Songs which gradually change into a completely different style without you noticing

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Obvious example: Jacques Derrida by Scritti Politti, which starts out as bucolic, vaguely George Harrisonesque country-rock and ends up as hip hop.

Less obvious example: The Intro and the Outro by the Bonzo Dog Band, which starts out as Count Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" and ends up as Terry Riley's "In C."

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most absurd thread title of all times, Marcello. How can I name a song which changes without me noticing? If I could I would have noticed!

An example of a song which totally changes could be Roxy Music's If there Is Something from their first awesome album. It starts as a boring country rocker and turns into melodramatic ecstasy both from the vocals and the instruments. At the end it changes again into a kind of soul song.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

duh, alex, you notice AFTERWARDS!!!!

*sigh*

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

there was a song on Arab Strap's "mad for sadness" that started like your average Arab song and then at some point morphed into a trance number ... BTW, it was my fav. song on that album. I don't remember the title though!

― Simone O., Wednesday, 20 November 2002 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

It was "The Girls Of Summer" - the version on "Mad For Sadness" is one of my (was one of our) all-time favourite pieces of music! Whenever we saw them they always declined to play it. It's a FANTASTIC track, I LOVE it!!

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 20 November 2002 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Max Tundra, "Cabasa."

At first, it's all programmed beats and IDM, like Squarepusher or mu-Ziq, with synths maybe a little 80s-sounding. The end of the song is practically Ben Folds Five.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 20 June 2004 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

How I Wrote Elastic Man by the Fall goes from "Da Da Da" into a standard Fall number when he says "turn that bloody blimey space invader off-ah".

― everything (everything), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

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