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