not sure i'd say this is about the happy side of domesticity but i love this song so I can't help posting it.
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - I Eat Dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2x9uZVPek
― Will (kruezer2), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Richard Shindell's song "A Summer Wind, a Cotton Dress" hits me pretty hard. It's the only relatable infidelity song I know of.The kids are fineThey're six and nineI think you'd probably like my wifeBut the kitchen lightSeems much too brightFor what I find myself thinking tonight
― Glasnostradamus (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
"Don't Marry Her" has a reference to the sun shining on San Francisco Bay which always reminded me of the following story, but I've never come across this usage anywhere else:
In the late 1980s, Pickett recalled how he came by it: “Noreen Woods from Atlantic Records, she called me that one day because back in that time, the secretaries were wearing these miniskirts. One of these girls was leaning over the desk. On a clear day, you could see the San Francisco Bay. So I went and pinched her. Noreen saw it: she said, ‘My, my, you are so Wicked.’ Jerry Wexler ran out of his office. ‘That’s it baby, that’s it, that’s the name of his next album, baby. The Wicked Pickett, that’s it, put it down.’Fletcher, Tony. In the Midnight Hour (p. 96). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
Vampire Weekend, "Stranger" feels nicely domestic - "Another night indoors, another sign of life, wobbling up through the floor."
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
Ray Davies - Quiet Life (from the movie Absolute Beginners)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 14 January 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
As someone mentions above, it would take a while to list all the Davies songs on this theme, but The Kinks Present a Soap Opera is an entire album about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link