Songs that actually, like, stop when the singer says 'stop.'

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I'm pretty sure Pulp's "Styloroc - Nites Of Suburbia" ends like that.

Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, I think it's "She's A Lady".

edward o (edwardo), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

holding on for you

naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

The (very) short version of 'A Forest' which The Cure performed on that Re:Covered show.

Paz, Monday, 13 January 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Chameleons UK - Tears

Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

James Brown owns this thread.

webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

Damian (Damian), Monday, 13 January 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stan Freberg - 'I've Got You Under My Skin'

(not quite the same thing, but on Golden Boy's '1,2,3,4', when Miss Kittin says "and I think I'd better shut up now", the track immediately ends)

Jeff W, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Royal Trux 'Stop'

dave q, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Garbage - Queer.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Fugazi.

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Can't Stop" by That Petrol Emotion, from the wonderful "Manic Pop Thrill" album.

Darren, Monday, 13 January 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

King Crimson's "When I Say Stop, Continue" doesn't stop when the singer says stop

.. ahh - but Robert Fripp & David Byrne did a song called "Under Heavy Manners" .. David says "Stop" and the song stops. Then he says "Continue" and, guess what it does ...

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 13 January 2003 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gun Club - Fire Spirit

pauls00, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

colourblind james experience - dance critters

"the music stopped............and then it started again"

joni, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

then there's that "Start Button" thing at the end of as heard on radio soulwax pt.2

zebedee, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Uh, Gino Vannelli ... "I Just Wanna Stop"

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Giorgio Moroder-"Stop"

Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cornelius: "Another View Point" and "Nowhere" ("Point! Stop the music...").

Orange, Monday, 13 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, Belle & Sebastian have the "when the music stops...." STOPS... "da da da da da" in Me and the Major! HAHA! Look I can contribute to these useless threads as well - apologies if you said it upthread anyone...

Sarah (starry), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Another Song", Swell Maps

duane (doorag), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

King Horse doesn't actually stop when he says stop, just your heart.

Goddamn, I love Elvis Costello.

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

U2, "God, Part 2."

Don't hate me.

TMFTML
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TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 13 January 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

When does he say "stop"?

Curtis Stephens, Monday, 13 January 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Buzzcocks - "How I hate modern music: disco, boogie and pop, it goes on and on and on and on and on how I wish it would stop"

Genius.

wiseblood, Monday, 13 January 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pretty sure there's a Momus song with such a stop. Journey To The Center Of Me?

Jacob Barss-Bailey, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nobody's mentioned Erasure's "Stop!" yet so I will.

Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Buzzcocks also have "Until the razor cuts" - Love You More, which is pretty bloody final -B.Fawlty(wrong thread)

Steve Munro (Steve Munro), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I Hate The Kids" by S.O.A.

Mark Groves (ujaku), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ween: "Awesome Sound"

Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Curtis - he doesn't say stop in X.Y.U. so much as scream it near the end of the song.

Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Debbie Harry's "Backfired"

Tony (TK-Irl), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Better than Ranking Full Stop has to be Click Click off the Beat's first album, which ends faster faster faster faster / faster faster faster faster / faster faster faster faster STOP. It's very abrupt and works well.

Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Austin - "Unity In Dub"

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...
dB's - "Black And White"

... which I'm listening to right now and when he did the stop thing I said to myself "there's gotta be a thread about this on ilm!"

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

b-side to the first James single - "If Things Were Perfect"

Bimble..., Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Cornelius - 'Fly' and 'Lazy' (to add to the 2 upthread)
Prince - 'Batdance' (though Michael Keaton actually speaks the line)

Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

buzzcocks: "noise annoys"

kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe no one's mentioned Roy Orbison's Crying.

whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Joe Jackson, Hometown: "And sometimes when the music stops...... "

Only on the live version on 'Summer In The City', mind; I recall that there's no stop in the original recording.

derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronnettes - Frosty the Snowman. Of course, it starts back up again, but...

John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Electric 6 do the STOP!...CONTINUE! thing in one of their songs. It's a one-beat pause on the record, but live the band froze while yer man essayed an acapella rendition of The Greatest Love Of All for a minute or two before hollering "Continue!"

gaelic club (kit brash), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Sebadoh "Take An Aspirin"

Steely Zan (AaronHz), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

The Fall -No Xmas For John Quays (live "Totales Turns" version)
"And I've had enough right now. STOP-UH!!"

neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Eminem, "My Name Is." "Stop the tape! This boy needs to be locked away!"

mike a, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

when radiohead plays "i might be wrong" in concert, thom ends with "i really think we should stop". oh and with such panache.

deanster, Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"just lose it"

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

That Phoenix song, but I can't remember the name. It worked very well in concert...

jenn Kane (satellitesynth), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...
Motorhead - "Born to Raise Hell"

Motorhead, fools!

Oh, and Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is"

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Billy Joel, "All For Leyna".

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Does don't come around here no more count?

I Love You, Fancybear (symsymsym), Thursday, 5 October 2017 06:37 (six years ago) link

"Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider" - of Montreal

flappy bird, Thursday, 5 October 2017 06:39 (six years ago) link

The Mercury Rev song wherein this happens annoyed me so much that I never paid any attention to them anymore.

Valentijn, Thursday, 5 October 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

jessie ware - slow me down

Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 23 October 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link

Percy Sledge "Sudden Stop"

Ρεμπετολογια, Monday, 23 October 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link

"waitin" by kelela!

joshywinty (josh), Monday, 23 October 2017 05:51 (six years ago) link

THe Birthday party Deep In The Woods ends with the word End dunnit?

Stevolende, Monday, 23 October 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKh1Tbq62Lc

2:04

Lee626, Monday, 23 October 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link

For some reason this thread got a bassline and little guitar jingle stuck in my head and I couldn't work out what it was. I first thought it might be by LFO (Summer Girls variety), then after ruling that out I was stumped. An hour or so later I realised it was Half Man Half Biscuit, with their song Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show...but this song doesn't say 'stop' at all! It stops, then says 'go' as it restarts. For some reason I got the two muddled. Anyway, I bet there aren't so many examples of 'go'. That Boredoms one I guess...

imago, Monday, 23 October 2017 11:55 (six years ago) link

can't believe "Don't Come Around Here No More" hasn't been mentioned

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link

it has

imago, Monday, 23 October 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link

just saw it, whoops

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link

To my ears the music doesn't seem to stop after singing "stop" in that song

Lee626, Monday, 23 October 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link

yeah it doesn't

imago, Monday, 23 October 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link

James - Skullduggery does the 'and then the music stopped...." thing at the end.

MaresNest, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link

I think google is spying on me. This was a recommended video on my feed:

https://youtu.be/hWdQPOjTk4g

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link

five months pass...

Taylor Swift, “Dress” (the final time she says, “...everything just stops”).

absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 26 March 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link

Stan Freberg - "I've got you under my skin"

Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2018 08:08 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l9fmKnEKis

PaulTMA, Monday, 26 March 2018 11:12 (six years ago) link

five months pass...

The Beths, Uptown Girl (at about 20 seconds in)
https://thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/track/uptown-girl

enochroot, Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link

Ha, I never noticed that before.

The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Thursday, 20 September 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

"Ranking Full Stop," The (English) Beat
― Michael White, Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:30 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

came here to post this

flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

MJ & Siedah Garrett’s “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”.

Not in any big, like, show-stopping fashion, but still...

breastcrawl, Friday, 27 December 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link

five months pass...

"Summertime Rolls", Jane's Addiction

Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link

Señor Coconut's cover of "Radioactivity": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_K2FasB02A

ernestp, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 06:14 (three years ago) link

Vice Versa - New Girls Neutrons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qOO6KRZ8CM

Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link

Charlie Puth's new single "Girlfriend" does this, within the first 30 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRI0vr_zPQ

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 June 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link

bowie, Up the Hill Backwards, though TBF he yells "Shut up" not "Stop"

akm, Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

K-Pop theme song to new cartoon We Baby Bears does this several times - though the music doesn't stop *every* time they do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4J75lmkO0

gjoon1, Friday, 7 January 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link

Did anybody mention "Gerry and the Holograms" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUOBJ7vEAQ4

Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

bad idea right? does it.

gjoon1, Thursday, 21 September 2023 02:05 (six months ago) link

Mel Wynn and the Rhythm Aces - Stop Sign

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 21 September 2023 02:13 (six months ago) link

Can't believe it took so long for someone to make a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1OaNrphk0

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 30 September 2023 05:26 (six months ago) link

Should have remembered Take That - Shine

you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 30 September 2023 13:05 (six months ago) link

he also made an old video on the same topic years ago and explicitly cited this thread for it

dyl, Saturday, 30 September 2023 14:54 (six months ago) link


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