Make it go boom: songs with explosions in 'em

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So I am totally drawing a blank here and I know that you all can do better... I'm looking for songs that prominently feature an explosion/explosions in them. Examples: Sampled in to make the beat, beginning or ending the song, or just incidental and strewn throughout. I'm thinking the more explosions, the better.

I can only think of two lousy songs:
The Gap Band - you dropped a bomb on me
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Baby C'mon

Can you help a brother out?

― ianinportland, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

in the kingdom #19 - sonic youth

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

get your filthy hands off my desert - pink floyd

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

negativland - carbomb
can - oh yeah

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

jimmy castor bunch - hallucinations
guns n roses - civil war
love - 7 and 7 is (atom bomb test-blast in nevada desert)
big black - whichever atomizer song features army field training exercise mortars

― chuck, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Raga Lalat [2:53] Performed by Palak Chawal, Benares, India
(final track from Michael Snow's The Last LP)

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

and "drop the bomb" by trouble funk repeatedly features a descending synthesizer sound effect clearly meant to *sound* like a bomb dropping

― chuck, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

there's an explosion sound effect on the computer at the radio station that lets me add ka-BOOMs to any song I please. I don't abuse it nearly enough.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

does "allure" count? what about the 1812 overture? ghostface's "new splash" features robust fireworks noises

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

does the cannonfire in 'for those about to rock...' count?

FIRE!

― newnumbertwo, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins "Where Boys Fear To Tread" samples the sound of explosions from the video game Doom.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything from the Adam F KAOS album.

2 Bad Mice - Bombscare

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tragedy" by the Bee Gees
"Reign in Blood" by Slayer (well, it's thunder, actually)
"Explosions" by Devo

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Did "Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica end with one? What about "I Want to Set the World on Fire" or whatever that was called by Megadeth.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Atomic Kitten's "I Want Your Love" has lots of them.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

There are about two or three New Order songs that end with explosions, or crashes.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rubicon" by Killing Joke

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Detroit Rock City" by Kiss (car crash)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

2 Bad Mice-"bombscare"

― Sengai, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The best one was already mentioned: Love's "7 + 7 Is." On a lesser note, the squealing guitars in Chemical Brothers' "Setting Sun" always sounded like falling bombs to me.

And an explosion ends the video for Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet," but since I don't own the album or single I don't know if it's part of the actual track.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Birthday Party "Dead Joe" has a car crash.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

School's Out.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"world destruction" - time zone

― notfazed (notfazed), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit which is the "Chronic" song with huge explosion, and the line "I Drop Bombs Like Hiroshima" - It's either Lyrical Gangbang, or High Powered.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a Public Enemy song that ends with Chuck saying "ready, aim, fire then i blow 'em up" followed by an explosion. which one is that?

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cheeseburger" - Sandy Bull

― sexxyDancer, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ready or Not Here We Come - Age of Chance .. ends with all mighty explosion. lovely stuff.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's an earthquake, not an explosion, but same sort of noise. "Richter Scale Madness" by ...Trail of Dead

― Slim Pickens, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

KMFDM- drug against war, has bomb dropping
Some great old punk song by Eater has explodo

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ramones 'Rock 'n' Roll High School'!

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

some clash song i am exposed to every other day while tutoring a neighbor kid. it features a drum solo that rocks so hard that there is an explosion or something.

― carrie, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

bombscare is clearly the best example

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Laibach's "Geburt einer Nation" off Opus Dei begins thus:

*organ starts playing "The Star-Spangled Banner"*
wheeeeeeeeeBOOM

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

There's the sound of nuclear destruction exactly when you'd expect there to be in Living Colour's cover of 'Final Solution'.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

B.J. Snowden, "America." It's supposed to be fireworks but her cheap effects sound WAY more like the final moments of MIssile Command.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

isnt there an outkast song that ends with an explosion? i forget which. i think its from aquemini or stankonia...

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Remember" - John Lennon

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

That explosion in the Junior Senior song is just for the video...I wish they had put it on the track, though, because it just abruptly ends without a proper denouement or anything...it bothers me...

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't call it a comeback
I've been here for years
I'm rocking my peers
Puttin' suckers in fear
Makin' the tears rain down like a monsoon
Listen to the bass go BOOM!
Explosions, overpowerin'
Over the competition I'm towerin'
Records stop when I drop
These lyrics that make you call the cops
Don't you dare stare
You better move, don't ever compare
Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced
Competition's payin' the price

I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The aforementioned "Car Bomb" by Negativland is great because the music stops completely for the explosions, which come complete with shrapnel and whatnot clattering back to earth afterward, and so it's easy to edit out from the song and add to other things.E.g., I ended a mix with "The Hero" from the finale of the Flash Gordon soundtrack, and it ends with an explosion, but I didn't find it meaty enough so I pasted in the Negativland blast and that kicked things up to the next level. Namely Level 42.

― joshie (hammy), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jonzun Crew - "Space is the Place"

― ben tausig, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah - remember by john lennon is a great one

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm listening to my friend's song, "Nonbasketball," and right as I saw this thread title there was an explosion sound in the song that I'd never noticed before.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, you should be ashamed for getting "Raining Blood" wrong. Tsk.

― Thor (Thor), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Flipper's "Sex Bomb" has (appropriately) MANY explosions throughout - can't remember if they're in the single, or the LP/saxophone version, or both
Funkadelic, "Wars Of Armageddon"
Paul Revere & The Raiders, "The Great Airplane Strike"
Blue Oyster Cult, "ME-262" (the fall of Berlin, April '45)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"For those about to Rock" AC/DC

― Arthur2Sheds, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Gods of War - Def Leppard

― Rocco, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

that song on the first crass album where the music just stops suddenly and there's an atomic bomb explosion noise and then the music cuts back in.."they've got a bomb" i think it's called?

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one on Snoop Dogg's verse on "Conditioner", the duet he did with ODB on Wu-Tang's The W.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, you should be ashamed for getting "Raining Blood" wrong. Tsk.

Pray tell, how did I get it wrong? Is the sound of thunder not eligible as something that goes "boom"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The boxer - Simon n Garfunkel

lie la lie booosh!

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate Bush - "Breathing". That rather silly middle section - "this is a medium sized bomb..."

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Leader of the Pack?

― stefan, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Rush - Temples of Syrinx (right before "...and the meek shall inherit the earth")

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

23 skidoo - "coup"

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Does the remix of FGTH's "Two Tribes" end with a bomb going off? I really can't remember.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a song by Bone thugz n harmony and Tupac where the beat is actually the sound of a gun being loaded and fired, which in its own way is an explosion.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mushroomhead" by Can from Tago Mago
"Buenos Tardes Amigo" by Ween from Chocolate and Cheese

― Blarsog, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Stranglers - Tank

During the mad ascending keyboard solo there are a couple of explosions/detonations, Black & White is a GRATE album.

Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size

I'm sure there's a big reverbed out explosion (it might be a drum) after the 'Threeee, Fourrrr...' count in at the start of the song.

― mzui, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipe of the Heart

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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