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OT: Songs That Start With a Sound Effect

ec33 said:
The approach cough leading into Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf":

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Ha! While I was trying to decide whether a cough qualified as a sound effect as per the guidelines, you decided for me.
So I'll glom onto your post with a cover of Sweet Leaf I was going to use:
PRS Guitars had a 40th anniversary concert with a bunch of PRS artists. Some stellar musicians.....
I like live performances and the backing band was excellent, guess it kinda had to be...
Gary & Greg Grainger (brothers) are the bassist and drummer.

 
Sifaka said:
Don't know if a female MC speaking Dutch qualifies as a sound effect…

A favorite in my distant youth…

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@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:
 
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64Zcode said:
Ha! While I was trying to decide whether a cough qualified as a sound effect as per the guidelines, you decided for me.
So I'll glom onto your post with a cover of Sweet Leaf I was going to use:
PRS Guitars had a 40th anniversary concert with a bunch of PRS artists. Some stellar musicians.....
I like live performances and the backing band was excellent, guess it kinda had to be...
Gary & Greg Grainger (brothers) are the bassist and drummer.

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It is a "stylized" cough with an effect put on it. I would object to the cough at the end of "In My Time of Dying" in the coming "songs that end with a sound effect" thread.
 
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!
 
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Starting or revving engines seem to be popular, here's another (I don't think it popped up already).

 
Dove said:
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!!!!

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Very nice idea for a thread.
 
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This one’s a bit of a stretch, but I always think of the beginning of DOA as a siren.

 
ETSA said:
@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:
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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.
 
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meyers7 said:
Some guy had made a recording of loons, lake sounds that they heard somewhere and they used it.
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That's what I figured. But I was imagining a scenario where they headed down to the lake to pay the loon, and every loon there claimed it was them in the recording!
 
Technically I think it starts w/ guitar feed back, but that was already allowed. Then some cool synth sound effects, and going above and beyond with a really freaking cool light show as well.

 
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