SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

Springsteen, "Janey Don't You Lose Heart" and "Take 'em As They Come" (same lyric, repurposed)

doot doot doo lookin' out my back door

The Colour Field -“Thinking of You”

I'm sure there is at least one thread for this but it's hard to search: is the 'I love you, I need you' and variants thereof the most used and abused couplet in music? (Prompted by listening to All Because of You by Leroy Hutson.)

Songs that alternate between 3/3 and 4/4:
Van Morristown- Celtic ray

Songs that mention getting high followed by some instrumental flourish or emphasis :

Allman bros- Ain’t wastin time no more

And I learned to play some lead guitar
I was under age in this funky bar
And I stepped outside to smoke myself a j (INSTRUMENTAL FLOURISH)
And when I come back to the room
And everybody just seemed to move
And I turned my amp up loud and I began to play (INSTRUMENTAL FLOURISH)
And it was late in the evening
And I blew that room away

(INSTRUMENTAL FLOURISH)

songs where you can't find what you're looking for

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2

― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, February 12, 2018 2:34 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Let's add

"Where is my mind?" Pixies
"Where's my jumper" Sultans of ping fc

Similar to a track we were on above—songs where the title almost, but not quite, matches the lyric:

Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody (the lyric is “You’re gonna have to serve somebody”)

Oh, sorry, we actually did do this—

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")

(Dylan and L’Trimm make a great pair.... wonder if any others deserve to join them in this pantheon.)

instrumental flourish after getting high - "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo"?

songs with names beginning with Mr or Mrs/Miss in which the name is a ridiculous , over-the-top 'character' name and or being used as a nickname to insult someone:

Helloween has a few of these:

"Mr Torture"
"Mr Ego (Take Me Down)"

Jean Knight - "Mr Big Stuff"

“Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”?

John Fogerty - “Mr. Greed”

I feel like "Mr. Man" has appeared several times

The Kinks, "Little Miss Queen of Darkness"

Killers,"Mr Brightside"

Mr. Briefcase - Lee ritenour

“little miss strange”
“he’s misstra know it all”

Ashlee Simpson - "Little Miss Obsessive"

Edie Brickell, "Little Miss S"

“Mr Clean” by the Jam
“Mr Shuck ‘n’ Jive” by Art Garfunkel (maybe the Waylon & Willie version is better known? It’s a Jimmy Webb song anyway.).

"He's Misstra Know It All" - Stevie
"Mr Big" - Free

"Mr. Sheep" - Randy Newman

Mr. Vain by Culture Beat
Mr. Skeng by Stormzy
Mrs. Officer by Lil Wayne

Mr. Blue Sky by ELO
Mr. Brownstone by Guns & Roses
Mr. Moustache by Nirvana

songs with somewhat pedestrian verses that ratchet up significantly in intensity during the pre-chorus/chorus:

feel like Accept's "Balls to the Wall" is the best example of this. starts out with a boilerplate opening riff, verse is pretty restrained, makes you think that maybe this is a weirdly subdued opener, then the pre-chorus starts and suddenly Udo is shrieking at you and we're segueing into an amazing gang chorus.

was just taken aback by that abrupt shift the first time, how awesome it was.

Mr Loverman by Shabba Ranks
Mr Mind Detector by Goffin/King (Everly Bros, Status Quo)

Oh wait i think that one's a Quo original and there was a different Goffin/King song on that same record

Mr. Suit

Two more songs about not finding stuff you are looking for:

The Divine Comedy, "Lost Property"
Van der Graaf Generator, "All That Before"

songs that explore the looseness of Lucys:

(aka some of the best songs in the world)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvQ4zRHMLo
Destra Garcia • Lucy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqT0q8iPQAA
Eltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)

Grateful Dead - Loose Lucy

Songs that contain lyrics with “sorrow” being rhymed and resolved by “tomorrow”

the acrobatics to draw on the phrase "beg borrow or steal" in the third line are even clunkier.

re: sorrow/tomorrow, this has to be one of those rhymes that shows up in hundreds upon hundreds of songs

From Autumn to Ashes did that shit:

You might be just what I need
No I would not change a thing
Been dreaming of this so long
But we only exist in this song
The thing is, I'm not worth the sorrow
And if you come and meet me tomorrow

Songs that use music/a musical instrument as a metaphor for being or falling in love.

We fell in love in the key of C...
You followed me down the neck to D

Wilco, Shot in the Arm

Toni Braxton • Spanish Guitar

Kathleen Edwards, "The Cheapest Key"

Ebony and Ivory

(J/k)

Never understood that Wilco line

He put his dick on the guitar while he was teaching her to play it

ABBA, "Dum Dum Diddle"

it ain't about the D

is the fiddle a metaphor for falling in love? i thought the idea was that he was literally so busy practicing fiddle-playing to fall in love.

wish I was dum dum diddle, your darling fiddle

it's a variation on the "play me like you play your (Spanish) guitar" trope, but who's playing what here?

Kathleen Edwards, "The Cheapest Key"

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:06 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

good one

Songs that begin with an instrumental imitation of a steam train starting up and gathering speed:

Funky Like a Train by The Equals
Europe by Train by The Divine Comedy