best use of giggling in a song

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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)

Hasil Adkins invented this.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mansun - Cancer

― it is, after all, my favourite song (Haberdager), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

The scourage returns!

Os Mutantes - a minha menina. Though it's more of a cackle really.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Os Mutantes - Don Quixote.

At the end. After the violin.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

(1896) George Washington Johnson - The Laughing Song

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Johnson

― The PappaWheelie Story: Half Brain, Half Soul, All Mouth (on sale now) (PappaWhe, Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

The Ladmo Trio - Michelle
Serge Gainsbourg - En Melody

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Os Mutantes - Don Quixote.
At the end. After the violin.

-- mark grout
Then there's a weird giggly type thing at the beginning of the next track Náo Vá Se Perder Por Ai!

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Biker Grove theme tune.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

rofl

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

YOU ARE ALL WRONG

― chakra khan chakra khan (sanskrit), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

correct answer is:

intro to "Wipeout"

― chakra khan chakra khan (sanskrit), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Janet Jackson, at the very end of "Doesn't Really Matter". It might only be on the radio mix but it might be the most endearing thing I've ever heard.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wipeout is a really good one. Another serious contender is the manic, gleeful one right at the end of the barmy but superb coda to Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road by Robert Wyatt. But I'm going to have to go for Leonard Cohen's uberspooky giggle in First We Take Manhattan:

And I thank you for those items that you sent me huhhehaha huck!
The monkey... and the plywood violin...

― deekew (deekew), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Then there's a weird giggly type thing at the beginning of the next track Náo Vá Se Perder Por Ai!

-- struttin' with some barbecue

Right, this is getting ridiculous. Giggling also at the start of Os Mutantes - Magica.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'd call the Wipeout intro a cackle rather than a giggle.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Sinatra got my vote!

"we talk about frank sinatra
you know frank sinatra?
he's dead... dead!
ha ha ha!"

― MRZBW (MRZBW), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

For a long time I thought that weird stuff going on in every 13th Floor Elevators song was (mutated) giggling.

But this is OTM:

correct answer is:
intro to "Wipeout"

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

ha, that song JUST came on my mp3 player, and i was about to post it

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

Since "Wipeout" has been covered, the new correct answer is "Heroin"

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

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