― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 11 April 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
The Soulwax Shibuya mix of LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
(highway sixty-one .... crazy!!! -- siren done with a ring whistle from a crackerjack box i think!!!) -- bflaska (bflask...), April 10th, 2005.
Yep, but the LP cover indeed (absurdly) says "Police Car"! Anyways, seconded.
Did "Leader Of The Pack" have sirens, or just motorcycle and crash sounds?
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll go with D.I.
― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 16 June 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Thirded
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gobezerk, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
similarly, the yardbirds, "happenings ten years time ago"
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― RIP (blunt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
just him whooping. and that my friend is the best use of a siren in a song.
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― - stefan (- stefan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Autonomy?
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― -+--+-++-, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
yes. clearly the winner.
― pisces, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Brits all, it's worth noting. Harder for a guitarist to simulate an American siren (steady rise-and-fall) than the English variety(alternating high and low tones.)
― Myonga Von Boring (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Over 'ere!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― cousin cole (cousin_cole), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hunter, Age 3 (Hunter), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Monday, 15 May 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, though, the Inspector Gadget theme song also deserves honorable mention. If nothing else, the accompanying video features one of the most well-animated police sirens you'll ever see.
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link
So ages ago I noticed that Roy Wood's "Goin' Down the Road (A Scottish Reggae Song)" and Thunderthighs' "Central Park Arrest", which both have police sirens, both peaked in the UK charts at the same time in early July 1974*, and the latter song was written by Lynsey de Paul, who was Roy Wood's girlfriend at the time. And Roy appeared on Lynsey's "Ooh I Do", released a few weeks before those singles! Did they conspire to get two police sirens into the charts at once?
*back to back weeks, albeit with CPA's #30 peak continuing for a second week while GDTR peaked.
If I'm the only person who is interested in any of this it still won't stop me from telling people.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
the rev. toad-eater, "alden street"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
"Nathan La Franeer" by Joni Mitchell, but it's far from the best!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 22 September 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
"Riot in Cell Block #9" by The Robins (Coasters)
...and the rewrite "Student Demonstration Time" by the Beach Boys.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 22 September 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
George Harrison - Dream Scene
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 22 September 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
“- definitely masturbating -“
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 22 September 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
Body Count's in the House
"Motherfucker!"
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 22 September 2022 01:19 (one year ago) link
I’ve always been partial to the menacingly slow-moving siren that comes in at the :30 mark in the intro to War Pigs. Granted, it’s more of an ambulance than a police siren, and a European-sounding one at that, but it is very effectively creepy.
― vmajestic, Thursday, 22 September 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Hard House Banton - Sirens
― paolo, Thursday, 22 September 2022 07:33 (one year ago) link
No I am the Walrus?
― akm, Thursday, 22 September 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@_pitafajita_/video/7116540833607748910?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7116540833607748910
― SincereLee 'Scratch' Perry (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 September 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
The 1988 version of Morgan Pask's Overkill, better known to Brits as:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTyIHZqG0PE
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 22 September 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
(This is a soundalike but that's because the 88 version has never had an official release if I'm not mistaken)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 22 September 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
Ween "Isreal"
― billstevejim, Saturday, 24 September 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
Underrated post.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 24 September 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
And recently Drake's "Sticky" has one right after "If it's an escort / it's a police one."
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Sunday, 25 September 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link