# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/41 "2018-08-22T15:04:55Z")
[The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtEpqlrwX5c) - Rose and the Arrangement ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/42 "2018-08-22T15:06:31Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I believe it’s the actual form of the song. A is the verse, B is the chorus, C is the bridge. It’s the form of an early version of the song. The song as recorded is ABABCAB followed by an extended outro. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/43 "2018-08-22T15:18:12Z")
“Regretting what I said to you when you called me at 11:00 on Friday morning to tell me that 1:00 Friday afternoon you were gonna leave your office, go downstairs, hail a cab, to go out to the airport, to catch a plane, to go skiing in the Alps for two weeks. Not that I wanted to go with you; I wasn’t able to leave town, I’m not a very good skier, I couldn’t expect you to pay my way, but after going out with you for three years, I don’t like surprises.” - Christine Lavin “Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals” - Raymond Scott ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/44 "2018-08-22T15:20:36Z")
Lonnie Donegan - [Does Your Chewing Gum Lose it’s Flavour? (On The Bed Post Over Night)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6bFTVi0hHs) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/45 "2018-08-22T15:49:16Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I believe it’s the actual form of the song. A is the verse, B is the chorus, C is the bridge. My understanding is that that was, in fact, true at one point in the song’s development, but they changed the order of the segments in the final version. _Edit: I posted before I saw pulykamell’s better description. 😃_ ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/46 "2018-08-22T16:44:50Z")
For accuracy: “Title of the Song” - DaVinci’s Notebook. For silly length: “Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green And Purple Pills” - Ray Stevens For reals though: “Life By The Drop”, Stevie Ray Vaughan. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/47 "2018-08-22T16:48:36Z")
Mozart’s Canon in B flat major, K. 231, “_Leck mich im Arsch_ (Lick Me in the Ass)”. ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/48 "2018-08-22T16:57:27Z")
I’ve never been a really big Jethro Tull fan, but _Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day)_ is one of my favorite song titles ever. Also, Pink Floyd’s _Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ is one of the greatest album titles of all time. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/49 "2018-08-22T16:59:40Z")
Some paired names from Robert Wyatt’s _Rock Bottom_: “Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road” “Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road” “Alifib” “Alife” The last letter is the key they’re in. Also, the titles on Soft Machine’s _Volume 2_ “Pataphysical Introduction – Pt. 1” “A Concise British Alphabet – Pt. 1” “Hibou, Anemone and Bear” “A Concise British Alphabet – Pt. 2” “Hulloder” “Dada Was Here” “Thank You Pierrot Lunaire” “Have You Ever Bean Green?” “Pataphysical Introduction – Pt. 2” “Out of Tunes” “As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still” “Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening” “Esther’s Nose Job” (A Thomas Pynchon reference). “Fire Engine Passing with Bells Clanging” “Pig” “Orange Skin Food” “A Door Opens and Closes” “10.30 Returns to the Bedroom” ---
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_She Got The Gold Mine (I Got The Shaft)_, Jerry Reed ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/51 "2018-08-22T17:31:25Z")
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama - Frank Zappa ---
**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:** [August 22, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/52 "2018-08-22T17:56:04Z")
A slight detour into a comedy album, but it certainly fits the “song titles that have nothing to do with the content” nature of this thread. David Cross has always titled his standup material with tracks like… (this is 2004’s _It’s Not Funny_) Side One: Certain Leaders in Government Look or Act like Certain Pop Culture References! – 4:51 Women, Please Rinse Off Your Vagina and Anus! – 5:10 I’ve Taken a Popular Contemporary Pop Song and Changed the Lyrics to Comment on the Proliferation of Starbucks in My Neighborhood! – 3:16 A Rapid Series of Comical Noises! – 3:57 Although Indigent, Rural Families Have Little to Say in the Matter, Third Rate Public Education Has Kept Them Ignorant and Thus, Great Sources of Ridicule! – 2:48 My Child is Enthralling, Especially When It Says Something Unexpectedly Precocious Even Though It Doesn’t Understand What It Just Said! – 8:38 Side Two: My Immigrant Mom Talks Funny! – 13:37 When It Comes to Jews, Behavior One Might Perceive as Obnoxious and Annoying I Present as ‘Quirky’ but It’s Okay to Joke About It Because I, Myself, Am Jewish! – 6:01 Pandering to the Locals! – 7:13 Even Though I Am in the Closet, That Won’t Prevent Me from Getting Cheap Laughs at the Expense of Homosexuals! – 2:37 Weathermen Have Become, for the Most Part, Obsolete! – 2:53 When All is Said and Done, I am Lonely and Miserable and Barely Able to Mask My Contempt for the Audience as I Trot Out the Same Sorry Act I’ve Been Doing Since the Mid-Eighties! – 12:51 ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/53 "2018-08-22T18:41:52Z")
I’ll take Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly and the Family Stone. Incidentally, Magazine covered it with a slightly amended title: (Iwanna) Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). Nice touch. That aside, there’s many a Hank Wangford song with a great title: Cowboys Stay On Longer Never Wear Mascara If You Love A Married Man Joggin’ With Jesus… j ---
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John Wayne is Big Leggy - Haysi Fantayzee for the sheer obscurity In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly for the back story (A drunk band member trying to say “In The Garden of Eden”) Wang Dang Sweet Poontang - Ted Nugent for the cheesiness. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/55 "2018-08-22T19:35:49Z")
Well, if we’re going to go down the “titles that have nothing to do with the song” road, we need to include Cream’s “Badge.” As I understand it, a handwritten “bridge” on the score was misread as “Badge.” Personally, I have always been charmed by Jack Bruce’s (co-writer) “Theme for an Imaginary Western.” ---
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Meatloaf had some good titles on some very angry songs: “Everything Louder Than Everything Else”, “Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back”. Elton John did the slightly ironic “This Song Has No Title”. Los Campesinos!, “The Sea Is A Good Place To Think About The Future”. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/57 "2018-08-22T19:52:39Z")
Simon & Garfunkel’s “A Simple Desultory Philippic” ---
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I hope this wasn’t already mentioned above! How can I miss you if you won't go away. Eldon Hunt All I could think of, and I wanted to be in on this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/59 "2018-08-22T20:49:27Z")
> [@digs](#): > > A slight detour into a comedy album, but it certainly fits the “song titles that have nothing to do with the content” nature of this thread. David Cross has always titled his standup material with tracks like… (snip) In a similar vein, on Kyle Kinane’s album **Whiskey Icarus** (which I highly recommend, by the way), all the track titles are taken directly from the album **Destroyer** by KISS. It starts with “Detroit Rock City”, through “Flaming Youth” and “Beth”, and ends with “Rock and Roll Party”. The track titles have nothing to do with the content, of course. He did the same thing with **Death of the Party** (track titles are from Cheap Trick’s **Dream Police** ) and **I Liked His Old Stuff Better** (track titles are from NWA’s **Straight Outta Compton** , changed slightly to “This Track Is Not Called _whatever_”) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/60 "2018-08-22T21:47:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Simon & Garfunkel’s “A Simple Desultory Philippic” You left off the best part: “(Or, How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission).” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993.md?page=4)