# SongShitting, as in, "Thats a real good song, except for this part" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359 "2015-03-19T05:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/121 "2016-06-07T14:10:00Z")
I can’t believe this thread’s been around for over a year and no one has mentioned the third grader synth interlude in the middle of **Heart’s - Magic Man**. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/122 "2016-06-07T14:10:21Z")
**Eddie** , are you still writing “2015” on your checks? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/123 "2016-06-07T14:17:01Z")
At the end of Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman,” the trumpet comes in and IT’S OUT OF TUNE. Drills through my head like an earwig. Star Trek (TOS): lovely theme song with BONGO DRUMS throughout. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/124 "2016-06-07T14:42:14Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Well, not to pile on ELP but the acoustic guitar solo in the middle of “Take a Pebble” always drove me nuts - especially the hootin’ and hollerin’ and hand clapping at the end. Completely orthogonal to the rest of the song. I just heard that song for the first time in a long time, and I was thinking, you know, if you cut that silly middle part out, it would be a cool (but short) song. Another one to make good use of Sound Studio/Audacity is GFR’s I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home. That ending repeats longer than Hey Jude, and it’s even less interesting. Sure, it is evocative of a poor guy on a life raft in the huge ocean, but it’s not interesting! In a reverse version, I wonder if one should remove the entire singing part from John Cougar _sans_ Mellancamp’s I Need A Lover and just leave that long intro. Treat it like an instrumental. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/125 "2016-06-07T14:45:39Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > **Eddie** , are you still writing “2015” on your checks? 😃 **InstallLSC** might, considering he was the thread reviver. I always thought the ending of “Got to Get You Into My Life” felt tacked on, especially as it quickly fades out. And “For No One”'s ending felt too abrupt. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/126 "2016-06-07T15:51:46Z")
Had thought about its own thread for this, but I think here is better… (Some folks with complete disdain for this band need not comment) I am far from a dyed-in-the-wool deadhead, but I do like a good number of Grateful Dead tunes. That being said, they have more than one song where the bridges are apparent afterthoughts, and not very good ones at that - mostly contrived chord changes and off-kilt time signature mods that don’t jibe at all with the rest of the verses/choruses. _Cumberland Blues_ - “Make good money, five dollars a day…” _Dire Wolf_ - “I sat down to my supper, 'twas a bottle of red whisky…” _He’s Gone_ - “Goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange…” _High Time_ - “I was losing time…” _Let It Grow_ - “What shall we say, shall we call it by a name…” ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/127 "2016-06-07T18:19:06Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > > Repeat a thousand times. Steven Wright had a joke about that “I will now play everything the Beatles ever wrote… I won’t play all of Hey Jude” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/128 "2016-06-07T18:52:44Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > Nah, nah nah, na na na na! Hey Jude! > > Repeat a thousand times. > [@BurnMeUp](#): > > Steven Wright had a joke about that “I will now play everything the Beatles ever wrote… I won’t play all of Hey Jude” For all of those struggling to identify which “nah nah” song is being spoken about, I’ll just leave [this here](http://xkcd.com/851/). OTOH, that somehow lacks the “Hey Jude” branch, so I guess it’s still under development? 😕 ETA: found a slightly obscure updated version that fixes the noted deficiency. [Et voila](http://xkcd.com/851_make_it_better/)! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/129 "2016-06-07T19:23:26Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > **InstallLSC** might, considering he was the thread reviver. > > I always thought the ending of “Got to Get You Into My Life” felt tacked on, especially as it quickly fades out. And “For No One”'s ending felt too abrupt. If we had a sub-thread of Great Songs with Terrible Endings, I would nominate CS&N “Long Time Gone”. Where it could and should just stop, we get a few seconds of random organ noodling, following a silly little cymbal “ting”. WTF was that? The first record I ever bought was The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” and at the time, even with my adolescent untrained ear, I thought “this is a completely perfect wonderful song…except for that godawaful guitar solo. What were they thinking?” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/130 "2016-06-07T20:18:17Z")
I like Gordon Lightfoot, I like songs with a story, but let’s face it, _The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_ would have worked just as well if it were three minutes shorter. I could have done without verses 2,5 and 6. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/131 "2016-06-07T21:04:29Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The first record I ever bought was The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” and at the time, even with my adolescent untrained ear, I thought “this is a completely perfect wonderful song…except for that godawaful guitar solo. What were they thinking?” A friend (who was not too music savvy) and I were hanging around one day, and\* Eight Miles High \*came on the radio, and after the aforementioned solo, he chimes in with, _“They put that part in there just to piss off your parents”._ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/132 "2016-06-07T21:07:50Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I like Gordon Lightfoot, I like songs with a story, but let’s face it, _The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_ would have worked just as well if it were three minutes shorter. I could have done without verses 2,5 and 6. The extra verses help convey the heavy and interminable terror the crew of the doomed ship felt. Very atmospheric. 😃 ETA: The clues are right in the lyrics! > [@The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald](#): > > Does any one know where the love of God goes > When the [song] turn[s] the minutes to hours? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/133 "2016-06-07T22:00:01Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > Steven Wright had a joke about that “I will now play everything the Beatles ever wrote… I won’t play all of Hey Jude” According to Dave Barry, some of the Beatles are still singing the “na na na” part. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/134 "2016-06-07T22:18:54Z")
That dreadful sax solo in “The One Thing” by INXS. “When the Music’s Over” would be my favorite song by The Doors, if not for Robby Krieger’s horrible feedback-laden guitar solo plopped right in the middle like a great big steaming elephant turd. Seriously Robby, what drugs were you on?? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/135 "2016-06-07T22:21:03Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > If The first record I ever bought was The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” and at the time, even with my adolescent untrained ear, I thought “this is a completely perfect wonderful song…except for that godawaful guitar solo. What were they thinking?” They were thinking they were copying John Coltrane. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/136 "2016-06-07T22:24:52Z")
Here’s an obscure one: the epic piano solo in X-Japan’s “Art of Life”, which begins at the [15-minute mark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vVRK0yTt0Y&t=899) (the full song is 29 minutes long.) Starts off nice and sweet, but then descends into…eh, no words can describe. On the other hand, it’s one of those rare moments that goes from awesome to terrible all the way back around to awesome again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/137 "2016-06-07T22:33:42Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > They were thinking they were copying John Coltrane. Seriously. That’s as good an explanation as any. The alternative is “because they were high”, which was probably true, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/138 "2016-06-08T00:20:46Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > The extra verses help convey the heavy and interminable terror the crew of the doomed ship felt. Very atmospheric. 😃 > > ETA: The clues are right in the lyrics! I’ll agree with “interminable.” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/139 "2016-06-08T00:30:46Z")
The Church’s “Under the Milky Way” is a wonderful, beautiful song - except for the bagpipe solo in the middle. Were they miking something in the next studio and just left it in? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359/140 "2016-06-08T05:31:11Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The Church’s “Under the Milky Way” is a wonderful, beautiful song - except for the bagpipe solo in the middle. Were they miking something in the next studio and just left it in? Best sound from a Bagpipe? Landing on the bottom of an empty dumpster! The Next Best? Hitting a banjo on the way down! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songshitting-as-in-thats-a-real-good-song-except-for-this-part/715359.md?page=8)