A Girl Like You (x3)

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It seems it is all about a girl like you, at least according to my music tastes. I have been listening through my favorites on YouTube and realized I have 3 songs called A Girl Like You by 3 different artists. That isn’t even counting the fact that there is a cover of one of them.

A Girl Like You by Wolfgang Press.

A Girl Like You by The Smithereens.

A Girl Like You by Edwyn Collins.

A Girl Like You Tom Jones covering Wolfgang Press.

The thing is, I am pretty sure that there more songs with the same name.

How many different songs with the same name do you have in your music collection?

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Do you have something against the Rascals performance ofA Girl Like You?

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There are lots of songs called Ramona. Can’t think of all of them at the moment as I haven’t had coffee yet.

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I’ve got a trio singing about home:

Home by Michael Bublé

Home by Phillip Phillips

Home by Simply Red

All 3 are loaded up in my car, but when they come up in the rotation I’m usually just tabbing through them to get to Homecoming King by Guster.

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Here’s one more. My favorite song by the name:

Pete Yorn - A Girl Like You

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The Rutles - With A Girl Like You

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I currently have on my iPod 5 very different songs with the same title, in a total of 11 versions:

Stay - David Bowie (3 copies, the Station to Station album version, the remix, and the live version from Stage)
Stay - Oingo Boingo (3 copies, one live from the Farewell album, one from the Dead Man’s Party album, and one from the Best O’ Boingo album)
Stay - The Poxy Boggards (local folk group)
Stay - The Temptations
Stay - Rhianna feat Mikky Ekko

Do I win something?

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I’ve got 3 titled “Misery”

The Beatles
The Kinks
Green Day

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What! No Foreigner? I thought the thread was going to be about this song:
FOREIGNER:
“Waiting For A Girl Like You”

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A visit from Lisa Loeb.

I have:
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
Dirty Laundry - Bitter:Sweet
Dirty Laundry - Cayetana

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I’ve got six different "Farewell"s:
Avantasia,
Gamma Ray,
Kamelot,
Pagan’s Mind,
Rod Stewart and
The Yardbirds.

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There’s also this one. (I discovered it as a Youtube reccomendation. Don’t care about the song so much except for liking the amateur hand-drawn illustrations. (The song is from a CGI Barbie play on The Prince and the Pauper.

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According to this website Song title 435 - Save Me there are 30 songs called Save Me (not including the one by the Miracles or the one I wrote). Of course some of them may be covers of some others of them. . . .

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R.E.M. also has a song called “A Girl Like You.” Even though I’ve been a fan of the band for decades, I only found out about this song because the show Covert Affairs decided to use it as the title of one of its episodes. For whatever reason, the show used one particular artist’s songs as the titles for all the episodes in a single season. I felt a certain point of satisfaction when R.E.M. got the honor for Season Two. I was certainly surprised to run down the list of episodes and see a song title I was totally unaware of. It apparently was a very early song that the band abandoned.

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How do you feel about “A Boy Like That” from West Side Story?

Also both “Heaven Can Wait” films are exquisite.

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I Can’t Help Myself- The Four Tops
I Can’t Help Myself- John Fogerty
I Can’t Help Myself- Jason and the Scorchers

There are tons more, but those are the ones I have on my phone right now.

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Oh, and the OP made me think of the Troggs (of “Wild Thing” fame), but their song is called “With a Girl Like You.”

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Here’s one more for four: Soul Asylum.

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I have 12 titled “Intro” and 10 “titled” “Untitled” (not to mention Sigur Ros and Kendrick Lamar’s albums filled with untitled songs). I assume those shouldn’t count. :slight_smile:

I could find three titles that are each the name of four separate songs in my collection. A lot of them are album tracks, of course; I’ve bolded the artists of the songs I could hum parts of before listening to them again.

“Animal”: Def Leppard, Miike Snow, Pearl Jam, R.E.M.
“Gone”: Ben Folds, The Beta Band, Pearl Jam, U2
“Run”: Gnarls Barkley (released as a single without its subtitle, “I’m a Natural Disaster”), New Order, Snow Patrol, Tin Machine

Three different songs with multi-word titles:

“All I Want”: LCD Soundsystem (2 versions), Passion Pit, Toad the Wet Sprocket
“I Want You”: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Rachael Yamagata
“Run For Your Life”: The Beatles, Big Grams, DJ Shadow
“4th of July”: Aimee Mann (2 versions), Soundgarden, U2

A bunch of one-word song titles I have three songs of:

“Congratulations”: Dessa, Juliana Hatfield, Paul Simon
“Friends”: Flight of the Conchords, Led Zeppelin, The Police
“Girl”: The Beatles, Beck (2 versions), Jamie xx
“Helpless”: CSNY, Soo/Miranda and Ashanti/Ja Rule (same song), Sugar
“Higher”: The Cardigans, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Naked and Famous
“Low”: Coldplay, Foo Fighters, R.E.M.
“The Ocean”: Led Zeppelin, Tegan and Sara, U2
“Quiet”: The Beta Band, Rachael Yamagata, Smashing Pumpkins
“Reunion”: M83, Stars, The xx
“Run”: New Order, Snow Patrol, Tin Machine
“Tomorrow”: Avril Lavigne, Thievery Corporation, U2
“Trouble”: Coldplay, Shawn Colvin, TV on the Radio
“Wait”: The Beatles, M83, Sarah McLachlan
“You”: R.E.M., Radiohead, TV on the Radio

The sets of three really popular songs with the same title I can think of are “Creep”, “Drive”, and “One”, but I’m missing the TLC, Cars, Incubus, and Metallica songs.

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I’ve got a whole playlist of songs titled “Amsterdam”.
But I’d be cheating if I were trying to win this thread: four of them are live versions of the Guster song.