"What Are They Saying In That Song?"

[Dallas_Jones]

And then there is the foreground talking with the music in the background.

The Guess Who, Sea of Love.

Very Canadian conversation.

The Guess Who - Hi, Rockers! Sea of Love / Heaven Only Moved Once Yesterday /Don't You want Me

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

The third verse of Chicago’s “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” has someone talking under the music; some is understandable, but I don’t want to turn it up loud enough to decipher all of it.

[Just_Asking_Questions]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

The third verse of Chicago’s “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” has someone talking under the music; some is understandable, but I don’t want to turn it up loud enough to decipher all of it.

When the song was new, and all I had was a portable radio, I never heard the talking. (I never heard a lot of stuff in popular music. Getting a real stereo system was an eye opener!)

I wish I still couldn’t - it’s distracting and doesn’t add anything, IMO.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@Just_Asking_Questions

When the song was new, and all I had was a portable radio, I never heard the talking. (I never heard a lot of stuff in popular music. Getting a real stereo system was an eye opener!)

I wish I still couldn’t - it’s distracting and doesn’t add anything, IMO.

Agreed. There are greatest hits versions that leave it off.

[Biggirl]

10CC’s I’m Not In Love has many back-up vocal tracks. Most are pa pas and na nas but there are a few words just before the chorus (Let’s be calm? Just because?). I’m not talking about the whispered phrase in the middle of the song, which for a long time I thought was “Requesting quiet” but is actually “Big boys don’t cry”. I think.

This song recently got re-discovered on Star Lord’s Awesome mix tape.

[John_DiFool]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

The third verse of Chicago’s “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” has someone talking under the music; some is understandable, but I don’t want to turn it up loud enough to decipher all of it.

People runnin’ everywhere
Don’t know the way to go
Don’t know where I am
Can’t see past the next step
Don’t have to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why

[JKellyMap]

@Eddie The Horrible

And the part just before it, there’s a woman and curmudgeonly-sounding dude sounding like they’re from a movie or something. (while Fripp plays single notes and Cross’s playing meanders yet gradually builds.)

What’s the spoken word (“below”?) that Plant says after “let my love come running in” from Zep’s Rock’n Roll?

I always thought it was just “Let it!”

In one of the Pet Sounds tracks, Beach Boys can be heard faintly in the background, talking about cameras.

Beatles, “Hey Jude”: “Fuckin’ hell!” – John, a few measures before the “da da…” coda begins --after he flubs a note (I think maybe he played bass on that one).

Stones, “Something Happened to Me Yesterday”: “What kind of drug is this?,” someone asks between verses.

[JKellyMap]

More Zep: start of “Boogie with Stu.” “How do I get this airplane off?” (A propellor plane is heard in the background). Then some neons says something just before the music starts. “Not even!”, maybe?

[Count_Blucher]

“Swish Swish Bish”? I just remember Katy looking pissed off on cam on SNL.

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

@Dung_Beetle

I thought it was something about California.

Once I heard Pink Floyd’s One of These Days on the radio. My pleasure quickly faded afterward when the DJ commented, “I don’t even know what he’s saying there.” :mad:

Dear ignorant DJ from a long time ago, he is saying, “One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces!”

There’s a live version where Klaus indeed wails “California” there instead of AREYOUREADYBABY?

[JKellyMap]

@JKellyMap

More Zep: start of “Boogie with Stu.” “How do I get this airplane off?” (A propellor plane is heard in the background). Then some neons says something just before the music starts. “Not even!”, maybe?

Sorry, make that “Black Country Woman.”

[Just_Asking_Questions]

@Biggirl

I’m not talking about the whispered phrase in the middle of the song, which for a long time I thought was “Requesting quiet” but is actually “Big boys don’t cry”. I think.
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Are you me? Because for years that’s what I thought she was saying. (See my previous comment about my cheap mono radio I had for my childhood.) It doesn’t help that she’s pronouncing it “kwy”.

[xizor]

@JKellyMap

More Zep: start of “Boogie with Stu.” “How do I get this airplane off?” (A propellor plane is heard in the background). Then some neons says something just before the music starts. “Not even!”, maybe?

I had heard the response to the airplane line was Jimmy saying “Nah, leave it in”

[JKellyMap]

@xizor

I had heard the response to the airplane line was Jimmy saying “Nah, leave it in”

Makes sense – thanks.

[Shoeless]

“Stepping Razor” by Peter Tosh. There’s some talking over the guitar solo (starting around 3:45) that I’ve never been able to figure out. I’m not even sure if it is English… probably some sort of Jamaican dialect?

[kaylasdad99]

@Biggirl

10CC’s I’m Not In Love has many back-up vocal tracks. Most are pa pas and na nas but there are a few words just before the chorus (Let’s be calm? Just because?). I’m not talking about the whispered phrase in the middle of the song, which for a long time I thought was “Requesting quiet” but is actually “Big boys don’t cry”. I think.

This song recently got re-discovered on Star Lord’s Awesome mix tape.

Who’s Star Lord? That’s Johnny Karate!

[SykoSkotty]

@xizor

I had heard the response to the airplane line was Jimmy saying “Nah, leave it in”

Actually, according to the liner notes of the boxed set, it’s actually Robert Plant and he says, “nah, leave it, yeah!”

[AncientHumanoid]

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