Have you noticed there's a high percentage of great songs that do this?
Compared to a control sample of not "and" songs...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 10:27 (nine years ago) link
David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 10:37 (nine years ago) link
"And you ah? You do ah?"And So is Love - Kate Bush
"And the beat goes on"The Whispers
"And I wake up in the morning and she says 'Hi'"Little Green Apples - Roger Miller
― Bloody Snail, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link
Robert Forster - It Ain't Easy
And a river ran, and a train ran, and a dream ran through everything that he did
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
Don McLean - Castles In The Air
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
the 1975 - sex
"and this is how it starts"
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
Butthole Surfers - is it called "To Parter?" It's on Rembrandt Pussyhorse iirc
"And all the sailors who were junkies..."
― Jon not Jon, Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
straitjacket fits - she speeds
"and i quietly count with her gone"
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
Reading through this and thinking are there even good songs that don't do this?
My fake 6ths album could have started with "and" - http://reading-log-blog.blogspot.com/2009/08/exclusive.html
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 30 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
The Sisters of Mercy - TorchMy Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - And This is What the Devil Does
― early rejecter, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I've gotr the beginning of my way running through my head as 'and in the end' but I'm not sure that's the start.
Got a couple of other MOR tracks running through my head and hopefully I'll identify them shortly.Plus a Pink Floyd and a Beatles.
Cool eh?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
So maybe I'm confusing the beginning of My way with the beatles track?
and seemed to be Cormac McCarthy's favourite word didn't it?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Ha, no way, I've always heard this as "and i quietly count with the gun"
― MaresNest, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
you're possibly right, and i certainly prefer your version as a opening line. i wasn't really sure so checked with some dodgy lyrics website. 'with her gone' does fit in with the whole theme of the woman 'stealing away' etc though. in conclusion, i'm still none the wiser
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
anyway, what a great goddamn song
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
"And I Knew" from the new Robert Forster album, which starts with those words.
Ashamed I forgot about Idlewild's really lovely "Take Me Back to the Islands," which begins "and the moon brings us back." (could also have mentioned it on the "songs that sound like other songs" thread, per its strong echoes of Lemonheads' "My Drug Buddy")
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Saturday, 29 August 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
God, I'd have said this thread was one I started last year.
FOUR?
― Mark G, Saturday, 29 August 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
Bohannon, "Foot Stomping Music"
"And if you feel like clapping your hands"
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
If you actually play "Plush" real loud, there's a bit of a garble at the beginning: "ummmannnwhennn I feel.."
Plus, Google says so: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=plush%20lyrics
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Staind, "Outside"
And youCan bring me to my kneesAgain
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Spacehog, "In the Meantime"
And in the end we shall achieve in timeThe thing they call divine
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Now She Sleeps In A Box In The Good Soil Of Denmark - David & the Citizens
― kinder, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
Stone Temple Pilots, "And So I Know"
And so I know it's begun again Never be the same and with that I saidNever ever be this way again
(great deep cut from Tiny Music)
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 31 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
And what costume shall the poor girl wear?
― timellison, Sunday, 5 November 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
and where will she go? and what shall she do?
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 5 November 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
^^^^^
Microdisney, "And"
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 November 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Dillard and Clark, "Out on the Side"
And there could be at any moment a change
― cwkiii, Monday, 6 November 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
The Inspirations "Victory is Sweet"
And I see a great band of angels camped all around me and I see the captain rising up the challenge to meet
― Charles3108, Monday, 5 March 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
"Stardust"
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
― stuck on the darraghmac (qiqing), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
Has there been a bad song that does this?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 07:46 (six years ago) link
Deep cut from the archives..
"And You" by the Strawberry Zots
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
(And you drive your pretty car...)
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
Hush Harbor, "Looking for a Ladder"
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
"And I don't know how I knew it..." song: Simply Jessie, artist: Rex Smith, album: Sooner or Later soundtrack. #YesImGeekAF
― Laurelei, Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
The Connells - "If it Crumbles"
"And for the first and for the last time..."
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 6 December 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
Chris Stamey - Depth of Field
"And I could scarcely believe we were talking in the kitchen..."
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Goo Goo Dolls — Name
“And even though the moment passed me by, I still can't turn away”
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
"And there were future reflections on the face and the hands"
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 25 January 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
Zep = Ten Years Gone
― calstars, Saturday, 25 January 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
intranets has it as "then as it was" tho
― calstars, Saturday, 25 January 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
blame Bob Plant
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1
― epistantophus, Sunday, 26 January 2020 03:37 (four years ago) link
Lync - “b”
― dad genes (morrisp), Sunday, 26 January 2020 03:55 (four years ago) link
"2112"
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 January 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
glad to see Stevie F flagged “Divorce Song”shocked no mention of “The Blower’s Daughter”
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 04:49 (four years ago) link
Oh good one!
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 January 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
also sorry for typo Stevie D lol
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Bowie-Future Legend
"And in the death, as the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare..."
― Arthur, Sunday, 26 January 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
I was all ready to post "Shop Around" before I remembered the spoken part before "And then she said..."
Anyway, "She Cried".
― punning display, Sunday, 26 January 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
"The Happiest Girl In the World" by Biff Bang Pow!:
"And although what you say is trueI still won't listen to a word"
― Tim, Monday, 27 January 2020 09:46 (four years ago) link
TS: songs that start with “and” vs songs that start with “well”
― epistantophus, Monday, 27 January 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link