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

Calstars: "I heard you say / that my love was an addiction."

there is the “heard you say / that my love was an addiction” line just before that

xp

double dose

Ohhh
My bad. I thought the topic was “songs about drugs but that present as love songs”

I thought the topic was “songs about drugs but that present as love songs”

A valid topic of its own! which would encompass "Perfect Day," "There She Goes," and "Can't Feel my Face."

Another: “Junkie Nurse”

Golden Brown

Ne-Yo • Because Of You

songs that should never be allowed to be used in Television or movies ever again

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Stones - Gimme Shelter

Hallelujah

^ oh god, yes

Continuing in the 60s shorthand vein, "Time of the Season" by the Zombies.

Time Has Come Today, also on the "time" tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW1d9p3ECIU

On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter.

London Calling

songs that have really wimpy voices over 'heavy', thundering riffs, utterly rendering the riff useless

Collective Soul - Where the River Flows

songs that should never be allowed to be used in Television or movies ever again

Fortunate Son

It feels like there could/should be a thread for this but I can't find one.

Songs where the sings talks over an instrumental backing for most/all of a track:

Robert Ashley - Private Parts (the motherlode for this sort of stuff)
Paddy McAloon - I Trawl the Megahertz
Jonathan Richman - Twilight in Boston
Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive
Jon Hopkins/Ram Dass - Sit Around the Fire

My favorite of these is that lovely Billy Bragg / Johnny Marr cover of "Walk Away Renee"

So... spoken word songs?

If that's what we're looking for then My Sister and Chocolate by Tindersticks.

Shangri-Las: Past, Present and Future
Lou Reed: Harry's Circumcision
VU: The Gift

BB King "Lucille" -- just introduced to this for the first time on NPR American Routes last weekend. Good one.

Tom Waits must belong in this list but the only spoken word that comes to mind is "What's He Building in There" which I don't think is what you're looking for because the instrumental backing is less of a song and more sound effects (as Tom Waits does)

Diamonds on my windshield

yes, right

Talking Heads "Seen and Not Seen"

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

88 Lines About 44 Women
Detachable Penis

(all the klassiks, lol)

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

A boy named sue

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte (Cave Man)

The Clientele - Losing Haringey
James Yorkston - Woozy With Cider

I think Rockwell is "singing," no(?)

I mean Michael Jackson sings, but if Rockwell is singing, it's of the Henry Hill variety

*Higgins

Isaac Hayes talks for over 8 minutes in his version of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" but the whole song is 19 minutes long

I think it has to be ALL talking to qualify. Hayes feels like the progenitor of a lot of this stuff but feel like he always breaks into singing at some point?

i always wished there were songs like the songs by The Manhattans where there's a spoken word intro, but unlikely the Manhattans, it just never ends, like you always think it's going to give way to a beautiful harmonized R&B chorus, but the spoken words get more and more drawn out, and 8 minutes in, the narrator says, alright, I'm bout to give it to you, and the song just ends.

SO ARE THERE?

Parklife!

88 Lines About 44 Women

I withdraw this (just revisited) - it's rhythmic/rhymed verse, or whatever

Does "Institutionalized" fit, or the sung chorus disqualifies it?

88 Lines About 44 Women

I withdraw this (just revisited) - it's rhythmic/rhymed verse, or whatever

Yeah, great tune though! I think sung chorus means OUT. By the rules I made up 4 minutes ago.

R.E.M. - Belong / (The non-Patti Smith parts of) E-bow the Letter

Another Waits song is "9th and Hennepin".
"Coney Island" by Van Morrison.
"Three" by the Cure and "Hot Rox Avec Lying Sweet Talk" by the Loud Family both feature spoken word buried deep under music.

...also "The Jeweller" by John Cale.

John Prine's "Lake Marie" doesn't count because the chorus is sung, but it's such a great song I wanted to mention it anyway.

Another John Prine with spoken verses and sung chorus is “Jesus The Missing Years.” And another Tom Waits is “Frank’s Wild Years.”

lol weird this is the 2nd time I've come across "88 Lines About 44 Women" tonight. The first was in a comment left by the song's writer on an article about the Butthole Surfers' "Pepper," in which he claimed that Gibby Haynes cited the song as an inspiration: https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/butthole-surfers-pepper-hit-song/#comment-5522363564

xp and yet another John Prine song like that is "When I get to Heaven," although it rhymes which might be another disqualifying factor.