History BLAM / Music

* 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."

* 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 whisper conspiratorially as the music fades away and then breaks into a fit of hysterical laughter.

* 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 remix of Music/KatyPerry's "E.T." with Music/KanyeWest.

* 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.

* Music/LadyGaga:
** "Government Hooker" is full of them.
*** The song opens with Gaga singing in an operatic voice "Gaga.... Aaaaaaaah.... Gaga... Aaaaaaaaah... Government Hoo-kar-eh".
*** The random "Mojito!" in the middle of the song
** "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.
** The video for "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}}.
* 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".

* 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." Then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH4FlHsoBmY Welfare Wednesday]], which is basically one long BLAM.

* Music/TheBeatles, well...
** "Revolution 9" and "Wild Honey Pie" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' are basically the [=BLAMs=] of the White Album.
** "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.
*** 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.
*** 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.]]
*** It's actually two phrases looping: "been so high" and "never could be any other way".
*** Let's not forget the "freak out" sections of "A Day In The Life" itself.

* 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 MaryKateAndAshley 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.

* 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.

* Waikiki by {{Ska}} band Suburban Legends is an otherwise normal song about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Waikiki]], but in the middle has a MadScientist exclaiming about his "precious time machine" for a few seconds.

* Kylie Jenner's out-of-nowhere appearance in Music/CardiB and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" music video.

* Music/{{Jhariah}}: The second line of ''The Great Tale of How I Ruined It All'' 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.

* [[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.
** You had to be there: Consider who Sephiroth's mom is.

* Music/TaylorSwift's music video for ''[[Music/{{Lover}} ME!]]'' opens with her bickering with featured artist 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.

* 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.
* The album version of Serena Ryder'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.
** 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.
* 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.

* 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.
* "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.
** Also, the lion's roar and breaking glass in "European Son" from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico''.
** The "lion" is John Cale scraping a metal chair across the studio floor, although it sounds FAR worse than you'd expect.
* 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?".
* 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.
** Ringo Starr does the same thing in his song "Early 1970", which is a love song to the other three Beatles.
** A year earlier, Kevin Ayers had a similar BLAM with "Town Feeling", where he lazily sings "banana".
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 that got left in), but the line still comes out of nowhere.
** Similarly, in their song "I'm Going Slightly Mad", the line "I think I'm a banana tree!"
** "Get Down, Make Love", a raunchy hard rock tune that breaks into a fit of electronic weirdness about 2/3s of the way.
** Along similar lines, 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".

* 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. probably one of the best examples in music.
* 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!"
** 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.
** Their song "Hyacinth House" features the line "I see the bathroom is clear".
* 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.

* 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.
* "Sound Chaser" by Music/{{Yes}} features a random "cha-cha-cha, cha-cha!" vocal harmony part.
* 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.
* 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.
** The song "Altered States" from ''Tubular Bells II''.

* 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.

* 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 one perfect take with no mistakes, Schneider yelled the aforemetioned "Holy SHIT!", and nobody bothered to edit it out.

* 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.

* The "eight miles high and fallin' FAAAAAAAST!" part of "American Pie".

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* Many elementary school children have been taught the [[GoldFever Gold Rush]] era folk-song "Sweet Betsy From Pike," which tells the story of the 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."
* 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.
* 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.
* Music/NickiMinaj - Stupid Hoe is one massive BLAM. Compared to the rest of that album, "Roman Holiday" also has shades of this.
** Those two songs on ''Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded'' are the outro and intro respectively.
* Music/LadyGaga:
** "Government Hooker" is full of them.
*** The song opens with Gaga singing in an operatic voice "Gaga.... Aaaaaaaah.... Gaga... Aaaaaaaaah... Government Hoo-kar-eh".
*** The random "Mojito!" in the middle of the song
** "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.
** The video for "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}}.
* 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.
** Maybe it was accidental
* 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".
* 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.
** [[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.
* "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.
* 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]].

* 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.
* "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.
* The album version of Serena Ryder'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.
** 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.
* 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.

* 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.
** 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''.
** 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=].
* 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.

* At the end of the Sum 41 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.
** The added bit, however, is part of another song on the same album, titled "Pain For Pleasure".
* 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.

* Music/MichaelJackson
** 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.]]
** 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.
** Right in the middle of "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.

* Music/TaylorSwift's music video for "ME!" opens with her bickering with featured artist 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.

!!Full songs that are {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}s in the context of the album.
* "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.
* "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?
* 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 whisper conspiratorially as the music fades away and then breaks into a fit of hysterical laughter.
* 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.
* ''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]].
* "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.
* 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.
* 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]].
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.

*** Maybe they were supposed to be on drugs? (The plot in the movie is about the villain wanting to get children high on drugs.) But still, it fits all criteria of being a BLAM.

* Not necessary a lyrical example, but the ending of Angel in Disguise by the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Why did Ronnie Winter do that really loud cough?

* The [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]] of HairMetal band Music/{{Giuffria}} consists almost entirely of synth-heavy [[PowerBallad Power Ballads]]. The penultimate track "Awaken", on the other hand, sounds like...[[https://youtu.be/7FPRB3_AfwU this]].

* 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 Undergound's brief set and enjoyed their music associated the concert with anything but The Myddle Class.
* The [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]] of HairMetal band Music/Giuffria consists almost entirely of synth-heavy [[PowerBallad Power Ballads]]. The penultimate track "Awaken", on the other hand, sounds like...[[https://youtu.be/7FPRB3_AfwU this]].

** 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 "[[Franchise/TheHauntedMansion Grim Grinning Ghosts]]". Once this is over, the band starts up again as if the chant had never happened.

* Music/{{Queen}}'s song "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, but the line still comes out of nowhere.

* 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 [[SignatureSong Signature Songs]]. 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.

* 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 ADateWithRosiePalms (to MaryKateAndAshley 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.

* 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 [[SignatureSong Signature Songs]]. 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.
* Music/{{Jhariah}}: The second line of ''The Great Tale of How I Ruined It All'' is "The trees don't grow, they kill instead!" Despite the album's 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.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=189QSTKC5no Yuri the only One]] by [=L33T STR33T=] Boys has the hilarious "Sephy's Mom Has Got It Going On" BLAM from 2:19 to 2:45.

* 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 [[SignatureSong Signature Songs]]. 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.

* Music/TimMcGraw's "Refried Dreams" is a DrownYourSorrows 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 [[SignatureSong Signature Songs]]. 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.

* Music/TimMcGraw's "Refried Dreams" is a DrowningYourSorrows 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 [[SignatureSong Signature Songs]].

* 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.

* 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 [[UpToEleven 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.