Songs where the title is only sung once, as the first line of the song

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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 Road
Love - Orange Skies
The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Sleeper - Lady Love Your Countryside
Elliott Smith - Baby Britain

Ex Slacker, Thursday, 30 July 2015 06:09 (eight years ago) link

Blame Ian Curtis, it's a cover of an unreleased Joy Division song.

really ? I've also always hated that song.

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

AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 30 July 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link


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

four weeks pass...

Weezer's "El Scorcho" I believe

LimbsKing, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

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

four months pass...

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

nine months pass...

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 Ground
I'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 Submarines
Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

LimbsKing, Saturday, 25 February 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link

Abbey Road Beatles..

You Never Give Me Your Money
Mean Mr. Mustard
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

LimbsKing, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link

Los Campesinos! - 5 Flucloxacillin
The Microphones - My Roots are Strong and Deep

devvvine, Sunday, 26 February 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link

eight months pass...

Jeff Buckley - Eternal Life

LimbsKing, Friday, 17 November 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

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


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