The most famous example is probably The Beatles’ “Helter Skelter”, where at the end you can hear Ringo Starr shout: “I got blisters on mah fingers!”
The beginning of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Country Woman” has Robert Plant telling the producer to leave in the sound of the plane which had just flown overhead.
At the end of “Silverfuck” by Smashing Pumpkins, you can hear Billy Corgan say: “Next take, don’t give a fuck!”
What other songs can we come up with?
Daydream Believer by The Monkees. (“7A.” “What number is this, Chip?” “7A!”)
If you can believe Ray Davies, Dave can be heard yelling “Fuck off” on the Kinks’ recording of “You Really Got Me.”
[QUOTE=Ray Davies]
Halfway through the song it was time for Dave’s guitar solo. This moment had to be right. So I shouted across the studio to Dave, give him encouragement. But I seemed to spoil his concentration. He looked at me with a dazed expression. ‘Fuck off.’ If you doubt me, if you doubt what I’m saying, I challenge you to listen to the original Kinks recording of ‘You Really Got Me’. Halfway through the song, after the second chorus, before the guitar solo, there’s a drum break. Boo ka, boo boo ka, boo ka, boo boo. And in the background you can hear ‘fuck off’. You can, you can. When I did the vocal I tried to cover it up by going ‘Oh no’, but in the background you still hear it ‘fuck off’. And it’s even clearer on CD, it’s really embarrassing.
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(FWIW, I haven’t heard it, but I haven’t listened really carefully for it; and the story is not inconsistent with what I know of the Davies brothers.)
That’s gonna be the one, isn’t it? Come have a listen, then!
Oh yes, thank you.
46:35 Not the Red Baron was the first one I thought of.
I think there’s a few Janis Joplin cuts where you can hear her giving direction to the band.
The tail end of Spinning Wheel. At the end of the fake fadeout (which usually gets cut off when played on radio), you hear someone laugh and say That wasn’t too good!"
Larry Norman’s “Larry Norman’s 97th Nightmare” (a style parody of Stagger Lee). He gets the giggles singing the first line, stops the band, laughs some more, says they’re going to have to start again, gets his composure back, and starts the song again.
I have a version of “Hello It’s Me” by Todd Rundgren with some studio chatter. I think you’re more likely to get this in demos than in finished album releases.
Sounds awfully familiar.
The Mamas & the Papas’ “Midnight Voyage”, 1:48 - 2:10.
That’s the LP version.
“Bob Dylan’s 119th Dream” begins with a false start, and you hear Dylan’s producer (laughing hysterically) call for the next take.
The original mono mix of “I Know There’s an Answer” by the Beach Boys has a conversation just barely audible during the instrumental break. (The stereo mix doesn’t have it.)
“Two of Us” and “For You Blue” by the Beatles both begin with a line or two of random John Lennon gibberish. The version of “Get Back” on Let It Be has talk on the front, but technically that’s rooftop chat.
Going from memory here … isn’t there some chatter at the beginnings of these two?
“Patience”, Guns & Roses
“Cover of the Rolling Stone”, Dr. Hook
The line between studio chatter and lyrics seems kind of blurred on The Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann”.
At the end of John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” album (the vinyl LP), one of the other musicians says There, there were some good things in there. It’s not on the CD or the cassette or the 8-track.
Does Marvin Gaye’s “Give It Up” have studio chatter all through the song?
Heh, heh…teeth clack clack clack
“Hold it, hold it, hold it.” “Here We Go. Shake Your Money Maker, Take Two.”
Steeleye Span - New York Girls Peter Sellers plays the ukulele, and, at the end of the song, murmurs some odd business. “I say, are you a matelot? Careful what you say, sir – we’re on board ship here.”
Johnny Winter, Still Alive and Well
“Let’s do this fucker!”
There are two uses of studio banter on the Pixies Surfer Rosa album. Producer Steve Albini decided to include the tracks during the recording of the album.
Track 1
…‘You fucking die!’ I said. To her. I said ‘YOU FUCKING DIE!’ To her. Huh? What? No, no! I was talking to Kim! I said ‘You fuckin’ die!’ No - I - uh - we were just goofin’ around. No, no, it didn’t have anything to do with anything. She said, ‘Anybody touches my stuff…’ and I said ‘You fuckin’ die’, like that. I was finishing her part for her. Y’know what I mean?
Track 2
*- …girls and fucked 'em at school
All I know is that
There were rumours he was into field hockey players
There were rumours
Led Zeppelin in my time of dying at the end , Jesus going to make it my dyin (long pause) cough
Van Halen’s “Unchained” has the producer saying “Come on, Dave, gimmie a break”.
This is what I was going to say. This always puzzled the hell out of me and my friends, partly because the woman sounds exactly like one of the girl’s mother. I never knew what it was supposed to mean or why it was included. Still don’t actually. Is there some sort of back story or reason why such a thing would be left in?