(Songs where most of the title is in) parenthesis. (How many can you name/Search & Destroy)

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 ...

Fucking great song, and probably one of the longest songtitles ever. :-)

(Baby, I need your love) Because Your Love Is So Wonderful (Baby)

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a good title indeed, but it would be a lot better if george jones hadn't already done (the equally unparenthesized) "feeling single, seeing double" a decade earlier. i'm all for borrowing and stealing in music, but stealing someone else's joke is a bit unseemly. (yeah yeah, i know comedians do it all the time, and it's standard operating procedure, and all that. but something just seems weird about a songwriter grabbing another songwriter's pun like that.)

(neither gary nor george wrote either song, they just sang 'em, for whatever that's worth. and it seemed important to add this so, even if i wasn't discussing a song title in parentheses, at least my answer would be mostly in parentheses.)

I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone - Elvis
I Was Checking Out, She Was Checking In - Don Covay

128. Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Yoyur Body)"

I think Smash Hits wrote something along the lines of "(Don't you just hate it when) artists put parentheses in song titles?"

"my own summer (shove it)"
"be quiet and drive (far away)"

Good...gravy...no, I did not type those out, either.

I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf

"(What Kind Of)SHAPE(Are You In?)"

"(How Many Times) Are We Gonna Let Aretha (Franklin) Get [Away](With This) (Lame Shit)"

"(The Gibbons) Aren't The Only Monkees (On The Planet)"

"Don't Give Up (Yer Day Job)(In Parentheses)"

"(Another Glass Of) Milk"

("Stratagien Gegen Nik Kershaw" is good too. But no parentheses."Seat Me In The (Vivisection)" and "Kill Yer-(S)elf" have nice ones though.)

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) -The First Edition

I feel like I caught the Loch Ness Monster.

Man, I just keep finding a whole lot of these this morning with no effort at all- by accident in fact, without any clicking and reloading- using this amazingly fast random access technology called "a book." It is quite an old technology from what I understand- this "book" I have is from 1985. I believe they had something called "proofreading" back in those days, which means any mistakes I make must have been introduced by me.

And can't you fuxors read: "...where most of the title..." - shit like this isn't correct:

"my own summer (shove it)"
"be quiet and drive (far away)"

The Man Can't Bust (Our Parentheses)!

Are You Going To Enforce That Rule Too (Or Does It Impact Too Much On The Bottom Line)?

One for me:
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame

One that seems to have paren's but not all the time (LP avec, single sans?):
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)

There are so many more -- what a cool topic!

The Flaming Lips - "Race for the Prize (Sacrifice of the New Scientists)"
The Flaming Lips - "The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot)"
The Flaming Lips - "What Is The Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That The Chemical [In Our Brains] By Which We Are Able To Experience The Sensation Of Being In Love Is The Same Chemical That Caused The "Big Bang" That Was The Birth Of The Accelerating Universe)"
The Flaming Lips - "Waitin' for a Superman (Is It Gettin' Heavy??)"
The Flaming Lips - "Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Death Anxiety Caused By Moments Of Boredom)"
The Flaming Lips - "The Gash (Battle Hymn For The Wounded Mathematician)"
The Flaming Lips - "Sleeping On The Roof (Excerpt From 'Should We Keep The Severed Head Awake??')"
The Flaming Lips - "Buggin' (The Buzz Of Love Is Busy Buggin' You)"