Songs featuring answering machine messages:
Papa M - Crowd of OneBlind Melon - Letters from A Porcupine
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
Songs featuring abusive answering machine messages which are actually tracks from another artist, though the group seem not to be aware of this
Placebo – Evil Dildo
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
Songs whose title(s) were the title of the band's preceding album, rather than the album they appeared on:
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the HolySleepyhead - Punk Rock City U.S.A.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
xxp (answering machine messages)
Thurston Moore - Queen Bee and Her Pals
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Btw - now I'm wondering if Sleepyhead did that as a deliberate nod to Zeppelin.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Elvis Costello sometimes had a habit of titling albums using a lyric inside a song that's not the title track (e.g. My Aim Is True), or a lyric from a different album, but he wasn't even remotely consistent about it
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
literal elvis example: "almost blue"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Yes. But there are as many counterexamples (Punch the Clock, All this Useless Beauty, This Year's Model) as to render the generalization false
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
was i generalizing?
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
this year's model does fit this one:
"songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same" - "this year's girl"
and this one:
"Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it": "capital punishment, she's last year's model" from "(i don't want to go to) chelsea"
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
Wow, sorry, I was going from sloppy memory and miscategorized This Year's Model for some reason. My bad. And you r cool, fcc
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Quite right that Almost Blue - song title but from different album
Punch the Clock - lyric but not song title
My Aim Is True - lyric but not song title
This Year's Model - lyric but not song title
King of America - lyric but not song title (and it's on a different album)
Imperial Bedroom - I think, not on the album but a bonus track?
All this useless beauty, however, is both the song title and it's on that album.
There are so many, I haven't thought about this in a while.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
EC is the king of this thread, huh...
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Songs whose lyrics reference Un Chien Andalou:
Sexy Death Soda - When the Money FallsPixies - Debaser
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
isn't the lyric from "brilliant mistake"? which is the opening track from King of America?
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
Yes, you are right, sorry.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Songs in which the singer acknowledges there may be a shortcoming in his lyrics:Beatles - only a northern songBlack Sabbath - the writ
― calstars, Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
There is a Mansun song which is entirely on this topic, it is not a good song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10Jk58zFa0
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven ("Lyrically weak, but the music's the thing")
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Max Tundra - Labial ("I only sing about things that happen to me / I never learned how to fill my songs with allegory")
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
TMBG, "Number Three"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
Alice Cooper - "School's Out" ("We can't even think of a word that rhymes")
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Tower to the skies, an academy of liesAnd what goes up surely must come downAnd we felt the mighty blowout with the walls coming downOr something like that
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
Taupin/John “Your Song” seems like the apotheosis of this
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Orange Juice:"Nothing worth finding is easily found, Try as we might,That was supposed to sound very profound, It probably sounds trite."
― everything, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Natasha Bedingfield - These Words
(basically boils down to, "sometimes even my deepest, cleverest lyrics are no match for the heartfelt directness of a simple 'I love you' (but don't get me wrong, I have entire notebooks full of deep lyrics)"
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
Our New Song by The Wonder Stuff
Songs in which the singer acknowledges there may be a shortcoming in the previous writer's lyrics:
Herman's Hermits' cover of I'm 'enery the Eighth, I Am
― huge rant (sic), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Billy Joel - If I Only Had the Words is sort of a song about this topic, kinda like Your Song.
Neil Young Ambulance Blues isn't it exactly but "It's hard to say the meaning of this song" is in the same genre
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
I don't agree with the OP and I'm perfectly fine with ILM being the TVTropes of music as one of its roles.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
Songs that get all meta and mention 'this song' in the lyrics
Xp
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Angie Aaron, "Spaceship" says "this is just a song to pay the rent."
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
Angie Aparo
Prince: "I was dreaming when I wrote this"
Spin Doctors: "I hope you heard this song and it passed you off"
This seems like a pretty common trope
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
Klymaxx, "I miss you / there's no other way to say that rhymed."
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Weezer - In the Garage
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
Songs about sweat dripping down balls
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
tlc - waterfalls
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Perhaps "Panama":
Yeah, we're runnin' a little bit hot tonightI can barely see the road from the heat comin' offKnow what I'm sayin'Uhh, I reach down between my legs n' ease the seat back
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
Don't go chaffing waterballsPlease stick to the thighs and the boxers that you're used toI know that you're gonna scratch it your way or nothing at allBut I think you're moving too fast
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
Little-known fact: in an early draft of "Night and Day," Cole Porter originally wrote
Like the drip drip drip of the sweat-dropsBetween the choad and the taintSo a voice inside me whispers...Night and dayYou are the one
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
Frank Ocean "Nikes"
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 18 December 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
songs where a woman corresponds with her husband under an assumed identity and arranges a liaison with him as a test of his marital fidelity:Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)Kate Bush - Babooshka― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered)
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)Kate Bush - Babooshka
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered)
Haha, I didn't know someone posted this a year before I polled these two songs.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 18 December 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
to my shame, it appears that the Steve Hoffman forum beat me to it by about eight years:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/kate-bushs-babooshka-vs-rupert-holmes-escape.211500/
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Friday, 18 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
Songs that contain lyrics with “sorrow” being rhymed and resolved by “tomorrow”Black Sabbath - megalomania
― calstars, Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
John Prine, "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" is one, but there are hundreds.
It's up there with "college" / "knowledge."
A bit behind "night-time" / "right time" but still in the Overused Rhyme Hall of Shame.
― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
heart / part, life / wife
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
fire/desire
― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 December 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
^oh yeah, that’s the big one
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Monday, 21 December 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
Songs that contain lyrics with “sorrow” being rhymed and resolved by “tomorrow”
From Autumn to Ashes, "Autumn's Monologue"
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 December 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
Steven Wilson, "Happy Returns"
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 21 December 2020 06:44 (three years ago) link