OT: Songs That Start With a Sound Effect

[nwhoopfan]

I would ask for some clarification, but it's a song thread, who cares. It would be too big of an ask to get all philosophical about what actual constitutes a musical instrument. Or the non distorted part, because instruments are distorted to some degree in a lot of music. And don't even get me started on synthesizers, because you can make pretty much any sound imaginable (and some unimaginable sounds) with those, and I'd call them instruments. Eh, like I said it's a song thread, who cares!

This has already grown to 4 pages and it's looking like some liberal interpretations, so I'm diving in!

 

[nwhoopfan]

You've got synthesized air raid sirens, helicopter, gun fire, explosions, one stop shopping for an apocalypse.

 

[nwhoopfan]

 

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[nwhoopfan]

Starting or revving engines seem to be popular, here's another (I don't think it popped up already).

 

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[TerpWomenFan]

So, I poke my eyes into the Women's Board and years into song threads I now see two asking for songs that start with I, Me, She, He, You, Me...

I mean, is this where we are?

Lets put some thought into these!!!

Now, post a song/vid where we hear a sound effect before an unaltered musical instrumant. Aaaaand, I'll start:

TURN IT UP, WHIZ!!!!

Very nice idea for a thread.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

This was the first song I thought of.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

A Third GAP Band song. Probably their best intro.

 

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[TerpWomenFan]

Love this intro as well

 

[meyers7]

Who did they have to pay the royalty to? The loon?

Some guy had made a recording of loons, lake sounds that they heard somewhere and they used it.

 

[Bigboote]

This one’s a bit of a stretch, but I always think of the beginning of DOA as a siren.

 

[CL82]

@Sifaka Nice throwback from German Beat Club show! That's Uschi Nerke the long time German hostess of Beat Club and Musikladen (Music Store) in the late 60's into the 70's. She is thanking the previous performer, Tiny Tim, and introducing "Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band" who were Nr. 16 on the Hit Parade at the time.
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The show was being done in color by 1971 when Uschi introduced Ike and Tina Turner. Admittedly the song did not really start with a sound effect, but neither did your Bonzo Dog entry, and besides Tina Turner was by herself a sound and visual effects force of nature - I remember watching this episode when it was first broadcast - my German friends did not know what to think of Tina:

They weren't alone. I remember watching Proud Mary, probably on Bandstand as a kid. The whole "nice and easy" intro and then into the absolute power of the second half of the performance left me thinking "what the heck was that?" but in the best way. It made me a big Tina Turner fan. Her performances were absolutely electrifying and never waned all the way up through her 50s. Although very different artists, she reminds me of Jagger in that way.