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
xp
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
btw that is a pretty good song. I played it in a bar recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8l_od0G488
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Richard Marx - Hazard
― mookie wilson shaggin balls (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 May 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
My favorite take on this theme is Gerty - Lower Moreland. Such a great (autobiographical) name for a town one would feel the need to escape from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNBE7IqXg8k
― bendy, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
songs which are ruined by a singer singing in a faux-accent that's annoying as fuck
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
think that was just sold as "Sting's Greatest Hits" in other countries.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Green Day to thread
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
songs where the chorus seems endlessly stitched together
example - Shania Twain - Man, I Feel Like a Woman
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 June 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
“cut to the feeling” has a similar feel
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Friday, 10 June 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Not sure if "stitched together" implies a negative judgment, but I'd say ABBA's "The Name of the Game" does this very well. The chorus has four parts (one, two or three of which could arguably be called bridges, but they appear after both of the full choruses).
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 10 June 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
"Take a Chance on Me," as well? (I didn't read it negatively, btw – I love that Shania song)
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Friday, 10 June 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
That's an odd one because the verse is the main hook, but the "other part" does have three sections.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 10 June 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
Live & Let Die
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 June 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
xp Not sure I get what you mean about the verse being the main hook; pretty sure it’s the big ol’ chorus that launches the song(?)
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
You're right, I guess that is the chorus, but I wouldn't call it "stitched together" because it's all one musical idea/melodic pattern except for the four bars at the end (with the spoken word bits).
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
Ah gotcha (I wasn’t thinking that the stitched-together pieces necessarily had to be heterogenous)
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure if I'm understanding this right, but what comes to mind is "Green Light" by Lorde.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
How about songs with awesome, multipart bridges? (sorry if I’ve already done this… I love bridges)“Father Figure” is the gold standard for me:https://i.imgur.com/HU4HEtJ_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Saturday, 11 June 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
I used to love karaoking that due to the bridges alone.
Good call
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
songs where the 7" version is a classic and the 12" remix is unspeakable and should never be played again
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
songs that are remade a million times, but pretty much every remake is based on one iconic cover of the song and not the original.
some obvious ones:
Tears for Fears - "Mad World"Leonard Cohen - "Hallelujah"The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd Original Cast Recording - "Feeling Good"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
“Hound Dog”
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link