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-two years ago)

ahem. Jane's Addiction, "Stop!"

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

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

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

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

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

"Ranking Full Stop," The (English) Beat

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

"Like Dylan in the movies" by Belle & Sebastian

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

Elvis Costello - "Alison"
Obv. classic.

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

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-two years ago)

Where is my mind starts when Frank yells STOP.

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

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-two years ago)

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy

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

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-two years ago)

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

Busta - "Break Ya Neck"

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

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

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

holding on for you

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

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

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

The Chameleons UK - Tears

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

James Brown owns this thread.

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

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

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

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-two years ago)

Royal Trux 'Stop'

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

Garbage - Queer.

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

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

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

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

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

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-two years ago)

Gun Club - Fire Spirit

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

colourblind james experience - dance critters

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

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

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-two years ago)

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

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

Giorgio Moroder-"Stop"

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

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

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

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-two years ago)

"Another Song", Swell Maps

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

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-two years ago)

U2, "God, Part 2."

Don't hate me.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

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

the Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.

When does he say "stop"?

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

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-two years ago)

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

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

Ween: "Awesome Sound"

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

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-two years ago)

Debbie Harry's "Backfired"

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

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-two years ago)

Austin - "Unity In Dub"

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

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Bimble..., Tuesday, 28 December 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

buzzcocks: "noise annoys"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Sebadoh "Take An Aspirin"

― Steely Zan (AaronHz), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― mike a, Thursday, 30 December 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

"just lose it"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Billy Joel, "All For Leyna".

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

Blur, "Essex Dogs"

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Vanilla Ice, shoulda woulda coulda

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

"Stop" by Howard Tate!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

alexis strum "rock this disco"

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Bowling for Soup, 1985

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin - "Out On The Tiles"

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Electric Six - "Improper Dancing"

"stop...continue!"

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

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

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

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

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

losing my edge

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy

See also "Stronger".

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

pyjama time

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

Prince 'Batman'

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

no such tune - "batdance"?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

dude things can stop and then start again!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Atomic garden - Bad Religion
Potters Field - Anthrax

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

Britney Spears - Lucky

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

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

Brazilian Grils - Don't Stop

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

"Three Roses" - America

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

"Alison" as performed by Linda Ronstadt

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

Rankin' Full Stop by the Beat

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

siouxsie & the banshees' cover of "helter skelter"

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

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 (fifteen years ago)

Buzzcocks song is Sixteen from Another Music in a Different kitchen

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

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 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

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 (eleven years ago)

SOAD - Psycho

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

Scott walker, "cue (flugelman)"

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

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

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

Gerry & The Holograms - "Gerry & The Holograms"

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

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

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

Sentimental Fool, Roxy Music.

STOP.

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

Indiana - Solo Dancing

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

M.O. - For A Minute

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

Aqua - Be a Man

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

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 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

uptown fuckin' funk

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

nicki minaj ft. beyoncé - feeling myself

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

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

three weeks pass...

lola rae, watch my ting go

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

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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 (ten years ago)

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

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

Les Seldoms - Stop

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

Mercury Rev - "Lincoln's Eyes"

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

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 (ten years ago)

nine months pass...

Prince - Gotta Broken Heart Again

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

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

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

T-Pain - Welcome to Thr33 Rings

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

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 (nine years ago)

GBV - Weedking (?)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

eight months pass...

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

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

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 (eight years ago)

Oren Ambarchi Hubris Pt 3

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

Does don't come around here no more count?

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

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

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

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 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

jessie ware - slow me down

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

Percy Sledge "Sudden Stop"

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

"waitin" by kelela!

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

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

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

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

2:04

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

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

it has

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

just saw it, whoops

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

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

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

yeah it doesn't

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

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

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

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 (eight years ago)

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 (seven years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (seven years ago)

Ha, I never noticed that before.

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

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

five months pass...

"Summertime Rolls", Jane's Addiction

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

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

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

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

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

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

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 (three years ago)

Did anybody mention "Gerry and the Holograms" ?

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

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

one year passes...

bad idea right? does it.

― gjoon1, Thursday, 21 September 2023 02:05 (two years ago)

Mel Wynn and the Rhythm Aces - Stop Sign

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

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 (two years ago)

Should have remembered Take That - Shine

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

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 (two years ago)

seven months pass...

kendrick lamar - “euphoria”

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

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 year ago)

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 year ago)

two months pass...

XTC - Neon Shuffle

― Hideous Lump, Monday, 29 July 2024 23:22 (one year ago)

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

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

― Hideous Lump, sábado 30 de septiembre de 2023 06:26 AM (ten months ago)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWdQPOjTk4g

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), martes 24 de octubre de 2017 05:14 PM (six years ago)

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:08 (one year ago)

The music stops when Ray Davies says "stop the music" in "Scum of the Earth" from Preservation Act 2 by the Kinks.

The music does not stop when the Bee Gees sing "Somebody Stop the Music" from Trafalgar.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:32 (one year ago)

Unicorn - "Keep on Going"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ok0F4qMlE

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 15:24 (one year ago)

three months pass...

A new one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85PeF_yBlt4

― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 08:53 (one year ago)

This is "Stop" by Bert, from Bert's Blockbusters, which doesn't - brrr! - quite fit the bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be_o4Sv6uho

Because Bert doesn't stop after saying "stop", he just pauses a bit. Brrr! It is however one of the few records in this thread that could conceivably have been used as an instrument of torture by the CIA during the latter stages of the Vietnam War. Brrr!

Now, I admit I have no evidence of that. But isn't that suspicious? No evidence at all? Not a single piece of evidence? Not a single piece? None?

I ask you, is that likely? Is it?

― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 20:42 (one year ago)

five months pass...

Chicks on Speed - Wordy Rappinghood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_1kziD6Lec

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 12 April 2025 08:32 (eight months ago)

four months pass...

Cibo Matto - "Spoon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oveep8Rt8RA

― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be trunc (SlimAndSlam), Saturday, 6 September 2025 18:21 (three months ago)

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