SOME PEOPLE ARE AFRAID ILM IS TURNING INTO THE TVTROPES OF MUSIC, SO HERE'S A CATCH-ALL THREAD WHERE WE CAN DOCUMENT THE THEMATIC/SONIC/COMPOSITIONAL LINKAGES BETWEEN SONGS WITHOUT HAVING TO START A NEW THREAD FOR EACH AND EVERY TROPE THAT POPS INTO OUR HEADS DURING MOMENTS OF DESPERATE BOREDOM
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 01:44 (eleven months ago) Permalink
songs where a woman corresponds with her husband under an assumed identity and arranges a liaison with him as a test of his marital fidelity:
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)Kate Bush - Babooshka
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 01:45 (eleven months ago) Permalink
"some people"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 01:45 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Songs that are not John Cage's 4' 33"
― calstars, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:26 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Songs in which Instrumentation is or is not used
― calstars, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:27 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Songs in which the vocalist audibly takes a drag on a cigarette between verses:
Sandy Denny - "No End"
― J. Sam, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:28 (eleven months ago) Permalink
this would be a good thread to collect all of the disparate 'songs where' threads, cause i can never find any of them.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:34 (eleven months ago) Permalink
songs where you can't find what you're looking for
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89RsKaEO7I
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:41 (eleven months ago) Permalink
songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:
Grizzly Bear - MarlaThrowing Muses - Sinkhole
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:46 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Songs by 90's-era American indie bands about 80's-era British female singers:
Unrest - "Cath Carroll"June & the Exit Wounds - "Cathy Dennis"
― henry s, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:27 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Songs by 90's-era American indie bands about 80's-era British female singers
Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off the Bridge
(about Aggie and Stephen Pastel)
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 19:50 (eleven months ago) Permalink
the plot thickens!
― henry s, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:04 (eleven months ago) Permalink
songs where the narrator is so miserable that even the sight of children playing fails to cheer his burdened heart:
Rolling Stones - As Tears Go ByPearl Jam - BlackScreaming Trees - Winter Song
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:26 (nine months ago) Permalink
Lol
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:38 (nine months ago) Permalink
young girl: hahaha wheeee I love playing in the puddlesMark Lanegan, grunger: HOW CAN YOU BE SO CAREFREE WHEN MY SOUL IS LITERALLY DYING 😢😢😢
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:40 (nine months ago) Permalink
songs that in off whacking with which trailer
― j., Sunday, 22 April 2018 23:38 (nine months ago) Permalink
lol i have been bumping a lot of these
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 April 2018 00:08 (nine months ago) Permalink
songs where the narrator is so miserable that even the sight of children playing fails to cheer his burdened heart
How could you leave off The Chi-lites, Have You Seen Her
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 23 April 2018 08:37 (nine months ago) Permalink
and Chicago, Make Me Smile
― Lee626, Monday, 23 April 2018 09:16 (nine months ago) Permalink
Songs in which, it is not I who is mad, it's you normals!
Elton John - Madman Across the WaterBonzo Dog Band - My Pink Half of the DrainpipeSupertramp - Asylum
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:48 (eight months ago) Permalink
Songs where the singer is bored of music:
Cat Power - Colors and the Kids
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:28 (eight months ago) Permalink
songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist
ionnalee- samaritan
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:14 (eight months ago) Permalink
London CallingDon't Look Back in Anger
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― ad homineminem (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 08:47 (eight months ago) Permalink
much better to have a catch-all thread, good job
― niels, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:04 (eight months ago) Permalink
Eminem - Marshall Mathers
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:16 (eight months ago) Permalink
Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle
People talk about my imageLike i come in two dimensionsLike lipstick is a sign of my decling mindLike what i happen to be wearingThe day that someone takes a pictureIs my new statement for all womankindAnd i wish they could see us nowIn leather bras and rubber shortsLike some ridiculous new team uniformFor some ridiculous new sportQuick someone call the girl policeAnd file a report
And i wish they could see us nowIn leather bras and rubber shortsLike some ridiculous new team uniformFor some ridiculous new sportQuick someone call the girl policeAnd file a report
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:19 (eight months ago) Permalink
"Where Is My Mind"
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:22 (eight months ago) Permalink
Neil Young - On The Beach
^ arguable, but i think he touches on the need for an audience and how frustrating that is - possibly more ambivalent??
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:24 (eight months ago) Permalink
songs where the strength of the protagonist's relationship is evaluated based upon their awareness of their lover's potato preferences:
Gershwin - Let's Call the Whole Thing OffSia - Sweet Potatoes
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Friday, 3 August 2018 03:36 (five months ago) Permalink
Songs in which the Beatles wish you a Happy Birthday
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:20 (five months ago) Permalink
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, 3 August 2018 04:30 (five months ago) Permalink
^Brenda Lee - Bigelow 6-200
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:37 (five months ago) Permalink
Transylvania 6-5000
― calstars, Friday, 3 August 2018 04:39 (five months ago) Permalink
Oh snap!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:40 (five months ago) Permalink
Songs in which the boys are back in town:
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 3 August 2018 07:03 (five months ago) Permalink
roxy music - remake/remodel ... "CPL 593H!"
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:06 (five months ago) Permalink
scraping foetus off the wheel - DI-1-9026
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:10 (five months ago) Permalink
isaac hayes - good love ... "call good love 69-9-69"
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:26 (five months ago) Permalink
squeeze - "853-5937"
are there any phone-number songs yet that have modern 8, 10, or 11 digit numbers?
― Lee626, Friday, 3 August 2018 08:19 (five months ago) Permalink
City Boy – 5705
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 3 August 2018 08:24 (five months ago) Permalink
Not a phone number, it was the registration number of Bryan Ferry's car.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Friday, 3 August 2018 08:48 (five months ago) Permalink
songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:Grizzly Bear - MarlaThrowing Muses - Sinkhole― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:46 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 02:46 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lyn Paul - The Waiting Game (Doreen Belcher)
I know. I do.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:21 (five months ago) Permalink
"Maybe Baby" had some lines written by Buddy Holly's mom.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:40 (five months ago) Permalink
George Harrison's "Piggies" had one line he couldn't fill, needed to rhyme with "lacking". His mum suggested "What they need's a damn good whacking" which is the "WHOA" line in the song.
― Mark G, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:09 (five months ago) Permalink
Isn’t this every Cat Power song?
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 August 2018 11:30 (five months ago) Permalink
POLL: Songs Written By The Artist's Mom
― Sam Weller, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:44 (five months ago) Permalink
Harry Nilsson, "Little Cowboy"Harry Nilsson, "Marchin' Down Broadway"
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:07 (five months ago) Permalink
Jeremih - 773 LOVE
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:36 (five months ago) Permalink
This doesn't count but Hoyt Axton's mom wrote "Heartbreak Hotel."
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:42 (five months ago) Permalink
Bare naked... no its gone
― Mark G, Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:33 (five months ago) Permalink
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):
Springsteen: Johnny 99 and also Nebraska
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:08 (five months ago) Permalink
Also Steve Earle The Devil’s Rigjt Hand
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:13 (five months ago) Permalink
And The Specials - Stupid Marriage
― bornbored, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:19 (five months ago) Permalink
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge)
BANG BANG Maxwell's Silver Hammer went down on his head!
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Sunday, 5 August 2018 00:05 (five months ago) Permalink
“Here Comes the Judge,” Pigmeat Markham ( and other songs with the same name by others)
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 August 2018 12:42 (five months ago) Permalink
^ ^ ^ Top-20 rap hit from 1968!
― Lee626, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:21 (five months ago) Permalink
"murder in my heart for the judge" by the moby grape
― budo jeru, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:30 (five months ago) Permalink
Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:
― i’m still stanning (morrisp)
the space negroes' version of "sex bomb"
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:22 (five months ago) Permalink
― Mr. Snrub
"mr. waters (the judge)" by birmingham sunday
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:23 (five months ago) Permalink
"arrest, trial, and judgement (joy in the marketplace!)" by harry partch"good morning judge" by wynonie harris
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:24 (five months ago) Permalink
songs with a falsetto goodbye:
Danny O'Keefe - Falsetto GoodbyeThird Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:59 (three months ago) Permalink
The reprise of "So Long, Farewell" from Sound of Music
― psychocandy fairweather low spark of high (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 12:24 (three months ago) Permalink
Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:25 (three months ago) Permalink
^ah, I had a feeling I was missing an incredibly obvious one
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 14:22 (three months ago) Permalink
The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:32 (three months ago) Permalink
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 23:47 (three months ago) Permalink
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (written by Darby Slick)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:50 (three months ago) Permalink
songs in which 'yee-ha!' or similar appears apropos of nothing but manages to be perfect:
michael jackson "wanna be startin' somethin'"björk "big time sensuality"
― dyl, Thursday, 4 October 2018 03:33 (three months ago) Permalink
^ Loudon Wainwright - The Swimming Song
Possible thread for 'off-mic eructations'? Keith Jarrett must be the king of this. Or Mingus.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:37 (three months ago) Permalink
songs with unearned key changes
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
― the beta brand (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:44 (three months ago) Permalink
cover songs (or songs that interpolate bits of other songs) that feature newly-recorded backing vocals from the singer of the original song:
Uncle Kracker - Drift Away (feat. Dobie Gray)Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight (feat. Ronnie Spector, who sings the chorus of 'Be My Baby')
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Monday, 24 December 2018 03:31 (four weeks ago) Permalink
The Run DMC version of "Walk This Way".
― henry s, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:41 (four weeks ago) Permalink
songs which feature the wilhelm scream
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:42 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Does Elton John rerecord the vocals for Bennie and Jets on the newest Tribe Called Quest album?
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:53 (four weeks ago) Permalink
yep!
It kicks off with a sample of John's original recording, a No. 1 hit in 1974, and the final single from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which came out the year before. Then, at the 2:43 mark, after Busta Rhymes helps out in the second verse, the modern-day voice of Elton closes out the song in a duet with Q-Tip. John is credited as a co-writer on "Solid Wall of Sound," which also features his piano.
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Monday, 24 December 2018 04:41 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Steve Winwood insisted on doing this for "Call On Me."'
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 December 2018 04:42 (four weeks ago) Permalink
wait no, the new Elton vocals at the end are a newly written verse, not a reprise of the original song (xpost)
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Monday, 24 December 2018 04:45 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Stephen Stills on Public Enemy's "He Got Game"
― Lee626, Monday, 24 December 2018 08:27 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Lennon on Elton's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
― gjoon1, Monday, 24 December 2018 09:46 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Bonnie Prince Billy on Johnny Cash's I See A Darkness
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 24 December 2018 10:22 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Dido on Stan.
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 24 December 2018 10:34 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Paul Kelly going in-studio for rap group AB Original’s live radio coverpolation of his 26-year-old Dumb Things.
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 24 December 2018 10:38 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Otis Redding - 634-5789
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 24 December 2018 17:35 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Pearl Jam - Corduroy, and surely many others
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 24 December 2018 17:37 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Original writer singing backup on cover:Will Oldham on Johnny Cash I See a Darkness
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:08 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Can't believe I just now remembered Jimmy Page on "Come With Me."
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 December 2018 23:12 (four weeks ago) Permalink
I can think of several examples that are close to this sentiment. Obviously "please don't put your life in the hands / of a rock and roll band" is at least related. So is "don't look to us / phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust."
Elvis Costello's "I Want to Vanish" is ostensibly from the perspective of someone - perhaps an old Delta blues or Appalachian folk legend - asking to NOT be recorded by what I guess is an Alan Lomax-like character.
I want to vanishThis is my fondest wishTo go where I cannot be capturedLaid on a decorated dish
The speaker seems to regard him- or herself as unfit for posterity. But it may be equally true that some art should be permitted to be transient. Putting it on record and fixing it in space and time would, effectively, be tantamount to murdering it. Let it be unheard and unbroadcast. Let us merely be happy that it ever happened at all, not be annoyed that it hasn't been preserved in a scratchy copy that robs it of life.
― Anne Frankenstein (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 04:57 (four weeks ago) Permalink
1981 songs referencing the stars of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?":
"Joan Crawford" - Blue Oyster Cult "Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 23:00 (four weeks ago) Permalink
my Christmas present is reading the above as meaning that kornrulez has gone 19 years thinking that Bonnie Prince Billy is a different guy for whom Will Oldham wrote songs.
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:56 (four weeks ago) Permalink
What is this, amateur hour? Are you calling me a Bonnie Prince Billy bitch?
Is he not the man who wrote I See a Darkness? Is he not singing backup on the Johnny Cash cover version? Would that not fit the cover songs (or songs that interpolate bits of other songs) that feature newly-recorded backing vocals from the singer of the original song: theme?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:00 (four weeks ago) Permalink
see five posts above yours
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:38 (four weeks ago) Permalink
oh fer crying out loud, that ILM app blows
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:50 (four weeks ago) Permalink
Songs about the engineering trades and their practitioners (not including audio engineering)
The ElectricianWichita Lineman
― mick signals, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:48 (one week ago) Permalink
Casey Jones
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:38 (one week ago) Permalink
Heh. John Henry?
Decemberists, "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect"?
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:44 (one week ago) Permalink
Oooh! Oooh! Fortress Around Your Heart.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:45 (one week ago) Permalink
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
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:34 (one week ago) Permalink
― 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
― budo jeru, Thursday, 17 January 2019 00:06 (six days ago) Permalink
!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 17 January 2019 00:10 (six days ago) Permalink