Isn't that kinda like the U2 shtick where they close with 40 and everyone leaves but Larry?
― she works hard for the monkey (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 09:45 (one year ago) link
Also the burbly guitar at the end of "I Know What I Know" on Graceland.
― she works hard for the monkey (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 09:48 (one year ago) link
Does it have to be a fade? In "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by Black Sabbath everything just drops out to leave the drums for a few bars
― Josefa, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
I was thinking fades only yeah. The Manics' A Design for Life is another which does a similar thing with the drums to Sabbath.
Band Aid 20 fades out to have just the chorus of singers and hand percussion. Remembering that, especially in May, is my cross to bear.
Extra tasty if the last element left is one that you almost weren't aware of until the rest faded out...
OTM
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:03 (one year ago) link
XTC - Travels in Nihilon fades leaving only a static-y rainy drone
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Similarly, Complicated Game fades to leave just the canon of Andy.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Aphex Twin - Ventolin
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
Bass in "Freak Parade" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
"life on mars?" does this, no?
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
Except the piano at the end is another take of the song, it's not actually a continuing element from the body of the song itself.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
nirvana - on a plain
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 21:39 (one year ago) link
hmm i guess that's also what happens in "coffee & tv"
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
not exactly the same thing, but i love the moment at the end of "have a cigar" when the air gets sucked out of the mix and the volume drops to near zero
Hadn’t remembered this at all but I just happened to stumble on it in the wild in “Over the Hills and Far Away” - very simple rhythm guitar chords hold while everything else fades out and do a pretty little coda
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
Madness: "Turning Blue"
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 09:34 (one year ago) link
songs of archaeological importance
Steely Dan - Caves of AltamiraThe B-52's - Mesopotamia
― peace, man, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 01:48 (eleven months ago) link
Spinal Tap - Stonehenge
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 02:01 (eleven months ago) link
king tut
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 03:23 (eleven months ago) link
"You Belong to Me"
See the pyramids along the Nile...
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 10:57 (eleven months ago) link
Peter Gabriel, "Digging in the Dirt"
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 10:59 (eleven months ago) link
Songs which they completely fucked up for the single mixEmilíana Torrini - Unemployed in SummertimeHot Chip - One Life Standgot to be some better examples
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:03 (eleven months ago) link
... and "Solsbury Hill".
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:22 (eleven months ago) link
CaaL, not a single but the mastering error that made Cold Spring Harbor sound like a Chipmunks record seems to be related
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:21 (eleven months ago) link
^ the inverse of sorts to the Cure's Bananafishbones, which was mastered too slowly and a semitone lower, and not even corrected until the 2006 remaster.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:40 (eleven months ago) link
In "Wondering Where the Lions Are", Bruce Cockburn mentions "thousand-year-old petroglyphs", but I think he's just observing them, not discovering them.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:10 (eleven months ago) link
songs where the singer "duets" with their younger self in a way that calls attention to their growth/maturity and/or the ravages of age. Donny Osmond did this live in the early 2000s (before hologram concerts were really a thing 😔), but I can't think of any examples on record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi3CleKY36c
― raised on roddenberry (unregistered), Thursday, 13 July 2023 22:52 (ten months ago) link
well here we go:
In 2020, Cat Stevens released a re-recorded version of "Father and Son". This version, which appears on Tea for the Tillerman 2, features the original recording of Stevens' vocals (at the age of 22) alongside the present-day voice of Stevens (age 72).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_H5XuIb5WM
― raised on roddenberry (unregistered), Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:04 (ten months ago) link
oh wow
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:40 (ten months ago) link
makes you wonder if david crosby ever recorded "tetrad"
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:41 (ten months ago) link
12 Monkeys-core
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:43 (ten months ago) link
Paging Natalie Cole
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 July 2023 00:14 (ten months ago) link
would the Jig of Life count?
― scanner darkly, Friday, 14 July 2023 01:37 (ten months ago) link
'Jig of Life' would only count if an elderly Kate Bush were to re-record the parts delivered by the character's future self and replace the original vocals for those parts with the re-recording
(and I hope she never indulges in that kind of legacy-tarnishing gimmickry)
this Jacko Pepsi commercial is pretty poignant though. the ghost of baby MJ pops back into existence to sing a few lines with grownup MJ, only to dematerialize and leave his older self alone with his piano as the scene fades out
― raised on roddenberry (unregistered), Friday, 14 July 2023 02:47 (ten months ago) link
Songs with police / ambulance sirens?
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2023 00:56 (ten months ago) link
the best use of a police siren in a song, What is
― pplains, Sunday, 23 July 2023 05:13 (ten months ago) link
Songs whose title(s) were the title of the band's preceding album, rather than the album they appeared on:
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the HolySleepyhead - Punk Rock City U.S.A.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:24 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sinead O'Connor - the song "How About I Be Me" appears on I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss, and not the album How About I Be Me (and You Be You). Slightly different titles but the lyrics of the song include the parenthetical part.
― omar little, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:12 (ten months ago) link
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:36 (ten months ago) link
PJ Harvey - Dry
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 22:17 (ten months ago) link
Screamadelica sort of counts
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:27 (ten months ago) link
Mostly it doesn't count but it's still something
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:28 (ten months ago) link
Maybe this has been done before - songs that are about former band members who left to start their own bands.
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 7 August 2023 10:01 (ten months ago) link
Suede - Animal Lover is about Justine Frischmann, possibly Animal Nitrate too.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 August 2023 11:12 (ten months ago) link
Nine Inch Nails - Piggy (about Richard Patrick, who left to start Filter)
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 12:34 (ten months ago) link
! Really?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 August 2023 13:26 (ten months ago) link
if true that is definitely the most disproportionately butthurt of all the examples.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 7 August 2023 13:52 (ten months ago) link
Springsteen - "Bobby Jean" and "No Surrender" are both partly about Steve van Zandt leaving the band, though I don't think either of them is entirely about that.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 August 2023 14:33 (ten months ago) link
Elvis Costello's "How to Be Dumb" and a stray line in "Hurry Down Doomsday" are both apparently directed at Bruce Thomas.
That probably doesn't fit the criteria here but it's what I thought of. One could bring up various Lennon/McCartney solo swipes at each other as well.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:41 (ten months ago) link
Grateful Dead "He's Gone" is about percussionist Mickey Hart's father embezzling money from the band and absconding, which precipitated Hart leaving the Dead, though he returned a few years later. Sort of a corollary to the category
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:10 (ten months ago) link
Songs in which the artist refers (by name) to a manager or other non-performing member of their “team”:R.E.M. - Little America (“Jefferson” (Holt), the band’s manager at the time)Billie Eilish - I Didn’t Change My Number (“Laura” (Ramsay), her assistant)
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:18 (ten months ago) link
Ramones - Danny Says (manager Danny Fields)
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:34 (ten months ago) link