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
In reverse (tomorrow/sorrow): Nilsson, 'Without You'
― ledge, Monday, 21 December 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
"What I Did for Love" from A Chorus Line
― coup coup kajoo (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 December 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
kid cudi - “pursuit of happiness”
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 December 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Springsteen, "Janey Don't You Lose Heart" and "Take 'em As They Come" (same lyric, repurposed)
― Lily Dale, Monday, 21 December 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
doot doot doo lookin' out my back door
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
The Colour Field -“Thinking of You”
― Tim, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
I'm sure there is at least one thread for this but it's hard to search: is the 'I love you, I need you' and variants thereof the most used and abused couplet in music? (Prompted by listening to All Because of You by Leroy Hutson.)
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
Songs that alternate between 3/3 and 4/4:Van Morristown- Celtic ray
― calstars, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
Songs that mention getting high followed by some instrumental flourish or emphasis :Allman bros- Ain’t wastin time no more
― calstars, Friday, 29 January 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
And I learned to play some lead guitar I was under age in this funky barAnd I stepped outside to smoke myself a j (INSTRUMENTAL FLOURISH)And when I come back to the roomAnd everybody just seemed to move And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play (INSTRUMENTAL FLOURISH)And it was late in the eveningAnd I blew that room away
― market capybara (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 January 2021 01:46 (three years ago) link
(INSTRUMENTAL FLOURISH)
― market capybara (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 January 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
songs where you can't find what you're looking for"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, February 12, 2018 2:34 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, February 12, 2018 2:34 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Let's add
"Where is my mind?" Pixies"Where's my jumper" Sultans of ping fc
― Mark G, Friday, 29 January 2021 07:27 (three years ago) link
Similar to a track we were on above—songs where the title almost, but not quite, matches the lyric:Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody (the lyric is “You’re gonna have to serve somebody”)
― Home Pong (morrisp), Friday, 29 January 2021 07:43 (three years ago) link
Oh, sorry, we actually did do this—
songs where the "titular phrase" is slightly different from the title of the song:L'Trimm - Cars With the Boom ("we like the cars, the cars that go boom")
― Home Pong (morrisp), Friday, 29 January 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
(Dylan and L’Trimm make a great pair.... wonder if any others deserve to join them in this pantheon.)
― Home Pong (morrisp), Friday, 29 January 2021 07:57 (three years ago) link
instrumental flourish after getting high - "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo"?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link
songs with names beginning with Mr or Mrs/Miss in which the name is a ridiculous , over-the-top 'character' name and or being used as a nickname to insult someone:
Helloween has a few of these:
"Mr Torture""Mr Ego (Take Me Down)"
Jean Knight - "Mr Big Stuff"
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 January 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
“Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”?
― excuse me while I fold my pants (morrisp), Sunday, 31 January 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
John Fogerty - “Mr. Greed”
― excuse me while I fold my pants (morrisp), Sunday, 31 January 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
I feel like "Mr. Man" has appeared several times
― Copybara / pasteybara (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 January 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
The Kinks, "Little Miss Queen of Darkness"
― Lily Dale, Monday, 1 February 2021 01:36 (three years ago) link
Killers,"Mr Brightside"
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 February 2021 01:38 (three years ago) link
Mr. Briefcase - Lee ritenour
― calstars, Monday, 1 February 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
“little miss strange”“he’s misstra know it all”
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 February 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link
Ashlee Simpson - "Little Miss Obsessive"
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 1 February 2021 01:59 (three years ago) link
Edie Brickell, "Little Miss S"
― Copybara / pasteybara (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 February 2021 02:29 (three years ago) link
“Mr Clean” by the Jam“Mr Shuck ‘n’ Jive” by Art Garfunkel (maybe the Waylon & Willie version is better known? It’s a Jimmy Webb song anyway.).
― Tim, Monday, 1 February 2021 08:20 (three years ago) link
"He's Misstra Know It All" - Stevie"Mr Big" - Free
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 1 February 2021 08:39 (three years ago) link
"Mr. Sheep" - Randy Newman
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 1 February 2021 10:22 (three years ago) link
Mr. Vain by Culture BeatMr. Skeng by StormzyMrs. Officer by Lil Wayne
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Monday, 1 February 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
Mr. Blue Sky by ELOMr. Brownstone by Guns & RosesMr. Moustache by Nirvana
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Monday, 1 February 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
songs with somewhat pedestrian verses that ratchet up significantly in intensity during the pre-chorus/chorus:
feel like Accept's "Balls to the Wall" is the best example of this. starts out with a boilerplate opening riff, verse is pretty restrained, makes you think that maybe this is a weirdly subdued opener, then the pre-chorus starts and suddenly Udo is shrieking at you and we're segueing into an amazing gang chorus.
was just taken aback by that abrupt shift the first time, how awesome it was.
― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
Mr Loverman by Shabba RanksMr Mind Detector by Goffin/King (Everly Bros, Status Quo)
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
Oh wait i think that one's a Quo original and there was a different Goffin/King song on that same record
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 04:06 (three years ago) link
Mr. Suit
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
Two more songs about not finding stuff you are looking for:
The Divine Comedy, "Lost Property"Van der Graaf Generator, "All That Before"
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
songs that explore the looseness of Lucys:(aka some of the best songs in the world)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvQ4zRHMLoDestra Garcia • Lucyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqT0q8iPQAAEltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 February 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
Grateful Dead - Loose Lucy
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 26 February 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 26 February 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
the acrobatics to draw on the phrase "beg borrow or steal" in the third line are even clunkier.
re: sorrow/tomorrow, this has to be one of those rhymes that shows up in hundreds upon hundreds of songs
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
From Autumn to Ashes did that shit:
You might be just what I needNo I would not change a thingBeen dreaming of this so longBut we only exist in this songThe thing is, I'm not worth the sorrowAnd if you come and meet me tomorrow
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
Songs that use music/a musical instrument as a metaphor for being or falling in love.We fell in love in the key of C...You followed me down the neck to DWilco, Shot in the Arm
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 February 2021 10:26 (three years ago) link
Toni Braxton • Spanish Guitar
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 27 February 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
Kathleen Edwards, "The Cheapest Key"
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 27 February 2021 11:06 (three years ago) link