A Baba O'Reilly Thread or What's the name of that song?

Only if it appeared under that title on some compilation or live album. The original version on the Bridge Over Troubled Water album was titled “El Condor Pasa,” period.

What many people call “Honky Tonk Women” is actually “Honky Tonk Woman.”

If you say so,I don’t have the album in front of me,but this says otherwise.

I do have the album in front of me; my original copy from 1970. The title appears three times (track list, lyrics, and label), all without any subtitle. The subtitle may have been added on later pressings.

Good to know…thanks!

Black Dog
D’yer Maker
And I’m pretty sure there are a bunch more.

The Carpenters’ Superstar isn’t “Long Ago and Oh So Far Away” or “Don’t You Remember You Told Me You Loved Me Baby”.
The Ides of March’s Vehicle ain’t “The Friendly Stranger in the Black Sedan” or “Great God in Heaven You Know I Love You”.
Melanie’s Brand New Key isn’t “The Roller Skate Song”.
The Stylistics never recorded a song titled “So in Love With You” it’s I’m Stone in Love With You (ignore the awful video!).
And so I don’t feel so old for the rest of the night,
while there is some disturbing sex, there’s no prison sex in Tool’s Prison Sex.

CMC fnord!

The latter,

Believe it!

In my musical defense (should it actually need defending) I only know this 'cause I’m a huge Specials fan.

Heh. I can’t figure out how folks mishear “Our Lips Are Sealed.”

My contribution: Blur’s “Woo-Hoo” is actually called “Song 2.” When explaining who Blur is to Americans, generally the conversation is like this.

A: What’s that band?
Me: Blur.
A: Blur? Never heard of 'em.
M: Sure you have. They did “Song 2”
A: I’ve never heard of it…
M: You know… they play it at sporting events… it goes “woo hoo!”
A: Oh yeah! The Woo Hoo song!

Not that it doesn’t qualify but the title Chop Suey! comes from the original title of the song which was Suicide. The record company nixed the title hence they chopped sui(cide). The new title the song is probably more creative than most of their lyrics. :stuck_out_tongue:

I like System of a Down, I really do but their lyrics stink.

Now I’m wondering how many songs with parenthesis in the title are re-named by studios or even the artists themselves for clarity’s sake.

“It is now my duty to completely drain you.” It only appears once in the lyrics, but it’s there.

Thank you for that bit of trivia! That is somewhat clever.

Well, for the most part, I can’t really understand the lyrics (I looked them up simply because I knew the song titles), but the songs make excellent music to kill by (World of Warcraft) and great to workout to as well. I cue SoaD at the point in my workout where I feel like I can’t go any further and they effectively push me through to the end, those bastards.

Oh and I love Song 2! Great for starting the workout!

Huh. I would have sworn up and down that everyone in Fun Boy Three was gay (and their version of *Our Lips Are Sealed *is the only one I knew until I moved here).

Chumbawamba’s Tubthumper, too… which brings us to another category: albums which are sort of named after songs.

Tubthumper was on the album Tubthumping.

Slayer’s Raining Blood is on the album Reign in Blood, and just to confuse people even further “reign in blood” is in the lyrics, and “raining blood” is not. :smiley:

I’m much better at remembering song titles like this since I started playing Rock Band as a vocalist. Even listening to those songs when they were popular, I couldn’t always make the proper connection. Songs come up in the rotation on Rock Band, I look at the title/band combination and think, “… what song is this?” Then I hear the opening chords and realize I’ve heard this song perhaps dozens of times. “Drain You” is one of those songs that got the title hammered home for me in this way, having the “WTF?” reaction and then singing the lyrics myself.

As for the title not appearing in the song-- Sister Christian, mentioned in the OP, starts with the words “Sister Christian” (I believe) but nobody I know calls it that. It’s always Motorin’.

Odd. I always thought that song was named Sister Christian.

Then again, I lived with Gloryhole, the only all Night Ranger cover band.

How much did they pay you for that?