The Independent on Sunday is asking for suggestions in its Top Ten of songs as the post says, the title is only referenced in the final words. The example given is Up the Junction by Squeeze.
In the one I posted before; https://theafterword.co.uk/two-minutes-or-less/ we had rather a good strike rate.
Here’s hoping as I can’t think of a single one.
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Songs whose titles are only in the final words.
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The Final Cut is one. Ironically.
Beat Bargepole to it Moose ! Another Floyd one – Pigs on the Wing
The Show Must Go On could also count.
What’s her name?
Virginia Plain.
There’s this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDULlMa8Hxc
Beaten to it!!!
Great minds etc etc
The Polaroids that hold us together
Will surely fade away
Like the love that we spoke of forever
On St Swithin’s Day
Oh, and Mega Armageddon Death by the Electro Hippies.
Serenade by Roxy Music is a perfect single, three minutes of scintillating, futuristic pop livening up a whimsically romantic lyric. Pity it was only ever an album track.
http://youtu.be/vgCe4eswoRs
Great, marginally OTT drumming on that track. In fact Paul T., always brilliant, is particularly good on that album. The floor toms on Psalm, for example.
Actually, at one point, they specialised in this artifice.
http://youtu.be/s_mM1qB0uOY
Roxy Music – Just Like You
I’ve no idea what happened there. Anyone?
Just Like You is simply sublime. Serenade is quintessential Roxy and yet on an album that includes Amazona and Mother Of Pearl and Song For Europe and Street Life, a second string strand of brilliance.
Add to those Psalm and Sunset and you have one of the best, most complete albums ever made.
Up the Junction
(Squeeze, not Manfred Mann)
Sorry Moose mentioned in OP
Remembered Virginia Plain too late to even reply to myself.
Squeeze – Up The Junction
Curse your nimble fingers, Moose!
That’s not what you said…. oh maybe this isn’t the place
Wasn’t Hubert even more nimble in the OP?
What, you actually read OPs? I just read the titles.
Clearly…
I’d be far more on the ball if I weren’t so heavily sedated.
By chance, this is the second excuse this week I’ve had to post one of my favourite Mutton Birds tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqFoRIj0Wzc
The Beatles – Here, There & Everywhere
Mini will know this one.
http://youtu.be/Am4xcYmdJiw
Bob Dylan – Boots Of Spanish Leather
The Stone Roses – Made Of Stone
Not their best but The Beat – Hit It
Redskins – The Power Is Yours
Billy Bragg – Greetings To The New Brunette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKcG3gn3F8
In a similar vein, Madness – The Prince
John Grant – Queen Of Denmark
Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary
http://youtu.be/in7fFBDhRbc
And Little Wing
The closing track to a very fine album indeed.
Damn your horns Moose, I was so pleased that I’d thought of that one.
Quite agree, a very fine song from a great album.
Pogues – Misty Morning Albert Bridge
although not 100% true, because the last 2 lines are:
On a cold and misty morning
by the Albert Bridge
I think this one’s the winner!
John Cooper Clarke – Twat
Tubular Bells (Part One)
The last instrument announced by Viv Stanshall is Tubular Bells
The Black Sabbath original does not use the word “Paranoid” in its lyrics.
On The Dickies cover version, the last line is “I must be Paranoid”, which means it complies with the above criteria
I-thang-yew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2C2EGINDw
See Emily Play
The Pink Of Floyd
Surprised i haven’t been beaten to it by this song, here covered by the fabulous Watson Twins.
and from the same Cure album – Like Cockatoos.
The only Dire Straits track I like, Private Investigations.
http://youtu.be/b09JCa9_lRQ
Oops!
http://youtu.be/b09JCa9_lRQ
“And what have you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away?
A bottle of whiskey and a new set of lies
Blinds on the window and a pain behind the eyes
Scarred for life, no compensation
Private investigations”
Dire Straits – Private Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxS-ICzjO6I
Thanks!
Total coincidence Mr Lion.
The time stamp is exactly the same – there must be some weird ley line Glastonbury Hippy stuff going on at the moment?
(Probably not)
On The Other Hand
Randy Travis
Streets Of Bakersfield
Dwight Yoakum and Buck Owens
(if you forgive a final woah-oh…)
Before He Cheats
Carrie Underwood
UB40 – My Way Of Thinking
I was going to post ‘Smile Of The Beyond’, one of the few vocal Mahavishnu Orchestra numbers, but my memory was adrift: the title is intoned after verse five and after verse 7 as well as being the last line. Oh well.
but… literally as I was typing ‘Oh Well’ just there I thought, ‘Hang on…’
Just noticed: he doesn’t say the title in that live clip. It’s here in the studio version between 1.50 – 1.55…
Creedance Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
The Clash -Stay Free:
I believe this qualifies.
The Definitive!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last Line Words
Sinead Opened Her Syd. Opera Show With This
Well, I’ve check and re-checked but, unlikely as it seems, no-one has mentioned Norwegian Wood:
That is because Norwegian Wood is mentioned earlier in the song.
D’oh! So it is.
Turn It On Again -Genesis
Here’s my favourite example:
“Leave the fire behind you and start
I’ll be playing it by ear, left here with
An empty-handed heart”
Warren Zevon – Empty-Handed Heart
Ragged Kingdom , the fabulous, Radio-2-Folk-Award-for-Album-of-the-Year-winning disc from June Tabor and Oysterband features the traditional Fountains Flowing, the last words of which are “and fountains flowing”.
It’s alternatively known as “Our Captain Called”, which are the first words of the song.
They have Nick Cave dolls?
I want one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWW-jTcxa8
Naturally, he has a red right hand.
No one mentioned ‘Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured’?