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

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.

Songs/tunes that sample Sydney's pedestrian crossing sound:

Orbital, Walk Now
Billie Eilish, Bad Guy

Songs where the title doesn't appear in the lyrics until the 2nd verse:

Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams"

"Nebraska"

"Nebraska"

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:46 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Good one!

songs in which the protagonist's friend/lover leaves them behind in pursuit of stardom:

Twinkle - Golden Lights
Colin Blunstone - Caroline Goodbye
Amanda Mair - Sense

songs where the lead vocalist is having their ass eaten

Geto Boys - Gangsta of Love

songs where the lead vocalist is eating ass

R.A. The Rugged Man "Tom Thum"

Songs/tunes that sample Sydney's pedestrian crossing sound:

Orbital, Walk Now
Billie Eilish, Bad Guy

Basement Jaxx, Red Alert
Regurgitator, Superstraight
Giuseppe Ottaviani, Crossing Lights
Polish Club, Iguana

songs where nobody is eating ass or having their ass eaten

[..]

2523 Songbird :: Kenny G

uh yeah, I'm pretty sure Kenny has never gone on record to say that 'Songbird' isn't a wordless meditation on the pleasures of booty eating. otherwise it's a pretty solid list, though!

Old timey Ilx post up there

Basement Jaxx, Red Alert
Regurgitator, Superstraight
Giuseppe Ottaviani, Crossing Lights
Polish Club, Iguana

found the site with this list, last 3 are all legit but i don't buy the basement jaxx.

Neanderthal, solid effort, but sorry. That list includes cRIMson and Clover and pRIMrose Lane. Plus the two tracks by Leean RIMes. All of which are clear coded references.

Fuck! How could I have forgot those!

I'll be punishing the intern who compiled this list!

And I have my doubts about "2551 Lights, Camera, Action! :: Mr. Cheeks"

1 Smooth Asscheeks :: Santana
3 You Light Up My Ass :: Debby Boone
4 I Gotta Feeling (It's Analingus) :: Black Eyed Peas, The
5 Hey Jude (Can I Eat Your Ass?) :: Beatles, The
15 Tossin' Salad And Turnin' :: Bobby Lewis
16 I'll Make Love To You (By Which I Mean I'll Munch Dat Ass All Night) :: Boyz II Men
17 Bette Davis Ass :: Kim Carnes
20 I Want To Hold Your Asscheeks Open :: Beatles, The
21 How You Remind Me (Of That Time You Ate My Ass) :: Nickelback
22 Un-Break My Bung :: Toni Braxton
24 (I Want Your Tongue) Truly Madly But Especially Deeply :: Savage Garden
26 Every Butt You Taste :: Police, The
32 How Deep Is Your Hole :: Bee Gees
33 Bust A Ass Open :: Young M.C.
36 The First Time Ever I Sat On Your Face :: Roberta Flack

I should have been in bed 2 hours ago.

found the site with this list, last 3 are all legit but i don't buy the basement jaxx

ooh, what site? there used to be a thread with other techno/trance tracks that sampled it on inthemix, but the new owners nuked the entire archive a year or two ago and I can't remember any of them

(also I've just relistened to Superstraight and now I suspect either I'm misremembering another Regurgitator song of the era (never got on with T-Wrecks), or maybe the idea was that Kostic based the pre-verse drumbeat on the wait sound?)

https://junkee.com/fatboy-slim-greta-thunberg-melbourne/239874

actually they don't mention superstraight and the jaxx is their own theory, think they're talking about the video version but i still don't hear it.

speaking of the new owners! that's almost certainly not the link you meant to post, but Junkee has been around less than a decade, so it's definitely not "their" theory.

luv 2 visit websites that change the url when u scroll

https://junkee.com/billie-eilish-bad-guy-pedestrian-sound-songs/239769

ha ha, yes, ppl have definitely been picking Red Alert (1999) as a crossing sample since earlier than (checks notes)... yesterday

more hollow "ha ha" at a music publisher deleting two decades of user-generated content at the end of 2018 and then publishing clickbait that could have been better sourced using it, at the beginning of 2020

obv the ITM forums were nothing compared to the wiping of masses of original research and material on M&N, but it's a good thing that civilisation won't survive long enough for future historians to become frustrated

I lolled at "Every Butt You Taste."

And let us not even discuss Rimsky-Korsakov.

Songs in which being a "Nineties Baby" is a focal point:

Victoria Monét – "90's Babies"
Maren Morris - "80s Mercedes"
Icona Pop - "I Love It"
The Weeknd - "Girls Born in the 90's"
Jay Rick$ - "Born in the 90's"
FAVX - "Born in the 90's"
The Cassettes - "Born in the 90s"

(I've never heard of the last few, but they came up in a search of lyrix for one of the others)

Videos in which the singer's hair is cut onscreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgeqw7s00xg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27BvZLSzaz8
("WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.")

remembered this from one viewing in 1992, but not well enough

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

I feel like there's an obvious one I'm forgetting -- where a singer's head is entirely shorn onscreen?

i want to say U2's "Numb" but it's not that

songs in which the drummer calls out "A B C D!" instead of "1 2 3 4!" :

A Love Bizarre