Das Damen
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Jerry Reed's "When You're Hot You're Hot" has a pretty great courtroom scene. Also about a thousand other country songs about people shooting either their woman or the deputy down. And "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man."
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
George Jones, "Brown to Blue" we stood there in the courthouse room... the judge pronounced the words
Paul Simon "Adios Hermanos"
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
Bascom Lamar Lunsford's "Mountain Dew" was inspired by his experience as a lawyer:
The lyrics tell the story of a man's first day in court to answer charges of making illegal alcohol. In the first verse, the prosecutor closes his case. In the next three verses, several respected members of the community—the deacon, the doctor, and the conductor—visit the charged man, trying to buy his whiskey.[6] In the final verse, the judge offers the young man clemency if he is willing to pay court costs for the trial.Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer practicing in rural North Carolina during the 1920s. At the time, the manufacturing of beverage alcohol for non-medicinal purposes was illegal in the United States due to prohibition, but North Carolina residents nevertheless continued their longstanding tradition of making a form of illegal whiskey called moonshine. Lunsford frequently defended local clients that were accused of the practice, and the original lyrics and banjo accompaniment to "Good Old Mountain Dew" were written during the course of one of these cases.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer practicing in rural North Carolina during the 1920s. At the time, the manufacturing of beverage alcohol for non-medicinal purposes was illegal in the United States due to prohibition, but North Carolina residents nevertheless continued their longstanding tradition of making a form of illegal whiskey called moonshine. Lunsford frequently defended local clients that were accused of the practice, and the original lyrics and banjo accompaniment to "Good Old Mountain Dew" were written during the course of one of these cases.
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
^that Wikipedia summary misses the point though. the punchline of the song is that the judge sets the defendant free in exchange for a taste of his moonshine. "cost" in the last verse doesn't literally mean "court costs"
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Saturday, 4 August 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link
Bands whose members are all men but whose name implies they would be women
WomenSingle MothersGirl Band
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 4 August 2018 05:21 (five years ago) link
Twisted Sister
― devil's avocado (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 August 2018 10:21 (five years ago) link
Bare naked... no its gone
― Mark G, Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):
Springsteen: Johnny 99 and also Nebraska
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Also Steve Earle The Devil’s Rigjt Hand
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
And The Specials - Stupid Marriage
― bornbored, Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge)
BANG BANG Maxwell's Silver Hammer went down on his head!
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Sunday, 5 August 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
“Here Comes the Judge,” Pigmeat Markham ( and other songs with the same name by others)
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 August 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
^ ^ ^ Top-20 rap hit from 1968!
― Lee626, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
"murder in my heart for the judge" by the moby grape
― budo jeru, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:
― i’m still stanning (morrisp)
the space negroes' version of "sex bomb"
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub
"mr. waters (the judge)" by birmingham sunday
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
"arrest, trial, and judgement (joy in the marketplace!)" by harry partch"good morning judge" by wynonie harris
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 5 August 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
songs with a falsetto goodbye:
Danny O'Keefe - Falsetto GoodbyeThird Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 09:59 (five years ago) link
The reprise of "So Long, Farewell" from Sound of Music
― psychocandy fairweather low spark of high (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 12:24 (five years ago) link
Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin'
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
^ah, I had a feeling I was missing an incredibly obvious one
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye
― scanner darkly, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
songs written by a non-famous family member of the recording artist:
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (written by Darby Slick)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
songs in which 'yee-ha!' or similar appears apropos of nothing but manages to be perfect:
michael jackson "wanna be startin' somethin'"björk "big time sensuality"
― dyl, Thursday, 4 October 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
^ Loudon Wainwright - The Swimming Song
Possible thread for 'off-mic eructations'? Keith Jarrett must be the king of this. Or Mingus.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 4 October 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
songs with unearned key changes
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
― the beta brand (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 October 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
cover songs (or songs that interpolate bits of other songs) that feature newly-recorded backing vocals from the singer of the original song:
Uncle Kracker - Drift Away (feat. Dobie Gray)Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight (feat. Ronnie Spector, who sings the chorus of 'Be My Baby')
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Monday, 24 December 2018 03:31 (five years ago) link
The Run DMC version of "Walk This Way".
― henry s, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
songs which feature the wilhelm scream
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
Does Elton John rerecord the vocals for Bennie and Jets on the newest Tribe Called Quest album?
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
yep!
It kicks off with a sample of John's original recording, a No. 1 hit in 1974, and the final single from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which came out the year before. Then, at the 2:43 mark, after Busta Rhymes helps out in the second verse, the modern-day voice of Elton closes out the song in a duet with Q-Tip. John is credited as a co-writer on "Solid Wall of Sound," which also features his piano.
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Monday, 24 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
Steve Winwood insisted on doing this for "Call On Me."'
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 December 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
wait no, the new Elton vocals at the end are a newly written verse, not a reprise of the original song (xpost)
― poochie mayne (unregistered), Monday, 24 December 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
Stephen Stills on Public Enemy's "He Got Game"
― Lee626, Monday, 24 December 2018 08:27 (five years ago) link
Lennon on Elton's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
― gjoon1, Monday, 24 December 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
Bonnie Prince Billy on Johnny Cash's I See A Darkness
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 24 December 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
Dido on Stan.
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 24 December 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
Paul Kelly going in-studio for rap group AB Original’s live radio coverpolation of his 26-year-old Dumb Things.
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 24 December 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
Otis Redding - 634-5789
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 24 December 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
songs where a singer expresses disdain for being put on a pedestal as artist
Pearl Jam - Corduroy, and surely many others
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 24 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Original writer singing backup on cover:Will Oldham on Johnny Cash I See a Darkness
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Can't believe I just now remembered Jimmy Page on "Come With Me."
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 December 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
I can think of several examples that are close to this sentiment. Obviously "please don't put your life in the hands / of a rock and roll band" is at least related. So is "don't look to us / phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust."
Elvis Costello's "I Want to Vanish" is ostensibly from the perspective of someone - perhaps an old Delta blues or Appalachian folk legend - asking to NOT be recorded by what I guess is an Alan Lomax-like character.
I want to vanishThis is my fondest wishTo go where I cannot be capturedLaid on a decorated dish
The speaker seems to regard him- or herself as unfit for posterity. But it may be equally true that some art should be permitted to be transient. Putting it on record and fixing it in space and time would, effectively, be tantamount to murdering it. Let it be unheard and unbroadcast. Let us merely be happy that it ever happened at all, not be annoyed that it hasn't been preserved in a scratchy copy that robs it of life.
― Anne Frankenstein (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
1981 songs referencing the stars of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?":
"Joan Crawford" - Blue Oyster Cult "Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
my Christmas present is reading the above as meaning that kornrulez has gone 19 years thinking that Bonnie Prince Billy is a different guy for whom Will Oldham wrote songs.
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
What is this, amateur hour? Are you calling me a Bonnie Prince Billy bitch?
Is he not the man who wrote I See a Darkness? Is he not singing backup on the Johnny Cash cover version? Would that not fit the cover songs (or songs that interpolate bits of other songs) that feature newly-recorded backing vocals from the singer of the original song: theme?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
see five posts above yours
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
oh fer crying out loud, that ILM app blows
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link