# Favorite Album and Song Titles of All Time

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 4, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284 "2019-10-04T21:24:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/41 "2019-10-06T02:40:18Z")

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Album: “Viva Hate”, Morrissey

Song: “A Thousand Kisses Deep”, Leonard Cohen

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/42 "2019-10-06T21:57:59Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Did you walk into a great stone building?

Nope, but that’s because I didn’t cross MacArthur Park. (I did stop there though. Brought a cake but there was no rain on the forecast.)

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**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/43 "2019-10-08T10:10:19Z")

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“Girlfriend in a Coma” by the Smiths.

“All My Ex’s Live in Texas” by George Strait.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/44 "2019-10-08T12:10:08Z")

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“Riding A Black Unicorn Down The Side Of An Erupting Volcano While Drinking From A Chalice Filled With The Laughter Of Small Children” - [Voltaire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJDBP292rM)

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/45 "2019-10-08T14:40:18Z")

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_Child Is Father To The Man_ by Blood Sweat & Tears,  
and the song from it: _The Further Adventures of Plato, Diogenes & Freud_.

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**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/46 "2019-10-09T18:18:59Z")

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A Mingus tune inspired by “All the Things You Are” and titled “All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother.”

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**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/47 "2019-10-09T18:45:10Z")

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Jimmy Buffett’s 1978 live concert album, “You Had To Be There” is a just about perfect title IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/48 "2019-10-10T20:31:57Z")

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On the opposite end from Captain Beefheart, etc., there’s Hank Williams’s “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy”. I mean, if you’re looking for that kind of thing, you don’t even need the song after that title, do you?

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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/49 "2019-10-10T21:56:51Z")

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Just thought of another song. _How Come My Dog Don’t Bark When You Come Around?_, by Dr. John.

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