pop songs that have big floaty instrumental sections

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pop is a very inclusive term here, but meant to exclude "legit" "musics" (like jazz and prog) where extended instrumental passages are standard practice. looking for floaty and sparse rather than jammy and/or heavy.

― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 November 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

Is the floaty instrumental section in "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" long enough to count?

(i may be thinking of some sort of extended mix in my head)

(of course if you go to "Extended Mix" in the Dictionary it says "pop songs that have big floaty instrumental sections")

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 November 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Is the floaty instrumental section in "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" long enough to count?

can't remember. is it floaty?

― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

or since you did say it was, the question is HOW floaty. ahh yes.

― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

The Stranglers' cover of "Walk On By" gets especially floaty and meandering around 01:26 ("just go for a stroll in the treeeees") and gets especially light and airy once Dave stops jerking off all over the keyboards and Hugh slices the track open with his lovely crying guitar. I love this song, I does.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

...that bit (Hugh's airy, floaty guitar) starts at 03:27

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 November 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

Pulp's "Sunrise", towards the end (maybe)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 18 November 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Or perhaps "O.U." (also near the very end)?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 18 November 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

There's the instrumental break before the final chorus in "Video Killed the Radio Star" ... it's floaty, but not big (i.e. only about 15 seconds long).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 18 November 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

marquee moon

― rockaction (rockaction), Friday, 18 November 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

Got to be some New Order track? - how about Vanishing Point?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 18 November 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Wichita Lineman wins hands down, surely!

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

"Art for Art's Sake" 10cc?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Prog is a legit music?!

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

...I was wondering about that myself

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

"Art For Art's Sake" is a good answer!. But the winner must surely be "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

And that's not a reflection of my opinion about it (I don't like much, but I like some, and obviously I like even more music that has prog-like elements). Do people outside prog circles see it as "legit" the same way jazz is commonly perceived that way?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

'do the strand'

is that floaty? kind of trippy anyway.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

12" of "Number One Song in Heaven" by Sparks

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly" has a floaty instrumental section. As does much of their stuff. But since this was a single, I think it particularly qualifies.

― monkeybutler, Friday, 18 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

well, legit as in having these accepted formal rules and boundaries that genre-purists use as yardsticks. it's considered more deliberately artful than, say, mere pop music is. when a pop-inclined artist dips his toes into other pools, the purists invariably say "that's not REAL prog/jazz/death metal."

― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

mere pop music

Oops

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

i was being IRONIC you see

― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes irony is hard to spot on ILM

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

floaty?

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Traffic - Hole In My Shoe

... definitely floaty

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Floaty On - The Floatyers

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 18 November 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Dancing In The City by Marshall Hain is enduringly floaty.

― mzui (mzui), Friday, 18 November 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - "A Forest", "In Your House", "All Cats Are Grey", "Faith", "Sinking", "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep", "Plainsong", "Trust".

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

The end of "Abacab" is sparse, jammy, AND sorta heavy.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Sean O'Hagan to thread!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 19 November 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Keeping in the "extended mix" vein, the Thin White Duke Mix of "Mr. Brightside" surely fits here - it's not really a dance remix.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 19 November 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Boo Radleys - Lazarus

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 November 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Most of the full version of New Order's 'The Perfect Kiss' is pretty undeniably floaty, albeit in a pulsatingly indie shrug dance kind of way.

I couldn't not choose one from the Ets though, so it has to be 'Avenue' and its baroque Wannabe Wilson floaty moments.

Um, and wot abaht the 'big boys don't cry' bit of "I'm Not In Love" ?

― darren (darren), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Um, and wot abaht the 'big boys don't cry' bit of "I'm Not In Love" ?

exactly what i'm talking about! more like this.

― mimi in st. louis (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

"Black Crosser" by Phillip Boa and the Voodoo Club is something to listen to if you want the most ironic answer there is to your request. You might like it, also, but I don't know.

― Pangolino 2, Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

"Black Eyed Susan" by Morrissey
"The Argument" by Fugazi

― Usual Channels, Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I love that bit in "Argument". it's so unexpected.

anyway this thread made me immediately think of Brian Wilson - "Wind Chimes".

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

This is laughable, but it came to mind: "The Stability Song" - Death Cab For Cutie

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Or as it is formally known, "Stability." Nevermind. Bad suggestion anyway.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Belle & Sebastien.

Probably.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 20 November 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

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