^ ^ ^ Top-20 rap hit from 1968!
― Lee626, Sunday, 5 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge)
"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
Songs Set in a Courtroom (Bonus Points If It Includes an Argument between the Singer and the Judge):
― 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
Songs about the engineering trades and their practitioners (not including audio engineering)
The ElectricianWichita Lineman
― mick signals, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
Casey Jones
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
Heh. John Henry?
Decemberists, "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect"?
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
Oooh! Oooh! Fortress Around Your Heart.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
if you count a tinker as a practitioner of the engineering trades, then at least part of tim hardin's "if i were a carpenter"
also about 10% of woody guthrie songs it sometimes seems
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
Songs in which the Beatles wish you a Happy Birthday
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, August 2, 2018 11:20 PM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWjRpsqbu7o
― budo jeru, Thursday, 17 January 2019 00:06 (five years ago) link
!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 17 January 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
songs about the olden days when life was simpler and we had NO CELLPHONES:
Five For Fighting - Slice("there was a time a long, long time ago/ Chevys and levees played on the radio/ no cell phones, just 20,000 lights/ swaying on a Saturday night, alright")
The Wreckers - My, Oh My("songs were long, and gas was cheap/ no cellphones, and water was free/ daddy paid and I never had to worry")
Jim Jones - Blow It Up("I was dealing crack when/ there was no cell phones and I swear it was iller back then/ it was beepers and street sweepers [...]")
― chips moomin (unregistered), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
jesus christ
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
arcade fire - we used to wait
― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure this is the entirety of Everclear's AM Radio: "VCR and DVD, there was none of that crap back in 1970." It also mentions a "portable CD player."
I kinda want to call up Alex whatsis and ask him if he wants to rewrite the song now that those things don't really exist anymore either.
― Instant Carmax (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
I would like to know of songs about audio engineering.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Not the same thing but there could be a whole thread about songs where the producer’s name or production company are mentioned in the song, usually at the beginning.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link