# Same title, different song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825 "2005-10-05T02:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/21 "2005-10-05T14:01:55Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > _Crazy_ > Patsy Cline > Barenaked Ladies > Aerosmith > And I think Britney Spears And Seal. **Heart of Stone** Taylor Dayne Cher Erasure ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/22 "2005-10-05T14:17:02Z")
_Thank You_ add Natalie Merchant and Sly and the Family Stone (Thank You {for letting me be mice elf again}) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/23 "2005-10-05T14:24:28Z")
_Thank You_ - add Gentle Giant _I Want You_ - add Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello _Heart of Stone_ - add the Rolling Stones (unless one of the ones already mentioned is a cover of the Stones song) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/24 "2005-10-05T14:29:31Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > And Seal. D’oh! I shoulda known that one. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/25 "2005-10-05T14:49:22Z")
“Bad Reputation” Joan Jett Fleming & John “Beautiful” Carole King The Go-Go’s In the Virginia Beach local music scene “Complicated” Rumble FIsh Lucky Town “Crazy” additional Material Issue “Do It Again” Brian Wilson Matthew Sweet “Help Me” Joni Mitchell Concrete Blonde “I Love You” add The Velvet Underground “Jane” Barenaked Ladies Ben Folds Five “Lies” The Knickerbockers The Rolling Stones “Little Siste” Elvis Presley/Dwight Yoakum Concrete Blonde “Louie Louie” The Stories Pretenders “Ride” The Vines Liz Phair “Run Run Run” The Velvet Underground Concrete Blonde “She” Hoodoo Gurus The Monkees “Stumble” REM Collapsis Why yes, I did run through my iTunes listing at work. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/26 "2005-10-05T14:52:38Z")
“Only the Lonely” Roy Orbison the Motels. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/27 "2005-10-05T14:56:05Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > “Bad Reputation” > Joan Jett > Fleming & John also the dB’s ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/28 "2005-10-05T14:58:36Z")
“Beautiful” Joydrop Avion Flickerstick “Blue” Pinback A Perfect Circle Eeiffel 65 “Breathe” Greenwheel (same song that Melissa Etheridge covers) Moist Seven Channels “Down” Thomas Reed Pitchshifter 311 Social Burn “Home” Lou Barlow Clinic Three Days Grace Staind “Run” Collective Soul Cloud Ten Kutless Snow Patrol ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/29 "2005-10-05T15:01:35Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > “Beautiful” > Carole King > The Go-Go’s And Creed. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/30 "2005-10-05T15:03:36Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > “Louie Louie” > The Stories > Pretenders The title of the Stories song is “Brother Louie.” _Do It Again_: add Steely Dan _Run Run Run_ - add the Who _Home_ - add Jethro Tull, Roy Harper ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/31 "2005-10-05T15:28:39Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > **One** > Metallica > U2 > Harry Nilsson (and all the covers thereof) Add Three Dog Night. * * * **Best of My Love** Eagles Emotions (had to look that one up) **Rock and Roll Fantasy** The Kinks Bad Company ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/32 "2005-10-05T15:41:31Z")
_Shades of Gray_ Billy Joel The Monkees ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/33 "2005-10-05T15:41:52Z")
And now for my own additions. The below list comes from the 4,949 songs I have on my hard drive at work: _Angel_ Aerosmith Jimi Hendrix Judas Priest Massive Attack _Believe_ Breaking Benjamin Disturbed _Black_ Pearl Jam Sevendust _Breakdown_ Breaking Benjamin Guns 'N Roses Tom Petty _Change the World_ Eric Clapton Cold _Closure_ Chevelle Opeth _Cryin’_ Aerosmith Joe Satriani Yngwie Malmsteen _Deep_ Anathema Pearl Jam _Domination_ Apocalyptica Pantera _Echo_ Joe Satriani Trapt _Enemy_ Days of the New Sevendust _Epihany_ Mushroomhead Staind _Eternal_ Mushroomhead Nightingale _Fear_ Disturbed Mudvayne Sevendust Switchblade Symphony _Fight Fire With Fire_ Kansas Metallica _Fire_ Yngwie Malmsteen Jimi Hendrix _Follow_ Breaking Benjamin Drowning Pool _Forever_ Angel Dust Ben Harper Nevermore As I Lay Dying _Freedom_ Jimi Hendrix Voivod _Ghost_ Buckethead Live _Give_ Cold Dishwalla _Gone_ Katatonia Sevendust _Greed_ Godsmack Amorphis _Halo_ Soil Porcupine Tree _Haunted_ Evanescence Type O Negative _Home_ Breaking Benjamin Staind Sevendust Pain of Salvation _Hope_ Anathema Apocalyptica Antimatter _I Am_ Drowning Pool Godsmack Jonny Lang _I’m Sorry_ B.B. King Evergrey _Infected_ Misery Loves Co. Demon Hunter _Inhale_ Killswitch Engage Stone Sour _Intro_ Tupac Shakur Flowing Tears Mercenary Rapture Sepultura Staind Alice in Chains LL Cool J _Killer_ Angel Dust Saviour Machine _Love Bites_ Def Leppard Nevermore _Lullaby_ Creed A Perfect Circle _Make Believe_ Angra Korn _Misery_ Nightingale Rapture _Monolith_ Mudvayne Stone Sour _Morning Star_ Amorphis Therion _Murder_ Sepultura Katatonia _Nameless_ Rapture Staind _Nightfall_ Amorphis Blind Guardian _One_ Creed Metallica _One More Time_ Korn Flaw _Open Your Eyes_ Alter Bridge Staind Sloth _Passenger_ Deftones Nevermore _Prayer_ Disturbed Sevendust _Propehecy_ Iced Earth Soulfly _Rain_ Breaking Benjamin Green Carnation Samael _Seed_ Korn Mudvayne Sublime _Shallow_ Into Eternity Nocturne Porcupine Tree _So Long_ Goo Goo Dolls Everlast _Solitude_ Candlemass Days of the New Iced Earth _Still Remains_ Entwine Stone Temple Pilots _Stupid Girl_ Cold Garbage _Suffocate_ Cold Sevendust Staind _Swim_ Bush In Flames _Turn the Page_ Bob Seger The Streets _Undertow_ Pain of Salvation Tool _Vampires_ Atmosphere Godsmack _Voices_ Disturbed Dream Theater Godsmack _Water_ Breaking Benjamin Pain of Salvation _Why_ Joe Satriani Soil Stabbing Westward _Wrong Way_ Creed Sublime Whew! That was more than I thought it’d be. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/34 "2005-10-05T15:59:11Z")
**Fame** David Bowie Irene Cara **Money** Pink Floyd Barrett Strong **No Time** The Guess Who The Monkees **Runaway** Bon Jovi Del Shannon **The Entertainer** Scott Joplin Billy Joel **The Letter** The Box Tops Uncle Bonsai **Twilight Zone** Manhttan Transfer Rush Also a lot of Jazz tunes have the same names as pop tunes, and as each other. But since the artists are not well known, I won’t post them here ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/35 "2005-10-05T16:02:15Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Add Three Dog Night. Theirs is one of the Nilsson covers. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/36 "2005-10-05T16:03:40Z")
Hold On - En Vogue Wilson Phillips Reason I remember is because both came out within the same time period, I think. But don’t hold me to it. Susan ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/37 "2005-10-05T16:08:27Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > “Beautiful” > Joydrop > Avion > Flickerstick > > “Blue” > Pinback > A Perfect Circle > Eeiffel 65 > > “Breathe” > Greenwheel (same song that Melissa Etheridge covers) > Moist > Seven Channels > > “Down” > Thomas Reed > Pitchshifter > 311 > Social Burn > > “Home” > Lou Barlow > Clinic > Three Days Grace > Staind > > “Run” > Collective Soul > Cloud Ten > Kutless > Snow Patrol Breathe: Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/38 "2005-10-05T16:13:36Z")
**elfkin477 and Lord Ashtar** Home is also a Floyd number **Lord Ashtar** I’m Sorry (some whiny early 60’s female crooner, like Leslie Gore or Peggy Lee - somewhere in between those two) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/39 "2005-10-05T16:19:11Z")
> [@susan\_foster](#): > > Reason I remember is because both came out within the same time period, I think. But don’t hold me to it. That reminds me… Avril Levign’s Complicated was out at the exact same time as Carolyn Dawn Johnson’s much better song of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-title-different-song/324825/40 "2005-10-05T16:26:02Z")
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