Some song titles are so evocative that they reach iconic status. Here are four of my faves:
"Popsicle Toes"
"Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goal Post of Life"
"My D-I-V-O-R-C-E is Final Today"
"If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?"
You'll note that three of the four titles are from American country songs . . . A veritable treasure chest of inanity! What are some of your favorite song titles?
Why don’t we do it in the road? -The Beatles
You’re the reason our kids are ugly - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Which one O’ you queers gonna suck my dick? -Wheeler Walker Jr.
I make faces (when I make love)
I cleaned out a room (in my trailer for you)
I ain’t afraid of your husband (baby I’ll be over tonight) -Unknown Hinson
Me, I get high on reefer
I can get drunk and I can sing songs
There’s something in my trousers
I like to party with girls -Two man Gentlemen Band
Oh I almost forgot another major favorite:
The piano has been drinking (not me) -Tom Waits
Baby I Love You (Just Leave Me the Fuck Alone)
Here's one that I've never forgotten:
"I've Got Tears in My Ears from Lying on My Back in My Bed While I Cry Over You"
I wrote a poem called Tears in my Ears back in...... 1986. Can I sue?
Some song titles by Sufjan Stevens, a wildly talented artist whom I admire despite the fact that he is a Christian:
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!
To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons
A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few
My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died - Roger Miller
'If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man Your Love, then Your Tears Won't Bring Him Back' Sophie Tucker
The Great Gig in the Sky. musicians ruminating about death. and some soulful wailing. its a favorite.
That's one of my favorites.
Claire Torry really let her pipes shine on that one.
how can i miss you if you won't go away? -- dan hicks and his hot licks
my guitar wants to kill your mama -- frank zappa
mairzy dotes -- aw come on, don't make me look that up! i'm tired!
i want a hot dog for my roll -- not sure who wrote it but performed by butterbeans and suzie
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also:
what made my hamburger disappear? -- jeffrey fredericks and the clamtones
slurf song -- michael hurley
and the album title for the above: have moicy!
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I just remembered a country song with a great title: "I've got tears in my ears from laying on my back in my bed while I cried over you"
Ah, yes, some of the best country to dance to.
"Sounds of Silence"
One of my favorite songs.
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 -- Hoagy Carmichael, 1947. For a time this held the Guinness World Record for the longest commercially available song title.
The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums and Chance Meeting of a Defective Tape Machine and a Migraine - Nurse With Wound (both albums, but hey ho)
Telephone And Rubber Band and Music For A Found Harmonium - both The Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Constipation Blues - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
My Cat/Swollen - Jack Off Jill
Smelly Cunts - Aphex Twin
Various other stuiff by Aphex Twin, including Beskhu3epnm
The Masses Are Asses - L7
Mutant Cunt Sniffer - Venetian Snares
Slut/Blood/Pain - The Attempted Restraint Of The Cosmos - Pigface
Feed Me Weird Things - Squarepusher (actually an album, but hey ho again)
You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly - Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty
Don't Touch Your Sister (She's Mine) - Kevin Bloody Wilson
Fist Your Sister's Asshole - Daisycutter
Fuck Off, Cunt Face - Nasenbluten
@RobLawrence I like music that pushes the boundaries - all of these (except Kevin Bloody Wilson, Lynn and Twitty) are fairly experimental artists/bands. Why bands like that should choose titles such as these is, however, a mystery!
My favourite Nurse With Wound title is Brained By Falling Masonry.