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Post by jk on Dec 12, 2019 12:33:50 GMT
I had to spell it "acappella" in the thread title otherwise it wouldn't have fit. The first part of the title comes from Sly & The Family Stone's "Dance To The Music", where ironically the passage in question is not entirely a cappella and so doesn't belong here. This was the one I thought of first: En Vogue's "Hold On":
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 12, 2019 13:01:25 GMT
Interesting topic. Two songs with a cappella endings come to mind - "Wind Chimes" (Smiley Smile version) by The Beach Boys and "Dialogue (Part I & II)" by Chicago. There are also two Doors' songs with a cappella intros on The Soft Parade, "Runnin' Blue" and "The Soft Parade".
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 12, 2019 13:39:26 GMT
One most of you won’t know but that I’ve always loved, Of Montreal’s DIY shape shifter of a tune “Lysergic Bliss.” Three or four styles covered, but you can skip to roughly 2:30 to hear the schoolmarmish “ok children, remember your breathing,” followed by a pretty cool a cappella vocal part, which then transforms into a slinky kind of i-don’t-know-what. Exotica?
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Post by jk on Dec 13, 2019 22:51:33 GMT
One most of you won’t know but that I’ve always loved, Of Montreal’s DIY shape shifter of a tune “Lysergic Bliss.” Three or four styles covered, but you can skip to roughly 2:30 to hear the schoolmarmish “ok children, remember your breathing,” followed by a pretty cool a cappella vocal part, which then transforms into a slinky kind of i-don’t-know-what. Exotica? That's lovely! (So were Sheriff's examples.) I'm surprised a Queen fan hasn't leapt in with this one yet:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 14, 2019 0:30:59 GMT
One of my favorite ABBA songs, "Take A Chance On Me", has a great a cappella intro. Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA was influenced by Brian Wilson and Phil Spector.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 14, 2019 2:13:48 GMT
One most of you won’t know but that I’ve always loved, Of Montreal’s DIY shape shifter of a tune “Lysergic Bliss.” Three or four styles covered, but you can skip to roughly 2:30 to hear the schoolmarmish “ok children, remember your breathing,” followed by a pretty cool a cappella vocal part, which then transforms into a slinky kind of i-don’t-know-what. Exotica? That's lovely! (So were Sheriff's examples.) I'm surprised a Queen fan hasn't leapt in with this one yet: I personally was never a huge fan of the Prophet's Song, but I think KDS might be more a fan of it. That said, I didn't hate it, especially listening in headphones as a teen, thinking about stereo, about production, about multitracking.
btw, I interviewed Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal re that Lysergic Bliss bit once when they were here and I was doing those sorts of things. He had mentioned they were going to do it. "Including the a cappella bit?" I asked. He laughed and said they were going to try. (They did OK.)
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Post by jk on Dec 16, 2019 11:09:26 GMT
I'm no fan of Whitney Houston (with the one glorious and uplifting exception of "Step By Step") but the opening of "I will Always Love You" is an epic a cappella moment:
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Post by jk on Jan 18, 2020 11:29:44 GMT
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Post by jk on Feb 16, 2020 11:27:22 GMT
Well it hasn't ended yet--although the examples are getting briefer. "Um Wah, Um Woh" is from a great 1970 album by Hotlegs (later relaunched as 10cc) called Thinks: School Stinks, which I bought at a local library sale in NL for one guilder (i.e., nothing). The break, such as it is, occurs at 3:38: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinks:_School_Stinks
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 16, 2020 13:41:51 GMT
Hey hey mama said the way you move gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove...
Ah ah child way you shake that thing gonna make you burn gonna make you sting...
Hey hey baby when you walk that way watch your honey drip I keep away...
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Post by jk on Feb 21, 2020 18:43:14 GMT
Yesterday I rejoined the Endless Harmony forum (that said, I get the impression I'm not fully reaccepted there yet). While I was there, I looked through a bunch of old threads. (I wouldn't have dared do this even a month ago but it's clear I've moved on now--and about time too.) I noticed there had been an a cappella topic there as well (I'd forgotten about that!) and it yielded one more post for this topic, the stunning unaccompanied intro to Kate Bush's "Rocket's Tail", featuring Kate and Trio Bulgarka--to say nothing of when messrs Gilmour, Giblin and Elliott thunder into action one and a half minutes in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sensual_World
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