Your Songonyms

Cafe Society
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My weak wordplay attempt in combining “song” and “homonym”.
Basically, two songs that share the same title.
And then trying to decide which one of them is “better”.
For instance, there’s Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” and John Cougar Death Camp’s “The Wall”. Despite the difference in styles, I find I like the two in equal measure.
An even awesomer pairing, by a country longshot - “The Good Thing”* by the Talking Heads and “The Good Thing”** by the Jesus Lizard, gets the same result - a split preference.
Any other songonyms, and are they, to you, of equal liking?

* Odd number, that one - initially sounding innocuously motivational, there’s something about that chorus…the way it sounds totally uplifiting, yet (to me, anyway) there’s this almost menacing sort of “cultish” feel to it. Or I could be “listening too much into it”. Heh.
**Your basic “this-awesome-scorcher’s-way-too-short” number.

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I discovered by accident a few weeks ago while searching for Elvis Costello’s “Pump it Up” that there is a hip hop song by Joe Budden with the same name. While I don’t dislike hip hop, that song doesn’t really do it for me. In other words, I definitely like the Elvis Costello song better.

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There’s Good Vibrations, the title of songs by the Beach Boys and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. I prefer the Beach Boys song but I don’t mind the other one.

There’s also Learning to Fly which both Tom Petty and Pink Floyd used as a song title. I like Petty’s song but don’t think I’ve heard PF’s tune.

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My stand-by:

Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin

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Mine:

Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin, and Pat Benatar)
Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and The Alan Parsons Project)

In the first case, I don’t have a strong preference. In the second case, I prefer the Heartbreakers’ version.

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(actually - if we can just keep it to identical titles, that’d be great, thanks.)
(otherwise - bit of a slippery slope we’d be going down.)

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There’s Time After Time - the Standard by Styne/Cahn

And the Cyndi Lauper song

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Fire, courtesy of the Pointer Sisters

Fire, a different blaze kindled by the Ohio Players

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Time, Pink Floyd

Time, Alan Parsons Project

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(And of course Arthur Brown’s “Fire”.)

Heh, your (K364) title reminding me of a UK song I liked called “Night After Night”, and seeing, in google, there’s way, waaaay too many other recording artists who had a song with that title.

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The Erie Canal:

The Erie Canal:

I grew up with the first one, so prefer it for nostalgia.

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Also Free

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“Tangerine” is a song by Led Zeppelin, and there’s an old jazz standard that shares the title, in this recording here, with keyboards that remind me of the Residents: :grin: :+1:

As well as a Glass Animals number, with a very cray video:

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And Time by Cat Stevens

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Godspell’s “Day By Day” vs. Doug & The Slugs’ “Day By Day”. I think they’re both good, but not great.

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A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll…

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I Want You - Bob Dylan
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) - The Beatles
I Want You - Elvis Costello And The Attractions

All three are outstanding songs. The latter two are sometimes hard to listen to, you have to be in the mood, because they are intense testaments of obsession. The first is maybe the musically poppiest song Dylan ever recorded, though the lyrics are definitely not.

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Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
Bitter:Sweet - Dirty Laundry
Cayetana - Dirty Laundry

Out of the three, I probably play/prefer the third the most. Short little boppy tune

Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth
Cardigans - For What It’s Worth

Enjoy both but if I had to pick one, gonna have to go with the Buffalo Springfield classic.

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There’s Changes by Bowie

and Changes by Sugar

(also a bunch of others, like Sabbath and Bieber, but not going to bother linking to any)

I like the Sugar one most.

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That’s The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. I haven’t heard that one in a long time. “I am the god of hellfire! And I bring you . . . Fire!”