# A Girl Like You (x3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007 "2017-02-28T02:33:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/1 "2017-02-28T02:33:24Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NYZ18aY8E&list=RDe4NYZ18aY8E#t=1) by Wolfgang Press. [A Girl Like You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4JFqfqIPKA&list=FL-Go3zYcUQVvPRMHN0MtlTg) by The Smithereens. [A Girl Like You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFz4pKclyA) by Edwyn Collins. [A Girl Like You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYMpxzRLgTs) 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? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/2 "2017-02-28T03:03:47Z")
Do you have something against the Rascals performance of[A Girl Like You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBdow8opyqc)? ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/3 "2017-02-28T14:02:50Z")
There are lots of songs called Ramona. Can’t think of all of them at the moment as I haven’t had coffee yet. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/4 "2017-02-28T14:06:25Z")
I’ve got a trio singing about home: [Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbSOLBMUvIE) by Michael Bublé [Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoRkntoHkIE) by Phillip Phillips [Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlnZVWT7ao) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/5 "2017-02-28T14:43:27Z")
Here’s one more. My favorite song by the name: [Pete Yorn - A Girl Like You](https://youtu.be/jfb30Vkw_Dw) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/6 "2017-02-28T16:01:45Z")
[The Rutles - With A Girl Like You](https://youtu.be/gdqDuOP59RI?t=1m11s) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/7 "2017-02-28T17:37:28Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/8 "2017-02-28T18:06:22Z")
I’ve got 3 titled “Misery” [The Beatles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aoWTNdHwY) [The Kinks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Mtgz_K_ZM) [Green Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeGs9O7C3IM) ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/9 "2017-02-28T19:57:56Z")
What! No Foreigner? I thought the thread was going to be about this song: FOREIGNER: “Waiting For A Girl Like You” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/10 "2017-02-28T21:14:22Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Do I win something? A visit from Lisa Loeb. I have: [Dirty Laundry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBOwPORHGU) - Don Henley [Dirty Laundry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oDRhO2DOUk) - Bitter:Sweet [Dirty Laundry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0DKtKTQaL0) - Cayetana ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/11 "2017-03-01T02:47:28Z")
I’ve got six different "Farewell"s: [Avantasia,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIJMRmoGB3I) [Gamma Ray,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWuWBL8OPaI) [Kamelot,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG1EuTGzmGw) [Pagan’s Mind,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgxYBU-OLM8) [Rod Stewart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uukzi3GQyg) and [The Yardbirds.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dVqqssNKU) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/12 "2017-03-01T12:19:36Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NYZ18aY8E&list=RDe4NYZ18aY8E#t=1) by Wolfgang Press. > > [A Girl Like You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4JFqfqIPKA&list=FL-Go3zYcUQVvPRMHN0MtlTg) by The Smithereens. > > [A Girl Like You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFz4pKclyA) by Edwyn Collins. > > [A Girl Like You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYMpxzRLgTs) 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? There’s also t[his one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiPCsBz81Gg). (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_. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/13 "2017-03-01T13:56:08Z")
According to this website [Song title 435 - Save Me](http://tsort.info/music/rnk38q.htm) 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. . . . ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/14 "2017-03-03T21:30:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/15 "2017-03-03T21:34:00Z")
How do you feel about “A Boy Like That” from West Side Story? Also both “Heaven Can Wait” films are exquisite. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/16 "2017-03-03T22:06:26Z")
[I Can’t Help Myself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z59EVHU8MjI)- The Four Tops [I Can’t Help Myself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrDVj9CvvCQ)- John Fogerty [I Can’t Help Myself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iarBXaYglxA)- Jason and the Scorchers There are tons more, but those are the ones I have on my phone right now. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/17 "2017-03-03T22:12:24Z")
Oh, and the OP made me think of the Troggs (of “Wild Thing” fame), but their song is called [“_With_ a Girl Like You.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJDUXmB0jaA) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/18 "2017-03-03T22:35:38Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > I’ve got 3 titled “Misery” > > [The Beatles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aoWTNdHwY) > [The Kinks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Mtgz_K_ZM) > [Green Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeGs9O7C3IM) Here’s one more for four: [Soul Asylum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQ2TIul8pI). ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/19 "2017-03-04T00:21:44Z")
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. 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007/20 "2017-03-04T13:59:19Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-girl-like-you-x3/781007.md?page=2)