Songs in which Instrumentation is or is not used
― calstars, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
Songs in which the vocalist audibly takes a drag on a cigarette between verses:
Sandy Denny - "No End"
― J. Sam, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
this would be a good thread to collect all of the disparate 'songs where' threads, cause i can never find any of them.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
songs where you can't find what you're looking for
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89RsKaEO7I
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:
Grizzly Bear - MarlaThrowing Muses - Sinkhole
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
Songs by 90's-era American indie bands about 80's-era British female singers:
Unrest - "Cath Carroll"June & the Exit Wounds - "Cathy Dennis"
― henry s, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
Songs by 90's-era American indie bands about 80's-era British female singers
Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off the Bridge
(about Aggie and Stephen Pastel)
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
the plot thickens!
― henry s, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
songs where the narrator is so miserable that even the sight of children playing fails to cheer his burdened heart:
Rolling Stones - As Tears Go ByPearl Jam - BlackScreaming Trees - Winter Song
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
Lol
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
young girl: hahaha wheeee I love playing in the puddlesMark Lanegan, grunger: HOW CAN YOU BE SO CAREFREE WHEN MY SOUL IS LITERALLY DYING 😢😢😢
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
songs that in off whacking with which trailer
― j., Sunday, 22 April 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
lol i have been bumping a lot of these
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 April 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
songs where the narrator is so miserable that even the sight of children playing fails to cheer his burdened heart
How could you leave off The Chi-lites, Have You Seen Her
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 23 April 2018 08:37 (six years ago) link
and Chicago, Make Me Smile
― Lee626, Monday, 23 April 2018 09:16 (six years ago) link
Songs in which, it is not I who is mad, it's you normals!
Elton John - Madman Across the WaterBonzo Dog Band - My Pink Half of the DrainpipeSupertramp - Asylum
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
Songs where the singer is bored of music:
Cat Power - Colors and the Kids
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist
ionnalee- samaritan
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link
London CallingDon't Look Back in Anger
?
― ad homineminem (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 08:47 (six years ago) link
much better to have a catch-all thread, good job
― niels, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
Eminem - Marshall Mathers
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle
People talk about my imageLike i come in two dimensionsLike lipstick is a sign of my decling mindLike what i happen to be wearingThe day that someone takes a pictureIs my new statement for all womankindAnd i wish they could see us nowIn leather bras and rubber shortsLike some ridiculous new team uniformFor some ridiculous new sportQuick someone call the girl policeAnd file a report
And i wish they could see us nowIn leather bras and rubber shortsLike some ridiculous new team uniformFor some ridiculous new sportQuick someone call the girl policeAnd file a report
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
"Where Is My Mind"
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
Neil Young - On The Beach
^ arguable, but i think he touches on the need for an audience and how frustrating that is - possibly more ambivalent??
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
songs where the strength of the protagonist's relationship is evaluated based upon their awareness of their lover's potato preferences:
Gershwin - Let's Call the Whole Thing OffSia - Sweet Potatoes
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Friday, 3 August 2018 03:36 (five years ago) link
Songs in which the Beatles wish you a Happy Birthday
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:“867-5309/Jenny” — Tommy Tutone“Group Sex” — Circle Jerks“The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry” — Fiery Furnaces
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
^Brenda Lee - Bigelow 6-200
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
Transylvania 6-5000
― calstars, Friday, 3 August 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link
Oh snap!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
Songs in which the boys are back in town:
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 3 August 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
roxy music - remake/remodel ... "CPL 593H!"
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
scraping foetus off the wheel - DI-1-9026
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:10 (five years ago) link
isaac hayes - good love ... "call good love 69-9-69"
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
squeeze - "853-5937"
are there any phone-number songs yet that have modern 8, 10, or 11 digit numbers?
― Lee626, Friday, 3 August 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
City Boy – 5705
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 3 August 2018 08:24 (five years ago) link
Not a phone number, it was the registration number of Bryan Ferry's car.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Friday, 3 August 2018 08:48 (five years ago) link
songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:Grizzly Bear - MarlaThrowing Muses - Sinkhole― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:46 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:46 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lyn Paul - The Waiting Game (Doreen Belcher)
I know. I do.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
"Maybe Baby" had some lines written by Buddy Holly's mom.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:40 (five years ago) link
George Harrison's "Piggies" had one line he couldn't fill, needed to rhyme with "lacking". His mum suggested "What they need's a damn good whacking" which is the "WHOA" line in the song.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
Isn’t this every Cat Power song?
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 August 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
POLL: Songs Written By The Artist's Mom
― Sam Weller, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
Harry Nilsson, "Little Cowboy"Harry Nilsson, "Marchin' Down Broadway"
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
Jeremih - 773 LOVE
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
This doesn't count but Hoyt Axton's mom wrote "Heartbreak Hotel."
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
arggghh of course... dunno what i was thinking... it was late.
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
Bryan says sorry but the traffic was bad
― Mark G, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
don't forget The B-52s "6060-842". Which is a weird way to format a local US telephone number circa 1979.
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):
Pink Floyd - “The Trial”The Five Du-Tones - “Divorce Court”Wynonie Harris - “Good Morning Judge”Bessie Smith - “Send Me to the Electric Chair”NWA - “Fuck the Police”
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 4 August 2018 00:36 (five years 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 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
Maybe the whole thing is too stop-start to count, but:Television - Prove It
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 08:38 (eight months ago) link
Antici
pation
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:10 (eight months ago) link
The Breeders – Cannonball
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:13 (eight months ago) link
English Beat - Rankin Fullstop
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 10:17 (eight months ago) link
Fugazi - Waiting Room
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 05:19 (eight months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months ago) link
Can - I'm So Green
― Josefa, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 21:07 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (four months ago) link
Songs that have a conspicuous exhale Janet Jackson - All For You
― calstars, Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:29 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
The best songs on Summer in A are in the middle, “red book,” “3x0,” etc
― calstars, Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:46 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
"Kids in America" - East California
― Josefa, Monday, 8 April 2024 02:20 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
It's Immaterial
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:02 (three weeks ago) link
Nina Nastasia
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:42 (three weeks ago) link
or Nervous Norvus
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:46 (three weeks ago) link
Yin and Yan
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 13:47 (three weeks ago) link
Zig & Zag
― ledge, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:16 (three weeks ago) link
Quando Quango
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:29 (three weeks ago) link
nappy nina, rapper from the bay
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 April 2024 14:31 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
yabby you
(xxxxxp)
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:15 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
Aerosmith - "Sweet Emotion"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:39 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
yes! thank you for giving me the chance to share this otherwise useless trivia, lol
― budo jeru, Friday, 12 April 2024 01:17 (three weeks ago) link
songs/tracks that have titles instructing you what to do with the track:
GusGus - Add This SongMartine Gore / Vince Clark - Skip This Track
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:47 (two weeks ago) link
Blur - Turn It UpBlack Eyed Peas - Play It Loud
not quite the same thingThe Tamperer feat Maya - If You Buy This Record (Your Life Will Be Better)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:28 (two weeks ago) link
Songs with long names that still aren't the actual lyric
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be NextU2 - Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out OfThe Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes OutArctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the DancefloorMeat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 25 April 2024 01:44 (one week ago) link