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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) Permalink
"some people"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 12 February 2018 01:45 (eight months ago) Permalink
Songs that are not John Cage's 4' 33"
― calstars, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:26 (eight months ago) Permalink
Songs in which Instrumentation is or is not used
― calstars, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:27 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight months ago) Permalink
the plot thickens!
― henry s, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:04 (eight 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 (five months ago) Permalink
Lol
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 22:38 (five 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 (five months ago) Permalink
songs that in off whacking with which trailer
― j., Sunday, 22 April 2018 23:38 (five months ago) Permalink
lol i have been bumping a lot of these
― flappy bird, Monday, 23 April 2018 00:08 (five 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 (five months ago) Permalink
and Chicago, Make Me Smile
― Lee626, Monday, 23 April 2018 09:16 (five 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 (five months ago) Permalink
Songs where the singer is bored of music:
Cat Power - Colors and the Kids
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:28 (five 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 (five months ago) Permalink
London CallingDon't Look Back in Anger
?
― ad homineminem (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 08:47 (five months ago) Permalink
much better to have a catch-all thread, good job
― niels, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:04 (five months ago) Permalink
Eminem - Marshall Mathers
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:16 (five 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 (five months ago) Permalink
"Where Is My Mind"
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 17:22 (five 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 (five 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 (two months ago) Permalink
Songs in which the Beatles wish you a Happy Birthday
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:20 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
Transylvania 6-5000
― calstars, Friday, 3 August 2018 04:39 (two months ago) Permalink
Oh snap!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 04:40 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
roxy music - remake/remodel ... "CPL 593H!"
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:06 (two months ago) Permalink
scraping foetus off the wheel - DI-1-9026
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:10 (two months ago) Permalink
isaac hayes - good love ... "call good love 69-9-69"
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:26 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
City Boy – 5705
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 3 August 2018 08:24 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
"Maybe Baby" had some lines written by Buddy Holly's mom.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 3 August 2018 10:40 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
Isn’t this every Cat Power song?
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 August 2018 11:30 (two months ago) Permalink
POLL: Songs Written By The Artist's Mom
― Sam Weller, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:44 (two months ago) Permalink
Harry Nilsson, "Little Cowboy"Harry Nilsson, "Marchin' Down Broadway"
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:07 (two months ago) Permalink
Jeremih - 773 LOVE
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 August 2018 12:36 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
arggghh of course... dunno what i was thinking... it was late.
― visiting, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:01 (two months ago) Permalink
Bryan says sorry but the traffic was bad
― Mark G, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:13 (two months ago) Permalink
don't forget The B-52s "6060-842". Which is a weird way to format a local US telephone number circa 1979.
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:06 (two months ago) Permalink
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):
Pink Floyd - “The Trial”The Five Du-Tones - “Divorce Court”Wynonie Harris - “Good Morning Judge”Bessie Smith - “Send Me to the Electric Chair”NWA - “Fuck the Police”
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 4 August 2018 00:36 (two months ago) Permalink
Bob Dylan - “Percy’s Song”
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:38 (two months ago) Permalink
Skeeter Davis - “Set Him Free”
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:40 (two months ago) Permalink
Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be womenViolent FemmesGirls
― devops mom (silby), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:43 (two months ago) Permalink
Das Damen
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:47 (two months ago) Permalink
Jerry Reed's "When You're Hot You're Hot" has a pretty great courtroom scene. Also about a thousand other country songs about people shooting either their woman or the deputy down. And "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man."
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:49 (two months ago) Permalink
George Jones, "Brown to Blue" we stood there in the courthouse room... the judge pronounced the words
Paul Simon "Adios Hermanos"
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:58 (two months ago) Permalink
Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "Mountain Dew" was inspired by his experience as a lawyer:
The lyrics tell the story of a man's first day in court to answer charges of making illegal alcohol. In the first verse, the prosecutor closes his case. In the next three verses, several respected members of the community—the deacon, the doctor, and the conductor—visit the charged man, trying to buy his whiskey.[6] In the final verse, the judge offers the young man clemency if he is willing to pay court costs for the trial.Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer practicing in rural North Carolina during the 1920s. At the time, the manufacturing of beverage alcohol for non-medicinal purposes was illegal in the United States due to prohibition, but North Carolina residents nevertheless continued their longstanding tradition of making a form of illegal whiskey called moonshine. Lunsford frequently defended local clients that were accused of the practice, and the original lyrics and banjo accompaniment to "Good Old Mountain Dew" were written during the course of one of these cases.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer practicing in rural North Carolina during the 1920s. At the time, the manufacturing of beverage alcohol for non-medicinal purposes was illegal in the United States due to prohibition, but North Carolina residents nevertheless continued their longstanding tradition of making a form of illegal whiskey called moonshine. Lunsford frequently defended local clients that were accused of the practice, and the original lyrics and banjo accompaniment to "Good Old Mountain Dew" were written during the course of one of these cases.
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:00 (two months ago) Permalink
^that Wikipedia summary misses the point though. the punchline of the song is that the judge sets the defendant free in exchange for a taste of his moonshine. "cost" in the last verse doesn't literally mean "court costs"
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:08 (two months ago) Permalink
Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be women
WomenSingle MothersGirl Band
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 4 August 2018 05:21 (two months ago) Permalink
Twisted Sister
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 10:21 (two months ago) Permalink
Bare naked... no its gone
― Mark G, Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:33 (two months ago) Permalink
Springsteen: Johnny 99 and also Nebraska
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:08 (two months ago) Permalink
Also Steve Earle The Devil’s Rigjt Hand
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:13 (two months ago) Permalink
And The Specials - Stupid Marriage
― bornbored, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:19 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
^ ^ ^ Top-20 rap hit from 1968!
― Lee626, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:21 (two months ago) Permalink
"murder in my heart for the judge" by the moby grape
― budo jeru, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:30 (two 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 (two months ago) Permalink
― Mr. Snrub
"mr. waters (the judge)" by birmingham sunday
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:23 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:25 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) Permalink
The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:32 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 23:47 (two weeks ago) Permalink
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (written by Darby Slick)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:50 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) Permalink
songs with unearned key changes
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
― the beta brand (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:44 (one week ago) Permalink