it seems like the type of thing we're talking about here could be defined as either 1. spoken word pieces (solo or over music) on albums that are otherwise pretty much regular "songs", and 2. trippy, non-narrative, vaguely dadaist experimentation of a verbal nature - sometimes with music or assorted noises.
for group 1, there's still quite a few to choose from. Anne Magnuson/Bongwater, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Henry Rollins (kinda), a few Robyn Hitchcock pieces, Lou Reed, at least one Talking Heads song I can think of, et quite a few al.
for group 2 (which I think is more what you meant), there's fewer to choose from, but the only other good examples I can think of off the top of my head is the Velvet Underground's "Murder Mystery", at least two or three tracks off Robert Fripp's _Exposure_ album, and maybe something off Art of Noise's _Seduction of Claude Debussy_.
I think there's a few things by Spectrum or Spaceman 3 that would probably qualify.
Simon and Garfunkle's _Bookends_ album contains a track called "Voices of Old People" or something that, while very unproduced, is so *deliberately* unproduced in contrast with the very produced qualify of the rest of the album seems like a deliberate aesthetic and artistic choice. and, for that matter, the last track on their _Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme_ album is a weird mashup of the 7 o'clock news and them singing Silent Night over top of it which seems in the spirit of this list.
and the beginning of David Bowie's "Andy Warhol" song off of _Hunky Dory_ features about 30 or 40 seconds of this sort of weird tricky tape loop kind of stuff.
a few of Laurie Anderson's less linear pieces might qualify in this category as well.
that's about all I have for now. I'll think on it further.
and of course, if we allow things with actual singing of dadaist words, the list grows truly immense.
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Date: 2005-12-23 03:58 pm (UTC)it seems like the type of thing we're talking about here could be defined as either 1. spoken word pieces (solo or over music) on albums that are otherwise pretty much regular "songs", and 2. trippy, non-narrative, vaguely dadaist experimentation of a verbal nature - sometimes with music or assorted noises.
for group 1, there's still quite a few to choose from. Anne Magnuson/Bongwater, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Henry Rollins (kinda), a few Robyn Hitchcock pieces, Lou Reed, at least one Talking Heads song I can think of, et quite a few al.
for group 2 (which I think is more what you meant), there's fewer to choose from, but the only other good examples I can think of off the top of my head is the Velvet Underground's "Murder Mystery", at least two or three tracks off Robert Fripp's _Exposure_ album, and maybe something off Art of Noise's _Seduction of Claude Debussy_.
I think there's a few things by Spectrum or Spaceman 3 that would probably qualify.
Simon and Garfunkle's _Bookends_ album contains a track called "Voices of Old People" or something that, while very unproduced, is so *deliberately* unproduced in contrast with the very produced qualify of the rest of the album seems like a deliberate aesthetic and artistic choice. and, for that matter, the last track on their _Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme_ album is a weird mashup of the 7 o'clock news and them singing Silent Night over top of it which seems in the spirit of this list.
and the beginning of David Bowie's "Andy Warhol" song off of _Hunky Dory_ features about 30 or 40 seconds of this sort of weird tricky tape loop kind of stuff.
a few of Laurie Anderson's less linear pieces might qualify in this category as well.
that's about all I have for now. I'll think on it further.
and of course, if we allow things with actual singing of dadaist words, the list grows truly immense.