# Favorite song names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993 "2018-08-21T18:24:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/21 "2018-08-22T03:05:10Z")
“Don’t Go Home with Your Hard On” - Leonard Cohen “Egg and Daughter Nite, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1967” - John Prine “Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard” - John Prine “My Shit’s Fucked Up” - Warren Zevon “Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse” - Warren Zevon “The Needle and the Damage Done” - Neil Young ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/22 "2018-08-22T03:24:54Z")
“This is gonna hurt” from The Ring soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. ---
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[Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY) - Primitive Radio Gods [Abacab](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbjfesCI254) - Genesis (the name originated from the three song fragments – titled A, B, and C – that the band strung together to make this song) [The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyNr0pY6ak) - Traffic (taken from an inscription that actor [Michael J. Pollard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Pollard) placed in a book for Jim Capaldi) [The Edge of Seventeen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8-4tjPxD8) - Stevie Nicks (the name came from Nicks mishearing Tom Petty’s first wife, Jane, saying that she met Tom “at the age of seventeen”) [Lawyers, Guns and Money](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5Xv7QqXiM) - Warren Zevon ---
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“Anal Retentive Calliope Music” — FZ, duh. I suggested this when my high school English reached asked us for an example of trochaic tetrameter. Or was it iambic? Whatever! “Neon Meat Dreame of a Octafish” — Captain Beefheart. Misspelling and a/an violation intentional, apparently. A friend once dressed as this for Halloween. “Jazz Discharge Party Hats” — more FZ. The song is a raunchy story (sorry about the misogyny), set to guitar by Steve Vai - a reminder that our every utterance is musical. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/25 "2018-08-22T06:35:11Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > …“Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict”, by Pink Floyd. This, of course, is the ultimate answer to the OP. And, in case you’ve never heard it: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YrRhnaFaBsA/hqdefault.jpg "PINK FLOYD SEVERAL SPECIES OF SMALL FURRY ANIMALS GATHERED T") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrRhnaFaBsA) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/26 "2018-08-22T06:36:02Z")
ETA: “The Dangerous Kitchen” — same album and musical method as “Jazz…”, but safe for work (and for kids). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/27 "2018-08-22T08:05:40Z")
Jazz: Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold-- Bonzo Dog Band Can Blue Men play the Whites?-- Bonzo Dog Band Pull the Trigger, Sunshine-- The Groovaholics ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/28 "2018-08-22T08:22:08Z")
Anything off the [_Victorialand_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorialand#Track_listing) album by Cocteau Twins, or their\*[The Moon and the Melodies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_the_Melodies)\*collab with Harold Budd. _Ooze Out and Away, Onehow_ is an especial favourite. Actually, many other Cocteaus titles thrill me in their earnest [tweeness](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twee#English): _Ella Megablast Burls Forever_ _Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires_ _It’s All But an Ark Lark_ _Spooning Good Singing Gum_ _Suckling the Mender_ _When Mama Was A Moth_ This Mortal Coil’s _The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb_ is a great one, too. Maybe it’s a common 4AD thing, let’s check: Dead Can Dance has some lovelies: _As The Bell Rings The Maypole Spins_, _Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book_, \*The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove \* His Name Is Alive: _Caroline’s Supposed Demon_, _You and I Have Seizures_, _How Ghosts Affect Relationships_, _Hope Called in Sick_, _There’s Something Between Us and He’s Changing My Words_…I could go on. ---
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“Somebody’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite” - Fleetwood Mac “Plexiglas Toilet” - Styx “Supernatural Superserious” - REM ---
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> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > [Abacab](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbjfesCI254) - Genesis (the name originated from the three song fragments – titled A, B, and C – that the band strung together to make this song) I believe it’s the actual form of the song. A is the verse, B is the chorus, C is the bridge. Verse Chorus Verse Bridge Verse Chorus - Out. These are my song titles: “Goodbye Francine” “Daddio (King of the World)” “90 in a 45” No, literally, those are my song titles. I wrote them. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/31 "2018-08-22T11:01:34Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > _Ella Megablast Burls Forever_ That should be _Ella Megalast_. ---
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David Allan Coe, [Cum Stains On The Pillow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPNX9WBw1rs) Hard to beat that for a descriptive title. Loudon Wainright [Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4) Best song about roadkill ever. Dylan of course has some winners: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 Motorpsycho Nightmare ---
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“All My Ex’s Live in Texas” - George Strait “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight” - Spinal Tap ---
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“Everything Sux” - The Descendents. Also a great album cover. ---
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“Sister Suzie’s Sewing Shirts For Soldiers” - Al Jolson “I’m Walking Backwards For Christmas” - Spike Milligan (The Goon Show) “My Uncle Used To Love Me (But She Died)” - Roger Miller “You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd” - Roger Miller again ---
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“If You Don’t Love Jesus, Go to Hell”–Billy Joe Shaver ---
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[How Come My Dog Don’t Bark When You Come Around](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDjOEWghIo)?, Dr. John _Let’s Do Something Cheap and Superficial_, Burt Reynolds ---
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In the same vein as other “comedic” rock acts like Zappa and Bonzo… “The Infant of Prague Customized My Van” - The Dead Milkmen “Vince Lombardi Service Center” - The Dead Milkmen “In Praise of Sha Na Na” - The Dead Milkmen Also favorites: “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party” - Courtney Barnett “Lonliness of a Middle Distance Runner” - Belle & Sebastian ---
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Lots of Jim Stafford My Girl Bill I Ain’t Sharin’ Sharon 16 Little Red Noses and A Horse That Sweats Turn Loose of My Leg Don’t Fool Around When There’s A Fool Around Cow Patti You Can Call Me Clyde ---
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Pretty much any song by _The Locust_: The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better Solar Panel Asses Backbones of Jack Asses Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Canteloupe Spitting in the Faces of Fools as a Source of Nutrition etc… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993.md?page=3)