Layla and other songs that just change into something else almost unrelated

The Beatles -- A Day in the Life
Stereolab -- Jenny Ondioline

and

almost every Godspeed You! Black Emperor song

I'm not sure I do.

Prince - "Batdance"
JC Chasez - "A.D.I.D.A.S."

XTC - "The Wheel and the Maypole"
Abba - "Two For the Price of One"
Blood Sweat & Tears - "Spinning Wheel"
Can - "Soup"
Led Zeppelin - "The Ocean"

Sly & the Family Stone, "Stand!"

Spanky & Our Gang, "Like to Get to Know You"

Paul's always coming up with intros that have nothing to do with the rest of the song ("Let 'Em In", "Take It Away", "Venus & Mars/Rockshow"). He's come up with the best mini-songs, and then he just sticks them together with glue.

"Teenager(s)" by Meat Puppets from the Meat Puppets II reissue!

When that key change (?) and the "later sampled by that Canadian band" part come along, it feels like a completely revitalized song. The tempo doesn't really change much and it's only temporary, but it was my immediate thought on this subject.

Well, after Station To Station. But someone beat me to that.

So, it doesn't really qualify because it's actually two songs .. but two shitty songs that run back to back nonetheless.

Also "Lisa Says" with the "why am I so shy?" part and "Satellite of Love" with the "Harry Mark and John" part.

Top 100 songs that sound like they're really 2 or 3 songs cobbled together

Oh, but prog-rock is almost cheating.

The first side of Rush's "2112" to thread.

OTM, some of these barely change at all.

I truly adore many songs that attempt this, and so have compiled the following list. Most of the artists here have pulled the stunt more than once, and I have merely provided my favourite example(s):

The Bark Psychosis - The Black Meat
Beck - Steal My Body Home/Diamond Bollocks/Milk And Honey/etc etc etc
BOREDOMS TO THREAD
British Sea Power - Lately
The Cooper Temple Clause - Written Apology/Did You Miss Me?/Into My Arms
Dungen - Du E För Fin För Mig
Elbow - Newborn
The Electric Soft Parade - The American Adventure
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia (which must hold some sort of record for number of changes)
The Flaming Lips - The Spark That Bled
Hood - Diesel Pioneers
Kula Shaker - Hollow Man (no, I'm not gonna defend them, suckers)
It's been said already, but Love - You Set The Scene is a GREAT shout.
MANSUN TO FUCKING THREAD (the entire 'Six' album, especially my favourite song of all-time, 'Cancer')
MARS VOLTA TO.....
Massive Attack - Group Four
Mercury Rev - Snorry Mouth
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
HI DERE MR BUNGLE
Oceansize - Saturday Morning Breakfast Show
Opeth do this in almost every song of theirs, the two different parts being GGGRRAAARR and *acoustic interlude*
Pulp - I Love Life
Roxy Music - The Bob (Medley)
Soft Machine - Moon In June
Soundgarden - Half
Spiritualized - Feel Like Goin' Home
Super Furry Animals - Mountain People
The The - Twilight Of A Champion
Tortoise - Seneca
Wilco - Poor Places

Aside from the thread criteria, the only thing these songs have in common is that they're all bleedin' fantastic!

I would be happier if all songs did this.

Also, 10cc to thread:
Donna
Rubber Bullets
I'm Mandy Fly Me
Wall Street Shuffle
Somewhere In Hollywood
Hotel
Une Nuit a Paris
Don't Hang Up

"Holiday Surprise 1-2-3"
"Memories of Jacqueline 1906"
"Sylvan Screen"

...and loads of similar stuff from Circulatory System and the rest of the E6 Collective Corpse.

Most stuff by Fantomas or Mr. Bungle.

Missy Elliott - U Don't Know
Metallica - One
The Beatles - You Never give Me Your Money

Yeah, that last one is the best song of all time.

The Doors--The Soft Parade
Sonic Youth--Teenage Riot

The Who, "Baba O'Riley" (sped-up violin hoedown at the end), and "A Quick One, While He's Away" (which pretty much owns this thread).

Diana Ross - "Love Hangover" (The transition from slow ballad to rockin' disco monster is one of my favorite moments in recorded music.)

We should just change the title of this thread to "BEST SONGS EVER."

Indeed.

Outkast, "Ghettomusick" Industrial funk to slow jam and back? Yes, please.

well not to be a tight-arse but someone already mention "the Ocean" so there ya go.
-- Broheems (diamond),

<Sheepishly> I deserved that.

MC5 - Future/now

Grateful Dead-St. Stephen (the Live/Dead version)

Rodney Atkins' "Cleaning This Gun" pulls this trick, starting as a slow blues about how he didn't pay attention in school, except to one thing...and then the song opens up and gets more lively, lyrically focused on that one thing.

Somebody upthread mentioned "Another brick in the wall part two"

That's not true,is it? Or is it so on the album?

(I am happy. I have never heard "The Wall")

Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Arcade Fire - lots of songs on Funeral, The Well and the Lighthouse (kinda)

Underworld - Banstyle/Sappys Curry

I bet they're getting "Best Years of Their Lives" confused with being the intro to "Brick in the Wall II"

Love, Laughing Stock

Pink Floyd, Jugband Blues

Has no one said Paranoid Android yet?

Yardbirds-"Ever Since The World Began"
Led Zep-"Carouselambra"

20 or 30 Incredible String Band songs

Van Halen-"I'm The One"

Built to Spill, Untrustable/Pt 2 (about Someone Else)

Lou Reed - "Oh Jim"

I thought this said "Layla and other songs that just change into something else almost as overrated"

MC5-"Sister Anne"
Randy Newman-"Vine Street"

"I Confess" - New Colony Six
"Lean On Me" - Bill Withers

that wee bit at the end of the black dog's "sharp shooting on saturn". the dictionary definition of british techno flippancy.

I was listening to Harry Nilsson over the weekend and apparently he was fond of morphing songs:

"Jump Into The Fire" (the percussion jam)
"Take 54" (song turns into an advert for it's parent album)
"The Most Beautiful World In The World" (the "Walt Disney" orchestral half of the song)

Harry Nilsson, Mucho Mungo

Diana Ross - "Love Hangover" (The transition from slow ballad to rockin' disco monster is one of my favorite moments in recorded music.)

Have you heard the LH Almighty Mix? BRILLIANT