The Wait by Evil Nine. Awesome song, that album was great.
I've always wondered what the song was about. I try not to think about it too hard because I think I prefer it as a misspelling. I think I like it as "The Weight" and the song is about the paradoxical sense of relief in getting caught.
(I like how the person who made this video just tosses Val Kilmer in there, most likely has no idea right? but it was the best audio quality I could find quickly)
I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head Hey, mister, can you tell me, where a man might find a bed? He just grinned and shook my hand, "No" was all he said.
Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free Take a load off Fanny, and you put the load right on me
Waiting in his cell to walk to the gallows, I offer Marty Robbins' They're Hanging Me Tonight. Maybe not the best song about waiting, but one deeply moving nonetheless.
"Worthless Lie" by The Beautiful South, probably the darkest song about waiting ever. The narrator really loves a girl and waits to get up the nerve to talk to her. Romantic, huh? Nope, he's a stalker and fantasizes about them dying together. In the end he's just about to meet her but she gets hit by a car instead and dies in hospital. Misery for everyone. So disturbing it makes the Velvet Underground sound like the Wiggles.
@Ignorant He has a nice voice and stage presence, from the snippets I've seen of him, but his choices make him seem to me like he's headed for Vegas or a sitcom.
Ooo, ooo, I have another one! "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" by Les Paul & Mary Ford. Ok, the lyrics are kinda dippy at first glance, but they were originally a metaphor for waiting for the end of WW1. And that electric guitar, especially during the solo, is just brilliant. Without Les Paul, rock music probably never would have happened as we know it today. Dude was the Vini Reilly or Yngwie Malmsteen of his era, and was so influential that even 65 years later 37% of US households own a Gibson guitar named after him.
@JoeSeadog As good as so many other songs here are...sigh....
i first heard these when so v young, prob still know what song comes next for every Beatles US album release during the time the band was together, and pretty much know all the lyrics except for the ones i misunderstood at the time. Just young kid learning, 'cause that was the water one swam in.
Now i hear these songs every so often, and if i dont just background them, if i listen...omg. i possess no musical knowledge, but i can hear how tight they are, so finely composed and put together. I can so understand why they rocked the world.
I temember decades ago reading a Bob Dylan interview. He talked about a time around 1963-1964 or so, the Beatles music had just hit the US, and he was driving across the Rockies. And a station played 2 Beatles songs and then commercial. So he punched another station and landed on another Beatles song, then commercial, so he punched another station and got a Beatles song.
He had this sense of a special, disorientating moment; and stopped the car, with engine running. And kept punching stations, and he never had to wait too long to hear a Beatles song. And finally got back on the road, with the feeling that some marker had been passed, and the culture maps of the past wouldn't help much in the future.
Here are a few songs which touch on waiting & are a bit out of the mainstream. I discovered Sia via Zero 7's "In The Waiting Line." Mark Knopfler. I'm an enormous fan. People know his music, but not necessarily his name.
"Will you and your friend come around Are you and your friend gonna get on down..."
"Behind my back, lord You made a fool of me Don't do jack And don't wait up for me"
I'm surprised this thread didn't get much, much longer (Jimi Hendrix- Wait until tomorrow, c'mon). My top choice was Garcia/ Grisman doing Jimmy Cliff's Sitting Here in Limbo, and even though it's cheating I'm adding two more, albeit from different genres. Kate Wolf- Emma Rose
I’m Waiting for the Man, is Lou Reed’s tale of a junkie’s ride to Harlem to score $26 worth of heroin from “the man,” a drug dealer.
“Everything about that song holds true,” Reed later said in Rolling Stone. “Except the price.”
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" by Foreigner
@lakersfankb81 I was just about to post that. You saved me the trouble :-)
@heartny
@heartny same here.
Waiting on the world to change - John Mayer
The Wait by Evil Nine. Awesome song, that album was great.
I've always wondered what the song was about. I try not to think about it too hard because I think I prefer it as a misspelling. I think I like it as "The Weight" and the song is about the paradoxical sense of relief in getting caught.
(I like how the person who made this video just tosses Val Kilmer in there, most likely has no idea right? but it was the best audio quality I could find quickly)
@thismyusername Val played Jim in The Doors movie.
@2many2no I know but do you think the video "compiler" has any idea it was Val instead of Jim?
Paula Cole- I don't wanna wait. DUH.
I always think of Anticipation sung by Carly Simon while the ketchup slowly oozes out of the bottle...
The Weight - The Band
I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead
I just need some place where I can lay my head
Hey, mister, can you tell me, where a man might find a bed?
He just grinned and shook my hand, "No" was all he said.
Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny, and you put the load right on me
@ThreeTrees - ISWYDT
@ThreeTrees
Can't find a vid link that doesn't start with an advert.
Here's one w ad, vid from Easy Rider.
Green Day - Waiting. Uh... duh.
"Fatty Girl" - LL Cool J.
Oh wait, you said wait not weight. Oops.
Stones - Waiting On a Friend.
@irishbyblood
@f00l Thank you!
Waiting in his cell to walk to the gallows, I offer Marty Robbins' They're Hanging Me Tonight. Maybe not the best song about waiting, but one deeply moving nonetheless.
@MrsPavlov
From an era when the songs weren't padded. That was great.
@MrsPavlov I fucking love Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is one of my favourite albums of all time.
Genesis — Man on the Corner
Here's an earworm for y'all. Let's Think of Something to Do While We're Waiting. Mr. Rogers. (sung by Ricky Skaggs)
We Used to Wait by Arcade Fire
"Worthless Lie" by The Beautiful South, probably the darkest song about waiting ever. The narrator really loves a girl and waits to get up the nerve to talk to her. Romantic, huh? Nope, he's a stalker and fantasizes about them dying together. In the end he's just about to meet her but she gets hit by a car instead and dies in hospital. Misery for everyone. So disturbing it makes the Velvet Underground sound like the Wiggles.
I like "Right Here" by Staind.
Anticipation
Justin Bieber Waiting on You
@Ignorant
He has a nice voice and stage presence, from the snippets I've seen of him, but his choices make him seem to me like he's headed for Vegas or a sitcom.
Ooo, ooo, I have another one! "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" by Les Paul & Mary Ford. Ok, the lyrics are kinda dippy at first glance, but they were originally a metaphor for waiting for the end of WW1. And that electric guitar, especially during the solo, is just brilliant. Without Les Paul, rock music probably never would have happened as we know it today. Dude was the Vini Reilly or Yngwie Malmsteen of his era, and was so influential that even 65 years later 37% of US households own a Gibson guitar named after him.
@Starblind
Wish that were MTV.
Making me choose between Ian MacKaye and Paul Westerberg :(
"Wait" by Get Set Go
What about "Waiting on a Woman"?
@conandlibrarian That's a good one. What about his When I Get Where I'm Going, would you include that as a waiting song?
Or maybe, "Wait for You"
Wait - The Beatles was the first I thought of.
@JoeSeadog
As good as so many other songs here are...sigh....
i first heard these when so v young, prob still know what song comes next for every Beatles US album release during the time the band was together, and pretty much know all the lyrics except for the ones i misunderstood at the time. Just young kid learning, 'cause that was the water one swam in.
Now i hear these songs every so often, and if i dont just background them, if i listen...omg. i possess no musical knowledge, but i can hear how tight they are, so finely composed and put together. I can so understand why they rocked the world.
I temember decades ago reading a Bob Dylan interview. He talked about a time around 1963-1964 or so, the Beatles music had just hit the US, and he was driving across the Rockies. And a station played 2 Beatles songs and then commercial. So he punched another station and landed on another Beatles song, then commercial, so he punched another station and got a Beatles song.
He had this sense of a special, disorientating moment; and stopped the car, with engine running. And kept punching stations, and he never had to wait too long to hear a Beatles song. And finally got back on the road, with the feeling that some marker had been passed, and the culture maps of the past wouldn't help much in the future.
I Can't Wait - The Mamas and the Papas
"Please Mister Postman"
The Marvelettes
@sligett
The Rolling Stones - Time Is On My Side:
Don't Want to Wait Anymore - The Tubes
Hypnotize, System of a Down
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc
@Superllama7
Replace the initial "m" with "www" to fix the embed link.
@f00l Ah, thanks!
She's Waiting - Eric Clapton
Here are a few songs which touch on waiting & are a bit out of the mainstream. I discovered Sia via Zero 7's "In The Waiting Line."
Mark Knopfler. I'm an enormous fan. People know his music, but not necessarily his name.
"Will you and your friend come around
Are you and your friend gonna get on down..."
"Behind my back, lord
You made a fool of me
Don't do jack
And don't wait up for me"
I can't believe nobody's mentioned "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Now thr thread is starting to not wanna load.
Implied waiting:
The incomparable Ms Lauper
Possibly about waiting, among other things. Mostly, any excuse to post this will do.
Ohhh, Mag Fields: 'God Wants Us to Wait'
The Wait - Killing Joke/Metallica
Spring Heeled Jack - Waiting, Watching
Also...
Bob Marley - I'm Still Waiting
Last one... from my all-time favorite band...
Pilfers - Waitin' 4 U
Maybe Weezer, Waiting on You
cuz, Weezer.
Or did I mean Bob Dylan, Waiting for You?
No, it was Radiohead, There, There, I'm sure.
Aw shit, it was Bonnie Raitt!
Love Sneakin' Up On You
Blink-182 All The Small Things
I second this:
I'm surprised this thread didn't get much, much longer (Jimi Hendrix- Wait until tomorrow, c'mon). My top choice was Garcia/ Grisman doing Jimmy Cliff's Sitting Here in Limbo, and even though it's cheating I'm adding two more, albeit from different genres.
Kate Wolf- Emma Rose
Bukka White- Promise True and Grand