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
Sing a Simple Song
― calstars, Monday, 10 April 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
Fucking Around in the Vocal Booth:
The Monkees - Gonna Buy Me a DogVelvet Underground - Temptation Inside Your HeartThe Beatles - That giggly, stoned outtake of 'And Your Bird Can Sing on Anthology
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 16 April 2023 23:28 (one year ago) link
songs that were your introduction to prog rock
Genesis, "Dance on a Volcano"
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link
i think it was this cd with lots of incredible stuff on it, i still listen to most of these songs all the timehttps://i.discogs.com/MCSRVjH28KuUZ4PGaWGALN-U8vTmATFMDublg4ch8TE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ4NTQ3/MDUtMTU5OTk2MTY5/Ni0xNjcwLmpwZWc.jpeg
i got bullied so hard for listening to starship trooper and communion with the sun at age 9, worth it tho.
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:36 (one year ago) link
elp is the only one that never really connected
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:38 (one year ago) link
was thinking a couple of days ago, the first album i heard on cd was actually invisible touch. i didn't have a cd player, but you could listen to cd's on the library's fancy component cd player with nice headphones. the combination of the huge drum sound + hearing the peak of the waveform or something for the first time = the most blown away by audio i've ever been. the 2nd cd i heard was 'and the word was...' because the library had that too. can't remember why i was interested in hearing genesis at that age, but i didn't hear their prog stuff until many years later.
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 20 April 2023 04:59 (one year ago) link
Probably Roundabout or Spirit of the Radio for me.
I don't actually think of Genesis as being all that progtastic. There are proggy bits here and there but from Abacab onwards they seem like a skilled pop rock outfit.
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 11:58 (one year ago) link
I mean the Brazilian is trippy and the outro of Abacab, okay. But those have rock cores. I guess I like Down and Out?
― when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:07 (one year ago) link
I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You sounds way more disco than prog rock to me
― scanner darkly, Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
Hackett-era Genesis is definitely prog, it's mostly after he left that they went art-rock and then essentially art-pop then outright pop.
Trick of the Tail did have Phil on vox and it wasn't as elaborate musically as Gabriel-era but still qualifies as prog to me IMO
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
songs in which a formerly squeaky clean singer tried to be 'edgy' but the results are laughable
I nominate:
Donny Osmond - Soldier of Love
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
Songs which fade out to leave just one element on its own
Jimmy Young - Chain GangBarry Manilow - Could It Be MagicDonna Summer - I Feel LoveFaith No More - Epic
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 21 May 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
This is my favourite thing so why can't I think of more examples? Almost: The Pixies, Motorway to Roswell.
― ledge, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 07:23 (one year ago) link
Queens of the Stone Age - I Think I Lost My Headache
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 07:30 (one year ago) link
Bowie's Five Years ends with the drum pattern on its own (which admittedly it also starts with).
― giraffe, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 07:41 (one year ago) link
Extra tasty if the last element left is one that you almost weren't aware of until the rest faded out...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:03 (one year ago) link
Can the last remaining element be vocals? If so, "Hallelujah" by Nick Cave.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:14 (one year ago) link
Isn't that kinda like the U2 shtick where they close with 40 and everyone leaves but Larry?
― she works hard for the monkey (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 09:45 (one year ago) link
Also the burbly guitar at the end of "I Know What I Know" on Graceland.
― she works hard for the monkey (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 09:48 (one year ago) link
Does it have to be a fade? In "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by Black Sabbath everything just drops out to leave the drums for a few bars
― Josefa, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
I was thinking fades only yeah. The Manics' A Design for Life is another which does a similar thing with the drums to Sabbath.
Band Aid 20 fades out to have just the chorus of singers and hand percussion. Remembering that, especially in May, is my cross to bear.
OTM
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link
XTC - Travels in Nihilon fades leaving only a static-y rainy drone
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Similarly, Complicated Game fades to leave just the canon of Andy.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Aphex Twin - Ventolin
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
Bass in "Freak Parade" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link