SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

isaac hayes - good love ... "call good love 69-9-69"

squeeze - "853-5937"

are there any phone-number songs yet that have modern 8, 10, or 11 digit numbers?

City Boy – 5705

roxy music - remake/remodel ... "CPL 593H!"

Not a phone number, it was the registration number of Bryan Ferry's car.

songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:

Grizzly Bear - Marla
Throwing Muses - Sinkhole

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Lyn Paul - The Waiting Game (Doreen Belcher)

I know. I do.

"Maybe Baby" had some lines written by Buddy Holly's mom.

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.

Songs where the singer is bored of music:

Isn’t this every Cat Power song?

POLL: Songs Written By The Artist's Mom

Harry Nilsson, "Little Cowboy"
Harry Nilsson, "Marchin' Down Broadway"

are there any phone-number songs yet that have modern 8, 10, or 11 digit numbers?

Jeremih - 773 LOVE

This doesn't count but Hoyt Axton's mom wrote "Heartbreak Hotel."

Not a phone number, it was the registration number of Bryan Ferry's car.

arggghh of course... dunno what i was thinking... it was late.

Bryan says sorry but the traffic was bad

don't forget The B-52s "6060-842". Which is a weird way to format a local US telephone number circa 1979.

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”

Bob Dylan - “Percy’s Song”

Skeeter Davis - “Set Him Free”

Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be women

Violent Femmes
Girls

Das Damen

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."

George Jones, "Brown to Blue" we stood there in the courthouse room...
the judge pronounced the words

Paul Simon "Adios Hermanos"

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.

^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"

Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be women

Women
Single Mothers
Girl Band

Twisted Sister

Bare naked... no its gone

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):

Springsteen: Johnny 99 and also Nebraska

Also Steve Earle The Devil’s Rigjt Hand

And The Specials - Stupid Marriage

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!

“Here Comes the Judge,” Pigmeat Markham ( and other songs with the same name by others)

^ ^ ^ Top-20 rap hit from 1968!

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge)

"murder in my heart for the judge" by the moby grape

Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:

― i’m still stanning (morrisp)

the space negroes' version of "sex bomb"

Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):

― Mr. Snrub

"mr. waters (the judge)" by birmingham sunday

"arrest, trial, and judgement (joy in the marketplace!)" by harry partch
"good morning judge" by wynonie harris

songs with a falsetto goodbye:

Danny O'Keefe - Falsetto Goodbye
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

The reprise of "So Long, Farewell" from Sound of Music

Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'

^ah, I had a feeling I was missing an incredibly obvious one

The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye

Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger

songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (written by Darby Slick)

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"

^
Loudon Wainwright - The Swimming Song

Possible thread for 'off-mic eructations'? Keith Jarrett must be the king of this. Or Mingus.

songs with unearned key changes

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

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')

The Run DMC version of "Walk This Way".

songs which feature the wilhelm scream

Songs where the narrator insists they're trying their best

Kool & the Gang, "Joanna"

Songs where the guys are just goofin' around on a piano (not their primary instrument) and decide "let's put that on the album! why not?"

De La Soul - Johnny's Dead AKA Vincent Mason (Live from the BK Lounge)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljMEvoanOZA

24-7 Spyz - Spyz on Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GigbNT8EZvE

Does the Stone Roses' piano-led "The Foz" count or does piano have to be the only instrument?

That works! Could be piano or any instrument that the players aren't skilled on.

King Missile, “Philip Glass”

If stand-up comedy/monologues count as an "instrument", then:

Having Fun with Elvis On Stage

There is a story that on Elvis Costello's "Long Honeymoon," it took three people to play the accordion

UK No. 1 singles I have seen played live,

Lonnie Donegan - (all of them probably; I was two)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
The Scaffold - Lily the Pink
Don McLean - Vincent
Steve Harley - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
The Blockheads - Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
Boney M - (again probably all of them; I wasn't paying much attention)
Bob Geldof - Rat Trap, I Don't Like Mondays
Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver, Prince Charming, Goody Two Shoes
UB40 - Red Red Wine, I Got You Babe(?), (I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You
Midge Ure - If I Was
Eddi Reader - Perfect
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Blur - Country House, Beetlebum
The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
Busted (McBusted) - You Said No, Crashed the Wedding, Thunderbirds Are Go
McFly - 5 Colours in Her Hair, Obviously, All About You, Please Please, Don't Stop Me Now, Star Girl
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
Matt Cardle - When We Collide (!)

Songs that make lyrical (not musical) reference to songs by other artists.

e.g. Taylor Swift, "Guilty As Sin?": "drowning in the Blue Nile, he sent me Downtown Lights"

surely there's a whole thread for that somewhere?

I was wondering about that, but I didn't know how/couldn't be bothered to search for it.

well, here's a start anyway

Songs that quote (and credit) other songs