Songs that are "rooms with many doors"

in a padded room with no windows

Hah!

I dunno, that record with the owl might be (for it's genre) a little too restrained and polite for him.

yeah you could be right

nice record tho

Karma Police by Radiohead

No way, this is standard verse-chorus-verse with a coda at the end.

yeah it's hilarious how many people just don't get this

I love this kind of thing, but sometimes it exists as an excuse to stitch together loads of unused song fragments to make a pop-epic a la Bohemian Rhapsody or Paranoid Android. The best is when the song has been composed (or gives the illusion that it has been composed) with the express intention of being a song with many doors. Something like 'Lazarus' is a good example of this.

I meant Paranoid Android rather than Karma Police. Must've had a brainfart when typing.

Diamond Bollocks (above) is a great example of a non-prog, non-pronk RWMD tune. I don't see how most of those Zep tracks qualify tho'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut2AiqYPY1k

Bump for Supergrass.

The newish album by Pretty & Nice "Golden Rules for Golden People" put me in mind of this thread. Kind of like Sugarplastic-sounding Lilys (aka XTC+New Wave + pop songs without choruses or verses) I guess. Less precious than the former, and less chameleon-like than the latter. All of the songs go all over the place, but remain catchy. It's quietly becoming one of my most played albums of the year. Mummy Jets=favorite track initially.

I will habitually check out any record that gets compared to Lilys. I hear much more XTC/Field Music (and even very small touches of Devo/Plastics/P-Model and even Cardiacs), but I'm really enjoying this record, thanks for the tip!

i like this pretty & nice album, definitely a pleasurable listen

This is great, thanks for the tip! There's a bit of Sparks in there, too.

Hmmm, no Laura Nyro in here? Un-beleeeev-able!

A lot of the suggestions upthread are wtf

where can I hear pretty + nice

Spotify

Surprised not to see this mentioned yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Wr8J8faGA

"Thunderstruck" by AC/DC

"Black Water" by The Doobie Brothers ......

"la villa strangiato"

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

u - Kendrick Lamar
Hood Politics - Kendrick Lamar
Institutionalized - Kendrick Lamar

Family - Voyage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tG2Kc6dHbo

it's like a bizarro radio edit of one of those long Comus suites

Chad & Jeremy - Painted Dayglow Smile

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.

those two songs were very lovely!

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)

%<3%

will check out more by both artists for sure

The Ark rules. I've always thought that if that was their only album, they'd be a lot more revered than they are.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3eVIFzN5g

Hooray, ILM has finally got round to discovering Family... after 15 years!

Talking of Chad & Jeremy, did anyone else used to enjoy this sitcom Jeremy was in?

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

Feel like Boards of Canada should get a mention in here. . .

most if not all of song cycle by van dyke parks

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1sBXjl0s8

songs that are 'apses with many chapels':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MO3WzA5aq4

How about ISB ? Koeeaddi There

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNKk-Itin64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENw6co2BUc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obs9_APqt_o

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3N7TBrfOA

i.e. when will you diphsits realize that Laura Nyro is the soul-progge schnizzle?

Another early example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdeybxuS7tY

I was just listening the the Eli album this morning, and thinking of this very thread.

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.