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
songs which feature the wilhelm scream
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
"Album covers what display only a single bandmember?"
Two others are Groundhogs' "Hogwash" and The Runaways' debut
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link
drummer
― brimstead, Monday, 13 May 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link
https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/634895/files/22235249/1600x2048x2/bauhaus-press-the-eject-and-give-me-the-tape-white.jpg
― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:19 (one month ago) link
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, May 13, 2024
― brimstead, Monday, May 13, 2024
Brimstead's correct. (There was a fourth one I was trying to remember, like maybe Chris Mars on the back of a Replacements single?)
But MYB's on to something. Not sure about the two listed there, where it's the "star" or the primary member or Angus Young appearing on every other AC/DC cover. More like some random model who just happens to be in the band, like Clam Dip & Other Delights with Karl the bassist or the back of Mike's head on Double Nickels.
Not sure where London Calling would fit into this. It's different from the other two, you know?
― pplains, Monday, 13 May 2024 20:46 (one month ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excellent_Italian_Greyhound#/media/File:Shellac-ExcellentItalianGreyhound.jpg
Drummer's dog.
― nate woolls, Monday, 13 May 2024 21:06 (one month ago) link
fucks sake, never mind
― nate woolls, Monday, 13 May 2024 21:07 (one month ago) link
LMJ on the 'official' cover of u2's songs of innocence
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 13 May 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link
songs that are titled wrong on spotify
julian cope - know (cut my friend down) - cut my friends downpearl jam - aye davanita - aya davanita
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 16 May 2024 11:55 (four weeks ago) link
This also happened to be the JL album that I most loved📹
Songs with long names that still aren't the actual lyricManic 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)
― Alba, Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:11 (three weeks ago) link
_"Album covers what display only a single bandmember?"
― Alba, Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:13 (three weeks ago) link
Tindersticks have a couple of these.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91QerPGmBLL._UF350,350_QL50_.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Tindersticks-CanOurLove.jpg/220px-Tindersticks-CanOurLove.jpg
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:13 (three weeks ago) link
Doug Yule is the only person pictured on Velvet Underground Loaded.
― bbq, Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:04 (three weeks ago) link