i know this happens a lot but can't for the life of me think of any examples rn
― budo jeru, Friday, 25 August 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
it definitely makes sense from an arrangement standpoint, in terms of adding variation without really doing anything new
― budo jeru, Friday, 25 August 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link
I believe Geddy Lee does this on the last pre-chorus of "Freewill" by Rush.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 25 August 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
Songs which have amazing intros and slowly drop in quality until the end is either mediocre or actually bad.
Obvious example of this = Love Is The Drug. Maybe also Pyjamarma.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 25 August 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
Xp Probably some male/female duets work this way also, but I am having trouble thinking of which. "Up Where We Belong"?
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 25 August 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
Idk if this counts but Another One Bites the Dust has a similar idea ?
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 25 August 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
Cat Stevens’ Father and Son
― houdini said, Friday, 25 August 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
Not an answer but the q makes me think of “1999”
― calstars, Friday, 25 August 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
Peter Hammill does the octave jump on the chorus of "Lemmings" and probably in other songs. Bowie does it twice in the opening verse(s) of "Sweet Thing".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 26 August 2023 04:23 (one year ago) link
Pop songs that make hooks out of pauses
The Beach Boys - The Little Girl I Once KnewSteve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)Garbage - SupervixenMadonna - Don't Tell Me
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 28 August 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link
Funny how a song you haven't heard in maybe 30 years can sometime be the first to pop into your head after a prompt like this:
The Colorblind James Experience - A Different Bob
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 08:34 (one year ago) link
Maybe the whole thing is too stop-start to count, but:Television - Prove It
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 08:38 (one year ago) link
Antici
pation
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:10 (one year ago) link
The Breeders – Cannonball
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:13 (one year ago) link
English Beat - Rankin Fullstop
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 10:17 (one year ago) link
Fugazi - Waiting Room
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 05:19 (one year ago) link
Songs which announce individual sections
From the Viz magazine single "Bags of Fun with Buster" by Johnny Japes & His Jesticles (who are certainly not John Otway, Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory):
Oh Buster, why do you let your sac swing so low? / Sax swing solo? Yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugIShP1qgKk
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 03:54 (one year ago) link
Songs that mention unsent letters:
R.E.M. - Letter Never SentThe Folk Implosion - Burning PaperLana Del Rey - Sweet
― Taylor Swift Reporter (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 04:11 (one year ago) link
Top Ten Songs Titles Improved by Replacing the Word "Walk" with "Wank"
Walk Like an EgyptianWalk a Mile in My ShoesRemember (Walkin' in the Sand)I Walk on Gilded SplintersWalk Away ReneeWalking in RhythmThese Boots Are Made for WalkingDaddy Don't You Walk So FastYou'll Never Walk AloneWalkin' the Dog
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 04:21 (one year ago) link
Walking to New OrleansWalking in Memphis
But I would wank 500 miles, and I would wank 500 more...
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 10:00 (one year ago) link
Alternatively, how about songs improved by changing "Walkin'" to "Walken"?
https://ministryofbollockscouk.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/boots_walken.jpg
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
60s UK toytown pop songs which contain the phrase “all fingers and thumbs”:
Manfred Mann - Ha! Ha! Said the ClownWorld of Oz - The Muffin Man
― houdini said, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
Baggy-type songs by (ahem) non-baggy artists. Whether intentional or not (almost always intentional).
Bon Jovi - Keep the FaithGeorge Michael - Freedom '90Jane's Addiction - Been Caught StealingSiouxsie & the Banshees - Kiss Them for MeThe Cure - Never Enough, Harold & JoeU2 - Mysterious WaysThe Fall - Telephone ThingThe Jesus & Mary Chain - Far Gone and Out, Reverence, etcJulian Cope - Poet Is Priest...Fatboy Slim - Praise YouThe Beautiful South - Hooligans Don't Fall in LoveManic Street Preachers - La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
Can - I'm So Green
― Josefa, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
songs about getting around l.a. without a car
missing persons - "walking in l.a."juan wauters - "millionaire"
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:37 (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 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I suppose Purple Haze
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 05:28 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
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 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
The Wedding Present - No Christmas. Which was a hit...
The Cure - Strange Attraction. Which wasn't, unless apparently getting to no. 145 in Oz counts.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:04 (ten months ago) link
Songs that have a conspicuous exhale Janet Jackson - All For You
― calstars, Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:29 (six months ago) link
Albums whose best songs are the first and final tracks (yes, I know this is subjective):Pinback - Summer in AbaddonThe Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:35 (six months ago) link
The best songs on Summer in A are in the middle, “red book,” “3x0,” etc
― calstars, Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:46 (six months ago) link
My favorite track in the middle is “Bloods on Fire”… I love the It's not in the spark that's not in your eye /Like we used to talk… part.(But “Non-Photo Blue” and “AFK” are just all-time jams)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Sunday, 7 April 2024 21:00 (six months ago) link
songs which list a geographical region that doesn't exist or at least isn't a place that's remarkable like they made it out to be
"Don't Stop Believin'" - South Detroit"The Night Chicago Died" - the East Side of Chicago
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 8 April 2024 01:50 (six months ago) link
"Kids in America" - East California
― Josefa, Monday, 8 April 2024 02:20 (six months ago) link
Artists, not songs, but seems as good a thread as any...
Albert AylerBilly BraggCharlie ChristianDelia DerbyshireEazy EFreddy FenderGrant GreenHolly HerndonIIJanis JoplinKerry KingLyle LovettMarissa MarchantNNOzzy OsbornePatti PageQQRick RossSly StoneTanya TuckerUUVinny VincentWesley WillisXiu XiuYYZZ Hill
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 8 April 2024 12:57 (six months ago) link
It's Immaterial
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:02 (six months ago) link
Nina Nastasia
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:42 (six months ago) link
or Nervous Norvus
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:46 (six months ago) link
Yin and Yan
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:47 (six months ago) link
Zig & Zag
― ledge, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:16 (six months ago) link
Quando Quango
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:29 (six months ago) link
nappy nina, rapper from the bay
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 April 2024 14:31 (six months ago) link
quickly, quickly
deadpan 90s dance covers of rock songs with Meaning
jam tronik - another day in paradisea.d.a.m. feat. amy - zombieatlantis - d'you know what i mean
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 16:22 (six months ago) link
songs which are on all early 2001 dance compilations and were hit singles but no one remembers them now
santos - camelshatiras - spaced invader
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 16:37 (six months ago) link
Oh boy, I *totally* remember 'Spaced Invader' - I could sing it to you if you wanted!
'Camels', on the other hand, I have literally no memory of.
― emil.y, Monday, 8 April 2024 16:43 (six months ago) link
Glad then that Spaced Invader erasure hasn't been totally successful, it's a cracking record
Other uk/european dance hits of the periods which I feel *are* remembered/still used on comps:Safri Duo - Played-a-LiveJakatta - American DreamPlanet Funk - Chase the SunPublic Domain - Operation Blade (but not so much its inferior twin, Warp Brothers - Phat Bass)Rui da Silva - Touch MeM&S/The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget
And more which could join Camels and Spaced Invader:ATB feat York - The Fields of LoveVoodoo & Serano - Blood Is Pumpin'Fragma - Every Time You Need MeSimon - Free at Last (only a minor hit though)Rhythmkillaz - Wack Ass MF (ditto)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 17:13 (six months ago) link
songs slower than November Rain and faster than Get Lucky are now banned in Chechnya.https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/08/europe/chechnya-music-ban-scli-intl/index.html
― StanM, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:47 (six months ago) link
yabby you
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― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:15 (six months ago) link
Songs in which a woman takes a pregnancy test:
Nilsson - "1941" (positive!)NRBQ - "It Was a Accident" (negative!)Lovedrug - "Skeleton Jill" (we don't find out!)Squeeze - "Up the Junction" (positive, although the narrator seems ambivalent about impending parenthood)
Any others? Implied in Madonna "Papa Don't Preach", though it occurs before the song begins so not sure if it should count.
Older songs that invoke this trope usually reference seeing a doctor, as home pregnancy tests weren't widely available yet. I wonder if younger listeners innately understand what the doctor visit is for.
― Lee626, Thursday, 11 April 2024 09:25 (six months ago) link
Aerosmith - "Sweet Emotion"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:39 (six months ago) link
Wow, I had no idea what "the rabbit done died" meant in Sweet Emotion. Apparently "the rabbit died" was code for "I'm pregnant" in lots of vintage films, and the "rabbit test" was the procedure performed in the days following the aforementioned doctor visits. In actuality the rabbit always died, pregnant or not.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-rabbit-test
― Lee626, Thursday, 11 April 2024 23:36 (six months ago) link