🎶 lol

May 2, 2018 10:00 AM

25 singers cracking up at their own songs.
posted by prize bull octorok (15 comments total)

Elis Regina and Tom Jobim were filmed while recording "Aguas de Março", so you can watch her crack up at his dancing, starting around 2:45.
posted by hydrophonic at 10:09 AM on May 2, 2018 [5 favorites]

I was wondering why they possibly would have omitted "And Your Bird Can Sing", from The Beatles Anthology 2, but it looks like it's been scrubbed from Youtube.
posted by thelonius at 10:22 AM on May 2, 2018

CTRL-F "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" ... 2 results found!

Quality article, this is good rock 'n' roll, uh, music...
posted by Strange Interlude at 10:45 AM on May 2, 2018 [4 favorites]

Obvious omission: The Pharcyde's Ya Mama.
posted by rp at 10:59 AM on May 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Quite possibly the filthiest song ever recorded (seriosuly this is soooo NSFW, I can’t emphasize that enough), in Lucille Bogan’s “Shave ‘Em Dry”, she starts losing it at around 2:09.

Also extremely NSFW is Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker’s “Better Think Twice -Version X”, during which they’re laughing before they even start, start laughing again at around :30, and pretty much laugh all the way through.
posted by MexicanYenta at 11:20 AM on May 2, 2018 [4 favorites]

My favorite will always be Ella Fitzgerald's infamous blackout on "Mack the Knife". After spending four minutes faking her way through a song she must have sung hundreds of times by then, she only lets out a slight titter. But that moment says so much.
posted by ardgedee at 11:21 AM on May 2, 2018 [2 favorites]

Came for "Every Little Counts" and was relieved that it was there. I may be the only person who super loves that song.
posted by GuyZero at 11:25 AM on May 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

I was way into New Order and "Every Little Counts" was the track that let me know there were real humans behind the sequencers. Barney was just like us!
posted by JoeZydeco at 12:02 PM on May 2, 2018 [1 favorite]

Quite possibly the filthiest song ever recorded (seriosuly this is soooo NSFW, I can’t emphasize that enough)

This comment sent me to Wikipedia and then to the article on 'dirty blues' which has the greatest list of song titles I have ever seen.
posted by showbiz_liz at 12:17 PM on May 2, 2018 [3 favorites]

Showbiz_liz, this one’s for you - several of those songs are here.
posted by MexicanYenta at 1:05 PM on May 2, 2018 [2 favorites]

Speaking of Stipe giggles, he laughs and mumbles "teeth" at the beginning of Stumble.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 1:47 PM on May 2, 2018

Warning Parental Advisory John Wesley Harding and Steve Wynn laughing at cheesy jokes in the middle of the song. And some of their jokes inadvertently dovetail into the dirty songs above.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:13 PM on May 2, 2018

Ha, I never knew that about the beginning of Roxanne.
posted by gwint at 2:44 PM on May 2, 2018

Dynamite Hack - Laughter
posted by gucci mane at 9:11 PM on May 2, 2018

Quality article, this is good rock 'n' roll, uh, music...

Heh, I was just listening to the Automatic For The People ep of R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME? this afternoon, and mentioned to Secretariat afterward that I was surprised that Scott & Scott didn't (that I noticed, I might've been distracted) mention the laugh on Sidewinder what with them being comedians and all, and she was like "hey there's a post on this blue website you should probably go check out".
posted by cortex at 6:10 PM on May 8, 2018