# Songs whose actual title is "\_\_\_\_ Song" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666 "2009-07-02T04:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/21 "2009-07-02T05:28:50Z")
“Finest Worksong” REM “Divorce Song” Liz Phair (they just keep coming to me, in dribs and drabs) ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/22 "2009-07-02T05:37:33Z")
Redemption Song - Bob Marley ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/23 "2009-07-02T05:42:50Z")
LA Song - Fischerspooner Mystery Song - Holly McNarland Festival Song - Good Charlotte The Chemical Worker’s Song - Great Big Sea Blue Song - Mint Royale Duffy’s Song (I Will Not Go Quietly) - The Whitlams Bongo Song - Zongamin Mingulay Boat Song - Richard Thompson (trad.) Jenni’s Song - Matthew Good Band This post really just reads like a statement that I have the world’s most bizarre musical taste. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/24 "2009-07-02T05:44:59Z")
Simon & Garfunkel - Kathy’s Song ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/25 "2009-07-02T05:49:44Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > “The Logical Song” by Supertramp and “Thong Song” by Sisqo are two examples. Note that I’m not interested in unofficial titles like “The Hey Song” for Gary Glitter’s “Rock & Roll Part 2”. I’d rather go with **Kyuss** ’s [Thong Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PY6Ev0KcX4), if you don’t mind. **Artimus Pyledriver** - Dixie Fight Song **Blood Island Raiders** - Untitled Love Song **Clem Snide** - The Water Song **Dark Lotus** - [Witch Trapped In This Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61KnLzfnjkM) **Dethklok** - [Fansong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEZ1t_-lPqA) **A Flock Of Seagulls** - [Space Age Love Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHjtij5vZfA) **The Haunted** - [Hate Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlmKcPPUEis) **Jane’s Addiction** - [Mountain Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giHmPrIdXeI) **Jobriath** - The Choosing Song **Katatonia** - [Soil’s Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFs2n85_mfc) **Mahavishnu Orchestra** - [John’s Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVuAmM_DdkI) **Psychic TV** - The Nothing Song **Psychostick** - [The Dumb song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOmasp9hr4Q) **Refused** - [Protest Song '68](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CklRJuGCJOA) **Snake River Conspiracy** - Lovesong (this is actually a cover of a Cure song, but I like SRC’s better) **Stormtroopers Of Death** - [The Crackhead Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL1h9l1EPTI) **Stormtroopers Of Death** - [Anti-Procrastination Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbdzmSxjfRs) **Stormtroopers Of Death** - [The Song That Don’t Go Fast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-zA-x8LGOE) **Suicidal Tendencies** - [Just Another Love Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D82L6mviJf8) **System Of A Down** - [This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I’m On This Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJi1XA8s9go) **System Of A Down** - [Highway Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcHwr7K-2c) **Tool** - [Swamp Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2eFNnwZ9Eo) **The Union Underground** - The Friend Song **400 Blows** - The Wrong Song ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/26 "2009-07-02T06:19:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > **Psychic TV** - The Nothing Song Speaking of which, they also have “The La La Song”. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/27 "2009-07-02T06:25:32Z")
“No No Song” -Ringo Starr ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/28 "2009-07-02T06:28:15Z")
“Earth Song” - Michael Jackson “It’s the Same Old Song” - Four Tops “Only a Northern Song” - Beatles “Love Song” - Simple Minds “Sing Our Own Song” - UB40 “Pop Song '89” - R.E.M. “Sunbed Song” - Level 42 “Authority Song” - John Mellencamp “Jan’s Song” - INXS “Same Song” - Digital Underground featuring Tupac “Sweet/Good/Mellow/Swamp Song” - Blur, and also “Song 2” “Badman’s/Goodnight/Sea Song” - Tears For Fears “This Cowboy Song” - Sting ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/29 "2009-07-02T06:37:10Z")
“Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song” by B.J. Thomas ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/30 "2009-07-02T06:40:35Z")
Weird Al Yankovic has had several: Achy Breaky Song A Complicated Song Don’t Download This Song The Plumbing Song (This Song’s Just) Six Words Long Truck Drivin’ Song ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/31 "2009-07-02T07:33:25Z")
Summer Song - Joe Satriani ---
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The Decemberists have a number of them: “The Rake’s Song” “Raincoat Song” “A Cautionary Song” “Apology Song” “Summersong” (if that counts, since it’s all one word) “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” Others from my iTunes library: “City Song” - Emmy the Great “Apocalypse Song” - St. Vincent “Sea Song” - Lisa Hannigan “Grandmother Song” - Vienna Teng “Eric’s Song” - Vienna Teng “Pigeon Song” - Alela Diane “Bird Song” - Marissa Nadler “Ocean Night Song” - Laura Veirs “The Saxophone Song” - Kate Bush “Greek Song” - Rufus Wainwright “Mark Rothko Song” - Dar Williams ---
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Do parentheses count? “Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)” - Richard and Linda Thompson ---
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I searched the thread, and I think there are no duplicates here. (Maybe one, and maybe one that doesn’t count – noted below.) The Puppy Song – Astrud Gilberto The Hukialau Song – My version by Big Kahuna & The Copa Cat Pack The Old Settler’s Song – The Brothers Four [Song.com](http://Song.com) – The Damned (Does that count, since it’s not \_\_\_ Song?) The Guitar Song – Dead Milkmen The Blues Song – Dead Milkmen Alabama Song – The Doors The Coffee Song – Frank Sinatra Panic Song – Green Day The Jack-Ass Song – Harry Belafonte Earthquake Song – Little Girls Mystery Song – Michelle Shocked ( **Electric Warrior** posted this by Holly McNarland. I don’t know if it’s the same song.) Alphabet Song – (‘A is A, A, A, A, A-I-icky-o-oo-oo-oo…’ My version by Oingo Boingo) The Car-Car Song – My version by Odetta The House Song – Peter, Paul & Mary Another F.U. Song – Reel Big Fish Secret Song – Reel Big Fish New Song – Sublime Doughnut Song – Tori Amos ---
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“Someone Else’s Song” - Wilco "Wilco (the Song) - Wilco “Cicada Song” - Rhett Miller “Hotel Song” - Regina Spector “Smoothie Song” - Nickel Creek “The Drinking Song” - Moxy Fruvous “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” - The Flaming Lips “Laundromat Song” - The Dead Milkmen “Song for the Dumped” - Ben Folds Five “The Annoying Song” - Butthole Surfers “Little Tiny Song” - Barenaked Ladies “Marry Song” - Band of Horses “October Song” - Amy Winehouse ---
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Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: [“The Work Song”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5h6h83Yf4) ---
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Many people have done a version of “September Song.” ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666/38 "2009-07-02T14:04:04Z")
Does ‘Song 2’ by Blurr count? Interestingly, every compilation I’ve seen it on has it as the second track. ---
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Marilyn Mansons album Holy Wood contains: The Love Song The Fight Song The Death Song ---
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I’m assuming that titles like “Song of \_\_\_\_” or “Song for \_\_\_\_” (e.g., A Song of Liberty, Song of Sirens, Song of the Troubled One, etc.), although I’d think that they’re more or less the same type. If they do, I have a lot more… Z.Z.'s Song - Joe Satriani Mountain Song - Joe Satriani Summer Song - Joe Satriani Mountain Song - Joe Satriani The Minstrel Song - Aesma Daeva A Sunset Song - Sigh Swan Song - Ayreon The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin A Desolation Song - Agalloch Insect Song - Beyond the Embrace The Last Song - Edge of Sanity The May Song - The Gathering Redemption Song - Life of Agony Soil’s Song - Katatonia In Death, A Song - Katatonia Mordred’s Song - Blind Guardian The Bard’s Song - Blind Guardian The Attitude Song - Steve Vai The Knock Out Song - The Old Dead Tree The Rena Song - John Petrucci Departure Song - Flowing Tears [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-actual-title-is-____-song/501666.md?page=3)