What are your strangest song titles?

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The strangest titles in my collection are from Man or Astro-Man? I 'd have to say this one is the strangest: Multi-Variational Stimuli Of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques

But there are several others in close competition. Among them:
Cataracts Can Become A New Impending Nepotism
Curious Constructs Of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves To Be Thought Of As Fingers
Many Pieces Of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together At A Rave And Schmoozing With A Brick
Obligatory Part 2 Song In Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor The Plans To Make One
Song Of The Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator, Stanford University, Stanford California
Spectrograph Reading Of The Varying Phantom Frequencies Of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus

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The two weirdest ones I could find are:

The Only Thing Worse than Beating a Dead Horse is Betting on One-- Relient K

and

Mellowship Slinky in B Major- Red Hot Chili Peppers

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You probably already know this, but this is a reference to Pink Floyd’s Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict.… which is probably the weirdest name song that I have. Others in the running include:

Maura on a bicycle, stout and molasses, way back when - Bela Fleck
The Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey’s grave - Butthole Surfers
Don’t think about her when you’re trying to drive - Little Village

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“Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening” – Soft Machine
“The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny” – Frank Zappa and the Mothers
“Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague” – Frank Zappa and the Mothers
“I Wanna Find a Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have to Go” – Captain Beefheart
“Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish” – Captain Beefheart

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Zappa for me too. My two faves 40+ years in:
“Toads Of The Short Forest”
and
“Dwarf Nebula Processional March”

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I knew Zappa would have a big presence in this thread.

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The alltime oddest song titles have to be those that don’t have any words. On the Butthole Surfers’ “Hairway To Steven” album songs are only identified by cartoon drawings, most having to do with bodily functions. Avant-garde jazzman Anthony Braxton gives a lot of his songs titles that consist of geometric shapes and numbers. Here’s an example.

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All Apologies and Smiles, Yours Truly, Ugly Valentine
Youth is the Nigger
The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead
Vampire Girl Prefers Me Alive
The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe?
The Fat Lady Of Limbourg
Small Penis Compensation Vehicle
What Whorse You Wrote Id On
Neurochemical Warfare Gas Masquerade

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Will Ackerman is my favorite, with such titles as:
The Second Great Tortion Bar Overland Of West Townshend, Virginia, Jose Pepsi Presiding

Slow Motion Roast Beef Restaurant Seduction

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A Simple Desultory Philippic, or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission, Simon and Garfunkel

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“She Was Waiting For Her Mother At The Station In Torino, And You Know I Love You Baby, But It’s Getting Too heavy To Laugh” Shawn Phillips.

“My Pink Half of the Drainpipe,” “Trouser Press,” “Rhinocratic Oaths,” and “Eleven Mustachioed Daughters,” Bonzo Dog Band.

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Jackie Collins Existential Question Time - Manic Street Preachers
Bathroom Gurgle - Late of the Pier
Gay Rude Boys, Unite! - Leftover Crack
Girl Wedged Under the Front of a Firebird - Matthew Good, and
Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra - Matthew Good
Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) - My Chemical Romance
Memories found in a bill from a small animal vet - Natural Snow Buildings
reading time with pickle - Regina Spektor
Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out - The Replacements, and on the same album
Gary’s Got A Boner - The Replacements
My Little Japanese Cigarette Case - Spoon
International Colouring Contest - Stereolab

Oh gosh absolutely every track name on the Toy Dolls’ album Dig That Groove Baby.

…and I could go on.

Do novelty songs count? I have a song by Andrew Huang of Songs to Wear Pants To called “Beware the Sea Anenemone (Definitely Anenemones Remix)”.

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I’ve always said Zappa would be much more worth listening to if the songs he made showed a fraction of the cleverness of their titles.

“My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama” is a great title. The song is a waste of vinyl. That’s a common theme with Zappa, I’ve found.

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A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around

The Cat’s Got The Measles, The Dog’s Got The Whooping Cough

I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop

King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O

You can always count on folk music for strange titles.

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Atom and His Package - “I’m Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just a Hammer”
Blue Öyster Cult - “The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein’s Castle at Weisseria”
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - “Chapter IX - Ride the Flying Polyp”
Grandaddy - “Broken Household Appliance National Forest”
Ookla the Mok - “Dawn of the Day Before the Time of the Land the Lost Dinosaurs Forgot to Remember”
Rush - “Where’s My Thing (Gangster of Boats Trilogy IV)”
White Zombie - “El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-o-Rama”

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While perhaps not quite up to some of the examples above, I’ve always liked the ellipticality in some of the early R.E.M. song titles:

Feeling Gravity’s Pull
Harborcoat
Begin the Begin
Disturbance at the Heron House
Oddfellows Local 151
Moral Kiosk
Swan Swan H
Exhuming McCarthy
King of Birds

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Pretty much anything off a Locust album. My favorite is “The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office” and “Twenty Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur.”

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Careful With That Axe, Eugene-- Pink Floyd

Chewin’ George Lucas’s Chocolate-- Butthole Surfers

The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts-- Minutemen

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Hoagy Carmichael’s “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”

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“Concentration Enhancing Menu Initialiser” - Portal 2 Soundtrack
“The Antikythera Mechanism” - BT, This Binary Universe
“Being From Jersey Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry” - Cobra Starship, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
“Send My Love to the Dance Floor, I’ll See You in Hell (Hey Mister DJ)” - Cobra Starship, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets
“Fall Dogs Bomb the Moon” - David Bowie, A Reality Tour
“Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)” - The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
“Livin’ at the Corner of Dude & Catastrophe” - MC Frontalot, Secrets from the Future
“Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury” - Rachel Bloom
“Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Variation)” - Rob Dougan, Furious Angels