"Time Passes Slowly" - Bob Dylan
Build me a cabin in UtahMarry me a wife, catch rainbow troutHave a bunch of kids who call me "pa"That must be what it's all about,That must be what it's all about
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
Stay Up Late - Talking HeadsBabies - PulpRuns in the Family - Roches
― Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
House - Patrick Wolf
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
I don't know their catalogues to the level required, but I've always suspected that squeeze, the beautiful south, paul weller have done this on a relatively regular basis.
― mark e, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
"a man needs a maid" "comes a time""harvest moon"i feel like neil young could probably do a whole set of these
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
This is one of my favorite settling down songs. There are a bunch of versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II3moM5Dmf8
― Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
Yeah, "Up the Junction" by Squeeze is this, and then some. xxp
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
A Beautiful Shape by Six.by Seven. “A quiet life with my wife is all I need for goodness sakes”.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Bob Dylan—Sign on the WindowThe whole New Morning record covers this area. It was surprising to learn the songs were all written to accompany a play.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Beautiful South do have loads of these yeah but I'm busy atm
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
Wilco—Hate it Here
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
xxp Whoops, that's the Dylan song I thought I was quoting upthread (got the lyrics right, the title wrong!)
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
The Kinks - Two Sisters
― portugal. the bland (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
"goat and ram" -- superwolf (i only remember this one because of the way he turns "children" into a three syllable word) there are a handful of BPB songs that would probably fit
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
Michael Hurley/Unholy Modal Rounders/Jeffery Fredericks - Slurf Song
― portugal. the bland (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Other B South songs that jump to mind:
Let Love Speak Up ItselfBell-bottomed TearWe Are Each Other
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
"Thirty-three" by the Smashing Pumpkins is about longing for all of this w/o actually getting it
"My Blue Heaven" as performed by Gene Austin is probably the oldest example itt.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Bowie's "Kooks" imo
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Again BS in a dark way - Woman in the Wall
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
XTC - "Earn Enough for Us"
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
The Beatles -- When I'm Sixty-Four
― Brad C., Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Bob Dylan—Sign on the Window
The whole New Morning record covers this area. It was surprising to learn the songs were all written to accompany a play.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 1:42 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love this:
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
The Band - "Rocking Chair" is the impulse recast as a tragedy, an old salty dog who won't live to see home again....and Danko and Manuel never did
Hear the sound, Willie Boy,The Flyin' Dutchman's on the reef.It's my beliefWe've used up all our time,This hill's to steep to climb,And the days that remain ain't worth a dime.Oh, to be home again,Down in old Virginny,With my very best friend,They call him Ragtime Willie.Would-a-been nice just t'see the folks,Listen once again to the stale jokes,That big Rockin' Chair won't go nowhere.I can hear something calling on me
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
xp I already quoted that, d00d! :D
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
Paul McCartney -- Every NightPaul McCartney -- Eat at Home
― Brad C., Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Disney Girls (1957) - The Beach Boys
idk if this is even the best example of this in the BBs catalog! Much prefer "When a Man Needs a Woman", "Busy Doin' Nothin", "Time to Get Alone", "H.E.L.P. is on the Way", "I Wanna Pick You Up"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Tom Waits, "Frank's Wild Years":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I9GqxDA4ac
Well, Frank settled down in the ValleyAnd he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife's foreheadHe sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando RoadAnd assumed a thirty thousand dollar loan at fifteen and a quarter percentAnd put a down payment on a little two bedroom placeHis wife was a spent piece of used jet trashMade good bloody Marys, kept her mouth shut most of the timeHad a little Chihuahua named CarlosThat had some kind of skin disease and was totally blindThey had a thoroughly modern kitchen, self-cleaning oven, the whole bitFrank drove a little sedan, yhey were so happyOne night Frank was on his way home from work, stopped at the liquor storePicked up a couple of Mickey's Big MouthsDrank 'em in the car on his way to the Shell stationGot a gallon of gas in a canDrove home, doused everything in the house, torched itParked across the street laughing, watching it burnAll Halloween-orange and chimney-redThen Frank put on a top forty stationGot on the Hollywood Freeway, headed northNever could stand that dog
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ozl5SahSko
― velko, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
My Girls mentioned at the top of the thread, this is regular subject matter for Panda Bear in his solo work & songs for AC:
I'm NotBrosYou Can Count On MeMr NoahCrosswordsSunsetDaily RoutineNew Town BurnoutRosie OhRecycling
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
ooh also forgot Beach Boys' "I'd Love Just Once to See You"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
every mumford and sons song probably
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
blue nile "family life"
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
xxp I thought that was about a horny single guy impatiently waiting for his girl to come over... (I guess he does wash a few dishes, lol)
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
Beginning of a Great Adventure - Lou Reed:
It might be fun to have a kid that I could kick arounda little me to fill up with my thoughtsA little me or he or she to fill up with my dreamsa way of saying life is not a loss
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
lucky escape for lou's non-existent child there.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
Lol
― Alba, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
"My House" would be another good Lou pick.
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
i'll stick with you : the primitives.
― mark e, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen - Stolen Car
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
Watching the Wheels. John Lennon.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
Lyle Lovett, "Pontiac":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il81IjQQ3ag
I park my PontiacDown the hill out in backLate every afternoonWith a Coke and a cigaretteAnd all of the neighbors thereThey see a nice old man
And the girl there across the streetShe sits on her front porch swingShe never realizedBut I told her with my eyesHow back in the Second WarI killed 20 German boysWith my own bare hands
And the woman inside my houseShe won't stop talkingShe never says a thingShe just keeps talkingAnd I might just leave her stillAfter the sun goes down
And I smoke this cigarette
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
the Who, "Love Ain't For Keeping"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Always thought “Domestica” would be a great title for a Middle Aged indie rock band whose members are settling down
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
album title that is
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Greg Phillinganes - Lazy Nina
― Stupor Fly, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Billy Joel - Famous Last Words
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Neil Young "Country Home"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
Paul Simon has more than the one mentioned in the original post. Some great bits in the Obvious Child, for example:
We had a lot of funWe had a lot of moneyWe had a little son and we thought we'd call him SonnySonny gets married and moves awaySonny has a baby and bills to paySonny gets sunnierDay by day by day by day
a bit later in the song, Sonny's going through his own mid-life reflection:
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himselfHow it's strange that some rooms are like cagesSonny's yearbook from high schoolIs down from the shelfAnd he idly thumbs through the pagesSome have diedSome have fled from themselvesOr struggled from here to get thereSonny wanders beyond his interior wallsRuns his hand through his thinning brown hair
― Valentijn, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Harry Chapin - Cats in the CradleHarry Nilsson - Best FriendRon Sexsmith - Michael and his Dad (rips my guts out every listen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ISUaWxooM
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Tracey Thorn's "Hormones" has a nice contrast of her aging chemistry vs her daughter's youth.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
wait has no one mentioned "OUR HOUSE"?!!?!?― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera),
original post.
― mark e, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
oh whoopssorry!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
:)it was my first thought as well, so was pissed off that OP had already hit that spot.that said, i am sure that Madness will have done others, just that i am not in that space at the moment.
― mark e, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
Squeeze - She Doesn't have to ShaveSqueeze - Can of Worms
― enochroot, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Shangri-La, The KinksYou and Me, Randy NewmanThe Folks Who Live on the Hill, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone et al (written by Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein)
― Josefa, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
Feel like there must be more Kinks songs, Ray always felt like such an adult songwriter even at a young age
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
xp to self oops that Randy Newman song is actually called Love Story
― Josefa, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
xp to the list in the original post:"shop vac" is such an awesome call.
Maybe if you forget to hide the keysI'll take a ride to Applebee'sI'll come home drunk on daiquirisand throw up on the neighbor's lawn
― enochroot, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
Which made me think of another one... Depreston by Courtney Barnett:
You said we should look out furtherI guess it wouldn't hurt usWe don’t have to be around all these coffee shopsNow we've got that percolatorNever made a latte greater.I’m saving 23 dollars a week
Now we've got that percolatorNever made a latte greater.I’m saving 23 dollars a week
― enochroot, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
Darling Lorraine - Paul SimonAnd Settlin' Down - Poco
― Bloody Snail, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
In a couple of years they have built a home sweet home,With a couple of kids running in the yard,Of Desmond and Molly Jones- Beatles "Obladi-Oblada"
― o. nate, Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Hiss Golden Messenger - "Mahogany Dread"
"Girl of mine with silver in your hairI still want you.It's getting hard to be easy now.A couple of kidsMahogany dreadBut happy days are still ahead."
― daily growing, Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Lots of country songs
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
I wanna get married.Yes, I need a spouse.I want a nice Leave-It-To-Beaver-ishgolden retriever and a little white house.
I wanna get married.I need to cook meals.I wanna pack you cute little lunchesfor my Brady bunchesthen read Danielle Steele.- Nellie McKay "I Wanna Get Married"
― o. nate, Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
More Randy Newman: "Feels Like Home"
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
I also have this daydream of proposing marriage by taking my gal for a drive down a road where I've laid out a succession of signs with Leonard Cohen lyrics:
Baby let's get married We've been alone too long
Let's be alone togetherLet's see if we're that strong
Let's do something crazySomething absolutely wrong
While we're waiting for the miracle to come
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
and there was i hoping that this thread would be about the good side of domesticity and the contentment of settling down …
― Alba, Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
another one about the unattainable dream of settling down
gerry rafferty - "baker street"
― macropuente (map), Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
Me and My Husband - Mitski
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 25 October 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
not a heartwarming story but Peter Gabriel's Home Sweet Home
― orifex, Thursday, 25 October 2018 05:51 (five years ago) link
sizeable chunks of the faun fables catalog
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
oh and wots... uh the deal by pink floyd
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
Skyhooks: "Balwyn Calling" and "All My Friends Are Getting Married"
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
Chuck Berry "You Never Can Tell", obv.
― fetter, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
Also, most of Adem's "Homesongs" album. And John Martyn's "Sunday's Child"
― fetter, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
always found the deployment of this line from blanche blanche blanche's uncrazy striking:
"I just want to take care of my wife and play basketball"
even before the pause and addition of "and get hit by a car"
― ogmor, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Let's Move to the Country - Smog:
Let's move to the countryJust you and me
My travels are overMy travels are through
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
How have Pet Shop Boys not come up yet?
― imago, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
"climbing trees" by bauer, can't believe nobody has mentioned this one already
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yesterday I was ambushed by unexpected emotion listening to George Jones and Tammy Wynette's "Two Story House" for the first time. What a sad song.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Last Time I Saw Richard: "Richard got married to a figure skater / and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator."
― (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Michelle Shocked's "When I Grow Up", about settling down with "me, my old man, and 120 babies."
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Nanko - Lucky You
When you reach home, you’re greeted with hugs and kissesBy your wife and your three lovely kidsJust to see your dinner on the tableAin’t got nothing to worry about, you got your cableStill got a young one coming up in the cradleDamn, man, your life must be so stableAs for me, I’m unable, disabled, I’m like a fable
― Ex Slacker, Friday, 26 October 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
I'm not the cat I used to beI got a kid, I'm thirty-three
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 October 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7rWf4tH-jE
If you learn to driveI can use the train and the busWhen you're mobile, we'll goTake my toys and your cat with usWe'll leave the violenceWe'll have something to doWith a couch-bed in the front roomFor when we fall out, or when our friends come through
It's painting a kitchen that's keeping me goingAnd we've already named the seeds I'll be sowing
And when they've grown upThat's hoping that I don't shoot blanksCould we move right up northFind a house near the shores and the banks?With a big fuckoff tellyA brand new stereo systemWe'll meet old friends at funeralsAnd pretend that we've missed them
And if they were hereThey'd say it was shockingTo find we've already named the dog we'll be walking
It's choosing a mattress that's keeping me goingAnd we've already named the seeds I'll be sowing
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 26 October 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PEMP-nIY1U
What would you say if I offered this all upTo move, like a wreck, to the Neuk?With a room for your art, and a room for my tunes?And a promise we both kept never to leave?
Just say the word...
You can't manufacture loveBuild a flutter out of paper Hoodwink my heartSure you wouldn't know where to start
So II can say without fearJust catch my eye in a certain wayAnd we'll be out of here
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 26 October 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
Pulp's Babies isn't right for this. Maybe Disco 2000
― paulhw, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
not sure i'd say this is about the happy side of domesticity but i love this song so I can't help posting it.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - I Eat Dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2x9uZVPek
― Will (kruezer2), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Richard Shindell's song "A Summer Wind, a Cotton Dress" hits me pretty hard. It's the only relatable infidelity song I know of.The kids are fineThey're six and nineI think you'd probably like my wifeBut the kitchen lightSeems much too brightFor what I find myself thinking tonight
― Glasnostradamus (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
"Don't Marry Her" has a reference to the sun shining on San Francisco Bay which always reminded me of the following story, but I've never come across this usage anywhere else:
In the late 1980s, Pickett recalled how he came by it: “Noreen Woods from Atlantic Records, she called me that one day because back in that time, the secretaries were wearing these miniskirts. One of these girls was leaning over the desk. On a clear day, you could see the San Francisco Bay. So I went and pinched her. Noreen saw it: she said, ‘My, my, you are so Wicked.’ Jerry Wexler ran out of his office. ‘That’s it baby, that’s it, that’s the name of his next album, baby. The Wicked Pickett, that’s it, put it down.’Fletcher, Tony. In the Midnight Hour (p. 96). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
Vampire Weekend, "Stranger" feels nicely domestic - "Another night indoors, another sign of life, wobbling up through the floor."
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
Ray Davies - Quiet Life (from the movie Absolute Beginners)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 14 January 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
As someone mentions above, it would take a while to list all the Davies songs on this theme, but The Kinks Present a Soap Opera is an entire album about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link