SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

songs you thought you hated because of the irritating way they were introduced to you, but later on you realized you liked

(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

What are some tracks that are good for soothing anxiety and testing a subwoofer? I want to kill two birds with one stone

Unfinished Sympathy was the first success

A Tribe Called Quest - Word Play

Bjork - Headphones

Sing a Simple Song

Fucking Around in the Vocal Booth:

The Monkees - Gonna Buy Me a Dog
Velvet Underground - Temptation Inside Your Heart
The Beatles - That giggly, stoned outtake of 'And Your Bird Can Sing on Anthology

songs that were your introduction to prog rock

Genesis, "Dance on a Volcano"

i think it was this cd with lots of incredible stuff on it, i still listen to most of these songs all the time
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i got bullied so hard for listening to starship trooper and communion with the sun at age 9, worth it tho.

elp is the only one that never really connected

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.

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.

I mean the Brazilian is trippy and the outro of Abacab, okay. But those have rock cores. I guess I like Down and Out?

I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You sounds way more disco than prog rock to me

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

songs in which a formerly squeaky clean singer tried to be 'edgy' but the results are laughable

I nominate:

Donny Osmond - Soldier of Love

Songs which fade out to leave just one element on its own

Jimmy Young - Chain Gang
Barry Manilow - Could It Be Magic
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Faith No More - Epic

This is my favourite thing so why can't I think of more examples? Almost: The Pixies, Motorway to Roswell.

Queens of the Stone Age - I Think I Lost My Headache

Bowie's Five Years ends with the drum pattern on its own (which admittedly it also starts with).

Extra tasty if the last element left is one that you almost weren't aware of until the rest faded out...

Can the last remaining element be vocals? If so, "Hallelujah" by Nick Cave.

Isn't that kinda like the U2 shtick where they close with 40 and everyone leaves but Larry?

Also the burbly guitar at the end of "I Know What I Know" on Graceland.

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

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.

Extra tasty if the last element left is one that you almost weren't aware of until the rest faded out...

OTM

XTC - Travels in Nihilon fades leaving only a static-y rainy drone

Similarly, Complicated Game fades to leave just the canon of Andy.

Aphex Twin - Ventolin

Bass in "Freak Parade" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia.

"life on mars?" does this, no?

Except the piano at the end is another take of the song, it's not actually a continuing element from the body of the song itself.

nirvana - on a plain

hmm i guess that's also what happens in "coffee & tv"

not exactly the same thing, but i love the moment at the end of "have a cigar" when the air gets sucked out of the mix and the volume drops to near zero

Hadn’t remembered this at all but I just happened to stumble on it in the wild in “Over the Hills and Far Away” - very simple rhythm guitar chords hold while everything else fades out and do a pretty little coda

Madness: "Turning Blue"

songs of archaeological importance

Steely Dan - Caves of Altamira
The B-52's - Mesopotamia

Spinal Tap - Stonehenge

king tut

"You Belong to Me"

See the pyramids along the Nile...

Peter Gabriel, "Digging in the Dirt"

Songs which they completely fucked up for the single mix

Emilíana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime
Hot Chip - One Life Stand

got to be some better examples

Peter Gabriel, "Digging in the Dirt"

... and "Solsbury Hill".

CaaL, not a single but the mastering error that made Cold Spring Harbor sound like a Chipmunks record seems to be related

^ the inverse of sorts to the Cure's Bananafishbones, which was mastered too slowly and a semitone lower, and not even corrected until the 2006 remaster.

songs of archaeological importance

In "Wondering Where the Lions Are", Bruce Cockburn mentions "thousand-year-old petroglyphs", but I think he's just observing them, not discovering them.

songs where the singer "duets" with their younger self in a way that calls attention to their growth/maturity and/or the ravages of age. Donny Osmond did this live in the early 2000s (before hologram concerts were really a thing 😔), but I can't think of any examples on record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi3CleKY36c