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

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

Mostly it doesn't count but it's still something

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

Suede - Animal Lover is about Justine Frischmann, possibly Animal Nitrate too.

Nine Inch Nails - Piggy (about Richard Patrick, who left to start Filter)

! Really?

if true that is definitely the most disproportionately butthurt of all the examples.

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.

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.

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

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)

Ramones - Danny Says (manager Danny Fields)

lots and lots of rap songs

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

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.

Always wondered what inspired this as it's something Blur did a lot more than Oasis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FRAeFyBX1w

Ray Davies shading various managers in the Kinks' "The Moneygoround."

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

Marmoset - Record in Red

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

I thought that was about an A&R guy.

The Ballad of John and Yoko (Peter Brown)

John Fogerty "Zanz Kant Danz"

(Saul Zaentz)

would bet that The Beta Band Rap does this more than any other song ever recorded

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).

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

Khalil Roundtree

??
There's an mma fighter called Khalil Rountree, but he's still alive, and never managed boyziimen afaik...

I thought that was about an A&R guy.

I was including it as other non-performing member of their “team”

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.

Holy heck!
It's his son....
Khalil Rountree Jr...
So strange....

Dante is a scrub

R.E.M. - Little America (“Jefferson” (Holt), the band’s manager at the time)

(Having become persona non grata, "Jefferson" changed to "Washington" on the Live at the Olympia album.)

“Hamilton” would work well today.

Songs in which the artist refers (by name) to a manager or other non-performing member of their “team”

Enya - Orinoco Flow (Rob Dickins)
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (Mario C)

And ofc Blur now have an an album named after Smoggy

Funkadelic, "Cholly (Funk Gettin' Ready to Roll)" (Cholly Bassoline, George Clinton's manager)

Always sounded like a made up name to me but he appears to be real:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cholly-bassoline-b0987885

Songs in which the artist refers (by name) to a manager or other non-performing member of their “team”

BA Robertson - Bang Bang

“Life was in a ruin, she loved Johnny Fruin”; John Fruin was the head of WEA Records in 1979. Very inclusive reference from BA.

Same thinking as Enya!

I never knew the lyrics of “Orinoco Flow” (beyond the chorus), but flabbergasted that it name-checks a guy named “Rob Dickins”!

Songs in which different verses are an octave apart. Either with the same singer or different singers.

(Correct me if I am wrong, which happens frequently.)

Bill Withers starts Lean on Me low, with "some times in our lives, we all have pain" etc. The other verses are up from there, e.g., "if there is a load" etc.

So Blink-182 starts I Miss You low, with "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare" etc. The other verse is up from there "Where are you" etc.

Note: NOT a key change, just the same melody an octave up.

i know this happens a lot but can't for the life of me think of any examples rn