oh and wots... uh the deal by pink floyd
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
Skyhooks: "Balwyn Calling" and "All My Friends Are Getting Married"
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
Chuck Berry "You Never Can Tell", obv.
― fetter, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
Also, most of Adem's "Homesongs" album. And John Martyn's "Sunday's Child"
― fetter, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
always found the deployment of this line from blanche blanche blanche's uncrazy striking:
"I just want to take care of my wife and play basketball"
even before the pause and addition of "and get hit by a car"
― ogmor, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Let's Move to the Country - Smog:
Let's move to the countryJust you and me
My travels are overMy travels are through
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
How have Pet Shop Boys not come up yet?
― imago, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
"climbing trees" by bauer, can't believe nobody has mentioned this one already
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
Lots of country songs
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yesterday I was ambushed by unexpected emotion listening to George Jones and Tammy Wynette's "Two Story House" for the first time. What a sad song.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Last Time I Saw Richard: "Richard got married to a figure skater / and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator."
― (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Michelle Shocked's "When I Grow Up", about settling down with "me, my old man, and 120 babies."
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Nanko - Lucky You
When you reach home, you’re greeted with hugs and kissesBy your wife and your three lovely kidsJust to see your dinner on the tableAin’t got nothing to worry about, you got your cableStill got a young one coming up in the cradleDamn, man, your life must be so stableAs for me, I’m unable, disabled, I’m like a fable
― Ex Slacker, Friday, 26 October 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
I'm not the cat I used to beI got a kid, I'm thirty-three
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 October 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7rWf4tH-jE
If you learn to driveI can use the train and the busWhen you're mobile, we'll goTake my toys and your cat with usWe'll leave the violenceWe'll have something to doWith a couch-bed in the front roomFor when we fall out, or when our friends come through
It's painting a kitchen that's keeping me goingAnd we've already named the seeds I'll be sowing
And when they've grown upThat's hoping that I don't shoot blanksCould we move right up northFind a house near the shores and the banks?With a big fuckoff tellyA brand new stereo systemWe'll meet old friends at funeralsAnd pretend that we've missed them
And if they were hereThey'd say it was shockingTo find we've already named the dog we'll be walking
It's choosing a mattress that's keeping me goingAnd we've already named the seeds I'll be sowing
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 26 October 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PEMP-nIY1U
What would you say if I offered this all upTo move, like a wreck, to the Neuk?With a room for your art, and a room for my tunes?And a promise we both kept never to leave?
Just say the word...
You can't manufacture loveBuild a flutter out of paper Hoodwink my heartSure you wouldn't know where to start
So II can say without fearJust catch my eye in a certain wayAnd we'll be out of here
― Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 26 October 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
Pulp's Babies isn't right for this. Maybe Disco 2000
― paulhw, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
not sure i'd say this is about the happy side of domesticity but i love this song so I can't help posting it.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - I Eat Dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2x9uZVPek
― Will (kruezer2), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Richard Shindell's song "A Summer Wind, a Cotton Dress" hits me pretty hard. It's the only relatable infidelity song I know of.The kids are fineThey're six and nineI think you'd probably like my wifeBut the kitchen lightSeems much too brightFor what I find myself thinking tonight
― Glasnostradamus (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
"Don't Marry Her" has a reference to the sun shining on San Francisco Bay which always reminded me of the following story, but I've never come across this usage anywhere else:
In the late 1980s, Pickett recalled how he came by it: “Noreen Woods from Atlantic Records, she called me that one day because back in that time, the secretaries were wearing these miniskirts. One of these girls was leaning over the desk. On a clear day, you could see the San Francisco Bay. So I went and pinched her. Noreen saw it: she said, ‘My, my, you are so Wicked.’ Jerry Wexler ran out of his office. ‘That’s it baby, that’s it, that’s the name of his next album, baby. The Wicked Pickett, that’s it, put it down.’Fletcher, Tony. In the Midnight Hour (p. 96). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
Vampire Weekend, "Stranger" feels nicely domestic - "Another night indoors, another sign of life, wobbling up through the floor."
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
Ray Davies - Quiet Life (from the movie Absolute Beginners)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 14 January 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
As someone mentions above, it would take a while to list all the Davies songs on this theme, but The Kinks Present a Soap Opera is an entire album about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link