# Songs with studio chatter **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082 "2015-04-07T23:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/1 "2015-04-07T23:02:01Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/2 "2015-04-07T23:03:43Z")
Daydream Believer by The Monkees. (“7A.” “What number is this, Chip?” “7A!”) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/3 "2015-04-07T23:09:41Z")
If you can believe Ray Davies, Dave can be heard yelling “Fuck off” on the Kinks’ recording of “[You Really Got Me](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. [/QUOTE] (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.) ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/4 "2015-04-07T23:13:58Z")
_That’s gonna be the one, isn’t it? Come have a listen, then!_ _Oh yes, thank you._ ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/5 "2015-04-07T23:38:27Z")
46:35 [Not the Red Baron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErccRh9DGcg) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/6 "2015-04-08T01:27:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/7 "2015-04-08T01:32:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/8 "2015-04-08T01:45:48Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > 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. Sounds [_awfully_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQUE8nw0Ao) familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/9 "2015-04-08T03:47:54Z")
The Mamas & the Papas’ “Midnight Voyage”, 1:48 - 2:10. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/10 "2015-04-08T03:48:15Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/11 "2015-04-08T03:51:59Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/12 "2015-04-08T04:00:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/13 "2015-04-08T04:09:04Z")
[Will you Count Me In?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FjRyV-Mqh4) [Heh, heh…teeth _clack_ _clack_ _clack_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6r9_rre4P8&list=PLa6VNVOUvpL3iA603UbyaM5Ayn5VrxJ1Y&index=5) [“Hold it, hold it, hold it.” “Here We Go. Shake Your Money Maker, Take Two.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3KYVIHQMTw) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/14 "2015-04-08T04:23:54Z")
[Steeleye Span - New York Girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb4o_4FqMM0) 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.” ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/15 "2015-04-08T06:04:34Z")
Johnny Winter, [Still Alive and Well](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osvDo1lqBxQ) “Let’s do this fucker!” ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/16 "2015-04-08T06:04:45Z")
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. > [@](#): > > The recording of a conversation held between Francis and Albini can be heard at the end of “Oh My Golly!”. According to Lupfer, “it was a concept he [Albini] was going for to get some studio banter.” As Deal was leaving the studio to smoke a cigarette, she exclaimed “If anybody touches my stuff, I’ll kill ya.” Francis replied with “I’ll kill you, you fucking die, if anybody touches my stuff”. The track begins at this point, with Francis explaining the conversation to Albini, whose voice is not heard on the track.[14] Lupfer later admitted that Albini knew “perfectly well what was going on.”[15] > > “I’m Amazed” begins with Deal recounting a story in which one of her former teachers who was “into field hockey players” was discreetly fired. Francis finishes Deal’s sentences, joking that her response to hearing of the teacher’s activities was to try to join the team.[16] Albini later observed the use of studio banter on Surfer Rosa: “It’s on their record forever so I think now they are obliged to say that they’re ok with it, but I honestly don’t know that that idea would’ve ever come up if I hadn’t done it. There are times when things like that are revealing and entertaining and I kind of felt it was a bit gimmicky on this record.”[17] > **[Surfer Rosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfer_Rosa)** > > Surfer Rosa is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in March 1988 on the British label 4AD. It was produced by Steve Albini. Surfer Rosa contains many of the elements of Pixies' earlier output, including Spanish lyrics and references to Puerto Rico. It includes references to mutilation and voyeurism alongside experimental recording techniques and a distinctive drum sound. > As 4AD was an independent label, distribution in the United States was handled by... **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 - So I applied basically - He was gone the next day - I went out for the team - It’s like - he was go… [Kim stops halfway through the word “gone”] - they’d just like It was like so hush hush They were so… quiet about it And then the next thing you know\* ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/17 "2015-04-08T08:16:13Z")
[“It’s just the normal noises in here.” [0:20]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E30XxSYgmqo) ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/18 "2015-04-08T10:54:31Z")
Led Zeppelin in my time of dying at the end , Jesus going to make it my dyin (long pause) cough ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/19 "2015-04-08T11:45:42Z")
Van Halen’s “Unchained” has the producer saying “Come on, Dave, gimmie a break”. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/20 "2015-04-08T12:48:57Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > [“It’s just the normal noises in here.” [0:20]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E30XxSYgmqo) 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? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082.md?page=2)