Your favorite spoken-word segment in a song

Has to be Vincent Price in Thriller.

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.

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.

I always liked Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother for it’s “Silence in the studio.”

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”.

Most of Madam I’m Adam by The Tubes

“This is a song about a superhero named Tony, it’s called Tony’s Theme!”

Coming up with these has been a nice break between work today.

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” :smiley: 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.

Nedly!

The introductory abuse at the start of Oh Mr Peanut by Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

Or, for that matter, same artist, intro to Billericay Dickie

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There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.

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).

Number nine, number nine, number nine.

It’s a little thing, but I like the matter-of-fact “radio edit” insert in Kid Rock’s “Cowboy”.

The intro to Ryan Adam’s “To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)” 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.)

“The way I see it, Gary, this should be a very dynamite show” from Frank Zappa’s Lumpy Gravy

My favorite? Its a tie:

George Thorgood, One Burbon, One Scotch, One Beer.

John Baldry, Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll

The one that springs to mind is from The Kinks’ “Cliches of the World (B Movie)”

(The spoken word part is at 3:00.)

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!