Favorite song that's actually several songs?

[elperromagico]

I'll pick "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by the Beatles, which is four songs ("She's not a girl who misses much," "I need a fix," "Mother superior jumped the gun," and "happiness is a warm gun") welded together.

[tuvor]

1. Uh, Swing the Mood

by Jivebunny and the Mastermixers? Stars on 45?

Or do you mean like Bohemian Rhapsody?

[elperromagico]

4. Not medleys.

I'm talking about songs that were never released independent of their "mother song."

So, "Bohemian Rhapsody" - which must be at least four songs - certainly counts.

[tuvor]

5. But Bohemian Rhapsody is not my favorite.

Someone else can have it.

[elperromagico]

8. I certainly wasn't forcing it on you.

You asked if that was what I meant, and it is.

[tuvor]

11. Don't mind me.

Overtired and Christmas "cheer". Plus it's a school night.

Are there any examples from bands that appeared in the 80s and 90s?

[Brundle_Fly]

2. any thing

by the Cult.


chords, D C and G

[Lone Pawn]

3. "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles

And, for "Favorite Several Songs That Are Actually One Song," I'd pick either the B-side of Abbey Road from You Never Give Me Your Money to The End or Brian Wilson's SMiLE album.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Your choice wins by far over everything posted so far IMHO.

I think of B-side of Abbey Road as a medley, rather than a single song made up of different ones... Whereas I always consider "A Day In The Life" to be one song... But that's just me.

[brentspeak]

6. I would guess "Bohemian Rhapsody"

There's about a million songs in that one. Queen often did that type of thing -- "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions".

Then there's Paul McCartney and Wings' "Uncle Albert/Admiral (whatever)/Hands Across the Water...."

[elperromagico]

9. Also "Band on the Run."

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Some Velvet Morning

By Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood.

He sang about hooking up with a woman and getting drunk. She sang about being a hyperintelligent collective/multiple space-time entity named Phaedra.

And a beautiful song it is.

--p!

[norml]

10. I think that's just one song with several parts. Side two of Abbey Road

is a better example, along with Dark Side of the Moon, and Thick as a Brick.

[elperromagico]

14. No, those songs were written independent of each other

and then combined. The early demo version of "Happiness is a Warm Gun" demonstrates that.

[brentspeak]

12. Would "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" count?

Done first by Klaatu, later a hit by the Carpenters.

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. A Quick One (While He's Away)

[brentspeak]

16. Good snag

I can't believe I forgot that one. And, of course, there's the final medley in "Tommy".

[jpgray]

15. The BBC version of "Moon In June" by Soft Machine

Great stuff. At least five or six songs in that one.

[Goathead]

18. 2112 RUSH

[goodboy]

19. dark side.