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

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

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

"some people"

Songs that are not John Cage's 4' 33"

Songs in which Instrumentation is or is not used

Songs in which the vocalist audibly takes a drag on a cigarette between verses:

Sandy Denny - "No End"

this would be a good thread to collect all of the disparate 'songs where' threads, cause i can never find any of them.

songs where you can't find what you're looking for

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2

songs where you can't find what you're looking for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89RsKaEO7I

songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:

Grizzly Bear - Marla
Throwing Muses - Sinkhole

Songs by 90's-era American indie bands about 80's-era British female singers:

Unrest - "Cath Carroll"
June & the Exit Wounds - "Cathy Dennis"

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)

the plot thickens!

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 By
Pearl Jam - Black
Screaming Trees - Winter Song

Lol

young girl: hahaha wheeee I love playing in the puddles
Mark Lanegan, grunger: HOW CAN YOU BE SO CAREFREE WHEN MY SOUL IS LITERALLY DYING 😢😢😢

songs that in off whacking with which trailer

lol i have been bumping a lot of these

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

and Chicago, Make Me Smile

Songs in which, it is not I who is mad, it's you normals!

Elton John - Madman Across the Water
Bonzo Dog Band - My Pink Half of the Drainpipe
Supertramp - Asylum

Songs where the singer is bored of music:

Cat Power - Colors and the Kids

songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist

ionnalee- samaritan

songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist

London Calling
Don't Look Back in Anger

?

much better to have a catch-all thread, good job

songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist

Eminem - Marshall Mathers

songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist

Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle

People talk about my image
Like i come in two dimensions
Like lipstick is a sign of my decling mind
Like what i happen to be wearing
The day that someone takes a picture
Is my new statement for all womankind

And i wish they could see us now
In leather bras and rubber shorts
Like some ridiculous new team uniform
For some ridiculous new sport
Quick someone call the girl police
And file a report

songs where you can't find what you're looking for

"Where Is My Mind"

songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist

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??

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 Off
Sia - Sweet Potatoes

Songs in which the Beatles wish you a Happy Birthday

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

^Brenda Lee - Bigelow 6-200

Transylvania 6-5000

Oh snap!

Songs in which the boys are back in town:

Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town

roxy music - remake/remodel ... "CPL 593H!"

scraping foetus off the wheel - DI-1-9026

isaac hayes - good love ... "call good love 69-9-69"

squeeze - "853-5937"

are there any phone-number songs yet that have modern 8, 10, or 11 digit numbers?

City Boy – 5705

roxy music - remake/remodel ... "CPL 593H!"

Not a phone number, it was the registration number of Bryan Ferry's car.

songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:

Grizzly Bear - Marla
Throwing Muses - Sinkhole

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Lyn Paul - The Waiting Game (Doreen Belcher)

I know. I do.

"Maybe Baby" had some lines written by Buddy Holly's mom.

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.

Songs where the singer is bored of music:

Isn’t this every Cat Power song?

POLL: Songs Written By The Artist's Mom

Harry Nilsson, "Little Cowboy"
Harry Nilsson, "Marchin' Down Broadway"

are there any phone-number songs yet that have modern 8, 10, or 11 digit numbers?

Jeremih - 773 LOVE

This doesn't count but Hoyt Axton's mom wrote "Heartbreak Hotel."

Mecano - Eungenio Salvador Dalí

The Dandy Warhols - Nietzsche

Azealia Banks - Anna Wintour
Cass McCombs - Bradley Manning
MGMT - Brian Eno
Charlie Puth - Marvin Gaye
Jay Z - Tom Ford

These are popular ones that haven’t been mentioned:

MIKA - Grace Kelly
Miike Snow - Genghis Khan
Boney M - Ma Baker
Boney M - Rasputin

"Bo Diddley" - Bo Diddley
"Marshall Mathers" - Eminem

does "Pretty Boy Floyd" by Woody Guthrie count?

^it’s not in the spirit of what I had in mind, but I’ll cry uncle and say the more the merrier at this point

(what I liked what the prosaic nature of titles that are simply “real” names, or close enough)

lol @ sic

Negativland - Michael Jackson

Cocoa Tea - Barack Obama

i like how all of these can be read either way and you can imagine that michael jackson had a song called "negativland" and barack obama has one called "cocoa tea."

Hey, that reminds me of another one:

“Michael Stipe” (P, that Johnny Depp band)

(remember 1995 – when there was a band called P, and a song by a different band called “Friends of P.”? good times, man)

here’s an honorable mention that I’ll use my discretion to allow:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2228742698_10.jpg

this is legit one of my favorite genres of song (though my rules are even stricter than morrisp's). not mentioned yet, i don't think:

king missile - martin scorsese
migos - forest whitaker
b bragg & wilco - ingrid bergman
uncle tupelo - d. boon
joey ramone - maria bartiromo
sr-71 - axl rose
king stitt - lee van cleef
(that broadway show) - alexander hamilton
drive-by truckers - steve mcqueen
they might be giants - james k. polk
nick lowe - marie provost
pernice bros - jacqueline susann
the baseball project - harvey haddix
the posies - grant hart
redd kross - linda blair
jonathan richman - vincent van gogh
jonathan richman - salvador dali
jonathan richman - walter johnson
warren zevon - bill lee
the clash - janie jones
spank rock - rick rubin
vic chesnutt - lucinda williams
the band - bessie smith
fred eaglesmith - johnny cash
lydia loveless - steve earle
neil young - pocahontas
belle & sebastian - seymour stein
vic chesnutt - woodrow wilson
mina - brigitte bardot
big dipper - robert pollard
dominique leone - nellie mckay
young fresh fellows - amy grant
blue oyster cult - joan crawford
sun kil moon - glen tipton
neil sedaka - betty grable
big audio dynamite - esquerita
annie - ralph macchio
van dyke parks - bing crosby
van dyke parks - jack palance
todd rundgren - wolfman jack
beastie boys - johnny ryall
the kinks - david watts
mountain goats - duke ellington
blossom dearie - dusty springfield
mighty sparrow - martin luther king
lead belly - howard hughes
kraftwerk - franz schubert
teenage fanclub - gene clark
warpaint - billie holiday

^^awesome!

(I should’ve thought of “seymour stein”)

ooh, and forgot:

kanye west - barry bonds

Richard Thompson - Alexander Graham Bell

van dyke parks - “van dyke parks”

Sekiden also have an Alexander Graham Bell song but it's not eligible itt

Luke Haines, "Peter Hammill"

Andres Calamaro - Maradona
Vaudeville Villain - Zinedine Zidane

Serial killer edition:

Soulfly - Jeffrey Dahmer
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr
Cassius - Belle Gunness
Dahmer - Henry Lee Lucas (this works for a double qualifier since the artist name is also based on a serial killer)
Murder Junkies - Danny Rolling

Several songs titled Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, Unabomber, BTK, Zodiac but don’t know if they qualify. Serial killers are usually more popular by nicknames than by real names no?

since we’re doing

Songs with footballers in their titles🕸

This rich vein cries out for a poll

songs in which humans get shredded

I'll go

Cannibal Corpse - Shredded Humans

The Buoys - "Timothy" (well not shredded, but eaten... close enough)

Kesha (still Ke$ha back then) • Cannibal

"Leng Tch'e" by Naked City.

Songs with footballers in their titles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_for_Pele?wprov=sfla1

(I know it's an album, but still)

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)

― Mocha Sauce (morrisp), Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:38 PM (one year ago)

new one:

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

songs with names beginning with Mr or Mrs/Miss in which the name is a ridiculous , over-the-top 'character' name and or being used as a nickname to insult someone

“Mr. Vain” is playing, so I came back to see if it had already been mentioned—it has—so instead I’ll add “Mr. Perfectly Fine” (T. Swift).

The Pretty Things - "Mr. Evasion".

songs in which the narrator compares their love for somebody else to a drug

better have 1,000 by 5 pm ET

Pink - "Just Like a Pill"
Ashanti - "Baby"

Kesha - Your Love is My Drug

A Case of You

There She Goes

Karma Chameleon

Because of the “string along” line?

Never Been Any Reason

"better than a white line"

Calstars: "I heard you say / that my love was an addiction."

there is the “heard you say / that my love was an addiction” line just before that

xp

double dose

Ohhh
My bad. I thought the topic was “songs about drugs but that present as love songs”

I thought the topic was “songs about drugs but that present as love songs”

A valid topic of its own! which would encompass "Perfect Day," "There She Goes," and "Can't Feel my Face."

Another: “Junkie Nurse”

Golden Brown

Ne-Yo • Because Of You