― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 15 November 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 15 November 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― mattp, Monday, 15 November 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
And even though it's not most of the song, the most stupid use of parentheses award goes to:
52. Shakespeare's (Way With) Words - One True Voice.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris j (chris j), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I think the parenthesized part becomes the unparenthesized part and vice versa on the little sticker on the inside of the record. Or vice versa.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
What about that Sigur Ros album where the entire title IS parentheses?
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
From the Bang! thread:68. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Nancy Sinatra/Sonny and Cher
69. I Hate You (But Call Me) - The Monks[RIP Roger Johnston]
70. (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got - Johnny Paycheck
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
71 I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie Honeybunch) - The Four Tops
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― lemin (lemin), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
81. Hot Pants (She's Got To Use What She's Got To Get What She Wants) - James Brown
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
which also wins for Most Ungrammatical Title Forced By Parentheses.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
83. December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) -the Four Seasons84. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)- Marvin Gaye
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
85. gary numan -- we take mystery (to bed)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
90 Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full Of Shit)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, man I knew I should have gotten round to sorting my LPs. This is going to be like trying to determine whether the song is called "Honky Tonk Woman" or "Honky Tonk Women." I distinctly remember on the LP, the jacket had
(Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The) Memphis Blues Again
and the LP center label had
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The (Memphis Blues Again)
or possibly it was the other way round, but there were definitely parentheses and they were definitely switched up. Maybe this enjoyable little paradox has been cleaned up by the CD rerelease people, the same way that Get Happy! must now have a clearly defined first side. Well, a clearly defined first track.
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 15 November 2004 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
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
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 (seven months ago) link