Songs that are "rooms with many doors"

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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

four months pass...

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

one year passes...

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

seven months pass...

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

four years pass...

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


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