The best use of sound effects in a musical recording is...?

Yea, absolutely!

 

I really like the waves on the Tornadoes' "Bustin' Surfboards"

 

The Leader Of The Pack-The Shangri-Las

 

Street sounds in 'Summer in the City' by The Lovin' Spoonful

 

Porcupine Tree the album Signify has sampling all over it. As do a lot of there albums.

 

Jet engines in Back in the USSR

 

Pretty much any noise on a Pink Floyd album released between 1973 and 1983.

Not really sure if it counts but the radio on "Cut My Hair" from Quadrophenia, except that it only works on stereo headphones. Sounds like the radio is on the other side of the room and is bleeding in through the headphones.

 

Yellow Submarine

 

Many of Mikey Dread's key albums used some great sound effects.

 

How about that police siren at the beginning of "White Riot" (single version), and the alarm bell at the end. Terrific

 

The Clock Tower bells and Winston Churchill speech in Supertramp's "Fool's Overture".

 

Number 9 Number 9 Number 9.....older on.. umm da hahahaha...Best sound affects ever. Backwards tape loops.

 

The bird sounds on the mono mix of "Blackbird" on the White Album. They are timed differently than the familiar stereo version and offer a nice "call and response" between the last lines of the song. Very effective.

Really, though, I have to give it up for:

The last minute or so of "Bike" by Pink Floyd.

The slide whistles which appear throughout SMiLE.


Dan

 

Here's one:

For the recording of "Metal Gods" on British Steel, Judas Priest and Tom Allom used a container of silverware (taken from the drawers of John Lennon's house) to simulate the sound of marching robots. It sounds pretty good actually.

 

Typewriter in "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton
Teletype machine in "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley
Traffic sounds in "Expressway to Your Heart" by the Soul Survivors
Thunder in "Raindrops" by Dee Clark
Police siren in "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor

 

The middle section of the song...what is that strange sounding instrument that sounds like something from a science fiction B Movie from the 50's. I love it..

 

Jane Birkin’s got a squeeze box, Serge Gainsbourg never sleeps at night…

 

The Byrds - "Draft Morning" (with Firesign Theatre)

 

Singer-guitarist Charles Westover and keyboard player Max Crook performed together as members of "Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band" in Battle Creek, Michigan, before their group won a recording contract in 1960. Westover took the new stage name "Del Shannon", and Crook, who had invented his own clavioline-based electric keyboard called a Musitron, became "Maximilian".

 

Todd's Onomatopoeia
The breaking mirror in Smash The Mirror

 

Backwards sound effects are the coolest ever. I never get tired of hearing them.

 

I've always loved the intro to 'Silly Love Songs'.

 

Another good use of airplane noise in a song: "The Letter" by the Box Tops.

 

I was speaking of the aural depiction of war in the middle section. I'm not sure there's any backwards effects going on there.

 

Not exactly answering the question correctly, but it was nice they left the chatter in:

Black Country Woman

At the beginning of the track, recording engineer Eddie Kramer can be heard saying, "Shall we roll it Jimmy? We're rolling on what, one, no, one again." followed by saying "Don't want to get this airplane on" about an aeroplane which is heard flying overhead, to which Robert Plant replies "Nah, leave it, yeah."