Albums featuring interludes that sound like oral history interviews with the artist's forebears (biological or otherwise)

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Ariana Grande’s “Daydreamin’” (2013) ends with a short clip of her grandparents reminiscing about how they fell in love:

Outro: Marjorie Grande & Frank Grande
— He was a man’s man and a ladies’ man...
— 18, 19, I began to become more serious about things in life...
— Oh, I think when I was standing on that stoop and I looked at him... I was 11 years old...

Soy Bean False Chicken (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link

Daft Punk spend 9 minutes of Random Access Memories reframing a series of quotes from Giorgio Moroder reflecting on his career into a kind of origin story for their own act:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m4ZkEqQrn0

what else are you all “over” (Champiness), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 06:35 (four years ago) link

Swans did this a few times on Love of Life and Soundtracks for the Blind in the 90s, which included taped reminiscences by Gira's father and Jarboe's mother, and Jarboe herself as a young girl.

van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link

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

Bloody Snail, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link

Neil Young speaks to his mother in the afterlife before several tracks on A Letter Home. (It's really sweet and more humorous than sad.)

Valentijn, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link


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