Banter between tracks on records.

[danny la rouge]

This thread can be for the stuff that’s said in the smooth bits between tracks. Before or after songs.

Case one: At the end of the Beatles’ rooftop concert rendition of One After 909, John Lennon sings a jokey line of Danny Boy. He makes up some of the lyric, as is his wont, and I’d always heard it as “Oh Danny Boy, the Ulster men are calling”. This is the sort of piss-takey thing he might say. (See also his nonsense poetry, In His Own Write, and so on).

However, Disney+ captions on the Peter Jackson documentary has it as “Oh Danny Boy, the old Savannah calling”. This is equally likely, as a surreal bit of larking around.

Which do you think it is, or do you hear something different?

And once we’ve cleared that up, what other banter between tracks do you want to take into consideration on this thread?

 

[Santino]

It's definitely 'the ulcer van are calling'. Or 'the oats a ban are calling'.

 

[[62]]

Can't be the only one thinking of the Pixies.

"...girls and fucked them at school... all I know is that there were rumours he was into field hockey players... there were rumours"
"So I applied, basically..."
"He was gone the next day"
"...and went out for the team"
"It's like, he was gone, they were like it was like, so hush hush, they were so quiet about it. And then the next thing you know..."

 

[Steel Icarus]

I remember an early Gorky's Zygotic Mynci track where one of their dads walks in and berates them for being loud because "bass sounds travel!"

 

[Voley]

Pete Townsend not really feeling the peace and love at Woodstock always makes me chuckle.

 

[Silas Loom]

The conversation at the beginning of The Mercy Seat on Tender Prey is baffling. Nick Cave says something about “… death row, of which I am almost wholly innocent . . not afraid to die” in response to an uninterpretable question.

 

[Voley]

Can't be the only one thinking of the Pixies.

"...girls and fucked them at school... all
I know is that there were rumours he was into field hockey players... there were rumours"
"So I applied, basically..."
"He was gone the next day"
"...and went out for the team"
"It's like, he was gone, they were like it was like, so hush hush, they were so quiet about it. And then the next thing you know..."

I saw them do Surfer Rosa live and they did the bits between songs too.

 

[May Kasahara]

Giant Drag's first album is full of it. "...towel on my head to keep dry, ahahahahaha!"

 

[[62]]

Captain Beefheart:

"Now we won't have to worry about Rockette Morton with any of those girls..."

"Rockette Morton takes off again into the wind!"

"What do you run on, Rockette Morton?"

("say beans")

"I run on beans!"

"I run on laser beans!"

 

[Raheem]

Just before Mother-Sister by the Fall.

Martin: What's this song about?
Mark: Er, nothing.

(According to Martin Bramah, he only realised years later that the song is about his mother, who Mark imagines being electrocuted on a pylon.)

 

[neonwilderness]

Can't be the only one thinking of the Pixies.

Oh My Golly! was the first to come to mind for me

You fucking die, I said. To her
I said, You fucking die! To her
Huh? What?
No, no. I was talking to Kim
I said, You fuckin' die
No, I, I we were just goofin' around
No, no. It didn't have anything to do with anything
She said, don't tou- anybody touches my stuff
And I said, you fuckin' die, like that
I was finishing her part for her
You know what I mean?

 

[[62]]

Oh My Golly! was the first to come to mind for me

Yeah, I've always assumed that's Steve Albini he's explaining himself to and wondered what he said to Black Francis.

 

[hitmouse]

Last night I was out somewhere where the music was obviously just being played off someone's spotify account and then an ad came on, and I managed to listen to the whole thing convinced it was one of those between-song skits and there'd be a punchline if I listened long enough.

 

[hitmouse]

Hold up, we've got to prove we're adults now. We're not a punk rock band, we're a new wave band.

 

[Raheem]

Yeah, I've always assumed that's Steve Albini he's explaining himself to and wondered what he said to Black Francis.

Premusably it went something like:

"Fuck you!"
'What did you just say to me?'
'I said fuck you, to her.'

 

[skyscraper101]

First 30 seconds of Their Law.

Leroy: "Liam, someone on the phone for you"
Liam: " ....Fuck's sake.... I'm trying to write this fucking tune man"

 

[Orang Utan]

Hello danny la rouge , may I introduce Hip Hop?

 

[skyscraper101]

Hip Hop skits are usually terrible. They're basically unwelcome 'funnies' which aren't even funny and they get really tedious when trying to listen to an album which contains otherwise decent tracks, but you have to manually skip through the 'comedy'

 

[[62]]

"Talk to me about the future of Public Enemy."

"The future of Public Enemy's gonna <cut>"

 

[danny la rouge]

Hello danny la rouge , may I introduce Hip Hop?

At you saying my discussing a record released in 1970 makes me more out of touch than were I to discuss a genre also first recorded in the 70s?

For the record I state here that I also own many hip hop records and indeed listen to contemporary hip hop genres.

 

[Silas Loom]

The spoken word bits in post rock deserve a mention. For GYBE, it’s their whole shtick, but sudden oddities like the “oppositionalism” proponent in Our Last Hope Lost Hope’s Sweethearts Revisited are more fun.

 

[Orang Utan]

At you saying my discussing a record released in 1970 makes me more out of touch than were I to discuss a genre also first recorded in the 70s?

For the record I state here that I also own many hip hop records and indeed listen to contemporary hip hop genres.

Not at all. Was just pointing out that’s it’s rife in hip hop. They call them skits

 

[hitmouse]

Hip Hop skits are usually terrible. They're basically unwelcome 'funnies' which aren't even funny and they get really tedious when trying to listen to an album which contains otherwise decent tracks, but you have to manually skip through the 'comedy'

And even if they're good, there's a bit of a replayability issue, you can listen to a good song 10 or 50 times and it'll still sound as good as the first time but it's extremely rare to find a skit that you're going to want to hear more than once.
Was there not a historical/technical explanation for why hip-hop had so many skits, like the ascendancy of hip-hop came at the same time as the big shift from vinyl to CDs so there was a feeling that people should get the most of the expanded format length, even if it meant padding albums out with dull skits? That and the whole secret track thing.

 

[DotCommunist]

Hip Hop skits are usually terrible. They're basically unwelcome 'funnies' which aren't even funny and they get really tedious when trying to listen to an album which contains otherwise decent tracks, but you have to manually skip through the 'comedy'

I will make an exception for the anti-player one on snoops ' games to be sold not to be told'. His first for no limits records, trivia fans

 

[Voley]

At you saying my discussing a record released in 1970 makes me more out of touch than were I to discuss a genre also first recorded in the 70s?

He was saying that Danny.

And I heard him saying you were as uncool as William Hague in a baseball cap.

 

[[62]]

The spoken word bits in post rock deserve a mention. For GYBE, it’s their whole shtick, but sudden oddities like the “oppositionalism” proponent in Our Last Hope Lost Hope’s Sweethearts Revisited are more fun.

You maybe saw it too, but I was mildly intrigued to find out last year that this is the woman who delivers the rambling "you have it in your secret windows" sermon in Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'Chart #3':

 

[hitmouse]

I will make an exception for the anti-player one on snoops ' games to be sold not to be told'. His first for no limits records, trivia fans

I quite like the Mobb Deep ones, but then they're less trying to be funny and more just Prodigy mumbling to himself about how hard he is.

 

[danny la rouge]

He was saying that Danny.

And I heard him saying you were as uncool as William Hague in a baseball cap.

That’s how I was hearing it. I’m riled now. He’s really done it this time.

 

[hitmouse]

They told me that the classics never go out of style, but... they do, they do.

 

[danski]

Bad News.
Alright, I suppose it’s kinda scripted but it’s really quite funny. Was when I was a spotty teen, at least.