Happiness Is A Warm Gun by the Beatles. Question by the Moodies. What other songs are made up of separate songs successfully stitched together? Carry On by CSN&Y? That sounds like separate bits to me.
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I'm not sure if it counts but "Defecting Grey" by the Pretty Things contains so many different elements it's hard to believe they were all written together.
We always say Metric’s “Help I’m Alive” is “the best three songs.” It’s so disjointed & shouldn’t work, but it kinda has the same effect as a meal with contrasting textures!
Also, answering my own post. Kevin Ayers did it quite a bit, retitling songs or stitching bits of old songs into new songs. Can't be arsed to list them. If you know you know.
Ah! Possibly misunderstood the post. Not sure if it was composed in that way by stitching different songs together but I’m always struck by how it has about 10 unique sections!
It's not quite the same, but it was composed using a bit of one other song. Have you heard the fragment of the My Street demo they reversed to get the title and part of the melody, then excerpted for the middle 8?
I strongly suspect he did. It gets difficult after a while to second guess the creative process, to disentangle what are adventurous chord or key or tempo changes from 'oh I know, I'll use that bit from another song.'
"Live & Let Die" is another composite-biggie. If you listen to it with that in mind it's actually quite odd, almost like a side-long epic compressed into 3-and-a-bit pop-friendly minutes?
Tell me about it. I rapidly regretted posting it. I've still got people telling me Question by the Moodies is a good example when it was in the original effing post. Facebook levels of engagement.
“Merry Xmas Everybody”. Jim Lea had most of the tune after being challenged to write a Christmas song but he needed a chorus so repurposed an earlier Noddy tune “buy me a rocking chair” from 1967.
Again, is that documented? Show me the evidence. In fact has Arthur Lee ever talked about process in an interview? If we're going to cite Love songs with sudden lurched in tempo and perception we be building a very long list.
Unsure if this is one body of work or a collection of songs sharing the same theme stitched together to form one?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3I7CLy70WtI
Yeah, the twofer with that and Vampire On Titus was my entry-point, was obsessed with them for several years - in part, because a track like this hinted that Bob had limitless archives of brilliance (and also similarly limitless archives of trash, and the joy was sorting between the two).
This may mean nothing but I'll ask anyway... does the name Rustic Rod mean anything to you? He ran a tiny mail order distro back then and, as far as I'm aware, was the first person to import GBV's stuff into the UK - he raved about them and basically forced me to buy that 2-fer CD!
Oh yes - fairly sure I bought CDs off Rustic Rod back in the day! Probs GBV stuff, as well. But I searched out the twofer after Melody Maker put Wished I Was A Giant on one of their covermount cassettes, and I was sold on its fusion of Beatles pop and Genesis weirdness.
I ended up with a copy of this c/o the Rustic... b/w sleeve obvs. It's not quite 100% Rock God Pollard but it's definitely pretty good considering it's their debut... Reckoning vibes, etc.
Is that documented? I'd find it hard to tell with Can. Who knows what the collaging processes are. And if anyone suggests anything by Faust I'm deleting the entire thread!
See, I was going to reply to this but then I read the thread and thought no, I misunderstood the brief. Because there are songs that sound like two stitched together but I don’t know if they were or are just different movements within one song.
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The shit Pandora I use always splits them up 🙄
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gwjp1ku7funqm5t953onx/MyStreet.mp3?rlkey=90jphujoywqjazlhnz4n8yc9j&e=1&dl=0
Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen. A three-part song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocp7QUizU5M
and pretty much any Rush song longer than 4 minutes.
https://youtu.be/FXRzYbaSSnA?si=HiNPXZqAfj0DveG5
https://youtu.be/9hKYpNpajpI?si=tYAzPvEQm4rWL0qP
“Heart of Glass” by Blondie, maybe.