I'm not thinking long and proggy! Best Boo Radleys example of this is probably "Get On The Bus" or maybe "Four Saints" btw
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"Band on the Run"?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Girls Aloud - Biology.
― jed_, Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
'sowing the seeds of love'
^ reppin for the mondeo in 09
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The Homosexuals seemed to approach a lot of songs this way. "Total Drop," "Astral Glamour," and "Vociferous Slam" are around two minutes each and while they are packed with hooks, they are not presented in traditional pop structures.
― Hoops McCann (Beep), Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
in truth, I think it is hard for me to write a song that is not this
― Dominique, Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I actually don't know where to start with this one, such is the multitude of riches.
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
three 6 mafia "triple six clubhouse"
― rio (r1o natsume), Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
XTC - Season Cycle?
― davek_00, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The entire Skeletal Lamping record by Of Montreal
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Fingertips: They Might Be Giants
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
'william, it was really nothing'
― unaustralian (jabba hands), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
OK.
Beck - "Diamond Bollocks" keeps itself to 6 kaleidoscopic minutes, goes to about 7 different places, is completely unpredictable, and most crucially of all is awesome as hell
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
songs like this basically annoy me but that smiths one is really good because it's like 2 mins long.
― unaustralian (jabba hands), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
7 is actually a gross understatement
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dominique, Sunday, March 22, 2009 3:07 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
cosign
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Girls Aloud's "The Promise" is like this, and actually maybe crazily odd-structured...each of its four 'verses' (well, the bits between the choruses) is a different part: it goes A-B-C-B-D-B-E-B, I think.
― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
The Beta Band - "The Beta Band Rap"
or "Monolith" if you're willing to sacrifice brevity for actually being a good song
or "Eclipse", maybe
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
The Blood Brothers - "Cecilia And The Silhouette Saloon"
(yes I am going through my iTunes alphabetically)
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
o boy
― f f murray abraham (G00blar), Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
most of the pas/cal album except all of the songs are horrible.
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' was first thing that leapt to mind. 'Good Vibrations' works too.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
yes and i think Heroes and Villains even more so.
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 22 March 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Califone - "Black Metal Valentine" (also my favourite song of theirs, truly sublime in the purest sense)
Cardiacs - ... (I have a choice of about 50 songs here...maybe MAYBE I'll side "Dog-Like Sparky", or "Dirty Boy", or "The Duck And Roger The Horse", or "Buds And Spawn", or "RES" or "In A City Lining" or or or or...)
The Electric Soft Parade - "The American Adventure" (again, kaleidoscopic, whisks you through many possible hooks and resolutions before finally hitting pop gold, although it IS 7 minutes long)
The Fiery Furnaces - jeeeez, er..."Chris Michaels" then (pretty damn definitive as these things go IMO)
The Flaming Lips - "The Spark That Bled"
Guillemots - "Sao Paolo" (11 minute running-time notwithstanding)
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
queen - bohemian rhapsodyted nugent - wango tangoteena marie - square biz
― xhuxk, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh, here's a good one: Julian Cope - "Know (Cut My Friend Down)", only 3:20 in length!
I wrote a list of my favourite "Bohemian Rhapsodies" when I was at high school; I think I've already listed a few of them.
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
able tasmans 'school is no good for you'
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
My Radiohead choice is "2+2=5", obv. :-D
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
belle & sebastian 'your cover's blown'
― keythkeythkeyth, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Am I allowed to mention Koenjihyakkei or are they too prog?
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Late Of The Pier - er, I'd like to say "The Enemy Are The Future" but "Broken" and "Bathroom Gurgle" are more concise, more obviously-lurching-between-sections examples.
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Mansun - any track off "Six" tbh but especially "Six", "Shotgun", "Cancer" and "Being A Girl"
(this is important to me)
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The Mars Volta - d/q for being too prog in traditional sense
Massive Attack - "Group Four"
Melt-Banana - something, haven't worked it out yet
Mercury Rev - please please please can I pick "Meth Of A Rockette's Kick"? Oh goody, cheers!
Mew!! Perfect. "Am I Wry? No"
The Monsoon Bassoon - maybe "Wise Guy", maybe "Blue Junction
Mr. Bungle - "Violenza Domestica"? "Goodbye Sober Day"? Too much choice here. Probably "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz"
omg My Computer - "All I Ever Really Wanted Was A Good Time" !!!!!!!!!!
the letter M's pretty good for this shit and I didn't even get round to Muse or Meshuggah
― leigh exodus (country matters), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"A Dreamer Who Is Too Weak to Face Up To" is as good a Melt-Banana choice as any for this.
― Hongroe Like the Wolf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I suspect a lot of these songs are multiple unfinished songs cobbled together.
McCartney's got a pile of these:"You Never Give Me Your Money""Golden Slumbers/The End""Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey""Live and Let Die""Band on the Run" (mentioned above)"Picasso's Last Words""Junior's Farm" (maybe)"Goodnight Tonight""The Pound Is Sinking"(Some of these admit to being 2 songs, but it feels like there are 4 or 5 song bits buried in each of them)
Fleetwood Mac - "The Chain"XTC - "The Wheel and the Maypole"Pink Floyd - "Jugband Blues"Buffalo Springfield - "Broken Arrow"Brian Wilson - "Rio Grande"The Who - "Who Are You"The Roches - "My Sick Mind"Rickie Lee Jones - "Traces of the Western Slope"Rickie Lee Jones - "Gravity"Nick Lowe - "Nutted By Reality"Sloan - "The Good in Everyone"Sloan - "Fading Into Obscurity"Belle & Sebastian - "Step Into My Office Baby"
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Really you just want this:
http://media-files.gather.com/images/d709/d677/d744/d224/d96/f3/full.jpg
― Hongroe Like the Wolf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i have a creeping suspicion this could be my least favourite type of song
― Bad, Bad Memories of a Good Time (electricsound), Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
The Moody Blues - House of Four Doors (duhhhh)
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 22 March 2009 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm. Examples of this kinda die away after M, at least on MY iTunes. Until SFA. In truth, you can't really beat those Boo Radleys examples for songs that fulfil Nick's criteria exactly. My examples are generally a teeny bit too long. Apparently Architecture In Helsinki are a bit micro-proggy inna pop style but they're also a bit cutesy/happy-clappy, whereas Boo Radleys actually made their songs into miniature labyrinths, full of not just surprise but wonder, fear and incomprehension.
SFA - probably "Receptacle For The Respectable"
Talk Talk - "Taphead" (haaahahahahahaha)
The The - "Out Of The Blue (Into The Fire" (more in terms of lyrical narrative than music...this song passes through many phases of emotional tone in only 5 minutes, and the music itself develops unpredictably)
Thighpaulsandra - "Lycraland" (this song passes through an absolute wealth of musical territory, in an almost entirely abstract fashion; it's also completely brilliant, and I'm willing to overlook the near-16-minute runtime because you simply gotta hear it, and the album it's on, much of which has similarly vaulting ambitions)
Ulver - "The Truth" (four minutes, utter carnage)
Volcano! - "Easy Does It"
Wilco - "Poor Places" (I REALLY fucken dig this song, and it's perfect for this thread)
Working For A Nuclear Free City - "Nancy Adam Susan" or maybe "England" (it's amazing how many of my very favourite songs are cropping up as candidates here!)
XTC - "The Wheel..." otm ^^^ with ya buddy
Youthmovies - "Magic Diamond" (I think this might be their best track - its narrative never doubles back but keeps on burrowing down, down, deep into something totally unexpected and utterly magical)
65DOS - "Music Is Music As Devices Are Kisses Is Everything"
ok I'm done, sorry for ruining yr thread Southall
and yeh Noodle, "A Dreamer..." is a good choice, even if the previous track (which isn't, granted, so breakneck) is like one of the highlights of all music ever
― leigh exodus (country matters), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Roger Waters - Just about anything off of Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking (and a few from The Final Cut too)Sonic Youth - "Swimsuit Issue"Sonic Youth - "Bone"Talking Heads - "Artists Only"Velvet Underground - "I'm Sticking With You"Billy Joel - "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"Electric Light Orchestra - "Fire on High"Electric Light Orchestra - "Standing in the Rain"Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky"Electric Light Orchestra - "Loser Gone Wild"Laurie Anderson - "Sharkey's Day"The B-52's - Rock Lobster
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 23 March 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Too often they sound like what they are--unrelated bits slapped together--but when they miraculously work, they're great.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 23 March 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I think many of my examples flow organically between sections, rather than bolt *completely* unrelated sections *right* next to each other. But I don't think that contravenes the conditions of this thread.
― leigh exodus (country matters), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Only Skin - Joanna Newsom
― Turangalila, Monday, 23 March 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty things - defecting grey
― Bad, Bad Memories of a Good Time (electricsound), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i remembered another thread along similarish lines
Layla and other songs that just change into something else almost unrelated
like shitloads of zappa songs? at least the ones on the two i have - absolutely free and freak out
― be on the treadmill - uh! - like OK GO (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Much early Throwing Muses does this, esp "Finished" and "Call me".
It would be ridiculously too obvious to say "Supper's Ready", here, wouldnt it?
― one art, please (Trayce), Monday, 23 March 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
big star - daisy glaze
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Monday, 23 March 2009 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Lilys are probably champions of this (basically every single one of their songs). I assume that Pas/Cal (referenced above) fit the bill because they're channeling lilys.
― dlp9001, Monday, 23 March 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
― rio (r1o natsume), Sunday, March 22, 2009 3:52 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
excellent example
― liveblogging 'before i self-destruct' from the moon (some dude), Monday, 23 March 2009 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Spotify
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
Surprised not to see this mentioned yet:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Wr8J8faGA
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
"Thunderstruck" by AC/DC
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
"Black Water" by The Doobie Brothers ......
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
"la villa strangiato"
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
Chad & Jeremy - Painted Dayglow Smile
it probably doesn't have enough doors for you douchebags but this is my thread so deal with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUD20Tg-6s8
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 18 April 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
u - Kendrick LamarHood Politics - Kendrick LamarInstitutionalized - Kendrick Lamar
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 18 April 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Family - Voyage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tG2Kc6dHbo
it's like a bizarro radio edit of one of those long Comus suites
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 18 April 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
You have no idea how pleased I am to see a Chad and Jeremy mention. They are seriously one of my favorite 60's groups.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 18 April 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
those two songs were very lovely!
― imago, Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
xpost - I've been listening to Of Cabbages and Kings and The Ark a lot lately. they made some of the most convincing post-Sgt-Pepper's pop I've heard (w/r/t their grasp of pre-rock melodies and the way their psych songs aren't too over-the-top oddball like a lot of Pepper pastiches) & those two albums remind me a lot of Curt Boettcher's productions from the same era.
Family used the 'rooms with many doors' trick a lot, actually (3 X Time, The Chase, From Past Archives, Peace of Mind). maybe they were the progenitors of %microprog% (to use an imago coinage)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
%<3%
will check out more by both artists for sure
― imago, Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
The Ark rules. I've always thought that if that was their only album, they'd be a lot more revered than they are.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it seems like a lot of people view C&G as bandwagon hoppers/dilettantes because they started off as such a square, conventional folk-pop act. but 'A Summer Song' is still a great song, and a lot of more respected lite-psych acts had similar career arcs.
%¯\(^o^)/¯% (xpost)
the examples in this thread and the recent poll make me want to hear more stuff by the Boo Radleys, who I'm not really familiar with at all.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Saturday, 18 April 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3eVIFzN5g
― MaresNest, Saturday, 18 April 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Hooray, ILM has finally got round to discovering Family... after 15 years!
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
Talking of Chad & Jeremy, did anyone else used to enjoy this sitcom Jeremy was in?
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
So many rooms with so many doors, even more windows;; the damn ceiling gets peeled off towards the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLxPwdcuat4
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 19 April 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
Feel like Boards of Canada should get a mention in here. . .
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 19 April 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
most if not all of song cycle by van dyke parks
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 April 2015 08:08 (nine years ago) link
thinking feller union local 282's "cup of dreams" surely opens and closes and reopens a couple of doors in a room.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-QmYp4XDUY
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 19 April 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1sBXjl0s8
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 19 April 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
songs that are 'apses with many chapels':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MO3WzA5aq4
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
How about ISB ? Koeeaddi There
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNKk-Itin64
― larry appleton, Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENw6co2BUc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obs9_APqt_o
― larry appleton, Sunday, 6 March 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link
that mirrors song is great! they sound like a long-lost paisley underground band from the wrong era and hometown. I'll have to check out one of those posthumous comps.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Sunday, 6 March 2016 23:32 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Sunday, 24 July 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
i.e. when will you diphsits realize that Laura Nyro is the soul-progge schnizzle?
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Sunday, 24 July 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Another early example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdeybxuS7tY
― dlp9001, Sunday, 24 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
I was just listening the the Eli album this morning, and thinking of this very thread.
― henry s, Sunday, 24 July 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
most of these aren't really rooms with many doors. they're more like railroad apartments. a bunch of rooms in a row.
Dancing about architecture.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 24 July 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
are throwing muses too obvious for this thread
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 25 July 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJeQf42c6c
― timellison, Monday, 25 July 2016 05:13 (seven years ago) link
Joni Mitchell's output from 1975-1979
― MatthewK, Monday, 25 July 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-90E9aPvM
― Lee626, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
I feel this kind of trait is definitely more psyche than prog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VbJmbtMW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9atqqkUuY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUMj8Otywoc
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgjlBR--uA
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
do The Boswell sisters qualify as jazz age micro-prog? they were famous for their labyrinthine re-arrangements of jazz standards and contemporary hits, with lots of unexpected segues and key changes and tempo shifts. ex. 'It's the Girl':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOLQCSKkRw
(cf. Lee Morse's pleasant but utterly conventional version from the same year)
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
you're a scholar
this is great, reminds me of nothing so much as the bonzo dog doo-dah band. would be keen to hear more
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
Gotta be some Blur and Kate Bush examples too.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, March 23, 2009 3:53 AM (eight years ago)
'All We Ever Look For' has exactly 3 doors http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/BoardFiles/164/Emoticons/sunglasses.gif
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
Hop Along - Not Abel
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 August 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Grateful Dead - “St. Stephen”
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 31 August 2018 05:02 (five years ago) link
(there are variable criteria being used in this thread; but to me that song literally sounds like you’re hanging out / wandering in & out of a room with multiple doors)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 31 August 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0Zu2B_kak
― MaresNest, Friday, 31 August 2018 10:33 (five years ago) link
This isn't very good but they certainly cram a lot into 3'15". There's even a drum solo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzkpUEPDJEc
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link