Name songs that are clearly a bunch of incomplete songs stuck together to form one song.

[bbernardini]

Examples:

Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles)
Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
Fergalicious (Fergie)

(Addendum: "Green Eggs And Ham" is the literary equivalent of this concept.)

[Orsino]

1. Bryan Adams' "Heaven"

The lyrics are a bunch of cliches stuck together without a unifying theme:

Oh - thinkin' about all our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free

Now nothin' can take you away from me
We bin down that road before
But that's over now
You keep me comin' back for more

Baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven....

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

[Richardo]

2. "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants

:thumbsup:

Everything is catching
Yes, everything is catching on fire
(Everything's catching on fire)
Everything is catching on fire (everything's catching on fire)

Fingertips
Fingertips
Fingertips

I hear the wind blow
I hear the wind blow
It seems to say, "Hello, Hello,
I'm the one who loves you so."

Hey now everybody now
Hey now everybody
Hey now everybody now

Who's that standing out my window?

I found a new friend
Underneath my pillow

Come on and wreck my car (come on)
Come on and wreck my car (come on)
Come on and wreck my car (come on)
Come on and wreck my car (come on)

Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?
Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?

Please pass the milk, please
Please pass the milk, please
Please pass the milk, please

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Who's knocking on the wall?

All alone all alone
All by myself

What's that blue thing doing here?

Something grabbed ahold of my hand
I didn't know what had my hand
But that's when all my troubles began

I don't understand you (I don't understand you)
I just don't understand you (I don't understand you)
I don't understand the things you say
I can't understand a single word
I don't understand you (I don't understand you)
I just don't understand you (I don't understand you)
I cannot understand you (I don't understand you)
I don't understand you (I don't understand you)

I heard a sound, I turned around
I turned around to find the thing
That made the sound

Mysterious whisper
Mysterious whisper
Mysterious whisper
Mysterious whisper

The day that love came to play

I'm having a heart attack
I'm having a heart attack
I'm having a heart attack
I'm having a heart attack

Fingertips
Fingertips

I walk along darkened corridors
And I walk along darkened corridors
I walk along darkened corridors
And I walk along darkened corridors

[Symarip]

12. +1

First song I thought of when I read the title of this thread.

[Inchworm]

3. Elephant Love Medley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaqYgWc8-vs

:D

[HughBeaumont]

4. Anything by Girl Talk or Stars on 45.

:hide:

[Dr. Strange]

5. Arcade Fire - Black Wave, Bad Vibrations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LZ9z71ErWA

Two cool (but semi-incomplete) songs stuck together.

[MrCoffee]

6. Tom Sawyer

[Dr. Strange]

7. Locking.

MrCoffee is no longer with us.

[MrCoffee]

8. Deleted sub-thread

Mostly a lot of whining from Rushbots.

[Sheets of Easter]

9. More Beatles:

"She Said She Said"
"We Can Work it Out"
Pretty much all of side 2 of Abey Road
"A Day in the Life"

[Richardo]

10. This one's obscure, but "Happy to be Sad" by the Mamas & Papas

That sounds like excerpts from at least two songs scotch-taped together. Jarring.

[Arugula Latte]

11. "Live and Let Die" by Wings (hmm...Paul McCartney seems to have a pattern here)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. There's a line in that song that really annoys me...

"But if this ever changing world in which we live in..."

It bugs out the hell out of me. Such as, like therefore, inasmuch.

[Captain Hilts]

18. Band on the Run, Admiral Halsey, also...nt

[Crabby Appleton]

13. Bunch of songs stuck together - American City Suite

Cashman & West

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ued72oKvrw

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. How Six Songs Collide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JKKl95Ttrc
Pretty cute

[bbernardini]

16. Hey, I met the drummer in that Five For Fighting video once.

He used to play with Mike Keneally (former Zappa guitarist).

[no name no slogan]

17. "Layla" -- Derek and the Dominos

Possibly the most clearly stuck together song in pop music history.

[mitchum]

19. I would have thrown out most of the song and only kept the coda

Crazy Ol' Jim Gordon is a much better writer than Derek

[no name no slogan]

21. I would tend to agree-- except for the signature riff

the whole first part of the song is pretty average-- nothing Clapton couldn't write in his sleep. IMHO Jim Gordon is probably as talented than Clapton, but has the misfortune of being 1) a drummer, and 2) batshit mom-murdering crazy (at this point, I don't know which is the greatest disability).

And wouldn't you know it, when God-- err, Clapton played it unplugged, he all but emasculated the song by burying the riff with the piano. I can't even stand to listen to it unplugged, as it sounds like a kneecapped version of the original.

[BurtWorm]

33. Amen, brother, about the unplugged version.

I became totally disillusioned when I learned that Duane Allman was actually responsible for the riff.

I disagree with you about the first part of the song being just average. It's a stunning progression, an excellent example of a why they call some songs "hooky." And because it has those hooks in you, it makes it a great song about anguished love. (Just don't listen too closely to the lyrics.) It made no sense to slow it down. It needs to be punched out and played fast, desperately.

I never got why the meandering, whining, kitschy coda was tacked on.

[TheMightyFavog]

20. Nobody's mentioned Frankenstein by Edgar Winter Group?

Seemed to be obvious, really.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI

[Sky Masterson]

23. Green Day - Homecoming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWmrWan2vK0

[Tikki]

24. Can't remember the name...but it's one (or more) by Led Zeppelin...

that has baby in the lyrics...:P


Tikki

[mtnester]

25. Living Loving Maid (She's just a woman)

that one?

[Tikki]

26. Prob is...

:) Thanks for the heads up...

Tikki

[mtnester]

28. It could also be Babe I'm gonna leave you (Joan Baez did that as well)

some of the lyrics in Living Loving Maid are great.

:)

[trof]

27. Hummus Tomorrow - The Grunts

[AwakeAtLast]

29. Don't you mean "Songs written while stoned"?

:shrug:

I'm only guessing, anyway....

;)

[Iggo]

30. Bohemian Rhapsody.

oops. Arugula beat me to it. See reply #22.

[mix]

31. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John

genius!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYI6XJH9Ss

[REP]

32. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

Three songs on one theme.

[RebelOne]

34. McArthur Park by Richard Harris

Someone left the cake out in the rain? I never could understand that song.

[Roon]

35. Blinded by the light

Don't know if that is the title or who sings it...but I gave it my best shot.

[Iggo]

36. My Michelle -- Guns N Roses

Obviously two separate ideas cobbled together to fill out the album.

[Iggo]

38. Delete.

Duh. Wrong spot. AGAIN!!!!!

[motely36]

37. Italian Restaurant

Always feels like 3 different songs.

I love the song, but I think it fits the criteria.

[Iggo]

39. Disposable Heroes -- Metallica

That's not fair, though. Metallica does it on purpose.

Still, I love this song. So here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQz_eTe4kg