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What About It? (Malkmus gets all interrogative in...

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:35:00 -0500

What About It?

(Malkmus gets all interrogative in Pavement’s “Stereo”)

MALKMUS:
What about the voice of Geddy Lee?
How did it get so high?
I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy.

BOB:
I know him. And, he does!

MALKMUS:
Then, you’re my fact-checkin’ cuz.

BOB:
(Awww….)

It’s Bob’s barely audible Awww… that makes it. Delightful.

Price: $7.00 (Pricier than the whole track, we know! But be honest, the song’s fine, but this ‘Part is better than the song that contains it.)

First reported at kung fu grippe.

Can’t Hardly Wait (Arena suprema with Jon Bon and...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:53:00 -0400

Can’t Hardly Wait

(Arena suprema with Jon Bon and “Livin’ on a Prayer”)

If we asked you what happened in these few seconds of superanthem, you’d likely say, “key change.” You would be correct. And if that’s all they did, it would be just like the dozens of other pop songs that use that classic trick to squeeze a few more drops of energy out of a chorus.

But did you hear the other thing? They’re SO EXCITED to play this song, and to KICK IT OUT, that they just skip a fucking beat. The last measure before the key change only has three beats. And in doing that, they’re shouting LET’S GO, PEOPLE, GET ON WITH IT, LET’S LIVE HARD.

So here’s JBJ’s (and our) advice to you: if you’re excited about something, sometimes it’s OK to skip a beat. Don’t wait for dessert to arrive before you propose to her. Get in the hot tub with your pants on. Retire at 54. Submit the short story before you get your MFA. Hit the streets of Madrid before you’ve read the guidebook. Tell your best joke first.

Price: $.25

Okay, weirdo. Wait, are you mocking me? (Joni Mitchell spazzes...

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:44:00 -0400

Okay, weirdo. Wait, are you mocking me?

(Joni Mitchell spazzes out and fake laughs(?) at the end of “Big Yellow Taxi”)

Price: $.04

Added to the SongParts OutTakes Collection from Dave Shumka’s Crates & Bins.

L’Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh (la meilleure partie de ”Ça plane...

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:00:00 -0400

L’Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

(la meilleure partie de ”Ça plane pour moi” de Plastic Bertrand)

♪ Blein blein!
ce tais peur te votre cannes
mis mois!
le taix peu vrai votre somme,
coulet chou, cotre autre ton les poux…
quatre valet vous caichout…
[THE BEST PART] ♫

Price: €.08

Please, Kenny Don’t Hurt ‘Em (The Panty-wetter solo...

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:00 -0400

Please, Kenny Don’t Hurt ‘Em

(The Panty-wetter solo in “Songbird” by the Maestro Kenny G)

You say name one soprano sax solo in the history of recorded music that is guaranteed to make a special lady’s water break. I tell you to put on this song and »» to the end, where Kenny displays a mastery of fingerblasting like the world has never heard. Go ahead, I’ll wait. We’re not allowed to listen to this track at the SongParts offices anymore. (Carpet cleaning bills got ridiculous.)

Price: No longer available. Too sexy.

The Uncoppable Lick (From “You Can Call Me Al” by...

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:20:00 -0400

The Uncoppable Lick

(From “You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon)

Strange coincidence: at least three people lived a significant portion of their adolecence with Paul Simon’s Graceland wedged inextricably in the family car’s cassette deck:

Graham Clark
Becky Johnson
Scott Simpson

They know these two measures all too well.

From The Fretless Bass:

Three minutes and forty-four seconds into Graceland’s sixth cut is a two-bar bass break that has confounded as many bassists as it has inspired. “That was my idea,” says Bakithi of the wildly descending lick in the first bar. “We were recording that song on my birthday, and there was a space to fill, so Paul said, ‘Go ahead Bakithi. Do what you like.’ I just played—and they loved it. It was one take. Listening back, I didn’t know what happened; I thought it was from God, you know? I never planned it.’

Now for the tricky part: the second bar of the solo is actually the first part played backwards. Engineer Roy Halee simply flipped the tape over and spliced the two parts together. “People have tried to cop those licks,” shrugs Simon, “but it’s physically impossible.” So the next time your band covers “You Can Call Me Al,” forget about trying to duplicate Bakithi’s mutant solo and take a tip from Paul: just do what you like.

If you are a child or a cretin, it’s possible that you may never have seen the song’s video, a testament to understated delight.

Price: $.06

Climaxing in a Garden of Birds (from Minnie Ripperton’s...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:00:00 -0400

Climaxing in a Garden of Birds

(from Minnie Ripperton’s “Loving You”)

The pipes on her. I mean, really.

Price: $.05

Submitted to the SongParts Moods Collection by the Private Estate of Billy Disney.

And Electro-synthe-magnetic Musical Sounds (Robot Lincoln Chorus...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:59:00 -0400

And Electro-synthe-magnetic Musical Sounds

(Robot Lincoln Chorus from Disneyland’s “Main Street Electrical Parade”)

In science, that tone you hear underlying the whole of this delicious intro is what scientists call the “brown note” because if you’re a child and you hear that sound, you’re about to shit your pants with glee, as at this moment, you are in the happiest place you will ever be. At the end of this SongPart, pay special attention to the tone transposing up 18 octaves to the “yellow note” during which happy children pee themselves with happiness pee.

Price: $.33

My Heart Goin’ Boom Ba-da Boom Ba-da Boom Ba-da (Where...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:02:00 -0400

My Heart Goin’ Boom Ba-da Boom Ba-da Boom Ba-da

(Where Peter Gabriel makes your heart swell on “Solsbury Hill”)

Sure this SongPart and its 7/4 time signature have been around since 1977, but for those of us who don’t care about things that existed before 2006, it’s inextricably linked to a funny fake trailer for a Kubrick movie. LOL.

Price: $.07

Culled from the priceless TuneBits Library of curator Jodi Faye Bullock.

The Goddamn Girl is Paul’s (Paul and Michael songfight at...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:33:00 -0400

The Goddamn Girl is Paul’s

(Paul and Michael songfight at the end of “The Girl is Mine”)

We at SongParts like to believe that there exist no less than four hours of tape of Paul and Michael riffing on the “you stole my girl but let’s not let it come between us” premise and that these eight bars were the prime cut of the improv sesh. Because somehow, when Michael tells Paul gigglingly that he’s a lover, not a fighter, we believe it.

Price: $1.00

Lovingly handpicked from the CD case of Dave Shumka.

Sneak Peek A free sample (the tiny spoon is yours to keep) from...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:45:00 -0400

Sneak Peek

A free sample (the tiny spoon is yours to keep) from our forthcoming sister site, FilmParts.tv.

Thanks for the idea, Dan Wineman. You get 5% of the net box stub receipt grosses.

For the Love of God, Someone Please Tell Axl Where We Go...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:23:00 -0400

For the Love of God, Someone Please Tell Axl Where We Go Now

(The stinky pits breakdown from Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine”)

If you’re a drummer, you may recognize at least six different LP (Latin Percussion) blocks put to use by Steven Adler for this SongPart, amid Slash’s “noodling” and Izzy Stradlin’s “heroin use”.

Price: $.15

This Is What We Trained For (From “One” by...

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:41:00 -0400

This Is What We Trained For

(From “One” by Metallica)

Set your anger watch to these precisely timed bouts of rage. It’s a good thing there have already been so many wars—we get the feeling that if wars didn’t exist, Metallica would start one, just to have something to be so goshdarned angry about.

Price: $.13

The Sound of One Synth Clapping (John Cougar has a little ditty...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:17:00 -0400

The Sound of One Synth Clapping

(John Cougar has a little ditty ‘bout “Jack and Diane”)

Can you pump your fist and clap your hands at the same time? You’re gonna need to once you step into this baby. Let that medium-length hair down, it’s gonna be a crazy wait does he say “suckin’ on chili dog”? What the hell, John Cougar?

Price: $.07

Available to SongParts exclusively on loan from the estate of Stephen Klinck.

“German 201: Hospitality Words” (From “Rock of...

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:34:00 -0400

“German 201: Hospitality Words”

(From “Rock of Ages” by Def Leppard)

Any student of The World’s Seventeenth Best Language* knows that to repeat this phrase on a German’s doorstep obliges them to take you in, feed you porridge, and (if necessary) grease your bicycle chain. And (if necessary) “grease your bicycle chain.”

Thanks to Leppologist Jason Permenter for buffing this one up.

Price: €.14 (+€.05 VAT)

* from “An Accidental Survey of 114 Home Depot Customers”: 2003

Oh Christ Here it Comes (The “Ooh Wahahaha” break...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:18:00 -0400

Oh Christ Here it Comes

(The “Ooh Wahahaha” break from Disturbed’s “Down with the Sickness”)

When you hear this SongPart, cover your nuts—it’s about to get explodey in here.

Price: $.05

From Shane Adams’ exclusive Hate Screamo Library.

Spicy Mustard (The dripping hot synth lick from Snoop’s...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:09:00 -0400

Spicy Mustard

(The dripping hot synth lick from Snoop’s “Drop it Like it’s Hot”)

Related products in the SongParts catalog: Slide Whistle and Bing! Popcorn’s Done.

Price: $.10

Dave’s Barbaric Yawp (DLR goes for it at the beginning of...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:41:00 -0400

Dave’s Barbaric Yawp

(DLR goes for it at the beginning of Van Halen’s “Runnin’ with the Devil.”)

Our customers have found a number of uses for this item:

Car alarm
Mosquito repellant
Enhanced interrogation aid
Stool softener

The fine folks at Chunklet have made the entire isolated vocal track available as an MP3.

Price: $.12

Blewp blewp Blewmp (The best 3 beats of Tears for Fears...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:46:00 -0400

Blewp blewp Blewmp

(The best 3 beats of Tears for Fears “Mad World” intro)

If Atari Pitfall were adapted into a feature film (which it almost certainly will be), this SongPart would be the love theme. Buy now before it it’s too expensive.

Price: $.04

From the private and very specific collection of Richard Brown.

The Really Bachy Part (From ”Joy” by Apollo 100) You...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:50:24 -0400

The Really Bachy Part

(From ”Joy” by Apollo 100)

You know, the organy part at the beginning where it really rocks out. I think it’s from that movie about the porny guy with the big thing.

Price: $.09