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

Genesis - Invisible Touch. On The Way We Walk, Vol 1 - The Shorts, Phil changes "and though she will mess up your life" to "and though she will fuck up your life".

most New Order songs

Seems to me that when songwriters / bands run out of things to write about, they start writing about food. What are the earliest examples of this? Initially I hit upon “custard pie” and “hot dog” by Zep but also maybe “savoy truffle” seven years earlier. “Hot tamales” by r Johnson prob excluded right

I… don’t think custard pie is about food

Van Halen’s “poundcake”

Ist

I… don’t think custard pie is about food

Warrants “cherry pie” Is a deliberate euphemism. Excluded

um, "poundcake" is v much not about food either

I mean it's about 'cake' but not of the dessert variety

Pretty sure a significant majority of songs about food are euphemistic. Savoy Truffle is a good exception though, at least I think it is.

I think you’re right. So the question becomes what are the non euphemistic songs about food besides savoy truffle?

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“Green Onions” is completely non-sexual

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortnin%27_Bread

Singer-songwriter Alex Chilton recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread"' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it").[10]

Wish this had happened!

songs in which the lead singer adds a swear word in place of a more mundane word in live performances to be "edgy".

Bob Pollard changes "painful lives" to "fucked up lives" in live versions of "I Am a Scientist."

this is more like a "Bands in which" but what bands are named after a song/album written by a band that was named after a song/album by another band?

example:

if a band named Gristled Tips had a song called "Burnt Toast", and then a band named themselves Burnt Toast after that song, and had a song named "A Lesson in Breakfast", and then another band named themselves A Lesson in Breakfast.

or if a band named Lions of Winter had an album called Dog Eat Poo, and then a band named themselves Dog Eat Poo, and released an album called Fuck Society, I'm Having Bacon, and then another band named themselves Fuck Society, I'm Having Bacon?

New Edition has a 1988 song called "Boys to Men", after which the band Boyz II Men named themselves. One of the hits of Boyz II Men was th 1991 "Motownphilly"; Spotify tells me that there is an artist named Motownphilly, whose only activity is guesting on the 2020 single "See You Otis" by Mookie/Bestfriends. Kinda weak, but not nothing.

Ramones : Bad Brains : Fearless Vampire Killers

songs (or "songs") with a spoken word part in which somebody recalls their dream(s):

Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Invention for Radio No. 1: The Dreams
(radio program in which multiple dream interviews have been spliced, arranged by subject matter, and set to spooky tape loop soundscapes)

The Olivia Tremor Control - 'Combinations 2' and 'Hilltop Procession (Momentum Gaining)', among other tracks on Black Foliage
(the band asked their fans to send them tape recordings in which they recounted their dreams)

Movietone - Heatwave Pavement

Belle & Sebastian - A Space Boy Dream Number Two

Bongwater - What’s Big In England Now?

Lou Reed & John Cale - A Dream (Cale narrating as Warhol)

Bongwater - Nick Cave Doll

Songs where the singer talks to inanimate objects which do not hear them: Clint Eastwood (and others) - I Talk to the Trees; King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind

I've got two. Doris Day (and others including George Michael, Connie Francis, and Sinéad O'Connor) "Secret Love."

Once I had a secret love...
So I told a friendly star
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are
And why I'm so in love with you
Now I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils

And the Pogues, "A Pair of Brown Eyes," which I think we were just discussing in ye Pogues thread.

So drunk to hell I left the place
Sometimes crawling sometimes walking
A hungry sound came across the breeze
So I gave the walls a talking

Neil Diamond, "I Am I Said".

The Doris Day one reminds me of Linda Scott's 'I've Told Every Little Star', of Mulholland Dr. fame, which moves from addressing stars to addressing ripples in a brook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgpiGs_4Js

Also Bruno Mars - 'Talking to the Moon'

I suppose "Synchronicity II" doesn't count: "Another suburban family morning / Grandmother's screaming at the wall"

(Interestingly I had the lyrics of "Secret Love" reversed in my head; I thought it was "once I only told the daffodils, now I shout it from the highest hills," which I was pretty sure was from a show tune. On looking it up I saw I was partly right and partly wrong. FWIW my misremembered lyric is better.)

any others where the trees/wind/moon/etc explicitly don't listen?

was gonna say bruno mars' "talking to the moon," but i think he says specifically that voices call back

Clint Eastwood (and others) - I Talk to the Trees

Clint also famously talked to a chair, iirc

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

I think Patty Griffin's "Mother of God" would count.

When I was little I'd stare at her picture
And talk to the mother of God
I swear sometimes I'd see her lips move
Like she was trying to say something to me

When I was eighteen I moved to Florida,
Like everyone sick of the cold does,
And I waited on old people waiting to die
I waited on them until I was

kate bush “deeper understanding”

The inanimate object clearly does hear the singer!

We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind in Rod's McKuen's translation of Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas

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checked the lyrics and there is no explicit confirmation that the computer is actually listening and not just saying what it’s programmed to say

Fred Lane - I Talk to My Haircut

Songs which have accidental sound in the background (that the artist decided to keep in the recording)
?

There’s some Olivia Tremor Control song that clearly has a old landline ringing in the next room…

Grouper's "Labyrinth", recorded on a portable recorder during a blackout in Portugal, has the beep! of a microwave turning back on when the power was restored.

and the frogs on "Lighthouse" but they're essential to the record

"Black Country Woman" by Led Zeppelin - plane flying overhead while recording outdoors
"Tin Scarecrow" by Game Theory - vacuum cleaner turned on while recording at home

There's a plane flying overhead during one of the tracks on the Lambert/Ingram/Randall album (which feels like part & parcel of "outdoor recording")

Phone ringing in one of those songs on the Moldy Peaches album

Songs about escaping small towns

Broadcast - Ominous Cloud
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Kingmaker - Hey Birdman (no really, this is good)

Sure there must be many more

Nowhere Fast - The Smiths