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
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― 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
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