Started a thread on FB but thought I'd throw it open to the ILM massive. Most songs about someone being at the door are good if not great. Very few are bad. What are your favourite songs about someone being at the door?
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd52IHHEoj8I guess that's one of the bad ones, ha.
― oder doch?, Monday, 4 June 2018 08:34 (five years ago) link
"Let 'Em In" by Paul McCartney - one of his classic "will this do?" singles
― mahb, Monday, 4 June 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
it's one of his best solo songs
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:37 (five years ago) link
Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1gfZwejPv8
One of my favourites. The key element in any good 'somebody at the door' song is sass, and this has it in droves... Speaking of which...:
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link
Little Richard - You Keep A Knockin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYr7I4gOSXk
'Come back tomorrow and try it again'
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link
White stripes - my doorbellGordon lightfoot - sundown
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:40 (five years ago) link
Toy Dolls - "Florence Is Deaf (But There's No Need To Shout)"
― willem, Monday, 4 June 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/Y3WgsKEDg5Qbtw - nice to meet you yesterday DL!
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
you too Willl! Quite funny we both realised we were Ilxors after a good 30 minute chat
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
Louis Jordan - Open the Door, Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIf9OOyyK0
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:57 (five years ago) link
Can't find Ivor Cutler's 'Knock Knock Knocking' or the completely different song of the same name by Deaf School on YouTube, but both are canon
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
there's a playlist now: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/7kqiCbf7fB27DuvIu7fDao?si=dr3qhQiEQxqWPdaQf7up9A
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 09:26 (five years ago) link
The obvious -Beatles "No Reply"Men at Work "Who Can it Be Now?"The Byrds "I Come and Stand at Every Door"Fats Domino "I Hear You Knocking"
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 4 June 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
Does Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" count? In the sense of being at THE DOOR!
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 4 June 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Song of Joy.Guy's at the door, asking for a room, lamenting his sad story. Will the one answering the door (...you?) let him in? Or does the clue in the final lines not go unnoticed?Dark stuff. But good stuff.
― Valentijn, Monday, 4 June 2018 09:50 (five years ago) link
The Ivor Cutler track is Who's That Not Knocking At My Door, so it doesn't count because it's about no-one being at the door.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Monday, 4 June 2018 10:26 (five years ago) link
“Open the Door, Homer,” written by Bob Dylan, recorded by Bob Dylan and The Band. Which has the lyric “Open the door, Richard” referencing the oft-recorded song mentioned above.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 June 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
The Ivor Cutler track is Who's That Not Knocking At My Door, so it doesn't count because it's about no-one being at the door.― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Monday, June 4, 2018 11:26 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Monday, June 4, 2018 11:26 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
huh
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
Peter Hammill, "I Dared Not Speak" from his opera The Fall of the House of Usher. The most dramatic point in the whole opera:
Days ago I heard her first feeble movementsin the hollow coffin -said I not that my senses were acute?I heard the scraping, the scraping of her nails -but I dared not, I dared not speak!Madman! Madman!I tell you that she now comes towards the door!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSxOxmtrm7g
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 4 June 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1qG-KZcBPc
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 4 June 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
Vince Staples "Screen Door"
― Cow_Art, Monday, 4 June 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
Legitimately stupefied to find that no one has mentioned ABBA's 'The Visitors' yet.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 June 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
Hop Along - The Knock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuWdggpr3Os
the WITNESS just wants to TALK TO YOUUUUU
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 June 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Is the visitors about old friends coming over od occult forces? I always thought the visitors were demons or something tbh
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
You're kidding me, right?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 4 June 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
No I’m not, I legitimately had no idea what the song was about until I just looked up the meaning. I thought the beauty of music was interpretation tbh.
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
It's quite blatantly about people that are in hiding because they've spoken out against their government and they're being "visited" by officials that want to silence them.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
'The Day Before You Came' is more vague, and possibly more menacing as a result, but that's another thread.
Well now I know that but man, did you know that the first time you heard it? I only heard the record for the first time a month ago. Not sure where you get the manual for the holy objectivity of music but let me know.
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
See, I've heard the song as an agoraphobe's perspective of friends stopping by to check in on them, but Turrican has spoken.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
Getting flashbacks to when sanpaku corrected my interpretation of these days by ane Brun, a song I’ve always taken to be about distant lovers. Apparently it’s ahour depression and my reading was wrong.
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
Yeah old lunch I definitely can hear that. Shades of Kate Bush all the love thematically
― synonym toast crunch (Ross), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
huh― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 10:36 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's the joke, otherwise it's just a song about someone knocking at the door, which isn't very absurd.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
Turrican otm on The Visitors btw.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
tom petty - don't come around here no more
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
cosmic psychos - can't come in
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVm7NNo82JA
^ truly the best chorus ever EVER
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
lol I posted that one on the FB thread
git facked
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 4 June 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
sheer poetry
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
that cosmic psychos song is sadly not on Spotify
I've decided The Visitors and Knockin On Heaven's Door are allowed in this as quasi outliers to the genre
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
How is 'The Visitors' a quasi outlier? The titular visitors are literally ringing the bell and trying the knob. I don't know how it's possible to be more 'at the door'.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
Terri Gibbs, "Somebody's Knockin'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSplf_0JJiQ
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
And this thread cannot be complete without DuJour's immortal "Back Door Lover"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSO6I5YHyY
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
C.J. & Co., "Beware the Stranger"
― andrew m., Monday, 4 June 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
Has no one mentioned the Allmans' "One Way Out" yet?
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 June 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
How is 'The Visitors' a quasi outlier? The titular visitors are literally ringing the bell and trying the knob. I don't know how it's possible to be more 'at the door'.― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Monday, June 4, 2018 1:42 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Monday, June 4, 2018 1:42 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was just about to say this, but I think dog latin needs a break from me nit-picking at his posts. I know I do!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 4 June 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue:The vagabond who's rapping at your doorIs standing in the clothes that you once wore
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 4 June 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9PNoJuP-mk
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 June 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
xxp it's only cos people were calling Visitors into question. I agree, while the song's about a bit more than just being at the door, it describes enough door-based action to warrant it appearing in the canon of 'being at the door' songs
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 4 June 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMATnqyVMZM
― Jazzbo, Monday, 4 June 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtllPBWMAog
― Jazzbo, Monday, 4 June 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
and-ah-I would walk 500 miles and-ah-I would walk 500 more just to be tha man who walks a thousand milesto fall down at your door
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 4 June 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
I'm up to 50 songs on Spotify now. Even I didn't realise there'd be so many amazing songs about someone being at the door
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 08:07 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/7kqiCbf7fB27DuvIu7fDao?si=ssamMlQ3TJmMStLL-Wmc4w
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 08:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At5pMQ15iTY
― nashwan, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 11:02 (five years ago) link
Paul Kelly - To Her Door
SHE SAID "SHOVE IT JACK I'M WALKIN' OUT YOUR FUCKIN' DOOR"
― triggercut, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Fright Night
Knock knock on the door three timesAnd you knock knock on the doorSaid you used to talk to demons with my ouija boardBut not anymore
― triggercut, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 11:13 (five years ago) link
Was (Not Was) - Walk the Dinosaur
Open the door, get on the floorEverybody walk the dinosaur
Like, I think it's implied that the dinosaur shows up at his door while he's watching Miami Vice even though it all took place 40 million years ago? I think it might just barely qualify?
― triggercut, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 11:17 (five years ago) link
And you wake from your dream with a wolf at the door, reaching out for Veronica
― emotional support vegetable (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZyezEhRhs
― Eliza D., Tuesday, 5 June 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
Shouldn't we include also The Doors "Break on Through to the Other Side" here?
Made the sceneWeek to weekDay to dayHour to hourThe gate is straitDeep and wide
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
"I was surprised to see your suitcase at the door" might be tenuous but I always assume the person is at the door ready to leave in that line, taken from First Choice "Let No Man Put Asunder" and then sampled in Rhythm On The Loose "Break Of Dawn"
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
also lol I made the mistake of turning on noticfcations for that that thread on Facebook and my phone has been blowing up, what happened to your exile from it anyway?
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4xJvxSZ9aI
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Talk about anti-climactic.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
Ween, "So Many People in the Neighborhood"
"How's about a piece of pie? (ding dong ding dong)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnGq69ey5tw
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
boxedjoy - about a week after I left I got offered to put on a regular night which I had to promote and basically it's impossible to do that, at least to start with, if you don't have Facebook. That, and it's very addictive. It was a very good relaxing week though I must say
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwkW27Xapzc
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwvJoO2ZYE
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyuF-eUdiSE
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
John Martyn - Dealer
Let me in let me in let me in
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:38 (five years ago) link
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican)
saying "the day before you came" is "sinister" is one step away from saying "in the air tonight" was about that time phil collins saw somebody get murdered
anyway. barnacle bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hegAcCMnEnw
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link
The Ghouls - Dracula's Theme
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
fwiw quite keen to not include metaphorical doors or vague references to doors or door-like entranceways here peeps. the song has to be about somebody being at the door
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
Death, "Keep On Knocking"
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
Dubstar, "Not So Manic Now"
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Aeon, "Doorknocker"
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight”
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
?
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
Chris Stamey, "The Summer Sun"
The Ex and Tom Cora, "A Door"
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
The Replacements - "Kick Your Door Down"
― even in your onion (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
did anyone say The Walk by The Cure yet?
I called you after midnightThen ran until I burstI passed the howling womanAnd stood outside your door
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Bob Marley - Waiting In Vain <-- i could be wrong but this has a bit about knocking on a door for three years i think?
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
Van Morrison - Dweller At The Threshold
^ I wouldn't wish homelessness on anyone but I do like to think that this is literally about Van living on someone's doorstep
― William Thinkpiece Hackery (NickB), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
B52s - Love Shack
― Neil S, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Hank Williams - Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jts27gZfKQo
tbh this is kind of an anti-example, being about NOT being at the door
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
Carole King "So Far Away"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofYl3dataU
So far awayDoesn't anybody stay in one place anymoreIt would be so fine to see your face at my door
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
and he came to a door...and he looked inside..."Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you"
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
perhaps insufficient "someone" and "literal door" content, but I've had "The Claw" by Ten Benson in my head since I first read this thread title, so: claw's scratching at my door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftbCvjlS_pg
(or skip halfway through for the main draw of the song, the weird-vacuuming-noise solo)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
This Mortal Coil - "Another Day"
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/collection-images/138-080-000.jpg
― mick signals, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
Have could we have come so far without mentioning Jimmy Nail's "Ain't No Doubt"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg
Jim even does a helpful mime to help us visual someone knocking at a door:
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HeavyCandidCicada-max-1mb.gif
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kecN9z91Rpc
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
Early this morningWhen you knocked upon my doorAnd I said "Hello SatanI believe it's time to go"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYsnRc09csQ
― Ex Slacker, Thursday, 7 June 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
I was trying to think if Madness had ever done one. 'Embarrassment' ('Stay away from our door') is the only one I can think of.
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
I linked to Uncle Sam a little ways upthread.
'here they come again, hop scotching up to my door'
― MaresNest, Thursday, 7 June 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link
Deep Purple - Knockin' At Your Back DoorZep - Nobody's Fault But Mine ("Somebody open that DINGDONGDINGDONG)
― Cannonley Adderall (InternationalWaters), Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
Now, who is that knocking?Who's knocking at my chamber door?Now could it be the police?They come and take me for a ride-rideOh, but I haven't got the time-timeHey, hey, hey, she's busy sucking on my ding-dong
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
Three little birdsPitch by my doorstep
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link