Songs that are actually snippets of mundane conversation

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Glenn Frey - "The Heat Is On"

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

r. kelly "real talk"

cutty, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

Talking Heads - "Don't Worry About the Government"

o. nate, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

They Might Be Giants - "Man It's So Loud In Here"

ledge, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

Talking Heads "Found a Job"

I know, right?, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

Steve Reich - "Come Out"

contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)

Laurie Anderson, "Telephone Song"

dad a, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:50 (seventeen years ago)

Peter Gabriel - "I Don't Remember"
Elvis Costello - "Accidents Will Happen"

ledge, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

Sonic Youth, 'Providence'

poortheatre, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

"The Babbitt and the Bromide"

dad a, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"

o. nate, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

Blur - End of a Century

Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

Actual recording of a conversation as background/lyrics:
Michael Gira - You See Through Me (from Drainland) (him and Jarboe having a painful & real talk about his drinking)

StanM, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

They Might Be Giants - that unnamed one with the loony woman on the answerphone

Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 01:25 (seventeen years ago)

"John Somebody" by Scott Johnson:

"You know who's in New York?
You remember that guy... J-John somebody?
He was a-- he was sort of a--"

dlp9001, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

Flipper, "Brainwash"

dad a, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

Dylan - "Clothes Line"

the higgs, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 05:16 (seventeen years ago)

"John Somebody" by Scott Johnson - the perfect answer?

CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 06:19 (seventeen years ago)

Lou Reed to thread

S-, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 06:23 (seventeen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle, What a Day

Tom D., Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:44 (seventeen years ago)


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