songs which are or sound like pastiches of 'subterranean homesick blues'

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hopefully when i wake up i can think of something to say to turn this into something other than a list thread!

pere ubu, 'texas overture'
radiohead, 'a wolf at the door'
r.e.m., 'it's the end of the world (and we know it)'
robert wyatt, 'blues in bob minor'

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

inxs - mediate

― jimbo (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

police - it's alright for you
van hagar - humans being
rhcp - if you have to ask

― steve 'scratch' perry (listerine), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Billy Joel 'We Didn't Start The Fire'

― john doran (John D), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

George Formby - "Mr Wu is a Window Cleaner Now"

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

hombres - let it out (let it all hang out)
elvis costello - pump it up
chuck berry - too much monkey business (pre-bob)
woody guthrie - talking columbia blues (pre-bob)
roger miller - my uncle used to love me but she died (pre-bob?)
beck - loser
grandmaster flash and the furious five - the message

― xhuxk (xhuck), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

in fact:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ybPb6ioa6FQC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=chuck+eddy+subterranean+homesick+blues&source=web&ots=KDyXTx1P6U&sig=1KbIqC_Xw7nOZHR6euOW7XJdwO8

― xhuxk (xhuck), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Nine Inch Nails, "Down In It"

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Elvis Costello: Tokyo Storm Warning

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever that Mouse & the Traps song was - oh yeah, "Public Execution."

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I addressed this very topic on this thread here:

Song of Each Decade

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and for genuinely amusing silliness, there's Ray Stevens' "Gitarzan".

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

you guys forgot the parody by weird al, "bob"

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Scritti Politti, "Lions After Slumber"

and that song about signs...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, you mean 'rap, right? I mean, that's the thread that very tenuously holds most of these tunes together.

That said, Simon Joyner's "Open Window Blues," from his Skeleton Blues album, which I happen to be listening to right now for, like, the 10,000th time, fits this description.

In general, I'm not a huge fan of these 'verbose, free associative' type songs because they generally very sound effortless to write, and there hasn't been one as good as Subterranean Homesick Blues (though Tokyo Storm Warning comes very very close)

― Shake Snake (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and The Escape Club's horrendous "Wild Wild West," to thread

― Spine Swine (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Give Peace a Chance

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Early Bruce has a ton of these. Most notably:

Blinded By The Light

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Theme to The L Word.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Rap in general. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Simon & Garfunkel - The cringingly awful "A Simple Desultory Phillipic"

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

Reasons to be cheerful.

Part Three.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Eddie Rabbit -- "Drivin' My Life Away"

― Kris Gallimore (eeyore19), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

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