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

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"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

See also "Stronger".

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link

The lead vocals in "Stop! In The Name Of Love" stops for a moment everytime the word "Stop" is said. The backing track plays on though.

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

pyjama time

LC, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Kylie's "Telltale Signs": "When we see all the telltale signs, let's...STOP! Our love slipping away."

PS: It's genius.

brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Prince 'Batman'

Rich (Stinkin Rich), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

no such tune - "batdance"?

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

As much as I hate the song, Love and Rockets: So Alive does this.

"Wish I could stop..." (music stops) "...switch off the clock, and make it all happen for you-HOO-HOO!"

Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Any song performed live by the Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-80s

Niall, Friday, 13 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...
Delta 5 - "Train Song"

every time a song that fits this description comes up during random mp3 playing I end up back at this thread ...

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Of all these songs, "Batdance" is the only one I've heard that fits the criteria of the question. It's not songs that say "stop" in them, but actually end with the word "stop" - right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahAHAHAHAH BATMANstop.

Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

dude things can stop and then start again!

pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

all you've proved justin is 1) you didn't read the initial post, and 2) you haven't heard any of these songs beyond Batdance.

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Whether completely or for a brief little cleversmuggy pause before starting up again.

musically (musically), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Royal trux - Stop (from "Vereans Of Disorder")

mushiko, Friday, 31 March 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Do synonyms count? If so, "It's No Game (part 1)" stops when Bowie yells "Shut Up! Shut UP! SHUT UP!!

O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...
"Lollipop" - The Hidden Cameras. This stops when Joel shouts "stop".

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Atomic garden - Bad Religion
Potters Field - Anthrax

Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

Heard "Alison" today and wondered if there was a thread about this, thought of the aforementioned Gino Vinelli "Stop" and "Ice, Ice Baby."

a hedge maze made of people (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Britney Spears - Lucky

(end of 2nd verse -- "what happens when it STOPS.......... they go [to chorus]")

teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Brazilian Grils - Don't Stop

Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link

N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" Classic.
― Schade (Schade), Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:19 PM (4 years ago)

??? i love this song and i can't remember this part.

related: The DOC "Portrait of a Masterpiece":

"Hold on Dre stop the beat, let me catch my breath
(Dr. Dre) (ayo man, why ya stopping that was funky)
To catch my breath
(Dre) alright you got it (yea) kick it "

_▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link


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