Mix 'Tape' Concept of the day...

[jbsegal]

I need help to fill it out:

Songs about records.

"Hidden Bonus Track" by The Bobs
"The B Side" by Blotto
and so on. Everyone? Jump on in...

Comments

[mangosteen]

"Box Set" by the Barenaked Ladies

[veek.livejournal.com]

Not quite "record," but v. close, especially in concept: "Video," by Patty Larkin. It may be a hidden track. I don't remember whether it's on Angels Running or Perishable Fruit, but definitely one of the two.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Sad Songs and Waltzes, Cake. On Fashion Nugget.

Does that qualify?

[electriccat.livejournal.com]

"Another Record" - Genesis (phil collins era.. last song, side 2 of Abacab)
(the chorus is "put another record on.. cuz he likes that song..")

"Northern Song" - Beatles

and not sure if this counts.. but it certainly is scary..

Life is a rock.. (but the radio rolled me) - Reunion

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Does "Tape Decks All Over Hell" (Boiled In Lead) count? And of course there's "Backwards Message" (Steven Brust). You might want to count "The Money Go Round" (The Kinks), which is about the money from a song...

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

Big Ten Inch (record, that is) [Bullmoose Jackson, covered by Aerosmith]
Don't Leave Your Records In The Sun [John Hartford]
Not quite about records:
Don't Put Another Dime In The Jukebox [The Flirts]
Sad Songs (Say So Much) [Elton John]
Possible reference:
Apparently an episode of the Doctor Demento show (May 21, 1989) had as its theme songs about vinyl records.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

There's a song by Regurgitator called "I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff." :)

[scliff.livejournal.com]

"Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands", Richard Thompson, Rumor and Sigh

Re: Don't underestimate your friends

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

Please mr. please(don't play b-17) by Olivia Newton John
Singing in my Sleep by Semisonic(about a mix tape)

Concept Album

[(Anonymous)]

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) -- Dead or Alive
MARS Needs Women -- MARS (put the needle on the record, put the needle on the record)

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Marc says: "Smoke on the Water". Does a song about the circumstances surrounding the recording of a song count?

[totient]

which is, of course, a cover of a Willie Nelson tune.

You have to love their audacity...

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Into The Great Wide Open, Tom Petty
The Really Sick Note, Tom Smith (at least peripherally)

self-referential songs

[scliff.livejournal.com]

"Only A Northern Song", The Beatles, Yellow Submarine
"Number Three", They Might Be Giants
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[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)" brings back so many memories! I've always loved that song, and it really hurt my brain to hear it changed into a commercial for a shopping mall several years ago (they listed all the stores in the mall).