Songs which they completely fucked up for the single mixEmilíana Torrini - Unemployed in SummertimeHot Chip - One Life Standgot to be some better examples
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:03 (nine months ago) link
Peter Gabriel, "Digging in the Dirt"
... and "Solsbury Hill".
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 11:22 (nine months ago) link
CaaL, not a single but the mastering error that made Cold Spring Harbor sound like a Chipmunks record seems to be related
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:21 (nine months ago) link
^ 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.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:40 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:10 (nine months ago) link
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
― raised on roddenberry (unregistered), Thursday, 13 July 2023 22:52 (nine months ago) link
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
― raised on roddenberry (unregistered), Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:04 (nine months ago) link
oh wow
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:40 (nine months ago) link
makes you wonder if david crosby ever recorded "tetrad"
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:41 (nine months ago) link
12 Monkeys-core
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 23:43 (nine months ago) link
Paging Natalie Cole
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 July 2023 00:14 (nine months ago) link
would the Jig of Life count?
― scanner darkly, Friday, 14 July 2023 01:37 (nine months ago) link
'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
― raised on roddenberry (unregistered), Friday, 14 July 2023 02:47 (nine months ago) link
Songs with police / ambulance sirens?
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2023 00:56 (nine months ago) link
the best use of a police siren in a song, What is
― pplains, Sunday, 23 July 2023 05:13 (nine months ago) link
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 HolySleepyhead - Punk Rock City U.S.A.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:24 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
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.
― omar little, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:12 (eight months ago) link
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:36 (eight months ago) link
PJ Harvey - Dry
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 22:17 (eight months ago) link
Screamadelica sort of counts
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:27 (eight months ago) link
Mostly it doesn't count but it's still something
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:28 (eight months ago) link
Maybe this has been done before - songs that are about former band members who left to start their own bands.
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 7 August 2023 10:01 (eight months ago) link
Suede - Animal Lover is about Justine Frischmann, possibly Animal Nitrate too.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 August 2023 11:12 (eight months ago) link
Nine Inch Nails - Piggy (about Richard Patrick, who left to start Filter)
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 12:34 (eight months ago) link
! Really?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 August 2023 13:26 (eight months ago) link
if true that is definitely the most disproportionately butthurt of all the examples.
― a holistic digital egosystem (ledge), Monday, 7 August 2023 13:52 (eight months ago) link
Springsteen - "Bobby Jean" and "No Surrender" are both partly about Steve van Zandt leaving the band, though I don't think either of them is entirely about that.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 August 2023 14:33 (eight months ago) link
Elvis Costello's "How to Be Dumb" and a stray line in "Hurry Down Doomsday" are both apparently directed at Bruce Thomas.
That probably doesn't fit the criteria here but it's what I thought of. One could bring up various Lennon/McCartney solo swipes at each other as well.
― Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 7 August 2023 14:41 (eight months ago) link
Grateful Dead "He's Gone" is about percussionist Mickey Hart's father embezzling money from the band and absconding, which precipitated Hart leaving the Dead, though he returned a few years later. Sort of a corollary to the category
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
Songs in which the artist refers (by name) to a manager or other non-performing member of their “team”:R.E.M. - Little America (“Jefferson” (Holt), the band’s manager at the time)Billie Eilish - I Didn’t Change My Number (“Laura” (Ramsay), her assistant)
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:18 (eight months ago) link
Ramones - Danny Says (manager Danny Fields)
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
lots and lots of rap songs
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:37 (eight months ago) link
eminem's manager paul rosenberg is a recurring character in his catalog, for example. list grows even bigger if we're talking about label execs
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:45 (eight months ago) link
I believe that the main character in the Who's never-completed Lifehouse, Bobby, was named for their soundperson Bob Pridden (that's him in the photo on the back of Odds & Sods). But no Who songs have the name "Bobby" in them.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:52 (eight months ago) link
Always wondered what inspired this as it's something Blur did a lot more than Oasishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FRAeFyBX1w
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 August 2023 17:01 (eight months ago) link
Ray Davies shading various managers in the Kinks' "The Moneygoround."
― Josefa, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:05 (eight months ago) link
Marmoset - Record in Red
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:07 (eight months ago) link
Songs in which the artist refers (by name) to a manager or other non-performing member of their “team”:
Spoon - Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now, &Spoon - The Agony of Laffitte
― nate woolls, Monday, 7 August 2023 22:58 (eight months ago) link
I thought that was about an A&R guy.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 7 August 2023 23:57 (eight months ago) link
The Ballad of John and Yoko (Peter Brown)
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:07 (eight months ago) link
John Fogerty "Zanz Kant Danz"
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:09 (eight months ago) link
(Saul Zaentz)
would bet that The Beta Band Rap does this more than any other song ever recorded
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:23 (eight months ago) link
Zaentz was also a label guy (and not quite what I had in mind with the query, though this is def a category in itself).
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:33 (eight months ago) link
My fav Boyz II Men song is an interlude called "Khalil", which is about their manager that had recently been killed in a shooting.
Very moving piece of music
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:37 (eight months ago) link
Khalil Roundtree
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:38 (eight months ago) link
??There's an mma fighter called Khalil Rountree, but he's still alive, and never managed boyziimen afaik...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:53 (eight months ago) link
I was including it as other non-performing member of their “team”
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 02:32 (eight months ago) link
While traveling the country, their tour manager Khalil Rountree was murdered in Chicago, and the group's future performances of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" were dedicated to him. As a result of this unfortunate experience, the song helped advance their success.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 04:05 (eight months ago) link
Holy heck!It's his son....Khalil Rountree Jr...So strange....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 04:12 (eight months ago) link
Dante is a scrub
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 05:21 (eight months ago) link