History Main / SpokenWordInMusic

* Panchiko's "D˃E˃A˃T˃H˃M˃E˃T˃A˃L" samples ''VideoGame/BurningRangers'', though not audio from the game proper - if you were to put the game disc into a conventional CD player and tried to play it, the first track was a spoken warning not to do that, which the band then cut up and looped stupidStatementDanceMix style:

-->Do-Do-Don't—, Do-Do-Do-Don't—
-->Do-Do-Don't—, Do-Do-Do-Don't play the track

* "The Necromancer" by Music/{{Rush}} starts with the narration of the story of Prince By-Tor, spoken by Neil Peart (possibly with an edited voice).

* ''{{Film/Armageddon}}: The Album'' uses {{Music/Aerosmith}}'s "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" as musical {{Bookends}}... but the second time it appears, under the title "Animal Crackers", Steven Tyler only sings in the beginning and ending - the rest of the vocals consist of clips of dialogue between the characters A.J. and Grace, with the track title coming from a SeinfeldianConversation in which A.J. argues that animal crackers don't qualify as "crackers".

* "Hole in my Shoe" by Music/{{Traffic}} has a spoken word section by the producer's stepdaughter, where she describes travelling on the back of an albatross to a magical land.

** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' begins with the sound of an AM radio 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).

*** and Abbey Road Studios' doorman Gerry O'Driscoll, responsible for some of the more iconic quotes (the second one in "Speak to Me" about being mad, the one at the bottom of the page that ends the album, and the discussion about death in "The Great Gig in the Sky").

** From ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'':
*** "Speak to Me": ''"I've been mad for fucking years..."''
*** For that matter, there is spoken word throughout the whole of the album. They interviewed people in the studio and incorporated their responses as little bits. Two of the interviewed people were Music/PaulMcCartney and his then-wife Linda, but they didn't use any bits from their interviews because they found their responses too generic or not funny enough to add them.

*** For that matter, there is spoken word throughout the whole of the album. They interviewed people in the studio and incorporated their responses as little bits. Two of the interviewed people were Music/PaulMcCartney and his then-wife Linda, but they didn't use any bits from their interviews because they didn't find their responses funny enough to add them.

*** For that matter, there is spoken word throughout the whole of the album. They interviewed people in the studio and incorporated their responses as little bits. One of the interviewed people was Music/PaulMcCartney, but they didn't use any bits from his interview.

*** For that matter, there is spoken word throughout the whole of the album. They interviewed people in the studio and incorporated their responses as little bits. One of the interviewed people was Music/PaulMcCartney, but they didn't use any of the bits from his interview.

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* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject gave us ''Let's Talk About Me'' with baseball commentary in the background.
* Music/PinkFloyd

** "Speak to Me" from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'': ''"I've been mad for fucking years..."''
*** For that matter, there is spoken word throughout the whole of ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon.'' They interviewed people in the studio and incorporated their responses as little bits. Even Music/PaulMcCartney was interviewed, but they didn't use him.

** An excerpt from a Creator/StephenHawking commercial he recorded for British Telecom in 'Keep Talking' from ''Music/TheDivisionBell''.

* "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" by Music/MichaelJackson features a brief spoken introduction, in which he asks about ''the force.'' (No, not ''that'' [[Franchise/StarWars Force]] -- but it is incredib;ly similar.)

** "Sheep" from ''Music/{{Animals}}'' contains a vocoded parody of Psalm 23 ("When cometh the day we lowly ones, through quiet reflection and great dedication, master the art of karate...")

* Music/{{Nightwish}}:

* A Kanon Wakeshima song ends with what sounds like Wakeshima singing the song in the shower.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bpCriHjmrU Ennui Kibun (bored feeling!)]]
* Music/TheVeronicas Insomnia, Cold, Untouched and more.
* The Music/SpiceGirls' "Naked" has this at the beginning of the song, after the first chorus, and the middle is done as a phone conversation heard on Emma's end: "Hello...it's me...I thought you'd understand...well, maybe I should give it my best shot...I keep seeing such a pretty picture...But I don't want to be hated or pitied either...maybe I should leave it up to your imagination...I just want to be me..."

* The second hidden track on the ''Music/RobbieWilliams'' album ''I've Been Expecting You'' (officially named "Stalker's Day Off (I've Been Hanging Around)") features two spoken word segments in the form of answering machine messages left by the eponymous stalker on his victim's phone, done by Robbie himself. "Win Some Lose Some" on the same album starts with a woman's voice saying "I love you, baby!" twice, and ends with the same clip played once. "No Regrets" (also from that album) ends with a spoken-word segment by Robbie, which sounds like he gave up on singing and just decided to speak the rest of the lyrics instead.
** On his album ''Sing When You're Winning'', the hidden track "Outro Message" is a 13-second long track featuring a message spoken by Robbie saying that this album doesn't contain any hidden tracks.
** The hidden track "Hello Sir" on the album ''Life thru a Lens'' is a poem written and performed by Robbie dedicated to one of his old schoolteachers (ostensibly, anyway).

* [[CharityMotivationSong Band Aid's]] "Do They Know It's Christmas?" opens with part of Michael Buerk's BBC TV news report which inspired the creation of the single. The song is still played at Christmas, but for some reason, this part is omitted.
-->''Dawn: and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem, it lights up a Biblical famine - now, in the twentieth century. This place, say workers here, is the closest thing to hell on earth.''
* The song "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado involves her speaking with Timbaland during the first few seconds of the song.
* "My Strange Addiction" by Music/BillieEilish includes several clips from ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' episode "Threat Level Midnight" - one of the lines coincidentally mentions a first name that's a homophone of the artist's, sort of turning it into a SingerNameDrop ("No, Billy, I haven't done that dance since my wife died").

* Music/TheCowsills' "The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine" contains a spoken word section.
-->Then, finally one day, she was cast back into the sea from where she came, so that she would never torment man again.
* The beginning of the "Yuletide Slegh Mix" of the Music/JasonDonovan song "When You Come Back to Me" begins with this spoken-word monolouge from the singer himself:
--> "I guess it happens all the time. The things we have to do takes us miles apart when we should be together, especially at this time of the year when everyone wants to be with thier loved ones. And though we're miles apart, not a minute goes by without me thinking of you, nor a day goes by without me wanting you. So, I keep thinking of you, and it keeps pulling me through, cause I know, it's just a matter of time."

* Music/SteeleyeSpan's "The Good Witch", from the ConceptAlbum based on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', ends with Sir Creator/TerryPratchett saying "A good witch never cackles" followed by the section from the book beginning "Cackling is not just nasty laughter".

* Happens frequently on the soundtrack album for ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'' - dialogue from the movie will frequently get layered over instrumental sections of songs. A few songs used in the movie were instrumentals, and they tend to especially get this treatment - for example, the track "Totally Hot" is a brief excerpt from the song "Kipenda Roho" by Remmy Ongala with pseudo-VoxPops interviews laid over it.

* Music/IsaacHayes' landmark album ''Hot Buttered Soul'' featured a cover of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" that turned this trope into an art form. The song itself follows a man, having just left his wife, describing what he thinks she will be doing as he reaches certain destinations by car. Hayes turned this three-minute country song into an ''eighteen-minute'' soul epic, including an eight-minute spoken introduction of how the man came to his decision to leave his wife.
* Music/BarryWhite has a spoken intro in "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love." In fact, he's often just speaking over the music.
* Music/{{Beyonce}} recites poetry written by British poet Warsan Shire in the visual special for ''Music/Lemonade2016''.

* ''Spill the Wine'' by {{Music/WarBand}} contains both a lengthy introduction and interlude which describes the singer-narrator's dream/psychedelic trip/erotic fantasy.

* ''Spill the Wine'' by {{Music/War}} contains both a lengthy introduction and interlude which describes the singer-narrator's dream/psychedelic trip/erotic fantasy.