Inspired by "Teenage Waistland", re-name your favorite song according to its most prominent line

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like the Smiths' "Hang the DJ"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beatles - Life Goes On

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Front 242 "No Sex Until Marriage"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Ying Yang Twins - Wait Til You See My Dick

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the Descendents, "Spent All Your Money On Some Shitty Coke"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sammy Hagar - Why I Suck so Fucking Much

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

or perhaps the Descendents, "Your Pants Are Too Tight, You Fucking Homos"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

When I worked for the classic rock station, I swear that I used to get requests from listeners saying, "HEY MAN! PLAY SOME SKYNARD, BIRD CAN'T CHANGE!"

"Bird Can't Change". Surely they were funning with me.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

new order - every time i see you falling, tell me how it feels (tell me now how does it feel), you're much too young

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division - "Don't Walk Away in Silence"

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

joy division - day in, day out (arghghgh why am i doing this), they keep calling me, and of course, MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

New Order - "Up Down Turn Around (Oh, You've Got Green Eyes)"
Echo and the Bunnymen - "Fate Up Against Your Will"
The Pop Group - "Who Says Guns Speak Louder?"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking Heads - "This Ain't No Party! This Ain't No Disco!"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice Cube - "Sooner Than You Can Say Candy That Bitch Was On My Snicker"

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Other classic rock requests:

Steve Miller Band - "Space Cowboy"
David Bowie - "Major Tom"
Fleetwood Mac - "Thunder Only Happens When It Rains"
Bob Dylan - "Everybody Must Get Stoned"
Led Zeppelin - "(You Don't) Have to Go"
Buffalo Springfield - "What's That Sound?"

and Eastern Mantra just reminded me of

Talking Heads - "You May Ask Yourself"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay-Z: "Fruit Fight"

― Usual Channels, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Gang of Four - "Each Day Seems Like a Natural Fact", "Please Send Me Evenings and Weekends", "Could I Be Happy (With Something Else)?"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Chameleons (UK) - "There Must Be Something Wrong, Boys", "It's Just Coincidence", "(Or Is It) Just Another Shower?"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division - Dance Dance Dance to the Radio
Les Savy Fav - Wake Me Up When We Get To Heaven
Rapture - The Price is WHAT?!
Bloc Party - (Are you hoping for a) Miracle

can't think right now

― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rapture - "All Hell is Breaking Loose", "You're Growing Older", "Each Hand Ties the Other", "Over and Over Again", "Get Yourself Together (Get Out of Your Head)"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, i also forgot to add that you should feel free to spell these incorrectly.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Kitchens of Distinction - "There Has Been a Question Here", "Promise Her There'll Be No More Goodbyes", "(I Have Slept) Ten Thousand Nights", "Beach Burned Nausea", "This Polluted Mist", "Don't Stop!"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's exploding hamster zeppelin! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the go betweens "memory wastes"
the hummingbirds "don't talk to me please"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins - "Who Wants Honey? (Lose As There's Money)"
Crowded House - "Hey Now, Hey Now"
The Cure - "Show Me Show Me Show Me"

― PB, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

*Long

― PB, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Cream - "He's Married To Mabel"

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha BIRD CAN'T CHANGE!!!!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the go-betweens' lyrics. gza too.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally thought that was the name of the Crowded House song! The actual title is "Don't Dream It's Over" then?

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie Wonder - "Azz"

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops. Messed that up. How about:
Stevie Wonder - "All Ways"

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

PLEASANT PLAINS: Steve Miller actually DID have a song called "Space Cowboy"...

Here's some more:
- "Listen My Friends," Moby Grape (actually "Omaha")
- "Get On Up," James Brown ("Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine")
- "Freak Out," Chic ("Le Freak" - not my favorite song by any means, but when it was a hit, my middle-school friends always referred to it as "Freak Out")
- "Start All Over Again," Tyrone Davis ("Can I Change My Mind")
- "It's Alright," Rolling Stones ("Jumping Jack Flash")
- "Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch," Four Tops ("I Can't Help Myself")
- "I've Got Sunshine," Temptations ("My Girl")
- "Take A Load Off Annie," Band ("The Weight")

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yazoo - MOVE OUT

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

4 Hero - "dead. dead. dead."

D Double E - "cos i'm an evil guy"

Paul Wall and chamillionaire - "Here lizard, lizard, lizard"

and most misleadingly:

Omni Trio - "come on, take me up"

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Cocteau Twins - "Nyarr Fnarryapalan Groesch"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Queen: "Mamma Mia, Let Me Go"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Green Day- Am I Just Stoned?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no no no, that should be - Queen: "BISMILLAH!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Massive Attack 'Hey Hey Hey Hey'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Don McLean - "Starry Starry Night"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the Queen one should be 'Nothing Really Matters' tho that's not as amusing.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

New Order 'How Does It Feel?'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Dylan - "How Does It Feel?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana 'The Hello Song'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Crazy Frog 'Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oasis - "Today Is Gonna Be The Day"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Grandmaster Flash- Don't Push Me (Cuz I'm Close To The Edge"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

David Essex - "Hey Kids! Rock And Roll!"

Wouldn't have sold so many, would it?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana - "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah"
the Smashing Pumpkins - "Despite All My Rage"
the Beach Boys - "I May Not Always Love You"

― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian Protheroe - "And I've Run Out Of Pale Ale"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

That Queen song's called 'Thunderbolts & Lightning'.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

only mentioned once in the song tho.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Eno - "Then There Was You"
The Fall - "Stick it in the Gut"

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rapture - "SHAKEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!!!"

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There's only one "Hey Hey Hey Hey" in that Massive Attack song - what's it called again? - oh, yes - "Are You Ready?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead - I'm Not Here
Radiohead - Just Cuz You Feel It
Radiohead - Women and Children First

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Lil Jon - Aw Skeet Skeet Skeet

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Underworld "Shouting Lager Lager (Lager)"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

New Order: "Morning Sun"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

System of a Down - Angels Deserve To Die

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Led Zeppelin - Oh Let The Sun Beat Down Upon My Face

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Human League - Where There Used To Be Some Shops

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the Descendents, "Spent All Your Money On Some Shitty Coke"
I miss being a kid who didn't understand why he'd spent his money on a Coca-Cola if he thought it was crap.

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur: "Woo-hoo!"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Eminem - "Nobody listens to techno"

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yello: "Rush Push Cash"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Depeche Mode - "All I Ever Wanted"

These thread is weird. It should be helpful, but instead it's taken me quite some time to figure out what some of these songs are.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur: "Woo-hoo!"

This might not win the thread, but it won my heart.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Milkmen - You'll Dance to Anything

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

There's only one "Hey Hey Hey Hey" in that Massive Attack song

The 'hey hey hey hey' occurs twice after each 'and now I've got to know much more' and again when it's scratched up. and again, at the end.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

SL2 "Bawadladayay"

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Motown nods upthread put me in mind of "Don't Know Much," by Sam Cooke.

(The problem with it is that it is actually entitled "Wonderful World," and as such risks confusion with the Louis Armstrong song with the similar title that is nowhere near as good a song kthxbye.)

― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Clash: You Didn't Stand By Me
Rolling Stones: It's Just A Shot Away

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

massive xpost to the Pumpkins one, i remember Napster being flooded with "Rat In A Cage" back in the day.

― jonviachicago, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Police - Many Miles Away (I knew a kid who had written that on his mixtape.)

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember back in college hearing the Venga Boys song "We're Going to Ibiza" at a party and thinking they were saying "we're going to eat pizza." When I searched for it on Napster I found plenty of hits under "we're going to eat pizza," so I was not alone in this misunderstanding. I guess I should have realized that I had it wrong based on the rest of the lyrics being about going back to the island or something.

― Stingy (stingy), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Telescopes - Hurts Too Much To Be Where You Are
John Cale - You're A Ghost
Jeff Wayne - OOOH-LAAAAAAAAAAAA!

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

House Crew "I've Got Something Within Me"

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

PLEASANT PLAINS: Steve Miller actually DID have a song called "Space Cowboy"...

Trust me. That wasn't the song my listeners were requesting.

Here's one that always makes me smile:
Roy Orbison - "Candy Colored Clown"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Mondays "I Had to Crucify Some Brother Today"
Happy Mondays "You Used to Speak the Truth But Now You're Clever"
Happy Mondays "Twistin' My Melon Man"
Happy Mondays "I Smell Dope, I Smell Dope, I Smell Dope"
Happy Mondays "Me & the Chief Got Slowly Stoned"

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

INXS "Dream On, White Boy"
Faith No More "Menstruating Heart"

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Led Zeppelin - Talk About Love

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, do people really think that it's "Waistland" as opposed to "wasteland"? WTF would waistland be?

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Head East -- "Save My Life (I'm Going Down for the Last Time)"

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, do people really think that it's "Waistland" as opposed to "wasteland"? WTF would waistland be?

-- diedre mousedropping and a quarter (right.knewi...), June 1st, 2005.

no, we don't. don't worry.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a thirty second sampler from a request show my co-worker used to do.

The last caller may put you to tears.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Wish That I Knew What I Know Now" by Rod Stewart
"Without You" by The Cure
"Ooh Girl, You Girl" by Badfinger
"I'll Give You Fish" by The B-52s

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm talking about "they", not "we".

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I suck at yousendit links for some reason.

TRY THIS FOR REQUEST LINE FUNNIES (:30)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

A few faves:

Public Image Ltd, "We Only Wanted To Be Loved"
Nirvana, "Gimme Back My Alcohol"
MX-80 Sound, "(Look Out For The) Roadblock Of Sound"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Public Image Limited - "This Could Be Heaven"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Cocteau Twins - "Bloody and Blunt" (were it not for a song with name on The Moon and the Melodies)

― Ian Riese-Moraine's all but an ark-lark! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm, which Cocteaux song is that?

(Also, seeing that "Ooze Out and Away, Onehow" is a line from "My Love Paramour", does this indicate that all the titles from The Moon and the Melodies are lines from CT tracks?)

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

CCR, Ike & Tina, and too many others to mention - "Rolling On The River" ("Proud Mary")

...and Madonna used to drive me up a wall when she once said in an interview that one of the first songs she remembered hearing as a kid was "Give Me A Ticket For An Aeroplane" (a/k/a "The Letter" by the Box Tops).

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 2 June 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to get so mad when people would mistakenly call the Bon Jovi smash hit "Shot Through the Heart."

And I think they had a pre-famous-era song with that name...

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 2 June 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

"Maggie's Back in Town", by Bobby Darin

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

led zeppelin, "ah ah aaah, aaaaaaaaah"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

A Flock of Seagulls, "We Were Falling in Love"

Luda, "Jus' Like Dat"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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