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

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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

Blur, "Essex Dogs"

― marc h. (marc h.), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

that madonna song where she says STOP BITCH and a plate smashes and the song ends

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

my god, did it really take us two and a half years to get to "all for leyna"?

classic when billy joel does it, because it's such a completely geeky and overzealous stop that you can't help but smile. dud when almost anybody else does it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Vanilla Ice, shoulda woulda coulda

― Aaron A, Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

classic when billy joel does it, because it's such a completely geeky and overzealous stop that you can't help but smile.

ALSO SEE: Billy Joel in Live at Long Island singing "turn out the lights!" in "You May Be Right", and then thanking the light op's for turning out the lights in the arena for a second.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Does Liberty DeVito (sp?) crack a rimshot as Billy says "stop"? Is he even the drummer of the band?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

liberty devitto, two t's i believe, does a really corny roll-like thing on the toms (maybe even a roto-tom?) as billy says "stop." which makes it that much more geeky.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

"Stop" by Howard Tate!

― Sean Howe (seanmhowe), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh, just remember another one i actually like: julie grant, "stop." it's a short, understated, but still clear and exuberant stop.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I came back to post "Ranking Full Stop," but Mike White beat me by two years.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

alexis strum "rock this disco"

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

well, upon listening again i guess it's not "stop" per se...but some unintelligible gibberish that i think is the rought equivalent.

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Bowling for Soup, 1985

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

me rankin' full stop. Full stop, me rankin' full stop. I said STOP.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Friday, 16 September 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Zucchero in "Il mare impetuoso al tramonto sali' sulla luna e dietro una tendina di stelle..." (italian song)

― blues, Thursday, 29 December 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Led Zeppelin - "Out On The Tiles"

― Mama Roux, Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, ELvis goes "Hold it, fellas. That don't move me. Let's get real, real gone for a change."

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link

When I say stop, y'all stop on a dime, when I say stop ya'll stop one time...STOP!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Electric Six - "Improper Dancing"

"stop...continue!"

― 31g (31g), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" Classic.

― Schade (Schade), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Have we really gone this far and not mentioned "Stop - Hammer time!"?

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 29 December 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

losing my edge

― lf, Thursday, 29 December 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Not "stop" per se, but "freeze".

EPMD - "It's My Thang"
Mannie Fresh - "Conversation"

And "silence"...

A Tribe Called Quest - "What?"

― R. J. Greene, Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Beat (English Beat, whatever you want!),
"Click Click"......faster, faster, faster, faster STOP!!! And then it does

― Richard S, Friday, 13 January 2006 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

This does the opposite, sort of
Gene Krupa w/Anita O'Day - "Stop! The red light's on" (the entire band stops playing and yells "Stop!")

― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy