best use of giggling in a song

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when I read that description, Susan, I thought of "Delicious" by Jim Backus, which isn't exactly a song but was a fairly big radio hit. that thing, I do have to run from the room because the giggles just get so far down into your body it, it feels like you're possessed.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Nurse With Wound - "Swamp Rat"

― The Man in the Iron-On Mask (noodle vague), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

its intense like that, but its pleasant, if I can recall correctly. no fleeing. its like being inside a clown and high and a baby all at the same time.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Gainsbourg had a couple:

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

"En Melody" is another excellent example featuring, I'm assuming, Jane Birkin on giggle.

― Elvis Cocker, Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

AND then I think he (t. tim) does this kind of breathy thing and then an 'eeeww ughrrh?eww." which borders on a question/like what waaas that? mixed with wow that was large! and maybe some disgust - and you know you're done. its like have a really large giggle pulled out of you by some sort of clown doctor.

shall i go on?

someone ysi, cause i could be talking crap.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

The Slits' "A Boring Life." I once tried looping the giggle and building a track around it. Didn't work, but it was fun to try.

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 4 February 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Stevie Wonder: "Isn't She Lovely"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Wrong.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"Isn't She Lovely" is a nice try, but it's a goddamn crime this thread has gone on so long without the real correct answer: "Aguas De Marzo."

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Although I want to say Art of Noise very badly, I'm going to agree with the Slits.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Faith"

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 February 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"Hungry Like the Wolf"

or Janet Jackson's "Got 'Til It's Gone"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 4 February 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

"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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's the problem with list threads.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Arto Lindsay - "Tone"

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

ha ha ha
hee hee hee

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

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

NO ONE HAS MENTIONED KATE BUSH "AERIAL"

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Spice Girls "Wannabe"

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

Led Zeppelin - "Boogie With Stu"

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

"'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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

"Dirty Talk" Klein & MBO!

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

"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 (eighteen years ago) link

ODB anyone?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Jean Leloup's "I Lost My Baby"

French-Canadian female laughter...

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

The Laughing Policeman by Charles Penrose.

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

*ahem*

Fendermen - MULESKINNER BLUES

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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There's a wicked giggle at the start of "Sensoria" by Cabaret Voltaire, at least on the 12 inch mix anyway.

― Rob M v2, Friday, 9 May 2008 07:31 (fifteen years ago) link

I don't have time to re-read this whole thread, but clearly the answer is "Waltzinblack" by the Stranglers. Any other answer is just wrong,.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 9 May 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link

i like the fits in the anthology version of "and your bird can sing", but i dunno could it be classed a 'use' given that it's an outtake.

― darraghmac, Friday, 9 May 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link

"Juicy Fruit"

― calstars, Friday, 9 May 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link

is there giggling in short dick man?

― will, Friday, 9 May 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Rhythm Is Rhythm - "Nude Photo"

― henry s, Friday, 9 May 2008 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Slim Gaillard, "Laughing in Rhythm"

― Jazzbo, Friday, 9 May 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link

the Who, "Happy Jack" (giggling followed by "I saw ya!" at the end)

― Sara Sara Sara, Friday, 9 May 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Black Sabbath-Megalomania

― Bill Magill, Friday, 9 May 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Big Audio Dynamite "E=mc2" end with Theresa Russell-as-Marilyn Monroe breathily giggling "Bye!"

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 10 May 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link

I have you all beat...

the proper answer is...

The Faders - No Sleep Tonight

― wesley useche, Saturday, 10 May 2008 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

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

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 4 January 2020 08:53 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

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

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

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 (four years ago) link

... 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 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

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

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

will yes indeed there is giggling in Short Dick Man!

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

(answering a nine-year-old question)

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

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 (four years ago) link

“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 (four years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (three years ago) link

ORANGE!

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

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