I heard a Go Go’s song on the radio today that I forever though was “As Long As I See You”. They claim that what they’re saying is “Our lips are sealed”, but I don’t believe it.
I don’t think so. It’s a reworked Peruvian folk song and doesn’t really evoke the Old West – American or Italian style. Here is a You-tube rendering.
Ooohhhh I just thought of one. Axel F (The theme to Beverly Hills cop), not only is the title not mentioned in the song… there are no words are there?
No. I don’t think that counts, though… I mean, they never say “top gun” or “top gun anthem” in Steve Stevens/Harold Faltermeyer’s Top Gun Anthem, either…
That one might count in a sense, though, since I bet if you asked somebody “what are the words to Top Gun Anthem?” 9 out of 10 would sing Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone.
That was what I thought it was called!
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Since Space Oddity and For What It’s Worth are taken already…
d) As long as we’re doing Tori, can’t forget her standing before naked before us and asking if we dont want more than her sex, declaring she can scream as loud as the last one, right? Name of song? Leather. FYI.
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The Chorus says
If love Isn’t forever
And it’s not the weather
Hand me my leather
Clearly the title is part of the key lyrics… now what it has to do with anything is just about as much as most Tori Amos songs have to do with the title, or the lyrics in the other stanzas for that matter.
It was just about 2 months ago I realized “Axel F” referred to the title character’s name and wasn’t just some random name for the song.
I always thought it was about a skeezy older guy trying to get a virgin teenage girl to sleep with him.
I didn’t see it written down for a long time, so when I was a kid I thought the title was “*Sweet *Judy Blue Eyes.”
Oops - my mistake. The OP doesn’t say the words can’t appear anywhere in the song though. Its just what you thought it was called.
I dont remember if I ever thought it was called something else (I probably at one point did think it was separate songs, though.)
But the DJs at a rock station in the mid-90s who played that song fairly often always pronounced it as Sweet Judy Blue Eyes. There was no hint of a pause at all between Suite and Judy, and the Suite was often emphasized as one might hear a Southern Emphatic expression, i.e. “SWEET Judy Blue Eyes”!
Most Guster fans have no idea the song they think is called “May Parade” is actually titled “Rainy Day”.
This gets even more confusing as Guster routinely sings the lyric in concert as “went down to the gay parade”
The Police’s “Synchronicity” does include that word, but “Synchronicity II” does not.
I can’t believe no one mentioned “Hair of the Dog” by Nazareth, aka “(Now You’re Messin’ With a) Son of a Bitch”
REM’s The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite does mention sidewinder and sleeping, but should really be named “Don’t Even Try to Wake Her Up”.
Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” does mention a rabbit:
It also has the advantage of recognizingly being based upon a common child’s story, * Alice in Wonderland* (or is it Through the Looking Glass?), so while the term “white rabbit” may not be an actual lyric, it should be a clear reference to a large part of the audience.
Another U2 example, the album is “Under a Blood Red Sky”, but the song with those lyrics is “New Year’s Day”.
**Rucksinator ** said:
Really? That one’s clear to me.
Album titles found in a song on that album! That could be its own thread couldn’t it? Until then I’ll put my submission here. It may not be a classic but I love it. The band is The Stereophonics, the album is Just Enough Education to Perform and the song is Mr. Writer.
Sorry if I wrecked the thread.
Argh! I just looked at the Wikipedia article for this song and see that they chose that title more or less at random. I’d always assumed that “Iris” was meant in the verb form of the word. IE, “to open from the center,” which I think actually has some poetry to it. I hope Wikipedia is wrong on this one.
Oh, geez, an obvious one, another Pearl Jam song: “Corduroy”
What did you think the name of the song was?
and… Dylan recorded the song in 1966 and 4:20 didnt come about til 1971
I think the name of the song on the album is “El Condor Pasa(If I Could)”
Heard one on the radio tonight: Anberlin’s “Feel Good Drag”.