We have had a thread about medleys of songs, but what about the opposite where one song actually is two songs in one.
Songs like Layla by Derek and The Dominos where it has two parts with separate music that could both be songs of their own.
I have also found these to be the same:
Colours by Phil Collins
One Bourbon, One Scotch, And One Beer by George Thorogood
Estranged by Guns n Roses
Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meat Loaf (could actually be three songs)
Any other songs that could be considered two songs in one.
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Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner could be three songs.
Quote from: GCrites80s on October 10, 2014, 09:59:35 AM
Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner could be three songs.
and one could be left off the album, really.
Anything with movements (basically any long prog or prog-esque song. Likewise classical if there's words making it a song) can be split if you wanted to.
Quote from: english si on October 10, 2014, 10:32:45 AM
Anything with movements (basically any long prog or prog-esque song. Likewise classical if there's words making it a song) can be split if you wanted to.
I am looking for long steady movements that abruptly change.
Karn Evil 9. Oh wait.
Rush's "Hemispheres." It's broken down into several parts on the album notes, but it's one big long track on the CD.
Quote from: roadman65 on October 10, 2014, 09:41:45 AMOne Bourbon, One Scotch, And One Beer by George Thorogood
It
is a cover of two separate songs: The House Rent Boogie by John Lee Hooker, and One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer by Amos Milburn (which was later covered by the aforementioned John Lee Hooker).
So I guess that this belongs to the "Songs where the famous version is a cover (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=13632.0)" thread.
"No Sugar Tonight" by the Guess Who
"Eye in the Sky" by Alan Parsons Project (in the full version there is a long musical intro that is not all that similar to the song where the lyrics are)
"I Need a Lover that Won't Drive Me Crazy" by John Cougar (similar to above but not as big a difference IMO)
Mapmikey
Band on the Run....three songs in five minutes
"A Day in the Life" was created by putting together two uncompleted songs, although if you split it neither one would really be long enough.
I'm not sure whether "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" by Chicago is one song or two. It's certainly a single track on the record. Either way, I've always felt the "Get Away" part doesn't add anything, although it's not long enough to be a song on its own.
"I'm a Cadillac/El Camino Dolo Roso" by Mott the Hoople has a long instrumental outro by Mick Ralphs that doesn't really fit with the first part of the song. For some reason, several of his compositions with Mott the Hoople were of this style and had a dual title. "Ready for Love/After Lights" is another one (come to think of it, "Ready for Love" bears mention in the "hit songs that were actually covers" thread, since it was originally a Mott the Hoople cut).
I'm Your Captain / Closer to Home - Grand Funk Railroad
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In - 5th Dimension
We will Rock You / We are the Champions - Queen
Knights in White Satin / (bad poetry) - Moody Blues
Quote from: Big John on October 10, 2014, 05:46:54 PM
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In - 5th Dimension
We will Rock You / We are the Champions - Queen
Knights in White Satin / (bad poetry) - Moody Blues
"We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" are two separate songs. They're just usually played together on the radio. Note in concert Queen did not necessarily play them one after the other.
B-Boy Bouillabaisse by The Beastie Boys could easily be 10 or 11.
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 10, 2014, 06:21:08 PM
Quote from: Big John on October 10, 2014, 05:46:54 PM
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In - 5th Dimension
We will Rock You / We are the Champions - Queen
Knights in White Satin / (bad poetry) - Moody Blues
"We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" are two separate songs. They're just usually played together on the radio. Note in concert Queen did not necessarily play them one after the other.
Actually the single of Nights in White Satin leaves out intro and the recitation at the end and plays the verses and choruses.
Yes We Will Rock You was the B Side of We Are The Champions and not intended to be one whole song.
Aquarius and Let The Sunshine In are two separate songs already.
My opinion is that none of the songs could easily be split into two songs. If they were meant to be two songs, they would have been written that way.
Shorter, medley-like songs like "Band on the Run" have independent parts, but none of them would have worked as full songs.
Long, prog-rock masterpieces were written with movements and multiple parts in mind.
Eminem - Bad Guy
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 10, 2014, 03:36:45 PM
I'm not sure whether "Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" by Chicago is one song or two. It's certainly a single track on the record. Either way, I've always felt the "Get Away" part doesn't add anything, although it's not long enough to be a song on its own.
''Head Over Heels/Broken'' by Tears for Fears is the same way.
One song that can definitely be two songs is ''Need You Tonight/ Mediate'' by INXS.
Quote from: Dr Frankenstein on October 10, 2014, 12:11:19 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 10, 2014, 09:41:45 AMOne Bourbon, One Scotch, And One Beer by George Thorogood
It is a cover of two separate songs: The House Rent Boogie by John Lee Hooker, and One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer by Amos Milburn (which was later covered by the aforementioned John Lee Hooker).
So I guess that this belongs to the "Songs where the famous version is a cover (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=13632.0)" thread.
Holy crap, Amos Milburn! I had no idea.
Quote from: roadman65 on October 11, 2014, 03:35:49 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 10, 2014, 06:21:08 PM
Quote from: Big John on October 10, 2014, 05:46:54 PM
Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In - 5th Dimension
We will Rock You / We are the Champions - Queen
Knights in White Satin / (bad poetry) - Moody Blues
"We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" are two separate songs. They're just usually played together on the radio. Note in concert Queen did not necessarily play them one after the other.
Actually the single of Nights in White Satin leaves out intro and the recitation at the end and plays the verses and choruses.
Yes We Will Rock You was the B Side of We Are The Champions and not intended to be one whole song.
Aquarius and Let The Sunshine In are two separate songs already.
It is weird to hear let the sunshine in without Aquarius before it, and it is weird to hear Aquarius without Let the sunshine in.
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Paul and Linda McCartney was made of song fragments stitched together.
Funny thing is I used to think that Uncle Albert and Admiral Halsey were one song. The same for Elton John's Funeral For A Friend which I though had a long intro to it, but later discovered that what I thought was the intro was the song, and the spoken part of what I thought was part of it was the next song on the album.
In retrospect I think the sung part of The Who's Tommy Overture should be the next song as Overtures are not supposed to be vocal. Plus the words describing the narrative of Captain Walker coming home, should be in the next song because the lyrics go well together.
Just found this thread...
Donna Summer has at least 3 songs that are two, in the sense that they start out as a "slow dance", but abruptly become a disco tune. Note that there is a version of "Last Dance" where the slow part is in the middle, rather than at the beginning (someone told me it was the Canadian version).
"Mr. Blue Sky" by ELO has a separate movement at the end, that, until recently, I didn't realize was part of the same song.
"Stone in Love" by Journey has a lengthy, (mostly) instrumental interlude as its second part.
Even "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin becomes a second song, starting with the da-da-da, da-da-da guitar chords.
You could almost say the same about "Hey Jude" by The Beatles, with the naaaa na na na-na-na na part.
In the "actually two songs" category, you got
- "The Load-Out"/"Stay", by Jackson Browne. The first part gives a lengthy description of concert tour logistics, and the second has the "Oh won't you stayyyyy, just a little bit longer."
- "Foreplay"/"Long Time", by Boston
- "AD 1928"/"Rockin the Paradise", and "Half-Penny, Two-Penny"/"AD 1958", both on the Paradise Theater album by Styx
- "Working My Way Back to You"/"Forgive Me, Girl", sung by The Spinners. They did the same with "Cupid"/"I've Loved You for a Long Time"
Feeling That Way/Anytime That You Want Me by Journey
Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid by Zeppelin
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? by Soft Cell
Starship Trooper, I've Seen All Good People, Close to the Edge, And You and I, plus others by Yes
The Trees, Closer to the Heart by Rush
Intro/Sweet Jane by Lou Reed
Train Kept a Rollin by Aerosmith
Quote from: roadman65 on October 11, 2014, 03:35:49 PM
Aquarius and Let The Sunshine In are two separate songs already.
Yet, I've never heard them separately
How many in Tubular Bells ??
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 03, 2016, 09:57:32 PM
Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid by Zeppelin
Of course, they always get played together, like "Eruption" and "You Really Got Me," but like those this is actually a pair of two songs.
Quote from: Jardine on February 04, 2016, 12:03:40 AM
How many in Tubular Bells ??
Two. They had to split the album to fit two sides!
Quote from: Mapmikey on October 10, 2014, 12:46:06 PM
"No Sugar Tonight" by the Guess Who
Having this as a separate song was the original intent, but the record company was concerned about the short length so they "asked" the band to combine the song with "New Mother Nature".
Quote from: US71 on February 03, 2016, 10:51:58 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 11, 2014, 03:35:49 PM
Aquarius and Let The Sunshine In are two separate songs already.
Yet, I've never heard them separately
Same as We Will Rock You and We are the Champions (although I occasion hear just one). Why are the constantly played together?
Quote from: Big John on October 10, 2014, 05:46:54 PMKn Nights in White Satin / (bad poetry) - Moody Blues
FTFY. The poetry segment is actually titled
Late LamentQuote from: US71 on February 03, 2016, 10:51:58 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on October 11, 2014, 03:35:49 PM
Aquarius and Let The Sunshine In are two separate songs already.
Yet, I've never heard them separately
You obviously never saw
Hair nor heard its soundtrack album, be it the musical (which debuted in 1968) or the movie version (1979); which is where those 2 songs originated.
Aquarius was the first song of the production and
Let the Sunshine In was the finale. The latter had a much different lead-in than the 5th-Dimension's transition and is actually titled
The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In).
Since you haven't heard those 2 songs separately, allow me to provide you with such:
Aquarius from the Original Cast of
Hair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB90kgSnqFE)
The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) from the Original Cast of
Hair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWBEam2U-KQ)
Surprised nobody's mentioned Rush's 2112 yet...
Quote from: froggie on February 04, 2016, 04:27:43 PM
Surprised nobody's mentioned Rush's 2112 yet...
Cause they said two, not five or six. :-D
Quote from: hbelkins on February 04, 2016, 05:02:29 PM
Quote from: froggie on February 04, 2016, 04:27:43 PM
Surprised nobody's mentioned Rush's 2112 yet...
Cause they said two, not five or six. :-D
Because it's split up into separate tracks on the album/cd.
I was in the supermarket the other day and heard No Sugar Tonight without New Mother Nature. Plus there's a hard rock version of We Will Rock You a la carte on Live Killers. Speaking of Queen, Brighton Rock is certainly 4 or 5 songs in 1.
In a Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly is about 5 or 6 songs in 1.
And one more from the Captain Obvious department: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by CSN
There is a Jackson Browne song from 1978, that has a first song (forgot its title) followed by a cover of "Stay", which was made popular years earlier by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs.
Quote from: RoadWarrior56 on February 04, 2016, 05:39:24 PM
There is a Jackson Browne song from 1978, that has a first song (forgot its title) followed by a cover of "Stay", which was made popular years earlier by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs.
The Load Out/Stay. Already mentioned.
Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1 by Elgar. I feel it's more like two tunes in one, one of them being the well known Land of Hope and Glory.
Gordon Lightfoot's Cabaret - from the Summer Side of Life album - qualifies under the "actually two songs" category. In fact, on the studio version, Lightfoot intentionally pauses between the first part (the "Yesterday's a Cabaret" portion) and the second part (with the "I'd like to tell her that I miss her so" chorus.). Musically, both parts are entirely different.
The second part also qualifies as a roadgeek song, as it has references to driving in California.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on February 04, 2016, 05:38:06 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on February 04, 2016, 05:02:29 PM
Quote from: froggie on February 04, 2016, 04:27:43 PM
Surprised nobody's mentioned Rush's 2112 yet...
Cause they said two, not five or six. :-D
Because it's split up into separate tracks on the album/cd.
Not on my CD (remastered studio album). A single, 21-and-change minute track.
I'd say "Sweet Child of Mine" and "November Rain" by Guns 'N Roses could be split into two songs each.
The title track of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help from My Friends" by The Beatles are also two connected songs. However, you'll occasionally hear the second song by itself, but rarely if ever hear the first one.
Then there's that string of songs on the B-side of Abbey Road.
"Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day has five distinct movements. Considering that the American Idiot album was later the basis for a musical, this shouldn't come as a surprise.
LGLS991
Quote from: lepidopteran on February 07, 2016, 12:03:50 AM
The title track of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help from My Friends" by The Beatles are also two connected songs. However, you'll occasionally hear the second song by itself, but rarely if ever hear the first one.
Then there's that string of songs on the B-side of Abbey Road.
And on the B-Side of Sergeant Pepper you have the Sergeant Pepper reprise and A Day in the Life tied together. More often than not A Day in the Life (which is a 2 song sandwich itself) is played separately.
Suite for 20 G by James Taylor ('70)
It was three incomplete songs strung together so Taylor could finish the album by the deadline and earn the $20,000 the label was going to pay him.
I may have mentioned this before, but in the LP days, the album rock/classic rock station I listened to most (WKQQ in Lexington), and others, played "Livin' Lovin' Maid" and "Ramble On" together as if they were one song. When CDs came out, they quit doing that and started playing "Heartbreaker" and "Livin' Lovin' Maid" together. I'm not sure why they made this change.
"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," Black Sabbath
"Love to Love," UFO
"This Kid's/Between the Walls," UFO
"Free Will," Rush
"To Live is to Die," Metallica
Oh well- Fleetwood Mac
QuoteWhen CDs came out, they quit doing that and started playing "Heartbreaker" and "Livin' Lovin' Maid" together. I'm not sure why they made this change.
This is the set you'd typically hear together in the Upper Midwest, dating to the pre-CD days.
QuoteOh well- Fleetwood Mac
Familiar with "part 1". Did they ever have a "part 2?"
Quote from: Mapmikey on October 10, 2014, 12:46:06 PM
"Eye in the Sky" by Alan Parsons Project (in the full version there is a long musical intro that is not all that similar to the song where the lyrics are)
That opening part is called "Sirius".
Quote from: lepidopteranIn the "actually two songs" category, you got
...Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight by the Beatles, off the Abbey Road album.
Don't forget "The End" from the same album.
Here's one I didn't see mentioned: Fade to Black by Metallica. At least four parts (the intro, the part in Am, the part in Em, then the outro)
And possibly "Take me Out" by Franz Ferdinand.
Can't believe "Come Sail Away" hasn't made the list yet.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on February 17, 2016, 07:33:05 AM
Can't believe "Come Sail Away" hasn't made the list yet.
Uh-oh... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOWK7Tam01M)
Quote from: OracleUsr on February 16, 2016, 10:41:53 PM
And possibly "Take me Out" by Franz Ferdinand.
I'd say no, since the bridge is sort of a reprise of the beginning, lyrics-wise.
Quote from: Takumi on February 17, 2016, 09:38:17 AM
Quote from: OracleUsr on February 16, 2016, 10:41:53 PM
And possibly "Take me Out" by Franz Ferdinand.
I'd say no, since the bridge is sort of a reprise of the beginning, lyrics-wise.
Perhaps, but the two parts of the song remind me a little of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
Quote from: froggie on February 16, 2016, 03:09:59 PM
Quote from: lepidopteranIn the "actually two songs" category, you got
...Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight by the Beatles, off the Abbey Road album.
On the album It's titled as 3 songs Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End