# Your Songonyms **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 17, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710 "2022-02-17T23:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/1 "2022-02-17T23:25:10Z")
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”\*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG0z44zwU5A) by the Talking Heads and [“The Good Thing”\*\*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEogxDFv-cI) 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. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/2 "2022-02-17T23:49:04Z")
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. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3Y71iDvCYXA/maxresdefault.jpg "Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump It Up") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y71iDvCYXA) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ySfwW_xSRU4/maxresdefault.jpg "Joe Budden - Pump It Up (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySfwW_xSRU4) ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/3 "2022-02-17T23:51:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/4 "2022-02-17T23:59:48Z")
My stand-by: Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/5 "2022-02-18T00:02:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/6 "2022-02-18T00:04:50Z")
(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.) ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/7 "2022-02-18T00:53:51Z")
There’s Time After Time - the Standard by Styne/Cahn [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XcZBxxQxWBk/maxresdefault.jpg "Time After Time (Remastered 2006)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZBxxQxWBk) And the Cyndi Lauper song [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F1mqrCTFoz4/maxresdefault.jpg "Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1mqrCTFoz4) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/8 "2022-02-18T01:05:32Z")
Fire, courtesy of the Pointer Sisters [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/K9S5EZgIJck/maxresdefault.jpg "Pointer Sisters - Fire") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9S5EZgIJck) Fire, a different blaze kindled by the Ohio Players [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1xqMY8UAGgg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGH8gHSgrMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDwMxA0cIwXWQm1LantV-WSdNUacw "Ohio Players - Fire") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqMY8UAGgg) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/9 "2022-02-18T01:07:46Z")
Time, Pink Floyd [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JwYX52BP2Sk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHUBoAC3gOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAk2xtAykq03SY-WeNYSLU-W1g39w "Pink Floyd - Time (2011 Remastered)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwYX52BP2Sk) Time, Alan Parsons Project [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG8mjfB3648) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/10 "2022-02-18T01:09:51Z")
(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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/11 "2022-02-18T01:32:33Z")
The Erie Canal: > [@](#): > > You can always tell your neighbor, you can always tell a pal, > if you’ve ever navigated on the Erie Canal The Erie Canal: > [@](#): > > And the Eee-ri-eee was a-rising, and the gin was a-getting low > and I scarcely think that we’ll get another drink till we get to Buffalo I grew up with the first one, so prefer it for nostalgia. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/12 "2022-02-18T02:00:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin, and Pat Benatar) Also Free [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7SZi3OV9H6c/maxresdefault.jpg "Free-'Heartbreaker'-1973") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SZi3OV9H6c) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/13 "2022-02-18T02:22:55Z")
“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: 😁 👍 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wayhJePn_2U/hqdefault.jpg "Johnny Mercer - Tangerine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wayhJePn_2U) As well as a Glass Animals number, with a very cray video: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cIIoGU5EmhU/maxresdefault.jpg "Glass Animals - Tangerine (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIIoGU5EmhU) ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/14 "2022-02-18T03:52:02Z")
And Time by Cat Stevens [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H2XjLUrnKQY/hqdefault.jpg "Time - Cat Stevens") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XjLUrnKQY) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/15 "2022-02-18T03:55:52Z")
Godspell’s “Day By Day” vs. Doug & The Slugs’ “Day By Day”. I think they’re both good, but not great. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P3PjfBQjJT8/hqdefault.jpg "Day By Day-Godspell-1972(Single Version).") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3PjfBQjJT8) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b-JhtQYaKOM/hqdefault.jpg "DOUG & THE SLUGS - Day By Day") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-JhtQYaKOM) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/16 "2022-02-18T04:05:20Z")
A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lDTQt30xXaU/maxresdefault.jpg "Born to Run (2005 Remaster)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDTQt30xXaU) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IxuThNgl3YA/maxresdefault.jpg "Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuThNgl3YA) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/17 "2022-02-18T05:52:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/18 "2022-02-18T06:10:27Z")
Don Henley - [Dirty Laundry](https://vimeo.com/392085464) Bitter:Sweet - [Dirty Laundry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvQgBrQnqzk) Cayetana - [Dirty Laundry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0DKtKTQaL0) Out of the three, I probably play/prefer the third the most. Short little boppy tune Buffalo Springfield - [For What It’s Worth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_39eAx3z8) Cardigans - [For What It’s Worth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01_RTOD9hYc) Enjoy both but if I had to pick one, gonna have to go with the Buffalo Springfield classic. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/19 "2022-02-18T06:19:21Z")
There’s _Changes_ by Bowie [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4BgF7Y3q-as/maxresdefault.jpg "David Bowie - Changes [Official Lyric Video]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as) and _Changes_ by Sugar [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/h3Lo91Z0h3Q/hqdefault.jpg "Sugar - Changes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Lo91Z0h3Q) (also a bunch of others, like Sabbath and Bieber, but not going to bother linking to any) I like the Sugar one most. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710/20 "2022-02-18T07:25:35Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > (And of course Arthur Brown’s “Fire”.) 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!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-songonyms/959710.md?page=2)