Spoken Word in Music: Difference between revisions

** "Grapefruit Diet" has a take-out order at the end.

*** "Skipper Dan:" ''"And there it is, the back side of water...what have I done with my LIFE?"''

** "You're Pitiful": Al starts the song, then stops and asks if he was too early, and when to actually start singing.

*** The song he was parodying—James Blunt's "You're Beautiful"—does the same thing.

** There's many other examples that this band has done. First, there's "Third Eye", which uses spoken-word excerpts from [[Bill Hicks]] routines, then there's "Message to Harry Manback", which consists of an angry answering machine message with somber piano music in the background; "Faaip de Oiad" which includes a sample of a prank call sent into the Art Bell radio show, and finally "Disgustipated", which ends with another (very creepy) answering machine message.

* ''Liberate'' by [[Disturbed]] features the lead singer quoting the book of Isaiah during the bridge: "Out of Zion shall come forth the law (Isaiah 2:3) And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:3) Nation shall not raise sword against nation (Isaiah 2:4) And they shall not learn war anymore (Isaiah 2:4) For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken (Isaiah 1:20)."

* Fastball's "The Way" opens with a radio tuning and snippets of various stations before the song starts playing. For the first few lines, it sounds like it's playing on a low-quality radio.

* [[The Veronicas]] Insomnia, Cold, Untouched and more.

* ''[[Rebuild the Wall]]'', [[Luther Wright and the Wrongs]]' country-bluegrass re-imagining of Pink Floyd's ''[[The Wall]]'', recreates all the sound effects and spoken word parts of the original with a Southern/country flavor.

* Similarly, [[Big Daddy (music)|Big Daddy]]'s ''Sgt. Peppers'' album, which recasts [[The Beatles]]' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' into a 1950s sound, adds its own version of the original's various spoken word interpolations and background crowd noises.

 

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