If you think “Woo Woo” is the POINT of the song, well, I’m not sure I’d agree with that, but I am not going to defend that statement, because I feel rather like EmilyG.
The same thing happened to me. If they’d buried it a bit in the background I might not mind it so much, but as it is, I won’t voluntarily listen to it. It’s like: How much more “Woo Woo” can they put in the song? The answer is none - none more.
Of COURSE he heard it. It’s just that he didn’t focus on it. Once I pointed it out to him, probably at length and in that nasty, dismissive, cocksure manner that only a teenager can achieve, what I said stuck in his head and the “Woo Woo” went to 11.
There was another song that people called by that name. Since some people also called Sympathy the Woo Woo song, that would make that other song the second song. Perhaps shall we say…song 2? (I know, woo hoo)
Sorrow by Bad Religion is an excellently-written song, and the performance is powerful. But right before the “Sorrow” in the chorus, there is this nasty sounding static crunch every single time. It would have been one of my favorite songs from the 2000s if not for the crunch which once I heard I cannot unhear.
In the Passion Pit song “Take a Walk,” I swear there’s a sound in the background that sounds almost like the sound my phone makes when I snap a picture with the camera. It’s only in the first verse, but I can’t help hearing it throughout the rest of the song too.
I know this board is no fan of the Black Eyed Peas, but I kind of liked their song “Just Can’t Get Enough.” Correction: I was kind of obsessed with it for a couple months. There’s a part, around 2:08, where you hear a noise in the background that sounds like a child saying “Mom?” The first few times I heard it, i had to take my headphones off to make sure that wasn’t my daughter calling me.
When it was contemporary, you couldn’t play it a party without at least one nebbish who didn’t know the lyrics, sitting by the record player woot-woo-ing along!
OK, I agree the refain is “What the fuck?”, and I can buy Andrew Dice Clay as the one yelling it too - but are you getting the liner notes off a CD Single of the song?
I have the CD “Schubert Dip” right in front of me (haven’t played it since I ripped it years ago, but anyway), and the lyrics for Unbelievable certainly do not have “WTF” at all. The refrain is just the “The Things You Say…” up to the “You’re unbelievable” line, nothing else (well, the verses run on a bit into “You burden” due to crappy printing I think).
It’s the album with the B&W line drawing of a cartoony face on the front, and the band’s picture on the back, with some random spotches of “ink” through-out the liner notes - and a “thanks” from James to, among others, “Andrew Dice Clay for the ‘Wow!’”.
While we’re at it, what is that guy saying in the background that sounds like “da-doink”? - 20 years later, I still don’t know.
Hmm, DJ MILF was on that 1990 song, when did MILF get it’s now common connotation?
Hooray, I’m not crazy! Between this and an ambulance-sounding instrument half buried in the mix of another song (I thinks it’s Mumford and Sons but I could be wrong), listening to the radio has been odd lately.
The beeping is definitely there on the original Combat Rock CD (I just pulled out my nearly 30-year-old copy to confirm). It starts at 1:52 with the “in-crowd say it’s cool” line and mimics Joe Strummer’s vocal for the next 20 seconds or so. Apparently they dropped it from the single mix, which is the only version I could find on YouTube. The single mix also has the annoying too-loud/too-long delay effect added to the “crazy Casbah jive” line, which ruins it for me.
I can’t be soused to dig my CD’s out of their boxes in the back of the closet, but yes, I’m sure I read that - and no, I can’t be sure it wasn’t a cassette either, but I know I read them in a printed set of lyrics way back when it was a new album. IIRC, it was badly printed, and the “wtf” line was only in there once or twice, not printed as an interjection within the lyrics each time it’s in the song, more sort of insinuated at the beginning or end. Of course, the only cite I can find is a Wiki entry:
I worked at a record store in the very early 90’s and got first runs of a lot of stuff, plus cut-outs and imports, so who knows if what I saw was an early/restricted printing or import that was modified later. It was a long time ago!
I don’t know anything about DJ Milf, but that seems to be a name, not the acronym made famous in American Pie.
It’s not coding, it’s clicking on the quote feature. It’s a long-established feature of the board.
So, tell the group, do you feel better having put me and my '“nothing” post in my place? Has it elevated your self-worth? Perhaps a comment on my wardrobe will help.
The jet plane noises on the Beatles’ “Back in the USSR”. I’ve always heard the fade-in at the beginning and the fade-out at the end. But about 2 weeks ago I heard it on the radio, and for the first time in 35 years noticed that damn sound effect is throughout the entire song and really prominent, to the point that my brain couldn’t hear anything else. I don’t know if they were brought forward in the mix in the new remastering, or if the radio station had some weird compression going on, but it was so loud it was all I could focus on.
My only reference copy is a White Album mix tape I made in the 80s where I weeded out all the crap and got it on to a 45 minute cassette. I may have to dig it out to see if the sounds have always been so noticeable.
“Over My Head” by Fleetwood Mac, has a strange longish beep that occurs during the chorus.
I first noticed this while I was listening to the radio at work when this song came on. I heard “Over my head,” beep, beep, “But it sure feels nice,” beep, beep, with the first beep occurring during “head”, and the third during “nice.” I took off my headphones, thinking it was my phone, primarily because the beeping did not seem to fit the rest of the song. No phone, and every chorus has it, so I know it is not some mistake.
It’s minor, but the cover of “Desolation Row” by My Chemical Romance (done for Watchmen) has an incredibly annoying ping right at the beginning. It sounds like every car-system and electronic device warning sound on earth, and it jars me out of the song for a moment every time.
As for strange sounds in Steve Miller cuts, those are mostly… Steve Miller. I solved that by not listening to his stuff any more, even in a radio stream.