Adult songs with kids singing on them

[King Biscuit Time]

The Smiths - Panic

 

[blackadder]

That song thas was out a few summers ago, think it was called Taquila, it had young girls singing the chorus (Taquila, you make me happy.. Taquila..), I think it got banned (the video?) before the watershed, top song though.

 

[oryx]

Altern8 - Activ8.

& there is a track on one of my favourite albums, The Emotional Hooligan by Gary Clail/On-U Sound, which has a little kid singing on it & I have to fast forward/skip it because it gets on my nerves so much!

 

[Wolfie]

there's Excerpts From A Teenage Opera and Grocer Jack by Keith West (featuring Steve Howe and whatsis face from the the Pretty Things ...) - they were were good

 

[ouchmonkey]

Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War
Four Tet - No More Mosquitos

 

[lostexpectation]

um

schools out for summer - alice cooper

ring the bells end - the darkness - come on kids!

is it little nici above thats a lofi french "dance" track that on a couple of compliations

 

[Orang Utan]

always thought mad mike's stuff was a million times better than mills's but just a matter of taste. couldnt ever getinto all that hood/mills repetitive grooves stuff and banks produced some blinding vocal tracks. all my mates would disagree tho. really pissed off i didnt get to see them in dublin this weekend as UR were playing with a full 7 piece band - couldnt score a ticket for love nor money.

Tis no just Mills though - there are others - Gerald Mitchell being the most talented.
Anyway Mills wasn't all bang bang bang - check out X-102 and X-103
(BTW they are playing in Liverpool later this month)

 

[William of Walworth]

XTC - Dear God.

Had conveniently (to myself) forgotten that .... it's an excellent song in general, and I think only slightly marred by the kids bit ...

But overall, I think kids in adult rock/pop are wrong and bad and sound cringeworthy ...

 

[Harold Hill]

The Gorillaz isn't actually that bad till the little brats start.

Only others I can think of are Soul II Soul (Get A life) and Wizzard.

 

[killer b]

& there is a track on one of my favourite albums, The Emotional Hooligan by Gary Clail/On-U Sound, which has a little kid singing on it & I have to fast forward/skip it because it gets on my nerves so much!

'it's just like, a magic penny'?

yeah, it's orrible.

 

[May Kasahara]

All The Love by Kate Bush has a choirboy singing on it, to very eerie effect.

 

[Jambooboo]

Always thought the chorus of 'Sing This Song All Together' from their much-maligned but I love album 'Their Satanic Majesties Request' was sung by kids which made it sound spooky. Quick google says it's Lennon/McCartney.

 

[CNT36]

That eminem song thinks its called my dads gone crazy where he gets his daughter to sing. How sickening.

 

[rosa]

The Smiths - Panic

i was gonna say that!
the techno version of There's No-one Quite Like Grandma that John Peel played when his grandson was born,bless 'im.

 

[Structaural]

Stevie Wonder has done a few (whatever the "plants" LP was called had some)

Kerri Chandler : Oh Baby (although you'll either love or hate this...)

Notorious B.I.G. "Ready To Die" LP *
Blaze : 25 Years Later

*kids feature fairly frequently in various hip-hop LP's ; Snoop , A Tribe Called Quest (I'm sure)

Brooklyn Hard Rock - Thirstin Howl III - a load of kids singing in a Dick Van Dyke London accent. Truly awful. 'Brooklyn Hard Rocks gonna rob you oitside' - or something like that...

Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z (quite like that tho' hahaha, Like Oliver Twist the musical)

 

[kage]

You can't always get whatcha want - Rolling Stones

We are the pigs - Suede
(although i'm not really sure if that counts as it's right at the end)

 

[Bazza]

Pickney Gal - Desmond Dekker.

I totally forgot about that until I just put it on.

 

[Lisarocket]

Did that Akon bloke have one out recently with kids on it?

 

[Wolfie]

You can't always get whatcha want - Rolling Stones

....

that's not a kids' choir, it's proper grown up people ...

 

[MightyAphrodite]

that's not a kids' choir, it's proper grown up people ...

 

[oryx]

'it's just like, a magic penny'?

yeah, it's orrible.

That very one. And yes, it is indeed 'orrible!

 

[Orang Utan]

Did that Akon bloke have one out recently with kids on it?

Twas not kids but Pinky and Perky/chipmunk style vocals
That tune is the funniest thing I've heard in ages - it cracks me up every time I hear it

 

[soluble duck]

Boards of Canada use children's voices to good effect.

Yes, they do.

So does Aphex Twin, on Girl Boy Song (think that is the title)

Both quite eery

 

[killer b]

what was that awful clawfinger song? my way?

dreadful. kid rock had a track on his first album with an 8 year old rapper. that was shit too...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

What about Sonic Youth's "Little Trouble Girl" from the Washing Machine album...

 

[vanityvehicle]

There's plenty of great stuff!

The Specials - Ghost Town
Nas - I Can

And lots of other great stuff, which I'll think up in a moment...

 

[MightyAphrodite]

isn't there a kids choir singing on the stone roses-fool's gold?

or did i imagine that?