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
Songs which don't care if you're black, white, yellow, purple, but are implicitly sexist:
Stevie Wonder, Black Man ('This world was made for all men', 21 red/yellow/black/white men and two women namechecked)Robert Palmer, Every Kind of People ('Whether yellow, black or white/Each and every man's the same inside')
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
Caribbean-tinged Nigerian songs where the male singer has a female vocalist extolling said singer’s virtues in a chant as the chorus or hook:Wizkid ft. Efya • Daddy YoRema • Beamer (Bad Boys)Adekunle Gold ft. Nailah Blackman • AG BabyDoes he come off as a dick? He may not care about that.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same:
Cannibal Corpse - "Unleashing the Bloodthirsty" (Album: Bloodthirst)
Mercyful Fate - "The Oath" (Album: Don't Break the Oath)
Slayer - "Raining Blood" (Album: Reign in Blood)
Annihilator - "Alison Hell" (Album: Alice in Hell
Pearl Jam - "The Number That Comes After Nine" (Album: Ten)
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 September 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (“Ava Adore”)
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Sunday, 6 September 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
ahh yes good one!
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 September 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Songs in which the singer misspells a word
― life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Sunday, 6 September 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Gram Parsons - 'Return of the Grievous Angel' (from Grievous Angel)
― panburger partner (unregistered), Monday, 7 September 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
also
The Gosdin Brothers - 'The Sound of Goodbye' (from Sounds of Goodbye)Simon & Garfunkel - 'The Sound of Silence' (from Sounds of Silence)My Favorite - 'Absolute Zero' (from Love at Absolute Zero)
― panburger partner (unregistered), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
album titles that are cobbled together from the titles of two or more songs that appear on the album:
Velocity Girl - Gilded Stars and Zealous Heart ('Gilded Stars' & 'Zealous Heart')Lycia - The Burning Circle and Then Dust ('The Burning Circle' & 'Dust Settles')Mary Hopkin - Earth Song, Ocean Song ('Earth Song' & 'Ocean Song')
― panburger partner (unregistered), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
Simon & Garfunkel - 'The Sound of Silence' (from Sounds of Silence)
nvm, I'm an idiot and the song is actually called 'The Sounds of Silence'
― panburger partner (unregistered), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
songs where the "titular phrase" is slightly different from the title of the song:
L'Trimm - Cars With the Boom ("we like the cars, the cars that go boom")
― panburger partner (unregistered), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it:R.E.M., “Begin the Begin” (“Life's rich demand creates supply in the hand...”) (Album: Lifes Rich Pageant)Bob Dylan, “Where Are You Tonight?” (“Her father would emphasize / You got to be more than street-wise....”) (Album: Street-Legal)
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same:Thought of another one of these:Unrest - “Imperial” (Album: Imperial f.f.r.r.)
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
and another:Cyndi Lauper, “He’s So Unusual” (Album: She’s So Unusual)
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Monday, 7 September 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it:...and one more in this category (although it’s more “direct” than the other examples):The Strokes, “Reptilia” (“The room is on fire, and she’s fixing her hair...”) (Album: Room on Fire)
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Monday, 7 September 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
another one of those "songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same":
superchunk's "like a fool" from foolish
― ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
Sort of surprised not to see Insane Clown Posse itt
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
Juggalo Springfield
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
Songs about headaches (this thread inspired by my current migraine)
Dylan, "Pledging My Time" Springsteen, "I'm on Fire" (At least, I'm going to interpret "a freight train running through the middle of my head" as a migraine)
Others?
― Lily Dale, Friday, 18 September 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqpXVAY3fI
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Friday, 18 September 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
boyz ii men, end of the road ('pain in my head oh i'd rather be dead')
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 18 September 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
frank black, headache
xpost wrong head
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 September 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it:
I realized that Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind (aka The 6th Greatest Album of All Time) contains of these songs -- namely, the lead single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
another one in that category:
replacements "answering machine" - "losing hope, never be together," in which paul westerberg's "never be" can easily be mis-heard as "let it be" (as i did, for years), which is both the album title and a pretty good response to the rest of the song.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
Songs featuring answering machine messages:
Papa M - Crowd of OneBlind Melon - Letters from A Porcupine
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
Songs featuring abusive answering machine messages which are actually tracks from another artist, though the group seem not to be aware of this
Placebo – Evil Dildo
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
Songs whose title(s) were the title of the band's preceding album, rather than the album they appeared on:
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the HolySleepyhead - Punk Rock City U.S.A.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
xxp (answering machine messages)
Thurston Moore - Queen Bee and Her Pals
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Btw - now I'm wondering if Sleepyhead did that as a deliberate nod to Zeppelin.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Elvis Costello sometimes had a habit of titling albums using a lyric inside a song that's not the title track (e.g. My Aim Is True), or a lyric from a different album, but he wasn't even remotely consistent about it
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
literal elvis example: "almost blue"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Yes. But there are as many counterexamples (Punch the Clock, All this Useless Beauty, This Year's Model) as to render the generalization false
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
was i generalizing?
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
this year's model does fit this one:
"songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same" - "this year's girl"
and this one:
"Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it": "capital punishment, she's last year's model" from "(i don't want to go to) chelsea"
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
Wow, sorry, I was going from sloppy memory and miscategorized This Year's Model for some reason. My bad. And you r cool, fcc
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Quite right that Almost Blue - song title but from different album
Punch the Clock - lyric but not song title
My Aim Is True - lyric but not song title
This Year's Model - lyric but not song title
King of America - lyric but not song title (and it's on a different album)
Imperial Bedroom - I think, not on the album but a bonus track?
All this useless beauty, however, is both the song title and it's on that album.
There are so many, I haven't thought about this in a while.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link