That thread about Satellite reminded me of how our Elv likes occasionally to illustrate a lyric with a musical sound effect. I'm thinking of the moment in the song when he sings "as cartoon bubbles burst in the air" - as he sings it, you hear a musical version of bubbles bursting in the air (on a triangle or summat).
Any other ones anyone cares to mention? Off the top of my head, he somehow gets the sound of blaring traffic passing on London's Brilliant Parade, when he mentions the horrors of Oxford Street, and in Complicated Shadows, when he sings "iron and steel will bend and break", you get a musical effect which reminds you of - yup - iron and steel bending and breaking.
I always hear an effect in "So Like Candy", right after "here lie the records that she scratched". Of course, now I have to listen to the song to see if the effect is really there or I just imagine it.
In one of the songs from Painted from Memory (is it the Long Division?) where he sings "I'm not saying that there will be violins, but don't be surprised if they appear", and lo and behold, violins!
If there were a king of fools than I would wear that crown/And you can all die laughing/Because I'll wear it proudly.
Just remembered the bit from Oh Well: "I'd be a pilot or an astronaut" - and there's this wierd noise which just reminds you of an astronaut floating off into space.
