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Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Gwreck Sep 02 2011 07:34 PM

...was tonight's challenge at the bar. Consensus picks: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher Pride (In the Name of Love) Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding? --- Yours?

Fman99 Sep 02 2011 07:43 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

The first 5 I thought of... Beatles "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Jimi Hendrix "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" Weezer "Undone (The Sweater Song)" Michael Jackson "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" AC/DC "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"

seawolf17 Sep 02 2011 07:47 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

I'd go with Fman's five, except maybe finding a way to stick the U2 in there. I've really never understood the "parentheses in song titles" thing.

sharpie Sep 02 2011 08:03 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Five best Bob Dylan parenthetical songs: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) Also, five non-Bobs: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction -- Rolling Stones It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) -- REM Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) -- Led Zeppelin Happy Christmas (War Is Over) -- John Lennon (Sittin' On the) Dock of the Bay -- Otis Redding

Gwreck Sep 02 2011 08:06 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

It's the End of the World... certainly makes the top 5 R.E.M. list with parentheses (although it would't be on my top 5 overall): It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) (Don't Go Back to) Rockville Auctioneer (Another Engine) So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

Frayed Knot Sep 02 2011 08:39 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

seawolf17 wrote: I've really never understood the "parentheses in song titles" thing. I'm OK with it if the parentheses express (or attempts to express) a ... well, a parenthetical thought. I do agree that it's kind of lame when it only seems to be there in order to remind people of the song's title in those cases where the song happens to NOT be named for its most familiar refrain.

Edgy DC Sep 02 2011 09:49 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

A hundred thousand people walk into record stores looking for "You know, that piña colada song," then it has a way of getting a song name changed from "Escape" to "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)." I like how the Police weren't afraid of using ridiculously long refrain lines for titles without resorting to parentheticals, like "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" instead of "(Every Little Thing She Does Is) Magic)" or "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" rather than ""When the World Is Running Down (You Make the Best of What's Still Around)." They certainly made Casey Kasem work harder.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 02 2011 11:00 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

5 I just thought of: If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself) - Pete Droge (Do the) Instant Mash - Joe Jackson Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You (Tonite) - Spinal Tap Wake Up (Next to You) - Graham parker A Woman In Love (It's not Me) - TP&H

sharpie Sep 03 2011 08:10 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Five by John Lennon (two are Lennon-McCartney songs but are really just his): Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) I Want You (She's So Heavy) Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (Just Like) Starting Over

Edgy DC Sep 03 2011 08:33 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

[list:2s9bigiv][*:2s9bigiv]"Little Wild One (No. 5)" --- Marshall Crenshaw. (It was his fifth lyric for the song.)[/*:m:2s9bigiv] [*:2s9bigiv]"Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)" --- Tom Waits[/*:m:2s9bigiv] [*:2s9bigiv]"Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac with Susan Michelson)" --- Tom Waits[/*:m:2s9bigiv] [*:2s9bigiv]"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" --- Cole Porter[/*:m:2s9bigiv] [*:2s9bigiv]"Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" --- Bob Dylan[/*:m:2s9bigiv][/list:u:2s9bigiv] What confuses DJs was always whether the parenthetical is an alternative title or an extension of the title. I've always thought of "In the Name of Love" as an alternative title to "Pride," and so it wasn't meant to be read as "Pride in the Name of Love," as it typically was, without a pause or an "or" in between the two parts.

Edgy DC Sep 03 2011 08:54 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Gwreck wrote: It's the End of the World... certainly makes the top 5 R.E.M. list with parentheses (although it would't be on my top 5 overall): It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) (Don't Go Back to) Rockville Auctioneer (Another Engine) So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) These guys are kings of parentheticals. Sometimes to clarify. Sometimes to obscure.

TheOldMole Sep 03 2011 11:38 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

I'll Remember (In the Still of the Night) -- the 5 Satins

metsguyinmichigan Sep 03 2011 12:19 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

One of the first record I ever bought: "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" by Captain and Tennille And don't forget the Beasties DOUBLE DOSE: "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (to Party)"

Fman99 Sep 03 2011 05:27 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

sharpie wrote: Five best Bob Dylan parenthetical songs: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) Also, five non-Bobs: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction -- Rolling Stones It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) -- REM Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) -- Led Zeppelin Happy Christmas (War Is Over) -- John Lennon (Sittin' On the) Dock of the Bay -- Otis Redding That last one would've been my 6th choice, love Otis.

Willets Point Sep 03 2011 08:02 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

I'm with seawolf as many of the parentheses in song titles are extraneous. "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" would be a fine song title. Or you could just go with "Satisfaction." The parentheses are totally unnecessary.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 03 2011 08:05 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Willets Point wrote: I'm with seawolf as many of the parentheses in song titles are extraneous. "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" would be a fine song title. Or you could just go with "Satisfaction." The parentheses are totally unnecessary. Agreed. Though, to be fair, there is that bulky segment at the end of each chorus where Mick's all "CAN'T GET NO!"

Edgy DC Sep 03 2011 08:46 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

sharpie wrote: Five by John Lennon (two are Lennon-McCartney songs but are really just his): Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) I Want You (She's So Heavy) Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (Just Like) Starting Over Add in an Arthur Alexander song they covered: "Anna (Go to Him)."

Edgy DC Sep 03 2011 08:48 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Parenthesteen: [list:xic8owvn][*:xic8owvn]"4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"[/*:m:xic8owvn] [*:xic8owvn]"57 Channels (And Nothin' On)"[/*:m:xic8owvn] [*:xic8owvn]"A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Pittsburgh)"[/*:m:xic8owvn] [*:xic8owvn]"American Skin (41 Shots)"[/*:m:xic8owvn] [*:xic8owvn]"From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)"[/*:m:xic8owvn][/list:u:xic8owvn]

metirish Sep 03 2011 09:30 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Thin Lizzy 1 - Hollywood(Down On Your Luck) 2 - Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend" I. "Shenandoah" II. "Will You Go Lassie Go" III. "Danny Boy" IV. "The Mason's Apron" 3 - Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight) 4 - Genocide (The Killing of the Buffalo) 5 - Remembering, Pt. 2 (New Day

Gwreck Sep 03 2011 09:32 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Edgy DC wrote: Parenthesteen: [list][*]"4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"[/*:m] [*]"57 Channels (And Nothin' On)"[/*:m] [*]"A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Pittsburgh)"[/*:m] [*]"American Skin (41 Shots)"[/*:m] [*]"From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)"[/*:m][/list:u] If making a top 5 list, I would of course add Rosie (see above) but also You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch).

Edgy DC Sep 03 2011 09:38 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Not a top five, just a selection.

TheOldMole Sep 04 2011 03:05 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

One of the great parenthetical titles is Jerry Reed's "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)."

Edgy DC Sep 04 2011 03:56 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

[list:2e13wypf][*:2e13wypf]"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" --- The Four Lads[/*:m:2e13wypf] [*:2e13wypf]"Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" --- Billy Juckets (man, we don't have much more time)[/*:m:2e13wypf] [*:2e13wypf]"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" --- ChooToo[/*:m:2e13wypf] [*:2e13wypf]"(Nothing but) Flowers" --- Heads That Talk[/*:m:2e13wypf][/list:u:2e13wypf]

Edgy DC Sep 05 2011 07:36 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Two titles and neither one is the the line people most associate with the song: "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" --- Paul Revere & the Raiders

G-Fafif Sep 05 2011 12:20 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Parentheses (Intended to Avoid Confusion) "Jump (For My Love)" by the Pointer Sisters, released a few months after "Jump" by Van Halen. "(They Just Can't Stop It The) Games People Play)" by the Spinners, in deference to "Games People Play" by Joe South; despite my adoration of all things Spinners, particularly this song, gads that's stupid. Parentheses (That Seem to Pile On) "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American)" by Toby Keith. Though I'm sure "the boot in your ass song" will suffice. Parentheses (That You'd Think Would Be There But Aren't) "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods -- from The Cable Guy soundtrack, a hit in 1996 despite there being absolutely nothing in the song about broken phone booths or money or hands. Parentheses (If They Used Them on Ballparks) "Oriole Park (at Camden Yards)"

TheOldMole Sep 05 2011 03:37 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Gatlin Brothers -- Johnny Cash is Dead (and his House Burned Down)

HahnSolo Sep 05 2011 03:50 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Two others from U2: Ultraviolet (Light My Way) Stay (Faraway, So Close) Both of which I'd rank ahead of Pride.

TheOldMole Sep 06 2011 07:53 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

What about Sly? Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Edgy DC Sep 06 2011 07:21 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

We're doubling down a lot here, gents.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 07 2011 08:49 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Steve Forbert: The Sweet Love That You Give (Sure Goes a Long, Long Way) Rain (Philadelphia Rain) Ya Ya (Next to Me) Laughter Lou (Who Needs You) Don't Tell Me (I Know) [youtube:1wmkl9xz]I9nBDTihAjA[/youtube:1wmkl9xz]

sharpie Sep 07 2011 09:51 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Rolling Stones: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) One Hit (To the Body) Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) The last one is a cover but it gets us to five.

seawolf17 Sep 07 2011 11:28 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

The first nine songs on Mike Doughty's 2009 "Sad Man Happy Man": 1. "Nectarine (Part Two)" – 2:26 2. "(I Keep On) Rising Up" – 3:25 3. "(You Should Be) Doubly (Gratified)" – 3:07 4. "Lorna Zauberberg" – 3:02 5. "(I Want To) Burn You (Down)" – 2:01 6. "Pleasure on Credit" – 2:48 7. "Lord Lord Help Me Just to Rock Rock On" – 2:57 8. "(He’s Got The) Whole World (In His Hands)" – 2:40 9. "(When I) Box the Days (Up)" – 2:12

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 07 2011 12:05 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Whither the funk*? "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)," Parliament "Get Up (I Feel Like A Sex Machine)," JB "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)," Parliament "I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up and Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head)," The Gap Band "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)," The Temptations "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)," Carl Carlton "Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got, To Get What She Wants)," JB George Clinton and James Brown could both give Mr. ZImmerman a slap-bass-loaded run for his money.

sharpie Sep 07 2011 12:49 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

The complete parenthetical Zimmy (18 titles): I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) Billy (Main Title Theme) Cantina Theme (Workin' For The Law) Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love) Ninety Miles An Hour (Down a Dead End Street) Suze (The Cough Song) Floater (Too Much to Ask) High Water (For Charlie Patton)

Ashie62 Sep 07 2011 10:08 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Greg Kihn Band "The Breakup Song" (They don't write them like this anymore.)

Edgy DC Sep 08 2011 05:44 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Hair band category: "Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)" --- W.A.S.P.

seawolf17 Sep 08 2011 06:52 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Everything needs a hair band category, methinks.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 08 2011 10:54 PM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

sharpie wrote: The complete parenthetical Zimmy (18 titles): I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) Billy (Main Title Theme) Cantina Theme (Workin' For The Law) Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast) One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love) Ninety Miles An Hour (Down a Dead End Street) Suze (The Cough Song) Floater (Too Much to Ask) High Water (For Charlie Patton) The Compleat (?) Parenthetical Mr. Clinton (25 and counting): "I Can Move You (If You Let Me)"- Parliament "I Just Got Back (From the Fantasy, Ahead of Our Time in the Four Lands of Ellet)"- Parliament "(Not Just) Knee Deep"- Funkadelic "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)"- Parliament "Mothership Connection (Star Child)"- Parliament "If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)"- Parliament "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)"- Parliament "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)"- Parliament "(You're a Fish & I'm a) Water Sign"- Parliament "Bop Gun (Endangered Species)"- Parliament "(Gloryhallastoopid) Pin the Tail on the Funky"- Parliament "The Freeze (Sizzaleenmean)"- Parliament "Funk 'N' Roll (Dancin In The Funkshine)"- Quazar "Pleasures Of Exhaustion (Do It Till I Drop)"- George Clinton "Dog Star (Fly On)"- Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All-Stars "Just Say Ding (Databoy)"- Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All-Stars "Help Scottie, Help (I'm Tweaking and I Can't Beam Up)"- Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All-Stars "Pepe (The Pill Popper)"- Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All-Stars "I Ain't The Lady (He Ain't The Tramp)"- Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All-Stars "Under The Influence (Jes Grew)"- Axiom Funk "Free-Bass (Godzillatron Cush)"- Axiom Funk "If Anybody Gets Funked Up (It's Gonna Be You)"- George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars "Funky Kind (Gonna Knock It Down)"- George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars "T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (Fly Away)"- George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars "Funkentelechy (Where'd You Get That Funk From)"- George Clinton and P-Funk All-Stars

Edgy DC Sep 09 2011 05:22 AM Re: Top 5 Songs With Parentheses in the Title

Parenthetical Fishbone: [list:3hwz43i4][*:3hwz43i4]"? (Modern Industry)" [/*:m:3hwz43i4] [*:3hwz43i4]"Fishbone (Is Red Hot)"[/*:m:3hwz43i4] [*:3hwz43i4]"It's a Wonderful Life (Gonna Have a Good Time)"[/*:m:3hwz43i4] [*:3hwz43i4]"Let Dem Hoes Fight (Part 2)"[/*:m:3hwz43i4] [*:3hwz43i4]"Properties of Propaganda (Fuk This Shit On Up)"[/*:m:3hwz43i4] [*:3hwz43i4]"Slow Bus Movin' (Howard Beach Party)"[/*:m:3hwz43i4][/list:u:3hwz43i4]