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

Heh. John Henry?

Decemberists, "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect"?

Oooh! Oooh! Fortress Around Your Heart.

if you count a tinker as a practitioner of the engineering trades, then at least part of tim hardin's "if i were a carpenter"

also about 10% of woody guthrie songs it sometimes seems

Songs in which the Beatles wish you a Happy Birthday

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:20 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWjRpsqbu7o

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songs about the olden days when life was simpler and we had NO CELLPHONES:

Five For Fighting - Slice
("there was a time a long, long time ago/ Chevys and levees played on the radio/ no cell phones, just 20,000 lights/ swaying on a Saturday night, alright")

The Wreckers - My, Oh My
("songs were long, and gas was cheap/ no cellphones, and water was free/ daddy paid and I never had to worry")

Jim Jones - Blow It Up
("I was dealing crack when/ there was no cell phones and I swear it was iller back then/ it was beepers and street sweepers [...]")

jesus christ

arcade fire - we used to wait

Pretty sure this is the entirety of Everclear's AM Radio: "VCR and DVD, there was none of that crap back in 1970." It also mentions a "portable CD player."

I kinda want to call up Alex whatsis and ask him if he wants to rewrite the song now that those things don't really exist anymore either.

Songs about the engineering trades and their practitioners (not including audio engineering)

I would like to know of songs about audio engineering.

Not the same thing but there could be a whole thread about songs where the producer’s name or production company are mentioned in the song, usually at the beginning.

I kind of feel it’s a practice that started in Jamaica but I don’t know how to even cross-check that.

all of afropop to thread

Springsteen, "Ain't Good Enough For You"

I tried to change, I got a job in sales
I bought a shirt uptown in Bloomingdales
And babe I tried to make the latest scene
Hitting cool just like Jimmy Iovine

Can we have some songs about how cool it is to be a CEO of a multinational company?

Stan Ridgway - "I Wanna Be a Boss"

Responding to the previous question, the S&G Simple Desultory Phillipic has name drops for BOTH Roy Halee and Phil Spector. So an engineer / producer twofer.

You could also stretch "engineering" to include e.g. Casey Jones and Driver 8.

songs in which the singer snaps back at a cat caller

Negative Gemini - "Don't Worry Bout the Fuck I'm Doing"
Empress Of - "Kitty Kat"
TLC - "No Scrubs"

I feel like these all need to be individual threads. Condensing them all into this hodgepodge is a disservice to the culture.

"In My Former Country I Was Engineer" by the Ebb & Flow, which is a good song but he sure wasn't audio engineer, unless I have a somehow damaged out-of-phase download.

Peggy Seeger, "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IGVxBb5uYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygxDs_zcayo

should've included the vocal version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnIH51niqCY

The Flying Pickets did a good, spooky song called Monica Engineer

Songs in which the narrator communicates telepathically with their lover:
Golden Earring - “Radar Love”
Metric - “Satellite Mind”
Bad Brains - “Sacred Love”
...

Don't Speak / I know what you're thinking

J. Lowenstein with the riposte: https://genius.com/Sebadoh-mind-reader-lyrics

"Rocks Off"

Battle of the Children of the :
Grave
Sea
Damned

Songs whose narratives hinge upon mistaken identity:

“Silhouettes” – The Rays (and others)
“Hurricane” – Bob Dylan
“Billie Jean” – Michael Jackson*
“Oh Sweet Woods” – Fiery Furnaces
“It Wasn’t Me” – Shaggy*

*alleged

Songs that sound like Histoire de Melody Nelson:
Paper Tiger - Beck
Also others...

Songs listing the cities in which the party will be occurring tonight:

Dancing in the Streets - Martha & the Vandellas
All Over the World - Electric Light Orchestra
Keep This Party Going - The B-52's

(There's got to be more...)

T.I.’s verse on “We’re Taking Over”

Songs where the singer is in denial:

10CC - I'm Not In Love
John Waite - I Ain't Missing You
Flight of the Conchords - I'm Not Crying

Flowers on the Wall--Flowers on the Wall

stone roses - i am the resurrection

The Louvin Brothers - I Like the Christian Life

albert collins - i ain't drunk

Buzzcocks - “You Say You Don’t Love Me.”

George Jones - "She Thinks I Still Care"

The Louvin Brothers - I Like the Christian Life

lol

Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All

Dylan - "Most of the Time"

Does this include songs where not only the singer but also the songwriter seems to be in denial? If so:

Bruce Springsteen - "Happy"
That terrible Justin Bieber song about how he's totally over Selena Gomez, he's just writing her this song because she keeps blowing up his phone, and also his mother doesn't like her.

I guess "Boots of Spanish Leather" also involves a lot of denial, although he clues in at the end.

Flowers on the Wall--Flowers on the Wall

ALBUMS NAMED AFTER THE STUDIO THEY WERE RECORDED IN

Abbey Road - Beatles
Caribou - Elton John

And then I hit Wikipedia to find these...

The Power Station - The Power Station (album and band)
Shangri La - Mark Knopfler
Bear Creek - Brandi Carlile

Feel the heat

5150 - Van Halen
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix (though this might technically be a studio named after an album)

Guitar solos that are preceded with the singer exclaiming “oh no...”:
-Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
-Van Halen, you really got me

Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:

“867-5309/Jenny” — Tommy Tutone
“Group Sex” — Circle Jerks
“The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry” — Fiery Furnaces

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, August 3, 2018 5:30 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Owen Pallett's The Secret Seven also does this.