by Funk Inc. I'm probably wrong though.

Interesting...I thought to it sounds very sample-ish but I never heard of the original

ticky wrote:

Audience with the Pope - radiator

right
And that strange beatbox(?)-session at the beginning of "Leaders of the free world" (the making of is seen on the DVD before "Great Expectations" )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwQhTC2D4w

Lee Spoons wrote:

The only two I can think of (in rock music anyway) are XTC - Senses Working Overtime and Supergrass - Seen The Light - which both feature sheep going "baaaaa!"

oh and Radiohead - Karma Police has the sound of a Sinclair Spectrum or some other 8-bit computer loading at the end.

"In the outro, Ed O'Brien plays a few notes on his guitar, which are distorted by overloading an AMS rackmount digital delay unit and turning the delay rate knob down."


Wish it was a computer...it would be such a radiohead thing to do but then Ed has such a mental array of pedals he could probably make any noise you wanted!

Just listened to this yesterday.

Billy Joel - Allentown...

yea, that jack-hammer. There was one in Captain Sensibles "Wot" too.
and just in time I remembered some more songs with workingtools in it
But really not from the softrock area...

chainsaw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt41Px25x54
electric drill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-C-oS--xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIDdv9VAx8

ah wait a minit...one more (einhabichnoch!)
Mercury Rev "Holes" maybe the most lovely musical saw solo

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's "Shirts." They put a mic on a shirt collar, and they somehow "played" it. Don't ask me how.

The end of Powder Blue!

Mikey Dread - Pre-Dawn Dub. Wonder what he was smoking when he made this?

Ted wrote:

Lee Spoons wrote:

oh and Radiohead - Karma Police has the sound of a Sinclair Spectrum or some other 8-bit computer loading at the end.

"In the outro, Ed O'Brien plays a few notes on his guitar, which are distorted by overloading an AMS rackmount digital delay unit and turning the delay rate knob down."


Wish it was a computer...it would be such a radiohead thing to do but then Ed has such a mental array of pedals he could probably make any noise you wanted!

bugger, I was convinced that was a Speccy loading.