# Verbose song titles (I think we did this before, but hey!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 29, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093 "2015-05-29T03:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/1 "2015-05-29T03:36:49Z")
A collection of airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases rising above the large body of hydrogen monoxide. Smoke on the Water ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/2 "2015-05-29T03:55:43Z")
A distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, 65 km (40 mi) northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands (Los Altos) of the north western Mexican state of Jalisco. Tequila ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/3 "2015-05-29T04:06:05Z")
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict [Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrRhnaFaBsA) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/4 "2015-05-29T05:00:06Z")
A smallish sinusoidal waveform appeared in an undisturbed liquid medium, although the usual causes for such a phenomenon were absent. (This is the refrain. Underlined part is the song title.) Ripple in still water, when there is no pebble tossed nor wind to blow. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/5 "2015-05-29T09:25:20Z")
Remove yourself from my collection of water vapor Get Off My Cloud ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/6 "2015-05-29T14:46:56Z")
Vague and indistinct long, narrow bands. Blurred Lines ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/7 "2015-05-29T14:54:20Z")
She Was Waitin’ For Her Mother At The Station In Torino And You Know I Love You Baby But It’s Getting Too Heavy To Laugh. AKA [Woman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXV98wW6I7k). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/8 "2015-05-29T17:32:55Z")
“I am an unduly agitated senior citizen U.S. soldier in a rattly aged armored vehicle travelling the roadways of the second largest city of Japan with the mother of my children who hails from the state capital of Hawaii, going through a series of beat-os while sitting on my posterior, wartime emperor of Japan fusion of traditional African music and European folk music” “I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with My Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues” ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/9 "2015-05-29T18:08:42Z")
It has a fragrance similar to the enthusiasm of a person who has reached puberty Smells Like Teen Spirit The vital organ that is unfaithful belongs to you Your Cheatin’ Heart ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/10 "2015-05-29T18:10:03Z")
For the real thing, check out [Sufjan Stevens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_%28album%29#Track_listing), with song titles like this: “The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!’” ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/11 "2015-05-29T18:11:20Z")
What has happened to the location of every one of the sexual organs of plants? Where Have All the Flowers Gone ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/12 "2015-05-29T18:11:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > A distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, 65 km (40 mi) northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands (Los Altos) of the north western Mexican state of Jalisco. A drink made of grenadine, orange juice, and a distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, 65 km (40 mi) northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands (Los Altos) of the north western Mexican state of Jalisco. Tequila Sunrise ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/13 "2015-05-29T18:27:34Z")
Excuse me, Joseph. Hey Joe ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/14 "2015-05-29T18:40:24Z")
An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals, entertainment, and various personal services for the public located in a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consisting of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films Hotel California (I’m sorry I don’t know how to do the spoiler box ☹ ) ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/15 "2015-05-29T18:49:52Z")
There will be a great quantity of precipitation soon, with severe downward momentum. A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall[/spoiler][spoiler] Sorry, Texas! Tuned bells denoting unrestricted action. Chimes of Freedom Lilium candidumm, Rosmarinus officinalis and a half-human, half-Contraxian member of the Defenders. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts ---
**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:** [May 29, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/16 "2015-05-29T19:08:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > There will be a great quantity of precipitation soon, with severe downward momentum. > > A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall[/spoiler][spoiler] Sorry, Texas! > > Tuned bells denoting unrestricted action. > > Chimes of Freedom > > Lilium candidumm, Rosmarinus officinalis and a half-human, half-Contraxian member of the Defenders. > > Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Having the characteristics of an igneous or sedimentary mineral formation engaged in axial motion of the sort that proverbially prevents such concretions from serving as a suitable substrate for bryophyte growths. Like a Rolling Stone ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/17 "2015-05-29T19:40:22Z")
I have a yearning to enclose your upper distal extremity with the phalanges of my upper distal extremity. I Want To Hold Your Hand ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/18 "2015-05-31T05:33:49Z")
A sense of anxiety and terror is a person’s truest companion. Fear is a Man’s Best Friend ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/19 "2015-05-31T18:27:51Z")
Moving over to Thread Games. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-titles-i-think-we-did-this-before-but-hey/721093/20 "2015-05-31T19:42:17Z")
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