# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**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, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/61 "2018-08-22T21:56:49Z")
> [@Rough\_Draft](#): > > Also, Pink Floyd’s _Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ is one of the greatest album titles of all time. Not too [original](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows#/media/File:Frontispiece_to_The_Wind_in_the_Willows.png), though, is it? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/62 "2018-08-22T22:03:48Z")
Guitarist Will Ackerman has some of the best titles around. A personal favorite is “The Second Great Torsion Bar Overland Of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending.” ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/63 "2018-08-22T22:07:52Z")
Jimmy Buffett- “My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don’t Love Jesus” ---
**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, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/64 "2018-08-22T23:46:28Z")
Guitar ace [Tod Lemkuhl](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/walters-birthday/460527722) and his band _Sadhana_ used to do fun stuff like fade out a song live (everybody sing softer and keep strumming, just dampen the strings and move the pick away from them). He had a great instrumental _“Ode to the Electric Bun Warmer”._ ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/65 "2018-08-23T01:05:18Z")
The Swirling Eddies: “[I Had A Bad Experience With The CIA And Now I’m Gonna Show You My Feminine Side](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXq0s016Ec)” (also “Outdoor Elvis,” “Hide the Beer, The Pastor’s Here,” and “Arthur Fhardy’s Yodeling Party”) > [@DavidwithanR](#): > > Also a dynamic duo of titles from songs by Debussy > > Green > > Spleen > > (Yeah, me neither.) Among classical composers, the master of titles may be [Erik Satie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Erik_Satie), though his are mainly in French and I’m not sure of all the translations. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Simon & Garfunkel’s “A Simple Desultory Philippic” You left out the subtitle: “A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission)” ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/66 "2018-08-23T02:07:14Z")
“When I’m Under the Table, I’ll Be Over You” – Earl Thomas Conley “The Letter That Johnny Walker Read” – Asleep at the Wheel ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/67 "2018-08-23T07:53:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > …Can Blue Men play the Whites?-- Bonzo Dog Band > > Pull the Trigger, Sunshine-- The Groovaholics Ha-ha! Love these… ---
**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:** [August 23, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/68 "2018-08-23T08:01:01Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 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! I’m not much of a fan of country music, but they’ve got lots of great song titles. Let me add: “D.I.V.O.R.C.E” by Tammy Wynette. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993/69 "2018-08-23T10:37:00Z")
“By-Tor and the Snow Dog” Rush “Would” Alice In Chains “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly” Loretta Lynn/Twitty “Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again” Sly and the Family Stone “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family” Bowie [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-song-names/819993.md?page=3)