Top 100 Songs With Misleading Titles

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100. Blue Oyster Cult - "Dominance And Submission"

(I don't know what it's about, but it sure ain't about *that*)

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

99. "Beat It" is not about masturbation, wtf?

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

98. Bass-O-Matic - Fascinating Rhythm

It's just not that fascinating.

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

97. The Meatmen - "Crippled Children Suck"

(They don't; it's the negligent parents that do)

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Will Oldham - "You Have Cum In Your Hair And Your Dick Is Hanging Out". What is he, GG Allin?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

95. Erasure, "Piano Song"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Billy Squire, The Stroke. Apparently about flattery, much to the dissapointment of my 12 year old self.

― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

94. Simon Harris - BASS

― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

93. Kajagoogoo - "Neverending Story"

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

92. jason mraz - 'the remedy'

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

91. Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children

― candice (divifold), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

90. american analog set - punk as fuck

89. nation of ulysses - the sound of jazz to come

― Adolescence Mokushiroku! (gendo ikari), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

88. Yoko Ono - Listen, The Snow Is Falling

You can't hear snow. You can hear the vibrations left by wind, but you can't hear snow falling. To be more literalist, you can, presuming there's a significant amount falling at once, probably make out something rather slight when the snow hits some surface, but you can't hear snow falling.

― Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE THIS SONG.

There is a sound of something that presumably is snow on the record. I suppose this title is better than "listen, you can hear snow hitting surface". Although if anybody could get away with such a title, its Yoko.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, a quick check of her lyrics to "Who Has Seen the Wind?" might give an indication how you can listen to the falling snow.

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

87. Bill Haley & the Comets - Rock Around the Clock

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

86. AC/DC - "Big Balls" (apparently, it's about the large parties that people throw on occasion)

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's about... oh never mind.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

85. "Come On Eileen" is NOT the soundtrack to a bukakke video. Well, I suppose it could be.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, a quick check of her lyrics to "Who Has Seen the Wind?" might give an indication how you can listen to the falling snow.

just the other week i read this poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) that seems a bit familiar :

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Mark, you do know that that Palace song title is the set-up to punchline in a corny old musician joke, don't you? The punchline is "No, but if you hum a few bars, I'll fake it."

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

84. 10cc - "The Worst Band In The World"

(not by a long shot, fellas)...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

83. "This is Hardcore"

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

82. "Quiet" - The Smashing Pumpkins

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 17:15 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

1. Glen Daly, "The Sky Is Bluer in Scotland"

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― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Friday, 21 June 2019 14:57 (six years ago)

Scooter - We Are The Greatest

― Siegbran, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:00 (six years ago)

Most of Throbbing Gristle's 20 Jazz Funk Greats qualifies.

― pomenitul, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:00 (six years ago)

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