Weezer - "El Scorcho"
― Indexed, Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
Night Boat To Cairo
― Tim, Thursday, 30 September 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
Try (Just a little bit harder)
― Lily Dale, Friday, 1 October 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
and Cry Baby is another Janis one
― Lily Dale, Friday, 1 October 2021 01:38 (two years ago) link
Stand! Sly & the Family Stone.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
Tears for Fears - ShoutOtis Redding - Down in the Valley
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 1 October 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
B-52s must have some of these but I am not adequately familiar with their oeuvre
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 1 October 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
oh Police - Roxanne
Bowie "Fame"Hendrix "Purple Haze" is boldly announced but it is less striking b/c preceded by the riff which is far more iconic than the vocals
ok gonna stop now. this category is too big i think
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 1 October 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
I was reminded of this great Allo Darlin song when I thought of "El Scorcho" yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3iFqhReoic
Got me thinking if there are other songs that embed a piece of another song inside themselves? Not just a lyrical. Thinking this may be more common in rap, such as:
Big Boi - "Shutterbug" (Soul 2 Soul's "Back to Life")
― Indexed, Friday, 1 October 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
songs that have audible sound effects of people urinating included at some point
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
Snoop Doggy Dogg - "Gin and Juice"
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 October 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
Got me thinking if there are other songs that embed a piece of another song inside themselves? Not just a lyrical.
Jonathan Richman breaks into "Sister Ray" for a bit in his song about the Velvet Underground.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 1 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Hadn’t heard that one. Thought of another. Bowie’s “Young Americans” has that bit of the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” (“I heard the news today oh boy”).
― Indexed, Saturday, 2 October 2021 11:57 (two years ago) link
Moxy Fruvous' "The Drinking Song" incorporates an entire chorus of "Goodnight Irene."
― Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Lynmouth, Ilfracome, etc. (SlimAndSlam), Saturday, 2 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
Songs sung from the point of view of someone dead and buried:"Feed the Tree" - Belly"Heliotrope" - Robyn Hitchcock"Long Black Veil" - Lefty Frizzell/Johnny Cash/The Band/etc.
― Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Lynmouth, Ilfracome, etc. (SlimAndSlam), Saturday, 2 October 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 2 October 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
songs that embed a piece of another song inside themselves
the obvious answer: madonna “deeper and deeper”
― scanner darkly, Saturday, 2 October 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
embedded: "Give Peace a Chance" in Yes's "Seen All Good People" urination fx are def in some song with a "night club bathroom break" section. i'm thinking Eminem is responsible... maybe "Shake That"?
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 2 October 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
"Piss on Your Grave" by the Coup
― Lily Dale, Friday, 15 October 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
make you feeeeel allllright
ya yaaaaa yaaaa
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 October 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link
what's obvious?
https://halfacow.bandcamp.com/track/if-its-catchy-it-means-you-stole-it
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 15 October 2021 05:16 (two years ago) link
Beatles - “All You Need is Love” (“She Loves You”)
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 15 October 2021 06:16 (two years ago) link
Okkervil River's 'Famous Tracheotomies' incorporates a few bars of 'Waterloo Sunset'.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 15 October 2021 06:28 (two years ago) link
okkervil river also uses that trick on “john allyn smith sails” (sloop john b)
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 October 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
Are there other songs out there along the lines of Prince's "Little Red Corvette," Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac," and Kesha's "Gold Trans Am," where the singer constructs this epic sexual innuendo around a specific car of a specific color, make and/or model?
― Lily Dale, Friday, 15 October 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
MausSex with carSex on top of carSex inside of carSex with movie starSex with Ringo Starr
― calstars, Friday, 15 October 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
Not specific but related
― calstars, Friday, 15 October 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
T rex “I’ll call you jaguar…?”
― calstars, Friday, 15 October 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
gotta be a thing in country music, right?
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Friday, 15 October 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Zep’s Trampled
― calstars, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:13 (two years ago) link
Kesha on "Gold Trans Am":
It began as a song about my car, which is a gold Trans Am, and it works about 40 per cent of the time. I don't have another car because I love that one so much. But then like all great pop it became a metaphor for something else — my pussy.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 16 October 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
the obvious answer: madonna “deeper and deeper”what's obvious?
as wiki puts it:
Towards the end of the song, Madonna also quotes her previous hit song "Vogue" (1990); in the lines "You got to just let your body move to the music/You got to just let your body go with the flow". According to academic Georges Claude Guilbert, author of Madonna as Postmodern Myth, the quote from "Vogue" "enhances the ending of the song, in an ultimate post-modern twist." On the addition of the line from "Vogue" into the song, Madonna commented that "when we were actually recording doing the final vocals, I just went off into that for a second because to me it's just one of those great kind of feel good dance songs", and she saw it as a tribute to that song. She also described "Deeper and Deeper" as "not terribly intellectual, I just did and it sounded good to me".
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:02 (two years ago) link
That is definitely the ultimate postmodern twist.
― juristic person (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
'bing crosby' by the lion incorporates a bit of 'pennies from heaven'
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:13 (two years ago) link
and 'the four mills brothers' incorporates 'i ain't got nobody'
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
That is definitely the ultimate postmodern twist
the ultimate postmodern twist would be madonna quoting from “madonna as postmodern myth” book but alas
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:19 (two years ago) link
are there any songs (good or bad), particularly pop songs, thath ave to do with the satanic panic of the 80s
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
There's a Joan Baez song someone quoted on here once about ritual child sacrifice?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUsM00VS8X8
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poTA34hKbZw
― peace, man, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
Songs where the singer unintentionally sounds like a cow: Hiroshima Mon Amooooooour
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
songs in which the lead singer adds a swear word in place of a more mundane word in live performances to be "edgy".
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
Genesis - Invisible Touch. On The Way We Walk, Vol 1 - The Shorts, Phil changes "and though she will mess up your life" to "and though she will fuck up your life".
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
most New Order songs
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
Seems to me that when songwriters / bands run out of things to write about, they start writing about food. What are the earliest examples of this? Initially I hit upon “custard pie” and “hot dog” by Zep but also maybe “savoy truffle” seven years earlier. “Hot tamales” by r Johnson prob excluded right
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I… don’t think custard pie is about food
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Saturday, 13 November 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Van Halen’s “poundcake”
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
Ist
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
Warrants “cherry pie” Is a deliberate euphemism. Excluded
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link