BIRDSONG ANSWERS

Full (So-Far) List - see below for contributors:

Altered Images, Pinky Blue

Aphex Twin, ???

The Beatles, Good Morning, Sergeant Peppers

Brokeback, Field Recordings from the Cook County Water Table

Coil, Strange Birds

Gong, Master Builder

Groove Armada, Inside My Head (Remix)

Hawkwind, The Demented Man

Hawkwind, Wings

Herbie Hancock, Watermelon Man

Kula Shaker, Govinda

Laurie Anderson, O Superman

Lynrd Skynrd, Freebird

Minnie Riperton, Loving You

Otis Redding, Dock of the Bay

Pink Floyd, Bike

Pink Floyd, The Narrow Way

Pulp, Birds in your Garden

The Beach Boys, At My Window

The Beach Boys, A Day in the Life of a Tree

The Beatles, Across the Universe

The Beatles, Blackbird

The Beta Band, Monolith

The Television Personalities, I know where Syd Barrett lives

Tom Waits, The Briar and the Rose

Virgin Prunes, ???

Yes, Close to the Edge

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14.7.05 from Hannah:

Some more tracks with birdsong on are Kula Shaker's
'Govinda' - that's a peacock. And Tom Waits' 'The
Briar and the Rose' has ravens or crows or something
equally cheery.

20.5.05 from Martin Wake:

If a cockerel counts, there's one at the beginning of "Good Morning" by the Beatles (on Sgt. Pepper's Etc and So Forth).

24.10.04

There is a remix of 'Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)' by Groove Armada that ends with about a minute of birdsong.

14.9.03 Henry R.S.

Freebird by Lynrd Sknyrd uses fake birdsong

14.9.03 from Tim Moss

Laurie Anderson's 'O Superman' has a stretch of birdsong in it - somewhere near the end, I think.
 
Also there is a Virgin Prunes track (can't remember the name) that was recorded by swinging microphones in an empty building. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you hate pigeons, as I do) the pigeons in the building were completely freaked out by the noise of the microphones swinging and flew all around the building, screeching, crashing into microphones and each other and generally making a hell of a noise - all this captured faithfully for the track. Possibly the most gory use of birdsong on a music track.

16.2.03

Otis Redding's 'Dock of the Bay'

15.2.03 (from DLD)

Birdsong can be heard on the track 'Birds in you garden' taken from Pulp's
excellent 'We Love Life' album.

1.2.03

And I've just remembered Pinky Blue by Altered Images. (Seagulls.)

19.8.02

Coil - "Strange Birds" from "Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1"

15.8.02

birdsongs i believe are used/manipulated in track one of aphex twin's peel
session.

(Anyone got the details on this? T.)

also, you ought to check out a disc by brokeback, called 'field
recordings from the cook county water table' (thrill jockey records), which
has bird songs as well as some lovely six string bass.

(This answer from 'scissors for sparrow'.)

14.8.02

this song features bird sounds....
"Loving You" by Minnie Riperton (1970s soul pop)

30.3.02

PS I think I have heard a version of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" which has what sounds like crows squawking in the background?????

21.2.02

>Other songs with birdsong:

Beach Boys - At My Window (from Sunflower, 1970)
Beach Boys - A Day in the Life of a Tree (Surf's Up, 1971)

I was sent these by a friend:

I'm at work on a quiet afternoon and couldn't resist sending some songs with birdsong in them. Embarrassingly, they're mainly terrible hippy rubbish from my past but here goes:

The Demented Man - Hawkwind (from 'Warrior on the Edge of Time' 1975)

Wings - Hawkwind (from 'Space Bandits' 1992?)

Master Builder - Gong (from 'You' 1974?)

Close to the Edge - Yes (from 'Close to the Edge' 1972?)

To redeem myself slightly:

Blackbird - The Beatles (from The White Album, 1968)

Monolith - The Beta Band (from 'The Three EPs' 1998)

I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives - The Television Personalities

Others that I could think of myself (Ed):

The Narrow Way - Pink Floyd

Something on Ummagumma - Pink Floyd

Something by The Orb

All Messian's piano and organ music (but that doesn't really count)

Another correspondent writes:

right well its not really birdsong but its birds, who do a bit of cackling
and whatever, at the start of "across the universe" by the beatles, on the
version which appears on the past masters volume two, and is much better
than any of the other songs you've got listed