# The Song Synonym Thread

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263 "2014-03-09T13:05:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/141 "2014-04-02T19:38:29Z")

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n/m

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### Author: ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/142 "2014-04-02T19:38:44Z")

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> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> Coitus Conflagration.

Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon

Sanguine Precipitation

ETA: Damn!

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### Author: ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/143 "2014-04-02T19:45:31Z")

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> [@pravnik](#):
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> Sanguine Precipitation

Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

back to:  
Turbulence pontoon

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### Author: ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/144 "2014-04-02T19:52:38Z")

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> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
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> back to:  
> Turbulence pontoon

Rock The Boat by Hues Corporation?

Prince Charles’ Ponzi scheme.

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### Author: ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/145 "2014-04-02T19:55:38Z")

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> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> Rock The Boat by Hues Corporation?
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> Prince Charles’ Ponzi scheme.

I was going for Bridge Over Troubled Water but carry on 🙂

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### Author: ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/146 "2014-04-02T20:01:35Z")

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> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

Nope, more specific than that. 🙂

ETA: Although that does work - I’ll hold off in case anyone can guess the one I was thinking of.

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### Author: ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/147 "2014-04-02T20:09:43Z")

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> [@pravnik](#):
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> Nope, more specific than that. 🙂
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> ETA: Although that does work - I’ll hold off in case anyone can guess the one I was thinking of.

Purple Rain?

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### Author: ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/148 "2014-04-02T20:12:27Z")

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> [@pravnik](#):
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> Sanguine Precipitation

Rain in Blood–Slayer ??

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### Author: ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/149 "2014-04-02T20:41:08Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> Rain in Blood–Slayer ??

That was it - Raining Blood, from the album Reign in Blood.

Still in play:

> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> Prince Charles’ Ponzi scheme.

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### Author: ![Marks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@Marks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marks)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/150 "2014-04-03T17:26:58Z")

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Flags And Banners – Faces

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### Author: ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/151 "2014-04-04T02:08:06Z")

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Next:

Scallions

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### Author: ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/152 "2014-04-04T02:28:32Z")

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Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs  
Next: Native to the largest country in the Western Hemisphere

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### Author: ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/153 "2014-04-04T04:56:32Z")

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> [@Enginerd](#):
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> Next: Native to the largest country in the Western Hemisphere

O Canada?

(The only song I can think of with “Canada” in the title…)

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### Author: ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/154 "2014-04-04T05:17:20Z")

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My mistake, sorry. That should read:

Native to the _most populous_ country in the Western Hemisphere

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### 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: [April 4, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/155 "2014-04-04T12:55:39Z")

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Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springfield  
Hue of Red and Shamrocks

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### Author: ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/156 "2014-04-04T14:11:09Z")

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Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells.  
I desire a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and yearn for a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing daily.

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### Author: ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/157 "2014-04-04T14:59:02Z")

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I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night and Party Everyday - Kiss

I’ll pass for now.

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### 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: [April 4, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/158 "2014-04-04T14:59:24Z")

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I Want To Rock & Roll All Night (And Party Every Day) - KISS  
Conceived to be Feral

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### Author: ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/159 "2014-04-04T15:04:27Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Conceived to be Feral

Hahahahahah! I’m laughing my head off here at work.

Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf

I’m too busy laughing to respond right now. :D:D

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### Author: ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/160 "2014-04-04T15:30:53Z")

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This one was never solved:

Prince Charles’ Ponzi scheme.

(Hint: It’s classic rock, and I know there are several fans of these guys on the board)

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