Mr. Suit
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
Two more songs about not finding stuff you are looking for:
The Divine Comedy, "Lost Property"Van der Graaf Generator, "All That Before"
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
songs that explore the looseness of Lucys:(aka some of the best songs in the world)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvQ4zRHMLoDestra Garcia • Lucyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqT0q8iPQAAEltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 February 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
Grateful Dead - Loose Lucy
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 26 February 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
Songs that contain lyrics with “sorrow” being rhymed and resolved by “tomorrow”
― calstars, Friday, 26 February 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
From Autumn to Ashes did that shit:
You might be just what I needNo I would not change a thingBeen dreaming of this so longBut we only exist in this songThe thing is, I'm not worth the sorrowAnd if you come and meet me tomorrow
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
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 DWilco, Shot in the Arm
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 27 February 2021 10:26 (three years ago) link
Toni Braxton • Spanish Guitar
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 27 February 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
Kathleen Edwards, "The Cheapest Key"
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 27 February 2021 11:06 (three years ago) link
Ebony and Ivory
(J/k)
― display names are for n00bs (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 27 February 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link
Never understood that Wilco line
― calstars, Saturday, 27 February 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
He put his dick on the guitar while he was teaching her to play it
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 February 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
ABBA, "Dum Dum Diddle"
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
it ain't about the D
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
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?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:06 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
good one
― Indexed, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
Songs that begin with an instrumental imitation of a steam train starting up and gathering speed:
Funky Like a Train by The EqualsEurope by Train by The Divine Comedy
― Non meat-eaters rejoice – our culture has completely lost its way (ledge), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 09:21 (three years ago) link
Kevin Ayers - Stop This Train (Again Doing It)
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
David Bowie - Station to Station
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
The Train From Kansas City(?)
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
(Good one for Word painting / “meta music”)
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
"I would like to know of songs about audio engineering": "Ask For Jill" by the dBs (mastering engineering)
"album titles that are cobbled together from the titles of two or more songs that appear on the album": Christmas and the Beads of Sweat by Laura Nyro ("Christmas in My Soul" and "Beads of Sweat")
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
The Juantrip album on F-Communications has one song that begins with a sort of imitation of a train gathering speed, and a different song about a train.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 11 March 2021 03:46 (three years ago) link
Rodgers & Hart "All Points West"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bC-vH2DnA
― eisimpleir (crüt), Thursday, 11 March 2021 04:33 (three years ago) link
good one - sounds like a precursor to the jaws theme!
― Non meat-eaters rejoice – our culture has completely lost its way (ledge), Thursday, 11 March 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
― Non meat-eaters rejoice – our culture has completely lost its way (ledge), Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom SpecialJustin Townes Earle - Halfway to JacksonMiranda Lambert - Locomotive
― Indexed, Thursday, 11 March 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
This may be too common especially in rap but I'm interested in Songs Not Explicitly About A Place But That Feature Lyrics That Hint The Characters/Story Exists In A Specific Place To An Extent You Think The Song Represents That Place Better Than Songs Explicitly About The Place
― Indexed, Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
any examples?
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
The Hold Steady's "Little Hoodrat Friend" for Minneapolis. I started thinking about this when listening to Neko Case's "Margaret vs. Pauline," which has the line "Two girls ride the blue line," which I assume is a Chicago reference?
― Indexed, Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
Is it? I never knew where that song was set, which I guess is your point (Minneapolis has a blue line!)
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
To be clear, I'm not sure about the Case reference - my guess comes from the fact that she lived in / has roots in Chicago and there are other Chicago references on Fox Confessor, like the intro to "Star Witness" - but this got me thinking about the prompt.
― Indexed, Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
Maybe "Echo Beach" by Martha and the Muffins, about Toronto? (They did put a map of the city on their album cover, and there actually is an Echo Beach now, named after the song.)
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
This may be too common especially in rap
yes, this is every rap song haha. "regulate" and "gin & juice" both specifically mention the "lbc"
― caek or daeth (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
I'm having trouble thinking of songs that strongly evoke a particular city or town without at least naming streets or landmarks (which even that Hold Steady song seems to do). There are songs like "Every Day Is Like Sunday" that have a strong sense of place but without getting specific.
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Thursday, 11 March 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
Then there's "Take Me Home, Country Roads," which DOES explicitly mention place... but it's the wrong place.
Bill Danoff was from Massachusetts, and had first considered "Almost heaven, Massachusetts..."
He was (the story goes) inspired by driving to visit Taffy Nivert's family in Maryland. In December 1970 the two of them sat down with John Denver in Washington DC to work on the song.
The line "Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River" always bugged me because those are mostly in Virginia (though a little bit of each does cross in to WV, so we'll allow it).
Hence: the song was inspired by drives through Maryland, mixed with memories of Massachusetts. It was written in Washington DC and prominently name-drops geographical features that are predominantly in Virginia. Yet it is West Virginia's state song.
― wake me up before you cuomo (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 March 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
Back in Your Life by Jonathan Richman and "Snow" from the movie White Christmas are both about Vermont without naming it.
― everything, Friday, 12 March 2021 05:15 (three years ago) link
Songs that were "jump the shark" moments for bands:
Megadeth - Crush Em
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 March 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
Songs which are deliberately set up to sound like the band are playing out of time until you realise it's all a brilliant trickThe Fall - I Am Damo SuzukiCrime - Murder By Guitar
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
PiL - Pop Tones
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
There's this thing called "A Day in the Life" offa some Bea'uls record, maybe you've heard of it
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
but that doesn't do that
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
every Chief Keef song but except it's not intentional
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
(batsignal sent, *sit back and wait*)
Song titles that are the full name of a (non-fictional) person:
"Tim McGraw" (T. Swift)"Pete Davidson" (A. Grande)"Cath Carroll" (Unrest)"Rosa Parks" (Outkast)"Clint Eastwood" (Gorillaz)
― best time to call is friday and saturday afternoons! (morrisp), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
"Jessica Simpson" (the Moldy Peaches guy)
― best time to call is friday and saturday afternoons! (morrisp), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
"Brian Wilson" - Barenaked Ladies
― Lily Dale, Friday, 23 April 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
"faron young" (prefab sprout)"lee remick" (the go-betweens)
― voodoo chili, Friday, 23 April 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
"Virginia Woolf" (Indigo Girls)
― Jurassic parkour (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:27 (three years ago) link