Middle eight!! (public image limited, don't ask me)
― ledge, Monday, 23 January 2023 07:30 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XKDTOiNqdE
― Alba, Monday, 23 January 2023 07:32 (one year ago) link
Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago
― The Myth of Sisyspacek (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 January 2023 13:00 (one year ago) link
Denim – The Great Pub Rock Revival ("Synthesizer solo!")
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 23 January 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
This is surely its own thread already, but Weird Al does "drum solo!" on the "Polka Your Eyes Out" medley.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 January 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Hit singles that begin really dissonant and/or atonal
OMD - Maid of OrleansAdam & the Ants - Prince CharmingThe Cure - The CaterpillarFamily - In My Own Time
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:27 (one year ago) link
I suppose Purple Haze
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:28 (one year ago) link
The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me
(which I guess is just following the example of The Beatles - I Feel Fine)
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link
Pop songs where a drumkit is only fully deployed well into the second half.
The Sundays - Can't Be SureJulia Jacklin - Lydia Wears A Cross
This doesn't feel like it should be terribly rare, tbh, so I'd appreciate suggestions/reminders...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 9 February 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
In the Air Tonight, obviously.
Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 9 February 2023 06:30 (one year ago) link
Oh god, yeah!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 9 February 2023 07:33 (one year ago) link
(FWIW, this was the intended Jacklin link. Whoops.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 9 February 2023 09:48 (one year ago) link
Game Theory - Like a Girl JesusTed Leo & The Pharmacists - Timorous Me
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure of the exact timing, but "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin (unless that isn't what is meant by "pop song").
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
Yep! These are all great. I guess I meant "popular music" broadly. Though, heck, if there's a symphony where a percussionist is conspicuously underemployed until later movements don't keep it to yourselves!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 9 February 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
Jane's Addiction - Classic Girl
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Friday, 10 February 2023 02:42 (one year ago) link
Ricardo Villalobos will happily wait for days before the drums really kick in
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 10 February 2023 08:27 (one year ago) link
Re: songs that announce sections of the song Money Mark - CryI don't really feel like a man, feelin′ low.A man on the keyboard, gonna play my organ solo (so low?)
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 10 February 2023 08:28 (one year ago) link
Yep! These are all great. I guess I meant "popular music" broadly.
Very broadly, "Krautrock" by Faust.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2023 09:19 (one year ago) link
Nick Berry - Every Loser WinsThere's about 25 hilarious seconds of clunky drums in the second half before they go again.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 10 February 2023 11:59 (one year ago) link
the drums come in sooner than the second half, but for hip-hop, a whole verse without drums is an eternity
ugk - international player’s anthem ft outkast
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 February 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
that choice really makes the song too.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 February 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
songs that announce sections of the song
Can I take it to the bridge? Take it to the bridge!
Seriously this is one of my all-time fave gimmicks and I am unlikely to tire of it, despite some cornball abuses of the trope.
I was a child the first time I heard "Dance to the Music," and I confess that my tiny mind was blown by the way each instrument enters, proclaims its role, and announces itself. I was (and remain) deeply fascinated by the way rock music is put together in layers and the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.
All we need is a drummerFor people who only need a beat
I'm gonna add a little guitarAnd make it easy to move your feet
I'm gonna add some bottomSo that the dancer there just won't hide
You might like to hear my organI said, 'ride, sally ride', now
If I could hear the horns blow
Listen to the voices
Yes, of course there are excesses. I don't think anyone still needs to unironically shout GUITAR! before a guitar solo, but sly lampshading of the trope ("Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago") is acceptable.
It is commonplace to say that a novelist is not supposed to intrude on the narrative ("Look out, here comes a metaphor!") because it interferes with suspension of disbelief.
But the ontological space of a rock and roll song is not so self-serious. We don't need to be lost in a vivid dream or seriously imagine ourselves on the deck of the Edmund Fitzgerald or whatever. There's no harm in breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging that you're making noises in front of people.
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 February 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
tbf i think it would be a problem for that song if Gordon Lightfoot had suddenly screamed out "ROCK ME, PEE WEE CHARLES" halfway through.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 February 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
Your point is well taken, Doctor.
(That said, I would secretly be pleased if more twee indie folk artists suddenly shouted FLUGELHORN! or whatever. Even better if they don't actually have a flugelhorn.)
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 February 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
are there any songs where band members bicker mid-song
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 February 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
besides battle rap songs of course, or non-song releases like "Wibbling Rivalry"
lol Neanderthal
"Bobby. Can I take it to the bridge?"
"No, James, it's not time for the bridge yet."
"Okay, how about now?"
"Nope."
"Okay NOW can I take it to the bridge?"
"Yes, but only for eight bars. Not like last time, when you extended it for no good reason."
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 February 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
Memphis soul stew
― calstars, Friday, 10 February 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
Not mid song - rather at the end - but Robbie Williams and Jane Horrocks on the former's Things
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 10 February 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
On "No Xmas For John Quays" on the "Totale's Turns" LP, Mark E. Smith tells one member of the band, mid song, to "Fucking get together, instead of showing off".
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 10 February 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
that hot-mic onstage Eagles argument
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 February 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
also I assume we'd count songs where the performers are playfully clowning each other? ex. Bo Diddley and Jerome Green going to town, as the entire lyrical content of Diddley's "Say Man."
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 February 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
There's Bowie yelling at Fripp to shut up at the end of "It's No Game", but I'm sure that's not an actual in-studio quarrel.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 10 February 2023 19:47 (one year ago) link
Fake songs that were written for fake band biopics that were hits in the show/movie but sound like shit and would never be a hit IRL
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 March 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
'My Hometown' by The Black Roses.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Monday, 13 March 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
Oh, biopic. Yeah idk sry
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Monday, 13 March 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
Isn't the correct answer "almost all of them"?
Tapeheads. Empire Records. Still Crazy. Spinal Tap. Light of Day. That Thing You Do. Rock Star. Almost Famous. Documentary Now. Dreamgirls. Inside Llewyn Davis. Fire Saga. Walk Hard.
There are only a few of these that are memorable, and only a very few even charted. I can muster some affection for "On the Dark Side," ostensibly by Eddie & the Cruisers but actually John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.
For me there are two great fake bands, and they are both in Josie & the Pussycats: The Pussycats and DuJour. That music was spot on.
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 March 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
ALL OF SPINAL TAP IS MEMORABLE
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 March 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
Okay I will grant you "Big Bottom."
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 March 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
Yeah spinal tap doesn’t belong with “that thing you do” come on
― calstars, Monday, 13 March 2023 22:57 (one year ago) link
I can muster some affection for "On the Dark Side," ostensibly by Eddie & the Cruisers but actually John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.
i would think the fact that dark side actually became a top-10 pop hit in real life is pretty decent proof that it would be a hit in real life!
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 13 March 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
songs or parts of songs by major artists that sound like a fever dream of jon hassell's fourth world
the clash - sean flynnguns n roses - since i don't have you (the last 40 seconds)the stone roses - breaking into heaven (the first 4 minutes)green day - extraordinary girl (the first 40 seconds)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 17 March 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
songs you thought you hated because of the irritating way they were introduced to you, but later on you realized you liked
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link
(and plz include the story of how you were introduced to the song)
for me...
Sia - Chandelier: I was in a MegaBus terminal at about 7 am, waiting to take a bus to Atlanta. The "terminal" was actually a tiny room that fit maybe 15 people. There was a kid across from me playing music on an iPad without headphones, at excruciatingly high volume, and all they were playing was Chandelier. for 20 fucking minutes. so I felt like I hated the song, but months passed and I heard it again and I enjoyed it a lot!
Wiz Khalifa f Charlie Puth - See You Again: I was in an AMTRAK terminal this time, waiting to changeover to next train, and this guy had this song as his text message alert or something (it would cut off after Puth finished singing "long day"). this dude was having a long text convo so all I heard for a half hour was "IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY". wasn't until I actually heard the REST OF THE CHORUS, let alone the full song, that I realized it was good.
in conclusion, fuck bus/train terminals
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
What are some tracks that are good for soothing anxiety and testing a subwoofer? I want to kill two birds with one stone
― Alba, Monday, 10 April 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
Unfinished Sympathy was the first success
― Alba, Monday, 10 April 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
A Tribe Called Quest - Word Play
― Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 April 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
Bjork - Headphones
― scanner darkly, Monday, 10 April 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link