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

and that's a good line to take it to the bridge

and they're coming to the chorus now

Middle eight!! (public image limited, don't ask me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XKDTOiNqdE

Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago

Denim – The Great Pub Rock Revival ("Synthesizer solo!")

This is surely its own thread already, but Weird Al does "drum solo!" on the "Polka Your Eyes Out" medley.

Hit singles that begin really dissonant and/or atonal

OMD - Maid of Orleans
Adam & the Ants - Prince Charming
The Cure - The Caterpillar
Family - In My Own Time

I suppose Purple Haze

The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me

(which I guess is just following the example of The Beatles - I Feel Fine)

Pop songs where a drumkit is only fully deployed well into the second half.

The Sundays - Can't Be Sure
Julia Jacklin - Lydia Wears A Cross

This doesn't feel like it should be terribly rare, tbh, so I'd appreciate suggestions/reminders...

In the Air Tonight, obviously.

Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat

Oh god, yeah!

(FWIW, this was the intended Jacklin link. Whoops.)

Game Theory - Like a Girl Jesus
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Timorous Me

I'm not sure of the exact timing, but "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin (unless that isn't what is meant by "pop song").

Yep! These are all great. I guess I meant "popular music" broadly. Though, heck, if there's a symphony where a percussionist is conspicuously underemployed until later movements don't keep it to yourselves!

Jane's Addiction - Classic Girl

Ricardo Villalobos will happily wait for days before the drums really kick in

Re: songs that announce sections of the song

Money Mark - Cry

I don't really feel like a man, feelin′ low.
A man on the keyboard, gonna play my organ solo (so low?)

Yep! These are all great. I guess I meant "popular music" broadly.

Very broadly, "Krautrock" by Faust.

Nick Berry - Every Loser Wins
There's about 25 hilarious seconds of clunky drums in the second half before they go again.

the drums come in sooner than the second half, but for hip-hop, a whole verse without drums is an eternity

ugk - international player’s anthem ft outkast

that choice really makes the song too.

songs that announce sections of the song

Can I take it to the bridge? Take it to the bridge!

Seriously this is one of my all-time fave gimmicks and I am unlikely to tire of it, despite some cornball abuses of the trope.

I was a child the first time I heard "Dance to the Music," and I confess that my tiny mind was blown by the way each instrument enters, proclaims its role, and announces itself. I was (and remain) deeply fascinated by the way rock music is put together in layers and the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.

All we need is a drummer
For people who only need a beat

I'm gonna add a little guitar
And make it easy to move your feet

I'm gonna add some bottom
So that the dancer there just won't hide

You might like to hear my organ
I said, 'ride, sally ride', now

If I could hear the horns blow

Listen to the voices

Yes, of course there are excesses. I don't think anyone still needs to unironically shout GUITAR! before a guitar solo, but sly lampshading of the trope ("Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago") is acceptable.

It is commonplace to say that a novelist is not supposed to intrude on the narrative ("Look out, here comes a metaphor!") because it interferes with suspension of disbelief.

But the ontological space of a rock and roll song is not so self-serious. We don't need to be lost in a vivid dream or seriously imagine ourselves on the deck of the Edmund Fitzgerald or whatever. There's no harm in breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging that you're making noises in front of people.

tbf i think it would be a problem for that song if Gordon Lightfoot had suddenly screamed out "ROCK ME, PEE WEE CHARLES" halfway through.

Your point is well taken, Doctor.

(That said, I would secretly be pleased if more twee indie folk artists suddenly shouted FLUGELHORN! or whatever. Even better if they don't actually have a flugelhorn.)

are there any songs where band members bicker mid-song

besides battle rap songs of course, or non-song releases like "Wibbling Rivalry"

lol Neanderthal

"Bobby. Can I take it to the bridge?"

"No, James, it's not time for the bridge yet."

"Okay, how about now?"

"Nope."

"Okay NOW can I take it to the bridge?"

"Yes, but only for eight bars. Not like last time, when you extended it for no good reason."

Memphis soul stew

Not mid song - rather at the end - but Robbie Williams and Jane Horrocks on the former's Things

are there any songs where band members bicker mid-song

On "No Xmas For John Quays" on the "Totale's Turns" LP, Mark E. Smith tells one member of the band, mid song, to "Fucking get together, instead of showing off".

that hot-mic onstage Eagles argument

also I assume we'd count songs where the performers are playfully clowning each other? ex. Bo Diddley and Jerome Green going to town, as the entire lyrical content of Diddley's "Say Man."

There's Bowie yelling at Fripp to shut up at the end of "It's No Game", but I'm sure that's not an actual in-studio quarrel.

Fake songs that were written for fake band biopics that were hits in the show/movie but sound like shit and would never be a hit IRL

'My Hometown' by The Black Roses.

Oh, biopic. Yeah idk sry

Fake songs that were written for fake band biopics that were hits in the show/movie but sound like shit and would never be a hit IRL

Isn't the correct answer "almost all of them"?

Tapeheads. Empire Records. Still Crazy. Spinal Tap. Light of Day. That Thing You Do. Rock Star. Almost Famous. Documentary Now. Dreamgirls. Inside Llewyn Davis. Fire Saga. Walk Hard.

There are only a few of these that are memorable, and only a very few even charted. I can muster some affection for "On the Dark Side," ostensibly by Eddie & the Cruisers but actually John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

For me there are two great fake bands, and they are both in Josie & the Pussycats: The Pussycats and DuJour. That music was spot on.

ALL OF SPINAL TAP IS MEMORABLE

Okay I will grant you "Big Bottom."

Yeah spinal tap doesn’t belong with “that thing you do” come on

I can muster some affection for "On the Dark Side," ostensibly by Eddie & the Cruisers but actually John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

i would think the fact that dark side actually became a top-10 pop hit in real life is pretty decent proof that it would be a hit in real life!

songs or parts of songs by major artists that sound like a fever dream of jon hassell's fourth world

the clash - sean flynn
guns n roses - since i don't have you (the last 40 seconds)
the stone roses - breaking into heaven (the first 4 minutes)
green day - extraordinary girl (the first 40 seconds)

songs you thought you hated because of the irritating way they were introduced to you, but later on you realized you liked

(and plz include the story of how you were introduced to the song)

for me...

Sia - Chandelier: I was in a MegaBus terminal at about 7 am, waiting to take a bus to Atlanta. The "terminal" was actually a tiny room that fit maybe 15 people. There was a kid across from me playing music on an iPad without headphones, at excruciatingly high volume, and all they were playing was Chandelier. for 20 fucking minutes. so I felt like I hated the song, but months passed and I heard it again and I enjoyed it a lot!

Wiz Khalifa f Charlie Puth - See You Again: I was in an AMTRAK terminal this time, waiting to changeover to next train, and this guy had this song as his text message alert or something (it would cut off after Puth finished singing "long day"). this dude was having a long text convo so all I heard for a half hour was "IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY". wasn't until I actually heard the REST OF THE CHORUS, let alone the full song, that I realized it was good.

in conclusion, fuck bus/train terminals

What are some tracks that are good for soothing anxiety and testing a subwoofer? I want to kill two birds with one stone

Unfinished Sympathy was the first success

A Tribe Called Quest - Word Play