# Your favorite spoken-word segment in a song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218 "2020-07-13T15:13:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/21 "2020-07-13T19:31:29Z")
Has to be Vincent Price in Thriller. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/22 "2020-07-13T19:35:21Z")
> This is my friend Tony… > He’s pretty cool, although he’s not always so smart That was spoken by a little kid at the beginning of _“Bring back Pluto”_ by Aesop Rock. And it became one of those long-term earworms that would pop up for like a decade. And I looked and looked, and could never find the source of it. Suddenly one day “This is my friend Tony he’s pretty cool” had a hit on Google. It’s from an old middle school health film on sex/hygiene/masturbation. And finally, the line stopped playing in my head (and tormenting me a couple of times a week). > And then there were eight… > [Bring back Pluto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4_SH0pgQfw). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/23 "2020-07-13T19:44:15Z")
That wasn’t on the album track, either. The video and 7” single had the MC Skat Cat mix, and there was also a “Street Mix” that had the rap and was a bit extended from the single and album version. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/24 "2020-07-13T19:45:44Z")
I always liked Pink Floyd’s _Atom Heart Mother_ for it’s “Silence in the studio.” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/25 "2020-07-13T20:00:28Z")
I’m rather fond of the Pict in Pink Floyd’s “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict”. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/26 "2020-07-13T20:10:01Z")
Most of [Madam I’m Adam](https://youtu.be/iB-jLraSv3c) by The Tubes ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/27 "2020-07-13T20:14:54Z")
“This is a song about a superhero named Tony, it’s called [Tony’s Theme](https://youtu.be/6m_Rgx-yF2w)!” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/28 "2020-07-13T20:49:16Z")
Coming up with these has been a nice break between work today. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CD-E-LDc384/maxresdefault.jpg "Metallica: Enter Sandman (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/29 "2020-07-13T20:56:22Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > Which is memorable but really has nothing to do with what follows. Well, it’s a _Reefer-Madness_-esque quote from _Valley of the Dolls_. An actual _RM_ quote probably woulda been better but that’s a good one to start “Smoke Two Joints” 😃 I remember watching Valley of the Dolls in my “Cult Movies” class in college and being so excited to hear that quote (I didn’t know where it was from). No one else got it though. My favorite is the beginning of the Dead Milkmen song “Bitchin Camaro” where the guys rip on The Jersey Shore (the place, not the show) and Rod brags about how his parents drove his new car up from the Bahamas. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AwkdKfkncok/hqdefault.jpg "The Dead Milkmen-Bitchin Camaro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwkdKfkncok) ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/30 "2020-07-13T21:26:38Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#): > > the Sox announcer (Ned Martin at the time?). Nedly! ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/31 "2020-07-13T21:51:15Z")
The introductory abuse at the start of [Oh Mr Peanut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSNpOb0lnJc) by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. > [@](#): > > Oi, rotten hat > Where’d you get that haircut - Brent Cross Shopping Centre? > I bet your mother fed you with a catapult Or, for that matter, same artist, intro to [Billericay Dickie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuNyzEa0gU8) > [@](#): > > Good evening, I’m from Essex > In case you couldn’t tell > My given name is Dickie, I come from Billericay > And I’m doing very well j ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/32 "2020-07-13T22:09:23Z")
[There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtfsfoKSB0) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/33 "2020-07-13T22:31:19Z")
Friends and I say “Here comes the white part of the song”. No, we’re not (advertently) racist, we’re quoting Jackson Browne. We saw him in concert and he introduced one song by telling a story of recording it and how they kept referring to the spoken bridge by announcing “Ok, here comes the white part”. Sorry, can’t find it (an obviously forgettable song from those couple of obviously forgettable albums he did in the early '80s). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/34 "2020-07-13T23:20:07Z")
Number nine, number nine, number nine. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/35 "2020-07-13T23:31:50Z")
It’s a little thing, but I like the matter-of-fact “radio edit” insert in Kid Rock’s “Cowboy”. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/36 "2020-07-13T23:43:48Z")
The intro to Ryan Adam’s “[To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_c1YM53Wwo))” and to the whole album “Heartbreaker” is a studio dispute and a bet for $ 5 about if Morrissey’s “Suedehead” is on his “Viva Hate” or “Bona Drag”. Then it leads with a “Wheeehoo” into the song and the music, and that’s great. (btw., Ryan was right. “Suedehead” is on both albums.) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/37 "2020-07-14T00:21:46Z")
“The way I see it, Gary, this should be a very dynamite show” from Frank Zappa’s _Lumpy Gravy_ ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/38 "2020-07-14T00:23:30Z")
My favorite? Its a tie: George Thorgood, _One Burbon, One Scotch, One Beer_. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/--AvCsh48bk/hqdefault.jpg "George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - 7/5/1984 - Capitol Theatre (Official)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--AvCsh48bk) John Baldry, _Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nFxCnfgV7rc/maxresdefault.jpg "Long John Baldry- Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie (On The King Of Rock & Roll)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFxCnfgV7rc) ---
**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:** [July 14, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/39 "2020-07-14T00:40:07Z")
The one that springs to mind is from The Kinks’ “Cliches of the World (B Movie)” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/W5Ogv_Gd_nc/maxresdefault.jpg "Cliches of the World (B-Movie)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ogv_Gd_nc) (The spoken word part is at 3:00.) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218/40 "2020-07-14T01:17:15Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > John Baldry, _Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll_ Oh yeah, that’s a sweet one! How about Leon Russell’s Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Youngblood medley? I can’t help but follow along every time–loudly! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICr9lfWq3yY) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-spoken-word-segment-in-a-song/915218.md?page=3)