songs which are or sound like pastiches of 'subterranean homesick blues'

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Nine Inch Nails, "Down In It"

NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Elvis Costello: Tokyo Storm Warning

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever that Mouse & the Traps song was - oh yeah, "Public Execution."

Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I addressed this very topic on this thread here:

Song of Each Decade

M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and for genuinely amusing silliness, there's Ray Stevens' "Gitarzan".

M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys forgot the parody by weird al, "bob"

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Scritti Politti, "Lions After Slumber"

and that song about signs...

hank (hank s), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Basically, you mean 'rap, right? I mean, that's the thread that very tenuously holds most of these tunes together.

That said, Simon Joyner's "Open Window Blues," from his Skeleton Blues album, which I happen to be listening to right now for, like, the 10,000th time, fits this description.

In general, I'm not a huge fan of these 'verbose, free associative' type songs because they generally very sound effortless to write, and there hasn't been one as good as Subterranean Homesick Blues (though Tokyo Storm Warning comes very very close)

Shake Snake (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and The Escape Club's horrendous "Wild Wild West," to thread

Spine Swine (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Give Peace a Chance

PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Early Bruce has a ton of these. Most notably:

Blinded By The Light

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

The Theme to The L Word.

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Rap in general. :)

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon & Garfunkel - The cringingly awful "A Simple Desultory Phillipic"

Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Reasons to be cheerful.

Part Three.

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Eddie Rabbit -- "Drivin' My Life Away"

Kris Gallimore (eeyore19), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link


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