Best Ever Albums

Re: Fools in Songs

LTSings — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:51:18 GMT

Author: LTSings

Posted: 01/14/2023 16:51

Any Other Fool - Patti Austin & Sadao Watanabe

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Re: Fools in Songs

DommeDamian — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:25:58 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 01/12/2023 17:25

Neutral Milk Hotel - The Fool
K-Rino - Family Fools
Neil Diamond - A Fool For You
Bladee - The Fool (album)
Sam Cooke - Get Yourself Another Fool
Yo La Tengo - I Was The Fool Beside You For Too Long
Viola Beach - Look At The Fool
Father John Misty - Only A Fool
Queen - You Don't Fool Me.

Re: Fools in Songs

hwex9000 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:20:43 GMT

Author: hwex9000

Posted: 01/12/2023 15:20

I was going to add Steely Dan's "Only a Fool Would Say That," from their debut album, but then I looked up the Ivy song with the same title referenced above by MadhattanJack and learned it was a cover version.

Someone should do a video montage using a bunch of these songs as a soundtrack to that infamous episode of the Hollywood Squares revival where Gilbert Gottfried derailed an entire game by deliberately steering the contestants to choose the wrong answers, and exclaimed "You fool!" after each one.

Re: Fools in Songs

kokkinos — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 06:42:42 GMT

Author: kokkinos

Posted: 01/12/2023 11:42

The Strokes - Taken for a fool

Re: Fools in Songs

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 04:48:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/12/2023 09:48

The Stone Roses - Fool’s Gold
Ron Sexsmith - Fool Proof

There are surely a few good “Joker” songs out there as well.

Re: Fools in Songs

Tap — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 01:24:26 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 01/12/2023 06:24

Cardigans - Lovefool

Re: Fools in Songs

JOSweetHeart — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:42:36 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 01/11/2023 22:42

The first song that came to my mind was "King Of Fools" from one of my late favorite singers, Billy Joe Royal that is.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. His first ever album released in 1965 is where you will find it.

Re: Fools in Songs

MadhattanJack — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:43:45 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 01/11/2023 20:43

There are tons of songs about "fools," because the word rhymes with "rules," "jewels," "cool," "ghouls," and especially "drool."

But I don't think you can have a list like this without including:

Roxy Music: "Sentimental Fool"
The Main Ingredient: "Everybody Plays the Fool"
Foghat: "Fool for the City"

I don't know if the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" should be included since it only uses "fool" as a verb, but you're including "Fool's Overture" which doesn't have any vocals at all until about 5 minutes in, and the word "fool" is only used once in the whole track. So I'll leave that up to you...

A few others that are less essential:

Cathy Dennis: "Stupid Fool" (from Am I the Kinda Girl)
Belly: "Suffer the Fools" (from Dove)
Ivy: "Only a Fool Would Say That" (from Guestroom)
Dodos: "Fools" (from Visiter)
Blur: "Fool" (from their first album)
Pugwash: "The Fool I Had Become" (from Play This Intimately...)

China Crisis did a song called "No More Blue Horizons (Fool Fool Fool)," so that might hold the title for most uses of the word "fool" in the same track title.

Another one is "Fool For You" by the Wild Smiles, who only put out one album in 2014 called Always Tomorrow — I only mention this because it sounds more like the Ramones than any other song about "fools" I can think of.

Finally, there's a band called The Envy Corps from Ames, Iowa who have been around (off and on) since 2005 or thereabouts, and sound a bit like Radiohead, Coldplay, and bands of that nature. One of their best songs is called "Fools," but that's just the title, it isn't really about fools per se. It's actually a two-part song, and pt. 1 is 9 minutes long — it starts pretty slow, but it builds up into a big shoegazey two-chord crescendo-jam in the second half. Anyway, since this is BEA I figured it should be mentioned. (They also have a somewhat new album out, fwiw.)

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Fools in Songs

Liedzeit — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:17:14 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 01/11/2023 15:17

This morning I listened to Rick Beato talking about the Doobie Brothers. And I was reminded of their What A Fool Believes. Such a great song. But thinking a bit more I think it is surprisingly only the fifth best song about fools.

Joe Jackson – Fools in Love
Van Der Graf Generator – Ship Of Fools
Rolling Stones – Fool To Cry
Rick Nelson – Poor Little Fool
Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes
Supertramp – Fool’s Overture
The Beatles – The Fool On The Hill
Led Zeppelin – Fool In The Rain
Connie Francis – Everybody's Somebody's Fool
Kevin Coyne - The World Is Full of Fools

And then there is Elvis and Frankie Lymon. And, of course, dozens (hundreds) of songs I do not know.