For the song “Staring Contest”, we have:
a shuffly folk/jazz thing from Jesse Harris
an electronica-into-trap number with Ryan Marks
…and then just blowing them out of the water - The Dazzling Killmen, who were apparently a spectactular live band. Wouldn’t doubt it.
Battle of the Stupid Girls
Rolling Stones - Stupid Girl
Garbage - Stupid Girl
I’m gonna go with Garbage on this one.
But don’t worry, Stones, you squeak out the win for Happy
Rolling Stones - Happy
Pharrell Willliams - Happy
Ellen Foley also has Stupid Girl.
As has Neil Young.
Not an exact match, but there’s “On My Radio” by The Selecter as well.
There are a lot of “Staring at the Suns.” Here’s Level 42’s:
U2’s:
The Offspring’s:
The song: “The Doorway”. The band: a prog-sounding unit called Spock’s Beard.
ok - missing “The” here. Sue me. Funky dancing.
An impassioned ballad with only three hits!
My preference. Play loud until your ears hurt. Get angry. Throw shit. 
Romantics & Crystal Gayle.
I wish I could emote like this, with gasps at the end every line.
Sure, this had to get…well…put on hyperblast.
This next number I could listen to for maybe a smidgeon longer.
Sort of mantra/meditation, here. Of a harsh sort.
^ Sure, this.
There’s also this one by the New York Rock Ensemble: Anaconda
Here’s another woman’s name pair:
Marie, written by Irving Berlin, performed here by Leon Redbone.
Marie, written and performed by Randy Newman.
Hold Me Tight (Beatles) and Hold Me Tight (Johnny Nash)
I just checked, and I have nine different songs named “Butterfly” on my iPod. Plus one named “Butterflies” and one named “Butterfly Effect”.
Tom Waits - “Ice Cream Man”
Van Halen - “Ice Cream Man”
For the song “Burning Man”, Dierks Bentley can wander through all the deserts, etc. he wants - will still get taken to the woodshed, every time, by the mighty Mastodon.
Last night I stumbled across Ship Of Fools by Erasure. Nor sure how I didn’t know that one, I thought. Not at all bad. And then there’s John Cale, and The Doors, of course. But it turns out there’s also Bob Seger, World Party and Robert Plant. I dutifully listened to them all, and actually none of them was worse than OK - all pretty good, in fact. But there’s only one best.
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“Twist and Shout” by the Beatles (cover of the Isley Brothers), and by Deacon Blue
“Heaven” by Talking Heads, and by Pere Ubu
I know Bryan Adams did one as well but, meh…
The title I immediately thought of: Toxic.
There’s the good one by Crazy Town, and that utterly generic bit of Brittney Spears fluff that actually gets played everywhere for some bizarre reason.
Dang there’s never enough mention of one of the most underrated bands - Pere Ubu. Their '75 - '82 stuff, just, sends me…(Modern Dance is one of the greatest first albums,)
Anyhoo, an arkload of songs called “Bhudda” (coulda sworn the song was covered in the thread but search showed up nothing), so I cut it off at four:
G Easy and Sister Carnage…other than interestingly staggered hihat beat - basic trash talkin’.
Jack Johnson…getting a little jingo-y and religious-y at parts…
Macy Gray…apparently an r and b / soul singer with a voice that I’m still trying to process, tbh…
In my saving-the-best-for-last tradition…of all the wonderful bands emerging from Texas over the years, it’s possible my fave is Ed Hall, a trio from Austin (no one in the band is named that, btw). Had the pleasure to see them twice, and their guitarist/vocalist, Gary Chester, is one of the funnest, most spontaneous performers to get up on a stage, with riffs coming out of his yin yang, and just has this sunny way of working over even jaded crowds.