"mercy mercy mercy" by cannonball adderley"sugar lee" by donny hathaway"bye bye blackbird" by trini lopez
― semiarchly (semiarchly), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Pop Ryan (Rebelwordsmith), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)
― so hongro, so angry (haitch), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)
― semiarchly (semiarchly), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 14 July 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)
who needs an actual party when you can get a canned one.
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)
― More Tongue Feldman (noodle vague), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)
― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)
― tiniestbee (tiniestbee), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)
Fantastic.
― myopic_void (myopic_void), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)
― JoB (JoB), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)
...yep, including "Mel Farr, Superstar"! (Which won't mean shit to you unless you lived near Detroit in the 70s-80s)
― Myonga Von Birmingham (Monty Von Byonga), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)
― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Eggzakly Huhh? (zachary v.), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)
Mel Farr, superstar, for a far better deal...jingles don't get much better than that...
― hank (hank s), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)
"For a Farr Better Deal!"
Hell yes.
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)
"On the finished track, as Gaye musically ponders on the state of the world, a party can be heard going on in the background, from which Gaye's voice is purposely detached. The partygoers are portrayed by Mel Farr and Lem Barney, whose acquaintances Gaye had made during his failed 1970 tryout for the Detroit Lions."
I never knew Marvin Gaye actually tried out for the Lions...they could sure use a guy like him these days!...or a guy like:
http://www.nearmintcards.com/pics/1971+Topps/236.jpg
― hank (hank s), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)
Young-Holt Unlimited - Ain't There Something Money Can't Buy
Granted, it's live, but the interaction makes it clear that the crowd and the band were a-rockin' together.
But yeah, Marvin Gaye, Beach Boys, and even that Sloan album pretty much pwn this thread.
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)
― xhuxk (xheddy), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)
― bendy (bendy), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Alicia Silverfuck (sexyDancer), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)
― semiarchly (semiarchly), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)
― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)
― elgin again (golf and games), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Adolescence Mokushiroku! (gendo ikari), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)
― christoff (christoff), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)
― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)
― semiarchly (semiarchly), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)
A dead guy?
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)
the silver jews - search party
― marbles (marbles), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)
exactly!
― hank (hank s), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 15 July 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)
― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 15 July 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)
Also, "Dinner Party!" by Dirty Sanchez.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Saturday, 15 July 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)
Baby Astronauts - "I Hate This Song"
― Lassaller (Lassaller), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)
Was recorded as a tribute to all those old frat rock records.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)
(Apparently that's Dave Pirner cursing at the cop at the beginning of the song)
― richard wood johnson (rwj), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)
― pinder (pinder), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Dan Gr (certain), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)
To be extremely specific, I was thinking of songs with party sounds in the background, maybe a little singing along, but not necessarily "real." By "actual" I meant as opposed to party songs, that is, songs you would play at a party.
Rickey, what's "Gary U.S. Bonds to thread"?
― semiarchly (semiarchly), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)
― semiarchly (semiarchly), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)
"mercy mercy mercy" by cannonball adderley
I'm pretty sure that album was actually recorded live in a studio, so I guess it's arguable whether it's an "actual party."
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)
― semiarchly (semiarchly), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)
That album's actually WAY ahead of its time: One of the first "live"-in-the-studio[sic] things; o.o.the first "unplugged" album; and first covers album. Covers include Dylan, the Ronettes, Beatles and more.
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Friday, 21 July 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)
joe cuba - "bang bang"
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 July 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)
My buddy called this "a loud crowd."
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob DylanChristmas is the Time to Say "I Love You" - Billy Squire
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 27 December 2019 18:54 (six years ago)
"Hector" - The Village Callers
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 27 December 2019 18:57 (six years ago)
Madame George - Van Morrison (Bang version)
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:02 (six years ago)
every james last 'non stop dancing' album ?definitely a feature of the 3 that i have.
― mark e, Friday, 27 December 2019 19:15 (six years ago)
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Bob DylanIs this a party? I always thought of it as more a “studio scene”...
― The dead speak! (morrisp), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:39 (six years ago)
Recorded in the late night (early morning) and the musicians were supposedly drunk (possibly apocryphal). I'm going to allow it.
I include in a "loud crowd" nearly any sustained off-mike exhortations akin to party sounds whether or not there were formal invitations sent to party guests.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 27 December 2019 20:31 (six years ago)
Came here to post one of my favorite iterations of this, early 60s New Orleans R&B "We Got a Party" by the Party Boys, and was astonished to realize that it contains no actual sounds of partying - it just evokes partying so well that I swear I always heard a party in the background.
Therefore, I am not posting it itt
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 27 December 2019 20:54 (six years ago)
Tom Waits' entire Nighthawks at the Diner album is done in this style. Here's what producer Bones Howe said about it:
We did it as a live recording, which was unusual for an artist so new [...] Herb Cohen and I both had a sense that we needed to bring out the jazz in Waits more clearly. Tom was a great performer on stage [...] So we started talking about where we could do an album that would have a live feel to it. We thought about clubs, but the well-known ones like The Troubadour were toilets in those days. Then I remembered that Barbra Streisand had made a record at the old Record Plant Studios, when they were on 3rd Street near Cahuenga Boulevard [...] There was a room there that she got an entire orchestra into. Back in those days they would just roll the consoles around to where they needed them. So Herb and I said let's see if we can put tables and chairs in there and get an audience in and record a show.I got Michael Melvoin on piano, and he was one of the greatest jazz arrangers ever; I had Jim Hughart on bass, Bill Goodwin on drums and Pete Christlieb on sax. It was a totally jazz rhythm section. Herb gave out tickets to all his friends, we set up a bar, put potato chips on the tables and we had a sell-out, two nights, two shows a night, July 30 and 31, 1975. I remember that the opening act was a stripper. Her name was Dewana and her husband was a taxi driver. So for her the band played bump-and-grind music - and there's no jazz player who has never played a strip joint, so they knew exactly what to do. But it put the room in exactly the right mood. Then Waits came out and sang "Emotional Weather Report." Then he turned around to face the band and read the classified section of the paper while they played. It was like Allen Ginsberg with a really, really good band.
I got Michael Melvoin on piano, and he was one of the greatest jazz arrangers ever; I had Jim Hughart on bass, Bill Goodwin on drums and Pete Christlieb on sax. It was a totally jazz rhythm section. Herb gave out tickets to all his friends, we set up a bar, put potato chips on the tables and we had a sell-out, two nights, two shows a night, July 30 and 31, 1975. I remember that the opening act was a stripper. Her name was Dewana and her husband was a taxi driver. So for her the band played bump-and-grind music - and there's no jazz player who has never played a strip joint, so they knew exactly what to do. But it put the room in exactly the right mood. Then Waits came out and sang "Emotional Weather Report." Then he turned around to face the band and read the classified section of the paper while they played. It was like Allen Ginsberg with a really, really good band.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 27 December 2019 23:06 (six years ago)
The good version of "Voodoo Chile" from Electric Ladyland.And "Housequake", if that counts.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 27 December 2019 23:27 (six years ago)
And "Housequake", if that counts.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK)
the one that comes to mind for me - and i don't think it's an actual party - is the "crystal ball" versions of the ball -> joy in repetition
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 December 2019 00:51 (six years ago)
Akron Family - 'Ed Is A Portal'
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:56 (six years ago)
Positive Force • We Got The Funk
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:06 (six years ago)
Lou Reed - All Through the Night
Siouxsie & the Banshees' Pulled to Bits has kids playing, might just be in a playground but might be a party
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:10 (three years ago)
Madness - The Return of the Los Palmas 7
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:13 (three years ago)
feel like a lot of old hip-hop and funk has this. that first Kurtis Blow record has a party going on the entire A side I think
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:18 (three years ago)
Oh yeah, perfect example of that is Brass Construction's Dance. God I love that track.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:49 (three years ago)
Jim Capaldi - Keep on Trying
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:51 (three years ago)
A couple of tracks on Prince's Black Album.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:51 (three years ago)
Tusk, sort of, maybe
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:52 (three years ago)
Tommy James & the Shondells - On Behalf of the Entire Staff & Management
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:55 (three years ago)
"Hot Rox Avec Lying Sweet Talk" by the Loud Family (though it's a sedate, conversation-heavy cocktail party).At a big stretch, you could include the party at the end of "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 18:31 (three years ago)
Fear - More Beer
― BrianB, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:41 (three years ago)