Songs where the singer is in denial:
10CC - I'm Not In LoveJohn Waite - I Ain't Missing YouFlight of the Conchords - I'm Not Crying
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 21 November 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
Flowers on the Wall--Flowers on the Wall
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
stone roses - i am the resurrection
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
The Louvin Brothers - I Like the Christian Life
― deepchord presents echosmith (unregistered), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
albert collins - i ain't drunk
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
Buzzcocks - “You Say You Don’t Love Me.”
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
George Jones - "She Thinks I Still Care"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
lol
Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 22 November 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link
Dylan - "Most of the Time"
Does this include songs where not only the singer but also the songwriter seems to be in denial? If so:
Bruce Springsteen - "Happy"That terrible Justin Bieber song about how he's totally over Selena Gomez, he's just writing her this song because she keeps blowing up his phone, and also his mother doesn't like her.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 22 November 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
I guess "Boots of Spanish Leather" also involves a lot of denial, although he clues in at the end.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 22 November 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 November 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
ALBUMS NAMED AFTER THE STUDIO THEY WERE RECORDED IN
Abbey Road - BeatlesCaribou - Elton John
And then I hit Wikipedia to find these...
The Power Station - The Power Station (album and band)Shangri La - Mark KnopflerBear Creek - Brandi Carlile
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 27 December 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
Feel the heat
― calstars, Friday, 27 December 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
5150 - Van HalenElectric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix (though this might technically be a studio named after an album)
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Friday, 27 December 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
Guitar solos that are preceded with the singer exclaiming “oh no...”:-Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath-Van Halen, you really got me
― calstars, Sunday, 19 January 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
Songs in which the singer reads off a phone number:“867-5309/Jenny” — Tommy Tutone“Group Sex” — Circle Jerks“The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry” — Fiery Furnaces― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, August 3, 2018 5:30 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
“867-5309/Jenny” — Tommy Tutone“Group Sex” — Circle Jerks“The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry” — Fiery Furnaces
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, August 3, 2018 5:30 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Owen Pallett's The Secret Seven also does this.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 19 January 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
Songs/tunes that sample Sydney's pedestrian crossing sound:
Orbital, Walk NowBillie Eilish, Bad Guy
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
Songs where the title doesn't appear in the lyrics until the 2nd verse:
Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams"
― Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
"Nebraska"
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
"Nebraska"― Lily Dale, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:46 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:46 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Good one!
― Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
songs in which the protagonist's friend/lover leaves them behind in pursuit of stardom:
Twinkle - Golden LightsColin Blunstone - Caroline GoodbyeAmanda Mair - Sense
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
songs where the lead vocalist is having their ass eaten
Geto Boys - Gangsta of Love
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
songs where the lead vocalist is eating ass
R.A. The Rugged Man "Tom Thum"
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
Basement Jaxx, Red AlertRegurgitator, SuperstraightGiuseppe Ottaviani, Crossing LightsPolish Club, Iguana
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
songs where nobody is eating ass or having their ass eaten[..]2523 Songbird :: Kenny G
[..]
2523 Songbird :: Kenny G
uh yeah, I'm pretty sure Kenny has never gone on record to say that 'Songbird' isn't a wordless meditation on the pleasures of booty eating. otherwise it's a pretty solid list, though!
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Thursday, 30 January 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
Old timey Ilx post up there
― calstars, Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
found the site with this list, last 3 are all legit but i don't buy the basement jaxx.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Thursday, 30 January 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
Neanderthal, solid effort, but sorry. That list includes cRIMson and Clover and pRIMrose Lane. Plus the two tracks by Leean RIMes. All of which are clear coded references.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 January 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
Fuck! How could I have forgot those!
I'll be punishing the intern who compiled this list!
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 January 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
And I have my doubts about "2551 Lights, Camera, Action! :: Mr. Cheeks"
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 31 January 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
1 Smooth Asscheeks :: Santana3 You Light Up My Ass :: Debby Boone4 I Gotta Feeling (It's Analingus) :: Black Eyed Peas, The5 Hey Jude (Can I Eat Your Ass?) :: Beatles, The15 Tossin' Salad And Turnin' :: Bobby Lewis16 I'll Make Love To You (By Which I Mean I'll Munch Dat Ass All Night) :: Boyz II Men17 Bette Davis Ass :: Kim Carnes20 I Want To Hold Your Asscheeks Open :: Beatles, The21 How You Remind Me (Of That Time You Ate My Ass) :: Nickelback22 Un-Break My Bung :: Toni Braxton24 (I Want Your Tongue) Truly Madly But Especially Deeply :: Savage Garden26 Every Butt You Taste :: Police, The32 How Deep Is Your Hole :: Bee Gees33 Bust A Ass Open :: Young M.C.36 The First Time Ever I Sat On Your Face :: Roberta Flack
I should have been in bed 2 hours ago.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 31 January 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link
found the site with this list, last 3 are all legit but i don't buy the basement jaxx
ooh, what site? there used to be a thread with other techno/trance tracks that sampled it on inthemix, but the new owners nuked the entire archive a year or two ago and I can't remember any of them
(also I've just relistened to Superstraight and now I suspect either I'm misremembering another Regurgitator song of the era (never got on with T-Wrecks), or maybe the idea was that Kostic based the pre-verse drumbeat on the wait sound?)
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 31 January 2020 09:21 (four years ago) link
https://junkee.com/fatboy-slim-greta-thunberg-melbourne/239874
actually they don't mention superstraight and the jaxx is their own theory, think they're talking about the video version but i still don't hear it.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 31 January 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
speaking of the new owners! that's almost certainly not the link you meant to post, but Junkee has been around less than a decade, so it's definitely not "their" theory.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 31 January 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
luv 2 visit websites that change the url when u scroll
https://junkee.com/billie-eilish-bad-guy-pedestrian-sound-songs/239769
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 31 January 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
ha ha, yes, ppl have definitely been picking Red Alert (1999) as a crossing sample since earlier than (checks notes)... yesterday
more hollow "ha ha" at a music publisher deleting two decades of user-generated content at the end of 2018 and then publishing clickbait that could have been better sourced using it, at the beginning of 2020
obv the ITM forums were nothing compared to the wiping of masses of original research and material on M&N, but it's a good thing that civilisation won't survive long enough for future historians to become frustrated
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Friday, 31 January 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
I lolled at "Every Butt You Taste."
And let us not even discuss Rimsky-Korsakov.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 31 January 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
Songs in which being a "Nineties Baby" is a focal point:
Victoria Monét – "90's Babies"Maren Morris - "80s Mercedes"Icona Pop - "I Love It"The Weeknd - "Girls Born in the 90's"Jay Rick$ - "Born in the 90's"FAVX - "Born in the 90's"The Cassettes - "Born in the 90s"
(I've never heard of the last few, but they came up in a search of lyrix for one of the others)
― Mocha Sauce (morrisp), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
Videos in which the singer's hair is cut onscreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgeqw7s00xg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27BvZLSzaz8("WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.")
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
remembered this from one viewing in 1992, but not well enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpeHwGkzpEE
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
I feel like there's an obvious one I'm forgetting -- where a singer's head is entirely shorn onscreen?
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
i want to say U2's "Numb" but it's not that
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
songs in which the drummer calls out "A B C D!" instead of "1 2 3 4!" :
A Love Bizarre
― calstars, Monday, 15 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Gunther gleephen glauphen globen
― Okay, Boomerang (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
speaking of lost-and-recovered ITM content:
Doc Martin: When we got to Melbourne, I remember we were all walking around the city. And the crazy sound in Basement Jaxx’s ‘Red Alert’ comes from the stop lights in Melbourne. You know that little ‘dee-dee-dee-dee-dee’? They recorded it on a little recorder.
― time is running out to retweet boing.gif (sic), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
songs in which a lil' additional guitar lick accompanies a lyric that implies fucking in order to make it more explicitly about fucking
Drive-by Truckers, "Goddamn Lonely Love"Bee Gees, "Mr. Natural"(and surely loads more)
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
Songs That Ripoff “Pachelbel’s Canon”
Maroon 5 - “Memories”Vitamin C - “Graduation (Friends Forever)”Village People - “Go West”Belle and Sebastian - “Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying”Spiritualized - “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space”The Farm - “All Together Now”Aerosmith - “Cryin’”2Pac - “Life Goes On”Green Day - “Basket Case”Big Star - “Blue Moon”
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 22 July 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
songs where nobody is eating ass or having their ass eaten
2584 Backfield In Motion :: Mel And Tim
SHIT!
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 August 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
Songs which have an intro which is an instrumental version of the song's chorus.
Reckon there are likely thousands of examples of this, but the one I was just thinking of is
Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
The very next song Youtube sent me to has this same thing
Dr. Feelgood - Milk And Alcohol
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link