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
Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie
― 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 (nine months ago) link