Song Name Game...

[bebop]

How is this not a song? Just listen -allmusic

it's acid jazz, you know what that is???

Song: (song - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)
3 a: a short musical composition of words and music

I figured it would be okay to play by the same rules you have been, guess not.

Fun Fading Fast around here...
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Hypocrites (Talk)- Mr. Pepper

 

[hwkn]

Talk Talk-The Music Machine

 

[bebop]

Big Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce

Paul - prepare to have your fun erased by the fun police.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

WHY?

 

[yaz96]

I figured it would be okay to play by the same rules you have been, guess not.

You searched back over 19,000 posts for a song that I posted that was an instrumental, and then decided it was ok for you to post a classical music piece? Weird....

ok, since YOU are now nit-picking -

Colloquially, song is sometimes used to refer to any musical composition, including those without vocals. In music styles that are predominantly vocal-based, such as popular music, a composition without vocals may be called a song but is often called an instrumental.

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European classical music. In commercial music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renditions of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals. An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a -1 (pronounced minus one).

Instrumentals that have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 include

* "Theme from A Summer Place" - Percy Faith (1960)
* "Telstar" - Tornados (1962)
* "L'Amour Est Bleu (Love Is Blue)" - Paul Mauriat (1968)
* "Grazing in the Grass" - Hugh Masekela (1968)
* "Frankenstein" - Edgar Winter Group (1973)
* "Love's Theme" - Love Unlimited Orchestra (1974)
* "The Hustle" - Van McCoy (1975)
* "Theme from 'S.W.A.T.'" - Rhythm Heritage (1976)
* "A Fifth of Beethoven"- Walter Murphy" (1976)
* "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band"- Meco" (1977)
* "Rise" - Herb Alpert (1979)
* "Chariots of Fire" - Vangelis (1981)
* "Miami Vice Theme" - Jan Hammer (1985)

Other notable instrumentals

* "Out of Limits" - The Marketts (1964) #3
* "Soulful Strut" - Young-Holt Unlimited (1968) #5
* "Classical Gas" - Mason Williams (1968) #2
* "Popcorn - Hot Butter (1972) #9
* "Axel F" - Harold Faltermeyer (1985) #3

Are these not songs, just because they are instrumentals?

Would most people say that a Ventures album does not have songs on it, just because they are instrumental? Are Pink Floyd instrumentals not songs?


This all goes back to your choice of The Four Seasons, written by Vivaldi, not instrumentals. There are many classical "songs" if you would have liked to have played one of those (and used the performer, not the composer). Your choice of the Four Seasons was wrong, not because it is an instrumental piece, it is wrong because it is not a song, it is a collection of four concertos. And also back to Bobby's assertion, you used the composer, not a performer.

As for this game, I believe the definition of "song" would be - ask 100 people on the street if this particular composition is a song, if 99.9 percent say yes, then you have a song.

Maybe you should just stick with the Millencolin catalog, you were doing fine then.






Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies - Machine Head

 

[Paul Wozniak]

Welcome to The Machine - Pink Floyd

 

[Bobby]

The Big Change - Big Mama Thornton

big wheels keep on turning-tina turner

Big Log -- Robert Plant

talk dirty to me-poison

Ummm.. HiFi, Big Wheeels Keep On Turning are part of the lyrics to Proud Mary.You can't use part of the lyric unless it is in the song title. ripnbigc followed up and it all fits fine so we carry on.

Dirty Robber - The Fabulous Wailers

 

[HIFI]

ooops!!!!

 

[Bobby]

OK, we are getting complicated here. Paul, the title of the song is Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, not Big Bad... we go back to start over with ripnbigc's Big Log - Robert Plant.

Big Daddy - The Orlons

 

[starman345]

Twist of the knife - The Fabulous Thunderbirds

 

[Bobby]

Goody, back on track

Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers

 

[jeff2k5]

Shout And Scream--Teddy Pendergrass

 

[yaz96]

Is It Good to You - Teddy Riley

 

[starman345]

Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals

 

[Bobby]

Too Old to Rock 'N' Roll, Too Young to Die - Jethro Tull

 

[yaz96]

Too Old to Die Young - Moe Bandy


whew!

 

[Bobby]

Too Old To Go 'way Little Girl- Janis Ian

 

[yaz96]

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury & the Blockheads

 

[bebop]

You searched back over 19,000 posts for a song that I posted that was an instrumental, and then decided it was ok for you to post a classical music piece? Weird....

ok, since YOU are now nit-picking -

Colloquially, song is sometimes used to refer to any musical composition, including those without vocals. In music styles that are predominantly vocal-based, such as popular music, a composition without vocals may be called a song but is often called an instrumental.

This all goes back to your choice of The Four Seasons, written by Vivaldi, not instrumentals.

Huh?


Your definition is all the more reason Four Seasons should be allowed. Even Bobby said it is okay for a song. If only you'd been more colloquial in the first place, then there would be no problem . So why start that standard now instead of before I posted 'Four Seasons'? (I asked a couple people if Four Seasons was a song written by Vivaldi and they said yes - so conversationally/colloquially it's just fine.)

Double standard festival.

BTW - I just typed in 'theme' and your's came up. It took 1.5 seconds to do the search, no need to wade through 19,000 posts. Four Seasons is an instrumental.

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The Four Seasons (Vivaldi Violin Concerto In e Major) - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, G. Schwarz, Vivaldi Baroque Group

 

[jbernardi]

Funny How Love Slips Away - Narvel Felts