instances of involuntary laughter in songs

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Beach Boys - Little Pad
(oh, wait, that was substances at play)

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Group X - "Mario Twins"
Porky Pig - "Blue Christmas"!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

There's some snippet of either Rufus Thomas or R.L. Burnside cracking up and saying "I know where I'm goin' now" somewhere on the JSBX's Now I Got Worry. (My favorite album by them by a fur piece.)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Mike Skinner and his buddies cracking up at the end of "Don't Mug Yourself". Not sure if it's planned, it sounds like they were messing around and just decided to leave it in.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

haha, whoa, group x. just thinking about that part is making me laugh

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I think a lot of these were probably planned, including possibly these two...

Elis Regina e Tom Jobim - Aguas de Marco
Stew - Naked Dutch Painter

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

there's that Moldy Peaches song where someone's cell phone goes off and you can hear Kimya Dawson laughing through the lyrics

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

there's that Ben Folds Five song where someone's cell phone goes off and you can hear someone laughing through the behind lyrics

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

laughing through the behind lyrics

Freudian

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Sting's brief chuckle at the beginning of "Roxanne" after he sat down on a piano.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Janet Jackson & Q-Tip: "Got 'Til It's Gone"
Guru & Erykah Badu: "Plenty"

― g. (discos), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

plush "i didn't know i was asleep"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Elizabeth Fraser to the fucking thread immediately! THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

"Glass Candle Grenades", "Half-Gifts (BBC Version)", "Golden Vein (BBC Version)", "Shallow Then Halo", and many many more.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

One of the choruses in Nirvana's "Milk It" has Kurt laughing on the "Test... meat" bit.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Flipper doing "the old lady who swallowed a fly" on Sex Bomb Baby (at "swallowed a minister, isn't it sinister?")

― Nideo Homo, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

hummingbirds "leilani"
kenickie "montrose gimps it up for charity"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Nirvana "Milk It," after the solo, before he says "taste meat."

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Ross Johnson in "Baron of Love Pt. 2"

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link

61 posts and no mention of "Heroin"?

"It's my life. And it's my wifenervousgiggle"???

jeenYUS!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 17 June 2005 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Even more genius is that apparently no one's misread the thread title as "instances of involuntary slaughter in songs."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 17 June 2005 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link

elvis on a live version of "are you lonesome tonight". it was on a b-side of a cd single a few years ago. he laughs through the whole song and can barely finish it. quite fresh.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the Milk It chuckle.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:17 (eighteen years ago) link

this should be called "instances of involuntary laughter in songs, and what the fuck do you think they were laughing at?"

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

"The walls are melting *giggle(tit)s*!"

― Negativa, True Believer (Sheryl Crow in a Britney costume) (Barima), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Dylan AGAIN laughing at the word "breast" in Girl from North Country

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 17 June 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

HMS Ginafore chuckles sweetly on the lovely L'Argent De La Mer.

― bg (creamolafoam), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Jane Birkin "En Melody" - being tickled with a feather by Serge Gainsbourg throughout, apparently

― bham, Friday, 17 June 2005 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Jandek is having fun and giggling once singing Mothers Day Card.

― Ludo (Ludo), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link

25 Elvis Presley Are You Lonesome Tonight (laughing version) Mar 1982

That was no b-side...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Todd Rundgren, "You Left Me Sore". Runt struggles to hit a note and one of the back-up singers laughs out loud.

― Deluxe (Damian), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Joni Mitchell - In France They Kiss On Main Street

chortles during the word "Jesus" in the line "looking to raise Jesus up from the dead"

― henry s, Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

Velvet Underground - "Temptation Inside Your Heart" (which, when you get right down to it, is "I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog" for arty people)

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link

the fall - lay of the land

― Zeno, Saturday, 16 May 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Robert Plant's little chuckle at the very start of Whole Lotta Love.

― Vast Halo, Sunday, 17 May 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link

My favourite is Orange Juice..

(spoken)I'll be your consolation prize
Although I know(/spoken)

*chuckle*
*guitar line*

I'll never be man enough for you...

― Dingy Boat McCrap Crap (Mister Craig), Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Beck in "Bogusflow" - he barely gets out the word "California." I think California is funny, too.

Speaking of Joni, the most fake 'involuntary' laughter ever is at the end of "Big Yellow Taxi" but I always found it kinda sexy for some reason...

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 17 May 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link

taylor swift - hey stephen

"hey stephen, i could give you 50 reasons why i should be the one you choose; all those other girls, well they're beautiful - but would they write a song for you?"

― lex pretend, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Sleater-Kinney, "Hollywood Ending"

― "the whale saw her" (gabbneb), Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link

shortwave set -yr room

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link

"Every Little Counts" by New Order

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link

"Hiding All Away" - Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - nick cracks up the backup singers, so cuet

― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link

the "bogusflow" laugh makes me laugh every time.

bowie laughs on "andy warhol" as well. i'm a bit surprised no one's pointed that out yet, unless there's an unspoken consensus that the laughter is forced.

― borntohula, Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Once again, Dylan. Involuntary or not, you can hear a sort of evil chuckle near the end of "My Wife's Home Town."

― Brad C., Sunday, 17 May 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

New Muzik - 'Warp'

― nashwan, Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link

More here

― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link

Ween - Blackjack, they sound like they might be on mushrooms or nitrous.

― ringworm, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link

Wait no mention in either of these threads of Springsteen in "Glory Days?" David Lee Roth in "Dance the Night Away?"

"Force Ten" by Rush begins with a outtake sample of Aimee Mann giggling.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link

Westerberg can barely keep it together in the Replacements' "Lovelines."

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link

The Frogs in general

― PaulTMA, Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link

Springsteen in "Glory Days"

I don't recall this (and I heard that song a zillion times back in the day) - will have to revisit...

― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Sunday, 18 October 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link

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chet atkins/dolly parton "do i ever cross your mind"

the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ZENR3HlUg

― ✖, Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link

In the first few seconds of R.E.M.'s "Stumble" there's a sound that might be a match striking; Stipe laughs, says "Tea," and we hear the opening notes of the song

― Brad C., Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link

I don't recall this (and I heard that song a zillion times back in the day) - will have to revisit...

It's at the very end!

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link

He giggles like a little kid.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 October 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link

Love the little chuckle Elvis does near the end of "Baby Let's play house" where he cracks up over the repeated bbbb-baby babys

― closed beta (NotEnough), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link

Grand Puba singing Billy Joel and cracking up at the end of his verse on Feels So Good.

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link

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