Readers recommend: songs with sound effects – the results

From Black Sabbath's tolling bell to Gershwin's blur of city hustle and bustle, many a song has been enhanced by a judicious bit of non-musical noiseThis week there was a huge temptation to fill two lists with comedy records and overwrought metal tunes. I am easily provoked into overexcitability, but after 40 minutes of so of uninterrupted novelty – oh it's the sound of washing up! A weedy motorbike! Some stuff stolen from a detuned radio! – even I had to start thinking about a ...

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