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1If the [[WordSaladLyrics lyrics themselves]] don't make you scratch your head, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment these parts]] of your favorite songs just might. (See also AWildRapperAppears.)
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5* Many elementary school children have been taught the [[GoldFever Gold Rush]] era folk-song "Sweet Betsy From Pike," which tells the story of a woman and her boyfriend/husband Ike traveling to California. They survive numerous hardships, almost starve, fend off hostile Indians and successfully arrive... only in the last verse to get a divorce. (See Bittersweet Ending.) Many recordings of the song don't include this, ending simply with the arrival. But an even odder verse occurs early in the song, just after they've crossed the Mississippi River and entered prairie country: "Out on the prairie one bright starry night/They broke the whiskey and Betsy got tight./She sang and she shouted and danced o'er the plain/And showed her bare arse to the whole wagon train." A adult woman Mooning a mixed crowd is quite rare for a children's song. How this affected Betsy's relations with her wagon train neighbors, whom she would presumably have to see every day, knowing that all of them had witnessed her public partial nudity when she was in a drunken foolish state, and whether she ever lived it down, are anyone's guess. The song never mentions the incident again, and the verse can be excised without changing anything else. One famous version, recorded by Burl Ives, changes the final line to the nebulous "and made a great show for the whole wagon train."
6* German band Die Ärzte's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUKVUdB1JA "Leichenhalle"]] is a song about being a corpse in a mortuary, admittedly rather tongue in cheek, but with an appropriately deep atmosphere (being a pretty spot-on parody of 80s and early 90s gothic rock in the vein of Music/TheSistersOfMercy, Music/FieldsOfTheNephilim or Music/TypeONegative). However, halfway through the final verse, the corpses announce that they are all [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]], and the last thirty seconds are of cheery la-la-la-ing.
7* Music/KevinAyers had a BLAM with "Town Feeling", where he lazily sings "banana".
8* The Music/BarenakedLadies song "One Week" ends with repetition of the last line of the chorus: "it'll still be two days till we say we're sorry". But the very last repetition changes it to "Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie".
9* Music/{{Black Sabbath}}'s "Supernaut" starts off as a typical heavy number before going off, without warning, into a Caribbean flavored ''acoustic'' shuffle, then going back to the main riff as if nothing had happened.
10* Two Blood, Sweat & Tears songs could be considered to have [=BLAMs=]. The Western section ("Yee-haw!") in "And When I Die" and the Latin section in "God Bless The Child" don't have much to do with the rest of their respective songs, although they do provide an excuse to feature the horn section.
11* Music/TheBeatles, well...
12** "Revolution 9" and "Wild Honey Pie" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' are basically the [=BLAMs=] of the White Album.
13** "A Day In The Life" from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' ends with a piano chord, but if you leave the CD (or record if you had one that wasn't automatic) on rather than turning it off when the album ends, you'd hear--after a moment of silence--the Beatles chanting, "never could speak any of the words (badump bum bum)" over and over again.
14*** It is repeated because originally, on vinyl, the sound was an endless loop, recorded in the lock groove. WordOfGod maintains they were saying 'It really couldn't be any other' but it was overall meant to be just random noise. Much backmasking 'secret message' conspiracy theory/fun resulted, naturally.
15*** And for good reason. Music/PaulMcCartney admitted in the book ''Many Years from Now'' that backwards the loop does sound a ''lot'' like, "I'll fuck you like a Superman!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXnqw-Zv0Y Although he maintains that it's completely unintentional.]]
16*** It's actually two phrases looping: "been so high" and "never could be any other way".
17*** Let's not forget the "freak out" sections of "A Day In The Life" itself.
18* Music/BlueOysterCult's hit single [[DontFearTheReaper "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"]] is famous for having an overall [[Music/TheByrds Byrds-esque]] feel (with a bit of added melancholy) in spite of dealing with a rather [[TheGrimReaper dark subject]]. However, it might be even ''more'' famous for the abrupt change in tone halfway through, when it switches to a sombre-sounding intermission crowned by an [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome emotional guitar solo]], only to change back to the more lighthearted jingle-jangle that makes up the bulk of the song.
19* "Wasn't Born to Follow" by Music/{{The Byrds}} is a sunny, rustic, sweet-sounding song...until the strange, discordant bridge that begins about a minute in and lasts around twenty seconds, only to give way again to the pleasant sound that dominates the song. The bridge also qualifies as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
20** From the very same album (''The Notorious Byrd Brothers''), "Old John Robertson" also has a musically disconnected bridge. After the line "then she died" the band drops out and a string quartet plays an entirely different melody, then disappears and we're back into the song. Oddly enough, the inclusion of the baroque section might have been the result of a real-life [=BLAM=]; according to guitarist Roger [=McGuinn=], while the bad was rehearsing the song, some classical musicians walked in, played some music, then left. [[ThrowItIn The band eventually decided to put something like it in the version that made it in the album.]]
21* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Amaluna'' soundtrack ends with one. On the last track, titled "Run", the song finishes at the 3 minute mark only for a few pointless bars of a jazz rendition of the main theme. It's also [[LastNoteNightmare quite unsettling]]. Earlier, "Ena Fee Alyne" also ends with a jazz interlude, which serves as a segue into the darker "Creature of Light".
22* Music/{{The Doors}}' song "The End" from ''[[Music/TheDoorsAlbum The Doors]]'' specifically the spoken bit toward the end. "father yes son i want to kill you... mother i wanna f..... all night long!"
23** Another one occurs in "We Could Be So Good Together". At the end of the instrumental bridge, someone - most likely Jim Morrison - can faintly be heard singing "Do dapa de do, de doopa dapa de day" alongside an organ lick.
24** Their song "Hyacinth House" features the line "I see the bathroom is clear".
25* "So Fine" by Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. It's a generic (but catchy) pop song, until the weird, jungle beat section in the middle. No transition, nothing to indicate that the section actually belongs there.
26* "The Man Who Would Be King" by Music/IronMaiden, an otherwise downbeat and depressing tune, has a random upbeat and happy instrumental section in the middle of the tune.
27* Right in the middle of Music/MichaelJackson's "Morphine", the otherwise up-tempo and angry song totally changes. Which means that it suddenly becomes calm but eery, as Michael sings about drugs by needles and taking Demerol. And then, the song just goes back to being up-tempo and angry.
28* Music/LadyGaga:
29** "Government Hooker" has multiple [=BLAMs=]. The song opens with Gaga singing in an operatic voice "Gaga.... Aaaaaaaah.... Gaga... Aaaaaaaaah... Government Hoo-kar-eh". There's also the random "Mojito!" in the middle of the song.
30** "Christmas Tree", which [[IntercourseWithYou really isn't about a Christmas tree]], has four bars of orchestral Christmas music near the end which come out of nowhere and have nothing to do with the rest of the tune.
31* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189QSTKC5no Yuri the only One]] by Music/LeetStreetBoys has the hilarious "Sephy's Mom Has Got It Going On" BLAM from 2:19 to 2:45. Made better when you realize who Sephiroth's mom is.
32* In the middle of Music/JohnLennon's song "Hold On" from ''Music/JohnLennonPlasticOnoBand'' he growls "Cookie!" for some reason that only he, and maybe Yoko, knew.
33** Ringo Starr does the same thing in his song "Early 1970", which is a love song to the other three Beatles.
34* Music/DonMcLean has the "eight miles high and fallin' FAAAAAAAST!" part of "American Pie".
35* The album ''Music/AxisBoldAsLove'' by the Music/JimiHendrix Experience ''starts'' with a BLAM in the form of "EXP", a brief spoof radio show with Mitch Mitchell as a talk show host and Hendrix as UFO enthusiast/alien Paul Caruso, complete with sped up and slowed down voices and screeching guitar.
36* The "Piltdown Man" sequence from Mike Oldfield's ''Music/TubularBells'', where Oldfield howls and growls in what seems to be like a cross between werewolf speak and [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon]]. Legend has it this was Oldfield's response to [[ExecutiveMeddling record company pressure]] to include a vocal piece on the album.
37** The song "Altered States" from ''Tubular Bells II''.
38* Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s song [[Music/AKindOfMagic "One Vision"]] -- how many people who didn't already know to look for it were surprised when singing the track on ''Rock Band 2'', and seeing that the last words were "fried chicken" instead of the repeated title? The story as to why they included it is well documented (it was a joke take [[ThrowItIn that got left in]]), but the line still comes out of nowhere.
39** Similarly, in their song "I'm Going Slightly Mad", the line "I think I'm a banana tree!"
40** "Get Down, Make Love", a raunchy hard rock tune that breaks into a fit of electronic weirdness about 2/3s of the way.
41* The album version of Music/SerenaRyder's "Stompa" opens with a sombre, melodramatic piano intro with Serena singing lyrics that would seem more suited to an {{Music/Adele}} breakup song. Then suddenly the song kicks into happy upbeat motivational song mode. Especially jarring when it's not visited any more during the rest of the song.
42** From the same album, "Baby Come Back". The first 3/4 of the tune is an upbeat and catchy song, but then the last bit throws in a hip hop drumbeat and sad melancholic strings. Strangely enough, it's already an [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome song]] to begin with, but it only makes the song more awesome.
43* In the Music/{{Squarepusher}} song, "Male Pill Part 13," there is a period where the music comes to a complete halt followed by a voice simply grunting "Hhuuuhh... hhhmmm... uhhhuumm" then the music continues right where it left off. This is especially surreal when you take into account the fact that aside from that line, the song, like most of Squarepusher's other work, is an instrumental.
44* "Lady Godiva's Operation" by the Music/VelvetUnderground from ''Music/WhiteLightWhiteHeat''. For the first half of the song, John Cale softly and smoothly sings the lyrics. Then, during the second half, he stops singing the last part of some lines, only to have Lou Reed shout or say the last word or so (Reed also gets a few complete lines to himself) and after Reed's "interruptions," Cale casually continues as if nothing happened. Another sort of BLAM in the song is an odd noise that comes in toward the end (in fact, it's the only audible noise for a brief period) that sounds remarkably like Chewbacca, though the song predates the Star Wars films.
45** Also, the lion's roar and breaking glass in "European Son" from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico''.
46** The "lion" is John Cale scraping a metal chair across the studio floor, although it sounds FAR worse than you'd expect.
47* Music/KanyeWest's "Runaway" from ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'' has the music all of a sudden start to drop out - before an electric guitar drops in and performs a solo. This solo goes on for nearly a minute and a half before you realise it's not a guitar, it's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Kanye's own voice, heavily put through a vocoder]].
48* Music/{{Jhariah}}: The second line of ''The Great Tale Of How I Ruined It All'''s opening track, ''The Marching Dolls'' is "The trees don't grow, they kill instead!" Despite the album's [[ConceptAlbum focus on continuity and story]], these killer trees are never mentioned again, and don't even mesh with the theme and plot of the album.
49* Music/{{Melvins}}' "Dry Drunk" contains a BLAM that is actually performed by an entirely different band: one and a half minutes into the track, it suddenly jumps from a HardcorePunk-influenced collaboration with Music/TheJesusLizard's David Yow, to a SpokenWordInMusic break that includes someone {{corpsing}} and having to start over, to a slow discordant drum, guitar, and saxophone jam performed by Godzik Pink that sounds like something out of ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' and is otherwise completely unrelated to the song. Then the David Yow section kicks back in as though nothing happened. The album it's on, ''The Crybaby'', is themed around collaborations, but this particular example was clearly done just for the sake of screwing with the listener.
50* Music/{{Venetian Snares}} is fond of putting the odd BLAM into his songs. In "Pussy Skull", the instrumental completely drops out and a voice comes in, growling "Hours and hours of footage of two giraffes fucking," before the song resumes as normal as though nothing had happened. He pulls off a similar trick in "Horsey Noisers", except with the even more inexplicable phrase "I've made you a drawing of a giraffe fucking an elephant. Notice how his moustache looks just like mine."
51* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's Music/RKelly parody "Trapped In The Drive-Thru" has a moment where the narrator turns on the radio after they've ordered their food. Cue a sudden and loud snippet of Music/LedZeppelin's "Black Dog" that ends just as suddenly as it starts.
52* "Sound Chaser" by Music/{{Yes}} features a random "cha-cha-cha, cha-cha!" vocal harmony part.
53* On Music/TheCaretaker's ''Everywhere At The End Of Time: Stage 4'', two thirds of the way through the track "H1 Post-Awareness Confusions", a horrifically slowed and distorted orchestra sample dubbed the "Hell Sirens" by fans suddenly blares out of left field, without any forewarning or official explanation.
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57* Music/AliceInChains "Love Song", from their EP ''Sap'', basically just a series of {{Madness Mantra}}s, set to music that alternates between goofy and nightmarish.
58* "Make Sex" by Music/AndrewWK from ''The Wolf''. Andrew and a chorus of gang vocalists chanting "I don't wanna make life, I don't wanna make death, I don't wanna make love, I just wanna make sex! Wanna make sex, wanna make sex HO!" over pounding synthesizer noises until suddenly stopping under a minute, like the intro to a song that doesn't actually exist.
59* "Bring the Boys Back Home" off ''[[Music/PinkFloyd The Wall]]''. Who are "the boys" and what do they have to do with the main character, Pink? Is it a reference to the war Pink's father died in? If so, why does it show all the way near the end of the second record after that plot point has been buried? And what is this half-minute orchestral chorus bit doing in a rock album that's been the band themselves up to this point?
60** According to Roger Waters, in a November 1979 interview with Tommy Vance on BBC Radio One, it's "the central song on the whole album...because it's partly about not letting people go off and be killed in wars, but it's also partly about not allowing rock and roll, or making cars, or selling soap, or getting involved in biological research, or anything that anybody might do, not letting that become such an important and "jolly boys game" that it becomes more important than friends, wives, children, other people, you know?"
61* Music/{{Oliver}}'s "The Arrangement", from his 1969 debut album ''Good Morning Starshine''. It seems to come out of nowhere with a style that is noticeably different from the rest of the songs. In it, he assumes the role of an impish character with an Irish brogue, trying to make a deal with the listener for a sneezing remedy. At the end, he begins to [[PoseOfSilence whisper conspiratorially]] as the music fades away and then breaks into a fit of hysterical laughter.
62* The "Red Riding Hood Rap", a song performed during Music/SarahBrightman's ''Symphony World Tour'' which has, as yet, not appeared on any albums. It was an entirely random and surreal number set to "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", featuring backup dancers dressed as ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' characters and Sarah as Little Red Riding Hood riding on a bicycle with holographic wolves (also on bicycles) pursuing her. All the while she would eerily chant that it was all in her mind. Abruptly the scene would end and "First of May" would begin as though nothing ever happened.
63* ''The American Metaphysical Circus'', a 1969 psychedelic rock album with proto-progressive electronic experiments by Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies, features "Leisure World" as its penultimate track; a (mostly) spoken-word fake commercial for a retirement community, with the voiceover done by [[Creator/{{Ghoulardi}} Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson]].
64* "Mother's Lament" from Music/{{Cream}}'s ''Music/DisraeliGears''. After an album of heavy psychedelic rock, we get the three singing in over the top Cockney accents a really darkly humorous song about a skinny baby drowning.
65* Summit High School once hosted a concert by The Myddle Class. One of the bands playing before the feature set was underground group Music/VelvetUnderground, which performed a three-song set that led most of the students in the auditorium to walk out in confusion and fury about the strange sound and foreign subject matter. Compared to what came before and after, the three songs performed by Velvet Underground sounded precisely like this trope, and hardly anyone except those who sat through Velvet Underground's brief set and enjoyed their music associated the concert with anything but The Myddle Class.
66* The [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]] of HairMetal band Music/{{Giuffria}} consists almost entirely of synth-heavy [[PowerBallad Power Ballads]]. The penultimate track "The Awakening", on the other hand, sounds like...[[https://youtu.be/7FPRB3_AfwU this]].
67* On Music/BeastieBoys' 1989 album ''Music/PaulsBoutique'', there's "5-Piece Chicken Dinner", 23 seconds of hooping, hollering, country fiddle and ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' samples in between hip-hop songs "Hey Ladies" and "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun". The MoodWhiplash is enough to figuratively break one's neck.
68* Music/NineInchNails' "Starfuckers, Inc." from ''Music/TheFragile1999'' is a metal CelebrityIsOverrated song (and partially [[TakeThat a swipe directed at both]] Music/MarilynManson and Music/CourtneyLove), making it rather out of place from the rest of the album's themes of depression as well as its more ProgressiveRock and {{Ambient}} influenced sound.
69* Music/AvrilLavigne's "Hello Kitty", from her self-titled album, has nothing to do with the other songs on her album and her discography in general. Besides being dedicated to Sanrio's cutesy character (but just as an euphemism for "pussy", which is uncommon for Lavigne as well), it sounds like a mishmash of genres being popular at the time (such as dubstep) instead of her usual brand of PopPunk. And the J-Pop-inspired music video too seems more in line with Katy Perry or Gwen Stefani's output at the time, and Lavigne even sports a Skrillex-inspired hairdo.
70* Music/TimMcGraw's "Refried Dreams" is a DrowningMySorrows song about getting drunk in Tijuana to get over a breakup and waking up hungover. It's goofy even by genre standards and would count as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness except that it's off "Not a Moment Too Soon," his second album, which contains at ''least'' two of his {{Signature Song}}s. Even the other novelty song on that album, "Indian Outlaw," doesn't sound as out of place in comparison with the rest of his discography--and is probably why it's included on all the greatest hits compilations while "Refried Dreams" isn't, despite peaking lower on the charts.
71* Music/MiracleMusical: "Labyrinth" is a rap song featuring two guest singers, telling a story about a guy trying to hide from his relationships. It stands in heavy contrast to the calmer, more quiet tone most other songs on the album have. Nothing from "Labyrinth" ever comes up again in the album, and its placement ''right'' after the {{Signature Song}} "[[SanitySlippageSong The Mind Electric]]" makes it that much stranger.
72* Music/NickiMinaj - Stupid Hoe is one massive BLAM. Compared to the rest of that album, "Roman Holiday" also has shades of this.
73** Those two songs on ''Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded'' are the outro and intro respectively.
74* The track "Intermission" from Music/TheOffspring album ''Ixnay on the Hombre''. It's a forty-five second track consisting of sixties-style elevator music with the words, "Aaaah...intermission" occasionally thrown in. Then it's back to late nineties punk music.
75* Music/SteelyDan's cover of Music/DukeEllington's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-al-Emb9TY East St. Louis Toodle-oo]]", both in terms of its parent album (1974's ''Pretzel Logic'') and the Dan's career as a whole.
76* Venetian Snares' ''My So-Called Life'' an album described as "a collection of short stories". Its fifth track is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH4FlHsoBmY Welfare Wednesday]], which is a [[ListSong list of random activities and things]] in [[VulgarHumor your punani]].
77* PostGrunge band Presence's song ''In My Room''. On an album filled with straightforward-for-the-time post grunge, including all of its usual theme. This song however, is a somewhat disturbing song about masturbating (to Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen no less!) that ends abruptly for about a minute of silence, then the band just start goofing off on the microphone.... its out of left field to be sure.
78* The Music/TheyMightBeGiants album ''Apollo 18'' contains one of their most infamous tracks - Fingertips. Fingertips is actually a collection of many mini-songs, each barely more than a few seconds in length, and each counting as a separate track. This was done so that listening to the album on any player in shuffle mode would result in random moments of "I found a new friend underneath my pillow" and "What's that blue thing doing here?".
79* The (now broken up) band Winter Solstice has one on their only album, "The Fall of Rome." Every song is djenty with a pig-squealing [[MetalScream type 3 metal scream]], except the title track. It's all harmonized acoustic guitar and piano. A very good standalone track, but very out of place.
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83* In Music/FTIsland's "Hello Hello" MV, when Hongki is outside looking at the burning building and it gets to Jaejin's part, it switches to Jaejin on a TV screen while sitting on a firetruck and rapping. When he's done, it switches back to Hongki looking on uncertainly and no reference to Jaejin on the firetruck is made afterward. It makes no sense even as a performance aesthetic (all other performance shots are inside the building), and even less sense since he's actually in the burning building the whole time.
84* Music/MichaelJackson
85** The middle of the ''Smooth Criminal'' music video from ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}''. About four and a half minutes in...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWdGIbZKtmg#t=04m34s this happens.]]
86** The video for ''Black and White'' begins and ends with a BLAM. Macaulay Culkin guest-stars as a [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority "cool"]] young boy whose StrawLoser father keeps demanding that he turn down his rock music. The kid responds by using ThePowerOfRock to blast his dad clear through the roof and several miles up into the sky, only for him to come crashing down on a plain in Africa surrounded by lions, whereupon some Masai tribesmen begin dancing and Michael Jackson launches into the lyrics. The dumb father is never seen or heard from again (and no, it's never implied that the lions ate him). Culkin does reappear later in the video, but only to [[PissTakeRap lip-sync some rap lyrics]]. The song itself ends with the then-awesome morphing models sequence, but after an OnASoundstageAllAlong reveal, a random black panther wanders onto a city street set, morphs into Jackson, and a music-free solo dance number ensues. He smashes up a car and storefronts along the way, and grabs his crotch ''many'' times (even zipping up his fly at one point) before transforming back into the panther. And then there's major MoodWhiplash as the scene is revealed to be on a TV in the animated world of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', with Homer interrupting Bart's viewing. Other than the fact that [[BookEnds the ending mirrors the theme of the similarly BLAM-y opener]], there's no reason for it. Not surprisingly, many viewers were offended and confused by the "panther dance" coda, resulting in a recut.
87* The video for Music/LadyGaga's "Judas" stops its parade of [[RuleOfSymbolism religious imagery]], as well as the song itself, to show Lady Gaga posing on a rocky shore at night time and getting splashed by waves. After this, the song and video continue as normal. However; the scene itself is also reminiscent of "The Birth of Venus", meaning it might not be as random as it seems. If anything, given that "The Birth of Venus" is a common theme in her following album [=ARTPOP=], that scene could count, on some weird, meta level, as {{foreshadowing}}.
88* Music/NewOrder - Bizarre Love Triangle's music video has a short scene at around the 2:41 mark where, out of nowhere, actress Jodi Long states in an argument with E. Max Frye that "I don't believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!" Totally unexpected and unrelated to the rest of the video.
89* Amongst the many metaphors for life, aging and death in the Music/TalkingHeads's "Road to Nowhere" video, there is a single sequence where two businessmen in luchadore masks grapple with each other. This has no thematic resonance whatsoever.
90** Maybe it was accidental
91* Music/TaylorSwift's music video for ''[[Music/{{Lover}} ME!]]'' opens with her bickering with featured artist [[Music/PanicAtTheDisco Brendon Urie]] in (very bad) GratuitousFrench about their cats, as if they were an unhappily married couple. Neither French, nor cats, nor any acrimonious relationship between the two is at all relevant to the rest of the song or video.
92* Kylie Jenner's out-of-nowhere appearance in Music/CardiB and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" music video.
93* Hot Chip's music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaCZN2N6Q_I I Feel Better]]" contains two [=BLAMs=] for the price of one. It starts out like a generic BoyBand video and then...
94** The fact that it starts off with a BoyBand lip synching the song is itself a BLAM compared to the Hot Chip's other videos, which are far heavier on featuring the band's members. The actual members of Hot Chip are those nerdy looking guys in the audience that the camera keeps going to at weird intervals.
95* The music video for Starship's single "We Built This City" is loaded with BLAM; a few notable examples are when they are staring at the Lincoln Memorial and then it suddenly gets up, then the giant rolling dice.
96* At the end of the Music/Sum41 video for "Fat Lip" there is a random sequence of the band dressed up as heavy metal rockers and they play a short bit of music completely separate from the "Fat Lip" song. This added bit isn't on the single.
97** The added bit, however, is part of another song on the same album, titled "Pain For Pleasure".
98* At the end of her video for "[=Sk8er=] Boi" Music/AvrilLavigne decides to smash her guitar through a car windshield and a SWAT Team and Police helicopters surround her for no reason at all.
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102* Music/JethroTull's album ''Thick As A Brick'' (and even more so, the stage show during that time), was full of these, and intentionally so, as the album was supposed to be a parody of "concept albums", which their previous album ''Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum'' had been labelled as.
103** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wT6fkDg8k The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles]], from ''A Passion Play'', is widely considered by many fans and critics to be this.
104* Late 1960s pop songs often contained [=BLAMs=] of jarring psychedelic effects in order to keep up with the prevailing trends of the time. Two that come to mind are "It's Wonderful" by the Rascals and "Susan" by the Buckinghams.
105** Another good one in this genre is the frantic, five-second long harpsichord solo from Music/{{Pink Floyd}}'s "See Emily Play" from ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn''.
106** The most extreme example is probably [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs-oGEhDP0E "My World Fell Down" by Sagittarius]], which has a middle section made up of an ambient sound collage (including a baby crying, a horse race and a marching band) that actually predated "Revolution 9" by about 18 months or so. Between this and the two Byrds songs mentioned above, producer Gary Usher sure loved musical [=BLAMs=].
107* Music/PeteSeeger often sings his popular fairy-tale folk song to kids at concerts, but it's a crapshoot whether or not he'll remember to replace the single "damn" in the song with "darn." When he doesn't, it's pretty BLAM-y for a kiddie song.
108* When performing live, Misty's Big Adventure start playing their first song... And then [[http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1253/1186681448_d6640c3849.jpg this guy]] just runs onto the stage and dances frenetically to the music. And ''no one in the band acknowledges his presence''.
109** Also, his name is Erotic Volvo.
110** A similar incident occurred during a Music/BobDylan performance at the Grammys, featuring the interpretive dancer known as Soy Bomb.
111* "Chopsticks" being played towards the end of Manfred Mann's cover of "Blinded by the Light".
112* Halfway through the album ''Colors'' by Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe comes the track "Ants of the Sky", an EpicRocking 13-minute track which twists, turns, and eventually builds up to... an utterly inexplicable bluegrass section. The very next track of the album features an ''accordion breakdown'', complete with vocalist Tommy Rogers growling in a French accent.
113** Hell, the whole album is full of those. Informal Gluttony and Decade of Statues come to mind.
114* The title track to Music/VanDerGraafGenerator's 1969 debut, ''The Aerosol Grey Machine''. While the rest of the album is folk-based prog, this one is a forty second jingle parody [[CrossesTheLineTwice advertising fume huffing]].
115** They never stopped being bonkers if "The Sleepwalkers" from ''Godbluff'' is anything to go by. A 10-and-a-half minute song about a zombie outbreak still manages to squeeze in a little break to play... elevator music?
116* Music/GeorgeHarrison's ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'' has "It's Johnny's Birthday", a weird carnival styled piece congratulating someone for their birthday, with no connection with either the spiritual songs from the first two [=LPs=] or the jams from the 3rd.
117* Music/KingCrimson: a rather disturbing BLAM occurs in the studio version of "Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2", where it sounds like a Disney character is murdering his friend, all while the music continues to play as if nobody notices or cares.
118* Quack Quack Quack, in The Only One by Music/{{Evanescence}}.
119* Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come was very fond of this trope. For example, the song "Whirlpool", from their self titled second album, randomly jumps to the ticking of an alarm clock.
120* MTV Brazil's show ''Piores Clipes do Mundo'' (The Worst Music Videos in the World) once showcased [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXajM8mh8Hg#t=1m52s a video]] which featured a sudden appearance of a dancing Indian, which even cuts the song and puts some tribal drums in the BGM instead, only for it to never appear again (the presenter was baffled and even asked to replay that part to see if he could understand). One of the comments on the link above even points out it is a BLAM...
121* "Rhamadan" by Music/SydBarrett is a 20 plus minute jam that, for some reason, has a motorcycle driving by about a third of way into the piece.
122* In the Music/{{Opeth}} song "The Lotus Eater," the song for the most part is a straightforward metal song, or at least as straightforward as most Opeth songs go, but during the bridge, a long, dissonant chord is played on a keyboard, with a drum fill that you would normally expect to lead into a big guitar solo, but instead, ''it's jazz-boogie time!'' And it is ''awesome''.
123* In "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes, from ''Music/LaylaAndOtherAssortedLoveSongs'' there is an instrumental solo following the main melody that comes out of nowhere and has nothing to do with the song. It goes on for a few minutes till it ends. "Layla" (written by Eric Clapton) and the instrumental (written by Jim Gordon) were originally two separate songs, but they decided to combine them into one piece.
124* Directly from being a non-melodic and heavy song by their standards, the instrumental section of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qEaJCMwhFc Lost In The Future]]" by Music/GammaRay bursts immediately into "Oh! Susanna," complete with background whoops and eventual humming along, then dives right back into the solo as if nothing had happened.
125* Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} has done something similar in recent live shows: during the instrumental section in the middle of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcP6R5EeWEk Sacrament Of Wilderness]]," Tuomas now plays an {{Homage}} to "[[Music/DschinghisKhan Moskau]]" on the keyboards.
126* The scat-singing part of Music/{{Van Halen}}'s "I'm The One".
127* Music/{{Tori Amos}} has many songs where the musical tone abruptly changes for a minute and then goes back to normal. Examples are "Pretty Good Year", a calm song with a random dramatic section including lyrics that seem irrelevant to the rest of the song, and "Professional Widow", which goes from messy and dramatic to clean piano and crisp high register vocals for a few bars in the middle. Lyrically Amos is known for being inpenetrable, so trying to point out all the lyrical [=BLAMs=] would be a waste of time.
128* The second movement of Music/JosephHaydn's Symphony No. 94 has a soft intro with a single fortissimo chord stuck in the middle (hence the nickname, 'Surprise Symphony').
129* Music/DreamTheater's "The Dark Eternal Night" is, for the vast majority of its duration, a horror themed heavy rock piece. However during the band's trademark overly long bridge the music suddenly stops so Jordan Rudess can play a ragtime piano solo for no apparent reason.
130** It wasn't the first time they'd done it; the same thing happens in their (similarly heavy) instrumental The Dance Of Eternity from Scenes From A Memory. In that case though, it's marginally less BLAM-y, as the plot of the album takes place in 1928.
131* More recently, in the Korean artist Music/HyunA's song "Bubble Pop", there is an inexplicable dubstep part in the middle. The whole song is sort of cutesy and then you get hit upside the head with bass.
132* Music/{{Metallica}} and Music/LouReed's collaboration album ''Lulu'' in its entirety.
133** "I am the table!"
134* Blue Swede's cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" opens with a out-of-place chant of "Ooka Chuka! Ooka! Ooka!" (which reappears during the last verse).
135* Music/{{Showbread}}'s discography is spattered with a few of these, most notably on their first studio album ''No Sir, Nihlism Is Not Practical''. Moments such as the totally-unexpected Doo-Wop-inspired bridge on ''So Selfish It's Funny'' and the odd sound bite of air raid alarms and people shouting followed by vocalist Josh Dies saying, "Fire!" and what sounds like a muffled nuclear explosion at the end of ''And The Smokers And Children Shall Be Cast Down'' are certainly [=BLAMs=]. However, the biggest BLAM on the album is probably track 5, ''Sampsa Meets Kafka''. It starts with some echoey electronic warbling, then a throbbing bass starts up, followed a few seconds later by screeching techno and Josh Dies screaming the line, "Gregor starved to death, no one dies of loneliness'' twice, and the song ends with a bit more drippy techno and a couple seconds of static. Weird.
136* The early Japanese synth pop group Music/YellowMagicOrchestra released two albums containing quirky, innovative electronic music--and then their third release, ''x∞Multiplies'', was practically a BLAM ''album''. It contained significantly more bizarre music (including a cover of Archie Bell and the Drells' "Tighten Up" with a high pitched voice repeating "Japanese gentleman, stand up please!" throughout the entire song) and was filled with arbitrary comedy acts, predominantly in Japanese (which made it especially confusing for English-speaking listeners). After this, they returned to a more conventional style.
137** Same with the original version of Service.
138* English doom metal band Cathedral drops in the middle of "Utopia Blaster" four rimshots, a bass slide, and Lee Dorrian going "Huggy Bear, Oh Yeahhhhh!!!" then picks up where it left off.
139* Music/TheAvalanches' album Since I Left you has one during Flight Tonight; the Saïan Supa Crew's rapping which prompts the beat of the song to completely switch up. They finish rapping, and back to the normal beat.
140* In Music/NeutralMilkHotel's "Oh Comely", someone decides to shout "holy SHIT!" at the very end of the song. ItMakesSenseInContext: It's Robert Schneider of Music/TheApplesInStereo, the producer of the album, who assumed that the band were doing a run-through of the song. After Jeff Mangum and his bandmates ran through the entire eight-minute song in [[OneTakeWonder one perfect take with no mistakes]], Schneider yelled the aforemetioned "Holy SHIT!", and nobody bothered to edit it out.
141* Anadivine's early version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBSXt9LKnHY "Alcohol and Oxygen"]] has a shattering bridge that has less or nothing to do with the song, but will still terrify any unsuspecting listeners, with [[CarefulWithThatAxe sharp, high pitch screams]] akin to someone getting burned alive. The band left it out when they re-recorded it for ''Zoo''.
142* Gary Young's "Plant Man" is fairly surreal to begin with, but the lyrics at least mainly stay on the topic of "the plant man"... Until he decides to kick off an instrumental break by muttering "shirts".
143* Mclusky's "She Will Only Bring You Happiness": What's with that bit in the middle about their old singer being a [[MemeticMolester sex criminal]]?
144* More Music/WeirdAlYankovic examples:
145** In his live performances of his Music/TheKinks parody "Yoda", towards the end the band stops playing and goes into what has been dubbed the "Yoda Chant", which starts off as a series of mnemonic syllables and segues into a cavalcade of references and shout outs, including snippets of other songs such as "Frère Jacques" and "[[Ride/TheHauntedMansion Grim Grinning Ghosts]]". Once this is over, the band starts up again as if the chant had never happened.
146** Both the song and video for "This Is The Life" revel in anachronistic interludes during the instrumental breaks, including a Van Halen-style guitar solo and a breakdancing section.
147* The scream from Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Dream On", as soon as it's over Steven sings the chorus like nothing happened.
148* Pendragon's ''This Green And Pleasant Land'' is a 13 minute, musically excellent, prog-rock style meditation on the state of the nation. Which ends with 45 seconds of ''yodelling''.
149* The infamous "free jazz" section of Music/LedZeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" from ''Music/LedZeppelinII''.
150** "Fool In The Rain", especially that samba breakdown in the middle.
151* Due to their avant-garde nature, the avant-garde black metal band Music/{{Sigh}} is prone to this, especially on their 2001 album ''Imaginary Sonicscape''. [=BLAMs=] include the ending of "Scarlet Dream" breaking into reggae near the end before a final chorus, "A Sunset Song" having a random disco moment in the middle of the song and the last 45 seconds of "Requiem - Nostalgia" being rather [[LastNoteNightmare strange and creepy sounds of children and babies laughing]], over and over again.
152* Thisonionring's parody of "Jack Sparrow" is supposed to be strange, but having a line about Usefulnotes/LebronJames in a chorus about Creator/SylvesterStallone is just bizarre
153* Music/SoundHorizon has a particularly egregious one in ''The Princess Sleeping In The Glass Coffin'', in which Idolfried Ehrenberg, who never appears again, has a conversation which has nothing to do with the plot.
154* The music video for Music/{{Bastille}}'s "Laura Palmer" stops completely about midway to show cheap-looking video footage of a dog barking (with sound). While the dog does show up towards the beginning, if briefly, it has very little to do with the rest of the video's plot involving singer Dan Smith being kidnapped, and nothing like this shows up again in the video.
155* Avant-garde Metal band Music/{{iwrestledabearonce}} are extremely fond of BLAM's in their songs. Some notable examples include:
156** "You Ain't No Family", a pretty straight forward Metalcore-like song until it suddenly breaks down into a cheesy Country part for a few seconds, plays a sample of a horse whinnying, and then goes right into a Death Metal breakdown
157** "Tastes Like Kevin Bacon", already a pretty huge blend of different genres, have a completely out of nowhere harp solo ending with a horn sample before going into Metal like nothing had happened
158** "You Know That Ain't Them Dog's Real Voices", mostly a Alternative Metalcore song, then out of nowhere goes Surf Rock (complete with a bad Elvis Presley impersonator singing lyricles words) before going back to Metal
159* Music/BabyMetal, as if mixing J-Pop with Metal wasn't odd enough, have some of these on top to make it even weirder. Their song "Iine!" goes so far to have a double BLAM, being in general a J-Pop song with Metal guitars, then suddenly turns into a cheesy Rap song, and THEN again turns into a bone-breaking Death Metal breakdown before turning back to normal.
160* Waikiki by {{Ska}} band Suburban Legends is an otherwise normal song about [[UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} Waikiki]], but in the middle has a MadScientist exclaiming about his "precious time machine" for a few seconds.
161* {{Music/Edguy}} is quite fond of this.
162** At the end of the title track of ''Theater of Salvation'', the final track of the album, there's about two minutes of silence before an oddly upbeat song begins playing and Tobias Sammet begins screaming in gibberish.
163** The track "Lucifer In Love" from ''Hellfire Club''. A little over thirty seconds of demonic sexual groaning (which, it turns out, is Tobias Sammet's voice distorted) set to beautiful piano music...before immediately cutting to the next track.
164** The "progressive version" of "Space Police" from some versions of the album of the same name. At first it's exactly the same as the regular version, until the second verse begins and Tobi begins to sing in a bizarre over the top falsetto. Afterwards, the song resumes as normal without any further deviations.
165* Fates Warning's otherwise excellent "Monument" features a piano bit at the end of the song that sounds like Schroeder of ''Peanuts'' fame jamming out on one of the animated specials.
166* A lot of songs include [[AWildRapperAppears random guest rappers]] that are this. Great cases are Music/WizKhalifa section of the Music/MaroonFive song "Payphone" and the surprisingly violent remix of Music/KatyPerry's "E.T." with Music/KanyeWest.
167* At around the 2:20 mark on Music/{{Turisas}}' cover of 'Supernaut', we're treated to a monologue from someone (it sounds like the band's guitarist) regarding the precise meaning of the word 'Supernaut', and its origins:
168** What is 'Supernaut', anyway? They have, like, astronauts, and, um, takionauts, and spationauts...maybe it's from Sweden. IKEA is from Sweden. They have great meatballs at IKEA. I like meatballs. Meatballs come from cows. I once saw a cow in Denmark. Maybe it's from Denmark?
169* A brief lyrical example of this trope happens in Reunion's "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)". It's a ListSong that rattles off Top 40 singers, songs, and personalities in rapid-fire motion. At one point, the singer blurts out "JACK THE RIPPER!" in the middle of the song. Other than looking for something that rhymes with "Nightly Tripper", a [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper 19th century serial killer]] isn't exactly a good fit with the song's actual subject matter.
170* The Ohio Players song "Love Rollercoaster" has an infamous part where there is suddenly a high pitched scream which seems completely out of place in the otherwise very upbeat and jovial song, which almost sounds more like background noise than an intentional part of the song. This lead to UrbanLegends such as saying they accidentally recorded the screams of a murder victim on the streets (which would probably be impossible, as songs are almost always recorded in soundproof chambers, for obvious reasons.) In truth the scream was just made by band member Billy Beck because he thought it was cool, although after the urban legends started the band decided to remain silent on the issue as [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity the rumors got more people interested and wanting to buy their records.)]]
171* Vince [=DiCola=], he of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' fame, once released "Artistically Beatles", an album of ten instrumental covers of Beatles songs. The second half of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Plj-rEMJw Maxwell's Silver Hammer]]" suddenly becomes an 80s-inspired synth-rock number that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of ''Transformers'', only to turn back into the original song as if nothing happened.

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