Very nice pick, subby.

My pre-click guess was "Wonderful Tonight".

I was hoping it was going to be Type O Negative's "Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty of Infidelity" a.k.a. ""I Know You're farking Someone Else"

Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen
Home - Sheryl Crow

gruelurks: I was hoping it was going to be Type O Negative's "Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty of Infidelity" a.k.a. ""I Know You're farking Someone Else"

lol--I haven't listened to that in about 15 years. "...and don't think I don't know what you're doing, you stupid twat!"

"Me And Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul

/case closed
//off my lawn

You Know I'm No Good by Amy Winehouse has to win a catchiest song about adultery contest.

The song is full of killer, brash horns. The lyrics only half match the music - they're part bravado, but full of self-loathing, and all destruction. You wonder if Amy is really throwing it in Blake Incarcerated's face that she's no good and he knew that going in, or if she's just repeating that to herself to somehow justify farking it all up again, or if she's blaming herself for a relationship that is clearly poisonous. ("You shrug, and it's the worst - who truly stuck the knife in first?")

It's doubly fascinating because this entire song played out in the tabloids - Amy's tempestuous relationships with her ex-boyfriend and her main drug pusher and soon to be ex-husband, I hope. (That'd be Blake, the one who failed a drug test and was sent back to jail recently.)

In any case - love this song.

Arguably they best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKnu_oYCA2w

I thought it would be this one yo. O.P.P. (new window)

this song is on my playlist made last week, Crowded House is one of my all time favorite bands.

"Into tempation, safe in the wide open arms of hell"

ONE WOMAN ~ Isaac Hayes

rocinante721: ONE WOMAN ~ Isaac Hayes

Also:

IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG (I don't want to be right) ~ Isaac Hayes

Ike really liked to mess 'round

I'm partial to "Married Girl" by The Slackers.

/good band
/bad name

I clicked the link but I didn't see The Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes.

zappaisfrank: "Me And Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul

/case closed
//off my lawn

/seconded

I was expecting Let Me Smell Yo Dick.

Norwegian Wood?

Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

I'm fond of "Does He Love You?" by Rilo Kiley.

mehwe:

this song is on my playlist made last week, Crowded House is one of my all time favorite bands.

"Into tempation, safe in the wide open arms of hell"


I listen to a fair amount of Crowded House and Neil Finn's solo stuff myself, and this song was my guess when I read the headline. Very nice, submitter.

I see that Neil's getting the "Seven World's Collide" ensemble back together to record and I believe I read that they're playing a handful of shows, maybe even this month. If you're a fan and you haven't seen that DVD from the 2001 performances, it's great. As is the CH "Farewell To The World" concert. Paul Hester is in fine form on that one. They hold a shot of him briefly at the end of the last encore and it almost makes you weep seeing the look on his face.

I will add, though, that "Long Black Veil" is, in my opinion, probably the greatest adultery song ever.

Was hoping to hear the Old 97's Designs on You. Absolutely beautiful song that becomes sweetly evil upon multiple listenings.

"follow me" by uncle kracker is a nice one.

DrBenway: I will add, though, that "Long Black Veil" is, in my opinion, probably the greatest adultery song ever.

Good call, I like The Band's version best.

rocinante721: IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG (I don't want to be right) ~ Isaac Hayes

Luther Ingram, although Isaac and a ton of others have covered it.

/soul nerd

Interesting piece on the song here.

A great song from one of my all-time favorite albums.

Screw individual songs, pimps right an entire album about doing someone else's wife.

DrBenway

I will have to check that out, I have not seen it.

I also enjoy Split Enz, it was so hard to find thier stuff (10yrs later lol) here in Canada.

Was hoping to hear the Old 97's Designs on You.

I love that song. It's technically not about adultery, yet -- "you can go ahead and get married and it'll probably never happen again."

AgentOrangeDrink: I clicked the link but I didn't see The Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes.

I came here to say this. Always thought Pale Blue Eyes was one of the best songs ever.

Baby Plays Around (pops) by Elvis Costello. It ain't bad.

New Order knows a little something about the topic, too.

/Excellent song, subby

Of course, there's Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Don't forget Adultery, by The Mentors.

[hooper] I got that beat [/hooper] (pops) (NSFW language)

Gulper Eel:

Interesting piece on the song here.


Quite. And more so considering his perspective as a 25-year-old reflecting on his impressions of the song as a child. Thanks for the link.

Looking forward to their next release with the line-up well in place now. Time On Earth was good, though something of a hybrid Neil Finn/Crowded House effort.

And here's a bit on Neil's 7 Worlds Collide revisitation that I mentioned previously.

Rupert Holmes has something to say on this issue. (new window)

mat catastrophe: AgentOrangeDrink: I clicked the link but I didn't see The Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes.

I came here to say this. Always thought Pale Blue Eyes was one of the best songs ever.

It's really subtle too, someone might think it's a proper love song until they hear the line "the fact that you're still married, only proves you're my best friend." Classic song.

I guessed right.

Tempted - Sqeeze (pops)


For shame, farkers.

ZAZ: Was hoping to hear the Old 97's Designs on You.

I love that song. It's technically not about adultery, yet -- "you can go ahead and get married and it'll probably never happen again."

Point! Yeah, thanks to that song I ended up discovering alt country. Good stuff!

Damn straight.

I've always liked "Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat" by David Allen Coe. .

The 70s country duo The Kendalls made their entire career with cheatin' songs.

Some of their hits:
"Teach me to Cheat" (1981, #7 Country)
"Cheater's Prayer" (1982, #30 Country)

and of course

"Heaven's Just a Sin Away" (1977, #1 Country and bonus lulz points for being #69 on the Hot 100)

Infinity lulz points are awarded to this group for the duo being a father and a daughter.

Butthole surfers ' "My Brother's wife"

Scanlon Kelsey: Rupert Holmes has something to say on this issue. (new window)

Came here to say that.
Even as a kid and listening to WLS Chicago (the best station I could get on AM from my little Southern town. Only at night) I would ask myself "Why are those people laughing and not trying to kill each other?"

AgentOrangeDrink: I clicked the link but I didn't see The Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes.

This.

Um....