Songs Where There is an Argument Going On...

Would "Chantilly Lace" qualify as a potential argument?

 

America - West Side Story OST

 

Iron Maiden B-side "Mission From 'Arry" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_InNpIx8_KM

The story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzN9JvDT0Oc

...not really a song, but it did get released....

 

Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - "We'll Get Ahead Someday"

 

Yackety Yak - The Coasters

 

We have a winner. Sez me.

 

Also "A Boy Like That"

 

1st one that popped into my head.

 

"Devil In His Heart" or Beatles cover "Devil In Her Heart"


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The Libertines Can't Stand Me Now

 

Kind of a cheesy one but it fits...

Dean Friedman - Lucky Stars

 

Dolphin's Smile by the Byrds ( the outake version that's a bonus track on the Notorious reissue) That's not an argument, it's a gang fight!

 

Not really an argument but sort of a negotiation, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Meat Loaf.

 

Hello Goodbye by the Beatles sounds like an argument.

 

Nearly 100 posts and no "Hit The Road , Jack"

 

Darling Lorraine - Paul Simon
Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan

 

I was just going to say that, surely the ultimate in argument records.

Also

 

Vesoul - Jacques Brel

 

Stan Freberg: Banana Boat Song (Day-O)

 

The long version of "Livin' for the City" by Stevie Wonder.

 

does throwing ashtrays at the bar staff count?

 

Another one with Ian Gillan....Deep Purple's "The Spanish Archer" (1987).
Lyrically there's an argument; and head-to-head he's dueling with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.

 

Lots from Broadway. Perhaps the definitive comic one is "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" from "Annie Get Your Gun."

 

"Everybody Plays the Fool", by The Main Ingredient (the intro, at least...); "992 Arguments", O'Jays; "If You Don't Know Me By Now", Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.