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
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
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
Songs where the singer is bored of music:
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
Bob Dylan - “Percy’s Song”
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
Skeeter Davis - “Set Him Free”
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be womenViolent FemmesGirls
― devops mom (silby), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
Das Damen
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Jerry Reed's "When You're Hot You're Hot" has a pretty great courtroom scene. Also about a thousand other country songs about people shooting either their woman or the deputy down. And "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man."
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
George Jones, "Brown to Blue" we stood there in the courthouse room... the judge pronounced the words
Paul Simon "Adios Hermanos"
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "Mountain Dew" was inspired by his experience as a lawyer:
The lyrics tell the story of a man's first day in court to answer charges of making illegal alcohol. In the first verse, the prosecutor closes his case. In the next three verses, several respected members of the community—the deacon, the doctor, and the conductor—visit the charged man, trying to buy his whiskey.[6] In the final verse, the judge offers the young man clemency if he is willing to pay court costs for the trial.Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer practicing in rural North Carolina during the 1920s. At the time, the manufacturing of beverage alcohol for non-medicinal purposes was illegal in the United States due to prohibition, but North Carolina residents nevertheless continued their longstanding tradition of making a form of illegal whiskey called moonshine. Lunsford frequently defended local clients that were accused of the practice, and the original lyrics and banjo accompaniment to "Good Old Mountain Dew" were written during the course of one of these cases.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer practicing in rural North Carolina during the 1920s. At the time, the manufacturing of beverage alcohol for non-medicinal purposes was illegal in the United States due to prohibition, but North Carolina residents nevertheless continued their longstanding tradition of making a form of illegal whiskey called moonshine. Lunsford frequently defended local clients that were accused of the practice, and the original lyrics and banjo accompaniment to "Good Old Mountain Dew" were written during the course of one of these cases.
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
^that Wikipedia summary misses the point though. the punchline of the song is that the judge sets the defendant free in exchange for a taste of his moonshine. "cost" in the last verse doesn't literally mean "court costs"
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link
Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be women
WomenSingle MothersGirl Band
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 4 August 2018 05:21 (five years ago) link
Twisted Sister
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
Bare naked... no its gone
― Mark G, Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Springsteen: Johnny 99 and also Nebraska
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Also Steve Earle The Devil’s Rigjt Hand
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
And The Specials - Stupid Marriage
― bornbored, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge)
BANG BANG Maxwell's Silver Hammer went down on his head!
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Sunday, 5 August 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
“Here Comes the Judge,” Pigmeat Markham ( and other songs with the same name by others)
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 August 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
^ ^ ^ Top-20 rap hit from 1968!
― Lee626, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
"murder in my heart for the judge" by the moby grape
― budo jeru, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:
― i’m still stanning (morrisp)
the space negroes' version of "sex bomb"
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub
"mr. waters (the judge)" by birmingham sunday
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
"arrest, trial, and judgement (joy in the marketplace!)" by harry partch"good morning judge" by wynonie harris
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
songs with a falsetto goodbye:
Danny O'Keefe - Falsetto GoodbyeThird Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:59 (five years ago) link
The reprise of "So Long, Farewell" from Sound of Music
― psychocandy fairweather low spark of high (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
^ah, I had a feeling I was missing an incredibly obvious one
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (written by Darby Slick)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
songs in which 'yee-ha!' or similar appears apropos of nothing but manages to be perfect:
michael jackson "wanna be startin' somethin'"björk "big time sensuality"
― dyl, Thursday, 4 October 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
^ Loudon Wainwright - The Swimming Song
Possible thread for 'off-mic eructations'? Keith Jarrett must be the king of this. Or Mingus.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
songs with unearned key changes
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
― the beta brand (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Maybe the whole thing is too stop-start to count, but:Television - Prove It
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 08:38 (seven months ago) link
Antici
pation
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:10 (seven months ago) link
The Breeders – Cannonball
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:13 (seven months ago) link
English Beat - Rankin Fullstop
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 10:17 (seven months ago) link
Fugazi - Waiting Room
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 05:19 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
Can - I'm So Green
― Josefa, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 21:07 (six 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 (five 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 (three months ago) link