songs_within_songs now_now jane loves songs within songs. have you ever heard a song that ubruptly changes to a completely different song within the same track? sometimes the original song comes back around but you still have the unsettling feeling that the bridge had no business being there at all. it's as if one song drunkenly stumbled into another, realized its mistake and excused itself. i hear songs like this all the time and keep forgetting to write them down to add to jane's ever-growing list. if you know of any list them here for her listening pleasure. 100608 ... n_n anonanimal by andrew_bird 100608 ... n_n the island the decemberists 100608 ... n_n ed is a portal akron/family (the song is cohesive, but it has a weird folky guitar bit at the end that definitely wandered away from another song) 100608 ... lostgirl yay~ more additions to my growing blather playlist! thanks... 100608 ... jane the ones (yeah i said it) that i had in my mental list are queen - bohemian rhapsody wings - band on the run radiohead - paranoid android and possibly more - my mental list went through the wash cycle. 100608 ... j i guess day in the life would fit into your definition, too, n_n. it was a song that paul was writing separately that they actually decided to stick into the other. 100608 ... lostgirl okay, so bohemian rhapsody was the very first record i ever bought for myself...a 45 single from the downtown record store that has been gone now for many many many years! (yep, i just dated myself as being old, didn't i....) ouch. yikes. 100608 ... lostgirl incidentally, green day has quite a few songs within songs...like jesus of suburbia and 21st century breakdown... 100608 ... jane fleet_foxes - ragged wood 100615 ... j ah - i should mention that while i appreciate now_now's attempt to catalogue these songs_within_songs - the thing that i like is more like one multifaceted song - the song at the beginning does not return at all, in fact. not sure if that makes sense, but - yeah. 100615 ... raze i used to write a lot of these. then i got away from it for a while and had some fun with returning to more conventional song forms, trying to twist them out of shape in subtler ways. now i find myself returning to the songs within songs approach and applying what i learned from the return to songs without other songs hiding inside of them. something i never thought to try before that makes a change of musical scenery even more effective: having an entirely different lead singer come in for part of the song. i could get used to this again. i like it when music takes you somewhere you weren't expecting to go. 140406 what's it to you? who go blather from