Songs that are "rooms with many doors"

I think I've always thought of The Reflex by Duran Duran being like this.

Also, Louis; if I can't pronounce the band name = too prog.

Gotta be some Blur and Kate Bush examples too.

So far the playlist has:

Good Vibrations The Beach Boys The Very Best Of The Beach Boys
Happiness Is A Warm Gun The Beatles The Beatles (White Album)
Get On The Bus The Boo Radleys C’mon Kids
Four Saints The Boo Radleys C’mon Kids
Joel The Boo Radleys Wake Up!
Black Metal Valentine Califone Roots & Crowns
The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich The Dismemberment Plan Juno & The Dismemberment Plan
All You Good Good People Embrace The Good Will Out
Paranoid Android Radiohead OK Computer
Man Without Friends Siobhan Donaghy Revolution In Me
The Spark That Bled The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin
São Paulo Guillemots Through The Window Pane
Six Mansun Six
Receptacle For The Respectable Super Furry Animals Rings Around The World
Artists Only Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings & Food
Rock Lobster The B-52's Rock Lobster
Poor Places Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Music Is Music As Devices Are Kisses Is Everything 65DaysOfStatic The Destruction Of Small Ideas
Only Skin Joanna Newsom Ys
Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Like I Love You Justin Timberlake Justified
The Love You Save The Jackson 5 The Ultimate Collection
2+2=5 (The Lukewarm) Radiohead Hail To The Thief
Pump Up The Volume M/A/R/R/S Pump Up The Volume

Rollerskate Skinny made a (brief) career of following the Mercury Rev/Boo Radleys model of this idea to its logical extreme. Pretty much all of their songs fit the bill.

Patrick Wolf must do this too.

"I can take you to the sun" The Misunderstood.

It's only 2.5 mins, but it feels like five, in a good way.

Pavement and The Clash must have something that fits.

Anyone mentioning All Around The World by Oasis gets a slap.

Gotta be a Bunnymen example, too?

You asked for some pop suggestions:
Girls Aloud 'Biology'
Fall Out Boy 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race'
Bomb the Bass 'Beat Dis'
pretty much all of 'Paul's Boutique'
Outkast 'Bombs Over Baghdad'

It also struck me that this kind of structure has become the default for the big-budget R&B video, i.e. three or four unrelated sections bolted together

Gotta be a Bunnymen example, too? - Thorn of Crowns

one of the tracks on the 2nd side of 'ogdens nut gone flake', i think it's 'mad john', fits this.

"All around the world" has no doors.

Um, will get back.

I'm thinking there's gotta be some examples of this from Spoon.

Pretty much every song on A Series Of Sneaks, I'd say.

"I will always ask you where you've been, even though I always know the answer"

Forget who it's by, hem hem.

"Little Boy Soldiers" the Jam.

"Question" Moody Blues

I thought about Medication by Spiritualized but actually it's just weird-intro and then quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD.

Six.By Seven?

Got to be some Sparks songs for this, I reckon, though I can't quite think which.

I like songs that whisk you through disjointed parts, but the thread title seems a little airier than that, like you have space to choose your doors, as opposed to the constrained rollercoaster feel of Cardiacs or all those twisty mathy bands that suddenly let a diminished arpeggio spider up like the whiplash-quick offspring of the bass clarinet throb signalling the shifts in Music for 18 Musicians. I suppose they still fit if the doors of the title are the unconnected succession of identical doors in a cartoon corridor chase. Maybe that's the prog v pop distinction...

Cop Shoot Cop by Spiritualized kind of fits, but at 17 minutes long if it didn't have many doors it'd be dull as fuck.

Yo La Tengo gotta have something?

a whole bunch of Akron/Family songs

("Moment", if I had to pick just one)

no wait I think I wanna change my vote to "I've Got Some Friends" cuz it's shorter and catchier

Some more:

Air - "People in the City"
Ozzy Osbourne - "No More Tears"
Delgados - "Accused of Stealing"
Stereolab - "Captain Easychord"
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Sunmoonstars"
Love & Rockets - "Haunted When the Minutes Drag"
Grandaddy - "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot"
His Name is Alive - "In Every Ford"
Pale Saints - "Half Life"

Ctr+F "A QUICK ONE WHILE HE'S AWAY" no! no??

cellos cellos cellos cellos

Glasgow band Lapsus Linguae are pretty good at this sort of thing.

http://www.myspace.com/lapsuslinguaetheband

I personally overlooked that Grandaddy song, because the majority of it settles into one groove, but perhaps a case can be made for it seeing as most of the big changes are near the start.

your Spiritualized choice is clearly their best song, "Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In"
your Six.BySeven choice is...there isn't one. I have all their albums. There isn't one.

I'm not considering something which is at a push a room with just about two doors fwiw. It's gotta be a festival of choices.

Something tells me I might enjoy that Myspace link, cheers!

Peshay - The Nocturnal (Back On The Firm)

At The Drive-In, Louis?

Augie March?

"Arcarsenal", right there, bam xpost

Nino - The Gun

holy christ, Lapsus Linguae are *AMAZING*

Franz Ferdinand - Lucid Dreams
Mandrill - Fat City Strut
DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem (plus several others inc. In Flux, WDYSLL Part 2, Blood On The Motorway)
Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse
St Etienne - Goodnight Jack

Got to be some Sparks songs for this

Dick Around?

Which I love, but may be more conventional than I remember.

Is someone going to make this into a spotify playlist please?

Louis, buy the album, it's entitled 'You Got Me Fraiche', on Fierce Panda, came out a few years ago.

It's right up your alley.

I've just been reading their website...they seem to be coming from a really awesome place, where intellectual philosophising meets utter mischief. I'll investigate! :)

If you use SoulSeek it's worthwhile seeking out their 6 track demo too.

Jane Siberry - The Bird In The Gravel
Studio - Out There
Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots

I've just ordered it on Amazon.

"Out There" is a great shout, aye. 16 minutes long but that hasn't stopped some of my own recommendations. Maybe something on that Strategy album as well?

Gotta be some Blur and Kate Bush examples too.

Kate Bush - Waking The Witch?

Roxy Music - The Bob (Medley)
Jay-Z - Come And Get Me
Most of 10cc's Sheet Music

Dinosaur Jr - Poledo (plus a fair bit of early Sebadoh I guess).

this is probably true of any giant sand song. they never go where you expect them to go.

Boss Hog Barbarians - "Bo$$ Hoggin"

"Funky Town"

Kate Bush - Jig of Life (obv)