Please recommend songs that stop...................and then start again.
June 18, 2013 6:37 AM Subscribe
I like it when a song is powering along and then it comes to a complete stop and then starts again. Grandfather's Clock is an example. Faker's 'This Heart Attack' does the same thing. What are some others?
"I try" by Macy Gray, though I wouldn't say it was powering along.
posted by PuppetMcSockerson at 6:41 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by PuppetMcSockerson at 6:41 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
There are several one-beat-or-so pauses in Led Zeppelin's The Ocean.
posted by jquinby at 6:43 AM on June 18, 2013
posted by jquinby at 6:43 AM on June 18, 2013
Foo Fighters - The Pretender?
Hm, upon re-listen, the song doesn't really come to a complete stop, though it powers right down. Sorry!
posted by Defying Gravity at 6:49 AM on June 18, 2013
Hm, upon re-listen, the song doesn't really come to a complete stop, though it powers right down. Sorry!
posted by Defying Gravity at 6:49 AM on June 18, 2013
Well, I take that back - on re-listen there's only one, at the end of Robert Plant's little a capella section.
posted by jquinby at 6:50 AM on June 18, 2013
posted by jquinby at 6:50 AM on June 18, 2013
Can't Hardly Wait by The Replacements does this at 2:10.
Another good one is "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Millionaire" by Queens of the Stone Age, at about 2:00.
posted by Mothlight at 6:52 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
Another good one is "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Millionaire" by Queens of the Stone Age, at about 2:00.
posted by Mothlight at 6:52 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
I really like the way Suede did this in Metal Mickey
posted by greenish at 6:56 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by greenish at 6:56 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Rockaway Beach, by the Ramones.
Rollercoaster by Sleater-Kinney seems especially appropriate, given the subject of the song.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 6:59 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Rollercoaster by Sleater-Kinney seems especially appropriate, given the subject of the song.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 6:59 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
posted by BostonTerrier at 7:00 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by BostonTerrier at 7:00 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad has a character that loves pauses in songs, and there's a chapter that mentions a lot of them. The chapter that talks about that character is presented as a slideshow, which you can view on her site, but I've also found a couple of places that list the songs mentioned (not sure if they are complete).
posted by amarynth at 7:02 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by amarynth at 7:02 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
Electric Six, Improper Dancing. Actually yells "Stop!", it stops, then a moment later, "Continue!". About 2mins 50s on that one.
posted by Coobeastie at 7:03 AM on June 18, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by Coobeastie at 7:03 AM on June 18, 2013 [4 favorites]
Actually Electric Six's Gay Bar does this as well.
posted by Coobeastie at 7:06 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by Coobeastie at 7:06 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
First one that occurs to me: Roxette, "She's got the look"
posted by illongruci at 7:09 AM on June 18, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by illongruci at 7:09 AM on June 18, 2013 [4 favorites]
Green Day - Brain Stew (more "pauses" than stops I guess)
It feels like I have a lot more examples of this in my music library but my mind is not coming up with anything else....
posted by getawaysticks at 7:10 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
It feels like I have a lot more examples of this in my music library but my mind is not coming up with anything else....
posted by getawaysticks at 7:10 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Little Black Submarines by the Black Keys has a long pause in the middle.
posted by EiderDuck at 7:10 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by EiderDuck at 7:10 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
I think there's an R.E.M. song that does this, but I can't find it. Anybody know?
Everybody hurts has a pretty significant pause just before 4:00...
posted by getawaysticks at 7:12 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Everybody hurts has a pretty significant pause just before 4:00...
posted by getawaysticks at 7:12 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
The "Tin roof! Rusted" bit of Loveshack by the B-52s?
posted by goo at 7:13 AM on June 18, 2013 [6 favorites]
posted by goo at 7:13 AM on June 18, 2013 [6 favorites]
Roxanne, by the Police (my high school band had intense competitions to see who yell "ROOOOX-ANNNNNE!" to cue the next line).
posted by Etrigan at 7:18 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Etrigan at 7:18 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Tear in Your Hand by Tori Amos.
posted by ipsative at 7:19 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by ipsative at 7:19 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Of Monsters and Men's Little Talks has such a significant pause that in this performance the crowd refuses to believe it's not over.
posted by bleep at 7:20 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by bleep at 7:20 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
"What," A Tribe Called Quest ("chill for a minute, Doug E. Fresh said silence")
"Waiting for the Big One," Peter Gabriel (stops and starts a couple times)
"Stop," Jane's Addiction (ditto)
"Radio Song," REM ("hey hey hey")
"One Tree Hill," U2 ("oh great ocean")
posted by dlugoczaj at 7:20 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
"Waiting for the Big One," Peter Gabriel (stops and starts a couple times)
"Stop," Jane's Addiction (ditto)
"Radio Song," REM ("hey hey hey")
"One Tree Hill," U2 ("oh great ocean")
posted by dlugoczaj at 7:20 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Waiting Room, by Fugazi has a pretty good break right toward the beginning. And is awesome.
posted by voiceofreason at 7:25 AM on June 18, 2013 [6 favorites]
posted by voiceofreason at 7:25 AM on June 18, 2013 [6 favorites]
I just want to STOP... and thank you, Baby, for reminding me of Marvin Gaye singing 'How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You'.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 7:27 AM on June 18, 2013 [5 favorites]
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 7:27 AM on June 18, 2013 [5 favorites]
Sugar Magnolia. (Break comes at 5:43 in the video.)
posted by alms at 7:29 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by alms at 7:29 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
George Michael - Faith (3:20)
Wikipedia on "false endings":
Wikipedia on "false endings":
In music, several songs have used false endings as part of the performance, such as The Rascals' Good Lovin'; White Room by Cream; "The Peace!" by Morning Musume; Rain by The Beatles; Monday, Monday by The Mamas & the Papas; and "But You Know I Love You" by The First Edition. Another notable example of a musical false ending is "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams - because the original song was six and a half minutes long, the false ending became the end of the single/video edit of the song (the album version had a fadeout ending).posted by John Cohen at 7:29 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Ranking Full Stop - The English Beat. Does what it says on the tin at 1:50.
posted by DaddyNewt at 7:30 AM on June 18, 2013 [5 favorites]
posted by DaddyNewt at 7:30 AM on June 18, 2013 [5 favorites]
Not only does "Ranking Full Stop" by The Beat have what you ask, it is what the song is about.
Ranking Full Stop
posted by annekenstein at 7:31 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Ranking Full Stop
posted by annekenstein at 7:31 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Arnaud Rebotini's Echoes around the 5 minute mark
posted by par court at 7:39 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by par court at 7:39 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Korn - Coming Undone
Foo Fighters - All My Life has a couple of drastic pauses, but they are very brief :)
posted by getawaysticks at 7:44 AM on June 18, 2013
Foo Fighters - All My Life has a couple of drastic pauses, but they are very brief :)
posted by getawaysticks at 7:44 AM on June 18, 2013
Fatboyslim : funk soul brother
posted by crawltopslow at 7:46 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by crawltopslow at 7:46 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
Did you want powering but not necessarily fast? Sia's Breathe Me has a pause followed by a sweeping instrumental, cellos and all. It's very widely used as a TV soundtrack for extreme angst / shit got really bad / someone died.
posted by Ness at 7:50 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Ness at 7:50 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Billy Joel- River of Dreams
Stabbing Westward- What Do I Have to Do
Weezer- Only in Dreams (this one sort of fades out then comes back in)
posted by azathoth at 7:52 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
Stabbing Westward- What Do I Have to Do
Weezer- Only in Dreams (this one sort of fades out then comes back in)
posted by azathoth at 7:52 AM on June 18, 2013 [3 favorites]
Elevation by U2 has a 4 beat pause before the last verse (at 2:34)
posted by dry white toast at 7:54 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by dry white toast at 7:54 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
"I'm Coming Home to You" by The Singles has a killer false ending at about 2:45 (and it's also just a great song). There's no silence, but they hold what sounds like a final, fading-out chord for about four beats before coming back in strong and rocking to the finish. Sorry I couldn't find a free version online.
posted by PhatLobley at 7:57 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by PhatLobley at 7:57 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Groove is in the Heart by Deee-Lite sort of does. (link goes to the paused part)
posted by homodachi at 7:59 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by homodachi at 7:59 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Bored and extremely dangerous by Bad Religion does this. Plus, it's just a fantastic song.
posted by iamkimiam at 8:00 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by iamkimiam at 8:00 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
God is on the Radio. It both has sections at the beginning where they stop HARD for a couple seconds, more than once, and then it also has a section where, as a friend once described it, it sounds like the band forgot they were recording or something, and wandered off for coffee, while one lone member kept strumming along almost inaudibly for a minute, and then they were like "fuck! are we still live? start singing again!" (Around 3:29 when it gets softer and softer).
posted by instead of three wishes at 8:05 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by instead of three wishes at 8:05 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
"Improper Dancing" by the Electric Six has the best implementation of this in human history.
posted by COBRA! at 8:07 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by COBRA! at 8:07 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
The Beach Boys' "The Little Girl I Once Knew" suffered from light radio play, in large part due to the abrupt, several-second-long silences at 0:33 and 1:09 (radio stations hated "dead air", because listeners would either think something had gone wrong or just move on).
posted by jackbishop at 8:09 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by jackbishop at 8:09 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
In Dinah Washington's interpretation of I've Got You Under My Skin, there is a small caesura in the first instance of "Just the thought of you makes me stop || before I begin." It is much more pronounced in the recapitulation at the end after the goose-bump raising Clifford Brown solo.
posted by plinth at 8:10 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by plinth at 8:10 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Gimme Back My Bullets - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Half Moon - Blind Pilot
Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield
posted by Benny Andajetz at 8:17 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Half Moon - Blind Pilot
Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield
posted by Benny Andajetz at 8:17 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
This probably isn't the effect you're talking about, but it certainly stops & starts again: Please Play This Song on the Radio by NoFX. (nsfw lyrics)
posted by peep at 8:20 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by peep at 8:20 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
The outro to Leonard Cohen's original recording of Hallelujah
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 8:22 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 8:22 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Beastie Boys known to let the beat.... mmm drop Intergalactic.
posted by borkencode at 8:39 AM on June 18, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by borkencode at 8:39 AM on June 18, 2013 [4 favorites]
Wild Night, Van Morrison
posted by effluvia at 8:51 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by effluvia at 8:51 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
They Might Be Giants' "Don't Let's Start" pretty much stops whenever they sing the word "start."
posted by baseballpajamas at 8:53 AM on June 18, 2013 [5 favorites]
posted by baseballpajamas at 8:53 AM on June 18, 2013 [5 favorites]
Beastie Boys' Sabotage (in terms of the video, during the doughnut part)
A couple more Foo Fighters songs, though these are more of the actual false ending type: Dear Lover, and the album version of Next Year.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 8:54 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
A couple more Foo Fighters songs, though these are more of the actual false ending type: Dear Lover, and the album version of Next Year.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 8:54 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Soulwax's remix of Justice - Phantom Pt. II. On the Soulwax documentary Part of the Weekend Never Dies, DJ/producer Tiga has a hilarious bit where he talks about playing this song and turning the lights up at the part where the music stops so everyone thinks his set is over, then savoring the looks on everyone's faces when it comes back on.
posted by capricorn at 9:01 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by capricorn at 9:01 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Jeff Beck Group - Going Down
posted by rfs at 10:08 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by rfs at 10:08 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Johnny Cash - The Legend of John Henry's Hammer (this is the Folsom Prison version, which I think is better than the original)
posted by cali59 at 10:33 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by cali59 at 10:33 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Almost any song which uses the word "Stop", or so says my musician boyfriend, who wishes this particular trope you dig would stop, indeed.
"Alison" by Elvis Costello.
"A Day in the Life", The Beatles.
"Question" by Jenn Guitart.
posted by Riverine at 10:34 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
"Alison" by Elvis Costello.
"A Day in the Life", The Beatles.
"Question" by Jenn Guitart.
posted by Riverine at 10:34 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
The Raspberries' (Warning: Contains Eric Carmen) "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" has several stop-starts, including a completely awesome bit where the song fades out to sound like it's coming from a transistor radio.
posted by vickyverky at 10:37 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by vickyverky at 10:37 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
My favorite example of this is from Blast's Malaguena (6:21 in this video), where they break for a good two bars.
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:41 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Lutoslawski at 10:41 AM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Mine is at 5:20 in The Stone Roses' "I Am the Resurrection", right in the middle of the greatest rhythmic rave-up in pop music history.
posted by nicwolff at 11:13 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by nicwolff at 11:13 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Almost any song which uses the word "Stop", or so says my musician boyfriend, who wishes this particular trope you dig would stop, indeed.
See also: I Just Wanna Stop by Gino Vannelli, at the end of each chorus.
posted by mefireader at 12:21 PM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
See also: I Just Wanna Stop by Gino Vannelli, at the end of each chorus.
posted by mefireader at 12:21 PM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
This playlist from one of last year's Airborne Events on WFMU has a lot of songs with starts and stops, also loopy looping loops of loopiness.
posted by Cheezitsofcool at 12:29 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Cheezitsofcool at 12:29 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
INXS, "Never Tear Us Apart" (1:25 in the link)
posted by pardonyou? at 2:17 PM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by pardonyou? at 2:17 PM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]
Chromatics - Tick of the Clock feels like it ends and then starts up again by surprise.
Skinny Puppy - Love. The version on Bites does this right at the beginning, and it used to make me think something was wrong with my copy. (I happen to prefer this version to the one on Mind.)
posted by ifjuly at 2:54 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Skinny Puppy - Love. The version on Bites does this right at the beginning, and it used to make me think something was wrong with my copy. (I happen to prefer this version to the one on Mind.)
posted by ifjuly at 2:54 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Japan 'Quiet Life', there is a stop at the end of each chorus, and a very distinct STOP... at 3:00.
Tommy James and the Shondells 'Crimson and Clover', right after 1:20
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 3:25 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Tommy James and the Shondells 'Crimson and Clover', right after 1:20
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 3:25 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
'Stevie Nix' by The Hold Steady has a heartbreaking moment near the end where it stops and then gets redemptive
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:06 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:06 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
music don't stop (nebulae's music DOES stop remix) by MeFi's Own (tm) hot bitch arsenal
posted by JDHarper at 6:34 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by JDHarper at 6:34 PM on June 18, 2013 [1 favorite]
Airborne Toxic Event - Missy
it's more of a pause, but he says "stopped" and it stops.
posted by abitha! at 5:56 AM on June 19, 2013 [1 favorite]
it's more of a pause, but he says "stopped" and it stops.
posted by abitha! at 5:56 AM on June 19, 2013 [1 favorite]
Tongues by Joywave is a good recent example of a song that does this. The effect is quite nice with an upbeat song like that.
posted by sciencemandan at 2:20 PM on June 20, 2013
posted by sciencemandan at 2:20 PM on June 20, 2013
Don't a lot of chain gang songs do this?
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 5:41 AM on June 27, 2013
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 5:41 AM on June 27, 2013
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posted by St. Peepsburg at 6:39 AM on June 18, 2013 [2 favorites]