Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 20:36 (nine months ago) link
PJ Harvey - Dry
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 22:17 (nine months ago) link
Screamadelica sort of counts
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:27 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Nine Inch Nails - Piggy (about Richard Patrick, who left to start Filter)
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 12:34 (nine months ago) link
! Really?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 August 2023 13:26 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Ramones - Danny Says (manager Danny Fields)
― peace, man, Monday, 7 August 2023 16:34 (nine months ago) link
lots and lots of rap songs
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Monday, 7 August 2023 16:37 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Ray Davies shading various managers in the Kinks' "The Moneygoround."
― Josefa, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:05 (nine months ago) link
Songs whose title(s) were the title of the band's preceding album, rather than the album they appeared on:
Marmoset - Record in Red
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 7 August 2023 17:07 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
The Ballad of John and Yoko (Peter Brown)
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:07 (nine months ago) link
John Fogerty "Zanz Kant Danz"
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:09 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Khalil Roundtree
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:38 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
I was including it as other non-performing member of their “team”
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 02:32 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
Holy heck!It's his son....Khalil Rountree Jr...So strange....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 04:12 (nine months ago) link
Dante is a scrub
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 05:21 (nine months ago) link
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.)
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 05:45 (nine months ago) link
“Hamilton” would work well today.
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 06:08 (nine months ago) link
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
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:44 (nine months ago) link
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
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:53 (nine months ago) link
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.
― houdini said, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 19:55 (nine months ago) link
Same thinking as Enya!
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 20:06 (nine months ago) link
I never knew the lyrics of “Orinoco Flow” (beyond the chorus), but flabbergasted that it name-checks a guy named “Rob Dickins”!
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 20:10 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:05 (eight months ago) link
i know this happens a lot but can't for the life of me think of any examples rn
― budo jeru, Friday, 25 August 2023 19:34 (eight months ago) link
it definitely makes sense from an arrangement standpoint, in terms of adding variation without really doing anything new
― budo jeru, Friday, 25 August 2023 19:35 (eight months ago) link
I believe Geddy Lee does this on the last pre-chorus of "Freewill" by Rush.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 25 August 2023 20:01 (eight months ago) link
Songs which have amazing intros and slowly drop in quality until the end is either mediocre or actually bad.
Obvious example of this = Love Is The Drug. Maybe also Pyjamarma.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 25 August 2023 20:04 (eight months ago) link
Xp Probably some male/female duets work this way also, but I am having trouble thinking of which. "Up Where We Belong"?
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 25 August 2023 20:07 (eight months ago) link
Idk if this counts but Another One Bites the Dust has a similar idea ?
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 25 August 2023 20:11 (eight months ago) link
Cat Stevens’ Father and Son
― houdini said, Friday, 25 August 2023 20:43 (eight months ago) link
Not an answer but the q makes me think of “1999”
― calstars, Friday, 25 August 2023 21:30 (eight months ago) link