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

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...

OTM

XTC - Travels in Nihilon fades leaving only a static-y rainy drone

Similarly, Complicated Game fades to leave just the canon of Andy.

Aphex Twin - Ventolin

Bass in "Freak Parade" by Todd Rundgren's Utopia.

"life on mars?" does this, no?

Except the piano at the end is another take of the song, it's not actually a continuing element from the body of the song itself.

nirvana - on a plain

hmm i guess that's also what happens in "coffee & tv"

not exactly the same thing, but i love the moment at the end of "have a cigar" when the air gets sucked out of the mix and the volume drops to near zero

Hadn’t remembered this at all but I just happened to stumble on it in the wild in “Over the Hills and Far Away” - very simple rhythm guitar chords hold while everything else fades out and do a pretty little coda

Madness: "Turning Blue"

songs of archaeological importance

Steely Dan - Caves of Altamira
The B-52's - Mesopotamia

Spinal Tap - Stonehenge

king tut

"You Belong to Me"

See the pyramids along the Nile...

Peter Gabriel, "Digging in the Dirt"

Songs which they completely fucked up for the single mix

Emilíana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime
Hot Chip - One Life Stand

got to be some better examples

Peter Gabriel, "Digging in the Dirt"

... and "Solsbury Hill".

CaaL, not a single but the mastering error that made Cold Spring Harbor sound like a Chipmunks record seems to be related

^ the inverse of sorts to the Cure's Bananafishbones, which was mastered too slowly and a semitone lower, and not even corrected until the 2006 remaster.

songs of archaeological importance

In "Wondering Where the Lions Are", Bruce Cockburn mentions "thousand-year-old petroglyphs", but I think he's just observing them, not discovering them.

songs where the singer "duets" with their younger self in a way that calls attention to their growth/maturity and/or the ravages of age. Donny Osmond did this live in the early 2000s (before hologram concerts were really a thing 😔), but I can't think of any examples on record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi3CleKY36c

well here we go:

In 2020, Cat Stevens released a re-recorded version of "Father and Son". This version, which appears on Tea for the Tillerman 2, features the original recording of Stevens' vocals (at the age of 22) alongside the present-day voice of Stevens (age 72).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_H5XuIb5WM

oh wow

makes you wonder if david crosby ever recorded "tetrad"

12 Monkeys-core

Paging Natalie Cole

would the Jig of Life count?

'Jig of Life' would only count if an elderly Kate Bush were to re-record the parts delivered by the character's future self and replace the original vocals for those parts with the re-recording

(and I hope she never indulges in that kind of legacy-tarnishing gimmickry)

this Jacko Pepsi commercial is pretty poignant though. the ghost of baby MJ pops back into existence to sing a few lines with grownup MJ, only to dematerialize and leave his older self alone with his piano as the scene fades out

Songs with police / ambulance sirens?

the best use of a police siren in a song, What is

Songs whose title(s) were the title of the band's preceding album, rather than the album they appeared on:

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Sleepyhead - Punk Rock City U.S.A.

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Sinead O'Connor - the song "How About I Be Me" appears on I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss, and not the album How About I Be Me (and You Be You). Slightly different titles but the lyrics of the song include the parenthetical part.

Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction

PJ Harvey - Dry

Screamadelica sort of counts