This is my dissertation topic, so please take this seriously. The title has to be the last line of the song and only said once. We need to find 100 examples.
1. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
2. viginia plain - roxy music
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
3. up the junction - squeeze
― mahb, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
4. Private Investigations - Dire Straits
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Awesome!
5. Speakin' Out - Neil Young
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
6. Gerard Way - How It's Going to Be
― how's life, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
7. Animal Collective - College
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
8. Can - Pinch
― Bob (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
9. The Who - Heinz Baked Beans
10. The Who - Odorono
11. The Who - We Close Tonight
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
12. Dire Straits - News
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
13. Tuff Titty (rap) - Ciccone Youth
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
14. Megadeth - Dawn Patrol
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
15. George Michael - "Kissing A Fool"16. George Michael - "One More Try"
― Venom Spritz (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
17. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Calloused Fingers Won't Make You Strong, Edith Wong
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
18. TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
19. No Age – My Life's Alright Without You
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
20. roxy music - just like you.
― sleepingsignal, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
21. Lilys - Precollection
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
22. Fairport Convention - Fotheringay
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
23. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
24. The Nails - 88 Lines about 44 Women
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
25. Love - Signed D.C
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
26. Hüsker Dü - Punch Drunk
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
27. The Monks - Blast Off
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
28. 12XU - Wire
― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
29. Loss of Innocence - The Residents (prob. plenty more on The Commercial Album too)
― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Does Nine Inch Nails' "The Day The World Went Away" count?
"the day the whole world went away"
― it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
I've always considered the count off of 12XU to be part of the song, but it meets the criteria if you don't hear it that way.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
12XU is a gray area, which means more work for me and my dissertation but so be it.
Another gray area song:
30. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker - Prince
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
It's not ad the end, but
31. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Ah -- I misread the instructions to be "as in" not "as" so, that doesn't count
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
31. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
this is really hard
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link
32. You Suffer... But Why - Napalm Death. If a song with only 4 words, over in 3 seconds counts.
― Oblique Strategies, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
33. Confessions - Violent Femmes
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
Bette Midler, "The Rose"
― andrew m., Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link
35. The Overload - Talking Heads
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
Great thread. Can't think of any that haven't been posted already though. Maybe if I sleep on it.
― Beats By Doré (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:35 (nine years ago) link
i love threads like this. truly useful.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
felt have a few of these:stained glass windows in the sky.there's no such thing as victory.the final resting of the ark.
― sleepingsignal, Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link
36. Minutemen - Maybe Partying Will Help
― it takes 14 to make a baby (WilliamC), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
Does it count if the title is repeated at the end?
37. Circle Jerks, "Live Fast Die Young"
― andrew m., Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Sorry friend, but D. Boon says Maybe Partying Will Help multiple times.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Songs where the title is only sung once, as the last line of the song
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
38. Public Enemy- Meet the G that Killed Me
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
the "said only once" bit makes this a challenge !
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link
Indeed. It is hard to retrieve such songs from brain even if one had once upon a time already remarked that they had this property, especially if that happened before this thread or even ILX existed. For example, in theory I could have gone to sleep, woken up and my subconscious would have supplied #38, but I highly doubt it.
― Beats By Doré (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
39. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
(unnerstan' that there's a weird Pink Floyd-like constipated robot voice saying something right towards the end)
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
arrgh, I forgot that they start the song with 12XU as well as finish it with 12XU!!! I'd say don't count it then.
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link
Sub in "Fanatics," then.
― bentelec, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
40. Fugazi - Back To Base
― cock chirea, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
41. Blackwater Park - Opeth
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
Very Funny - Magnetic Fields
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
43. Alanis Morissette - Perfect
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
44. Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:06 (nine years ago) link
Everclear - heartspark dollar sign
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes
nah, she repeats the last line 4 or 5 times
― cock chirea, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:12 (nine years ago) link
44. Shudder to Think - Sweet Year Old
― cock chirea, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
45. superchunk, 'here's where the strings come in'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
46. mbv, 'to here knows when'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:34 (nine years ago) link
47. Down Through - Red House Painters
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
48. "Life and How to Live It" - REM
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:52 (nine years ago) link
49. Elizabeth My Dear - Stone Roses
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:55 (nine years ago) link
50. Slayer - "Live Undead"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
51. Serenade - Roxy Music
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:26 (nine years ago) link
52. The Wedding Present - "Give My Love to Kevin"
― Liquid Plejades, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:26 (nine years ago) link
53. I'm Still Here - Tom Waits
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link
54. Alice - Peter Hammill
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:47 (nine years ago) link
though the title is actually Alice (letting go), so i don't know if you want to count it...
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:51 (nine years ago) link
55. Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
― Ari (whenuweremine), Thursday, 5 February 2015 06:28 (nine years ago) link
Free Bird?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 February 2015 07:47 (nine years ago) link
56. Emmy the Great - First Love
― Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:23 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. I was gonna say Neil Young "For The Turnstiles" but he says it three times at the end.
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 February 2015 09:09 (nine years ago) link
57. The Byrds - Wasn't Born To Follow
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
58. Guided by Voices - Man Called Aerodynamics
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 5 February 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link
59. McCarthy - Bad Dreams
― Tim, Thursday, 5 February 2015 11:46 (nine years ago) link
The War on Drugs - An Ocean In Between The Waves
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Thursday, 5 February 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
60.
61. Beastie Boys - Instant Death
― J. Sam, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
^good one!
― how's life, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
62. Pearl Jam - Tremor Christ
63. Pearl Jam - Last Exit
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
― about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:52 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sung twice I'm afraid. Once in the middle, once at the end.
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
64. The Beatles - Here, There and Everywhere
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
65. Stone Roses - Made of Stone
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:11 (nine years ago) link
66. Sonic Youth - Free City Rhymes
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
67. Ben Folds Five - Cigarette
― J. Sam, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
68. Sonic Youth - Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
69. Pink Floyd – Pigs on the Wing (if you count it as two separate songs, you can have either part 1 or part 2)
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
70. Tricky/Chill Rob G - "Bad Dreams"
Technically, they say "bad dream". Singular. Don't know if that counts.
― Balogna Banquet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
71. The Blue Aeroplanes - Spitting Out Miracles
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
was totally gonna jump in with Memories Can't Wait by Talking Heads. then i remembered he says it like 10 times.
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
72. Van der Graaf – The Habit of the Broken Heart
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
73. Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand - Cursive.
― charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
74. Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life75. Peter Hammill – The Second Hand
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
"Here, there, and everywhere" is repeated once. Oops!
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
No it isn't!
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
good catch.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Oh damn, I'm wrong you're right, it's "I will be there and everywhere/here, there, and everywhere" -- which totally counts. Carry on.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
sad to discover than "Unforgiven Two" doesn't qualify, says it in the middle as well :(
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
76. Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
77. Minutemen - Fascist
78. Motorhead - Die You Bastard
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
79. david sylvian - laughter and forgetting80. david sylvian - gone to earth
― donna rouge, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
81. the delgados - aye today
― kinder, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
ooh, ooh !
82. Paranoid - The Dickies
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Big Star - Holocaust
― Michael Train, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
84. "Chump" - Green Day
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
85. nico - the fairest of the seasons
― donna rouge, Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
86) "Questions 67 and 68" - Chicago
― mike a, Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
87) "Funky Drummer" - James Brown
― mike a, Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
88. Strokes, "Hard To Explain"
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
89. Sonic Youth - Disappearer
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
"Hard to Explain" has the title in the middle as well as at the end.
― Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
^rekt
― J. Sam, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link
James Brown says Funky Drummer multiple times
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 February 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
15. George Michael - "Kissing A Fool"
He says it twice at the end though. "Guess you were kissing a fool. You must have been kissing a fool."
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
90. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds - Jefferson Airplane
― Vic Perry, Friday, 6 February 2015 09:43 (nine years ago) link
Last exit! Good one
― LimbsKing, Friday, 6 February 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
91. Deceives The Eye - Madness
― horseradish fluid (stevie), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link
92. Spacemen 3 - Revolution
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:16 (nine years ago) link
93. Creedence - Fortunate Son
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:21 (nine years ago) link
And another Cure song:
95. let's go to bed
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
94 not 95
But here's 95
95. Hendrix - little wing
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:24 (nine years ago) link
^ pretty sure this is repeated 2 or 3 times at the end tbh
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
96. A-ha - Manhattan Skyline
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 6 February 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
no on "Little Wing", he says it twice in the song
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
97 Birdland - Patti Smith
― Stainrod, Friday, 6 February 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
not Fortunate Son either
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 February 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
98 The Wonder Stuff - A Wish Away
http://www.muzu.tv/the-wonder-stuff/wish-away-music-video/235038/
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Fortunate Son says 'fortunate one' several times but only says fortunate son once at the end.
Little wing is also said once at the end, no?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
Maybe little wing gets repeated? i don't remember
http://songmeanings.com/m/songs/view/18476/
And fortunate son
http://songmeanings.com/m/songs/view/17155/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Need to relisten to them but I'm 80% certain they don't repeat the last line. Lets go to bed may, though.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
Ok don't have my itunes close but checked on youtube:
Lets go to bed does say it at the end but it's repeated 3 times.
Fortunate Son definitely only says the title once at the end and here's the lyrics video for proof:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM
The version of 'little wing' in youtube is live and only says it once before doing a two minute solo and fading. Don't remember if the record version says it more than once.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
There's also another Hendrix song that springs to mind: the wind cries mary. In the middle he says 'the wind IT cries mary' and at the end 'the wind cries mary' it partly counts as a technicism.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Hey found the album version of little wing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZsN6RMmdls
I'm only hearing it once at 1:45 and close the end at 2:20 or so it appears he mumbles it but come on! How does this not count? i'm not even sure he says little wing when he mumbles i'm hearing a yeah yeah yeah mmmm
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
Or where else in the song do you think he says it? I submit my case with the video above for you all to listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
God that song is so majestic for being so short.
― how's life, Friday, 6 February 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
98. New Order - The Perfect Kiss
― Millsner, Friday, 6 February 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Noooh!
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
"The perfect kiss is the kiss of death"
and into the chorus one more time.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
On Little Wing on Axis Bold As Love, Jimi sings 'fly on little wing' at 1:45, and then mumbles something like 'yeah yeah yeah little wing' at 2:15 during the outro
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
But at 2:15 how are you certain it's 'little wing' what's hes mumbling seems to me like he's away from the mic when it happens. He could be saying 'need some weed' as far as we know. Or it could be just a wordless soul thing.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
He definitely sings something though, so I guess the previous 'little wing' isn't the last line of the song
I did start listening to the Sting version to see if that was different, but I just couldn't make it to the end ;_;
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Didn't even make a start on the Corrs one
Then just take whatever version of the song you want, the mumbling is there on the studio version and was played by jimi live only 8 times and they don't have the mumbling going on. Stevie Ray's version?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
I think the Corrs version does say it several times but that's because the guitar guy can't solo like Jimi or Stevie and the girls can't keep their mouth shut.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Also if we're being strict many of the songs mentioned so far could get disqualified. Fortunate son only says the title once at the end but there's a 'no' after it. (I ain't no fortunate son, no) but a yeah yeah yeah mmmumbling wont appear in any lyrics site or booklet.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I thought of Children of the Grave but Ozzy shouts 'yeah!' for no reason after it
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
But that's my point are those sort of 'yeah's or 'mmmm's or whatever approving sound an integral part of the lyrics or an afterthought because the singer was 'feeling' it. In a song like 'she loves you yeah yeah yeah' they are written beforehand but a yeah inside a solo or at the end is made in the moment and you can listen to live versions of songs where these sort of 'yeahs' are displaced or not even there meaning they are not really part of the intended song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
In the "so close yet so far" category, there's Drifter's Escape by Bob Dylan.
"And while everybody knelt to pray, the drifter did escape."
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 February 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
I'm taking the question as the real 'last line' in the lyrics of a song, if the singer mumbles or says 'is it still recording' or whatever I'd say it doesn't count but I'm not OP.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Don't know what number we're up to but:
John Cale, "Antarctica Starts Here"
― Utterly huggers (Tom D.), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
I think "Yeah" can be discounted: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah" maybe not.
Which means "Children of the grave" is in.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
It's my dissertation topic, and I would say that grunts, yeahs, oohs and other exclaimations would not disqualify a song from the list.
I would even count Prince's Ballad Of Dorothy Parker, even though there are lots of background "Dorothy Parker" chants after that line. It's borderline but I think I can defend it in my oral argument.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Can think of more where the title is only sung once as the first line of the song.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
very good call on Pearl Jam's "Last Exit" because as far as i can tell he's singing the whole song with marbles in his mouth
― charlie h, Friday, 6 February 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
"18 Wheels of Love" - Drive-By Truckers
― David K, Friday, 6 February 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
100. Mecca Normal - Paris in April
― cock chirea, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh now I remember the one I was graspingfor:
101. Twat - John Cooper Clarke
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
102. Silvio Rodriguez - Por Quien Merece Amor
― cock chirea, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
103. guided by voices - yours to keep
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 6 February 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
104. Mogwai - "Helps Both Ways"
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 6 February 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:15 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well and also to be pedantic, the lyric is "unforgiven, too"....though it would be totally like Hetfield to bark "UNFORGIVEN TWOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOH----WAHHH!" like he was adding ending credits to his song
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
105. I Died Today - Rodd Keith
― Vic Perry, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
"It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines"
― onlydarkness.com, Sunday, 8 February 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
107. Peter Gabriel - Lead a Normal Life
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
108. Green Day - Geek Stink Breath
Didn't see this on here yet...
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 26 April 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
109. Lifetime - (The Gym Is) Neutral Territory
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Sunday, 26 April 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
110 did I mention Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" but only the version by The Dickies? Does it count?
― Mark G, Monday, 27 April 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
111. "I Figured You Out" - Elliott Smith
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 January 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
112. Neil Young - Speakin' Out
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 16 January 2017 06:12 (seven years ago) link
113. Love - "Signed D.C."
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 January 2017 07:37 (seven years ago) link
(In at number 25)
― Mark G, Monday, 16 January 2017 08:37 (seven years ago) link
114. Depeche Mode, "It Doesn't Matter Two"
The last line in the song is "it doesn't matter" and the "two" is only in the title because they had an earlier song that was also called "It Doesn't Matter", so for me this counts.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 16 January 2017 09:44 (seven years ago) link
115. Radiohead - You never wash up after yourself
― ogmor, Monday, 16 January 2017 09:53 (seven years ago) link
116. Marvin Gaye – When Did You Stop Loving Me
― dinnerboat, Monday, 16 January 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
117. Youthmovies - Last Night Of The Proms
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 16 January 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Billy Bragg (and as covered by Dubstar) - St. Swithin's Day
― Vast Halo, Monday, 16 January 2017 21:58 (seven years ago) link
118. Marduk - Fistfucking God's Planet
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
More billy bragg: 119. Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette120. Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute
― enochroot, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
121. The Crash - Still Alive
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
122. "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed" - Los Campesinos!
― fits, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
123. "This Is Hardcore" - Pulp
― fits, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
124. "Sleep the Clock Around" - Belle & Sebastian
― fits, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
125. "Last Place You Look" - The Get Up Kids
― fits, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
"this is hardcore" is sung more than once.
― new noise, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
ah, you're right. damn.
― fits, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
126. Dion - Abraham, Martin & John
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
Not including it but would count technically: Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman
He says 'pretty woman' several times but he only adds the 'oh' in the last line of the song.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
127. Beastie Boys - Instant Death
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:53 (seven years ago) link
Okkervil River - It Ends With A Fall almost qualifies.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
128. "Tikwid" - Animal Collective
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
129. "I'm Doing OK, Pretty Good" - Elliott Smith
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 06:57 (seven years ago) link
123. Oh, Pretty Woman
It so does count.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 07:42 (seven years ago) link
124. "Sunbathing Animal" - Parquet Courts
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link
fuck nevermind
he sings it like, ten times in a row
sorry
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 02:05 (seven years ago) link
130. Fiona Apple - Oh Well
(this one just came on my iTunes. Forgot how great it is)
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
131. Surfaris - Wipeout
Lyrics:
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-aWipeout!
(I don't know why I love this thread so much)
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 25 February 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
...and Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 25 February 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
132. Alice Cooper - Black Juju
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 25 February 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
133. Half Man Half Biscuit - Epiphany
― devvvine, Saturday, 25 February 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
134. rodd keith - the ballad of juan rio
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 February 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
''Wipeout'' is a great pick, bravo. My brain keeps reaching for things in the line of ''Last Exit'' and ''Life and How to Live It'' (notwithstanding the latter's disqualification) - songs that pound breathlessly forward, gasping out the title only as they run out of breath and the band packs it in. Feel like I've known and loved many songs like this but it's really hard to think of 'em!
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 February 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
There are a few 'Wipeout's though
― Mark G, Saturday, 25 February 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
119. Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette
He sings that several times at the end
― Warren's Treat (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 25 February 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Emmy the Great - "We Almost Had a Baby" as my daughter pointed out to me today.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 2 April 2017 03:44 (seven years ago) link
Quasi - our happiness is guaranteed
― kinder, Sunday, 2 April 2017 07:31 (seven years ago) link
Sublime - Same in the End
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Sunday, 2 April 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
138. Coldplay - Square One
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
I wonder if kornrulez6969 ever wrote that dissertation.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 14 May 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
we found >100 examples, we held up our end of the bargain
― henry s, Sunday, 14 May 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
I did write it. It's called "The Overload--Exploring Songs Where the Title Is Sung Once, As The Last Line of the Song"
The Professor gave me a C, he said it was a flawed concept. Oh well.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 15 May 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
fuck that
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 May 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
it's a great concept
Nothing Indeed - The Minutemen
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
― charlie h, Thursday, February 5, 2015 9:35 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
goddammit i came here to post this
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 06:13 (six years ago) link
i love this thread
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 April 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
i find it fascinating and a good challenge as a songwriter
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 April 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
139. Dismemberment Plan, "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich"
― bone thugs & prosody (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
140. Courtney Barnett, "Nameless, Faceless"
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 13 April 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
141. Waxahatchee - "Never Been Wrong"
"you walk around like it's your god-given right/and you love being right, you've never been wrong"
― austinb, Saturday, 21 April 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
142. U2 - Running to Stand Still
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
love this thread
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
143. Tenderness - Parquet Courts
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
144. "Number Three," They Might Be Giants
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
145. Big Thief – Pretty Things
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 27 September 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
146. the clash - stay free
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
Wow, believe I have been trying to get that one to surface for years, thanks
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
Does it count if the song title is sung exactly once and is the only line in the song? If so, then “Topsy Part 1” and “Topsy Part 2” by Cozy Cole
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 16 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
147. Frank Zappa - "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"
― visiting, Sunday, 16 December 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
148. The Only Ones - "It's the Truth"
And, almost, "Instrumental" by the same band, but he sings it twice.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
149. Bob Dylan - "Boots of Spanish Leather"
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 April 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
film version of this: the man who shot liberty valance.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
also (“visually,” if you’ll permit it) – The Dark Knight Rises
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:38 (three years ago) link
An example from the stage may be The Playboy of the Western World – though I don’t recall if the title phrase is used elsewhere in the play, besides the closing line (“I’ve lost the only Playboy of the Western World.” CURTAIN.”)
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
(Ok, never mind – just skimmed thru it, and itdoes appear earlier.)
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
150. 'Kommando Untergang' by Anna Depenbusch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_VN7n-lr68
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
151. Nico/Jackson Browne “The Fairest of the Seasons”
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:34 (three years ago) link
152. Robert Pollard - "I've Owned You for Centuries"
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 11 December 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
153. Southern Cross - Crosby Stills & Nash
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
154. "Dr. Phil" by Lil B
155. "Lose My Breath" by My Bloody Valentine
― irerisered, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
xp the last line is "in the southern cross". also, "southern cross" appears earlier in the song.
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
"but i was born to lose my breath"
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link
Well I suck at life.
― irerisered, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
lil b is a good one!
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
156. The The - Angels Of Deception
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Monday, 30 August 2021 07:35 (two years ago) link
I really want to add Lee Hazlewood's "I'm Glad I Never" but he takes a couple of lines to spit out what he's glad about, including three syllables after the titular phrase.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 30 August 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
157
Mgła - Exercises in Futility VI
― Devilock, Monday, 30 August 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
well he doesn't say "six"
maybe that doesn't count
― Devilock, Monday, 30 August 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
last line is "another chapter in the handbook for exercises in futility"
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Thought for a moment that the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would be one of these, but that line somehow comes in at the centre of the song instead.
― Kim, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
Against All Odds is a near miss, but he sings a few more words afterward
― Kim, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
Can't believe no one has posted: HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles
A couple of others:LATE FOR THE SKY - Jackson BrowneBIG CITY CAT - Steve Forbert
― Junkman, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
Can't believe nobody has posted ...(actually I can, I only noticed last week!)
Sex Pistols "I wanna be me"
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
er, “Here, There and Everywhere” is sung twice at the end
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
It isn't - "here" is missed the "first" time.
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
huh, thanks crap memory!
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 26 March 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
161. Nick Drake - "Harvest Breed"
― Lee626, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
162. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
xp last line is "And you're ready now for the harvest breed"
― visiting, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
"Jigsaw falling into place" is also sung earlier in the song.
― visiting, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
but the title is only sung once and it's the last words of the song, so it counts
― Lee626, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
― visiting
Crap it’s true.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:37 (two years ago) link
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "The One Who Got Us Out"
I swear this one has been on the tip of my tongue since the thread started, and I'm only just managing to spit it out
― Attached by piercing jewelry (bernard snowy), Thursday, 14 July 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
Sebadoh - The Freed Pig.
He actually mutters it sotto voce-like more than sings it though.
― gjoon1, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
164. Patsy Cline - "A Church, a Courtroom and Then Goodbye"
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 25 November 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
Aha - Train of Thought is soo close but it has a softer repetition and then some other indistinct words
― Kim, Friday, 25 November 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
Weezer - Perfect Situation (the rubbish single version with the title shoehorned in at the end)
― PaulTMA, Friday, 25 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
The Cure "A Man Inside My Mouth" sounds like it fits to me.
The "internet" says there's one more lyric during the outro ("This won't hurt at all") but I just hear a bunch of screaming.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 November 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
168(?) Brandy Clark - Buried
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 June 2023 11:28 (ten months ago) link
"But I'll love you till I'm buried" is the last line.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 19 June 2023 15:43 (ten months ago) link
I wonder how many songs fit the "My Name Is Jonas" pattern of having the title sung exactly twice, as the first and last lines of the song.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 19 June 2023 17:09 (ten months ago) link
Simple Minds - Premonition
― visiting, Monday, 3 July 2023 03:08 (nine months ago) link
170(?) The Clientele: "Claire's Not Real"
― Tim, Friday, 28 July 2023 10:43 (nine months ago) link
I wonder how many songs fit the "My Name Is Jonas" pattern of having the title sung exactly twice, as the first and last lines of the song
"I Got Life" from the original cast album of Hair does essentially this.
Nina Simone's Hair medley, "Ain't Got No, I Got Life," strikes "I Got Life" from the beginning but leaves the one at the end, so it is sort of an example of the original format.
― Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:45 (nine months ago) link
Which is kind of interesting bc we've already established itt that Hair already has a song that does title once at the end only, namely "Frank Mills."
― Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:50 (nine months ago) link
Wait, brain lapse. "Frank Mills" is a different thing, it's a song with no repeating lines at all.
― Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:52 (nine months ago) link
Oh right!
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 July 2023 14:20 (nine months ago) link