songs imitating a rock concert environment

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heres what i've come up with
beatles - sgt pepper's
curt boettcher - bobby california
nick lowe - heart of the city
daniel johnston - billions/rock

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not too sure as to what you mean but I'll try to give an answer

"Dimond Dogs" David Bowie

If I remember correctly, there's some cheering at the begining.

Correct me if this is not what you want.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bennie & the Jets" by Eltonio Juan

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Several tracks on The Wall by Los Floydos el Pinko

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

There's that little bit in the middle-eight of "Spirit of the Radio" by Rush wherein his large-snozzed Geddness sings, "the words of the prophets were written on the studio wall.....CONCERT HALL!", cueing in a fake crowd noise.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What about "Blood Sport" Alex?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

not a rock song, but i'd say jay-z - "encore" should work

― lemin (lemin), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What about it? That's just them fucking about in the studio (channeling NEU!).

hey, I interviewed Big Paul Ferguson a couple of weeks back, btw.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn.

How's he been? What has he been doing, really?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

primus, "the return of sathington willoughby" and "professor nutbutter's house of treats"

― f ath, Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

He's been fine. He restores sculpture for a living now, and still plays music (most recently for a band called Superdeformed).

here's me and the great man now, actually:

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.cv/alexinnyc/Sites/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-09-04%2015.23.40%20-0700/Image-42F4AC5EFEC011D8.jpg-thumb_140_105.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fight Test"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Very cute Alex.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

to AWESOME EFFECT, Butthole Surfers - John E. Smokes

alex, where/when is that interview going to be published?

― jake b. (cerybut), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Rasputina - "Ye Olde Headboard"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Gram Parsons - "Medley Live from Northern Quebec"

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's "words of the profits", Alex!;)

I think Sonic Youth's "Eric's Trip" and "Wish Fulfilment" both manage to do this without actually using samples of actual crowd noise but instead using guitar noise to achieve the same effect. In WF, it works to simulate the stadium cheering the superstar the lonely face-in-the-crowd pines for. In ET, it kind of feels like being inside the mosh pit at a punk show while high and trying to piece everything together.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

There's that one bit in Neil Young's "Broken Arrow" where the crowd noise comes in ... I guess right after the "Mr. Soul" quote? It sounds pretty obviously fake, anyway

― Reed Moore (diamond), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z "22 2's"

― Symplistic (shmuel), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

alex, where/when is that interview going to be published?

That'd be telling. Actually, it's allegedly for a book celebrating the band's 25th anniversary. Details will follow at some point......I hope.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Guns N Roses- Get In The Ring

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 25 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Make Up lp "Live at Cold Rice"

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Candyman "Knockin' Boots"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

All of Kiss's live stuff.

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i sorta do like the concept but...

*tries to imagine a song imitating rain, mud and overflowing toilets*

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the first or second track on Jan Jelinek avec les Exposures... don't know the name...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"sherry darling", spingsteen off the river, altho that is more of a bar atmosphere

― drew, Saturday, 25 September 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, t.

Was it Simon Frith who said that Husker Du's covers of 60s pop songs (e.g. "Ticket to Ride") actually made them sound like, e.g. the experience of seeing the Beatles at Shea Stadium with overloaded amps and screaming fans.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 25 September 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"give it up or turn it loose" james brown -- taped audience noise at beginning. faked live effect to fit in w/actual live tracks on sex machine LP.
"train kept a rollin'" aerosmith. according to producer jack douglas, recorded in stairwell to simulate concert hall echo. audience sounds came from leftover "concert for bangladesh" tapes.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Spin Doctors" - Wesley Willis

― billstevejim, Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Utah Saints - What can you do for me

(or was it "something good"?)

― fernando, Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Wings "Rock Show"!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 26 September 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"fight test" is actually imitating a colliseum, battle to the death environment.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Sunday, 26 September 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Sloan "The Good In Everyone," with the band-introducing intro, crowd noise, and the screams of the band members' names at the end.

― Phil Dennison (Phil D.), Sunday, 26 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Pere Ubu - Chinese Radiation

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Sunday, 26 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Travis Morrison - Born in '72

I was cracking the fuck UP the first time I heard that high pitched "Think he'll play the city?" right as he hit the opening chord...

― moofman (moofman), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

N-Trance - Set You Free (possibly it was one of the re-releases, though)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

all 1990/91 klf singles except JUSTIFIED /ANCIENT W. TAMMY

― piscesboy, Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Panjabi MC - Jogi

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

also Sloan, 'If It Feels Good Do It', with their favourite 'slooo-aaan' chant.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

pink floyd, in the flesh

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 26 September 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

half of motley crue's output..

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Seeds, Raw & Alive at Merlin's Music Box. It's a whole album of this!

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sgt. Pepper reprise

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

chicks on speed "we don't play guitars"
relaxed muscle "billy jack"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the whole first side of The White Room by the KLF

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

damn, was just gonna say that...

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

And all Scooter songs, for that matter.

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

At least half of James Brown's output.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

peter gabrield "plays live" which was so doctored in the studio it's hard to even consider it a live album.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet and "Teenage Rampage" with its faux "We want the Sweet" chant in the beginning. At least it sounds faux to me!

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"So you Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star (eh?)" - The Byrds (Screaming after "the girls will tear you apart"

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rock and Roll Band" by Boston

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

There's that one bit in Neil Young's "Broken Arrow" where the crowd noise comes in

and then there's the bizarre cover of jimmy reed's "baby what you want me to do" on young's album broken arrow, in which the fake (i think!) crowd/bar noise is louder than the song, and continues for the entire length of the song, drowning out the music.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretenders - My Baby

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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