are there any songs (good or bad), particularly pop songs, thath ave to do with the satanic panic of the 80s
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
There's a Joan Baez song someone quoted on here once about ritual child sacrifice?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 October 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUsM00VS8X8
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poTA34hKbZw
― peace, man, Friday, 29 October 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
Songs where the singer unintentionally sounds like a cow: Hiroshima Mon Amooooooour
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
songs in which the lead singer adds a swear word in place of a more mundane word in live performances to be "edgy".
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
Genesis - Invisible Touch. On The Way We Walk, Vol 1 - The Shorts, Phil changes "and though she will mess up your life" to "and though she will fuck up your life".
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
most New Order songs
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
Seems to me that when songwriters / bands run out of things to write about, they start writing about food. What are the earliest examples of this? Initially I hit upon “custard pie” and “hot dog” by Zep but also maybe “savoy truffle” seven years earlier. “Hot tamales” by r Johnson prob excluded right
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I… don’t think custard pie is about food
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Saturday, 13 November 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Van Halen’s “poundcake”
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
Ist
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
Warrants “cherry pie” Is a deliberate euphemism. Excluded
― calstars, Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
um, "poundcake" is v much not about food either
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
I mean it's about 'cake' but not of the dessert variety
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 November 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure a significant majority of songs about food are euphemistic. Savoy Truffle is a good exception though, at least I think it is.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 14 November 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
I think you’re right. So the question becomes what are the non euphemistic songs about food besides savoy truffle?
― calstars, Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/fZN7j3iWcuw_hqhoDGOFH0EVfLQ=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1913006-1524829330-4579.jpeg.jpg
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
“Green Onions” is completely non-sexual
― Josefa, Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortnin%27_Bread
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Singer-songwriter Alex Chilton recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread"' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it").[10]
Wish this had happened!
― Lee626, Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
― No Xmas For Jonchaies (Tom Violence), Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:53 (two years ago) link
Bob Pollard changes "painful lives" to "fucked up lives" in live versions of "I Am a Scientist."
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 15 November 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
this is more like a "Bands in which" but what bands are named after a song/album written by a band that was named after a song/album by another band?
example:
if a band named Gristled Tips had a song called "Burnt Toast", and then a band named themselves Burnt Toast after that song, and had a song named "A Lesson in Breakfast", and then another band named themselves A Lesson in Breakfast.
or if a band named Lions of Winter had an album called Dog Eat Poo, and then a band named themselves Dog Eat Poo, and released an album called Fuck Society, I'm Having Bacon, and then another band named themselves Fuck Society, I'm Having Bacon?
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 December 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
New Edition has a 1988 song called "Boys to Men", after which the band Boyz II Men named themselves. One of the hits of Boyz II Men was th 1991 "Motownphilly"; Spotify tells me that there is an artist named Motownphilly, whose only activity is guesting on the 2020 single "See You Otis" by Mookie/Bestfriends. Kinda weak, but not nothing.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 19 December 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
Ramones : Bad Brains : Fearless Vampire Killers
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 19 December 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
songs (or "songs") with a spoken word part in which somebody recalls their dream(s):
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Invention for Radio No. 1: The Dreams(radio program in which multiple dream interviews have been spliced, arranged by subject matter, and set to spooky tape loop soundscapes)
The Olivia Tremor Control - 'Combinations 2' and 'Hilltop Procession (Momentum Gaining)', among other tracks on Black Foliage(the band asked their fans to send them tape recordings in which they recounted their dreams)
Movietone - Heatwave Pavement
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 20 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
Belle & Sebastian - A Space Boy Dream Number Two
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 20 December 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
Bongwater - What’s Big In England Now?
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 20 December 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
Lou Reed & John Cale - A Dream (Cale narrating as Warhol)
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 20 December 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
Bongwater - Nick Cave Doll
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 20 December 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
Songs where the singer talks to inanimate objects which do not hear them: Clint Eastwood (and others) - I Talk to the Trees; King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
I've got two. Doris Day (and others including George Michael, Connie Francis, and Sinéad O'Connor) "Secret Love."
Once I had a secret love...So I told a friendly starThe way that dreamers often doJust how wonderful you areAnd why I'm so in love with youNow I shout it from the highest hillsEven told the golden daffodils
And the Pogues, "A Pair of Brown Eyes," which I think we were just discussing in ye Pogues thread.
So drunk to hell I left the placeSometimes crawling sometimes walkingA hungry sound came across the breezeSo I gave the walls a talking
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
Neil Diamond, "I Am I Said".
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
The Doris Day one reminds me of Linda Scott's 'I've Told Every Little Star', of Mulholland Dr. fame, which moves from addressing stars to addressing ripples in a brook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgpiGs_4Js
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
Also Bruno Mars - 'Talking to the Moon'
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
I suppose "Synchronicity II" doesn't count: "Another suburban family morning / Grandmother's screaming at the wall"
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
(Interestingly I had the lyrics of "Secret Love" reversed in my head; I thought it was "once I only told the daffodils, now I shout it from the highest hills," which I was pretty sure was from a show tune. On looking it up I saw I was partly right and partly wrong. FWIW my misremembered lyric is better.)
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
any others where the trees/wind/moon/etc explicitly don't listen?
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
was gonna say bruno mars' "talking to the moon," but i think he says specifically that voices call back
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
Clint Eastwood (and others) - I Talk to the TreesClint also famously talked to a chair, iirc
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
I think Patty Griffin's "Mother of God" would count.
When I was little I'd stare at her pictureAnd talk to the mother of GodI swear sometimes I'd see her lips moveLike she was trying to say something to meWhen I was eighteen I moved to Florida,Like everyone sick of the cold does,And I waited on old people waiting to dieI waited on them until I was
When I was eighteen I moved to Florida,Like everyone sick of the cold does,And I waited on old people waiting to dieI waited on them until I was
― Indexed, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
kate bush “deeper understanding”
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
The inanimate object clearly does hear the singer!
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind in Rod's McKuen's translation of Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
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checked the lyrics and there is no explicit confirmation that the computer is actually listening and not just saying what it’s programmed to say
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
Fred Lane - I Talk to My Haircut
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 02:57 (two years ago) link
Songs which have accidental sound in the background (that the artist decided to keep in the recording)?
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
There’s some Olivia Tremor Control song that clearly has a old landline ringing in the next room…
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link