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Which BB / Solo song benefits most from the additional sound effects. 409 and Susie Cincinatti wouldn't be the same without the car fx and the footsteps on Walkin The Line make a difference as well. Thoughts and additions ?

Vegetable crunchin'

Chip munchin' in Fire

rooster

Thought there were actual fires started in buckets in the studio.

Which song?

all of 'em

C*ck a doodle doo

The water sounds on "Cool Cool Water" combined with the water chant is my favorite section of the song.

The bag crinkling?

Tape exploding- H&V
Everything involved on Rio Grande
Banana and Louie at the end of Caroline No
Bicycle horn/bell on You Still Believe in Me
The sound effects used on Diamond Head
Snoring on I Went to Sleep
Birds on day in the life of a tree
Glass breaking, silver wear rubbing together- Take a Load off Your Feet
Window shade raising on Wake the World
Diane or Marilyn or some female saying "hi Brian" over the phone on the end of Had to Phone Ya
Storm noises on Sweet Mountain
Crickets on Surfer Moon (Bob and Sheri)
Assorted sounds on Amusement Parks USA
Whatever percussion sound they used to sound like hammer spiking on railroad on BWPS cabinessence
Hammers, saws, drills- i wanna be around/Friday night



I guess some of these would be my fav sound effects in songs, not effects that if they weren't in the song, it wouldn't be the same or different.

All these years I have never heard the snoring on I Went To Sleep, where about in the song is it located?

during the flute solo after the first two verses

Thanks, I will check it out later on

Saran wrap being scrunched up.  ;D

Santa Ana Winds SHOULD have some wind effects during its choruses. "Santa Ana Winds keep blowing..." *WHOOOOSH!*

As if the toe-curling intro wasn't enough ?  :o

The intro to Lady Liberty is far more disturbing.  :o  ;D

That's a flute? Always thought it was a clarinet or something deeper.

Also, I believe the vocals only version on Hawthore, CA, the snoring is very evident.

I don't know if this counts or not, but there is a part in the vocal arrangement of Heroes and Villains that I thought for a long time was a kazoo.

How about the sounds at the end if All I Wanna Do where Dennis does some of his best after dark work

Yeah, I was thinking of putting All I WANT to Do as well.

Not sure if it counts but the "Deep and Wiiiiiide" in Time To Get Alone is a great effect

Forgive me for being a relative newbie to BB history, but what's the story behind that particular sound effect anyway?  I actually don't hear it on the Spotify version of this track.

It's there... Hard to spot, but once you hear it, you can't unhear it. Stephen Desper told a story about the recording of that particular special effect, it's here somewhere (was it Stephen Desper thread, anyone remember?)

Well, it also depends on if you're listening to All I Wanna Do (from Sunflower) or All I Want to Do (from 20/20)…there's a slight difference, because if you're listening to All I Wanna Do, you're not gonna hear it at all.

Workshop without the workshop tools is 'Vibraphone'.

Also, Handsaw on Little pad

Sorry,my mistake. Was in a rush and mixed up the titles

CCW is high art imo. They went into the foothills outside of LA and recorded several hours worth of different streams and creeks flowing. They picked the right one for that song, which is itself excellent with stellar vocals, humourous lyrics but genuine all the same.

You can feel the warmth of the SoCal sun overhead and the cool sensatation of drinking that cool, refreshing water. You can feel yourself sitting down, leaning against the mighty trunk of a deciduous tree, as the warmth of the air surrounds you, you can hear the trickling water of the stream nearby, you look down on the ground next to you and you see the ants move around without a sound.

Cool Cool Water is a strong which is unique in the sense that I am really transported to the warmth of California...
Few other songs make such a strong impression. Surprised so few others get the same tranquil feeling from this song. Surely my favourite off the Sunflower album. :tm

Yes, that is an excellent sound effect. The CCW breakdown tutorial, (links on the Desper thread) goes into some detail on this, as I'm sure you know.

Call me nuts, but I like the bicycle bell in strange world!

It's all good, just making sure nobody was confused.    ;)

On I Went To Sleep, in addition to the tambourine "sprinkler" and the snoring, there is a toy bird warbler/whistle (the ones that you fill up with water) just before the line "a bird flew away" that sounds great. It took me years to notice it. I especially like that the sound effect precedes the lyric, rather than appearing during the lyric or immediately after it, which is the way sound effects that correspond to a lyric are usually used. In this case it's like the bird actually flies away and then the singer comments on it.

Great observation. I love this type of in depth look at obscure songs.

Great topic, SIB! Since it is about the "best" sound fx, not a list of everything we remembered, here's my 50c:

Also battle cry of Ninja ("San Miguel"), the "night" effect, fireworks, footsteps ("Mount Vernon & Fairway"), the birds ("At My Window"), an alarm clock ("I Just Got My Pay"), fake audience ("Loop De Loop"), whirling (AC tracks), animals ("Barnyard"), train ("Caroline, No").

Excellent post, Cabinessenceking! Except I think the song's beautiful even minus water sounds. But with them it's a sheer brilliance.

Why will anyone call you crazy? That's just how you hear it.

Interesting, I always heard it as a snow shovel. Maybe because the window shade in my house sounds different.

Snow shovel? That's an excellent observation!

What's the "whirling" effects from AC tracks?  Is that Adult Child?

Snow shovel? It always sounded like someone sharpening a blade to me! Although yes, blinds opening makes a lot more sense doesn't it... Can't believe that's never dawned on me before.

Never noticed anyone shouting "ninja" in San Miguel... At what point?

Yeah, the window shades situation was a big dispute back in the day. There were some who thought it was a music stand falling in the studio.

I know what the "shouting ninja thing" he's referring to, can't remember what part of he song it's in…I wouldn't say ninja, more of an indian?

roller skates at the end of Roller Skating Child

Might be real simplistic, but how about the Windchimes on Windchimes?

Crickets on Surfer Moon, Bob and Sheri's version. The version came out for the Beach boys version, right? I wonder what happened to the crickets sound? But then again, did he do a whole different track for the Beach boys? I have not listened to Bob and Sheri's version in a long time.

More vocal effects than sound effects, but I just love the laughing bg vocals in H&V "Vega-Tables."

Yeah seriously the laughing on many Smile sessions tracks just sounds so perfect

https://soundcloud.com/moar-freddie/laughter

The horn in still believe in me

Torturing the gearbox on Susie Cincinnati! :-D

A couple of things I'd not noticed until MIC came out -- taking breaths on "Country Air" and wind fx on "Let the Wind Blow," nice and subtle.

COMMENT: 

Having been involved, or even the source, of many BB sound effects, for me the hands-down winner of the best sound effect is at the end of All I Want To Do from 20/20.  No breaking dishes, car sounds, dog barks, car horns, or other machanical sounds of saws and hammers beats Dennis Fucking a chick in stereo, complete with an overdub at the end of this song.   ~swd 

Classic! There's a sig line if I ever saw one, boys.

"Diamond Head" is full of fantastic sound effects. Nice to know Brian was still into this kind of stuff many months after the collapse of Smile.

I'm "she". No one shouted the word "Ninja!", I was referring to an actual ninja shouting sth. It appears twice at 1:13-14 & 1:16-17ish. Short but distinguishable moments. And no, it doesn't sound to me like an Indian, because their voices are deeper than high-pitched that ninjas have (at least, according to the documentaries I've seen about Native Americans). But really, what you both said is very interesting, sharpening blade & music stand falling are cool versions of Wake The World's sound effect. Wonder what other differing things people hear in this or other BBs songs.

Btw, AC=Adult Child. The whirling can be heard on some of the big band tracks ("It's Over Now").

In "Wake The World", I always thought it was Venetian blinds.

I don't know how anyone can hear it and not think it is the sound of window blinds going up. The song is named Wake the World. Blinds going up in the morning to wake the people sleeping. Seems pretty easy to me.

I guess this counts: the intro to Do It Again.

Oops! I'm sorry, my apologies! That shows you how much I was paying attention. I get what you're saying now.