Songs that are "rooms with many doors"

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?

big star - daisy glaze

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.

three 6 mafia "triple six clubhouse"

― rio (r1o natsume), Sunday, March 22, 2009 3:52 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

excellent example

This is my all-time fave type of song when it isn't proggy. And it's practically a Timbaland-esque cliché by now appearing in From Justin to Kelly and all over the High School Musical franchise. Here are some other examples (with varying degrees of applicability):

LiLiPUT: "Eisiger Wind" - best example of this EVER!
Kleenex: “Ain’t You”
Jay-Z: "Come and Get Me"
Mouth and MacNeal "How Do You Do"
Sweet: "Ballroom Blitz"
The Jackson 5: "The Love You Save"
Queens Court: "I Ain't No Lady" (Chicken of the Sea Mix)"
2ge+her: "U + Me = Us (Calculus)"
The Dismemberment Plan: "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich"
!!!: "Me & Giuliani Down By The School Yard (A True Story)"
Franz Ferdinand: "Take Me Out"
Lady Sovereign: "Public Warning"
Justin Timberlake: "Like I Love You"
Blackout Crew "Put a Donk On It"
Boston: "More Than A Feeling"
Alice Cooper: "School's Out"
Skatt Bros. "Walk The Night"
Diana Ross: “Love Hangover”
Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer: "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"
T. S. Monk: "Bon Bon Vie"
Madonna: “Like a Prayer”
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force: “Looking For The Perfect Beat”
Public Enemy: "Night of the Living Baseheads"
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5: “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel”
Sand Party: "Lambada Festival"
B-Rock & The Bizz: "My Baby Daddy"
Fatboy Slim: "The Rockafeller Skank"
Red Rat: "Dwayne"
Barenaked Ladies: "One Week"

And that's (sorta) leaving out medleys, megamixes, and sampladelia like:
ABBA: "Medley: Pick A Bale Of Cotton-On Top Of Old Smokey-Midnight Special"
S-Express: "Theme From S-Express"
M/A/R/R/S: "Pump Up the Volume"
Eric B & Rakim: “Paid in Full (Seven Minutes of Madness Remix)”
Magazine 60: "Don Quichotte"

I thought a lot of old folk songs would fit the description, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. For one thing, ballads tend to be fairly linear — there may well be versions of "Little Bessie" that run 30+ verses, but I doubt any of them stray too from the theme of a dying little girl and her ruminations on the afterlife, even for a verse or two. eh, hopefully someone will dig up some examples to prove me wrong.

(stray too far, that is)

ruby suns 'kenya dig it?'

Totally forgot about the pre-rock era:

Spike Jones: "Cocktails For Two" (Spike Jones in general, actually)
Jelly Roll Morton: "Black Bottom Stop" (Jelly Roll Morton in general, actually)
Several cuts off the Jewface comp
Louis Armstrong/Earl "Fatha" Hines: "Tight Like This"
Lil McClintock: "Don't Think I'm Santa Claus"
Red Norvo: "Dance of the Octopus"

huh, I had lyrical content in mind when I made my last post, but this thread is more about song structure, as the threadstarter makes clear.

these come to mind:

Bad Dream Fancy Dress - "Choirboy's Gas"
Bob Drake - "Flashy Smog Wolf Person" (and about a thousand others. this guy has a knack for writing minute-long songs that veer into a dozen different directions)
Wendy & Bonnie - "Let Yourself Go Another Time"
Van Dyke Parks - "The Attic"
Gilberto Gil et al. - "Parque Industrial"
Beach Boys - those long "Heroes & Villains" suites you can find on any SMiLE bootleg
Louis Philippe - "An American Friend"
Flipper's Guitar - "Dolphin Song"

Hmm, "Paradise By the Dashboard Light"? Plus at least half of the titles on Trout Mask Replica. And maybe 1/3 of Forever Changes.

Daughters of Albion - "Well Wired" has parts that repeat but you never know where it's going on first listen.
Deerhoof - "Holy Night Fever"...and more I can't name right now.
Os Mutantes - Mutantes
Spoils of War - "The Crimson Uniform / Jena's Score"
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone has lots of this
The Four Seasons - "American Crucifixion Resurrection" (from the amazing "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette")
The United States of America - "The American Way of Love"

most of the pas/cal album except all of the songs are horrible. - funny, the first thing that popped into my head upon reading the initial post was "Summer is Almost Here."

Moonshake were always good for this sort of thing.

I'm thinking there's gotta be some examples of this from Spoon.

I think I've always thought of The Reflex by Duran Duran being like this.

Also, Louis; if I can't pronounce the band name = too prog.

Gotta be some Blur and Kate Bush examples too.

So far the playlist has:

Good Vibrations The Beach Boys The Very Best Of The Beach Boys
Happiness Is A Warm Gun The Beatles The Beatles (White Album)
Get On The Bus The Boo Radleys C’mon Kids
Four Saints The Boo Radleys C’mon Kids
Joel The Boo Radleys Wake Up!
Black Metal Valentine Califone Roots & Crowns
The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich The Dismemberment Plan Juno & The Dismemberment Plan
All You Good Good People Embrace The Good Will Out
Paranoid Android Radiohead OK Computer
Man Without Friends Siobhan Donaghy Revolution In Me
The Spark That Bled The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin
São Paulo Guillemots Through The Window Pane
Six Mansun Six
Receptacle For The Respectable Super Furry Animals Rings Around The World
Artists Only Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings & Food
Rock Lobster The B-52's Rock Lobster
Poor Places Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Music Is Music As Devices Are Kisses Is Everything 65DaysOfStatic The Destruction Of Small Ideas
Only Skin Joanna Newsom Ys
Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Like I Love You Justin Timberlake Justified
The Love You Save The Jackson 5 The Ultimate Collection
2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) Radiohead Hail To The Thief
Pump Up The Volume M/A/R/R/S Pump Up The Volume

Rollerskate Skinny made a (brief) career of following the Mercury Rev/Boo Radleys model of this idea to its logical extreme. Pretty much all of their songs fit the bill.

Patrick Wolf must do this too.

"I can take you to the sun" The Misunderstood.

It's only 2.5 mins, but it feels like five, in a good way.

Pavement and The Clash must have something that fits.

Anyone mentioning All Around The World by Oasis gets a slap.

Gotta be a Bunnymen example, too?

You asked for some pop suggestions:
Girls Aloud 'Biology'
Fall Out Boy 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race'
Bomb the Bass 'Beat Dis'
pretty much all of 'Paul's Boutique'
Outkast 'Bombs Over Baghdad'

It also struck me that this kind of structure has become the default for the big-budget R&B video, i.e. three or four unrelated sections bolted together

Gotta be a Bunnymen example, too? - Thorn of Crowns

one of the tracks on the 2nd side of 'ogdens nut gone flake', i think it's 'mad john', fits this.

"All around the world" has no doors.

Um, will get back.

I'm thinking there's gotta be some examples of this from Spoon.

Pretty much every song on A Series Of Sneaks, I'd say.

"I will always ask you where you've been, even though I always know the answer"

Forget who it's by, hem hem.

"Little Boy Soldiers" the Jam.

"Question" Moody Blues

I thought about Medication by Spiritualized but actually it's just weird-intro and then quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD.

Six.By Seven?

Got to be some Sparks songs for this, I reckon, though I can't quite think which.

I like songs that whisk you through disjointed parts, but the thread title seems a little airier than that, like you have space to choose your doors, as opposed to the constrained rollercoaster feel of Cardiacs or all those twisty mathy bands that suddenly let a diminished arpeggio spider up like the whiplash-quick offspring of the bass clarinet throb signalling the shifts in Music for 18 Musicians. I suppose they still fit if the doors of the title are the unconnected succession of identical doors in a cartoon corridor chase. Maybe that's the prog v pop distinction...

Cop Shoot Cop by Spiritualized kind of fits, but at 17 minutes long if it didn't have many doors it'd be dull as fuck.

Yo La Tengo gotta have something?

a whole bunch of Akron/Family songs

("Moment", if I had to pick just one)

no wait I think I wanna change my vote to "I've Got Some Friends" cuz it's shorter and catchier

Some more:

Air - "People in the City"
Ozzy Osbourne - "No More Tears"
Delgados - "Accused of Stealing"
Stereolab - "Captain Easychord"
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Sunmoonstars"
Love & Rockets - "Haunted When the Minutes Drag"
Grandaddy - "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot"
His Name is Alive - "In Every Ford"
Pale Saints - "Half Life"

Ctr+F "A QUICK ONE WHILE HE'S AWAY" no! no??

cellos cellos cellos cellos

Glasgow band Lapsus Linguae are pretty good at this sort of thing.

http://www.myspace.com/lapsuslinguaetheband

I personally overlooked that Grandaddy song, because the majority of it settles into one groove, but perhaps a case can be made for it seeing as most of the big changes are near the start.

your Spiritualized choice is clearly their best song, "Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In"
your Six.BySeven choice is...there isn't one. I have all their albums. There isn't one.

I'm not considering something which is at a push a room with just about two doors fwiw. It's gotta be a festival of choices.

Something tells me I might enjoy that Myspace link, cheers!

Peshay - The Nocturnal (Back On The Firm)

At The Drive-In, Louis?

Augie March?

"Arcarsenal", right there, bam xpost

Nino - The Gun

holy christ, Lapsus Linguae are *AMAZING*