# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/42 "2015-04-08T19:49:33Z")
[Spinning Wheel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi9sLkyhhlE), by Blood, Sweat and Tears. At the end, they end it with a redition of 'Ach du Lieber, Augustine"; when the instruments sort of peter out in a confused mess, the drummer comments “That wasn’t too good”, and you hear laughter from the rest of the band. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/43 "2015-04-08T20:14:52Z")
[Temptation Inside Your Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1xblCi1LA)– Velvet Underground ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/44 "2015-04-08T20:22:25Z")
James Brown Basically his entire discography. [Exhibit One](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCkb6k_aow) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/45 "2015-04-08T20:31:44Z")
Drive-By Trucker’s Mike Cooley does some chatter at the end of \*“Daddy’s Cup”, \*talking to someone in the studio. He and Patterson Hood do some chatter at the end of another song, but I can’t remember the name! _“I’m gonna reel you in!”_ > [@BubbaDog](#): > > Ronnie Van Zant’s request to the producer to “Turn it up” (his headphones) so he could hear the track better at the beginning of “Sweet Home Alabama”. I do this goofy thing where anytime this song comes on, I always turn it up! Even if just a little. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/46 "2015-04-08T20:33:20Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > James Brown > > Basically his entire discography. > > [Exhibit One](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCkb6k_aow) This pretty much it. Oh and I could be wrong for it might be scripted, but Marvin Gaye on “What’s Going On?” and “Got To Give It Up”. Both intros features crowds having a good time conversing. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/47 "2015-04-08T20:57:39Z")
Mighty Might Bosstones on Desensitized “You gotta ease up, there, ease up. I can’t fucking hear anything.” “What the FUCK!” “Turn your reels down” Right at the beginning. Inspired. Cowboy Mouth at the beginning of 'Irish Boy" “Fred knows what I’m talking about” ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/48 "2015-04-08T21:11:42Z")
Intro and outro of **Jethro Tull** “Baker St Muse”. The beginning “Shit shit shit, take 2” sounds genuine. The end getting trapped in the locked studio sounds like it is more deliberately scripted though. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/49 "2015-04-08T21:36:44Z")
The beginning of Spoon’s [“Don’t You Evah”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaqWSGenyE0) includes Britt Daniel asking if Jim Eno has recorded the talkback mic. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/50 "2015-04-08T21:51:05Z")
XTC - Towers of London. I reckon they did this sort of thing a lot. 🙂 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EeFlqn7Q8rY/hqdefault.jpg "XTC - Towers of London") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeFlqn7Q8rY) The Great Leon Russell, I Put A Spell On You [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPb3iBWygJQ) Does “Ok” and some guitar tuning count? Yes: And You and I [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H-rdL2KkvzY/hqdefault.jpg "Yes - And You And I") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-rdL2KkvzY) ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/51 "2015-04-08T21:55:07Z")
Reverend Horton Heat’s “Big Little Baby” has a false start with a belch and someone cracking up hysterically. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/52 "2015-04-08T22:35:48Z")
I think there are probably a few Jimi Hendrix songs with studio chatter (which one is it where he says something about his ear goggles?), but a good example is [_Voodoo Chile_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Chile). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/53 "2015-04-08T22:50:30Z")
[The Ocean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrV6exi1WlM), Led Zeppelin. Before the song starts, you can hear John Bonham: “We’ve done four already but now we’re steady, and then they went 1, 2, 3, 4!” (He’s referring to four previous, unsatisfactory takes on the song.) [Don’t Bring Me Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9nkzaOPP6g), Electric Light Orchestra. Not exactly studio chatter, but at the very end of the song, there’s a “ka-chunk” noise; it’s the sound of a fire door closing in the Musicland studio in Munich, where the album was recorded. That sound was almost undoubtedly an intentional inclusion, to close the song (and the album). ---
**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, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/54 "2015-04-08T22:50:35Z")
A couple of albums that begin with studio chatter: The Kinks: \*\*Something Else \*\*(“This is the master, Clive!” “Nice and smooth.”) Procol Harum: \*\*Exotic Birds and Fruit \*\*(“Is it on, Tommy?”) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/55 "2015-04-09T01:59:53Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > That’s the LP version. > 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.) IIRC, they’re discussing various cameras. ---
**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 9, 2015, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/56 "2015-04-09T06:24:47Z")
“Back at the Funny Farm”, the leadoff track from **Motörhead’s** _Another Perfect Day,_ begins with Lemmy saying: _“Uh, a bit, a little, listen…” [random guitar noodling] “Top notch!”_ In fact, a bunch of songs from that album contain random studio chatter, though it mostly amounts to belches & stuff. **Metallica’s** “Blitzkrieg” ends with the band laughing and Lars Ulrich saying: _“I fucked up, I fucked up in one part.”_ “Rock of Ages” by **Def Leppard** begins with producer Robert “Mutt” Lange counting down with: _“Gunter, glieben, glauten, globen.”_ Lange would normally give a normal “1-2-3-4” count, but after countless takes he started speaking random gibberish instead. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/57 "2015-04-09T22:11:47Z")
Bowie’s song Andy Warhol off the album Hunky Dory has some studio chatter in the beginning when Bowie correct’s producer, Ken Scott’s pronunciation of “Warhol”. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/58 "2015-04-14T22:28:56Z")
The Replacements’ song “Treatment Bound” features the band members talking to each other about how they screwed up playing the song. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/59 "2015-04-14T22:48:19Z")
> [@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. The whole fourth side of Something/Anything is riddled with Todd talking. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/60 "2015-04-15T02:26:34Z")
For an 80s new wave throwback: Tones on Tail’s song “Go” ends with someone saying, “Let’s do the ya-ya’s”. Franz Ferdinand’s song “Eleanor Put Your Boots On” has some chatter in the beginning, but I can’t make out what’s being said. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082/61 "2015-04-15T02:33:22Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > “Brick” also has some chatter at the very end. Sounds like he says, “forget that shit!” Appropriate. That song makes me want to throw myself into a well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-studio-chatter/717082.md?page=4)