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― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
“Green Onions” is completely non-sexual
― Josefa, Sunday, 14 November 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortnin%27_Bread
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Singer-songwriter Alex Chilton recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread"' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it").[10]
Wish this had happened!
― Lee626, Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
songs in which the lead singer adds a swear word in place of a more mundane word in live performances to be "edgy".
― No Xmas For Jonchaies (Tom Violence), Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:53 (two years ago) link
Bob Pollard changes "painful lives" to "fucked up lives" in live versions of "I Am a Scientist."
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 15 November 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
this is more like a "Bands in which" but what bands are named after a song/album written by a band that was named after a song/album by another band?
example:
if a band named Gristled Tips had a song called "Burnt Toast", and then a band named themselves Burnt Toast after that song, and had a song named "A Lesson in Breakfast", and then another band named themselves A Lesson in Breakfast.
or if a band named Lions of Winter had an album called Dog Eat Poo, and then a band named themselves Dog Eat Poo, and released an album called Fuck Society, I'm Having Bacon, and then another band named themselves Fuck Society, I'm Having Bacon?
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 December 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
New Edition has a 1988 song called "Boys to Men", after which the band Boyz II Men named themselves. One of the hits of Boyz II Men was th 1991 "Motownphilly"; Spotify tells me that there is an artist named Motownphilly, whose only activity is guesting on the 2020 single "See You Otis" by Mookie/Bestfriends. Kinda weak, but not nothing.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 19 December 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
Ramones : Bad Brains : Fearless Vampire Killers
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 19 December 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
songs (or "songs") with a spoken word part in which somebody recalls their dream(s):
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Invention for Radio No. 1: The Dreams(radio program in which multiple dream interviews have been spliced, arranged by subject matter, and set to spooky tape loop soundscapes)
The Olivia Tremor Control - 'Combinations 2' and 'Hilltop Procession (Momentum Gaining)', among other tracks on Black Foliage(the band asked their fans to send them tape recordings in which they recounted their dreams)
Movietone - Heatwave Pavement
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 20 December 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
Belle & Sebastian - A Space Boy Dream Number Two
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 20 December 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
Bongwater - What’s Big In England Now?
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 20 December 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
Lou Reed & John Cale - A Dream (Cale narrating as Warhol)
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Monday, 20 December 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
Bongwater - Nick Cave Doll
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 20 December 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
Songs where the singer talks to inanimate objects which do not hear them: Clint Eastwood (and others) - I Talk to the Trees; King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
I've got two. Doris Day (and others including George Michael, Connie Francis, and Sinéad O'Connor) "Secret Love."
Once I had a secret love...So I told a friendly starThe way that dreamers often doJust how wonderful you areAnd why I'm so in love with youNow I shout it from the highest hillsEven told the golden daffodils
And the Pogues, "A Pair of Brown Eyes," which I think we were just discussing in ye Pogues thread.
So drunk to hell I left the placeSometimes crawling sometimes walkingA hungry sound came across the breezeSo I gave the walls a talking
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
Neil Diamond, "I Am I Said".
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
The Doris Day one reminds me of Linda Scott's 'I've Told Every Little Star', of Mulholland Dr. fame, which moves from addressing stars to addressing ripples in a brook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgpiGs_4Js
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:50 (two years ago) link
Also Bruno Mars - 'Talking to the Moon'
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
I suppose "Synchronicity II" doesn't count: "Another suburban family morning / Grandmother's screaming at the wall"
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
(Interestingly I had the lyrics of "Secret Love" reversed in my head; I thought it was "once I only told the daffodils, now I shout it from the highest hills," which I was pretty sure was from a show tune. On looking it up I saw I was partly right and partly wrong. FWIW my misremembered lyric is better.)
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
any others where the trees/wind/moon/etc explicitly don't listen?
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
was gonna say bruno mars' "talking to the moon," but i think he says specifically that voices call back
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
Clint Eastwood (and others) - I Talk to the TreesClint also famously talked to a chair, iirc
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
― The Sarsgaard-Skarsgård Scotchgard (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
I think Patty Griffin's "Mother of God" would count.
When I was little I'd stare at her pictureAnd talk to the mother of GodI swear sometimes I'd see her lips moveLike she was trying to say something to meWhen I was eighteen I moved to Florida,Like everyone sick of the cold does,And I waited on old people waiting to dieI waited on them until I was
When I was eighteen I moved to Florida,Like everyone sick of the cold does,And I waited on old people waiting to dieI waited on them until I was
― Indexed, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
kate bush “deeper understanding”
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
The inanimate object clearly does hear the singer!
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind in Rod's McKuen's translation of Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
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checked the lyrics and there is no explicit confirmation that the computer is actually listening and not just saying what it’s programmed to say
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
Fred Lane - I Talk to My Haircut
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 02:57 (two years ago) link
Songs which have accidental sound in the background (that the artist decided to keep in the recording)?
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
There’s some Olivia Tremor Control song that clearly has a old landline ringing in the next room…
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
Grouper's "Labyrinth", recorded on a portable recorder during a blackout in Portugal, has the beep! of a microwave turning back on when the power was restored.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
and the frogs on "Lighthouse" but they're essential to the record
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
"Black Country Woman" by Led Zeppelin - plane flying overhead while recording outdoors"Tin Scarecrow" by Game Theory - vacuum cleaner turned on while recording at home
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
There's a plane flying overhead during one of the tracks on the Lambert/Ingram/Randall album (which feels like part & parcel of "outdoor recording")
Phone ringing in one of those songs on the Moldy Peaches album
― ass time permits (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
Songs about escaping small townsBroadcast - Ominous CloudBronski Beat - Smalltown BoyKingmaker - Hey Birdman (no really, this is good)Sure there must be many more
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 21 May 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
Nowhere Fast - The Smiths
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:27 (one year ago) link
Maybe not much escaping there. London by the Smiths instead?
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
Twist on it in Pavement’s Box Elder, MO. He’s escaping one town for another, maybe even smaller, one.
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:32 (one year ago) link
Smalltown, Lou Reed & John Cale
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:34 (one year ago) link
And another twist in the Jam’s Strange Town (get to the city and it’s horrible)
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:34 (one year ago) link
Some more candidates on this Steve Hoffman thread including one of my favourite ever songs, Lonely Days by Future Bible Heroes, though again there's not much sign of escape.
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:40 (one year ago) link
Continental edition - this stuff goes back centuries!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJCFBY6UmAVicky Leandros • Theo, wir fahr’n nach Lodz
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
Sundays - leave this city
― calstars, Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
Steve Earle, "Someday."
There ain't a lot that you can do in this townYou drive down to the lake and then you turn back aroundYou go to school and you learn to read and writeSo you can walk into the county bank and sign away your lifeI work at the fillin' station on the interstatePumpin' gasoline and countin' out of state platesThey ask me how far into Memphis son, and where's the nearest beerAnd they don't even know that there's a town around hereSomeday I'm finally gonna let go'Cause I know there's a better wayAnd I wanna know what's over that rainbowI'm gonna get out of here somedayNow my brother went to college cause he played footballI'm still hangin' round cause I'm a little bit smallI got me a 67 Chevy, she's low and sleek and blackSomeday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
"Backwards Town" by the Grapes of Wrath"Hometown" by Joe Jackson
The Kinks have a trilogy of songs about girls who come to grief in the city, but only "Big Black Smoke" explicitly mentions the "country life" that she is leaving. They also have "Village Green", where the singer "sought fame", then misses the small town.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
"Get to the city and it's horrible" also = Gram Parsons, "Streets of Baltimore."
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
Eilen Jewell, "Blow it All Away"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpoKzpQ4_E
Let's just keep driving you and meI like your soft voice and your pleasant companyWe can pull each other out of this dusty little townMake a new start somewhere maybe settle down
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link