One or two barely audible shouts or yells far in the background of a studio recording!

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I usually love this, if I like the song. I'm thinking mostly of fairly traditional types of recordings though. Who is it? A band member? A member of a studio audience? The fact that it sounds so distant makes it seem more genuine somehow.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

I think the best you're gonna get is Muddy Water's "Mannish Boy" from the Hard Again album from 1977.

I don't know who does it, but it's basically the most energetic thing I've ever heard.

― Voodoo Child, Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

OH YES I KNOW

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

1. John Lennon singing chorus of Yer Blues off-mike...gives me chills every time I hear it
2. SM's all right before instrumental break on Pavement's Grounded
3. "Play fuckin' loud!"

― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Jagger's "one more time" in the raveup ending to Stop Breakin' Down (is that a raveup? never really sure what that is, except where i first heard it applied, to what goes on? by vu)

― douglas eklund (skolle), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

The beginning of "Kick It Out" by Heart on the underrated Little Queen album!

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

I love in jazz recordings when you can hear one of the band members go "whoo!" in the middle of a song, as in "Whoa what the fuck did you just play!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I seem to remember reading that if you listen really closely to The Kingsmen's Louie Louie, you can hear the drummer frustratedly shouting "Fuck!" half-way through, after fluffing a fill.

And then there are the background screams in the Ohio Players' Love Rollercoaster, which gave rise to one of America's silliest urban legends.

― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 16 October 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

In the slow and heavy version of Voodoo Child, I love at the end of Jimi's big solo it quiets down and you hear someone in the crowd in the studio joking 'turn that shit down' as they slowly come back into the opening riff.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

don caballero "delivering the groceries at 138 beats per minute"

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

LCD -- is it "Beat Connection"?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

I think Alphaville's "Jet Set", in which the lead singer goes "Yeah! Get ready for a show!!!", Is quite possibly one of the most contrived background shouts ever put to tape.

It still works, somehow.

― D.V. Caputo, Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

LCD is "Yeah"

― Steev (Steev), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

Luau by Drive Like Jehu....
"That's it, I'm done." - Rick Froberg clearly not straight into the microphone before the guitar duel with John Reis reaches new heights...SWEET

― bobby.lasers, Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

About 3:30 into "Cancer for the Cure" by the Eels you can hear the lead singer (at least I think it's him) say "Paul is dead" very quietly.

On a separate note, I like to imagine the song is actually about the members of the Cure getting cancer. It's more fun that way.

― Brock! (Brock!), Sunday, 16 October 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Evil.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 October 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Shake Some Action

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Lots of this stuff on Beatles records; great example is (supposedly) George's shout from the control room after John's excruciating scream on "I Want You (She's So Heavy)."

― monkeybutler, Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

The beginning of "Stereo Sanctity" by Sonic Youth. That scream's pretty lame/contrived/annoying, though.

― xavier mcshane (xave), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

"Fuckin' Housemartins".

- as said by Peter Hook as the 'why can't you see' outro begins to fade on "Confusion", 1987 version on 'Substance'.

― darren (darren), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

And there's that "I saw yer" or something like that at the end of "Happy Jack" by the Who.

― darren (darren), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Robert Schneider yelling 'Holy Shit!' at the very end of NMH's "Oh Comely".

― cdwill, Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

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