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
New Soundalike
Did I Hear You Say You Love Me, Stevie Wonder (Hotter Than July)
Fool for the City, Foghat
New Soundalike
Too High, Stevie Wonder (1973)
Humpty Dumpty, Joy of Cooking (1971?)
bassline; both are also similar to Wack Wack, Young Holt Unlimited
New Soundalike
New Soundalike
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
Almost Independence Day, Van Morrison
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
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
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
Side 2
Fools Like Me, Lorenzo Lamas
Walk Away, Lisa Hartman
It's Now Or Never, John Schneider
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?
Date Added: 3/27/2010
You: Listen to These Records
The human-voice equivalent of Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing
Best Mandolin Album, Ever
I play 1, 2, 3, 8, 11 (12, 5, 7 eventually)
Side 1
Side 2
Date Added: 3/21/2010
New Soundalike
A Muse, All
Of Wolf and Man, Metallica
You: Listen to These Records
A Pair of Paradoxes
harmony all the way through
slow-build thriller
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 (De or Day), and more like u sounds (Run Run) 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 height” – 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”
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
Back It Up and Push - Jethro Burns
Back Up and Push - Bill Monroe
And, here is an unrelated tune, 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
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
“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)
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
Don't Look Back in Anger – Oasis
Pretty Flamingo – Rod Stewart (tribute cover of) Manfred Mann
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 – 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
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
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.)
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.
New Soundalikes
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
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
Strange refrain in lyrics
Stop Alternating – Vulgar Boatmen
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
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
Joe's Garage – Frank Zappa
Mexican Shuffle – Herb Alpert
some U2 song –
slow song on side 1 of Black Sabbath 4
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 think coming,” not thing.
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
Talking Dust Bowl Blues – Woody Guthrie
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
His eye is on the sparrow;
her foot is on the tortoise
