# What are your strangest song titles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972 "2012-04-26T01:11:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/1 "2012-04-26T01:11:05Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/2 "2012-04-26T01:28:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/3 "2012-04-26T01:48:47Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Many Pieces Of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together At A Rave And Schmoozing With A Brick 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._](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVzij4HF4wM)… 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 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/4 "2012-04-26T02:20:07Z")
“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 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/5 "2012-04-26T02:29:39Z")
Zappa for me too. My two faves 40+ years in: “Toads Of The Short Forest” and “Dwarf Nebula Processional March” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/6 "2012-04-26T02:32:38Z")
I knew Zappa would have a big presence in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/7 "2012-04-26T02:36:32Z")
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.](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll002nKRH51qg3nj7.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/8 "2012-04-26T02:38:58Z")
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 ---
**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:** [April 26, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/9 "2012-04-26T03:07:19Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/10 "2012-04-26T03:43:01Z")
_A Simple Desultory Philippic, or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission_, Simon and Garfunkel ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/11 "2012-04-26T03:52:17Z")
“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. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/12 "2012-04-26T04:06:52Z")
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)”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/13 "2012-04-26T04:45:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I knew Zappa would have a big presence in this thread. 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. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/14 "2012-04-26T05:15:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/15 "2012-04-26T05:31:39Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/16 "2012-04-26T05:50:11Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/17 "2012-04-26T06:56:52Z")
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.” ---
**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:** [April 26, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/18 "2012-04-26T07:47:18Z")
Careful With That Axe, Eugene-- Pink Floyd Chewin’ George Lucas’s Chocolate-- Butthole Surfers The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts-- Minutemen ---
**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:** [April 26, 2012, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/19 "2012-04-26T07:56:58Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972/20 "2012-04-26T12:36:39Z")
“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 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-strangest-song-titles/619972.md?page=2)