music and sound effects ?

[ferric]

What are your favorite songs for effective use of music and sound effects?

Procol Harum - A Salty Dog - seagulls, whistle

Doors - Riders on the Storm - thunder, rain (my personal favorite)
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[Dave]

Billy Thorpe: Children Of The Sun. The UFO's flying buy repeatedly.

Roger Waters: The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard. The barking German Sheppard. The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range. The bomb explosion at the end of this song is incrediable.

Pink Floyd: Another Brick In The Wall Pt.1. That helicopter does it for me everytime

[Holy Zoo]

Pink Floyd - The Wall - the album is full of fx: children playing, babies crying, old movies dialog in the background, busy signal on the phone, etc, etc.

Honorable mentions:

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine - bubbles, various other nautical sounds

The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer - clink clink!

Pink Floyd - Money - cash register fx

Pink Floyd - Time - clocks o' plenty

Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil - car horns at beginning of song

Rush - Countdown - fx from space shuttle & crew/mission control

[John Oteri]

Walking In The Rain-Ronetts STORM
Sea Cruise-Frankie Ford BOAT & WATER
Splish Splash-Bobby Darin BATH SOUNDS
Telstar-The Tornadoes EVERYTHING JOE MEEK COULD THINK OF
Reflections-The Supremes BLEEPS & BLOOPS
Rhythm Of The Rain-The Cascades STORM
Wipe Out-The Surfaris CRACKING WOOD
I Wanna Be A Private Eye-The Olympics (Thanks, Steve) GUNSHOTS
Quiet Village-Martin Denny JUNGLE BIRDS
Taboo-Arthur Lyman Group MORE JUNGLE BIRDS
The Lonely Bull-The TJB BULLFIGHT CROWDS
The Martian Hop-The Randells SPACEY SOUNDS
Tomorrow Never Knows-The Beatles SOUNDS IN JOHN'S BRAIN :p

[Jimbo]

Love Is the Drug--Roxy Music (footsteps, car starting)

We Have Heaven--Yes (Door slams shut, music cuts off, footsteps running away. At the end of the album, a door opens, and the song makes an unannounced reappearance.)

Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day--Jethro Tull (Ian fixes himself a cup of tea)

Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?--Ramones(somebody flipping through an AM radio dial)

Fall of the House of Usher--Alan Parsons Project (lots of stuff going on in this one--rain, thunder, door-knocking, etc.)

[Dave]

I can't remember the name of the song riight now, but it's done by Rush, where the pop bottle smashes on the concrete. It made me jump out of my chair the first time I heard it.

[Claviusb]

Originally posted by Dave
Pink Floyd: Another Brick In The Wall Pt.1. That helicopter does it for me everytime

Kate Bush was "loaned" that helicopter for one of the songs on Running Up That Hill, IIRC by Dave Gilmour.

Oh, and though it's supposed to sound like chaos, I like the end of All The Young Girls Love Alice.

[Dan C]

Barenaked Ladies- 'The King of Bedside Manners' from Gordon.
All those wacky Hannah-Barbara cartoon fx. BOING!:D
Dan C

[Doug Hess Jr.]

How My Soul Cries Out For You by KANSAS

[Michael]

Black Sabbath...Love that thunder!

[Craig]

The first ten seconds of the White Album.

[Pinknik]

Blackbird and Piggies also have nice use of sound f/x. Slightly different on the mono/stereo comparison of these tunes, and I prefer the stereo, more subtle use of the sounds.

[Gary]

Apocalypse Now soundtrack. First track – The End by the Doors. When I hear those helicopters, man……… ‘shiver’ ! Puts ne in a different frame of mind. Time to turn out the lights and listen to some Kate!

[Dave]

Roger Waters: Amused To Death has more of a variety of natural sounds, delivered impecabley (spelling) in a way that the realism of them is unbeatable.

Ever chopped wood before? Listen to this cd.;)

[Togo]

Agree with the Doors and Riders..also with Kate Bush and that helicopter track from the second half suite on Hounds of Love..great choices!

That rain effect can also be found to good effect on Madonna's track called..er..Rain!

I also like that creepy Tom Waits track "What's he building in there?" from Mule Variations for some wild background goings on.

Also U2 and the army chanting in the middle of "Seconds" from War...

and so on and so on...

[mcow1]

Doors - Unknown Soldier with the firing squad

[John Buchanan]

During Turtle Blues (Cheap Thrills), Janis Joplin smashes a bottle (of Bourbon, probably) and you can hear it being swept up.

[John Buchanan]

Now for added sound effects, Quadrophenia has lots
Wet weather, kettles, BBC announcers etc

[Dan C]

Originally posted by Togo
Agree with the Doors and Riders..also with Kate Bush and that helicopter track from the second half suite on Hounds of Love..great choices!

That rain effect can also be found to good effect on Madonna's track called..er..Rain!

I also like that creepy Tom Waits track "What's he building in there?" from Mule Variations for some wild background goings on.

Also U2 and the army chanting in the middle of "Seconds" from War...

and so on and so on...

The Tom Waits is a great one. Very creepy. And how about the roosters and other critters and things on the track 'Chocolate Jesus' from the same album!
Dan C

[Togo]

Originally posted by Dan C


The Tom Waits is a great one. Very creepy. And how about the roosters and other critters and things on the track 'Chocolate Jesus' from the same album!
Dan C

agree - great album all round Dan C...I must give it another spin. He has not one but two new albums coming out soon!;)

[ferric]

Buckethead - The Ballad of Buckethead - chickens - "Born in a coup, live in a cage..."

Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter Song (1950) for Typewriter and Orchestra

Spike Jones- ???

[Edge_88]

Metallica "One" Fireworks and gun shots
Metallica For Whom the bell Tolls (bell) in beging











Bob Dylan - the sun is not orange its chicken

[Dave]

The mighty gong at the begining of AC/DC's Hells Bells. Haunting! Also the fire bell in April Wine's: Oowatanite.