― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― E--- S------- and don't I know it, Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Edmond (ianedmond), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Steve Beans, Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gregory T (tubesocks), Monday, 15 November 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 15 November 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 15 November 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― mattp, Monday, 15 November 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
And even though it's not most of the song, the most stupid use of parentheses award goes to:
52. Shakespeare's (Way With) Words - One True Voice.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris j (chris j), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I think the parenthesized part becomes the unparenthesized part and vice versa on the little sticker on the inside of the record. Or vice versa.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
What about that Sigur Ros album where the entire title IS parentheses?
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
From the Bang! thread:68. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Nancy Sinatra/Sonny and Cher
69. I Hate You (But Call Me) - The Monks[RIP Roger Johnston]
70. (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got - Johnny Paycheck
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
71 I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie Honeybunch) - The Four Tops
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
81. Hot Pants (She's Got To Use What She's Got To Get What She Wants) - James Brown
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
which also wins for Most Ungrammatical Title Forced By Parentheses.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
83. December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) -the Four Seasons84. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)- Marvin Gaye
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
85. gary numan -- we take mystery (to bed)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
90 Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full Of Shit)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, man I knew I should have gotten round to sorting my LPs. This is going to be like trying to determine whether the song is called "Honky Tonk Woman" or "Honky Tonk Women." I distinctly remember on the LP, the jacket had
(Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The) Memphis Blues Again
and the LP center label had
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The (Memphis Blues Again)
or possibly it was the other way round, but there were definitely parentheses and they were definitely switched up. Maybe this enjoyable little paradox has been cleaned up by the CD rerelease people, the same way that Get Happy! must now have a clearly defined first side. Well, a clearly defined first track.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link
91. She's A Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked) -Carl Carlton
Surely I didn't imagine these parentheses. Or maybe the Bad Mama Jama is so built and so stacked that mere parentheses could not contain her and she has long since busted loose.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Perhaps THIS will explain things.
This in one of Dylan's favorite songtitling tics, like calling songs things like Incrementally Subtitled Josephine, Half Ghislaine Wholeheartedly and Annabel Explicated Summarily so I can't escape the nagging feeling that there are more. I want to say Rainy Day Women #12 and #35 (everybody must get stoned), but BE CAREFUL! What is in the brackets is not an actual part of the title, but merely a helpful extract from the lyrics that some gentle soul might THINK is the title.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 November 2004 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― prov, Monday, 15 November 2004 07:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Monday, 15 November 2004 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
96. The Chrysanthemums: "(They Must Have Made It With Their) Hats"
― OleM (OleM), Monday, 15 November 2004 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
100. (You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care -Elvis
― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
How about
101. Amseterdam (Gonna Write You A Letter) - Guster102. Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) - Darlene Love103. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds104. Deja Vu (All Over Again) - John Fogarty105. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - Aerosmith
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
108. (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty
and my new least favorite
109. Leave (Get Out)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
if i'm not mistaken, green day's...
110. good riddance (time of your life)
became...
110.5 time of your life (good riddance)
when released as a single.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
111. part two (let a man come in and do the popcorn)"
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Was it just me, or shouldn't that song have been called "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)"?
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
117. 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - Hendrix
― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
This is the Exchange reprise at the end of Mezzanine. I've seen it listed with parentheses, but both amazon and allmusic omit them. I haven't got the packaging handy to check.
― sleep (sleep), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
As an aside: three years ago, my friend Sarah-poo had made for our friend Alli-poo a shirt that said, "My friend was Robert McNamara'ed into submission and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Alli-poo wore it to a Paul Simon show soon afterwards, I never found out if he saw it ...
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Fucking great song, and probably one of the longest songtitles ever. :-)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
(Baby, I need your love) Because Your Love Is So Wonderful (Baby)
?
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Melson (ArchCarrier), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
a good title indeed, but it would be a lot better if george jones hadn't already done (the equally unparenthesized) "feeling single, seeing double" a decade earlier. i'm all for borrowing and stealing in music, but stealing someone else's joke is a bit unseemly. (yeah yeah, i know comedians do it all the time, and it's standard operating procedure, and all that. but something just seems weird about a songwriter grabbing another songwriter's pun like that.)
(neither gary nor george wrote either song, they just sang 'em, for whatever that's worth. and it seemed important to add this so, even if i wasn't discussing a song title in parentheses, at least my answer would be mostly in parentheses.)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone - ElvisI Was Checking Out, She Was Checking In - Don Covay
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
128. Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Yoyur Body)"
I think Smash Hits wrote something along the lines of "(Don't you just hate it when) artists put parentheses in song titles?"
― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
"my own summer (shove it)""be quiet and drive (far away)"
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Good...gravy...no, I did not type those out, either.
― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf
― Klamm (VampireSubmarine), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― brian patrick (brian patrick), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:07 (nineteen years ago) link
"(What Kind Of)SHAPE(Are You In?)"
"(How Many Times) Are We Gonna Let Aretha (Franklin) Get [Away](With This) (Lame Shit)"
"(The Gibbons) Aren't The Only Monkees (On The Planet)"
"Don't Give Up (Yer Day Job)(In Parentheses)"
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link
"(Another Glass Of) Milk"
("Stratagien Gegen Nik Kershaw" is good too. But no parentheses."Seat Me In The (Vivisection)" and "Kill Yer-(S)elf" have nice ones though.)
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― papa november (papa november), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 22 November 2004 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) -The First Edition
I feel like I caught the Loch Ness Monster.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Man, I just keep finding a whole lot of these this morning with no effort at all- by accident in fact, without any clicking and reloading- using this amazingly fast random access technology called "a book." It is quite an old technology from what I understand- this "book" I have is from 1985. I believe they had something called "proofreading" back in those days, which means any mistakes I make must have been introduced by me.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
And can't you fuxors read: "...where most of the title..." - shit like this isn't correct:"my own summer (shove it)""be quiet and drive (far away)"
― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link
The Man Can't Bust (Our Parentheses)!
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Are You Going To Enforce That Rule Too (Or Does It Impact Too Much On The Bottom Line)?
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link
One for me:(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
One that seems to have paren's but not all the time (LP avec, single sans?):Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― J Dublin, Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 20 March 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― i am nervous (cochere), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― brilliant young and angsty (thatguy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― subspace, Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― matulageci (matulageci), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
There are so many more -- what a cool topic!
― Elspeth, Monday, 21 March 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
The Flaming Lips - "Race for the Prize (Sacrifice of the New Scientists)"The Flaming Lips - "The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot)"The Flaming Lips - "What Is The Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That The Chemical [In Our Brains] By Which We Are Able To Experience The Sensation Of Being In Love Is The Same Chemical That Caused The "Big Bang" That Was The Birth Of The Accelerating Universe)"The Flaming Lips - "Waitin' for a Superman (Is It Gettin' Heavy??)" The Flaming Lips - "Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Death Anxiety Caused By Moments Of Boredom)"The Flaming Lips - "The Gash (Battle Hymn For The Wounded Mathematician)"The Flaming Lips - "Sleeping On The Roof (Excerpt From 'Should We Keep The Severed Head Awake??')"The Flaming Lips - "Buggin' (The Buzz Of Love Is Busy Buggin' You)"
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 18 July 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 18 July 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)- The Impalas
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"You're My Girl (I Don't Want To Discuss It)" - Little Richard "Just Sometimes (Song Of Laughter And Forgetting)" - Swervedriver "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)" - Merle Haggard "Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)" - Saint Etienne "She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man)" - Husker Du "Who Do You Think You Are (Jesus Christ The Superstar)?" - Staple Singers
― Euler, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) Hall & Oates - Why Do Lovers (Break Each Other's Heart?)
― musically, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
(Don't Fear) the Reaper
or maybe this was said already
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
My personal favorite:
The Saints "(I'm) Stranded"
― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
DEVO - "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')"
― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Lefty Frizzell was all about this shit:
Always Late (With Your Kisses) Don't Think It Ain't Been Fun, Dear (Cuz It Ain't) Forever (And Always) Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses) How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You) I Never Go Around Mirrors (I've Got a Heartache to Hide) Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday) I'm an Old, Old Man (Tryin' to Live While I Can)
etc.
― jim, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses) How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You) Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday)
that's less than half!
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh shit yeah.
His brother David has one with more than a half, also hilarious.
I'm Gonna Hire a Wino (to Decorate Our Home)
― jim, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Gangsta Boo - Can I Get Paid? (Get Your Broke Ass Out) (Da Strippers Anthem)
― clotpoll, Friday, 1 June 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"I (Who Have Nothing)" - Ben E. King
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Choice picks from The Happy Flowers: "I Wanna BB Gun (And Some Glass Eyes)" "If This Gun Were Real (I Could Shoot You and Sleep in the Big Bed With Mommy)" "Let's Eat the Baby (Like My Gerbils Did)"
Also, from Dwight Yoakam's band in Sling Blade: "Stuart Drives a Comfortable Car (There's Usally Someone In the Trunk)"
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
mbv - (you're) safe in your sleep (from that girl)
worst offender
see also (when you wake) you're still in a dream
― electricsound, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
A Quick One (While He's Away) -- The Who
― Jake Brown, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link
(No Pussyfooting) - Fripp & Eno
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
just going over the thread.
maybe like 20 people who posted in this thread actually read the title.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes I know (No Pussyfooting) is all in the parentheses but I couldn't think of anything else. Call it bandwagonism.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
pet shop boys - se a vida e (that's the way life is)
― stephen, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link
(I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Furniture - TISM
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognised Anthem of World Contact Day)"
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
(Hmm. I had already mentioned that, but ILX skipped the middle part when I tried searching)
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
Can't believe no-one's said it yet.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The Jesus Lizard - (Fly) On (The Wall)
― braveclub, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Half Man Half Biscuit - Styx Gig (Seen By My Mates Coming Out Of A)
― nate woolls, Sunday, 18 November 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird" - Chuck Jackson "I'm Blue (The Gong Gond Song)" - The Ikettes
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Messed up that first last parenthesis.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"Chi Mai (Main Title Theme From The BBC TV Series 'The Life And Times Of David Lloyd George)" by Ennio Morricone "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Short Comings)" by the Faces
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Did that James Brown song Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn have parentheses? If not I feel as though it should.
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
"(I Feel Like A) Dictionary" - Trend
― one time, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
No, but "Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part I)" did. (xpost)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
But "...Popcorn..." was also split into parts 1 & 2, so it did have the one set of brackets.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Popular in P-Funk circles:
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy? (What's The Name of This Town) Funkadelic, Cholly (Funk Getting Ready To Roll) Parliament, P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) Parliament, (You're A Fish And I'm A) Water Sign
... and lots of others
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
...not to mention "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" !
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
(...which I guess was accounted for under "lots of others", duh.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I couldn't fit 'em all in!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, the official title of the second part was
"Part Two (Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn)"
as pointed out by the ever reliable fact checking cuz upthread.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
116. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) -The Crystals More from the pen of Gerry Goffin: "Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" - Barry Mann "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" - Aretha Franklin "Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" - Diana Ross
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
― Millsner, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Forever For Her (Is Over For Me) - The White Stripes Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) - MC5 Singing Rule Britannia (While The Walls Close In) - The Chameleons
― Millsner, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
exit music (for a dick) - will oldham you can look (but you better not touch) - bruce springstein bells (with tremolo and distortion) - sic alps i wish i knew (how it would feel to be free) - marlena shaw
― city worker, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)
― craven, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden
― craven, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 08:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird" - Chuck Jackson Another one from the pen of Burt Bacharach "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" - Gene Pitney
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 2 February 2008 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
As well as "(They Long To Be) Close To You"- The Carpenters "Kentucky Bluebird (Send A Message To Martha)" - Jerry Butler/Lou Johnson/Adam Faith
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 2 February 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
The Shapes - "(I Saw) Batman (in the Launderette)"
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 2 February 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Heartbeat (It's a Love Beat) by the DeFranco Family
― craven, Sunday, 3 February 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) - Van Morrison Remember (Walking In the Sand) - Shangri-Las
― craven, Sunday, 3 February 2008 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Joe Tex - Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
― Siegbran, Sunday, 3 February 2008 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Seem to be less of these around nowadays.
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 3 February 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
weezer - undone (the sweater song)
― sadie8707, Sunday, 3 February 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"Time (Clock Of The Heart)" - Culture Club
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)" - The Bee Gees
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) - Van Morrison "That's Why (I Love You So)" - Jackie Wilson
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Alexisonfire - Water Wings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux-Pas) The Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues) Beck - High 5 (Rock the Catskills) Béla Fleck & The Flecktones - Jekyll And Hyde ( And Ted And Alice) Bjork - Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right) Bob Dylan - Floater (Too Much to Ask) Bright Eyes - Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline) The Byrds - Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) Coheed and Cambria - Three Evils (Embodied In Love and Shadow) Coheed and Cambria - The Hound (Of Blood And Rank) Coheed and Cambria - Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins - Self Portrait (Of The Bean) Electric Light Orchestra - Poor Boy (The Greenwood) Electric Light Orchestra - Mission (A World Record) Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before) Elton John - (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
Okay I give up.
― our work is never over, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
...For now.
― our work is never over, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?" - Bill Withers
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea
― craven, Monday, 4 February 2008 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Oppurtunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Pet Shop Boys
― craven, Monday, 4 February 2008 06:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Opportunities*
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" - The Monkees "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" - George Harrison
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) -Eurythmics
― Pandaloo, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Duke Ellington - Blue Pepper (Far East Of The Blues)
― our work is never over, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
The Hollies - Don't You Even Care (What's Gonna Happen To Me?)
Uhh that's a close one.
― our work is never over, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaco Pastorious - (Used To Be A) Cha-Cha
Jimi Hendrix - 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
― our work is never over, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
That one was mentioned up thread. As was Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah...There are frigging so many anyways, this could go on forever.
― our work is never over, Monday, 4 February 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
10. The Beautiful South - I Hate You (But You're Interesting)
The Beautiful South - I Love You (But You're Boring) The Beautiful South - Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud) The Beautiful South - Hold Me Close (Underground) The Beautiful South - Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) The Beautiful South - Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)
― DavidM, Monday, 4 February 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie
― craven, Monday, 4 February 2008 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Prince - "17 Days (The Rain Will Come Down, Then U Will Have 2 Choose. If U Believe, Look 2 The Dawn And U Shall Never Lose.)"
It's the B-side of "When Doves Cry"
― naus, Sunday, 10 February 2008 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants
― craven, Sunday, 10 February 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"My Mistake (Was To Love You)" - Marvin Gaye & Diana Ross
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Genesis, "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"
OK, the parenthetical part is shorter, so this doesn't belong here at all. I just like how the two segments present an apparent single complete-sentence title which doesn't actually appear as such in the song.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought there'd have been more Meatloaf in here, as he's the king of the song title parenthetical aside:
You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)Out of the Frying Pay (And Into the Fire)Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)If This is the Last Kiss (Let's Make it Last All Night)
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Waylon Jennings- "Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)"
― Ethel Slaughter Zachary (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
get up (i feel like being a) sex machine
this always causes cognitive dissonance. so is the abbreviated song title "get up," "sex machine," or "get up sex machine"?
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace - Low
― Bill A, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got To Stay All Night) - Bob Dylan(If I Had To Do It All Over Again I'd Do It) All Over You - The Raiders, written by Bob Dylan(If You Let Me Make Love To You Then) Why Can't I Touch You? - Ronnie DysonAin't No Woman (Like the One I Got) - The Four TopsDo It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee) - Ben Vaughn, Marshall Crenshaw
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Rick James - 1,2,3 (U, Her and Me)
― oh, winklevoss (crüt), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)
― Moka, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the primitives - (we've) found a way (to the sun)
― pies madness (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
even as we speak - (all you find is) air
― pies madness (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
The Buckinghams- "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)"
― Overend Wattstax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Arthur Alexander - "Anna (Go To Him)"
― Suspicious Hive Minds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" - Duke Ellington
― Sorry Somehow Forgot To Take Out The Trash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 July 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" - Bruce Springsteen
― Sigue Sigue Kaputnik (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
There's a song on the new Van der Graaf Generator album called "(Oh No I Must Have Said) Yes". Hammill also did a song once called "(On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga".
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
My favourite is Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)", because the bit in the parenthesis is completely useless, yet it's somehow cute he decided to add the the repeated phrase from the chorus to the title.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 September 2016 09:41 (seven years ago) link
Camper Van Beethoven - (I Was Born in a) Laundromat
― hardcore dilettante, Thursday, 15 September 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link
Tommy Overstreet: Ann (Don't Go Runnin'); Gwen (Congratulations); (Jeanie Marie) You Were a LadyGeorge Jones: Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)
― Edd Hurt, Friday, 16 September 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
Zolar X - "I Pulled My Helmet Off (I'm Going to Love Her)"
― willem, Monday, 19 September 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Smashing Pumpkins - Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 September 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
Mcluskey - (Sometimes) I Have to Concentrate
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 September 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
*Mclusky
(most of the title ;)
― willem, Monday, 19 September 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Terry Allen
Lubbock (On Everything)"Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)""Collector (And the Art Mob)""Oui (A French Song)"
Juarez"The Juarez Device (AKA 'Texican Badman')""La Despedida (The Parting)"
Smokin' the Dummy"The Heart of California (For Lowell George)""Whatever Happened to Jesus (And Maybellene) ?""The Lubbock Tornado (I Don't Know)"
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 19 September 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Car Seat Headrest - (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 1 October 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
Frank Black - (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 3 October 2016 10:22 (seven years ago) link
This is debatable, since it doesn't always have the parens but Clarence Carter/Chairmen of the Board - "Patches (I'm Depending On You)"
― Before Hollywood Swing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
Talking Heads- “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
The Bee Gees - “Odessa (City on the Black Sea)”
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
y'all got hendrix, but you don't have:
ydi - 1983 (a place in the sun)
also:
the byrds - 5d (fifth dimension)
and peter hammill should also get credit for:
peter hammill - the lie (bernini's st. theresa)
let's also remember:
scott walker - the old man's back again (dedicated to the neo-stalinist regime)yes - the fish (shindleria praematurus)
and a BRAND NEW SONG for 2018
palm - (didn't what you want) happen
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
“Dawn (Go Away)” - The Four Seasons
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
“Zira (Call Out My Name)” - Redd Kross
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
what about “singles that inexplicably LACK the seemingly important clarifying parenthesis?”
so, then,
“Edge of Seventeen (Just Like The White-Winged Dove)”
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Monday, 31 December 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
Every track on Ian Dury's Lord Upminster:
1. Funky Disco (Pops) 2. Red (Letter) 3. Girls (Watching) 4. Wait (For Me) 5. The (Body Song) 6. Lonely (Town) 7. Trust (Is a Must) 8. Spasticus (Autisticus)
― Hakuna Mutato (Dan Peterson), Monday, 31 December 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
(you drive me) crazy - Britney
― kinder, Monday, 31 December 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
Half Man Half Biscuit: Styx Gig (Seen By My Mates Coming Out Of A)
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
Electric Six - (It Gets) (A Little) Jumpy
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:19 (five years ago) link
Tony Christie?- “Is This the Way to) Amarillo”
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
Chic - Will You Cry (When You Hear this Song)
― visiting, Monday, 14 August 2023 00:16 (eight months ago) link