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
roxy music - remake/remodel ... "CPL 593H!"
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
cover songs (or songs that interpolate bits of other songs) that feature newly-recorded backing vocals from the singer of the original song:
Uncle Kracker - Drift Away (feat. Dobie Gray)Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight (feat. Ronnie Spector, who sings the chorus of 'Be My Baby')
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Monday, 24 December 2018 03:31 (five years ago) link
The Run DMC version of "Walk This Way".
― henry s, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks ago) link
yabby you
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― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:15 (two 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 (two weeks ago) link
Aerosmith - "Sweet Emotion"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 April 2024 22:39 (two 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 (two 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (fifteen hours ago) link