any great songs about "Friendship"??

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any suggestions? thousand thanks

― nt, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Friends" by the Beach Boys (obvious choice)
"Friendship Song" by the Boo Radleys
"Two of Us" by The Beatles.

― dog latin, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"You're My Best Friend" by Queen

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Me & My Friends" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Birdhouse In Your Soul" They Might Be Giants

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Just a Friend" by Biz Markie.

― J Blount, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"She's My Best Friend" by the Velvet Underground (and covered by the Wedding Present)

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Blood Brothers" by the Mission UK (about Ian Astbury of the Cult, allegedly).

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fabulous Friend - The Field Mice Old Friends - Simon & Garfunkel

― baxter wingnut, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'New York Woman' by Yoko Ono is a good example, tho I could understand someone hating it too!

― maryann, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ted Nugent, "Good Friends and a Bottle of Wine"
Phuture, "Your Only Friend"
Alice Cooper, "Sick Things"

― dave q, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bobbie Jean", Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band...and, to explore the dark side of things- "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful"

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two little boys by rolf harris

― mark s, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

KRS-One -Friend

― nathalie, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quickspace - Friend

― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the Posies have a lot of great songs about various aspects of friendship that you don't hear much in songs, with the added resonance of the friendship between the band's two songwriters...the best tunes explore the uglier side of it ("Please Return It", "I May Hate You Sometimes")...also, if we're gonna go with the trend in this thread of explicitly using the word in the title, "Friendship Of The Future".

― al, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Carol King - You've Got A Friend

― Queen I am neither Buffy nor the Messiah G, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite: "You're My best Friend" by Jefferson Airplane. Mawkishly sincere, mad cathchy, and a real period piece.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chords - Sportsguitar...as it contains the line "we're a band and we are friends" ahhhhh how sweet.

Most of the songs by the Philistines Jr are about their friends and family.

― jel --, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the clash - stay free

― brains, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wilco's "We're Just Friends" is the template for many of my major friendships.

― Keiko, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Jam-Thick as Thieves

― Scott Seward, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"you've got a friend" James Taylor

― turner, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://homepages.tesco.net/~kenny.burton/GG/ggirls.jpg
Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidante

And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say
"Thank you for being a friend"

― Kate Spiren, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Freak Scene' - Dinosaur Jr. ("cuz when I need a friend it's still you...what a mess")
'My Only Friend' - Opal (from Early Recordings)

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael - Red House Painters.

― JC, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Joni Mitchell (with Michael McDonald) - Good Friends from Mitchell's Dog Eat Dog cd.

― gilbert farkey, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Buffalo Tom "Larry" (although I think it's about a cat rather than a person)

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'I've seen your face before' (13th floor Elevators): 'describes a meeting with a person who radiates the essence of the quest. There is an outpour of warmth and understanding at the instant of meeting between two such persons, just as if they have been friends for life.' That's the liner notes.

― maryann, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fall "Frenz"; De La Soul "Buddy"; Right Said Fred "You're My Mate"

― tacit, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"We Can Make New Friends" by the immortal Mansfield Massachusetts punk trumpet combo, Six Dancing Women. i quote:

"We can talk and talk and talk and talk / We can make new friends! / We can walk and walk (and walk in the sun) / and we can make new friends!"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that De La Soul's "Buddy", much like Sting's "My Funny Friend & Me", was about their penis.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I always thought Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's "I See a Darkness" as being a great song about friendship; even more so when sung by Johnny Cash.

Julian Cope's "Sunspots" is another one, I think.

I'm actually surprised no one has mentioned "With a Little Help From My Friends".

― alex in montreal, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

fluf "peanut butter":

put the lampshade on
you're as stupid as me

a friend is a friend is a
a friend is a friend is a
a friend is a friend is a
friend

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

ned (again with the raggett© love today) might be the only other person who has heard that song.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

everything by the band friends forever!

― geeta, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Björk, "Jóga" and the aforementioned "I See A Darkness" are heartbreakingly eloquent on friendship.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The new single by Rancid, "Fall Back Down".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The bonus track on Edan's Primitive Plus.
"MCs, let's hang out/let's be friends". Cracks me up every time.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Nomeansno "Brother Rat"

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It just now gave me chills thinking how much "I See A Darkness" owns this thread

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, fellas, Have you ever met a girl that you tried to date but a year to make love she wanted you to wait?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

friends will be friends by queen

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing I am most proud of in this life is that I wrote something for all my friends that at least two of them has admitted makes them teary-eyed.

http://lynskey.scumperson.eu.org/mp3/valentine/12_Home.mp3

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ned (again with the raggett© love today) might be the only other person who has heard that song.

And a grand song it is. Fluf I will always have a soft spot for because O is secretly one of the best singers in that particular vein ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

did you know?

that O is an even better skateboard photographer?

it's true!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Jackson's Ben. I mean, I know it's about a rat and all but...

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

that O is an even better skateboard photographer?

Yup, knew about the photo and design work. Man's got a good eye!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"For a Friend," Chestnut Station (originally by TV bug band "The Bugaloos").

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

everything ever by Minor Threat

― dave q, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

David Lee Roth, "Damn Good"

― dave q, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The White Stripes' "We Are Gonna Be Friends" (currently one of my 3 favorites of theirs)
Ween's "Falling Out"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Tenacious D, "Friendship"

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"FRIENDS WITH P"!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody's mentioned "Like A Friend" by Pulp yet? Wow.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

DMX - Get At Me Dog (I think)

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

holy shit "Rollin' With My Homies"!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"talkin' down" by the deadly snakes: "your friends are all right but you're really a yes-man"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Eve - My Bitches

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Spice Girls, 'Wannabe'

and 'Like A Friend' seconded

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"Heaven" by Talking Heads
"Jam" by Tribe Called Quest

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

'My Pal Foot-Foot' by the Shaggs

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

nickalicious: how is "Heaven" about friendship?

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay not exactly about friendship but the lyrics are all like "everyone is there" and "everyone leaves at exactly the same time"...like, not exactly about friendship, but friends are obviously involved in the narrative, y'know?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought it to be more of a depressing setting, like "sigh, everyone's here" as opposed to "yay, everyone's here", a bit like "Here Comes a Regular".

― alex in montreal, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

b-b-b-but it's about "Heaven"! ;-)

(actually that's a really neat notion and I'm gonna have to listen to it in that context really soon...that would explain the minor key thing though!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

maybe Castanets "No Light To Be Found"?

please revive thread.

― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Whodini: "Friends"

― mike a, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe no one nominated Bill Withers' "Lean on Me"!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

sneeze, "shaky ground" (about that precarious moment when friendship threatens to turn into something more)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

A good thread.

"Can't Stand Me Now" - Libertines
"Best Friend" - Missy Elliott
"Hymn to Her" - Pretenders

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Waiting on a Friend" - Rolling Stones

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Friends" - Small Factory

― JAS, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Your Friends" by Dee Clark. Also, "In My Life" and "I'll Keep It With Mine" have always seemed to be more about friendship than love.

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

cat power american flag

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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