History Main / SpokenWordInMusic

* Music/{{Jawbreaker}}'s "Jet Black" starts with a bit of Christopher Walken's morbid OneSceneWonder monologue from ''Film/AnnieHall'' ("I tell you this because as an artist, I think you'll understand..."), then continues with more of it during the bridge. Interestingly,in the context of the movie, the scene played as BlackComedy, setting up a one-liner from main character Alvy, and a few scenes later, a BrickJoke - the song doesn't allude to either and seemingly re-contextualizes it as a straight depiction of TrueArtIsAngsty.

** White Zombie's CoverVersion of {{Music/Kiss}}' "God Of Thunder" starts with three humorously juxtaposed voice clips: An announcer saying "You wanted the best and you got the best...the hottest band in the world" from ''Alive II'' is interrupted by [[{{Music/TheMonkees}} Mike Nesmith]] exclaiming "Hey, wait a minute!" (from ''{{Film/Head}}'', which in turn is interrupted by [[Film/TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]] saying "Suck on this!".

* Music/{{Beck}} uses this on occasion - "Where It's At" features several clips from a TotallyRadical 70's sex education record ("We're all part of the total scene!"), while "Truck Drivin' Neighbors Downstairs" starts with two men engaging in a ClusterFBomb filled drunken shouting match. Scarily enough these are the actual downstairs neighbors the song was written about - they were being so loud he accidentally picked up their argument on his four-track while trying to record home demos.

* "Scary Picture Show" by Riot Squad opens with a line from ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps'': "Let's play a game! It's called 'Scary Noises'."

* "Fantastic Fabulous" by Music/LusciousJackson has [[{{Music/Blondie}} Deborah Harry]] on guest vocals, and it also includes a sample of an answering machine message from her about singing the song itself:

** Other MJ examples: "The Girl is Mine" and "PYT" (both are also from ''Thriller''), "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" (from ''Music/OffTheWall''), "Man in the Mirror" (from ''Music/{{Bad}}''), and the album version of "Heal The World" (from ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'').

* The Music/{{Gorillaz}} song "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" from ''Music/DemonDays'' narrated by Creator/DennisHopper, is basically a spoken word track with a little music spliced in.

* Music/{{Squeeze}} used snippets of ''Film/TheShining'' in the intro to ''The Last Time Forever'', including Jack Nicholson's line "A momentary loss of muscular coordination" and Shelley Duvall shrieking.

* EMF's hit "Unbelievable" included repeated samples of Creator/AndrewDiceClay delivering his CatchPhrase "OHHH!" as well as saying "What the fuck?" - the latter sample was distorted enough that the song managed to get uncensored airplay anyway. The album it's from, ''Schubert Dip'', featured a few other songs that opened with spoken word samples:

** On the album ''Psyence Fiction'', the songs "Bloodstain" and "Unreal" are [[SiameseTwinSongs linked by]] a sample of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' - specifically the animated segment that first introduced Boba Fett. "Bloodstain" ends with Boba Fett asking "You are alone?", while "Unreal" starts with his next line, "Maybe I can help you".

* On the album ''Psyence Fiction'', the songs "Bloodstain" and "Unreal" are [[SiameseTwinSongs linked by]] a sample of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' - specifically the animated segment that first introduced Boba Fett. "Bloodstain" ends with Boba Fett asking "You are alone?", while "Unreal" starts with his next line, "Maybe I can help you".

* Music/{{Madness}}' CoverVersion of "Lola" by Music/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.

* Music/{{Jawbreaker}}'s "Jet Black" starts with a bit of Christopher Walken's OneSceneWonder monologue from ''Film/AnnieHall'' ("I tell you this because as an artist, I think you'll understand..."), then continues with more of it during the bridge.

* Music/{{Slint}}'s album, ''Spiderland'' had many elements of this in some of its songs. The album's opener ''Breadcrumb Trail'', for example, features a spoken word segment of the narrator reciting his visit to an amusement park and having his fortune read, then courting the teller all set to a slow and brooding post-apocalyptic Instrumental.

* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s "Fitter Happier" has what sounds like radio chatter in the background, along with some other unsettling noises.

** {{Music/Mudhoney}} used the same clip at the start of their song "In 'n' Out of Grace".

** ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' 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).

** ''Music/TheWall'' -- [[ViolentGlaswegian 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?, ''Film/TheDamBusters'' in the background, etc.
** The radio chatter in "Learning to Fly" from ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason''
** In "Keep Talking" from ''Music/TheDivisionBell'', there's an excerpt from a Creator/StephenHawking commercial he recorded for British Telecom.

* Music/MikeOldfield's "Amarok" has someone impersonating Margaret Thatcher towards the end of the song.

* [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]]'s 1979 album ''Exposure'' featured several tracks with extraneous speech mixed with the music:

** "Exposure" and "Water Music 1" include excerpts from J.G. Bennett's inaugural address at Sherborne House, the International Academy for Continuous Education. (The complete 40-minute address also appears as a track on the album, condensed into only 3 seconds of white noise.)

* The Drunken Boat track "Lisa's Dream" is a short interlude where a friend of the band recounts a nightmare she once had - the recording is manipulated with a lot of echo effects, but isn't set to music. "Dream Boat" starts out with an uncredited man and woman reading absurdist dialogue, before segueing into an instrumental: the text was apparently written by vocalist Todd Colby, but not performed by anyone within the band, and seemingly recorded separately from the music.

* 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 insert the ''Burning Rangers'' game disc into a conventional CD player and try to play it, you would hear one of the voice actors reading a warning not to do that lest you damage your stereo equipment - the band cut up and looped that audio:

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

* 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 insert the ''Burning Rangers'' game disc into a conventional CD player and try to play it, you would hear one of the voice actors reading a warning not to do that lest you damage your stereo equipment - the band cut up and looped that audio StupidStatementDanceMix style:

Compare {{Sampling}} and StupidStatementDanceMix.

* {{Music/Bastille}}'s "Good Grief" begins with a clip of Creator/KellyLeBrock from ''Film/WeirdScience'': "So, what would you little maniacs like to do first?"

* 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 insert the ''Burning Rangers'' game disc into a conventional CD player and try to play it, you would hear one of the voice actors reading a warning not to do that lest you damage your stereo equipment - the band cut up and looped that audio StupidStatementDanceMix style:

* 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 insert the ''Burning Rangers'' game disc into a conventional CD player and try to play it, you would hear a spoken warning not to do that, which the band then cut up and looped StupidStatementDanceMix style:

* Shpongle's ''Vapour Rumours'' heavily samples a newscast from ''Series/TheOuterLimits''.

** Usually when Eminem adopts the role of [[TalkingToHimself another character in his songs]], the other character raps back at him, but quite often they just talk. A good example is the interjection from his yes-man in "Beautiful" - "''haaaa! You're soooo funny, Marshall, you should be a comedian, goddamn!''"

* 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: