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

that choice really makes the song too.

songs that announce sections of the song

Can I take it to the bridge? Take it to the bridge!

Seriously this is one of my all-time fave gimmicks and I am unlikely to tire of it, despite some cornball abuses of the trope.

I was a child the first time I heard "Dance to the Music," and I confess that my tiny mind was blown by the way each instrument enters, proclaims its role, and announces itself. I was (and remain) deeply fascinated by the way rock music is put together in layers and the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.

All we need is a drummer
For people who only need a beat

I'm gonna add a little guitar
And make it easy to move your feet

I'm gonna add some bottom
So that the dancer there just won't hide

You might like to hear my organ
I said, 'ride, sally ride', now

If I could hear the horns blow

Listen to the voices

Yes, of course there are excesses. I don't think anyone still needs to unironically shout GUITAR! before a guitar solo, but sly lampshading of the trope ("Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago") is acceptable.

It is commonplace to say that a novelist is not supposed to intrude on the narrative ("Look out, here comes a metaphor!") because it interferes with suspension of disbelief.

But the ontological space of a rock and roll song is not so self-serious. We don't need to be lost in a vivid dream or seriously imagine ourselves on the deck of the Edmund Fitzgerald or whatever. There's no harm in breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging that you're making noises in front of people.

tbf i think it would be a problem for that song if Gordon Lightfoot had suddenly screamed out "ROCK ME, PEE WEE CHARLES" halfway through.

Your point is well taken, Doctor.

(That said, I would secretly be pleased if more twee indie folk artists suddenly shouted FLUGELHORN! or whatever. Even better if they don't actually have a flugelhorn.)

are there any songs where band members bicker mid-song

besides battle rap songs of course, or non-song releases like "Wibbling Rivalry"

lol Neanderthal

"Bobby. Can I take it to the bridge?"

"No, James, it's not time for the bridge yet."

"Okay, how about now?"

"Nope."

"Okay NOW can I take it to the bridge?"

"Yes, but only for eight bars. Not like last time, when you extended it for no good reason."

Memphis soul stew

Not mid song - rather at the end - but Robbie Williams and Jane Horrocks on the former's Things

are there any songs where band members bicker mid-song

On "No Xmas For John Quays" on the "Totale's Turns" LP, Mark E. Smith tells one member of the band, mid song, to "Fucking get together, instead of showing off".

that hot-mic onstage Eagles argument

also I assume we'd count songs where the performers are playfully clowning each other? ex. Bo Diddley and Jerome Green going to town, as the entire lyrical content of Diddley's "Say Man."

There's Bowie yelling at Fripp to shut up at the end of "It's No Game", but I'm sure that's not an actual in-studio quarrel.

Fake songs that were written for fake band biopics that were hits in the show/movie but sound like shit and would never be a hit IRL

'My Hometown' by The Black Roses.

Oh, biopic. Yeah idk sry

Fake songs that were written for fake band biopics that were hits in the show/movie but sound like shit and would never be a hit IRL

Isn't the correct answer "almost all of them"?

Tapeheads. Empire Records. Still Crazy. Spinal Tap. Light of Day. That Thing You Do. Rock Star. Almost Famous. Documentary Now. Dreamgirls. Inside Llewyn Davis. Fire Saga. Walk Hard.

There are only a few of these that are memorable, and only a very few even charted. I can muster some affection for "On the Dark Side," ostensibly by Eddie & the Cruisers but actually John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

For me there are two great fake bands, and they are both in Josie & the Pussycats: The Pussycats and DuJour. That music was spot on.

ALL OF SPINAL TAP IS MEMORABLE

Okay I will grant you "Big Bottom."

Yeah spinal tap doesn’t belong with “that thing you do” come on

I can muster some affection for "On the Dark Side," ostensibly by Eddie & the Cruisers but actually John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

i would think the fact that dark side actually became a top-10 pop hit in real life is pretty decent proof that it would be a hit in real life!

songs or parts of songs by major artists that sound like a fever dream of jon hassell's fourth world

the clash - sean flynn
guns n roses - since i don't have you (the last 40 seconds)
the stone roses - breaking into heaven (the first 4 minutes)
green day - extraordinary girl (the first 40 seconds)

songs you thought you hated because of the irritating way they were introduced to you, but later on you realized you liked

(and plz include the story of how you were introduced to the song)

for me...

Sia - Chandelier: I was in a MegaBus terminal at about 7 am, waiting to take a bus to Atlanta. The "terminal" was actually a tiny room that fit maybe 15 people. There was a kid across from me playing music on an iPad without headphones, at excruciatingly high volume, and all they were playing was Chandelier. for 20 fucking minutes. so I felt like I hated the song, but months passed and I heard it again and I enjoyed it a lot!

Wiz Khalifa f Charlie Puth - See You Again: I was in an AMTRAK terminal this time, waiting to changeover to next train, and this guy had this song as his text message alert or something (it would cut off after Puth finished singing "long day"). this dude was having a long text convo so all I heard for a half hour was "IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY". wasn't until I actually heard the REST OF THE CHORUS, let alone the full song, that I realized it was good.

in conclusion, fuck bus/train terminals

What are some tracks that are good for soothing anxiety and testing a subwoofer? I want to kill two birds with one stone

Unfinished Sympathy was the first success

A Tribe Called Quest - Word Play

Bjork - Headphones

Sing a Simple Song

Fucking Around in the Vocal Booth:

The Monkees - Gonna Buy Me a Dog
Velvet Underground - Temptation Inside Your Heart
The Beatles - That giggly, stoned outtake of 'And Your Bird Can Sing on Anthology

songs that were your introduction to prog rock

Genesis, "Dance on a Volcano"

i think it was this cd with lots of incredible stuff on it, i still listen to most of these songs all the time
https://i.discogs.com/MCSRVjH28KuUZ4PGaWGALN-U8vTmATFMDublg4ch8TE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ4NTQ3/MDUtMTU5OTk2MTY5/Ni0xNjcwLmpwZWc.jpeg

i got bullied so hard for listening to starship trooper and communion with the sun at age 9, worth it tho.

elp is the only one that never really connected

was thinking a couple of days ago, the first album i heard on cd was actually invisible touch. i didn't have a cd player, but you could listen to cd's on the library's fancy component cd player with nice headphones. the combination of the huge drum sound + hearing the peak of the waveform or something for the first time = the most blown away by audio i've ever been. the 2nd cd i heard was 'and the word was...' because the library had that too. can't remember why i was interested in hearing genesis at that age, but i didn't hear their prog stuff until many years later.

Probably Roundabout or Spirit of the Radio for me.

I don't actually think of Genesis as being all that progtastic. There are proggy bits here and there but from Abacab onwards they seem like a skilled pop rock outfit.

I mean the Brazilian is trippy and the outro of Abacab, okay. But those have rock cores. I guess I like Down and Out?

I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You sounds way more disco than prog rock to me

Hackett-era Genesis is definitely prog, it's mostly after he left that they went art-rock and then essentially art-pop then outright pop.

Trick of the Tail did have Phil on vox and it wasn't as elaborate musically as Gabriel-era but still qualifies as prog to me IMO

songs in which a formerly squeaky clean singer tried to be 'edgy' but the results are laughable

I nominate:

Donny Osmond - Soldier of Love

Songs which fade out to leave just one element on its own

Jimmy Young - Chain Gang
Barry Manilow - Could It Be Magic
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Faith No More - Epic

This is my favourite thing so why can't I think of more examples? Almost: The Pixies, Motorway to Roswell.

Queens of the Stone Age - I Think I Lost My Headache

Bowie's Five Years ends with the drum pattern on its own (which admittedly it also starts with).

Extra tasty if the last element left is one that you almost weren't aware of until the rest faded out...

Can the last remaining element be vocals? If so, "Hallelujah" by Nick Cave.

Isn't that kinda like the U2 shtick where they close with 40 and everyone leaves but Larry?

Also the burbly guitar at the end of "I Know What I Know" on Graceland.

Does it have to be a fade? In "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by Black Sabbath everything just drops out to leave the drums for a few bars

I was thinking fades only yeah. The Manics' A Design for Life is another which does a similar thing with the drums to Sabbath.

Band Aid 20 fades out to have just the chorus of singers and hand percussion. Remembering that, especially in May, is my cross to bear.

Extra tasty if the last element left is one that you almost weren't aware of until the rest faded out...

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