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*Mike Watt's instrumental "Heartbeat" ends with an answering machine message from [[BikiniKill Kathleen Hanna]] about how she refuses to appear on the album because someone else on the album raped her friend when she was 13, as well as because the rest of the contributors are "just doing the whole, like, big-white-baby-with-an-ego-problem thing". As it turns out Hanna was the one who asked to be on the album in the first place, and the recording was [[http://www.hootpage.com/hoot_wrestlingandkathleen.html deliberately submitted by her as an "art piece", and wasn't even recorded to an actual answering machine]].
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** Sugarland's Happy Ending does too, along with the first words spoken on the moon. '''Baby's born in the ghetto...''' "I have a dream that one day..." '''Baby's born with a silver spoon...''' "That's one small step for man..." '''One tells his mama I have a dream/One tells his mama I'll walk the moon...'''

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** Sugarland's Happy Ending does too, along with the first words spoken on the moon. '''Baby's ''Baby's born in the ghetto...''' '' "I have a dream that one day..." '''Baby's ''Baby's born with a silver spoon...''' '' "That's one small step for man..." '''One ''One tells his mama I have a dream/One tells his mama I'll walk the moon...'''''
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** Sugarland's Happy Ending does too, along with the first words spoken on the moon. '''Baby's born in the ghetto...''' "I have a dream that one day..." '''Baby's born with a silver spoon...''' "That's one small step for man..." '''One tells his mama I have a dream/One tells his mama I'll walk the moon...'''
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* Godspeed You! Black Emperor does this often, perhaps most notably in "The Dead Flag Blues."
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* GreenDay throws one in at the start of "East Jesus Nowhere": "And we shall see how ''godless'' a nation we have become."
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*** Out of context, that sounds like a YourMom joke.
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* {{Mary and the Black Lamb}}s song Emily has a phone call reenactment just before the final chorus.

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* {{Mary and the Black Lamb}}s song Emily "Emily" has a phone call reenactment just before the final chorus.
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* {{Mary and the Black Lamb}}s song Emily has a phone call reenactment just before the final chorus.
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the album came BEFORE the movie...


** ''The Wall'' -- the album contains various clips taken from the film. YOU! YES YOU! STAND STILL LADDIE! IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT, YE CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING! HOW CAN YE HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT? Oh my God, what a fabulous room, are all these your guitars?, ''TheDamBusters'' in the background, etc.

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** ''The Wall'' -- the album contains various clips taken from the film. YOU! YES YOU! STAND STILL LADDIE! IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT, YE CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING! HOW CAN YE HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT? Oh my God, what a fabulous room, are all these your guitars?, ''TheDamBusters'' in the background, etc.
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** As for LinkinPark, their latest album contained samples of speeches by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Mario Savio, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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** "Enid" is the perfect example of this trope: it has some sort of radio recording of Depeche Mode, ''"The silence, the terror, the pain, the horror, as your mom comes downstairs,"'' and then it launches into the song.

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** "Enid" is the perfect example of this trope: it has some sort of radio recording of Depeche Mode, Mode-esque radio recording, ''"The silence, the terror, the pain, the horror, as your mom comes downstairs,"'' and then it launches into the song.

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Math The Band's "Hang Out Hang Ten" and "Almost!" both end in what seems to be nonsensical QuoteMining of some kind of self-help tape: "You've probably also realized that fears and anxieties are one of the most important skills you can acquire", and "I've had students tell me they have thousands of years of experience, which dates back twenty five thousand years, which means forty million discoveries of ancient wisdom and of new insights".

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Math *Math The Band's "Hang Out Hang Ten" and "Almost!" both end in what seems to be nonsensical QuoteMining of some kind of self-help tape: "You've probably also realized that fears and anxieties are one of the most important skills you can acquire", and "I've had students tell me they have thousands of years of experience, which dates back twenty five thousand years, which means forty million discoveries of ancient wisdom and of new insights".


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*Cracker's cover of TheResidents' "Blue Rosebuds" includes some barely audible speech due to a ThrowItIn moment from the producer: An inmate from a nearby prison dialed the studio's phone number to make an obscene phone call while the band was recording, and the producer very quickly patched the phone line into the mixing board during an instrumental break. It certainly ''did'' add to the uncharacteristic creepiness of the cover.
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Math The Band's "Hang Out Hang Ten" and "Almost!" both end in what seems to be nonsensical QuoteMining of some kind of self-help tape: "You've probably also realized that fears and anxieties are one of the most important skills you can acquire", and "I've had students tell me they have thousands of years of experience, which dates back twenty five thousand years, which means forty million discoveries of ancient wisdom and of new insights".
*TheyMightBeGiants were somewhat fond of this trope for their first few albums. "Snowball In Hell" features a segment of a motivational tape for salesmen, while "I'm Def" and "I'll Sink Manhattan" feature messages left on the answering machine used for their Dial-A-Song phone line.
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** "Wish You Were Here" begins with a radio recording.

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** "Wish You Were Here" begins with a the sound of an AM radio recording.flipping through the stations, until it settles on a station playing the beginning of "Wish You Were Here". Then the "listener" begins playing along (this is where the second guitar comes in).



** ''The Wall''. YOU! YES YOU! STAND STILL LADDIE! IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT, YE CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING! HOW CAN YE HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT? Oh my God, what a fabulous room, are all these your guitars?, etc.

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** ''The Wall''. Wall'' -- the album contains various clips taken from the film. YOU! YES YOU! STAND STILL LADDIE! IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT, YE CANT HAVE ANY PUDDING! HOW CAN YE HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YE DUNNA EAT YER MEAT? Oh my God, what a fabulous room, are all these your guitars?, ''TheDamBusters'' in the background, etc.
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* Stars' "The Woods" features samples from the documentary ''Grey Gardens'', specifically "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale talking about accidentally dropping her scarf off the porch and into the a particularly overgrown part of the backyard ("It's a sea of leaves, sea of leaves... if you lose something you can’t find it again, lost at the bottom”).

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* Stars' "The Woods" features samples from the documentary ''Grey Gardens'', specifically "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale talking about accidentally dropping her scarf off the porch and into the a particularly overgrown part of the massively overgrown backyard ("It's a sea of leaves, sea of leaves... if you lose something you can’t find it again, lost at the bottom”).
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*Stars' "The Woods" features samples from the documentary ''Grey Gardens'', specifically "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale talking about accidentally dropping her scarf off the porch and into the a particularly overgrown part of the backyard ("It's a sea of leaves, sea of leaves... if you lose something you can’t find it again, lost at the bottom”).
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* Eels "Manchild" contains samples from a depressed-sounding answering machine message left by Jill Sobule ("I'm not having any fun...")

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* Eels {{Eels}} "Manchild" contains samples from a depressed-sounding answering machine message left by Jill Sobule ("I'm not having any fun...")
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* Everclear's "AM Radio" opens with some radio squeaks and squawks of the sort that might be made by tuning in, and then "Portions of today's programming are reproduced by means of electrical transcription of tape recordings."
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* {{Radiohead}}'s "Fitter Happier" has what sounds like radio chatter in the background, along with some other unsettling noises.
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** Make sure to watch the video. Mind. Blown.
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* Spin Doctors' "What Time Is It?" Also opens with a mock-up newscast, initially talking of Israeli jet fighters, then moving to the next topic "A forty-nine-year-old, unidentified man went berserk last night...".
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** The dialogue at the start of "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth".
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* SparkPlugEntertainment's ''SpidersWebAPigsTale'' features one near the beginning, when the main character Walter tries to explain to his mother how her pie went missing after he had ate it.
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* {{Madness}}' CoverVersion of "Lola" by TheKinks was originally meant to be sung the whole way through, but a problem in the studio resulted in Suggs speaking the last lines of the song instead.
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* One of {{Evanescence}}'s songs contains a few lines of a speech by Winston Churchill.
* "[=FantasMic=]", {{Nightwish}}'s seven-minute long EpicRocking {{nerdgasm}} about the DisneyAnimatedCanon, has a sound clip from ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' in the middle of it.
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* ABC's "Poison Arrow" has a spoken part just before the last chorus.
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*One of the gimmicks of the ManicStreetPreachers' album ''The Holy Bible'' is that a lot of the songs have quotes lifted from various sources as intros. This gimmick is revisited on the "sequel" to the album, ''Journal for Plague Lovers."
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* FooFighters' "Everlong" features some faint and semi-unintelligible whispering over the quiet part of the interlude after the second chorus, supposedly taken from sources including a love letter and a technical manual.
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*** More accurately, it was a ''re-creation'' of the clip.
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* Diana Ross's version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."

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