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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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Rhythm Is Rhythm - "Nude Photo"

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Aguas de Marco - Elis Regina and Tom Jobim

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

xpost yep I think so.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Hasil Adkins invented this.

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

Mansun - Cancer

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Os Mutantes - Don Quixote.

At the end. After the violin.

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

(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 (seventeen years ago) link

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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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