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Bouncing Souls - Wish Me Well (You Can Go To Hell)
Beatles - She Said She Said
That reminds me, Get Out Of My House works too.
White Stripes- It’s True That We Love One Another
How about this exchange from Highlands by Bob Dylan:
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Nothing Better by The Postal Service. Not that great as far as lyrics goes, but the singer’s angst positively ripples through the male lead’s parts, and the nearly-unshakable female’s voice show that she feels something as well but has made up her mind not to fall for his heartbreak again.
Arguments seem to crop up frequently in the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan.
Take, for example, the trio "I am so proud " from The Mikado, wherein Ko-Ko, Pish-Tush and Pooh-Bah argue over which among them should volunteer to have his head chopped off.
Or the song "In a contemplative fashion " from The Gondoliers. The plot is complicated as all get-out, but essentially, Gianetta and Tessa, lately married to Marco and Giuseppi (respectively), have been told that one of the two gentlemen (but nobody knows which) was already married. In his infancy. By the end of the song, it turns into something of a catfight between the characters of Gianetta and Tessa.
The Pirates of Penzance has numerous argument songs.
Young Frederic, who has been at sea since he was eight years old, has not looked upon any other woman’s face in all that time except for that of Ruth – his former nursemaid. She has convinced him that she is an attractive prospect for marriage (I know, eewwww)…until he catches sight of General Stanley’s chrous of nubile wards. Now better acquainted with youthful feminine pulchritude, Frederic turns on Ruth in anger, and they sing the hilariously melodramatic duet “O false one, You have deceived me!”
In the Act I finale, Frederic and Mabel, who have known each other all of 15 minutes, are already pondering marriage (Hey, this is light opera. You want reality? Look out the window!). Suddenly Ruth enters and flings herself at Frederic’s feet, begging him to reconsider. As the two argue back and forth, the chorus of pirates joins in, lending their full support to each side in turn.
I’d better stop now. I could go on with this all day.
You’ve got the right group, but I was thinking of Your Father and I, a duet where a man and woman describe the conception and birth of their child. Their recollections differ.
*I’ll remember the birth
For the rest of my time on this land
Your mother sweating buckets
And me holding onto her hand
Well your father was absent.
He claimed he couldn’t find the ward
Just tugging on mescal
Trying to eat the umbilical cord*
You can just picture Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor singing that, can’t you? And then stabbing each other.
“Master of the House” from Les Miserables has the inkeeper going on about how awesome he is, then his wife chimes in with what a jerkwad he is. It’s really well done on stage. They banter back and forth for a bit.
From pop music…
**Barenaked Ladies ** “Break Your Heart” has some arguing:
You said “what’d you think that I was gonna do
curl up and die just because of you?
I’m not that weak you know.
What’d you think that I was gonna do
try to make you love me as much as I love you?
How can you be so low.
You arrogant man. What do you think that I am?
My heart will be fine
Just I’m wasting my time”
**Ben Folds Five ** “Last Polka”:
She said “you’ve been pushing me like I was a sore tooth.
You can’t respect me cuz I’ve done so much for you.”
He said “well I hate that it’s come to this
but baby I was doin’ fine - how do you think that I survived
the other 25 before you?”
“America” from West Side Story, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Puerto Rican girls arguing in favor of Manhattan vs. boys who don’t like it.
Girls: Here we are free and we have rights.
Boys: Long as you stay on your own side.
Girls: Here we are free to do as we choose.
Boys: Free to wipe tables and shine shoes.
Boy: I’d like to go back to San Juan.
Girl: I know a boat you can get on. Bye-bye.
Years ago, Bollywood movies had a lot of men-vs.-women choruses doing a type of qawwali where the chorus of men teases women and the chorus of women teases them back, just like in Sondheim’s “America.” I can’t remember any lyrics offhand, but I used to have a cassette of songs like this. Nowadays they mostly use modern music for boys-vs.-girls songs. There’s been a lot of hip-hop influence in Bollywood lately.
Mr. Meadowlark highlights the collaboration between a man and a bird that quickly devolves into an argument (Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer’s version is exquisite).
Yah-Tah-Tah, Yah-Tah-Tah involves a bickering couple and Gone Fishin’ involves two friends ribbing each other.
I have a feeling I’ve probably missed this mentioned earlier in the thread, but I don’t *think *anyone’s mentioned "Hit the Road, Jack " yet?
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Suite Sister Mary by Queensrÿche. One of the best bands ever to use gratuitous umlauts. He’s trying to get her to leave, hoping that she can get away from the underground movement, she’s trying to get him to kill her. If you listen to the whole album, you get the full picture of their twisted homage-to-classic-courtly-love relationship.
Suite Sister Mary by Queensrÿche. One of the best bands ever to use gratuitous umlauts. He’s trying to get her to leave, hoping that she can get away from the underground, she’s trying to get him to kill her. If you listen to the whole album, you get the full picture of their twisted homage to classic courtly love.
I think the greatest dis record of all time is “No Vaseline” by Ice Cube. Fresh from an ugly breakup with his former band, N.W.A., Cube calls out his former bandmates and manager thusly:
It gets much, much better. The fact that Cube and Dr. Dre made up years later is a miracle, considering what was said on wax!
“The Real You” by the Suicide Machines. This song fits the OP so well I thought for sure it was one of the songs that inspired it.
Can’t believe we’ve missed this one. Bohemian Rhapsody:
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! No! We will not let you go (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (Let me go!)
Will not let you go (Let me go!)
Will not let you go (Let me go!)
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia Let me go!