(BTW, got an email from you, but resend that to ned at kuci dot org if you could.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
We should have a babyAnd then I wouldn't feel quite so sadThen I'd feel like Paul the Saint and not Jack the Lad
Beautiful South - "Have Fun"
― woke cop, boo! (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
I'm gonna put that Sinatra tune in my audition rep
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
"But that's how it's pronounced!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Needed: a mashup of Ol' Blue Eyes and the Outhere Brothers
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
The Chills, "Dream By Dream"
Well they persuaded me I had to leave the bandThe reasons given I didn't understandThey said, "Now Martin, if you really cared"I felt I had to, I'm feeling really scaredThey killed my best dream dead
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
Michael's nervous and the lights are bright
REM - "Strange"
― woke cop, boo! (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
Alice Cooper, "Hard Hearted Alice"
... I'm pretty sure this isn't the only one.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Positive it isn't the only one but I can't think of any specific others atm. 'Under My Wheels', I think?
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
kind of a grey area there given the confusion between Alice Cooper the BAND and the guy who fired that band and changed his name to Alice Cooper
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
holy shit @ that Sinatra tune
Sinatra's discography features some very novel corners.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:44 (seven years ago) link
Also think this happens a lot in reggae.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Also add Bohannon to Bo Diddley and Bootsy, and that's just the B's.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
no doubt - I consider myself a fairly big fan, but my interest hasn't stretched past the mid-60s really. I should probably listen to Watertown...
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Watertown is one of my favorite albums of all time (no doubt helped by the fact that it was a total flop)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
I remember being surprised to learn there IS an actual Watertown in northern New York.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Sensational Alex Harvey Band, "Framed"
I'm walking down the street mindin' my own affairwhen two policemen grabbed me and I'm unawareThey said "Is your name Alexander?" and I said "Why, sure!"They said "You're the cat that we've been looking for."
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Another Alex...
In bed this morning you called me ClydeAlex is the name that I go by!
― new noise, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
Lou Reed, "My Old Man"
When I was a young boy in BrooklynGoing to public schoolDuring recess in the concrete playgroundThey lined us up by twosIn alphabetical order, Reagan, Reed and RussoI still remember the namesAnd stickball and stoopball were the only gamesThat we played
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
similarly: "I'd like to send this one out to Lou and Rachel" in Coney Island Baby
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
Wacky Women by Sparks
Hello, everybody, this is RussellRight before I sing I'm gonna make a muscle
Ouija Board, Ouija Board by Morrissey has the "S.T.E.V.E.N P.U.S.H.O. double F" part
― soref, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
"We Love Girls" by Buster has the band all sign off by name at the end:
"With love from Buster""With love from Robbie""With love from Peter""With love from Kevin""With love... from Les"
― soref, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
I just looked at their wiki page to check I had their names correct and Les died last month
― soref, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
forgot an obvious one, "B-I-D Spells Bid" by the Monochrome Set
― soref, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
An even more obvious one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVGl4dPzJJM
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
I truly apologize for dredging up traumatic memories that we've all so heroically learned to repress but I just have to ask:
Well
Are you Johnny Ray?Are you Slim Ray?Are you Paid Ray?Who wants to know? Who wants to know?
Are you Sting Ray?Are you Nick Ray?Are you Jimmy Ray?Who wants to know? Who wants to know?
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch)
thank god somebody mentioned jimmy ray; i was beginning to think you'd all gone barmy
in the original version of radiohead's "lift" from 1996 thom works his own name into the lyrics. don't think they ever released that one, though.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
A warning from Wikipedia:
A November 2015 announcement on Jimmy Ray's official fan page stated that he is working on material for a comeback record. This was later confirmed in September 2016 on his Record label's website "La Rocka Records was created in 2016 as a launchpad for UK singer Jimmy Ray's 'comeback' album tentatively titled 'Live to Fight Another Day.'"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
And now I'm a crushed credit card registered to SmithNot the name that you call me with
Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie
― hhoffman, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Robyn Hitchcock - my wife and my dead wife
My dead wife sits in a chairCombing her hairI know she's thereShe wanders off to the bedShaking her head"Robyn," she says"You know I don't take sugar."
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Bolan likes to rock nowYes he does yes he doesBolan likes to rock nowYes he does, yes he does
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, "The Blimp"
Master masterThis is recorded thru uh flies ear'n you have t' have uh flies eye t' see itIt’s the thing that’s gonna make Captain BeefheartAnd his magic band fatFrank, it's the big hitIt's the blimpIt's the blimp, FrankIt's the blimp
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
The Roches - they'll tell you their names but they won't give out their phone numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ8MdYsgELs
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
Another Alexander O'Neal one, from In the middle:
Some people are satisfiedLiving and loving on borrowed timeBut if you can't be my own babyAll you have to do is sayAlex darling (doesn't?) play it that way
― badg, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
The Floaters - Float On
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
Almost every post-1975 Jonathan Richman song
― goodoldneon, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
Lambchop - "Kurt Wagner's Heart Attack"
― woke cop, boo! (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Always loved this bit from "I Think She Likes Me" by Treat Her Right (Mark Sandman's pre-Morphine band)
"She listens to every word I sayI look at her she don't look awayI tell her that I play for "Treat Her Right"She asks me if I'm gonna play tonight - Yeah!"
― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
From Jarvis Cocker's lyrics/vocals for Barry Adamson's 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis'
Ahhh, can't you see what's on offerYeah babe it's going cheap todayI enter a room and all the girls sayC'mon Jarv, can I be the first?Oh you make us so hot we feel we're gonna burst
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 December 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
She said Paul, you better look aroundHow long you think you can run that body down?How many nights you think that you can do what you been doin'?Who you foolin'?
--"Run That Body Down" (P. Simon)
― SlimAndSlam, Thursday, 8 December 2016 01:39 (seven years ago) link
"Boogie down with Davy now" from Bowie's 'John I'm Only Dancing Again'.
― darling you were wonderful you really were quite good (snoball), Thursday, 8 December 2016 10:22 (seven years ago) link
Old hat for Bowie, really -- from the mid-sixties, "Can't Help Thinking About Me":
"Now I leave them all in the never never landThe station seems so cold the ticket's in my handMy girl calls my name, 'Hi Dave.Drop in, see around, come backIf you're this way again.'"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
I feel like this was a common device in old-school indiepop, but I can only think of a couple (non Jonathan Richman) examples:
Heavenly - Escort Crash on Marston Street
Hey now, Robert, you happy with your smashed up carAnd your broken neck bone, and your facial wounds?You've murdered Amelia. Pete can no longer play guitarAnd Mathew's brain is damaged. But that's not so differentCould you tell at all?
and All Girl Summer Fun Band - Grizzly Bear
We all know that you can't always do what you feelBut if you know exactly how you feel, you can always come and tell me say,"Hey Kim, I'm kind of feeling like a grizzly bearYeah, I feel like a grizzly bear,I want to roll on the ground and I want to mess up your hair"
― schrute dwyte (unregistered), Sunday, 12 February 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
Learned about this one from the "You Must Remember This" podcast -- second episode ever! (And this song is not a joke -- I'm only quoting the first part of it, it gets crazier from there.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCCw6gYEeKw
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:53 PM (two months ago)
I like the one that goes
I'm Frankie SinatraI'm Frank SinatraI'm Frankie, me boy, you don't knowI've got the perfect voice to sing calypso
― schrute dwyte (unregistered), Sunday, 12 February 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
srsly though, thanks for sharing that, it's nuts
― schrute dwyte (unregistered), Sunday, 12 February 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
My favourite example of this ever: Goddo's "Sweet Thing."
youtube.com/watch?v=-2GK1jxvroE
"You like the fact I'm in the Goddo band / You're aware of a one-night stand."
(Didn't embed the video, so don't complain to me.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
"They call me, Dr. John, The Night Tripper"
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
Another Bowie, "Teenage Wildlife":
Same old thing in brand new drag comes sweeping into viewAs ugly as a teenage millionaire pretending it's a whizz kid worldYou'll take me aside, and say"Well, David, what shall I do? They wait for me in the hallway"I'll say "don't ask me, I don't know any hallways"But they move in numbers and they've got me in a cornerI feel like a group of one, no no they can't do this to meI'm not some piece of teenage wildlife
― willem, Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link
The Mighty Sparrow - Sparrow Dead
(he probably does this a lot but that's the one that immediately sprung to mind)
― Number None, Sunday, 12 February 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Belle & Sebastian - "This Is Just a Modern Rock Song"
Stevie's full of good intentions,Richards into rock 'n' roll,Stuart's staying in and he thinks it's a sin,That he has to leave the house at all.
Electric Light Orchestra - "Shine a Little Love" (cued up: https://youtu.be/GJuTIxwQw0k?t=3m38s)
You shine a little love on my life(Shiii-iii-iiine)You shine a little love on my life(E-L-O)You shine a little love on my life and let me see
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 06:06 (seven years ago) link
The Floaters - Float On― MarkoP, Wednesday, December 7, 2016
― MarkoP, Wednesday, December 7, 2016
And the song it inspired, The B-52s - "Song for a Future Generation"
Speaking of whom, also "52 Girls" namechecks Kate and Cindy.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 06:14 (seven years ago) link