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

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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)

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

ALSO SEE: Billy Joel in Live at Long Island singing "turn out the lights!" in "You May Be Right", and then thanking the light op's for turning out the lights in the arena for a second.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Does Liberty DeVito (sp?) crack a rimshot as Billy says "stop"? Is he even the drummer of the band?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

liberty devitto, two t's i believe, does a really corny roll-like thing on the toms (maybe even a roto-tom?) as billy says "stop." which makes it that much more geeky.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

"Stop" by Howard Tate!

― Sean Howe (seanmhowe), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

ooh, just remember another one i actually like: julie grant, "stop." it's a short, understated, but still clear and exuberant stop.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I came back to post "Ranking Full Stop," but Mike White beat me by two years.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

alexis strum "rock this disco"

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

well, upon listening again i guess it's not "stop" per se...but some unintelligible gibberish that i think is the rought equivalent.

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Bowling for Soup, 1985

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

me rankin' full stop. Full stop, me rankin' full stop. I said STOP.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Friday, 16 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Zucchero in "Il mare impetuoso al tramonto sali' sulla luna e dietro una tendina di stelle..." (italian song)

― blues, Thursday, 29 December 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin - "Out On The Tiles"

― Mama Roux, Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Well, ELvis goes "Hold it, fellas. That don't move me. Let's get real, real gone for a change."

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

When I say stop, y'all stop on a dime, when I say stop ya'll stop one time...STOP!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Electric Six - "Improper Dancing"

"stop...continue!"

― 31g (31g), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" Classic.

― Schade (Schade), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Have we really gone this far and not mentioned "Stop - Hammer time!"?

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 29 December 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

losing my edge

― lf, Thursday, 29 December 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Not "stop" per se, but "freeze".

EPMD - "It's My Thang"
Mannie Fresh - "Conversation"

And "silence"...

A Tribe Called Quest - "What?"

― R. J. Greene, Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

The Beat (English Beat, whatever you want!),
"Click Click"......faster, faster, faster, faster STOP!!! And then it does

― Richard S, Friday, 13 January 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

This does the opposite, sort of
Gene Krupa w/Anita O'Day - "Stop! The red light's on" (the entire band stops playing and yells "Stop!")

― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy

See also "Stronger".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

The lead vocals in "Stop! In The Name Of Love" stops for a moment everytime the word "Stop" is said. The backing track plays on though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

pyjama time

― LC, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Kylie's "Telltale Signs": "When we see all the telltale signs, let's...STOP! Our love slipping away."

PS: It's genius.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Prince 'Batman'

― Rich (Stinkin Rich), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:58 (twenty years ago)

no such tune - "batdance"?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

As much as I hate the song, Love and Rockets: So Alive does this.

"Wish I could stop..." (music stops) "...switch off the clock, and make it all happen for you-HOO-HOO!"

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Any song performed live by the Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-80s

― Niall, Friday, 13 January 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Delta 5 - "Train Song"

every time a song that fits this description comes up during random mp3 playing I end up back at this thread ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Of all these songs, "Batdance" is the only one I've heard that fits the criteria of the question. It's not songs that say "stop" in them, but actually end with the word "stop" - right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahAHAHAHAH BATMANstop.

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

dude things can stop and then start again!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

all you've proved justin is 1) you didn't read the initial post, and 2) you haven't heard any of these songs beyond Batdance.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Whether completely or for a brief little cleversmuggy pause before starting up again.

― musically (musically), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Royal trux - Stop (from "Vereans Of Disorder")

― mushiko, Friday, 31 March 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Do synonyms count? If so, "It's No Game (part 1)" stops when Bowie yells "Shut Up! Shut UP! SHUT UP!!

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

"Lollipop" - The Hidden Cameras. This stops when Joel shouts "stop".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Atomic garden - Bad Religion
Potters Field - Anthrax

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Heard "Alison" today and wondered if there was a thread about this, thought of the aforementioned Gino Vinelli "Stop" and "Ice, Ice Baby."

― a hedge maze made of people (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

Britney Spears - Lucky

(end of 2nd verse -- "what happens when it STOPS.......... they go [to chorus]")

― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

Brazilian Grils - Don't Stop

― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" Classic.
― Schade (Schade), Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:19 PM (4 years ago)

??? i love this song and i can't remember this part.

related: The DOC "Portrait of a Masterpiece":

"Hold on Dre stop the beat, let me catch my breath
(Dr. Dre) (ayo man, why ya stopping that was funky)
To catch my breath
(Dre) alright you got it (yea) kick it "

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:08 (fifteen years ago)

"Three Roses" - America

― Phil Will, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

"Alison" as performed by Linda Ronstadt

― banjoboy, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 06:26 (fifteen years ago)

at the very end of l-o-v-e by al green as its fading, the very last word is 'stop' then the fade stops altogether. but its very quiet though.

― Josh L, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 08:12 (fifteen years ago)

Rankin' Full Stop by the Beat

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 08:37 (fifteen years ago)

siouxsie & the banshees' cover of "helter skelter"

― kamerad, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 12:10 (fifteen years ago)

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