― Phil (phil), Monday, 16 December 2002 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
In this kind of songMiddle bits are so predictableBut you came alongYou were not at all predictable
― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 16 December 2002 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Michelle" by The Beatles is arguable.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
Aaah yes, "It's short and sweet and to the point...."(?). Good call Jody ("Can't say that I blame you...."), I'm going to have to dig that one out and blow the dust off it when I get home now!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
lyrics:
"there's only two songs in me, and I just wrote the thirddon't know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the wordsspent my whole life just digging up my music's shallow gravefor the two songs in me and the third one I just made"
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt C., Monday, 16 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Monday, 16 December 2002 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Zora (Zora), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
go little record go it is named by some guy named joe and the words are the letters of the words said electrically played for outer space and those of they who paid this song is twice ocurred and now its time to go away on holiday.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
Soft Machine - "Moon in June""Just before we go on to the next part of our songLet's all make sure we've got the time"
Also: King Crimson "Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With"
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
And are we going to count all of the songs that start out with someone saying "This one is for all the [ladies/guys/whathaveyou]"?
― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Monday, 16 December 2002 23:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is a love song to John and Leisha's mother / This isn't easy I might not write another
― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
He says at the start that he's listening to a familiar song on the radio, and then later on that he's 'hiding in his music' so the big swelling notes that follow are like the dream he has when he 'closes his eyes and he drifts away.' And it's 'More Than a feeling' because it's a feeling manifested in the actuality of the song. And if you think it's pretentious that he says 'hide in my music' well you have to suspend that idea.
― maryann (maryann), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 03:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 09:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bham, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
have no doubt, Marcello: "Feel" is rivalling "Strong" in my mental chamber of horrors. hearing the album might reduce me to a floating skull off Chesil Beach.
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 13:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
Shame on us.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth the minor fall, the major lift; the baffled king composing Hallelujah!
― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 2 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
And "The Fear" as well - "And the chorus goes like this" - not Jarvis's finest lyrical hour, admittedly, but it's there.
― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 3 January 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Why do I find it hard to write the next line..."
― delbert organization iii, Friday, 3 January 2003 04:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lukas Bergstrom (lukas), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
rather, cherchez la ghost
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 05:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Monkees: Pleasant Valley Sunday
"The local rock group down the street is trying hard to learn this song"
That is such an underrated line.
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
which is the worst, as he keeps going SAYING THAT!!!
(Spandau Ballet, True, for the USA bods)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Mekons: Empire of the Senseless
"They took away our films and tapes and notebooks but it's OK, we self-censored this song. But these lines are all individuals! And there's no such thing as this song."
"This song promotes homosexuality. It's in a pretended family relationship with the others on this record. And on the charts and on the jukebox. And in the radio."
That is such an underrated song.
― zero, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Were You There for that Session
This Is a Song that Only Has One Chord
Watering Down the Legacy
― Vestigial Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think you knew you were in this song..."
David Bowie, 5 Years. But Borrowed Tune comes a close 2nd.
― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Billy Bragg – New EnglandI was 21 years when I wrote this song, I’m 22 now but won’t be for longNicked from Paul Simon: Leaves That Are Green
Second verse, Same as th first,Judy Is Punk - RamonesNicked from Herman's Hermits (et al): I'm Henry The Eighth I Am
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
- True to the Game, Ice Cube
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B21qhoKbmNE
well, i wrote this songwith a vamp in the middleand i knew when i wrote itthat i'd written it for the fiddle
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 18 November 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
Songs that get all meta and mention 'this song' in the lyrics
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 18 November 2021 06:18 (two years ago) link
This is the first verseThis is the first verseThis is the first verse, the first, the firstAnd this is the first verse, verse, first verseAnd this is the first verse, verseThis is the first verse
And this is the chorusOr perhaps it's a bridgeOr just another part of the song that I'm singing
And this is the second verseIt could be the last verseThis is the second verse, second verse, second verseIt could be the last verse, last verseAnd this is the second verseBut it's probably the last one
And this is the chorusOr perhaps it's a bridgeOr just another key changeNever mind, it doesn't hurtIt only means that I lost faith in this song'Cause it won't help me reach you
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 18 November 2021 06:38 (two years ago) link
Yes sir, already told you in the first verse and in the chorus,But I will give you one more chance...
― fetter, Thursday, 18 November 2021 08:16 (two years ago) link
songs that are about themselvesThere's something about THIS song ... Songs that reference themselves.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 November 2021 08:52 (two years ago) link
Now hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you...
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 18 November 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
another from john hartford:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBZFebgYU_I
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
Love a tune that boasts about repeating the first verse, eg:Violent Femmes - Prove My Love / The Ramones - Judy is a Punk / Herman’s Hermits - I’m Henry the VII I am
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
^otm
― Heatmiserlou (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
You criticize our method of how we make recordsYou said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apartStop, check it out my manThis is the music of a hip-hop bandJazz, well you can call it thatBut this jazz retains a new formatPoint, where you misjudged usSpeculated, created a fussYou've made the same mistake politicians haveTalkin' all that jazz
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
#onethread
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
Radio stations I question their blackness, they call themselves black, but we'll see if they'll play this
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
Smudge - I Don’t Want To Be Grant McLennan
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 06:33 (one year ago) link