Songs that actually, like, stop when the singer says 'stop.'

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The Chameleons UK - Tears

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:13 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown owns this thread.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:50 (twenty-three years ago)

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

― Damian (Damian), Monday, 13 January 2003 08:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Stan Freberg - 'I've Got You Under My Skin'

(not quite the same thing, but on Golden Boy's '1,2,3,4', when Miss Kittin says "and I think I'd better shut up now", the track immediately ends)

― Jeff W, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Royal Trux 'Stop'

― dave q, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Garbage - Queer.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Fugazi.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Can't Stop" by That Petrol Emotion, from the wonderful "Manic Pop Thrill" album.

― Darren, Monday, 13 January 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

King Crimson's "When I Say Stop, Continue" doesn't stop when the singer says stop

.. ahh - but Robert Fripp & David Byrne did a song called "Under Heavy Manners" .. David says "Stop" and the song stops. Then he says "Continue" and, guess what it does ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 13 January 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Gun Club - Fire Spirit

― pauls00, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

colourblind james experience - dance critters

"the music stopped............and then it started again"

― joni, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

then there's that "Start Button" thing at the end of as heard on radio soulwax pt.2

― zebedee, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh, Gino Vannelli ... "I Just Wanna Stop"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Giorgio Moroder-"Stop"

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Cornelius: "Another View Point" and "Nowhere" ("Point! Stop the music...").

― Orange, Monday, 13 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, Belle & Sebastian have the "when the music stops...." STOPS... "da da da da da" in Me and the Major! HAHA! Look I can contribute to these useless threads as well - apologies if you said it upthread anyone...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Another Song", Swell Maps

― duane (doorag), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

King Horse doesn't actually stop when he says stop, just your heart.

Goddamn, I love Elvis Costello.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

U2, "God, Part 2."

Don't hate me.

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― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 13 January 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

When does he say "stop"?

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 13 January 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Buzzcocks - "How I hate modern music: disco, boogie and pop, it goes on and on and on and on and on how I wish it would stop"

Genius.

― wiseblood, Monday, 13 January 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty sure there's a Momus song with such a stop. Journey To The Center Of Me?

― Jacob Barss-Bailey, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Nobody's mentioned Erasure's "Stop!" yet so I will.

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Buzzcocks also have "Until the razor cuts" - Love You More, which is pretty bloody final -B.Fawlty(wrong thread)

― Steve Munro (Steve Munro), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Hate The Kids" by S.O.A.

― Mark Groves (ujaku), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ween: "Awesome Sound"

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Curtis - he doesn't say stop in X.Y.U. so much as scream it near the end of the song.

― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 06:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Debbie Harry's "Backfired"

― Tony (TK-Irl), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Better than Ranking Full Stop has to be Click Click off the Beat's first album, which ends faster faster faster faster / faster faster faster faster / faster faster faster faster STOP. It's very abrupt and works well.

― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Austin - "Unity In Dub"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

dB's - "Black And White"

... which I'm listening to right now and when he did the stop thing I said to myself "there's gotta be a thread about this on ilm!"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

b-side to the first James single - "If Things Were Perfect"

― Bimble..., Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornelius - 'Fly' and 'Lazy' (to add to the 2 upthread)
Prince - 'Batdance' (though Michael Keaton actually speaks the line)

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

buzzcocks: "noise annoys"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned Roy Orbison's Crying.

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Jackson, Hometown: "And sometimes when the music stops...... "

Only on the live version on 'Summer In The City', mind; I recall that there's no stop in the original recording.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronnettes - Frosty the Snowman. Of course, it starts back up again, but...

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Electric 6 do the STOP!...CONTINUE! thing in one of their songs. It's a one-beat pause on the record, but live the band froze while yer man essayed an acapella rendition of The Greatest Love Of All for a minute or two before hollering "Continue!"

― gaelic club (kit brash), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Sebadoh "Take An Aspirin"

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall -No Xmas For John Quays (live "Totales Turns" version)
"And I've had enough right now. STOP-UH!!"

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Eminem, "My Name Is." "Stop the tape! This boy needs to be locked away!"

― mike a, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

when radiohead plays "i might be wrong" in concert, thom ends with "i really think we should stop". oh and with such panache.

― deanster, Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"just lose it"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That Phoenix song, but I can't remember the name. It worked very well in concert...

― jenn Kane (satellitesynth), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Motorhead - "Born to Raise Hell"

Motorhead, fools!

Oh, and Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Billy Joel, "All For Leyna".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Blur, "Essex Dogs"

― marc h. (marc h.), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

that madonna song where she says STOP BITCH and a plate smashes and the song ends

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

my god, did it really take us two and a half years to get to "all for leyna"?

classic when billy joel does it, because it's such a completely geeky and overzealous stop that you can't help but smile. dud when almost anybody else does it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Vanilla Ice, shoulda woulda coulda

― Aaron A, Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

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― PaulTMA, Monday, 26 March 2018 11:12 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

The Beths, Uptown Girl (at about 20 seconds in)
https://thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/track/uptown-girl

― enochroot, Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:16 (seven years ago)

Ha, I never noticed that before.

― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Thursday, 20 September 2018 13:27 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

"Ranking Full Stop," The (English) Beat
― Michael White, Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:30 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

came here to post this

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:22 (six years ago)

three months pass...

MJ & Siedah Garrett’s “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”.

Not in any big, like, show-stopping fashion, but still...

― breastcrawl, Friday, 27 December 2019 20:33 (six years ago)

five months pass...

"Summertime Rolls", Jane's Addiction

― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 00:12 (five years ago)

Señor Coconut's cover of "Radioactivity": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_K2FasB02A

― ernestp, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 06:14 (five years ago)

Vice Versa - New Girls Neutrons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qOO6KRZ8CM

― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 13:49 (five years ago)

Charlie Puth's new single "Girlfriend" does this, within the first 30 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRI0vr_zPQ

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 June 2020 20:49 (five years ago)

bowie, Up the Hill Backwards, though TBF he yells "Shut up" not "Stop"

― akm, Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:26 (five years ago)

one year passes...

K-Pop theme song to new cartoon We Baby Bears does this several times - though the music doesn't stop *every* time they do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4J75lmkO0

― gjoon1, Friday, 7 January 2022 21:25 (four years ago)

Did anybody mention "Gerry and the Holograms" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUOBJ7vEAQ4

― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:29 (four years ago)

one year passes...

bad idea right? does it.

― gjoon1, Thursday, 21 September 2023 02:05 (two years ago)

Mel Wynn and the Rhythm Aces - Stop Sign

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 21 September 2023 02:13 (two years ago)

Can't believe it took so long for someone to make a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1OaNrphk0

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 30 September 2023 05:26 (two years ago)

Should have remembered Take That - Shine

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 30 September 2023 13:05 (two years ago)

he also made an old video on the same topic years ago and explicitly cited this thread for it

― dyl, Saturday, 30 September 2023 14:54 (two years ago)

seven months pass...

kendrick lamar - “euphoria”

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:57 (two years ago)

In the Art of Stopping is a typically smartass Wire take on this kinda thing

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:15 (two years ago)

Does 'cut' count? Because Linton Kwesi Johnson/Poet and the Roots - Five Nights of Bleeding:

And suddenly the music *cut*...
Steelblade drinkin' blood in darkness

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:13 (two years ago)

two months pass...

XTC - Neon Shuffle

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 29 July 2024 23:22 (one year ago)

Can't believe it took so long for someone to make a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1OaNrphk0

― Hideous Lump, sábado 30 de septiembre de 2023 06:26 AM (ten months ago)

I think google is spying on me. This was a recommended video on my feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWdQPOjTk4g

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), martes 24 de octubre de 2017 05:14 PM (six years ago)

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:08 (one year ago)

The music stops when Ray Davies says "stop the music" in "Scum of the Earth" from Preservation Act 2 by the Kinks.

The music does not stop when the Bee Gees sing "Somebody Stop the Music" from Trafalgar.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:32 (one year ago)

Unicorn - "Keep on Going"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ok0F4qMlE

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 15:24 (one year ago)

three months pass...

A new one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85PeF_yBlt4

― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 08:53 (one year ago)

This is "Stop" by Bert, from Bert's Blockbusters, which doesn't - brrr! - quite fit the bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be_o4Sv6uho

Because Bert doesn't stop after saying "stop", he just pauses a bit. Brrr! It is however one of the few records in this thread that could conceivably have been used as an instrument of torture by the CIA during the latter stages of the Vietnam War. Brrr!

Now, I admit I have no evidence of that. But isn't that suspicious? No evidence at all? Not a single piece of evidence? Not a single piece? None?

I ask you, is that likely? Is it?

― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 20:42 (one year ago)

five months pass...

Chicks on Speed - Wordy Rappinghood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_1kziD6Lec

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 12 April 2025 08:32 (one year ago)

four months pass...

Cibo Matto - "Spoon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oveep8Rt8RA

― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be trunc (SlimAndSlam), Saturday, 6 September 2025 18:21 (nine months ago)

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