more Who - "Cut My Hair," "New Song," "Out in the Street," "Sea and Sand."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 27 July 2015 13:35 (eight years ago) link
All there is is another "Come doused in mud"
― LimbsKing, Monday, 27 July 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
I like that songwriting trick. I don't have any example in mind, though.It comes from opera, I think ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 27 July 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
Pavement, "Cut Your Hair"
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Unless the non-word "oohs" that start the song are considered the first line.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
...or unless you count the "Darlin' don't you go and" part either.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
yeah, "cut your hair" doesn't work.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 27 July 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
All I've come up with is "Mornin'" by Al Jarreau.
― Mark G, Monday, 27 July 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
pavement song you're thinking of is 'heaven is a truck'
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Monday, 27 July 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Leonard Cohen - I Left a Woman Waiting
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 July 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
In Another Land - Rolling StonesHello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
― Josefa, Monday, 27 July 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
As I Went Out One Morning
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 July 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Sexual Harrassment - If I Gave You A Party
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Monday, 27 July 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
That doesn't repeat? I know there are variations on the phrase throughout but I'm sure it repeats.
― emil.y, Monday, 27 July 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
I think the actual phrase that is the title does not repeat, just the variations like "I am giving you a party" and "I guarantee a party", and now I can't stop laughing.
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Monday, 27 July 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
...or unless you count the "Darlin' don't you go and" part either.― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Surely "Darlin' don't you go and cut your hair" is the first line, as the thread title requests. Now if it was first words... Bowie's Fantastic Voyage works too.
― écorché (S-), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:24 (eight years ago) link
You Suffer
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 08:38 (eight years ago) link
Phish - Divided Sky
:)
― Adam J Duncan, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 08:56 (eight years ago) link
Leonard Cohen - I Tried to Leave You
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 11:57 (eight years ago) link
Blur - Mr Robinson's Quango - I hate the way that song starts 'Oh Mr Robinson.... And his quango'
Blame Ian Curtis, it's a cover of an unreleased Joy Division song.
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
The Beatles - The Long And Winding RoadLove - Orange SkiesThe Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved MeSleeper - Lady Love Your CountrysideElliott Smith - Baby Britain
― Ex Slacker, Thursday, 30 July 2015 06:09 (eight years ago) link
good one "Long and winding road" : I've never noticed !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 30 July 2015 09:19 (eight years ago) link
Long and Winding Road is totally disqualified! Maybe you can argue that Paul doesn't properly sing 'and' between 'long' and 'winding' the second and third times, but this is really against the spirit of the survey.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 30 July 2015 11:50 (eight years ago) link
how about 'my definition of a boombastic jazz style' ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:01 (eight years ago) link
regarding TLAWR, ok, I see your point (and maybe that's why I never noticed that before).that said, yeah, he doesn't sing the exact same words and also he doesn't sing them on the same part of the melody as the first time.anyway, it's clearly not the bast example !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link
best example
really ? I've also always hated that song.
No, it was a ridiculous lie. I was just amused by the idea of Curtis singing it. "Oooh...he's got herpes...oh I'm a naughty, naughty boy"
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:46 (eight years ago) link
eheh, would have been... interesting !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 30 July 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link
i am one by the pumpkins doesn't qualify either, the chorus also includes the title
― flappy bird, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 31 July 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah, you're right re: I am one
I think long and winding road counts, it's not the exact title later on
― LimbsKing, Friday, 31 July 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
Blink 182 -- All the small things
― LimbsKing, Friday, 31 July 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 1 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Spoon, "Anything You Want."
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 1 August 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
Led Zeppelin - "In the Evening"
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 3 August 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
Weezer's "El Scorcho" I believe
― LimbsKing, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
Jane's Addiction, "Been Caught Stealing" (I think...)
― LimbsKing, Monday, 14 December 2015 01:33 (eight years ago) link
"Lesson in Survival" by Joni Mitchell
― banjoboy, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
Leonard Cohen has a few, right? "Sisters of Mercy" prob.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 07:58 (eight years ago) link
Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart
The other verses change heart to hand
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 08:48 (eight years ago) link
Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
gonna be pedantic and point out that most of these titles are not the entire first line.
― sleepingsignal, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
If it's the first x words of the first line, it's good.
If it's the last x lines, or there are words before the title, it's not.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:37 (eight years ago) link
Yay I've got one !Dylan - As I Went Out One Morning
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 17 December 2015 11:01 (eight years ago) link
Reviving this thread because Madonna's "Take a Bow" came on the radio this morning and that works here.
"My Name Is Jonas" is a 3rd variant of these two threads, the song title is sung exactly twice as the first line and last line.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 15 May 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
Just heard another obscure song come across my playlist:
Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 18 February 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
"Heaven is a Truck" -- Pavement
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 20 February 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
The White Stripes have a bunch of these.
Dead Leaves and the Dirty GroundI'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman (except for a "well")Now Mary
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 20 February 2017 03:08 (seven years ago) link
A few others...
Black Keys - Little Black SubmarinesTemper Trap - Sweet Disposition
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 25 February 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
Abbey Road Beatles..
You Never Give Me Your MoneyMean Mr. MustardShe Came in Through the Bathroom Window
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Los Campesinos! - 5 FlucloxacillinThe Microphones - My Roots are Strong and Deep
― devvvine, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life
― LimbsKing, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
Bumping for Patty Loveless - "I Try to Think About Elvis"
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Just heard this on the radio.. Mike Posner, "I Took a Pill in Ibiza"
― LimbsKing, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link