Laughing or giggling in songs
 

Can you name songs that have the singer laughing or giggling on them? I can think straight away of The Velvet Underground's 'Heroin' (more of a short sneering laughter than anything) or Christian Death's 'I Hate You'. Go.

Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman :)

There was a song by PTV, I think it was called 'White Nights' that featured Jim Jones' insane giggling on it.

Ha ha ha, hee hee hee, I'm the laughing gnome and you can't catch me!

D. Bowie esq.

I'm not a huge fan of the Damned, but the song "These Hands" is fucking brilliant.

These Hands

These are the hands of a demented circus clown

Outside I’m laughing but inside I’m really wearing a frown

I see you laughing at me

But baby in my dreams

Its quite a different scene



Chasing you through the night with my hands oh virginess

Funny how everything seems to make me colliette

I find I’m laughing at you

And if you are turning blue



Ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha

Ho ho hoStop laughing, Stop laughing!

i like the laughs on sweat loaf by the butthole surfers

every second counts by new order. the best corpsing in a song ever.....

David Bowie - Andy Warhol

Sonic Youth - Stereo Sanctity

british people in hot weather by the fall,

theres a few by the fall i think, cant remember right now,

You so beat me to it! I was just thinking about The Fall.

Flipper - Ha Ha Ha

Transparent Radiation - The Red Crayola

I'm not entirely sure but the echoing noise on Neu!'s 'Lilac Angel' sounds like somebody's laughter put through some reverb and echo. Another one is The Smiths' 'Suffer Little Children', even though it's not Morrisey doing the laughing.

Little Bit of Riff by Easy Now. My bandmate made me laugh hard at the end and we left it in. Also Carousel by Mister Bungle

Stereolab - International Colouring Contest
Duran Duran - Rio

That'll be just after Thurston has thrown firecrackers into the recording booth where Lee is doing his vocal.


edit - no it's not :o : mustang - in the kingdom#19

i think they should make use firecrackers more often, haha... oh man...

Nirvana - Milk It

The start of "Over Over" from the latest Fall album starts with a particularly rancourous laugh. Also on the Peel version of New Puritan. That MES is a jolly fellow.

Ozzy - Crazy Train
Mercyful Fate - Nightmare
There is a track on "A Sucked Orange" by Nurse With Wound that is pretty much only maniacal laughter layered on top of other maniacal laughter.

I'm sure more will come to mind soon.

The Spectral Presence- Is This a Test?

BTW I gotta upload that EP sometime.

bob dylan starts giggling at his own words on all i really want to do, and at the beggining of bob dylan's 115th dream. and there is also that creepy laughing in the modest mouse song alone down there, thats all i can think off the top

you mean a spontaneous, "real" laughter or a "fake" one on purpose for the song.

It really doesn't matter.

oh, ok.

Afrirampo - Natsu Ga Kita

they laugh so hard in that song. It's actually the only Afrirampo song I like, and just because of the laughter.

Kyra was a member of Thee Headcoatees.
On her solo album on Vinyl Japan (Here I Am, I Always Am), among Billy Childish songs, Electric Eels, Jacques Brel and Captain Beefheart covers is a track called Laughing Song.
It's pretty short, 100% laughing-in-tune-if-she-can, and it ends in real laughter, with a mike falling to the ground. One I do enjoy.

Feel Good Inc. - The Gorillaz
I Am The Walrus- The Beatles

Zu+Teatro degli Orrori - "Fallo!"

the beatles - i am the walrus hee hee hee ha ha ha
the beatles - ob-la-di, ob-la-da
the beatles - hey bulldog laughing during solo mostly paul
the beatles - yellow submarine - laughing before last chorus
the beatles - two of us george laughing at john in beginning
the beatles - within you without you some audible laughter at beginning, or is that the ending? of the long version

lots of other ones i'm forgettting i'm sure

bob dylan - i shall be free no. 10
bob dylan - bob dylan's 115th dream
johnny cash - a boy named sue
pink floyd - brain damage laughing in intro and in bridge
motley crue - girls, girls, girls laughing amid the motorcycle noises in beginning
def leppard - rock of ages evil laugh at end
metallica - master of puppets evil laugh at end
dr. hook and the medicine show - cover of rolling stone
beck - ozzy
chuck berry - my ding-a-ling

other ones i thought of right away are already named

I think theres some laughter in one of the songs from Chocolate Synthesiser by Boredoms, but as with alot of things on that album it could be coming from anywhere

When the drums kick in and the song starts. It sounds like some screaming or an echoing laughter. You hear that a little more in the background throughout the song because of the, erm, singing. I'm not terribly sure if it is actually laughter or screaming so I'll listen to it again and report back.

Beach Boys - Barb(a)ra Ann

originally taken from the pastor dick pledge show on kpfa berkeley, performed by negativland and featured on their excellent series over the edge (vol 2)

lcd soundsystem- your city is a sucker!

doesn't the "Victoria" Kinks cover have some laughing in the sing-along?
And also Under the Influence of the Jesus and Mary Chain and Ticket to Ride maybe too have a chuckle...can't remember.
Inhuman has the ah ha ah ha ah ha at the beginning.

The opening track of Post Reformation TLC; "...they made such a fooss about givin' it t'me/ and I (ha)/ I spend more time getting it turned down".

There's probably more, but these spring readily to mind.

You beat me to it.