====== Stalking Used to Be Romantic ====== ==== ==== //Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You?// (1928) (Larry Shay - Haven Gillespie - George Frommel) === === Who wouldn't be jealous of a girl like you and Who wouldn't be watching everything you do I'm on my toes, for goodness knows When you go out you're marvelous hard to doubt but hard to trust Who wouldn't be hanging round your neighbourhood ==== ==== //On the Street Where You Live// === === And oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you are near The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear People stop and stare, they don't bother me For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be Let the time go by, I won't care ... == == Date added: 7/23/2010 ====== Widely Disparate Same-Title Songs ====== ==== ==== Dancing with Tears in My Eyes === === Leadbelly Ultravox ==== ==== Mama Said === === Shirelles Metallica == == Date added: 7/2/2010 ====== New Soundalike ====== //Since You Been Gone//, Rainbow //Reelin' in the Years//, Steely Dan {{:since-you-been-gone_reelin-in-the-years.mp3|}} ====== New Soundalike ====== //Did I Hear You Say You Love Me//, Stevie Wonder (Hotter Than July) //Fool for the City//, Foghat {{:did-i-hear-you-say_fool-for-the-city.mp3|}} ====== New Soundalike ====== //Too High//, Stevie Wonder (1973) //Humpty Dumpty//, Joy of Cooking (1971?) == == bassline; both are also similar to //Wack Wack//, Young Holt Unlimited {{:too-high_humpty-dumpty.mp3|}} ====== New Soundalike ====== //The Flame//, Cheap Trick //Nature's Way//, Spirit {{:the-flame_nature_s-way.mp3|}} ====== New Soundalike ====== //Wish You Were Here//, Pink Floyd //Almost Independence Day//, Van Morrison {{:wish-you-were-here_almost-independence-day.mp3|}} ====== New Soundalike ====== //Fly Like an Eagle//, Steve Miller Band //Grandma's Hands//, Bill Withers {{:fly-like-an-eagle_grandma_s-hands.mp3|}} (oops. I think I did the wrong parts of these songs. Will remove this note when new version done) ====== New Soundalike ====== //Breakfast in America//, Supertramp //You're a Very Lovely Woman//, The Merry-Go-Round {{:breakfast-in-america_you-re-a-very-lovely-woman.mp3|}} == == Date added: 6/6/2010 ====== Two-Song Medleys ====== //Superwoman/Where Were You When I Needed You//, Stevie Wonder //Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding//, Elton John //Iron Horse/Born to Lose//, Motorhead //City of Gold/Fly by Night Lady//, Head East //Peace Frog/Blue Sunday//, Doors == == Date added: 5/2/2010 ===== Earlier entries ===== //Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen// -- Santana //Fallin' In and Out of Love with You/Amie// -- Pure Prairie League //Livin' Lovin' Maid/Heartbreaker// -- Led Zeppelin //This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide// -- The Kings //No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature// -- Guess Who //Prelude/Nothing to Hide// -- Spirit ====== Five Songs Called ... ====== //Candy Man//, Mississippi John Hurt //Candy Man//, Roy Orbison //Candy Man//, Grateful Dead //Candy Man//, Sammy Davis Jr. //Candy Man//, Sweathog == == Date added: 4/27/2010 ====== New Soundalike ====== ==== ==== //Crazy Train//, Ozzy Osbourne (1980) //Y.M.C.A.//, Village People (1978) == == Date added: 4/4/2010 ====== TV Stars on Record ====== {{:tv-stars-on-record.jpg|}} All's I can say is beware ye who enter LL's //Smooth Talker// I might have put up only that mp3, but for the fact that someone involved with the Hagman track got the idea from Janis Ian to use the word "debentures." There //is// a percentage in that kind of jive Side 1 Dreamin', John Schneider Ballad Of The Good Luck Charm, Larry Hagman If You Want To Come Home, Lisa Hartman Are You Lonesome Tonight, John Schneider & Jill Michaels {{:smoothtalker-lorenzolamas.mp3|Smooth Talker, Lorenzo Lamas}} Side 2 Fools Like Me, Lorenzo Lamas Walk Away, Lisa Hartman It's Now Or Never, John Schneider {{:my-favorite-sins_larry-hagman.mp3|My Favorite Sins, Larry Hagman}} Do You Love Me, David Hasselhoff ====== Portmanteau Songs ====== In which the song title is an internally referenced song (//portmanteau// probably doesn't mean this) ==== New Entry ==== //Oh Yeah//, Roxy Music -- "they're playin' Oh Yeah on the radio" ==== Earlier Entries ==== //Tennessee Waltz//, Patti Page //Kentucky Waltz//, Bill Monroe //Truck Drivin' Man//, George Hamilton IV ====== Charmingly Clumsy Lyric ====== "won't somebody stop and help a guy?" ==== ==== --//Hitchin' a Ride//, Vanity Fare == == "a guy?" -- you mean, //you//? you want me to help . . . //you//? == == {{:hitchin_-a-ride_vanity-fare_section.mp3|}} == == Date Added: 3/27/2010 ====== You: Listen to These Records ====== ==== ==== {{:pressure-cooking_labelle.mp3|Pressure Cooking, Labelle}} The human-voice equivalent of Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing ====== Best Mandolin Album, Ever ====== {{:dickdia.jpg|}} I play 1, 2, 3, 8, 11 (12, 5, 7 eventually) Side 1 {{:01_la_napoletana.mp3|01 La Napoletana.mp3 }} {{:02_la_siciliana.mp3|02 La Siciliana.mp3}} {{:03_guaglione.mp3|03 Guaglione.mp3}} {{:04_non_dimenticar.mp3|04 Non dimenticar.mp3}} {{:05_la_bellissima_bruna.mp3|05 La bellissima bruna.mp3}} {{:06_ciao_mazurka.mp3|06 Ciao Mazurka.mp3}} Side 2 {{:07_la_spagnola.mp3|07 La Spagnola.mp3}} {{:08_santa_lucia.mp3|08 Santa Lucia.mp3}} {{:09_vieni_sul_mar.mp3|09 Vieni sul mar.mp3}} {{:10_carnival_of_venice.mp3|10 Carnival of Venice.mp3}} {{:11_tra_veglia_e_sonno.mp3|11 Tra veglia e sonno.mp3}} {{:12_tango_della_rosa.mp3|12 Tango della rosa.mp3}} == == Date Added: 3/21/2010 ====== New Soundalike ====== ==== ==== //A Muse//, All //Of Wolf and Man//, Metallica == == {{:a-muse_of-wolf-and-man.mp3|a-muse_of-wolf-and-man.mp3}} ====== You: Listen to These Records ====== ===== ===== {{:kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3|kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3}} ==== A Pair of Paradoxes ==== === === {{:breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3|breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3}} == == harmony all the way through === === {{:no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3|no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3}} == == slow-build thriller ===== ===== {{:gypsy_moody-blues.mp3|gypsy_moody-blues.mp3}} == == Date Added: 3/13/2010 ====== Cryptic Soul Song Titles ====== ==== New Entry ==== //I'll Kill a Brick about My Man//, Hot Sauce == == Date Added: 3/1/2010 ==== Older Entries ==== //One Monkey Don't Stop No Show// -- Honeycone == == Written by Joe Tex ==== ==== //One Chain Don't Make No Prison// -- Four Tops ====== Question ====== Why did Pearl Jam do a song called //Even Flow//? == == Date Added: 2/24/2010 ====== Girls Talk, VU Style ====== //Lisa Says//, //Candy Says//, //Stephanie Says// == == Date Added: 2/20/2010 ====== Pronunciation Anomalies ====== The title, as it's printed, of //Da Doo Ron Ron//, by the Crystals, has a short a sound in the first syllable (Da) and o sounds in the Rons. Instead, in what you actually hear in the record the pronunciation of the first sound is more like a short e (D__e__ or D__ay__), and more like u sounds (R__u__n R__u__n) in the 3rd and 4th syllables ====== ====== "It's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout __a__ rock and roll" -- is there more than one rock and roll to tell the stranger about, or does the enormity of the task of telling someone about rock and roll for the first time elicit a pause ("about, uh, rock and roll")? ==== ==== --//Do You Believe in Magic//, Lovin' Spoonful ====== ====== "grandmas sit in chairs and rem-__o__-nice" -- long o sound ==== ==== --//The Beat Goes On//, Sonny & Cher ====== ====== "only you can-//d//-make" ==== ==== --//Only You//, Platters ====== ====== "I'll meet you at your house at a quarter to __h__eight" -- he means eight but for some reason says "hate" ==== ==== --//Baby We've Got a Date (Rock It Baby)//, Bob Marley ====== ====== "don't dizgard me" ==== ==== --//Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me//, Elton John I'm not the only one who noticed: Christgau: "Yes, I hate the way he says 'don't dizgard me' too" {{:pronunciation-anomalies.mp3|}} == == Date Added: 2/15/2010 ====== Question ====== Is the La's the start of Britpop? ====== Songs with Duck Sounds ====== //Birdman of Alkatrash//, Strawberry Alarm Clock (b-side of //Incense and Peppermints//) == == Date Added: 2/9/2010 ====== Back Up and Push Rubber Dolly ====== A fiddle tune can have more than one title, or two titles refer to two tunes that are very similar. Examples are: //Lost Indian// (how it's known on most recordings) and //Cherokee Shuffle// (how it seems to be known to fiddlers I meet); //College Hornpipe//, aka //Sailor's Hornpipe// (the "Popeye theme") From four great mandolinists, these are four versions of the same tune, with two titles -- //Back Up and Push//, and //Rubber Dolly// (the Jethro Burns is //Back (It) Up and Push//) Not much about Paul Buskirk appears to be on the Internet, but Deke Dickerson recently put up a youtube of Buskirk in a movie, and he's put up some other great pickin' http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=KoolKlipsFromDeke#p/u/21/8fWQBA-i0Tc {{:jethro-burns.jpg|}} {{:backitupandpush-jethroburns.mp3|Back It Up and Push - Jethro Burns}} {{:backupandpush-billmonroe.mp3|Back Up and Push - Bill Monroe}} {{:paul-buskirk-hot-pickin.jpg|front cover}} {{:paul-buskirk-hot-pickin_back-cover_.jpg|back cover}} {{:rubber-dolly-paul-buskirk.mp3|Rubber Dolly - Paul Buskirk}} {{:red-rector-old-homestead.jpg|}} {{:rubber-dolly-red-rector.mp3|Rubber Dolly - Red Rector}} And, here is an unrelated tune, {{:step-it-up-and-go_maddox-brothers-and-rose.mp3|Step It Up and Go - Maddox Brothers and Rose}} == == Date Added: 2/7/2010 ====== Keyboard parts that go like this ====== //Confusion// -- New Order //AEIOU Sometimes Y// -- Ebn Ozn //IOU// -- Freeez //Remember What You Like// -- Jenny Burton == == {{:iou_keyb_rhythm.mp3|}} ====== Gross, or unpleasant to visualize, lyrics ====== ==== ==== "There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirmin' like a toad" == == //Riders on the Storm//, Doors ==== ==== "She'll rock you in the night-time till your skin turns red" == == //Witchy Woman//, Eagles Date Added: 2/2/2010 ====== Impossible to sing to oneself ====== //When I Grow Up to Be a Man//, Beach Boys == == Date added: 1/26/2010 ====== Quotes and facts from Punk on 45, Gavin Walsh ====== {{:punkon45.jpg|}} ==== ==== "TRB's [Tom Robinson Band's] 1977 debut '2-4-6-8 Motorway' sounded like Status Quo with a middle class vocalist" (p. 99) == == Wm: Really?!?! ==== ==== Nipple Erectors (later Nips) vocalist Shane O'Hooligan, later reverted to orig name McGowan Riff Raff member Billy Bragg -- early 2nd wave UK punk Poly Styrene's orig name is Marion Elliott Tom Miller & Richard Meyers -- Tom Verlaine & Richard Hell Stuart Goddard -- Adam Ant Henry Padovani is the guitarist who Andy Summers replaced in the early Police == == Wm: a CD comp I have called Lost Hits has a band called the Flying Padovanis, song //Piu in Alto// ==== ==== "The US assimilation of punk rock would not take place until the early 1990s, when its championing by Nirvana would inject some ..." The quote "are we not men?" is from the SF movie //The Island of Lost Souls// The Corpse Grinders, w/ex-New York Doll Arthur Kane and Rick Rivets New York: The Shirts were melodic power pop, as were the Criminals, led by ex-New York Doll, Sylvain Sylvain "Nina Hagen ['s] ... main claim to involvement with punk rock seemed to stem from her Siouxsie-ish application of mascara. In reality, she was a young acolyte of the European bohemian/post-hippie scene, who enjoyed a close relationship with Dutch junkie rocker Herman Brood" Ruzan Pamean, "I Mlad" (Serbian), not the first punk group from that region, is "indicative of the post-punk sound subsequently epitomised by Joy Division." Pistols Cook and Jones joined Thin Lizzy on the Greedies' Christmas song "A Merry Jingle" (Greedies, formerly known as the Greedy Bastards) Spizz Energi: "Where's Captain Kirk?" Look into band: Kleenex Look into band: Skids (//Into the Valley// -- what does it sound like? what style is it?) Look into band: Swell Maps Rezillos changed name to Revillos to escape a bad contract Monochrome Set (is in Group Name, Song Title -- are they ex-members of Adam and the Ants?) == == Date added: 1/21/2010 ====== New Sound Files for Earlier Items ====== ==== ==== //Old Days// -- Chicago (1975) //I'm Your Captain// -- Grand Funk Railroad (1970) == == {{:olddays-i_myourcaptain.mp3|}} I love this one. The swirling string section is also in //Love's Theme// by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra from 1973 ==== ==== //Primal Scream// -- Motley Crue (not putting in umlaut) //Shake Your Body// -- Jacksons == == {{:primalscream-shakeyourbody.mp3|}} ==== ==== //Don't Look Back in Anger// -- Oasis //Pretty Flamingo// -- Rod Stewart (tribute cover of) Manfred Mann == == "so Sally can wait" -- Oasis "Some sweet day" -- Rod Stewart {{:don_tlookbackinanger-prettyflamingo.mp3|}} == == Elsewhere, the Oasis song has a guitar section just like the guitar in Rod Stewart's //Tonight's the Night// (a many-songed title) ==== ==== //Wonderwall// -- Oasis //Take Me to the Pilot// -- Elton John == == "but I don't know ho-o-ow" -- Oasis [leads into ...] "Take me to the pilot" -- Elton John {{:wonderwall-takemetothepilot.mp3|}} ==== ==== //Wonderwall// -- Oasis //Sandman// -- America == == "And all the roads we have to walk are winding" -- Oasis "Cos I understand you been runnin' from the man (that goes by the name of the sandman)" -- America {{:wonderwall-sandman.mp3|}} The next line of //Sandman// ("he flies the sky like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned") may result in a new category: Weather Metaphors Gone Awry. Luncheonettes can be abandoned (see Hall & Oates), but not hurricanes ==== ==== //Come Out and Play// -- Offspring //Runaway Boys// -- Stray Cats == == "you're under 18 you won't be doing any ti-ee-ime [time]" -- Offspring "you're only 15 and can't get a job" -- Stray Cats {{:comeoutandplay-runawayboys.mp3|}} Date added: 1/17/2010 ====== Most obstrusive drum part ====== //The Mountain's High//, Dick & Dee Dee //Money//, Flying Lizards == == Date added: 9/6/2009 ====== New Soundalike - from a reader ====== ==== ==== //Mercy// -- Duffy //Home By The Sea// -- Genesis {{:duffy_genesis_soundalike.mov|play soundalike clip}} == == Reader Ross contributed this clip and says: "The rhythm, downbeat baseline and base drum, the percussive keyboard, and even some of the repetitive intro vocal melody are quite clearly the same." Thanks Ross. A reasonably strong soundalike (how'd you know Genesis was my favorite band in high school?) == == And why not rip off Phil Collins's rhythm/drum sound? "In the Air Tonight" would fall into a category on this site which is unique-sounding songs, in the Performance, delivery section. == == Though I'm a big fan of Phil Collins's drumming, he (and Genesis) are not technically heroes of this site, but I can't resist posting his collaboration with Russ Ballard (songwriter) and Abba's Anni-Frid Lyngstad, since Russ Ballard and Abba ARE heroes of this site. == == (Collins was the drummer/producer of this epic collaboration, and Daryl Stuermer, Genesis's touring guitarist played guitar. Owing to the high degree of overlap between Genesis fan-dom and computer nerds, there's A LOT of information about Genesis on the internet.) ==== ==== {{:iknowthere_ssomethinggoingon-frida-edit.mp3|I Know There's Something Going On-Frida-EDIT.MP3}} == == And I'll post Phil Collins's amazing drum freakout in the second half of Nuclear Burn from Brand X's first album Unorthodox Behavior. Brand X was a fusion band side project of Collins's. The first album is outstanding, and the second album too had a lot of great moments. ==== ==== {{:nuclearburn-brandx-edit.mp3|Nuclear Burn-Brand X-EDIT.MP3}} ====== New Soundalikes ====== ==== ==== //Tighter, Tighter// -- Alive & Kicking //Your Saving Grace// -- Steve Miller Band {{:tighter-yoursavinggrace.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == the intros of these sound the same (this is just an excuse to mention this superb Steve Miller Band song, written and sung by drummer Tim Davis. The main part of the song chugs along, and then that trippy breakdown) ==== ==== //1979// -- Smashing Pumpkins //Harborcoat// -- R.E.M == == "she ... don't even try" -- Smashing Pumpkins "she's ... comin' from the harborcoat" -- R.E.M. == == Date Added: 3/25/2008 ====== Questions ====== Other than that it's obvious, why //do// a lot of songs about jail have a homosexual undercurrent?, the ready example: "Jailhouse Rock", but also "Rubber Bullets" (10cc) (rubber? effeminate singing). What's paradoxical about "Me and Mrs. Jones"? Mrs. Jones isn't Mrs. Jones's real name ====== New Sound Files for Earlier Items ====== Here are some items from earlier that didn't have sound files ====== "Goony" singing style ====== ==== ==== //Highwire// -- Linda Carr {{:highwire-lindacarr-edit.mp3|play Highwire-LindaCarr-EDIT.MP3}} == == My mother used to say, "so and so is goony" or "don't be goony," which expresses well the way Carr pronounces "highwire," essentially as "how are you." ====== Observation ====== "Nice and Slow" Jesse Green from double cd Let's Go Disco has Herb Alpert-style horn fills, sublime {{:niceandslow-jessegreen-edit.mp3|play NiceAndSlow-JesseGreen-EDIT.MP3}} ====== Strange refrain in lyrics ====== ==== ==== //Stop Alternating// -- Vulgar Boatmen {{:stop-alternating-vulgarboatmen-edit.mp3|play Stop-Alternating-VulgarBoatmen-EDIT.MP3}} == == In addition to the refrain, "stop alternatin," this song uses the word "vacillation." This is the only song by this group I know (I have it on a promotional comp), but I like it. == == Date Added: 8/15/2007 ====== Stuff from readers ====== I got a major spike in traffic on this site a couple weeks ago, with the Avril Lavigne-Rubinoos controversy.* My site got linked to from a rollingstone.com story on the subject, and in addition to the traffic I got some nice e-mails from readers. ==== ==== How do I add stuff to your website, Eye Eee, bands named after that last name of the "talent" ............ Travers (Randy Travers), Winger (Kip Winger), Vandenberg (Adrien VandenBerg), Montrose (Ronnie Montrose). Or Brothers ......... why art thou????.......... Nelson ......... Van Halen. etc???? Wm's comments: Good categories ==== ==== I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you're mishearing a Bob Seger lyric. He's actually saying: she had been born with a face that Would let her get her way Completely changes it, right? I think this might be a new category for you -- the Lyric I was Hearing Is Better than the Actual Lyric Wm's comments: This reader really groks what I'm doing here ==== ==== I don't see these two on your list, and I am amazed by the similarity of the two. Track #8 in Fuel's Natural Selection album, "Most of All" and U2's "With or Without You." Almost exactly the same at the beginning. Just thought you might find it interesting. Wm's comments: I've been a moderate fan of U2 since the beginning. I knew "I Will Follow" and got my favorite alb of theirs, October, when it came out. However, I'm quite dismayed by how pervasive U2's influence has been. In a trend growing since the 80s, so many bands (important and un) sing like Bono, or the guitar is like the Edge, or both. In copying U2, these bands are not doing themselves, nor us, the poor listeners, any favors. ==== ==== "The Only One I Know" Charlatans UK 1990 rips off "Midnight Rider" Allman Brothers Band 1970 Wm's comments: In terms of finding something to rip off, one could definitely do a lot worse. I didn't know the Charlatans song, nor the Charlatans at all. I listened to the song and didn't hear the Allman Bros in it, but since the main "riff/groove" of the Charl. song is the same as Deep Purple's Hush (& the Joe South orig.), I wonder if that's the song the reader meant. ==== ==== "Songs with simulated sex sounds" category. "Love is a social disease" by Bon Jovi has a intro full of moaning and groaning. I think it was on their 3rd or 4th album Songs that have sex sounds: "Do Me Baby" by Prince and "Drive" by Melissa Ferrick. Also Corey Hart's song, "It Ain't Enough": "it ain't enough for you" sounds like "that enema for you," which is kinda funny when it keeps repeating. *Not to toot my own horn, but since I do know the Rubinoos song (though I don't have it, only the second alb), I did recognize the similarity when I first heard the Avril Lavigne track ====== On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, err, the Psychedelic Furs ====== === Lyrical tics === "Stupid" is, like, the Psychedelic Furs' favorite adjective. Below are the "stupid"-containing songs and lines, all from the first album == == INDIA 'Stupid on the carpet floor' 'Stupid on the carpet floor' 'This is for the discotheque / This is stupid I object' SISTER EUROPE 'Stupid on a steinway' 'The radio upon the floor / Is stupid, it plays Aznavour' 'Even dreams must fall to rules / So stupidly' FALL 'Sail upon the stupid sea' 'Parties for our stupid friends' 'We will live our stupid dream' 'Flowers for our stupid friends' 'Parties for our stupid friends' 'We will live our stupid dream' WE LOVE YOU 'We are so stupid, we all dream' FLOWERS 'And out of him came stupid light' === What do these lyrics mean? === == == "Paint me like the shirt I'm in" == == //Sister Europe// -- Psychedelic Furs === What's up with the blue cars in "We Love You"? === == == 'I'm in love with your blue cars' == == . . . == == 'Love is just a car like you' 'That turns so blue and turns so blue' 'No blue cars will run my world' == == Date Added: 10/31/2006 ====== Confusing lyrics that use the word "confusing" ====== ==== ==== //I Want to Tell You// -- Beatles == == "So if you think that I'm unkind / It's only me and not my mind . . . [long pause makes you think a new line is starting] that is confusing things." "That is a confusing thing" would make sense as the third line. Only once the hearer recognizes that a singular to plural error like that wouldn't happen in this context, do we take the next step of recognizing that the third line is a continuation of the second. Ain't interpretation a bitch? ====== New Soundalike ====== ==== ==== //Urban Guerilla// -- Hawkwind //Search & Destroy// -- Iggy & the Stooges == == Is it possible this is a real rip-off? ====== By extension ... ====== ==== ==== //Put a Little Love in Me// -- Delegation == == "I was sent here to ask you to put a little love in me" == == Date Added: 1/1/2006 ====== People I get confused (honk if you do too) ====== ==== Doo-wop white singer cluster ==== Jay Black, (name changed from David Blatt), big-voiced, white singer of Jay & The Americans, a 50s-60s bridging group. Black replaced group-founder singer John "Jay" Traynor who sang "She Cried." Jay Black sang the group's biggest song "Come a Little Bit Closer" and also "Cara Mia" Johnny Maestro (& The Crests) (& The Brooklyn Bridge), big-voiced, white singer. Maestro also bridged the 50s-60s in these two groups, singing "Sixteen Candles" and "Step by Step" for the Crests and "The Worst That Could Happen" for the Brooklyn Bridge. The 50s hits of these groups are typical simplistic teen songs, whereas their 60s entries "Come a Little Bit Closer" and "The Worst That Could Happen" are high-concept lyrically ambitious songs. Also I can't keep the two straight when they appear on oldies revival PBS shows. == == Date Added: 12/27/2005 ====== Songs with simulated (we hope) sex sounds ====== ==== Female ==== ==== ==== //Lazy Lagoon// -- Anjali == == From Real Fidelity comp. ====== Songs with bad grammar ====== ==== Misc grammar problems ==== ==== ==== //Don't Make the Same Mistake as I Did// -- Johnny Kidd == == Date Added: 12/16/2005 ====== A long time in the rehearsal studio ====== ==== ==== //Hearts of Stone// -- Charms == == Repetitions of "no" = 14, in two different places = 28 ==== ==== //Ain't No Sunshine// -- Bill Withers == == Repetitions of "I know" = 24 ==== ==== //Ain't No Sunshine// -- Al Jarreau == == Repetitions of "I know" = ?, probably 24 like Bill Withers's ==== ==== //Satisfaction// -- Devo == == Repetitions of "baby" = 32 == == I'll let a commenter (hello, are you out there?) do Nobody But Me by the Human Beinz == == Date Added: 12/6/2005 ====== Songs where they speak French in them ====== ==== ==== //Psycho Killer// -- Talking Heads == == Credit: Thanks, Colin == == Date Added: 12/4/2005 ====== In which a common phrase is (annoyingly) misused (Lyrics chapter) ====== "Little Red Book" Love, Manfred Mann, written by Bacharach & David (also to go in Song Titles) The common expression is "little //black// book." ====== Songs with chicken sounds in them ====== ==== ==== //Cissy Strut// -- The Meters ====== Late '70s early '80s reggae pervasiveness ====== ==== ==== //(What a) Wonderful World// -- Bryan Ferry == == Actually has a calypso element, with steel drums == == Date Added: 11/14/2005 ====== Analysis of lyrics: Plush, Stone Temple Pilots ====== One of the reasons I wanted to do this site was that years ago I would go on the Internet looking to see that others shared my perplexed dismay verging into alarm that the lyrics of this song are "I believe when the dogs do smell her, will she smell alone." (Not to mention being ungrammatical in a few ways.) When searching several years ago for explanations/interpretations of this song the best I could come up with was fansites where the Leslie Fiedlers of their time decided it was "a song Scott Weiland wrote about his girlfriend." Yeah, it was commonplace in 90s relationships to sic a pack of dogs on your girlfriend so they could smell whether she'd really "been alone," as she so innocently claimed. (And how were the dogs supposed to communicate their findings to Scott?) I'm pleased to report, though, that since my original research (did I say that was 4 or 5 years ago?), the level of discourse on the Web has risen. In the entries below I found at www.lyrical-interpretations.com there's some mention of the dogs. ==== ==== == == **e5rtt** he could be refering to his freinds in the song, for when he sings when the dogs do find her he could mean when his friends do find her. Also when he sings the times a wasted go he could mean hangin with his freinds doing nothing. **This song is about "hooking up"** I think that this song is about sex. When he sings "and I feel times a wasted go - where ya going to tomorrow". It's like he is saying - Why waste time, lets get together tomorrow. Then "I see that these are lies to come - would you even care". He is saying that he already knows that this affair will end badly, but who cares? Cuz "I feel it". I think the referral to dogs smelling her is sexual, like dogs sniffing for a partner. Then "I think that so much depends on the weather, so is it raining in your bedroom". It is like he is saying let's not make small talk about the weather, lets get to your bedroom. --Linda A.S.W. **thoughts of a serial killer?** perfect example of killer (no pun intended) music w/unnerving lyrics. irony rules here: musically upbeat/driving, but lyrically dark. great metaphors going on: wasted/wasting time; eyes of disarray; mask (one you wear for others or society; one that others or society wear(s);and one you don't even know you have on) = hints of serial killer mentality; dogs/smell/find her/alone? = victim/possibly multiples. whoa - maybe too much CSI/Cold Case Files? but also could be just a protest against society/status quo = why look forward to tomorrow when everything is fake and a lie? sorta like the Eagles' Hotel California: either a sinister song about satanic rituals or about the decadence of Hollywood. And there's a veritable Algonquin Round Table going on at [[http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3422|http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3422]] == == Date Added: 11/10/2005 ====== Younger Brothers' Bands ====== ==== ==== AC/DC (Angus Young) ==== ==== Easybeats, Flash and the Pan (George Young) ==== ==== .38 Special (Donnie Van Zant) ==== ==== Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant) ==== ==== Fabulous Thunderbirds (Jimmie Vaughan) ==== ==== Stevie Ray Vaughan == == I know, easy, but so what? ====== Album covers that say "Play this album loud" or some variation ====== ==== ==== Hot Tuna, America's Choice: "Warning: This album to be played at full volume for maximum effect" == == On the front of the album, no less (great cover by the way) ====== Under-utilized Lyrical Subject Matter ====== ==== ==== "Got a funky walk / In his little **orthopedic shoes**" == == //Rockin' Roll Baby// -- Stylistics ====== A Backwards-Detective Soundalike Story ====== ==== ==== //Oh Let the Sun Shine In// -- Pebbles (?), on The Flintstones //Silver Bell// -- Doc Williams ====== Country Song Idea ====== ==== ==== //A Bad Time Was Had by All// ====== New Soundalikes ====== ==== ==== //Fast as You Can// -- Dwight Yoakam //Ballad of John and Yoko// -- Beatles {{:fastasyou-balladofjohnandyoko.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ==== ==== //Joe's Garage// -- Frank Zappa //Mexican Shuffle// -- Herb Alpert ==== ==== some U2 song -- slow song on side 1 of Black Sabbath 4 ==== ==== //The Way// -- Fastball //Delilah// -- Tom Jones {{:theway-delilah.mp3|play soundalike clip}} ==== ==== //The Way// -- Fastball //It Would Take a Strong Strong Man// -- Rick Astley {{:theway-itwouldtakeastrongstrongman.mp3|play soundalike clip}} == == Date Added: 11/1/2005 ====== New Soundalikes ====== ==== ==== //Bad Wisdom// -- Suzanne Vega //Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald// -- Gordon Lightfoot ==== ==== //Space Truckin'// -- Deep Purple //Down on the Street// -- Stooges ==== ==== //Soul Finger// -- Bar-Kays, others //Lucille// -- Little Richard == == Little Richard: "Please come back where you belong" ==== ==== //More Than a Feeling// -- Boston //Words// -- Bee Gees == == "It's only words, and words are all I have / to take your heart away" leads into high, squeaky guitar part of More, right before the descending thing, coming out of the verse ====== Have you heard? ====== ==== ==== //Wind Beneath My Wings// -- Gladys Knight & The Pips (1983) ==== ==== //Wind Beneath My Wings// -- Lee Greenwood (1984) == == To go in Covers ====== In which a common phrase is (annoyingly) misused (Lyrics chapter) ====== "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" Judas Priest. (also to go in Song Titles) The common expression is "you've got another thin//k// coming," not thin//g//. ====== Possible R&B influence on early reggae ====== ==== ==== //Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth// -- Jimmy Reed ==== ==== //(If You Cry) True Love, True Love// -- Drifters ==== ==== Reed from tape, Drifters from Pomus & Shuman comp ====== Weak insults ====== ==== ==== //Big Boss Man// -- Jimmy Reed ==== ==== "You ain't so big, you just talk that's all" == == that may be, but I can still fire your sorry ass ==== ==== //Sweet Home Alabama// -- Lynyrd Skynyrd ==== ==== "Hope Neil Young will remember / A southern man don't need him round anyhow" == == After having the whole ethos, history, and self-image of southerners hung out to dry by Neil Young in "Southern Man" the best comeback the self-appointed defenders of the south's virtue can come up with is the equivalent of "yeah, well nuts to you too" ====== Talkin' blues ====== In the grand tradition of the Talkin Blues that Dylan made several of, imitating Woody Guthrie, and just for good measure, one by Woody himself ==== ==== //Radar Blues// -- Coleman Wilson {{:radarblues-colemanwilson.mp3|play mp3}} ==== ==== //Talking Dust Bowl Blues// -- Woody Guthrie {{:talkingdustbowlblues-woodyguthrie.mp3|play mp3}} ====== Things we may recognize only subliminally ====== Steve Perry's solo hit title rhymes with his last name: "Oh Sherrie" Hipgnosis album covers that are mostly white: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here; Led Zeppelin, Presence ====== Band where a (somewhat) bad-voiced singer dominates or gets more play relative to a better-voiced singing member of the group ====== Or, at least, there's some kind of discrepancy between singers and how much "play" they get in the group ==== ==== Squeeze == == Okay, Difford's voice is admittedly inferior, so he can't legitimately claim 50/50 but he should get more than one per album or one per side. I like his voice and think it's interesting. I'm sure there's even kneejerk contrarians out there who would say his voice is superior to Tilbrook's