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* [[Nicki Minaj]] - Stupid Hoe is one massive BLAM.

** The song opens with Gaga singing in an operatic voice "Gaga.... Aaaaaaaah.... Gaga... Aaaaaaaaah... Government Hoo-kar-eh". Her awful Italian accent should say something.

** The random "Mojito!" in the middle of the song

* Not necessary a lyrical example, but the ending of Angel in Disguise by the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Why did Ronnie Winter do that really loud cough?

** Maybe it was accidental

* [[Jethro Tull]]'s album ''Thick As A Brick'' (and even more so, the stage show during that time), was full of these, and intentionally so, as the album was supposed to be a parody of "concept albums", which their previous album ''Aqualung'' had been labelled as.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VElJqN5XDdQ&feature=related The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles], from ''A Passion Play'', is widely considered by many fans and critics to be this.

* "Wasn't Born to Follow" by [[The Byrds]] is a sunny, rustic, sweet-sounding song...until the strange, discordant bridge that begins about a minute in and lasts around twenty seconds, only to give way again to the pleasant sound that dominates the song. The bridge also qualifies as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

** From the very same album (''The Notorious Byrd Brothers''), "Old John Robertson" also has a musically disconnected bridge. After the line "then she died" the band drops out and a string quartet plays an entirely different melody, then disappears and we're back into the song. Oddly enough, the inclusion of the baroque section might have been the result of a real-life BLAM; according to guitarist Roger McGuinn, while the bad was rehearsing the song, some classical musicians walked in, played some music, then left. [[Throw It In|The band eventually decided to put something like it in the version that made it in the album.]]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189QSTKC5no Yuri the only One] by L33T STR33T Boys has the hilarious "Sephy's Mom Has Got It Going On" BLAM from 2:19 to 2:45.

** You had to be there: Consider who Sephiroth's mom is.

* "So Fine" by [[Electric Light Orchestra]]. It's a generic (but catchy) pop song, until the weird, jungle beat section in the middle. No transition, nothing to indicate that the section actually belongs there.

* Hot Chip's music video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I I Feel Better]" contains two BLAMS for the price of one. It starts out like a generic [[Boy Band]] video and then...

* [[The Doors]]' song "The End," specifically the spoken bit toward the end. "father yes son i want to kill you... mother i wanna f..... all night long!"

** Another one occurs in "We Could Be So Good Together". At the end of the instrumental bridge, someone - most likely Jim Morrison - can faintly be heard singing "Do dapa de do, de doopa dapa de day" alongside an organ lick.

* [[Pete Seeger]] often sings his popular fairy-tale folk song to kids at concerts, but it's a crapshoot whether or not he'll remember to replace the single "damn" in the song with "darn." When he doesn't, it's pretty BLAM-y for a kiddie song.

* The Melvins' "Dry Drunk" contains a BLAM that is actually performed by an entirely different band: one an half minutes into the track, it suddenly jumps from a punky collaboration with The Jesus Lizard's David Yow to a slow discordant drum, guitar, and saxophone jam by Godzik Pink that's otherwise completely unrelated to the song. Then the David Yow section kicks back in as though nothing happened. The album it's on, ''The Crybaby'', is themed around collaborations, but this particular example was clearly done just for the sake of screwing with the listener.

* The infamous "panther dance" in [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Black Or White" video is something of a BLAM.

* This troper always thought of "Chopsticks" being played towards the end of Manfred Mann's cover of "Blinded by the Light" was a BLAM.

** Hell, the whole album is full of those. Informal Gluttony and Decade of Statues come to mind.

** They never stopped being bonkers if "The Sleepwalkers" from ''Godbluff'' is anything to go by. A 10-and-a-half minute song about a zombie outbreak still manages to squeeze in a little break to play... elevator music?

* [[George Harrison]]'s ''All Things Must Pass'' has "It's Johnny's Birthday", a weird carnival styled piece congratulating someone for their birthday, with no connection with either the spiritual songs from the first two LPs or the jams from the 3rd.

* In "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes, there is an instrumental solo following the main melody that comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the song. It goes on for a few minutes till it ends. "Layla" (written by Eric Clapton) and the instrumental (written by Jim Gordon) were originally two separate songs, but they decided to combine them into one piece.

* Directly from being a non-melodic and heavy song by their standards, the instrumental section of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qEaJCMwhFc Lost In The Future]" by [[Gamma Ray (Music)|Gamma Ray]] bursts immediately into "Oh! Susanna," complete with background whoops and eventual humming along, then dives right back into the solo as if nothing had happened.

* The scat-singing part of [[Van Halen]]'s "I'm The One".

* The second movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 94 has a soft intro with a single fortissimo chord stuck in the middle (hence the nickname, 'Surprise Symphony').

* Dream Theater's "The Dark Eternal Night" is, for the vast majority of its duration, a horror themed heavy rock piece. However during the band's trademark overly long bridge the music suddenly stops so Jordan Rudess can play a ragtime piano solo for no apparent reason.

** It wasn't the first time they'd done it; the same thing happens in their (similarly heavy) instrumental The Dance Of Eternity from Scenes From A Memory. In that case though, it's marginally less BLAM-y, as the plot of the album takes place in 1928.

* More recently, in the Korean artist [[Hyun A]]'s song "Bubble Pop", there is an inexplicable dubstep part in the middle. The whole song is sort of cutesy and then you get hit upside the head with bass.

** "I am the table!"

* Blue Swede's cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" opens with an incredibly obnoxious chant of "Ooka Chuka! Ooka! Ooka!" (which reappears during the last verse). YMMV as to whether or not this falls into [[So Bad It's Good]] territory, but it reached #1 on the US charts.

* Showbread's discography is spattered with a few of these, most notably on their first studio album ''No Sir, Nihlism Is Not Practical''. Moments such as the totally-unexpected Doo-Wop-inspired bridge on ''So Selfish It's Funny'' and the odd sound bite of airraid alarms and people shouting followed by vocalist Josh Dies saying, "Fire!" and what sounds like a muffled nuclear explosion at the end of ''And The Smokers And Children Shall Be Cast Down'' are certainly [[BLA Ms]]. However, the biggest BLAM on the album is probably track 5, ''Sampsa Meets Kafka''. It starts with some echoey electronic warbling, then a throbbing bass starts up, followed a few seconds later by screeching techno and Josh Dies screaming the line, "Gregor starved to death, no one dies of loneliness'' twice, and the song ends with a bit more drippy techno and a couple seconds of static. Weird.

* The early Japanese synth pop group Yellow Magic Orchestra released two albums containing quirky, innovative electronic music--and then their third release, ''x∞Multiplies'', was practically a BLAM ''album''. It contained significantly more bizarre music (including a cover of Archie Bell and the Drells' "Tighten Up" with a high pitched voice repeating "Japanese gentleman, stand up please!" throughout the entire song) and was filled with arbitrary comedy acts, predominantly in Japanese (which made it especially confusing for English-speaking listeners). After this, they returned to a more conventional style.

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