From a Buick 6
Ballad of a Thin Man
Motorpsycho Nitemare
Rainy Day Women #12&35
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Spanish Harlem Incident
Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
Ballad in Plain D
OK, just found this:
From a Buick 6
Ballad of a Thin Man
Motorpsycho Nitemare
Rainy Day Women #12&35
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Spanish Harlem Incident
Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
Ballad in Plain D
OK, just found this:
Just about everything ever recorded by Stereolab.
This title, and the band name are kinda kooky: Ancestors - YouTube
Damn catchy little tune, though.
isnt it ironic that mitchell and dylan dont like and try to avoid other when there in the same place ?
If it comes to that, “Starry, Starry Night” (also by Don McLean) is actually titled “Vincent.”
(Speaking of, would love to hear SunUp ’s “different reasons”…)
Same reason I wouldn’t allow “Tequila” - one word in the song that is in fact its title.
OK, “Wipe out” is two words and technically doesn’t happen in the song but it is on the recording. I’d still disallow it.
It wasn’t until very recently that I found out that Golden Earring’s When the Bullet Hits the Bone is actually titled Twilight Zone.
This one just struck me (but don’t worry, I’ll recover):
Neither this thread nor that extensive list a few posts above mentions
A Simple Desultory Phillipic (lyrics here) by Paul Simon.
Speaking of Paul Simon lyrics, there’s also
El Condor Pasa (lyrics here).
Chicago has a song called I’m a Man. They also have A Song for You, which frequently has I’m a Man. I do know the titles of the two songs but when I hear either it takes a half a second to figure out the name.
It’s similar to Dan Seals. Is he the England Dan with John Ford Coley or Seals with Crofts? (he’s England Dan)
It’s “Edge of Seventeen,” not “White Winged Dove.”
You mean “One Winged Dove”.
Never mind. I see I was beaten to it.
R.E.M. has a song whose most prominent lyrics are “Crazy crazy world…Crazy crazy time…”
R.E.M. has a song called “Crazy.”
They are different songs!
The one that SHOULD be called “Crazy” is actually called “Fireplace.”
The one that IS called “Crazy” should be called “Earth is Shaking.”
(Not “Shaking Through” — that’s yet a THIRD R.E.M. song.)
Some of the songs that have been mentioned are:
Songs without a title - like the “stop what’s that sound” song
Titles without a song - For What it’s Worth
Later I get the connection between the two.
Yesterday I got a connection. Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks.
“I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers” is the official name. A parenthetical note in some track listings allows the name “(Mumbo Jumbo) Jittibob J. O’Shea”, which is arguably a more memorable lyric.
Simon, of course, added his own lyrics to an existing song already called “El Condor Pasa”. Simon’s song is usually listed as “El Condor Pasa (If I Could)”.
In fact, Simon thought the original song was a Peruvian folk song; when he later found out that it had been written more recently (by a Peruvian songwriter) and was still in copyright, he paid up without complaint.
A current example is the Billie Eilish song where she tells us a zillion times “I’m Not Your Friend”, but the song title is “Therefore I Am”.
There was really nowhere exactly right to put this, and … yet … I felt I must:
Today, me and the yellow lab went for a drive to a nearby town with a wonderful recreational lake, ringed by a multi-use path, and containing its own off-leash dog (swim) park.
While we were in the park, another pair were having no luck chasing their black lab after he had retrieved The Ball.
Finally, exasperated, “Dad” yelled “Zeppelin, come!”
I had to inquire …
“Zeppelin ? As in ‘Black Dog.’ As in … Led Zeppelin ?”
The dog-mom said, “Zeppelin is like five years old, and you’re the first person to ever put it together !”
[Never underestimate the persistent upside of being an old hippie]
As you were, then …