Maybe not much escaping there. London by the Smiths instead?
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
Twist on it in Pavement’s Box Elder, MO. He’s escaping one town for another, maybe even smaller, one.
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:32 (one year ago) link
Smalltown, Lou Reed & John Cale
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:34 (one year ago) link
And another twist in the Jam’s Strange Town (get to the city and it’s horrible)
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:34 (one year ago) link
Some more candidates on this Steve Hoffman thread including one of my favourite ever songs, Lonely Days by Future Bible Heroes, though again there's not much sign of escape.
― Alba, Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:40 (one year ago) link
Continental edition - this stuff goes back centuries!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJCFBY6UmAVicky Leandros • Theo, wir fahr’n nach Lodz
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
Sundays - leave this city
― calstars, Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
Steve Earle, "Someday."
There ain't a lot that you can do in this townYou drive down to the lake and then you turn back aroundYou go to school and you learn to read and writeSo you can walk into the county bank and sign away your lifeI work at the fillin' station on the interstatePumpin' gasoline and countin' out of state platesThey ask me how far into Memphis son, and where's the nearest beerAnd they don't even know that there's a town around hereSomeday I'm finally gonna let go'Cause I know there's a better wayAnd I wanna know what's over that rainbowI'm gonna get out of here somedayNow my brother went to college cause he played footballI'm still hangin' round cause I'm a little bit smallI got me a 67 Chevy, she's low and sleek and blackSomeday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
"Backwards Town" by the Grapes of Wrath"Hometown" by Joe Jackson
The Kinks have a trilogy of songs about girls who come to grief in the city, but only "Big Black Smoke" explicitly mentions the "country life" that she is leaving. They also have "Village Green", where the singer "sought fame", then misses the small town.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
"Get to the city and it's horrible" also = Gram Parsons, "Streets of Baltimore."
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
Eilen Jewell, "Blow it All Away"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpoKzpQ4_E
Let's just keep driving you and meI like your soft voice and your pleasant companyWe can pull each other out of this dusty little townMake a new start somewhere maybe settle down
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
btw that is a pretty good song. I played it in a bar recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8l_od0G488
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Richard Marx - Hazard
― mookie wilson shaggin balls (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 May 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
My favorite take on this theme is Gerty - Lower Moreland. Such a great (autobiographical) name for a town one would feel the need to escape from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNBE7IqXg8k
― bendy, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
songs which are ruined by a singer singing in a faux-accent that's annoying as fuck
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
think that was just sold as "Sting's Greatest Hits" in other countries.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Green Day to thread
― Doris Day and the Time (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
songs where the chorus seems endlessly stitched together
example - Shania Twain - Man, I Feel Like a Woman
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 June 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
“cut to the feeling” has a similar feel
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Friday, 10 June 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Not sure if "stitched together" implies a negative judgment, but I'd say ABBA's "The Name of the Game" does this very well. The chorus has four parts (one, two or three of which could arguably be called bridges, but they appear after both of the full choruses).
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 10 June 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
"Take a Chance on Me," as well? (I didn't read it negatively, btw – I love that Shania song)
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Friday, 10 June 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
That's an odd one because the verse is the main hook, but the "other part" does have three sections.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 10 June 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
Live & Let Die
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 June 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
xp Not sure I get what you mean about the verse being the main hook; pretty sure it’s the big ol’ chorus that launches the song(?)
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
You're right, I guess that is the chorus, but I wouldn't call it "stitched together" because it's all one musical idea/melodic pattern except for the four bars at the end (with the spoken word bits).
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
Ah gotcha (I wasn’t thinking that the stitched-together pieces necessarily had to be heterogenous)
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure if I'm understanding this right, but what comes to mind is "Green Light" by Lorde.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
How about songs with awesome, multipart bridges? (sorry if I’ve already done this… I love bridges)“Father Figure” is the gold standard for me:https://i.imgur.com/HU4HEtJ_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Saturday, 11 June 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
I used to love karaoking that due to the bridges alone.
Good call
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
songs where the 7" version is a classic and the 12" remix is unspeakable and should never be played again
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
songs that are remade a million times, but pretty much every remake is based on one iconic cover of the song and not the original.
some obvious ones:
Tears for Fears - "Mad World"Leonard Cohen - "Hallelujah"The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd Original Cast Recording - "Feeling Good"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 03:50 (one year ago) link
“Hound Dog”
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 04:16 (one year ago) link
ahh yes very good one!
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
"Feeling Good" I guess is a special case because the song originated on Broadway and music lovers who didn't give a shit about musical theatre reacted to the Nina Simone/Hal Mooney version as if it were the original.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
“All Along the Watchtower,” maybe (a case where the iconic cover influenced even the original artist’s live performances of the song)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
Tainted Love.
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 05:19 (one year ago) link
"Blue Bayou"
"You Don't Know Me"
That is, I think most people cover the Linda Rondstadt and Ray Charles versions more than the originals
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
^excellent!
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
Not enough covers for this topic probably, but the B-side of “Blue Bayou,” “Mean Woman Blues,” was originally sung by Elvis Presley in the movie Loving You.
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 December 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
"Louie Louie"
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
"Fever" (Peggy Lee version is normally the one copied)
Frank Sinatra is probably responsible for many of these, e.g. "I've Got You Under My Skin." He was always taking tunes from the 1920s/30s and swinging them up and making them more fun, and of course that's the way most people like to play them today.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
a case where the iconic cover influenced even the original artist’s live performances of the song“Respect” Is another of these:
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T" and "TCB" are not present in Redding's 1965 version, but he incorporated Franklin's ideas in his later performances with the Bar-Kays.
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Sunday, 15 January 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
House of the Rising Sun
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
a case where the iconic cover influenced even the original artist’s live performances of the song
Billy Bragg has apparently sung the Kirsty MacColl verse during A New England since she died.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 16 January 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link
Songs which announce individual sections
Wire - Map Ref 41N 93W ("CHORUS!")Prince - Loose! ("GUITAR SOLO!")
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 01:09 (one year ago) link
Can I take it to the bridge
― The Myth of Sisyspacek (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 January 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
“Play it for me guitarist”
― calstars, Monday, 23 January 2023 02:47 (one year ago) link
“C’mon Steve, get ir”
― calstars, Monday, 23 January 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
Second verse, same as the first
― Vernon Locke, Monday, 23 January 2023 03:32 (one year ago) link
and that's a good line to take it to the bridgeand they're coming to the chorus now
― ledge, Monday, 23 January 2023 07:21 (one year ago) link