100 best clips to use as your answering machine message

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Not when you're leaving a message for someone else, but when they call you and you don't pick up.

― Mike Svoboda, Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

http://e.discogs.com/release/224451

― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

ok most of those suck actually

― one eye white, one eye black (FE7), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

laurie anderson, "o superman"

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

"Don't Bother Me," The Beatles

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"Hello, This Is Joanie"

Can't remember who it's by tho.

― Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Sunday, 16 October 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Throbbing Gristle - We Hate You (Little Girls)

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Morrissey--Suedehead ("Why do you telephone?")

― late adopter, Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

the aqua teen hunger force dvd set comes with messages you can use. my friend has one. i sometimes call her phone just to hear her message. because it's funny.

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Costello - "No Action"

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Mario Piu - "Communication (Somebody Answer the Phone)"
No Doubt - "Spiderweb"

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

ELO - Telephone Lines
Paul Simon - Call Me Al
Walter Wanderley - Summer Samba

― Voodoo Child, Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey - McCartney

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Music for voicemail msgs? What are you guys, twelve years old?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

didn't they used to sell a cassette tape of amusing messages on TV back in the '80s? the beethoven was my favorite. "nobody's hooome. no-bo-dy's hoooooome."

― awful bliss (awful bliss), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Every Christmas I use a clip from Tiny Tim on the Beatles' 1968 fan-club Christmas single: He says, "Oh, what a thrill it is, talking here! And the thing is, I just want to wish Merry Christmas to you all; oh, and a Happy New Year *ohh*." The closing orgasmesque sound makes it worth letting it play all the way through. At least, the first time.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine used the second verse of Ivor Cutler's "Good Morning! How Are You? Shut Up!" for a while.

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Paul McCartney's "I'll Give You A Ring" delivers the helpful lines "Give me your number, I'll give you a ring," which pretty much says it all. Also, his "Call Me Back Again" might be handy if you're bad at returning calls, but do wish the caller would take another stab at it.

For something a little weirder/confusing, perhaps "I tried to telephone / they said you were not home / that's a li-i-i-e" from "No Reply"...

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Music for voicemail msgs? What are you guys, twelve years old?

OTM.

That said, DMX: "Uh huh, ok, what's up? SHUDDUP!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Pulp - Ansaphone
"Cos theres never no one home, never no one home.....Leave your message on the ansaphone"

too obvious?

― splates (splates), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

if your name is Bill, you should use "Where the Hell Is Bill?" by Camper Van Beethoven. also, the Vandals have a song in which the intro is Kelsey Grammar(!) recording an answering machine message.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

silver jews - advice to the graduate ("if you got a message, leave your name and number and we'll get back to you")

― spasticheritage, Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~shoemake/sounds/sein/sein-george-machine.mp3

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

that de la soul song from "is dead"
ring ring ring ha ha hey or whatever it's called

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

"Got me an office, gold records on the wall. Just leave a message, maybe I'll call."
- Joe Walsh, "Life's Been Good"

― xhuxk, Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

ring ring ring ha ha hey or whatever it's called

"Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)" is indeed the title; that lyric is in turn taken from Curiosity Killed the Cat's "Name and Number."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 16 October 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

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