albums where varations on a melody are repeated in distinctly different songs

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Comsat Angels - "Sleep No More"
- Eye Dance
- Diagram

I was going to list some Ennio Morricone, but obv that doesn't count.

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Arovane - Lillies

I think so anyway... although it doesn't really come off as well as I think he intended unfrotunately.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

thread titles where spelling mistakes... :(

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

smile?

― jackl (jackl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Movietone's second album--Day & Night

― prince rupert, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

would the "Frere Jacques" variations on bokaJ retsieM's Psychedelic Underground qualify?

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

pretty much all Spectrum LPs

― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Histoire de Melody Nelson...

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I guess we're not counting albums that have a little intro theme that returns at the end, or a brief reprise of the first song, or something like that.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

The Who: Tommy & Quadrophenia

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

the Gainsbourg is a good call. also Goraguer's La Planete Sauvage soundtrack.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (echoinggrove), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Randy Newman - "Good Old Boys"

― Major Bloodnok (Major Bloodnok), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

The Beatles - Abbey Road. I guess you could count Sgt. Pepper too, but that feels like cheating.

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young: Mirror Ball

The melody from I'm The Ocean comes back at the end of the album in the song Fallen Angel.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

"Phantom of the Paradise".

― Matt R, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Buried Inside - Chronoclast

The entire album does this to great effect.

― bobby.lasers (bobby.lasers), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Tears for Fears' Songs From the Big Chair - "Broken" & "Head Over Heels"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.

Farewell Transmission and John Henry Split My Heart both use the same outro melody.

― ..., Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Funkadelic - Funkadelic ... there's this great little guitar lick that features on 2 or 3 tracks

― grapple (grapple), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Fleetwood Mac - in Tusk lp - "i know im not wrong"/"not that funny"
some paul simon sort of coda in both songs:"here comes the night time..."

― verdicto, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon (distinct from the Medicine Head album the same name, right?)
Genesis, A Trick Of The Tail
Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Mansun, Six
and plenty more progrock albums, I am sure.

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Jesus And Mary Chain, Psychocandy..."Sowing Seeds" and "Just Like Honey"...I always confuse one for the other...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Phosphorescent's album from last year, "Aw Come Aw Wry", is a spectacular example of this, lots of repetition/variation throughout.

― Sam E., Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

"Here Come the Warm Jets" by Eno

― utter joob (smittish yout fawb dill), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Zappa did it on 200 Motels, Joe's Garage, You Are What You Is, and probably so many more that I am forgetting.

― baht, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young: Mirror Ball
The melody from I'm The Ocean comes back at the end of the album in the song Fallen Angel.

and then there's sleeps with angels, where he uses identical melodies -- and seemingly identical backing tracks -- for "western hero" and "train of love."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

"Here Come the Warm Jets" by Eno
On which tracks?

Todd Rundgren's Runt album is another example. Excerpts from the track "There Are No Words" are played by a string quartet at either end of the closing song "Birthday Carol".

Does Rust Never Sleeps not count on this thread?

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans does a lot of this too and includes plenty of quotes from earlier Yes tracks to boot. Japan's "My New Career" and "Methods Of Dance" on Gentlemen Take Polaroids are so melodically similar in parts as to suggest an intentional reprise, but I've never read that this was intended.

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

Pogues "If I Should Fall From Grace"... I always thought that the melodies from "Broad Majestic Shannon" and "Fairytale of New York" sounded very similar.

― richard maggot, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers: "We Can Be Together" and the title track

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Roger Waters - "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking."

Someone metioned Spectrum, and I'd note that Spacemen 3/Spectrum recycled the melody from "Honey" at least 3 or 4 times.

Pretty much any concept album.

― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't Neutral Milk Hotel's "On Avery Island" have two songs with the exact same melody?

― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

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