Songs that are "rooms with many doors"

What about Roxy Music's If There Is Something? In the beginning a boring country rock ballad but then it takes off into melodramatic loveland. Bryan Ferry almost drowns in his tears.

Windowlicker Aphex Twin
Arcarsenal At The Drive-In
Rock Lobster The B-52's
Tooled Up Bark Psychosis
Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
Heroes And Villians The Beach Boys
Shake Your Rump Beastie Boys
Happiness Is A Warm Gun The Beatles
Hotwax Beck
The Beta Band Rap The Beta Band
Dragon The Beta Band
Eclipse The Beta Band
Get On The Bus The Boo Radleys
Four Saints The Boo Radleys
Joel The Boo Radleys
Black Metal Valentine Califone
A Life Of Possibilities The Dismemberment Plan
The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich The Dismemberment Plan
Thorn Of Crowns Echo & The Bunnymen
Porcupine Echo & The Bunnymen
All You Good Good People Embrace
The Spark That Bled The Flaming Lips
Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand
Epic Problem Fugazi
Nightshop Fugazi
São Paulo Guillemots
Rocket Queen Guns N' Roses
The Love You Save The Jackson 5
Through The Night Softly Jim O'Rourke
Only Skin Joanna Newsom
Like I Love You Justin Timberlake
Jig Of Life Kate Bush
Dazed And Confused Led Zeppelin
Godiva Long Fin Killie
You Set The Scene Love
Your Mind And We Belong Together Love
7 And 7 Is Love
Pump Up The Volume M/A/R/R/S
Six Mansun
Shotgun Mansun
Group Four Massive Attack
Sister Anne MC5
She Lives In My Lap Outkast
Ghetto Musick Outkast
B.O.B Outkast
Funky Squaredance Phoenix
Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) Radiohead
Paranoid Android Radiohead
Man Without Friends Siobhan Donaghy
Hummer Smashing Pumpkins
William, It Was Really Nothing The Smiths
Metal Detektor Spoon
Waiting For The Kid To Come Out Spoon
Slow Life Super Furry Animals
Receptacle For The Respectable Super Furry Animals
Happiness Is Easy Talk Talk
Artists Only Talking Heads
Sowing The Seeds Of Love Tears For Fears
DJed Tortoise
Poor Places Wilco
England part 2 Working For A Nuclear Free City
Nancy Adam Susan Working For A Nuclear Free City
Music Is Music As Devices Are Kisses Is Everything 65DaysOfStatic

Not doing too badly.

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Yes, early Roxy were the kings of this.

Stevie Wonder's gotta have something that fits?

"Sir Duke," kinda.

Has anyone said "MacArthur Park" yet?

you don't have any roxy music on your hard drive, nick? i am surprised to say the least.

Yes, early Roxy were the kings of this.

Queens, rather.

Nick, you don't possess a copy of LiLiPUT: "Eisiger Wind"???

Or every record ever, for that matter.

EISIGER WIND!!!

Yeah! WOO WOO!!

The most doored-up room ever, amirite?

I don't have any Roxy Music on CD, let alone my iPod.

'William, It Was Really Nothing' is an inspired choice. In a similar vein, I nominate 'Penny Lane'

Needs more SFA, Louis.

Ice Hockey Hair.

Slow Life would have been my next suggestion!

Not Ice Hockey Hair...that one's overrated imo

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maybe Cloudberries? Zoom?

IHH was one of the last non-shitty songs they did imho

In addition to the Love songs already mentioned, there is also "Daily Planet" and "The Castle".

And too many Incredible String Band songs to list.

yeah well yr a time-capsule 90's stan xp

Slow Life would be my alt, so yeah.

Is the live 12" version of "The man don't give a fuck" too long for this?

SM, I'm sending you my traxx. You'll be submitting a final compilation at some point, I'm guessing? I didn't have any Moonshake on hand, so I included "Dream by Dream" by The Chills instead. I also omitted the Granddaddy track, per LJ' s observation.

Oh man, I was just thinking of "Dream by Dream" by The Chills!

Lilys - Most anything from Better Can't Make Your Life Better or the Services (for the soon to be departed) EP

btw that Lapsus Linguae arrived and is totes awesome

check yr inbox, SM.

Another thought: "Looking Glass," by The La's

update: Lapsus Linguae are *mindblowing*

Throwing Muses, "Call Me"

Roxy Music, "Ladytron" & "If There Is Something"

Nirvana "Aneurysm"

White Stripes, "Black Math" (these last two only have a couple doors)

(does Roxy Music count as prog?)

Guided by Voices, "Her Psychology Today" and "Ester's Day"

Liz Phair, "Johnny Sunshine"

Sonic Youth, "Female Mechanic on Duty"

Alice Cooper, Halo of Flies

.. et al(ice)

Belly, "Red"

Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Tale of the Giant Stoneater

... et al(ex)

also see: Flop's Whenever You're Ready

The Doors, Soft Parade

Television, Marquee Moon.

That seems fairly straightahead to me

Substitute "Little Johnny Jewel" the live version if you like.

The entire period from "Sgt. Pepper" and the following ten years to thread.

Geir, you told me on my Best Albums/Songs of the Aughties thread that you hate this type of song (or something to that effect). What gives?

yeah what gives??????

Geir hates all "difficult" songwriting except for late-period The Beatles (to the extent/at the times they qualified) and prog rock (chiefly early Genesis).

Beatesis.

The Genetles

(sorry)

Beatesis.

For a split second, I thought this was some sort of 'new' musical form invented by maybe Magma that Geir digs.

I don't get how geir could hate this considering how much he loves prog

Actually the "i love x when it's done by THE ORIGINATOR but every other example of it I hate" posture is a fairly common one amongst fans and critics alike, even though it's mostly a bullshit-ish position.