The lead vocal of "Video Killed the Radio Star." If that's one of the youtubes posted upthread, oh well -- I have images off.
― Unclean, Unshaven (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjg39XRkjVc
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
noooo I'm about to go to sleep and it's suddenly the face of Art Alexakis
― friday goodness thank it's (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-XYfFUZ3o
― one way street, Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
florrie - i took a little something
― monotony, Sunday, 6 January 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
stp "dead and bloated"
― billstevejim, Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
nsync "gone"
― billstevejim, Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
I'm trying to remember if the Monkees' "Magnolia Simms" ever shifts out of scratchy, old-timey mode.
― Nutzhak Perlman (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:44 (eleven years ago) link
Well if we're including songs that sounds like they are on scratchy vinyl - "Honey pie" - then let's include "This is the way" by Ultra Vivid Scene - except it never blows up into full blown stereo, it just says scratchy all the way in a most annoying way. There is a His Name Is Alive song that does this too, can't remember the name but it had a chorus like "I can't live at home in this world anymore" and was on "Stars of ESP".
― Rob M Revisited, Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
Comet Gain - The Kids at the Club
I was trying to figure out how this fit but you must be talking about that re-recorded version they did a few years ago?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
My Bloody Valentine - "Soon"
― mahatma lambert (crüt), Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
insert "no the whole record is tinny" joke here
― mahatma lambert (crüt), Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
Queen "Mustapha"
Yeah, in the mid to late 90's, this was called the Mark Trombino Jump
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 6 January 2013 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, and "Just like Gene Autry : a foxtrot" by Moby Grape. So authentic that it played at 78 rpm on the original LP.
― Rob M Revisited, Sunday, 6 January 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
Dang, beaten by 3 minutes to that one!
― Mark G, Sunday, 6 January 2013 10:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3f8VUZ5xAU
― owenf, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
Daniel Johnston - Now
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 6 January 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
does 'owner of a lonely heart' qualify?― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Good call. I was wondering that myself, but since it's just the one drum bit, it's more likely a Trevor Horn tic than a conscious attempt to make it sound like a radio.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Ben Folds Five, "Underground"
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
The visual equivalent of this phenomenon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtIL1x725U
― Nutzhak Perlman (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car by Iron and WineBirdhouse in Your Soul by They Might be Giants
― banjoboy, Sunday, 6 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Portishead - Strangers.
Though it has a couple of bars of full stereo before going tinny-crackly and back again.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 6 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
whatever the first song on blood sugar sex magic is called
― humba (NZA), Sunday, 6 January 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Eels - Novacaine For the Soul
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 6 January 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
Weezer - Runaway
(if we can include dictaphone intros)
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
No, it doesn't. There's even a note on the sleeve saying so.
Phil Ochs did a similar track around the same time--"Half A Century High" maybe?
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
not sure if Cut Copy - "Strangers in the Wind" qualifies
― mahatma lambert (crüt), Sunday, 6 January 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
Slayer = Ghosts of War . also a tune on the new Soundgarden
― grapsta, Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
Undertones - "Get Over You"
― Lee626, Monday, 7 January 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Ramones - "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio"
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know if "tiny" but Sonic Youth - Mote
sometimes i wish they made a full song out of that 2 seconds opening sound there
― nostormo, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
goofy's concern - butthole surfers
probably something by Man Or Astro Man?
― nostormo, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
One Big Family by Embrace.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
First time I ever heard this effect was on the Chili Peppers' "The Power of Equality". I was 13 or so and that shit was like wow.
― mobs of burly teen christgaus (thewufs), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
"If You All Get To Heaven" - Terence Trent D'Arby
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
aimee mann – 'amateur'they might be giants – 'with the dark'
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
Kept trying to think of a Who song that would fit this and realized there isn't one. There's a whole album, though:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M9Gmi7m9JCM/S7x8d6lfsLI/AAAAAAAAAFA/sa5uMKvgrhY/s200/concept09-The-Who-Sell-Out.jpg
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Don Caballero 3"
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
Ruins - Quetzalcoatl (first issue only? was checking out YT for audio clips and apparently the remaster doesn't include the muted drum intro)
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Natalia Lafourcade & Gilberto Gil, "Farolito"
― JonathanBogart, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
the power of equalization
― crüt, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
"The Love I'm Searching For" by the Rentals. I recently revisited this album and it's great! It's aged quite well.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
Songs that start out sounding like they're playing through a tinny radio telephone before bursting into full produced stereo:
"You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette" - Robert Fripp
And of course "Telephone Line" - Electric Light Orchestra, but only the vocal
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
team dresch - screwing yer courage
― steaklife (donna rouge), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
Pale Saints - Way the World Is
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
Wings' "You Gave Me the Answer" has the "megaphone vocal," too.
― timellison, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
"hummer" by smashing pumpkins, duh
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 5 May 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link