Madness - One Step Beyond
― Valentijn, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
Neko Case 'Wild Creatures' on 'The Worse Things Get....'. Albeit by only about half a second.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 09:22 (one year ago) link
Soft Cell, 'Frustration' on 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret'.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
Each of his first three albums!
Exactly what I thought of when I saw the title. I've used it in a music quiz to a friend before.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
If we can have Let It Be we can surely have
We are the Night (distorted, alas)GodWeenSatanRevolverHeadquarters
?
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
if distorted vocals count, then:
Daft Punk - Homework (Daftendirekt)
― henry s, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
If we're counting vocal and music at the same time (as with the Play example) then The Wall
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
if spoken word counts, then:
Orbital - The Brown Album (Time Becomes)
― henry s, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
age of chance : 1000 years of trouble.'there's a beautiful noise coming up from the street ..
'there's a beautiful noise coming up from the street ..
Not sure if this really counts because of the 20 seconds of noise before it but I love to see it mentioned
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
and on the vocal-and-music-at-the-same-time tip:
American Music Club - Engine (Big Night)
― henry s, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
McCartney's Give My Regards to Broad Street opens with "No More Lonely Nights."
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
Spiritualized - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space (title track)
― henry s, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
The Kinks - Sleepwalker (Life on the Road)
― henry s, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
The Kinks - Something Else by The Kinks - (David Watts)
― henry s, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Carter USM - 3O Something (Surfin' U.S.M.)
Bodyswap was on TV recently but with most of Rimmer's speech removed. For shame.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
The other Elvis's first album begins this way too ("Well it's-a one for the money"). So does Cliff Richard's studio debut Cliff Sings, with the same song.
Some others:Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps - Bluejean Bop!Little Richard - Here's Little RichardTommy Steele - The Duke Wore JeansBuddy Holly - That'll Be the DayThe Zombies - Begin HereLittle Richard - The Rill ThingBee Gees - 2 Years OnElvis Presley - Elvis NowThe Beach Boys - 15 Big OnesPaul McCartney - Flowers in the DirtThe Divine Comedy - Fin de SiècleSparks - Hello Young LoversThe Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
― houdini said, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
― you can see me from westbury white horse,
was wondering if i was going to get caught out.i posted, then dug out the track and realised re the industrial noise starts before steven e appears.
― mark e, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
Both With the Beatles and Beatles for Sale start on the vocal.
― houdini said, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
McCartney's Give My Regards to Broad Street opens with "No More Lonely Nights." ― The self-titled drags (Eazy)
I hate to be a pedant but the album version of "No More Lonely Nights" starts with some atmosphere and a bass riff.
― houdini said, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
I assume a capella and choral music (e.g., Gregorian chant) is disqualified?
Although, I was about to cite Enigma but it turns out that the MCMXC a.D. album started with a synthy bit. Alas.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
The Holy Bible
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
If we're counting vocal and music at the same timeAs “Help!” was listed in the OP, I assume we are…
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
indeed
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
wrens - seacaucus
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Whoops, was assuming it started as the single version does!
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
Jean-Michel Jarre's Zoolook starts with a processed vocal noise. Not sure if that counts. Both Kevin Rowland's My Beauty and Propaganda's A Secret Wish start with dialogue. Probably not what the OP intended.
And of course Otomo Yoshihide's The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus, but that goes without saying.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
Another in the speech pile: Portishead's Third
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 27 December 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
Shellac’s 1,000 Hurts, with its spoken audio calibration.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Laurie Anderson: Strange Angels (Strange Angels)
They say that heaven is like TVA perfect little world that doesn't really need you
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
If we're counting vocal and music at the same timeRoxy Music, For Your Pleasure, (“Do The Strand”).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
Two albums that start with vocoder:
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Love Over and Over (Move Over Moon)Tangerine Dream, Cyclone (Bent Cold Sidewalk)
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
A third:YMO, Solid State Survivor (Technopolis)
― this country's had enough of exports (Matt #2), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Madonna - Music
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
life is peachyall eyez on me
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover (studio chatter category)
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
Lizzo - cuz I love you
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
Ariana Grande – both My Everything and Sweetener
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
life is peachy
YrJOHNNYROTTENmegaBLAPBLAPyaketyYAKroawrROAWRwhipwhipflipOOOOOOOaripplestiltskinMAAWRRRRRRRflibbityskibbitzblaptremendoogploppersWACKgrocerygroinAAAAJJJJJONGwaaaaaaaaa TWIST....TWIST........TWIST....twist
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Genesis "Selling England by the Pound"
― New York Review of Wooks (swim), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
Big Black, Songs About Fucking (The Power Of Independent Trucking - "The back-")
― this country's had enough of exports (Matt #2), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
The Beatles, With The Beatles, "It Won't Be Long"
― Liz D. (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
Dunno if a count-in counts, but "Roadrunner" from the Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers debut. And also "Astral Plane" and "I'm Straight" from the same LP.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
I might count that particular unusual count-in, but if all count-in’s count then Dee-Dee Ramone to thread!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, December 27, 2022 8:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Fun fact: James was doing promo at WLS-AM in Chicago, and played a rough mix of "Crimson and Clover" for the station staff off-air. Unbeknownst to him, the station surreptitiously recorded it. On his way to that night's show, he heard the rough mix being played on WLS. Because it got so much airplay, he had to release it as-is.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
Hallelujah All the Way Home by the Verlaines: "Well hello there, sordid inmates..."Kim Deal loves to do this. Pacer by the Amps / Pod & All Nerve by the Breeders. Others Breeders albums don't count but do start really spare and get to a vocal with some urgency.Also could've sworn Triffids' Born Sandy Devotional goes straight in with The Seabirds: "No foreign pair of dark sunglasses could ever shield you from/the light that pierces your eyelids, the screaming of the gulls."Turns out the strings come in a fraction of a second before, but think the general idea here is a call to attention to start with, and it's too arresting not to mention.
― verhexen, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Barry Adamson - Oedipus SchmoedipusBlack Box Recorder - England Made MeThe Beths - Future Me Hates Me!
― technopolis, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
The Meters - The Meters
― nate woolls, Thursday, 29 December 2022 06:06 (one year ago) link
pretty sure Tommy James story was ... Pittsburgh?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 December 2022 06:22 (one year ago) link
XXP: Yeah, that Triffids opener is one of most abrupt I can think of, otherwise! Like they could plausibly have already played through several such verses before we joined them. Gawd, I need to listen to it now...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 29 December 2022 08:22 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:A_cappella_albums
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 26 January 2023 08:09 (one year ago) link
Frazier Chorus - Sue
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:23 (one year ago) link
Big Audio Dynamite II: The Globe (Rush)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link