Songs that actually, like, stop when the singer says 'stop.'

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Whether completely or for a brief little cleversmuggy pause before starting up again.

Girl Singing in the Wreckage by Black Box Recorder, Sixteen by the Buzzcocks. Others?

Also: classic or dud?

― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

ahem. Jane's Addiction, "Stop!"

― gabbneb, Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

MC Hammer - 'You Can't Touch This'
The Pixies - 'Where Is My Mind?'

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Built to Spill - "In The Morning." Classic.

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Ranking Full Stop," The (English) Beat

― Michael White, Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Like Dylan in the movies" by Belle & Sebastian

― Sami (Sami), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elvis Costello - "Alison"
Obv. classic.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Akufen - "Deck the House (Herbert Stops Like This mix)"

The bit in "Alison" will never get old, no.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Where is my mind starts when Frank yells STOP.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

King Crimson's "When I Say Stop, Continue" doesn't stop when the singer says stop.

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

King Crimson's "When I Say Stop, Continue" doesn't stop when the singer says stop.

..because they play for themselves and lack the ability to listen to anyone else.

― bahtology, Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

EC also used it to great effect in "King Horse"

Busta - "Break Ya Neck"

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a Pulp song which ends with Jarvis whispering "stop", but I can't remember what it is.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gino Vanelli, "For Your Love" (as in "I just want to stop ..." -- and, accordingly, the song stops for a few seconds ... then "for your love!")

where is Dave Q when you need him?

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm pretty sure Pulp's "Styloroc - Nites Of Suburbia" ends like that.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, I think it's "She's A Lady".

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

holding on for you

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Monday, 13 January 2003 02:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

The (very) short version of 'A Forest' which The Cure performed on that Re:Covered show.

― Paz, Monday, 13 January 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Chameleons UK - Tears

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

James Brown owns this thread.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

― Damian (Damian), Monday, 13 January 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stan Freberg - 'I've Got You Under My Skin'

(not quite the same thing, but on Golden Boy's '1,2,3,4', when Miss Kittin says "and I think I'd better shut up now", the track immediately ends)

― Jeff W, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Royal Trux 'Stop'

― dave q, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Garbage - Queer.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Fugazi.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Can't Stop" by That Petrol Emotion, from the wonderful "Manic Pop Thrill" album.

― Darren, Monday, 13 January 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

King Crimson's "When I Say Stop, Continue" doesn't stop when the singer says stop

.. ahh - but Robert Fripp & David Byrne did a song called "Under Heavy Manners" .. David says "Stop" and the song stops. Then he says "Continue" and, guess what it does ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 13 January 2003 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gun Club - Fire Spirit

― pauls00, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

colourblind james experience - dance critters

"the music stopped............and then it started again"

― joni, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

then there's that "Start Button" thing at the end of as heard on radio soulwax pt.2

― zebedee, Monday, 13 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Uh, Gino Vannelli ... "I Just Wanna Stop"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Giorgio Moroder-"Stop"

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cornelius: "Another View Point" and "Nowhere" ("Point! Stop the music...").

― Orange, Monday, 13 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, Belle & Sebastian have the "when the music stops...." STOPS... "da da da da da" in Me and the Major! HAHA! Look I can contribute to these useless threads as well - apologies if you said it upthread anyone...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 13 January 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Another Song", Swell Maps

― duane (doorag), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

King Horse doesn't actually stop when he says stop, just your heart.

Goddamn, I love Elvis Costello.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

U2, "God, Part 2."

Don't hate me.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 13 January 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

When does he say "stop"?

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 13 January 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Buzzcocks - "How I hate modern music: disco, boogie and pop, it goes on and on and on and on and on how I wish it would stop"

Genius.

― wiseblood, Monday, 13 January 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pretty sure there's a Momus song with such a stop. Journey To The Center Of Me?

― Jacob Barss-Bailey, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nobody's mentioned Erasure's "Stop!" yet so I will.

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Buzzcocks also have "Until the razor cuts" - Love You More, which is pretty bloody final -B.Fawlty(wrong thread)

― Steve Munro (Steve Munro), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 01:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I Hate The Kids" by S.O.A.

― Mark Groves (ujaku), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ween: "Awesome Sound"

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Curtis - he doesn't say stop in X.Y.U. so much as scream it near the end of the song.

― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Debbie Harry's "Backfired"

― Tony (TK-Irl), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Better than Ranking Full Stop has to be Click Click off the Beat's first album, which ends faster faster faster faster / faster faster faster faster / faster faster faster faster STOP. It's very abrupt and works well.

― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Austin - "Unity In Dub"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

dB's - "Black And White"

... which I'm listening to right now and when he did the stop thing I said to myself "there's gotta be a thread about this on ilm!"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

b-side to the first James single - "If Things Were Perfect"

― Bimble..., Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Cornelius - 'Fly' and 'Lazy' (to add to the 2 upthread)
Prince - 'Batdance' (though Michael Keaton actually speaks the line)

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

buzzcocks: "noise annoys"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe no one's mentioned Roy Orbison's Crying.

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Joe Jackson, Hometown: "And sometimes when the music stops...... "

Only on the live version on 'Summer In The City', mind; I recall that there's no stop in the original recording.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Ronnettes - Frosty the Snowman. Of course, it starts back up again, but...

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Electric 6 do the STOP!...CONTINUE! thing in one of their songs. It's a one-beat pause on the record, but live the band froze while yer man essayed an acapella rendition of The Greatest Love Of All for a minute or two before hollering "Continue!"

― gaelic club (kit brash), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Sebadoh "Take An Aspirin"

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

The Fall -No Xmas For John Quays (live "Totales Turns" version)
"And I've had enough right now. STOP-UH!!"

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Eminem, "My Name Is." "Stop the tape! This boy needs to be locked away!"

― mike a, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

when radiohead plays "i might be wrong" in concert, thom ends with "i really think we should stop". oh and with such panache.

― deanster, Thursday, 30 December 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"just lose it"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

That Phoenix song, but I can't remember the name. It worked very well in concert...

― jenn Kane (satellitesynth), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Motorhead - "Born to Raise Hell"

Motorhead, fools!

Oh, and Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is"

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Billy Joel, "All For Leyna".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Blur, "Essex Dogs"

― marc h. (marc h.), Thursday, 15 September 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

that madonna song where she says STOP BITCH and a plate smashes and the song ends

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

my god, did it really take us two and a half years to get to "all for leyna"?

classic when billy joel does it, because it's such a completely geeky and overzealous stop that you can't help but smile. dud when almost anybody else does it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Vanilla Ice, shoulda woulda coulda

― Aaron A, Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

classic when billy joel does it, because it's such a completely geeky and overzealous stop that you can't help but smile.

ALSO SEE: Billy Joel in Live at Long Island singing "turn out the lights!" in "You May Be Right", and then thanking the light op's for turning out the lights in the arena for a second.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Does Liberty DeVito (sp?) crack a rimshot as Billy says "stop"? Is he even the drummer of the band?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

liberty devitto, two t's i believe, does a really corny roll-like thing on the toms (maybe even a roto-tom?) as billy says "stop." which makes it that much more geeky.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

"Stop" by Howard Tate!

― Sean Howe (seanmhowe), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh, just remember another one i actually like: julie grant, "stop." it's a short, understated, but still clear and exuberant stop.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I came back to post "Ranking Full Stop," but Mike White beat me by two years.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

alexis strum "rock this disco"

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

well, upon listening again i guess it's not "stop" per se...but some unintelligible gibberish that i think is the rought equivalent.

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Bowling for Soup, 1985

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

me rankin' full stop. Full stop, me rankin' full stop. I said STOP.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Friday, 16 September 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Zucchero in "Il mare impetuoso al tramonto sali' sulla luna e dietro una tendina di stelle..." (italian song)

― blues, Thursday, 29 December 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Led Zeppelin - "Out On The Tiles"

― Mama Roux, Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, ELvis goes "Hold it, fellas. That don't move me. Let's get real, real gone for a change."

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link

When I say stop, y'all stop on a dime, when I say stop ya'll stop one time...STOP!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Electric Six - "Improper Dancing"

"stop...continue!"

― 31g (31g), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link

N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" Classic.

― Schade (Schade), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Have we really gone this far and not mentioned "Stop - Hammer time!"?

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 29 December 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

losing my edge

― lf, Thursday, 29 December 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Not "stop" per se, but "freeze".

EPMD - "It's My Thang"
Mannie Fresh - "Conversation"

And "silence"...

A Tribe Called Quest - "What?"

― R. J. Greene, Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Beat (English Beat, whatever you want!),
"Click Click"......faster, faster, faster, faster STOP!!! And then it does

― Richard S, Friday, 13 January 2006 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

This does the opposite, sort of
Gene Krupa w/Anita O'Day - "Stop! The red light's on" (the entire band stops playing and yells "Stop!")

― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy

See also "Stronger".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link

The lead vocals in "Stop! In The Name Of Love" stops for a moment everytime the word "Stop" is said. The backing track plays on though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

pyjama time

― LC, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Kylie's "Telltale Signs": "When we see all the telltale signs, let's...STOP! Our love slipping away."

PS: It's genius.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Prince 'Batman'

― Rich (Stinkin Rich), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

no such tune - "batdance"?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

As much as I hate the song, Love and Rockets: So Alive does this.

"Wish I could stop..." (music stops) "...switch off the clock, and make it all happen for you-HOO-HOO!"

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Any song performed live by the Jesus and Mary Chain in the mid-80s

― Niall, Friday, 13 January 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Delta 5 - "Train Song"

every time a song that fits this description comes up during random mp3 playing I end up back at this thread ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Of all these songs, "Batdance" is the only one I've heard that fits the criteria of the question. It's not songs that say "stop" in them, but actually end with the word "stop" - right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahAHAHAHAH BATMANstop.

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

dude things can stop and then start again!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

all you've proved justin is 1) you didn't read the initial post, and 2) you haven't heard any of these songs beyond Batdance.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 31 March 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Whether completely or for a brief little cleversmuggy pause before starting up again.

― musically (musically), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Royal trux - Stop (from "Vereans Of Disorder")

― mushiko, Friday, 31 March 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Do synonyms count? If so, "It's No Game (part 1)" stops when Bowie yells "Shut Up! Shut UP! SHUT UP!!

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

"Lollipop" - The Hidden Cameras. This stops when Joel shouts "stop".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Atomic garden - Bad Religion
Potters Field - Anthrax

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

three years pass...

Heard "Alison" today and wondered if there was a thread about this, thought of the aforementioned Gino Vinelli "Stop" and "Ice, Ice Baby."

― a hedge maze made of people (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Britney Spears - Lucky

(end of 2nd verse -- "what happens when it STOPS.......... they go [to chorus]")

― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Brazilian Grils - Don't Stop

― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link

N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" Classic.
― Schade (Schade), Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:19 PM (4 years ago)

??? i love this song and i can't remember this part.

related: The DOC "Portrait of a Masterpiece":

"Hold on Dre stop the beat, let me catch my breath
(Dr. Dre) (ayo man, why ya stopping that was funky)
To catch my breath
(Dre) alright you got it (yea) kick it "

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link

"Three Roses" - America

― Phil Will, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link

"Alison" as performed by Linda Ronstadt

― banjoboy, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link

at the very end of l-o-v-e by al green as its fading, the very last word is 'stop' then the fade stops altogether. but its very quiet though.

― Josh L, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Rankin' Full Stop by the Beat

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link

siouxsie & the banshees' cover of "helter skelter"

― kamerad, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link

N.W.A. - "100 Miles and Runnin" Classic.
― Schade (Schade), Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:19 PM (4 years ago)
??? i love this song and i can't remember this part.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 09:08 (13 hours ago)

"STOP STOP STOP STOOOOOOP!"

― oh shit a ◕‿‿◕ (sic), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Led Zeppelin - "Out On The Tiles"

― Mama Roux, Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:08 AM Bookmark

I don't remember this - does he say stop at the end?

― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 July 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link

Buzzcocks song is Sixteen from Another Music in a Different kitchen

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"Overs" by Simon and Garfunkel.

But each time I try on the thought of leaving you,
I stop.

(long, long pause)

I stop and think it over.

― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Thursday, 22 July 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPO2G6m746w

― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 22 July 2010 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Jake Bugg - "There Is a Beast and We All Feed It"

There's a beast eating every bit of beauty
And they all feed it

Stop
Moment, try to freeze it
They find and they don't seek it
At the bar but they can't meet it
Try their best but they can't beat it
Nice car, somebody keys it

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 11:31 (nine years ago) link

SOAD - Psycho

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link

Scott walker, "cue (flugelman)"

― wins, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link

b.o.b feat. bruno mars - nothin' on you

― dyl, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link

Gerry & The Holograms - "Gerry & The Holograms"

― TechYes, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link

Cursive - "Sink to the Beat" (off the verrrry meta- Burst & Bloom EP)

― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link

Sentimental Fool, Roxy Music.

STOP.

― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link

Indiana - Solo Dancing

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link

M.O. - For A Minute

― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Friday, 1 August 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link

Aqua - Be a Man

― MarkoP, Friday, 1 August 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link

I was going to say Arthur Lee & Love, "Stop the Music" but that stops before he says, "Stop the music":

"I just might uhhhhhhh...
*music stops*
...stop the music
ooo-wee good gracious
mighty mighty n'all n'all...
... n'all...
... yeah"

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Friday, 1 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link

five months pass...

uptown fuckin' funk

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 January 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link

nicki minaj ft. beyoncé - feeling myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pggWqTTy-cA

― lex pretend, Friday, 9 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

lola rae, watch my ting go

― socki fan taytay (wins), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link

j holiday "bed" :)

now stop *stop* and let me repay you for the week that you been through

― dyl, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link

seven months pass...

J Dilla, "Stop!"

TSOL, "She'll Be Saying"

― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Thursday, 24 September 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link

The Cellos' "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)" is real close; the singer doesn't actually say "stop," but everything does stop so he can complain that everybody else gets to sing all the good stuff while he's stuck with the chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82FP4LRtLa8

― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link

(One of the greatest singles ever, but be forewarned the beginning will make you cringe.)

― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link

Les Seldoms - Stop

― Vic Perry, Thursday, 24 September 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link

Mercury Rev - "Lincoln's Eyes"

― help computer (sleepingbag), Thursday, 24 September 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link

The Suburbs - "Baby Heartbeat" has a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZnv9yRprto

― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 24 September 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link

nine months pass...

Prince - Gotta Broken Heart Again

― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Sunday, 26 June 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAjwKiIqI7Q

― PaulTMA, Sunday, 26 June 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link

T-Pain - Welcome to Thr33 Rings

― Neanderthal, Monday, 27 June 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link

oh good, the lex posted "feeling myself." whenever i listen to that song & hear that part, i think of this thread.

― jaymc, Monday, 27 June 2016 03:56 (seven years ago) link

GBV - Weedking (?)

― Evan, Monday, 27 June 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link

How is Sam Brown's 'Stop' not in this thread?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 27 June 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GLg1voP8jg

― PaulTMA, Monday, 27 June 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rec4giPKutQ

― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Monday, 27 June 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link

eight months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cieewefcXh8

― no lime tangier, Saturday, 4 March 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link

six months pass...

man like me - "carny"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY2MZ4K8xnk

also one of the greatest songs ever recorded, incidentally

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 1 October 2017 11:32 (six years ago) link

Oren Ambarchi Hubris Pt 3

― badg, Sunday, 1 October 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link

Does don't come around here no more count?

― I Love You, Fancybear (symsymsym), Thursday, 5 October 2017 06:37 (six years ago) link

"Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider" - of Montreal

― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 October 2017 06:39 (six years ago) link

The Mercury Rev song wherein this happens annoyed me so much that I never paid any attention to them anymore.

― Valentijn, Thursday, 5 October 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

jessie ware - slow me down

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 23 October 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link

Percy Sledge "Sudden Stop"

― Ρεμπετολογια, Monday, 23 October 2017 04:02 (six years ago) link

"waitin" by kelela!

― joshywinty (josh), Monday, 23 October 2017 05:51 (six years ago) link

THe Birthday party Deep In The Woods ends with the word End dunnit?

― Stevolende, Monday, 23 October 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKh1Tbq62Lc

2:04

― Lee626, Monday, 23 October 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link

For some reason this thread got a bassline and little guitar jingle stuck in my head and I couldn't work out what it was. I first thought it might be by LFO (Summer Girls variety), then after ruling that out I was stumped. An hour or so later I realised it was Half Man Half Biscuit, with their song Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show...but this song doesn't say 'stop' at all! It stops, then says 'go' as it restarts. For some reason I got the two muddled. Anyway, I bet there aren't so many examples of 'go'. That Boredoms one I guess...

― imago, Monday, 23 October 2017 11:55 (six years ago) link

can't believe "Don't Come Around Here No More" hasn't been mentioned

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link

it has

― imago, Monday, 23 October 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link

just saw it, whoops

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link

To my ears the music doesn't seem to stop after singing "stop" in that song

― Lee626, Monday, 23 October 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link

yeah it doesn't

― imago, Monday, 23 October 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link

James - Skullduggery does the 'and then the music stopped...." thing at the end.

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link

I think google is spying on me. This was a recommended video on my feed:

https://youtu.be/hWdQPOjTk4g

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link

five months pass...

Taylor Swift, “Dress” (the final time she says, “...everything just stops”).

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 26 March 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link

Stan Freberg - "I've got you under my skin"

― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2018 08:08 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l9fmKnEKis

― PaulTMA, Monday, 26 March 2018 11:12 (six years ago) link

five months pass...

The Beths, Uptown Girl (at about 20 seconds in)
https://thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/track/uptown-girl

― enochroot, Thursday, 20 September 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link

Ha, I never noticed that before.

― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Thursday, 20 September 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

"Ranking Full Stop," The (English) Beat
― Michael White, Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:30 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

came here to post this

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

MJ & Siedah Garrett’s “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”.

Not in any big, like, show-stopping fashion, but still...

― breastcrawl, Friday, 27 December 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link

five months pass...

"Summertime Rolls", Jane's Addiction

― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link

Señor Coconut's cover of "Radioactivity": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_K2FasB02A

― ernestp, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 06:14 (three years ago) link

Vice Versa - New Girls Neutrons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qOO6KRZ8CM

― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link

Charlie Puth's new single "Girlfriend" does this, within the first 30 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRI0vr_zPQ

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 June 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link

bowie, Up the Hill Backwards, though TBF he yells "Shut up" not "Stop"

― akm, Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

K-Pop theme song to new cartoon We Baby Bears does this several times - though the music doesn't stop *every* time they do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4J75lmkO0

― gjoon1, Friday, 7 January 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link

Did anybody mention "Gerry and the Holograms" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUOBJ7vEAQ4

― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

bad idea right? does it.

― gjoon1, Thursday, 21 September 2023 02:05 (eight months ago) link

Mel Wynn and the Rhythm Aces - Stop Sign

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 21 September 2023 02:13 (eight months ago) link

Can't believe it took so long for someone to make a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1OaNrphk0

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 30 September 2023 05:26 (eight months ago) link

Should have remembered Take That - Shine

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 30 September 2023 13:05 (eight months ago) link

he also made an old video on the same topic years ago and explicitly cited this thread for it

― dyl, Saturday, 30 September 2023 14:54 (eight months ago) link

seven months pass...

kendrick lamar - “euphoria”

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:57 (one month ago) link

In the Art of Stopping is a typically smartass Wire take on this kinda thing

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:15 (one month ago) link

Does 'cut' count? Because Linton Kwesi Johnson/Poet and the Roots - Five Nights of Bleeding:

And suddenly the music *cut*...
Steelblade drinkin' blood in darkness

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 May 2024 08:13 (one month ago) link

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