Songs that are "rooms with many doors"

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.

Electric Soft Parade: Silent To The Dark
10cc: I'm Mandy Fly Me (and also "Une Nuit a Paris" and "Don't Hang Up", but they are verging on prog anyway)

electric soft parade. that's a room without any doors i'd say.

Just about anybody's Brian Wilson tribute song such as:

The Dukes of Stratosphear - "Pale and Precious"
Lindsey Buckingham - "D.W. Suite"

From the same Lindsey Buckingham album - "Play in the Rain" (though the fragments never really gel into an actual song)

His Name Is Alive - "Sick"

& don't forget Olivia Tremor Control

How has Big Star not been mentioned yet? Just about every song on Radio City has what, like, 75 doors.

Sunset Rubdown does this a lot, to particularly great effect on Dragonslayer (esp. "Idiot Heart" and "Anna Anna Anna OH")

electric soft parade. that's a room without any doors i'd say.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 4 September 2009 22:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark

listen to their goddamn second album and their EP and then listen to thomas white's brilliant ESP-transcending solo record and then restate that galdarn claim

actually silent to the dark is *fabulous* and i am all for its discussion here

"Savitri" from the new Rodrigo y Gabriela is a recent example of this, one that takes the concept quite literally with the sound of creaking doors accompanying peeks into different parts.

Delgados - The Past That Suits You Best

Virtually anything by Motorpsycho.

Opening track of the new Working For A Nuclear Free City (Do A Stunt) is the best out-and-out 'prog' song since the 70's maybe? haha ok that's bullshit but it's *fucking incredible*

and it's 2:44

Not on spotify :(

Btw, listening to Ddiamondd - almost forgot how good it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPzHUtNwbX0

^wasn't mad about this. Also, 'Alphaville', how fitting.

Do A Stunt is nothing, absolutely NOTHING like that Alphaville song

Ddiamondd is GREAT hehe - Mirrored still rly bangs

wait, I'll Sendspace it

Here. Get ready for...greatness. http://www.sendspace.com/file/36l75h

:DDD

In the queue after Intertiatic ESP finishes! Cedric can sing really nicely actually..shame the song is Yes minus geir-friendly hooks.

I suppose some songs by Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti and Field Music this year might fit into this category.

It's very good indeed - so many ideas and little bits! For some reason I always assumed Working were a spacemen 3 style dronerock thing.

Come to think of it that opening strummy guitar bit could be on a Stone Roses or Primal Scream record! Then the acoustic comes in..

Field Music were the only band WFANFC could come up with when trying to name good contemporary British music, haha! They're not really dronerock (although they can do it) so much as true eclecticism at play (with an electronic/rock skew, admittedly) - and it's very exciting to hear a band willing to do that

haha no challop to say that either of those bands' imaginations wouldn't have lasted more than 5 seconds of that song

i'd say Blind Guardian's "I'm Alive" fits that...

"Prog" in 2011 = horrible bad cardie bait