best use of giggling in a song

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I hate it when the song I immediatly think of when I see the thread title is mentioned in the first post.

― R. J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

is vincent price "thriller " wrong ?
peter andre " funky junky ".

napoleon-xiv "they're coming to take me away" owns this thread.
if this was 1966 why do i think it was early 80's ?
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/21_variations_o.html

― retrokid, Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

"back to the life" - spoon. britt's giggle (laugh..) in the begining of the song.
"lay of the land" - the fall - mark giggles near the outro.

― moree, Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I hate it when the song I immediatly think of when I see the thread title is mentioned in the first post.

bahahahahaha

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 4 February 2006 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's the problem with list threads.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 February 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Ladytron's cover of The Human League's "Open Your Heart" has some giggling.

― D.V. Caputo, Saturday, 4 February 2006 06:06 (twenty years ago)

elvis - mystery train, and baby let's play house.

neither long giggles as such, but both great moments

― whatever (boglogger), Saturday, 4 February 2006 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Arto Lindsay - "Tone"

― Cliftonb, Saturday, 4 February 2006 07:22 (twenty years ago)

I dig the children laughing that occasionally pop up on the second half of the Avalanches album. It brings about a deja vu trippy flashback feeling. That's "best use" enough for me.

― Brian Jones (Brian Jones), Saturday, 4 February 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

ha ha ha
hee hee hee

I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me

― Traci, Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

NO ONE HAS MENTIONED KATE BUSH "AERIAL"

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

it has to be Tiny Tim - don't know the song though...on God Bless album. just incredible giggling. beyond any giggling you have or ever will hear. if you hear it in person, FUCKING RUN!

"Living In The Sunlight, Loving In The Moonlight"?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

There's a Stockholm Monsters song that begins with giggling ... can't remember the bleedin' title!

― Franklin Trench, Saturday, 4 February 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Most annoying giggle: REM's Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Best giggles: Frank Zappa's Bobby Brown Goes Down live on Cheap Thrills. The bass player keeps shouting, 'Hi-ho Silver!' causing uncontrollable laughter.

― Wax Cat (Wax Cat), Saturday, 4 February 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

There's some almost super-cerebral giggling in KEith Rowe's Groovy Situation. Great song too!

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Saturday, 4 February 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

OH MY GOD. I cannot believe you guys didn't realize the right answer yet!

"I KNOW WHAT BOYS LIKE" - The Waitresses

― do do da doado, Saturday, 4 February 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

There's some almost super-cerebral giggling in KEith Rowe's Groovy Situation. Great song too!

Is that the same song as Gene Chandler's "Groovy Situation"?

P.S. I'm glad no one has said Yoko Ono's "Yes, I'm Your Angel."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 4 February 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Most annoying giggle

The pathetically hollow one at the beginning of Michelle Branch's "You Get Me." It's sad when even a giggle sounds ProTooled.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Spice Girls "Wannabe"

― danzig (danzig), Sunday, 5 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin - "Boogie With Stu"

― Mama Roux, Sunday, 5 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

"'Pauvre Lola' has lots of giggling, the video of which features an impossibly pretty France Gall faced off with the slouching and lecherous Gainsbourg."

Funny, I was going to say France Gall with 'Zoi Zoi', though I'm not sure giggling in a song is ever a good thing.

On the whole I'd probably like her a whole lot less if I could understand much French. Maybe that goes some way in explaining the popularity of American pop in the rest of the world.

― lykvun stratta, Sunday, 5 February 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

also mr dylan's 115th dream
or does that count as pure hysterical laughter?

― powpowpow, Sunday, 5 February 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

'Back In A Tracksuit' by Sultans of Ping FC.

― beaux knee (boney), Sunday, 5 February 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Joseph, it's very possibly a cover. Reggae song "Girl meets boy, gives him lots of joy/A good vibration, a groovy situation"

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 5 February 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to say that it's not serge gainsbourg's "en melody"; that laughter really gets to me, sounding like fran drescher and all.

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Sunday, 5 February 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

"Dirty Talk" Klein & MBO!

― Father Brian Eno, Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

"She Bop" seconded; also Roxanne Shanté's "Live On Stage".

Most annoying giggle: Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" - damn near ruins the song for me.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 5 February 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

ODB anyone?

― Nate (Nate), Sunday, 5 February 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Negativland - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

But, no, I'm going to have to strongly agree with this:

Nurse With Wound - "Swamp Rat"

-- The Man in the Iron-On Mask (noodle_vagu...), February 4th, 2006 12:12 PM. (later)

Makes the entire track (which is a great song), therefore must be the best use of it.

― S- (sgh), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Jean Leloup's "I Lost My Baby"

French-Canadian female laughter...

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Monday, 6 February 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Kenickie - "If you dance like this, you're a Punka - PUNKA!! (barely audible giggle)"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 February 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Messer Fur Frau Muller -- there's a song on their "Second Hand Dreams" CD that comes up in my iTunes as "Ìãíîâåíèÿ îñòàíîâèëèñü" -- it's made almost entirely of samples of gigggling, so it's guaranteed to drive you to insanity.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Lords Of Acid - "I Sit On Acid", although it's more like a laughing orgasm than a giggle.

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

The Laughing Policeman by Charles Penrose.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

*ahem*

Fendermen - MULESKINNER BLUES

― brianiast (briania), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

48 seconds into Rory Gallagher's "20/20 vision". Are any of the songs above non-deliberate giggles? Like "they're coming to take me away" its written in - are any of them just natural giggles left in on the final mix?

― Pete McFeet, Sunday, 12 February 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Are any of the songs above non-deliberate giggles? Like "they're coming to take me away" its written in - are any of them just natural giggles left in on the final mix?

― Pete McFeet, Sunday, 12 February 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

For natural giggles, try the Beatles, "And Your Bird Can
Sing," specifically the version on _Anthology 2_. That was
my first official Beatles CD, and my 2nd CD ever (my first
was Blues Traveler, _Four_), so I may be biased by that first
flush of excitement, nay, enlightenment, that one gets upon
hearing the Beatles do their thing. But I still think that
the early take presented therein is the best version extant.
Sure, it's lacking George's neato guitar fills, but it contains
a some excellent guitar parts that are even more compelling,
and the bit of giggling and studio chatter is fun and funny.
Too bad 1966 was far too staid of a time to leave in something like
that

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

the real answer is boards of canada's 'aquarius'

while it's fantastic in the context of the song, that 'giggle' featured in 'en melody' is strangely unsettling

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Rhythm Is Rhythm - "Nude Photo"

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

There's quite a bit of fetishized Asian-girl giggling in "Harajuku Girls."

I'm partial to Michael Stipe's in "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", where he suddenly loses his shit on the words "Dr. Seuss."

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well if you're going to mention that again, I'm going to mention Kenickie and "Punka" again.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

The beginning of "Public Image" after all the "hello"s.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

x-post
Sorry, didn't catch the previous mention.

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

that giggle in 'sidewinder...' is so subtle that i thought up until now it was just mike croaking on the words

as for another example, 'brain damage'

also, is that a giggle on 'milk it'?
"mhm test meeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaat"

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Aguas de Marco - Elis Regina and Tom Jobim

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost yep I think so.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

i have always thought the giggle on "brain damage" was really, really stupid. "oh wow, he's KWAAAAAAAZY!!!!!"

"nude photo" seconded though.

― mango selassie (teenagequiet), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yazoo - "Situation"
-- LeRooLeRoo (sebastien.caro...), February 4th, 2006

That was exactly the song that popped into my head when i saw this thread.

― shorty (shorty), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'll go with 'Dirty Talk' and W.I.T.'s 'Oooh I Like It' which copies it.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

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where is elvis presley's version of "are you lonesome tonight?" where he has that long laughing fit?

― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:05 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mf7MqmoE2I&frags=pl%2Cwn

― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:09 (six years ago)

First time I heard Keith Rowe - 'Groovy Situation' the giggling really confused me

https://youtu.be/zKgAU6w9SSQ

― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Sunday, 5 January 2020 17:25 (six years ago)

... the first half of that track is silent, which is really taking dub to a whole different level.

Lou @ 0:55. A chuckle rather than a giggle tbf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fYCU40G7Pc

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 January 2020 17:35 (six years ago)

You gotta listen through to the end, is the thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXipQDgb8E

― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 13:08 (six years ago)

The only answer is the sampled baby giggling in “Are You That Somebody?”

― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 13:41 (six years ago)

will yes indeed there is giggling in Short Dick Man!

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 13:48 (six years ago)

(answering a nine-year-old question)

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 13:48 (six years ago)

Van Morrison at the end of "He Ain't Give You None," when he goes, "You can leave now if you don't like what's happening, heh heh." It's already an outrageously creepy song, but that line and the giggles really elevate the creepy factor. You start to wonder if maybe the joke is that you can't leave.

― Lily Dale, Monday, 13 January 2020 07:23 (six years ago)

“Delicious” by Jim Backus and Phyllis Diller (I think?)— mentioned up thread— is my perennial “the party is over, goodbye” selection choice

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 13 January 2020 20:54 (six years ago)

seven months pass...

I did a guest episode on this podcast about novelty songs to discuss The Laughing Policeman and the history of laughing songs, if that sounds like something people want to listen to today.

https://headballetpod.podbean.com/e/james-errington-on-charles-penrose/

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 30 August 2020 13:59 (five years ago)

The only answer is the sampled baby giggling in “Are You That Somebody?”

I think that’s more of a “coo”?

I would vote for “Brain Damage,” though I see it’s been mentioned & summarily dismissed above.

― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:37 (five years ago)

idk that baby is grown now, we should ask them if it’s a “giggle“ or a “coo”

― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:43 (five years ago)

Most annoying giggle: Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" - damn near ruins the song for me.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee)

I love that moment...Janet Jackson gets mentioned a couple of times; doesn't she laugh in "When I Think of You"? (Maybe a laugh isn't a giggle.)

― clemenza, Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:51 (five years ago)

non-live tracks on which the singer cannot help but laugh

― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:56 (five years ago)

There ought to be threads for chuckles, guffaws, and snickers, too.

― clemenza, Sunday, 30 August 2020 18:01 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unDORvhKhAc

― bamcquern, Sunday, 30 August 2020 18:50 (five years ago)

Gangsta of Love by the Geto Boys, bushwick Bill cracking up while saying the first girl he ever slept with “opened up my butt cheeks and started licking out my asshole“

― flopson, Sunday, 30 August 2020 19:55 (five years ago)

ORANGE!

― pomentiful (pomenitul), Sunday, 30 August 2020 20:17 (five years ago)

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