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

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Except all I can think of right now are Layla and Rock Lobster. I know there are more ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul McCartney & Wings to thread.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

like?

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

some more off the top of my head:

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

and

almost every Godspeed You! Black Emperor song

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You know what I mean

I'm not sure I do.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Love - 7 And 7 Is

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins - "Hummer"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

stereolab yes, but 'Jenny O' is hardly a good example. 'Brigitte' or 'Captain Easychord' wd be better picks

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom Petty - American Girl

― That's a Goddamn Lie (Liar), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pretty Things, "Defecting Grey"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Station to Station - David Bowie

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(assuming I understand the premise correctly)

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

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beach Boys - The Trader

― angel duster, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Soft Canyon

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Genesis - "Domino"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Rolling Stones - "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Lipps, Inc. - "Funky Town"

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Trader" is a great choice. For Paul McCartney, go with "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey". See also:

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

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Kristin Hersh - A Loon

― weather!ngda1eson, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

new pornographers-execution day

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

A couple of Chameleons songs do that, "Second skin" comes to mind.

― Seb, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Strawberry Alarm Clock, "Incense and Peppermints"

Sly & the Family Stone, "Stand!"

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

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Sly's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" does it too.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

More Wings - 'Picasso's Last Words' does this i believe
Also Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well' pts 1+2 played back to back without a break

― pete s, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Boo Radleys "Let Me Be Your Faith"

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Franz Ferdinand - take me out (if its called that)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i pretty much love any song that does this

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

does 'November Rain' count? 'Bo Rap' and 'Innuendo' by Queen certainly do

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

That switch in "Stand!" is one of my favoritest moments of any music ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Joel - "The Stranger"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i am the resurrection - the stone roses

― gallantseagull, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

WINGS:
"Band on the Run"
"Picasso (Drink to Me)"
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"

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.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

wimple winch - atmosphere

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The Young Gods - Seerauber Jenny

― mzui, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Phoenix, "Funky Square Dance"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Steppenwolf "For Ladies Only"

― jimwentworth (wench), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Throwing Muses - "Call Me" , "Finished", and probably 50% of their other stuff as well, they're masters of the mid-song about-face.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"hate my way" feels like two separate songs

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah a lot of the first album does that whole multiple personality kinda thing. I like to think it echoes what was going on in her head at the time.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Some Velvet Morning"

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
Chicago - (forget which song, but I know it's a classic example -mental block, sorry)
Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light (sorta)
Blondie - Rapture
Crowded House - Catherine Wheels

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Saturday in the Park" sort of does it.

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Another "sorta" example is Stay by Shakespeare's Sister (I know the abrupt change part still lyrically fits the song's narrative, but it sounds like a few lines of a different song, and then it goes back)

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

About half of Max Tundra's songs do this very well.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gone Till November" -- has a great hook and turns into shit on the verse.

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, ooh.

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

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

built to spill - stop the show
super furry animals - slow life

― big baby jesus, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

bowie "station to station"

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy-Devo! Even it's title is two unrelated things.

― Rachel, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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Could the Chicago song mentioned above be "I've Been Searching (So Long)"? That definitely fits the bill, and was on their Greatest Hits album.

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 4 June 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Though "Beginnings" probably is what Kim was talking about in her original post (though it doesn't seem right to me to describe the second part as something 'unrelated', because it seems to make sense as a complement for the first part of the song)

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 4 June 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Andrea True Connection - More, More, More

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.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Blue Sky - ELO
Symptom of the Universe - Sabbath

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Chicago song is
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" .. I don't remember it specifically, but it's in about the right time frame, and it was a Peter Cetera hit of that caliber.

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

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

YES to thread.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet Jane - with the "Heavenly Wine & Roses" thing at the end ...

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

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

YES to thread.

Oh, but prog-rock is almost cheating.

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

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Friday, 4 June 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Ideally, the two parts of the song should have different tempo, different instrumentation, different chords (different key?) and be totally unrelated lyrically. These five songs satisfy most of these 'requirements'as far as I can tell.

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!

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

grand funk railroad - people, let's stop the war

― dave q (listerine), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Gorkys - Sweet Johnny

― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

xpost you were right, it is "Say you, say me"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Pink Floyd, "Jugband Blues"
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Rude Awakening, Ramble Tamble"

I would be happier if all songs did this.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jugband Blues OTM, a wanton omission on my part.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Add "Prophet's Song" to the Queen section.

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

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Olivia Tremor Control:

"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.

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Black - "Los Angeles"

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Most stuff by Fantomas or Mr. Bungle.

― our work is never over, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

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

― chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

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

― our work is never over, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

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

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

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).

― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 January 2008 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 January 2008 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Indeed.

― our work is never over, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

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

― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

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

<Sheepishly> I deserved that.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

MC5 - Future/now

― the galena free practitioner, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

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.

― Euler, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

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")

― Mark G, Thursday, 24 January 2008 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

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

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Underworld - Banstyle/Sappys Curry

― chap, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Love, Laughing Stock

― Tom D., Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Pink Floyd, Jugband Blues

― Tom D., Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Has no one said Paranoid Android yet?

― chap, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

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

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

20 or 30 Incredible String Band songs

― Tom D., Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Van Halen-"I'm The One"

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

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

― ledge, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Lou Reed - "Oh Jim"

― snoball, Thursday, 24 January 2008 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Billy Pilgrim, Thursday, 24 January 2008 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

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

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 24 January 2008 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Rev. Hoodoo, Thursday, 24 January 2008 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

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

― or something, Thursday, 24 January 2008 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

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)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Harry Nilsson, Mucho Mungo

― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

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

― musically, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

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