I’ve grown bored with single issue open threads.
So, number one, use this thread to talk about the NFL.
And, number two, you know how some songs have a spoken intro? Like “Do You Love Me”, for example. What song has the best spoken intro? I’m going with “Let’s Just Kiss And Say Goodbye” or “Everybody Needs Somebody”.
taylormattd
The Seahawks might win, but I think I still hate Pete Carroll.
Alex S.
My favorite spoken intro: Isaac Hayes’ cover of ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’. The intro is about 10 minutes long.
Matthew Reid Krell
Woo-hoo, we’re back to Same Old Saints.
pattonbt
RG3. Impressive. One game to judge, but what a good showing.
Jay Essell
I really like the intro for Terence Trent D’Arby’s “If You Let Me Stay.” Not very original words, but I love how it starts with a little keyboard trill, then works with the background hook leading into the song.
Also, anything spoken by Barry White.
Go Stillers!
(wait, did I do that backwards?)
Jeff Spender
I agree with Everybody Needs Somebody.
As for the NFL…I don’t care. Rewatching Battlestar Galactica. That’s more important.
Ann Rynd
Gee is’is dumb!
canuckistani
How about “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince? Funky.
Since I was too late with the Blues Bros.
Mortimer
Prince, “Let’s Go Crazy,” ftw…
Polish the Guillotines
Best spoken intro: Iron Maiden Number Of the Beast.
Donut
Depends on what you mean by “best.”
Man, any Elvis live recording from 1969 on is bound to yield serious contenders for most entertaining, if one enjoys drug-addled ramblings. I guess I do.
forked tongue
“Give Him a Great Big Kiss” by the Shangri-Las, paid homage in “Looking for a Kiss” by the New York Dolls:
“When I say I’m in love, you best believe I’m in love L-U-V.”
Short and sweet.
Yutsano
@taylormattd: This is healthy. We just get to see if choosing a rookie QB is smart or not. If my brother starts texting me suicidal thoughts I’ll know what’s happening.
Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)
Song intro: John Sinclair in front of the MC5’s Ramblin’ Rose.
Football: Go, Pack, Go!
BillinGlendaleCA
@taylormattd: Being that I lived in Seattle for 3 years and our response in Southern CA to the NFL is “what’s that”; the Seahawks (seaweeds) was my team until they hired ‘cheaty petey’ from ‘that place’.
RSA
@canuckistani:
That was the first that came to my mind, too. It also reminded me of Kevn Kinney’s intro in “Broken Hearts and Auto Parts”: “Are you ready… to rock?”
Natalie Merchant gives a nice historical introduction to her live version of “Gold Rush Brides”, which I think is well done.
forked tongue
Or check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHtRCyxnOMo
James E. Powell
Patti Smith – “Horses”
Bruce Springsteen – several live performances
Shangri-Las – “Leader of the Pack”
And yeah, anything Barry White
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@forked tongue: Shangri-Las! You beat me to it.
Brian S
F-f-f-f-foolin by Def Leppard.
Okay, I’ll go sit in the corner.
hhex65
I like the intro to Lou Reed’s “Coney Island Baby” (football appropriate)
J.
Are the Jets this good or are the Bills that bad?
The Dangerman
Not sure it counts, but I’ll nominate Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” (saw them in a small place a few years ago after one of their breaks; they flat rocked the place).
The prophet Nostradumbass
These “referees” should be run off the field. Less than five minutes into the 49ers-Packers game, and there have been two whoppers already.
Batocchio
Fired up! Ready to go! Go Pack, go!
Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)
J. Geils Band: The “Rapunzel” opening from the live version of Must Of Got Lost off of Blow Your Face Off.
forked tongue
Funniest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HTx758IpE
Maude
Shirells (sp?) Foolish Little Girl.
Edit: Big Bad John Jimmy Dean.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Football. Grrr. Don’ wanna think about it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
It’s a rainy afternoon, 1990
Big City
Jeeze it’s been twenty years
Candy
you were so fine
Mack
Best spoken intro? Grand Funk Railroad, “I Can Feel Him in The Morning”. Nothing else comes close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2aLx8R0JT8
NFL: I KNEW I should have started Matt Ryan. I started Eli instead. Sheesh.
Scout211
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Yeah, sad
And what is with Fox Sports squishing the game stats graphics up into the upper left-hand corner of the screen so those of us who have old school televisions can only see half of the stats?
/rant
Geoduck
Listening to any of Tom Lehrer’s intros to his songs is always a treat.
droog
Stonehenge!
max
Jane’s Addiction – Stop – Ritual De Lo Habitual. Hard to a beat a lady going on in Spanish.
So, number one, use this thread to talk about the NFL.
Are they playing football today? Huh. Well, I never watch sports in September. Baseball should be interesting but pennant races are mostly boring, Hockey hasn’t really started, don’t watch basketball, no freaky sports on, and football still contains the pre-season stupid.
max
[‘But it’s still a nice day outside!’]
Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)
New York Dolls: Looking For A Kiss
cmorenc
“Won’t you drop-kick me Jesus over the goal-posts of life”.
Whether you’re religious or not, football fan or not, this song title/intro line creates some rather um…interesting, imagery.
Maude
Bye Bye Baby, The Four Seasons.
Isn’t at the beginning but 411 by Aretha Franklin.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Scout211: Well it is Fox. They probably assume that since the young bucks have t-bone steaks, iphones & flat wide screens; everybody does.
Summer
I always loved Neil Young’s intro to “Don’t Let It Bring You Down,” which is, I suppose, technically not a spoken word intro to the song (like “Rocky Racoon” has) BUT which delighted me as a kid with its “starts off real slow and then fizzles out altogether.”
pete
@Alex S.: Beat me to it at comment 2. “I’m talkin’ about the power of love” … Isaac preaches!
But you gotta go with the full 18 minute and 43 second version of “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” on Hot Buttered Soul, not the cut-down one on the single and the best-of.
El Tiburon
“don’t hare me because Im beautiful.”
In ” beautiful” by XXtina Aguileras.
What? What are you looking at?
GR
“Sweat Loaf” by Butthole Surfers. Thanks to the rest of you for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts.
trollhattan
Just because he’s two time zones farther away, doesn’t mean TBogg don’t still hate him some (no)touchdown Timmy.
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/09/09/the-return-of-the-son-of-there-will-be-teblood-the-jettisoning/
chuck
“when I became of age,
my momma called me to her side,
she said, “son, you’re growing up now,
pretty soon, you’ll take a bride…”
Intro to “Shop Around” by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Brian S
@El Tiburon: Come, join me in the corner.
Steeplejack
Off the top of my head: Tony Joe White, “Polk Salad Annie.” Great baritone voice, gen-u-wine Southern accent, crunchy guitar.
Also probably any number of songs by Barry White.
chuck
“He went away and you hung around
And bothered me, every night
And when I wouldn’t go out with you
You said things that weren’t very nice”
“My Boyfriend’s Back”…the Angels
Steeplejack
Oh, hell. I completely forgot the ultimate: Lou Rawls, “Dead End Street.” Awe-fucking-some. Love those gradually rising horns.
Polish the Guillotines
@droog: Win!
DonBoy
“You Took the Words Right Out Of My Mouth” by Meat Loaf, although it’s more of a playet than an intro. (“On a hot summer night..)
Hal
@trollhattan:
It’s amazing how little I know, let alone care about football, and yet I loathe Tim Tebow.
I almost feel guilty, like I should be a football fanatic to comment, but I wonder how many of his fans follow the game either?
Steeplejack
Gotta blow for dinner with the bro’ man and the sighthounds. Back later.
Kbeagle
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Here comes my girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4nPa35CZPI
Sigh. It’s perfect.
GregB
Ride My Seesaw, The Moody Blues.
dance around in your bones
Frack – I was gonna offer The Leader Of The Pack.
Too slow.
How about The Leader of the Laundromat?
otmar
Ad 2) Ostbahn Kurti & die Chefpartie: Wos wü de wüde Hilde, from the Saft & Kraft LP.
I can’t find it on youtube, though.
Roy G.
Guns N Roses – Civil War.
‘What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate…’
GregB
Fire, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
hamletta
I’m partial to my girl Kristi Rose’s cover of “Ode To Billy Joe.” She tells a long story about lyin’ in her daddy’s two-tone automobile when an angel came through the AM radio and told her, “Kristi Rose? You can be anything you wanna be, even if that somebody is already Bobbie Gentry!”
You can get a taste of it on this YouTube clip, but it’s rather subdued, as she doesn’t have a band, just her husband playing acoustic guitar. With a band, she goes into full-on Aimee Semple McPherson mode, and it. is. amazing.
wrb
“Ah think I’ve busted a button on my trousers. I hope they don’t fall down….You don’t want my trousers to fall down, now do ya?”
Get Your Ya Yas Out
the Conster
Stop in the Name of Love. Or Baby Love.
Patriots look pretty balanced, also too – Brady has a couple of shiny new toys in addition to his tight end binkies.
Also too, why was there no BJ front pager coverage of this? Tunch coulda been a star!
Yutsano
@trollhattan: And the Lions beat the Lambs. Sweet.
hamletta
@Steeplejack: My introduction to Lou Rawls was “You’ll Never Find a Love LIke Mine,” and I always rolled my eyes at the mention of his name.
Years later, I got a lounge music compilation with “Nobody But Me,” and I was blown away. Dear Lord, that man was cool.
Suffern ACE
Randy Moss . Hmmpf.
BethanyAnne
62 comments, and no one has mentioned the obvious bestest evar? “Baby Got Back”. Oh. My. God. Becky, look at her butt!
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
Johnnie, are you Queer? by Josie Cotton.
ETA: this version doesn’t have the intro but it’s a cool song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ2X2_ts5Kw
piratedan
bitchin camaro by The Dead milkmen
SmallAxe
RG3 impressive debut, kid looked good. Hail to the Redskins laissez les bon temps rouler!
quannlace
My favorite; The intro to ‘I’ll Be Seeing You.” 1938
Cathedral bells were tolling and our hearts sang on;
Was it the spell of Paris or the April dawn?
Who knows if we shall meet again?
But when the morning chimes ring sweet again…
I’ll be seeing you……
***********
A very poignant song as darkness was starting to creep over Europe again.
The version I first heard was Judy Collin’s lovely cover.
Nina-the-first
Bitchin’ camaro , The Dead Milkmen (since BethanyAnne got Baby got back first!
Nina-the-first
Oh my, sorry @piratedan:
LanceThruster
@James E. Powell:
Doesn’t Patti Smith’s “Rock and Roll Nigger” start out spoken? That’s one awesome tune.
pragmatism
Rob base and dj easy rock–it takes two.
That song makes me do the running man every time.
Also, too the pixies–I’m amazed
debit
If we’re talking about butts…
OB football: I can’t believe the Vikes pulled it off.
The prophet Nostradumbass
This is that magical time of the year when Joe Buck gets to be a multi-sport sanctimonious douchebag.
j
Without a doubt, Steve Goodman’s “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request”. It’s all talking blues until the chorus, and then some more talking blues until the chorus comes around again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBxZGQ1dJk
SmallAxe
and favorite intro song definitely
Sublime-April 29,1992 on the Rodney King riots
Schlemizel
I have heard this is sometimes sung but only ever heard it spoken. Its the lead in to “White Christmas” & I think it makes the song a lot more poignant than the popular version:
The sun is shining, the grass is green,
The orange and palm trees sway.
There’s never been such a day
in Beverly Hills, L.A.
But it’s December the twenty-fourth,—
And I am longing to be up North—
Barney
Diamond Dogs, by Bowie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1Quz7H93Q
Though, listening to it now, it does seem as if it inspired this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXzzHM8zLw
rkdioxin
“woke up this morning” by A3
http://youtu.be/d4oKyO2YbRc
Schlemizel
@debit: Its early in the season & the Vikings failed early & often last season which is against type. They are just trying to build expectations so they can crush their fans hearts like the good old days
Nina-the-first
Institutionalized, Suicidal Tendencies (get your skateboards ready).
debit
@Schlemizel: I actually laughed at that TD in the last seconds of the game. They can’t break my heart anymore if I expect nothing but pain and humiliation. (Which is why that sprint down the field to tie and send into OT was a bit of a shock.)
pragmatism
Also, three, beastie boys heart attack man.
“he looks like the guy in the hefty bag commercial”.
pragmatism
@Nina-the-first: You ever hear the lounge version of that song by black velvet flag? Pretty good.
j
Oh, and Long John Baldry’s “Don’t Try to Lay No Boo-Jee Woo-Jee Music on the King of Rock and Roll.
5 minutes of him talking about getting arrested for busking while some kick ass 8 beat piano plays in the background, until all hell breaks out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgVW3SGu0Ng
gogol's wife
@Schlemizel:
Well, you and quannlace are talking about the “verse” to a standard, which is sung, so I don’t think it’s what DougJ is asking about, but it could be the topic for an epic thread. The verse is usually the best part of any song, and you hardly ever hear them.
Soul On Ice
Donovan’s “Atlantis”
PLH ~ NYC
Jawbreaker: “Incomplete” from Unfun.
Mr Stagger Lee
FSM DAMN THE CLEVELAND BROWNS!!!!!!! OFFENSE SUCK SUCK SUCK SUCK!!!!!! RUN THE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR INTO LAKE ERIE!!!! Sorry about the rant.
LanceThruster
The Vandals – Urban Struggle
I want to be a cowboy…I’m going to be a cowboy.
Kathleen
@Maude: Oh, I had forgotten all about “Foolish Little Girl”. The Shirelles were so incredible. My nomination is Proud Mary by Ike and Tina. “We never do anything easy. We always do it nice and rough”.
quannlace
Well, you’re right. Though I think the verse also could be termed ‘talk-singing.’
Nina-the-first
Trouble down south, The Mekons…
@pragmatism: Yes!
LanceThruster
Tonio K’s “H-A-T-R-E-D” starts out slow, transitions with spoken, and then explodes (in a pretty much spoken crescendo).
Suffern ACE
Gee. No love for barry? He loves you, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdTDFUaaL9s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
The prophet Nostradumbass
@LanceThruster: Have you heard the “cover” of that by Manic Hispanic, I Want to be a Cholo?
raven
Any of you old fucks remember the “Legend of The Uss Titanic” by Jamie Brockett?
He walks on over to the First Mate.
He says “hey first mate what’s that you smokin’?”
He says.. “that ain’t nothin’ but a little ol’ cigarette captain”
n’ he says “I don’t believe it. Gimme a puff”
n’ he says “alright.”
So the captain takes himself a little puff. Nothin’ happened right away.
He says “it’s alright, it’s alright. It’s just a cigarette. I’m goin’ for a walk” And that’s what he did, folks. He went for a walk. He went.. he went out walkin’ around the boat he went walkin’ toward the wheelhouse he.. he walked around.
He walked around the wheelhouse once……. He walked around the wheelhouse twice……. On the third time around the wheelhouse……. The First Mate he looked on over at the Captain n’……. N’ he say……. You wanna ‘nother toke, Captain?…… And the Captain, he say……. RIGHT!!!!!!!!
So this time he’s gonna tell the captain a little bit about this smoke that he’s smokin’. He says “now the idea, Captain, the idea is to get this smoke way down deep inside your tummy n’ hold it there just as long as you can it’ll make you head feel good all inside. So the Captain says alright he takes himself three big tokes off that funny little brown weed n’
He says “I am commencing to hold it in!”
Porco Rosso
Loaded by Primal Scream.
kindness
Niner Green Bay game is fun so far.
Porco Rosso
I concur with Kathleen. Proud Mary is it.
terry buckalew
Isaac Hayes and his long talk in his cover of “By the Time I Get To Phoenix.”
Comrade Mary
It`s not exactly spoken word, but Bob Dylan`s 115th Dream is the best non-singing human vocal apparatus open EVER.
Also some of the best election photos ever: Obama getting bear hugged and lifted off the floor by a Republican restaurant owner in Florida and Joe Fucking Awesome Biden in Ohio.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Mr Stagger Lee:
He already has, I’m afraid.
And us with them.
/cries
LanceThruster
Country Joe and the Fish – Fixin’ to Die Rag
Porco Rosso
Mercy Seat by Nick Cave is another nomination for spoken word intros.
AHH onna Droid
Mitt is a Narcissist. (NPD) This is why he flip flops. Hes the ultimate hollow man who will say whatever he needs to to solicit narcissistic supply from whoever is in front of him. This is why his campaign is so incompetent. Hes a shallow Hal who is threatened by experts outside his area of expertise. This is why he imagines that playing up Bill’s SNC splash is a real zinger. He’s sheltered on top of everything else and imagines that everyone is as insecure as he is.
I feel not pity or mercy but I do feel sorry for Ann. Living with an NPD person is a special kind of hell that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Oh, and the sociopathy or aspergery symptoms? Explained by NPD. Narcissists can be quite cruel as in their world only their feelings matter. Sociopaths think others’ feelings aren’t real and ASD folks can’t read nonverbal cues and so don’t have a good notion as to what others are feeling.
LanceThruster
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
LOL! No, Thx for the link. Love the Manic Hispanic I have heard.
SteveTGrav
Do live versions count? J Geils’ version of Musta Got Lost on the 1976 Blow Your Face Out is fairly awesome – Peter Wolf, ladies and gentlemen!
raven
@LanceThruster:
Janis
”
Into my life on waves of electrical sound
And flashing light she came,
Into my life with the twist of a dial
The wave of her hand — the warmth of her smile.
And even though I know that you and I
Could never find the kind of love we wanted together,
Alone I find myself missing you and I, you and I.
It’s not very often that something special happens
And you happen to be that something special for me.
And walking on grass where we rolled and laughed in the moonlight
I find myself thinking of you and I, you and I, you.
Into my eye comes visions of patterns
Designs the image of her I see.
Into my mind the smell of her hair,
The sound of her voice — we once were there.
And even though I know that you and I
Could never find the kind of love we wanted together,
Alone, I find myself missing
You and I,
You and I,
You.”
CJ&F
Suffern ACE
Has Pam Oliver’s hair always been burgundy?
LanceThruster
@SteveTGrav: Absolutely. Or Whammer Jammer which goes from spoken to harmonica solo then smoking instrumental.
On a personal note. I was enlisted to video tape Peter Wolf and his band at the Strand in Redondo Beach. He liked how I was working the shots and pulled me up on stage for the rest of the show (like in Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark”). Had to pretend I was still taping when the battery died.
Funny thing, I never saw the tape (not like it mattered). Major thrill standing on stage next to the drum kit watching Wolf rock the house.
OTOH, I’ve never run a marathon (did the Honda Fun Ride a couple of times – including pouring rain – at about 2;40 IIRC))
[it’s fun telling stories with a basis in fact – go figure]
raven
@LanceThruster: My brother manages “Which One’s Pink” a Floyd cover band that played the Hermosa Fest last week.
LanceThruster
@raven:
Sounds like a fun giig. Loved your CJ&F post.
I looked up some CJ&F info on the net and they have an amazing story. They wince that the ad-libbed “Gimme an “F!” intro screwed the pooch as far as radio play megabucks was concerned.
You’d think that could have been fixed in post for broadcast.
chrome agnomen
don’t know if this has been mentioned yet.
‘don’t try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll’ by long john baldry, wins this thread outright for talking intro.
gbear
@Comrade Mary: Ha! That picture of Biden is a hoot. Obama pix are fun too.
Porco Rosso
http://youtu.be/Rwk1MX9wbag
A spoken word song introducing an album with Herbie Flowers on bass.
Batocchio
San Fran is looking good, dammit.
LanceThruster
@gbear:
x2
raven
@LanceThruster: Here’s a fact for you, Joe sang at the 10th Anniversary of the Wall in DC. He was on top of the Wall with the 1st Cav Color Guard.
raven
@chrome agnomen: It has.
raven
@LanceThruster: Barry Melton was a kick ass blues guitar player, he’s a big deal lawyer now.
Gregory
Anything by Barry White.
MikkiChan
No one else remember The Chi-lites ‘Have You Seen Her?’ Damn, I’m old.
LanceThruster
@raven:
Pretty cool, indeed. He deserved to be as being able to capture the spirit of the times so perfectly (I particulalry loved the circus atmosphere sound).
raven
@Steeplejack: This may be better
Lou Rawls monologue,Street Corner Hustlers blues. Who was it here that led me to this after 45 years of thinking it was part of Dead End Street?
raven
@Steeplejack: This may be better
Lou Rawls monologue,Street Corner Hustlers blues. Who was it here that led me to this after 45 years of thinking it was part of Dead End Street?
Mick McDIck
from the golden age of songwriting come the best spoken intros. i like the one from this Sinatra version of:
I’ve Got A Crush On You
How glad the many millions of Annabelles and Lillians
Would be to capture me
But you had such persistence, you wore down my resistance
I fell and it was swell
I’m your big and brave and handsome Romeo
How I won you I shall never never know
It’s not that you’re attractive
But, oh, my heart grew active
When you came into view
(cue music)
I’ve got a crush on you, sweetie pie
All the day and night-time give me sigh
I never had the least notion that
I could fall with so much emotion
Could you coo, could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share
The world will pardon my mush
‘Cause I have got a crush on you
Could you coo, could you care
For a cunning cottage
That we could share
The world will pardon my mush
‘Cause I have got a crush, my baby, on you
Mick McDIck
from the golden age of songwriting come the best spoken intros. i like the one from this Sinatra version of:
I’ve Got A Crush On You
How glad the many millions of Annabelles and Lillians
Would be to capture me
But you had such persistence, you wore down my resistance
I fell and it was swell
I’m your big and brave and handsome Romeo
How I won you I shall never never know
It’s not that you’re attractive
But, oh, my heart grew active
When you came into view
(cue music)
I’ve got a crush on you, sweetie pie
All the day and night-time give me sigh
I never had the least notion that
I could fall with so much emotion
Could you coo, could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share
The world will pardon my mush
‘Cause I have got a crush on you
Could you coo, could you care
For a cunning cottage
That we could share
The world will pardon my mush
‘Cause I have got a crush, my baby, on you
Earl
Al Franken doing the intro for Frank Black’s Atlantis?
Best ever…
Thlayli
KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
David Akers tied the record for longest field goal. He is the fourth to hit a 63-yarder.
Earl
Al Franken doing the intro for Frank Black’s Atlantis?
Best ever…
raven
@LanceThruster: He a vet too.
dance around in your bones
Roy Harper – Dancing All The Night
A lovely tribute to his mum.
LanceThruster
Does counting count?
Wooly Bully
1-2-1-2-3-quatro!
raven
@LanceThruster:
more cj
An Untitled Protest
Red and swollen tears tumble from her eyes
While cold silver birds who came to cruise the skies
Send death down to bend and twist her tiny hands
And then proceed to target “B” in keeping with their plans
Khaki priests of Christendom interpreters of love
Ride a stone Leviathan across a sea of blood
And pound their feet into the sand of shores they’ve never seen
Delegates from the western land to join the death machine
And we send cards and letters.
The oxen lie beside the road their bodies baked in mud
And fat flies chew out their eyes then bathe themselves in blood
And super heroes fill the skies, tally sheets in hand
Yes, keeping score in times of war takes a superman
The junk crawls past hidden death its cargo shakes inside
And soldier children hold their breath and kill them as they hide
And those who took so long to learn the subtle ways of death
Lie and bleed in paddy mud with questions on their breath
And we send prayers and praises.
LanceThruster
@raven: That I did not know. It’s like learning Kris Kristofersen was an Army cchopper pilot (IIRC).
Kay Eye
Iris DeMent, Mama’s Opry.
raven
@LanceThruster: Don’t miss the LA Song
Flyin High
raven
@LanceThruster: Oh yea, no Nam but a rotor head for sho.
Kris Kristofferson – Vietnam blues (1993)
“It’s up to anybody that does have the information to pass it on”.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Thlayli: It was pretty cool, how it bounced off the crossbar and through.
Suffern Ace
When the packers play like this, I’m reminded of the crummy packer teams of my childhood. Which now brings back memories of this song with a spoken intro from Rolf Harris that I loved as a six yea old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNHfuXRTp_4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
arguingwithsignposts
Does Arlo Guthrie’s Pickle Song count?
mai naem
Saw this thread earlier. I had to rack my brains for this. Couldn’t even think of one. I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues. Also, doesn’t pretty much every rap song count as a spoken intro song??? Also I can’t remember for sure but does Paul McCartney’s Uncle Albert have a spoken intro or is the spoken stuff in the middle of the song.
Batocchio
Cobb!! 75 yard return for a touchdown!
Batocchio
@arguingwithsignposts:
Arlo likes to stop and speak in the middle of songs. The Garden Song, The Pickle Song… He does it at least once per concert, and likes to mix it up to keep folks guessing. Its own category, perhaps?
raven
@Batocchio: Arlo Guthrie/When A Soldier Makes It Home
Halfway around the world tonight
In a strange and foreign land
A soldier packs his memories
As he leaves Afghanistan
And back home they don’t know too much
There’s just no way to tell
I guess you had to be there
For to know that war was hell
Written long before WE were there.
raven
FUCK THE PACKERS! GO BEARS!
Batocchio
@raven:
Aha! Cool! I remember when he first start performing that. I haven’t seen him live in years, but I often saw him at Wolftrap. I can’t remember if I was at that one, but I’m pretty sure some family members were.
raven
@Batocchio: When he played here at that time it was great. Early show and no smoking! People bout had a stroke.
dance around in your bones
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Thank you so much for introducing me to Manic Hispanic :)
That’s why I love these music threads. (Oh yeah, I got the foozball on in the background, too. Kinda like wallpaper, though – I love lycra man-bootie).
burnspbesq
You big sillies.
“Sweet Little Angel,” B.B. King, from Live at the Regal.
Runner up: “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” George Thorogood.
YellowDog
Howling’ Wolf’s “Goin’ Down Slow,” with spoken parts by Willie Dixon. It kinda sorta fits the category and it’s my favorite. Skol
SiubhanDuinne
This takes me back to high school. Does it count??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtkL5_f6-4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Central Planning
@DonBoy: That’s the only one that popped into my mind too.
burnspbesq
Flash flood warning in effect for Orange and Riverside Counties in SoCal. Apparently we’re about to get whacked by a big-ass thunderstorm.
Hypatia's Momma
“The Black Widow” – Alice Cooper.
dance around in your bones
@Comrade Mary:
Plus, the young Dylan was fucking HOT. Sweet, sweet and tasty! Plus, bloody brilliant. I would have done him in a New York minute.
Unless, of course, he wanted looooooooooonger.
piratedan
an oldie…. Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody
Kathy
@Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again): This, a million times this.
jayjaybear
Def Leppard, Rock of Ages. Nothing beats “Gunten glieben glauben globen”. Nothing.
EriktheRed
You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth by Meat Loaf
The Sailor
I’m surprised no one has mentioned My Girl Bill by Jim Stafford.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHGV3PhEg5c
Colts got whipped by the Bears:(
That Luck has such a beautiful motion … even when he’s throwing to teh other team.
j
OMG! How could I forget?
Frank Zappa, “I’m the Slime Oozing Out of Your TV Set”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUFhHS-3sv8
bago
Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry lee lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
How this is not in the top 100 comments I shall never understand.
Just One More Canuck
@Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again): @Kathy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqv-hfT7MCE
Just One More Canuck
@Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again): @Kathy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_mEtnmbtY0
Peter Wolf did a long intro to Love Stinks on the Showtime album
Steeplejack
@raven:
It was me, a couple of months ago! Sheesh.
Steeplejack
@hamletta:
For the ultimate “cool” (bluesy-jazzy) Lou Rawls, check out the album he did with the Les McCann Trio: Stormy Monday. All primo stuff. Check out his take on “God Bless the Child.”
Alternately, a really good “greatest hits” album is The Very Best of Lou Rawls.
DanF
Everybody plays the Fool – Main Ingedient
Okay, so your heart is broken
You sit around mopin’
Cryin’ and cryin’
You say you`re even thinkin’ about dyin’
Well, before you do anything rash, dig this:
Everybody plays the fool sometime
There’s no exception to the rule
Listen, baby, it may be factual, may be cruel
I ain’t lyin’, everybody plays the fool
Falling in love is such an easy thing to do
And there’s no guarantee that the one you love
Is gonna love you
Jamey
Spoken intro song? “Seductive Barry,” by Pulp. Very meta, as Barry White was the king of the spoken intro…
Jamey
@Nina-the-first “Just a Pepsi, and she wouldn’t give it to me…”:
Steeplejack
@Kbeagle:
That’s a great one I wouldn’t have thought of.
Dexter's new approach
Throw an illegal procedure flag on me – it’s debatable that Wayne ever really properly sings – but I’m throwing out there the sublime The Flaming Lips’ song One More Robot/Sympathy 2000-21.
Cuz you how the Rs can’t find a decent song to play at their rallies without the artist going all cease-and0desist on their ass? I have a solution; I’d think I’d approve of this song being played for a Romney/Ryan really. It captures their hopes, right?
Unit three thousand twenty one is warming
Makes a humming sound when its circuits duplicate emotions
And a sense of coldness detaches
As it tries to comfort your sadness
One more robot learns to be something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does make it seem like it can love
‘Cause it’s hard to say what’s real when you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think its love when it tries the way it does
Feeling a synthetic kind of love
Dreaming a sympathetic wish
As the lights blink faster and brighter
One more robot learns to be something more than a machine
When it tries the way it does make it seem like it can love
‘Cause it’s hard to say what’s real when you know the way you feel
Is it wrong to think it’s love when it tries the way it does.
Bears (in thick Chicago accent)
rea
Jim Morrison in his best revival preacher voice:
When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
The Doors–The Soft Parade
Cmm
Brrrrruuuuce and his long intros to “The River” and “War” on the Live 1975-1985 album. I especially love the story he tells about his relationship with his Dad around the time he got his draft notice. Very moving.
M. Bouffant
One of my favorite songs, & just recently found this version w/ an intro.
wenchacha
@Nina-the-first: Great one; I was just thinking about it a couple days ago.
I’ll add “Atlantis” by Donovan.
wenchacha
@Nina-the-first: Great one; I was just thinking about it a couple days ago.
I’ll add “Atlantis” by Donovan.
@Earl: Damn. I guess I have to look for that, now.
Sherean
For sheer sexiness, listen to “Hey Pretty,” by Poe. Her brother does a spoken word intro reading from one of his books. It’s about fast cars and a hot girl, or maybe it’s a hot car and a fast girl…
Bruce S
One of my favorites, though not on record, was Springsteen’s intro to “Angel Eyes” at the Frank Sinatra 80th birthday broadcast. All about going with his mom looking for his dad in bars, Sinatra’s Angel Eyes playing on a juke box, etc. etc.
The Dude Abides
U2 – Walk On
LanceThruster
@rea:
Great selection. When asked why no one has yet offered this or that track, one has to remember human data banks aren’t quite as retrieval friendly as teh Great Gazoogle.
But we get by with a little help from our friends.
Hey! “Magical Mystery Tour” is one too!