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what songs with whispering do you like?
(hope it hasn't been done, I did some searching).

PUBLIC ENEMY - brothers gonna work it out

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the way Bernard Sumner whispers "talk to me" at the end of New Order's Love Less.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Air - "How Does it Make You Feel"

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a track on the new Embrace album with the most glorious whispered "yeah!" in a moment of calm before guitars and stuff crash back in.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

that morrissey about the lifeguard and the girl drowning that is all done in a whisper

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

'happy christmas kyoko'
'happy christmas julian'

ace.

― piscesboy, Friday, 27 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

In the break just before the guitar part starts at the conclusion of "Kiss Me Again" by Dinosaur, I like the repeated whispered "Kiss me again" that can be heard.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 27 August 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

'Whispering Grass' - Don Estelle & Windsor Davies

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

10cc, "I'm Not in Love" ("big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry...")

Sylvia, "Pillow Talk"

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"antarctica starts here" - john cale

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Kim Gordon/SY: Shadow of a Doubt.

This gives me chills every time.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's a Miracle" - Roger Waters, where he whispers about what he'd like to see happen to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

― jedidiah (jedidiah), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaxx and Dizzee - 'Lucky Star': "This better be-better be-better be-e-e-ee"

Richard X and Javine - 'You Used To': "I remember. When you used to hold me so tight."

Prince - 'U Got The Look': "Here we are folks. The dream we all dream of. Boy Vs girl. In the world series of love. Tell me. Have u got the look?"

Britney - 'Breathe On Me': "Monogamy's the way to go. Just put your lips together - and blow."

Janet's whisper-singing on 'All Nite' and Kahimi Karie's whisper-singing in general.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The "OK, Hello" backing vocals on Black Box Recorder's "The New Diana"

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

N'Order again:
'Ibiza, Majorca and Benidorm too I searched all those places and never found you' (outro to Vanishing Point)

Sueno Latino by Sueno Latino

'Mea Culpa' by Eno/Byrne

― wtin, Friday, 27 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Lanegan in "Skeletal History..."

"They're coming to kill me."

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"i just want to lie next to you"

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink Floyd, "Careful With That Axe, Eugene"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Big fish, little fish" bit in Down By The Water by PJ Harvey.

― Braces Tower, Friday, 27 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Cabaret Voltaire--"Hell's Home"

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"SILENT WEAPONS FOR A QUIET WAR!"

"Implant" by Killing Joke

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulp: "Take your year in Provence and shove it up your arse"

― sexyDancer, Friday, 27 August 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Amon Duul II in the song "5.5.55" from one of their later albums Renate whispers "typhoons through [the] orbit". I don't remember the "the" but a lyric site I googled shows it. Haven't played this LP in more than 10 years, but I still remember (and love) this bit.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess you can call it whispering cause that what he does the whole album, but Sam Beam from Iron and Wine on "Promising Light" off of The Creek Drank the Cradle is gorgeous.

― brock (brock), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget Damo Suzuki.Master of the space-whisper

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Bernard Sumner's whispered rap that ends "Mr. Disco".

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The bit in Mr. Bungle's "Violenzia Domestica" right after the big huge smash bang pow part.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The final, whispered "I don't know why I'm crying" in Kate Bush's "Suspended in Gaffa" has always gotten me.

― Rich (Rich), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of my faves already mentioned (hello "Pillow Talk" & "Antarctica Starts Here"!), but how about Gong's "Witches Song," with Gilli Smyth seductively whispering "Aii-ii ammm your POOOSS-eeee..."

― briania (briania), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the early Kim Gordon's chilly whispering for the SY, but she can't seem to summon it anymore. Her main priority lately (loosely used, ie w/Free Kitten) seems to be a worrisome Bon Scott impersonation.

A favorite: the whispered speaking bit at the end of Young Marble Giants' "Eating Noddemix" - it seems private, like muttering to one's self rather than imparting some sensual secret.

― Abbitt, Friday, 27 August 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty much any Pulp track

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 27 August 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty much every serge gainsbourg track

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 28 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The intro to Global Communication's "Obse-Lon-Mi-Nos"

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 28 August 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

God Is My Co-Pilot have this song made up of snarky whispering called Double Zero that's pretty great/funny.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Most Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens and Air.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 August 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

My personal favorite in this category is Visage's "Whispers", which is mostly an instrumental but relies upon, um, whispers, toward the beginning to set the mood and narrative. The whispering on that track gives me goosebumps all over.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 28 August 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

all Rage Against The Machine songs?

― hotdiggity, Sunday, 29 August 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"we're gonna tear the roof off the mother-sucker, tear the roof off the sucker..."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 29 August 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

LYCIA!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 29 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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