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Alternative Song Titles
Posted by David Wright on 21 April 2009 - 9:01am.
Would the world of popular music be slightly more interesting if artists and groups had slightly changed the songs they had written. In an alternative world we could have:
1)Toast On Fire-Kings Of Leon
2)Stuck In A Peat Bog (You Can’t Get Out Of) –U2
3)A Day In With The Wife-U2
4)Highway to Bingley- ACDC
Any other alternative song titles you can think of?
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Cashmere
Very good!
(Although there is also a Prince song of that title)
Surely the Prince one
is Kashmir?
We could do this all day...
Smiths
This Farming Man-The Smiths
John Cooper- Clarke wrote the songs (apologies for caps)
I WROTE THE SONGS THAT NEARLY MADE
THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE HIT PARADE
ALMOST ANTHEMS, SHOULDA BEEN HITS
SONGS LIKE... PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ
SOME ENCHANTED AFTERNOON
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO LEVENSHULME
DANCIN' IN THE DAYLIGHT, SINGIN' IN THE SMOG
YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HEDGEHOG
SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR
DO YOU REMEMBER THEY WAY WE ARE
I'D LIKE TO GET YOU ON A SPEEDBOAT TO CHINA
FROM AN IDEA BY GEORGE STEINER
AIN'T NO BLAG - UNCLE'S GOT A BRAND NEW JAG
AIN'T NO SLOUCH - MAMA'S GOT A BRAND NEW COUCH
SHE AIN'T HEAVY, SHE'S MY SISTER
NOT TO LEAVE OUT TWIST AND WHISPER
BRAND NEW LEAPORDSKIN PILLBOX GLOVE
BABY YOU AND ME WE GOT A GREASY KIND OF LOVE
Smashing
EXCELLLENT work!
I am the God of Hellebore!
Not the song title
but tell me I am not alone in thinking that the Hall&Oates song (covered also by Paul Young) goes: "Every time you go away, you take a piece of MEAT with you........"
It gives an neatundead twist, doncha think?
Call the...
Dahmer Police
Belinda Carlisle
"I get wee when I think of you".
Surely?
'The Lady Is a Trampolinist'
(Spike Milligan)
Frank
Come Fry With Me-Frank Sinatra
Hank
I'm So Lonesome I Could Fry - Hank Williams
Twenty-Four Hours From
Twenty-Four Hours From Towcester.
Leo Sayer's
'When I Knead You' - covered by Bread (or possibly not)
'Tie A Yellow Mini' - covered by T Rex (Sorry ... are the taste-police still lurking?)
Prog Curry followed by Irish flirting at watering hole
Korma Police-Radiohead
Frisky In The Bar-Thin Lizzy
David Bowie's
The Man Who Sold The Sun
Knocking On Helen's Door - Bob Dylan
Ticket To Riyadh - The Beatles
English Bob?
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Leylands
M61 Revisited
After the smoking ban
Nicorettes & Alcohol - Oasis
Sweet Don Williams
I Recall A Gypsy Cream-Don Williams
Elton's song about his first marriage
Don't Let The Hun Go Down On Me
Oh dear ...
The Man With the Child in his Pies - Kate Bush (possibly illegal)
Like a Sturgeon - Madge (bit fishy)
Last Night in Perth - U2 (Bono and the boys on the piss by the Tay)
Tay Dripper - the Beatles (pull U2 out of the river)
Novocaine for the Mole - Eels (rodent pain relief)
Dead Moles - Joy Division (extreme new wave gardening)
Desolation Mow - Bob Dylan (bipolar gardening)
The Great Pig In the Sky - Pink Floyd (quite liderally folks!)
Whole Lotta Bosie - AC/DC (Oscar Wilde love anthem)
Comfortably Dumb - Pink Floyd (Dave gives up and trades down)
The Remon Song - Red Zepperin (Japanese import)
Mat out of Hell - Meat Loaf (wipes his feet)
/stops
Where Did You Sweep Last Night - Nirvana
You've been with Meat Loaf again, haven't you?
Owsabout
Bohemian Nonsense.....Queen
Smells Like White Spirit.... Nirvana
Hoe Down.....Jethro Tull
Queen in the kitchen
Bohemian Rapeseed Oil
We Are The Champignons
Stove Of My Life
We Will Cook You
Bored At Work Today
Good ones, funny!
I want to break free range eggs
Under Pressure cooker
and even one vision has it's fried chicken
Ruby Murray
King Prawn Massala Drinks Are Free - Wham
Tikka Chance On Me - Abba
Rice Rice Baby - Vanilla Rice
Jalfrezi - frezi Nights - Kiss
Love me Tandoor - Elvis Presley
Livin' Dhal - Cliff Richard
Raita Here, Raita Now - Fatboy Slim
See also
Smooth Paratha - Sade
Here Comes Your Naan - Pixies
Tallahassee Lassi - Various
Darjeeling Nikki - Prince
Chai Can't Make You Love Me - George Michael
Shiitake On Me - a-ha
Making Flans For Nigel - XTC
And
Hot Towels California - Eagles
I can't believe I'm about to type this...
'Sitting on the Cock of the Gay'.
OK so me and my mates thought it was funny when we were 16.
I read somewhere
recently that we are now in the post-PC world. I think we're about to find out. I'm in the Sarah Silverman camp on that one, as in every other sense.
Train in Van - The Clash
While My Catarrh Gently Weeps - The Beatles
Got To Get You Into My Lift - The Beatles
Billie John - Michael Jackson
Walk This WAG - Aerosmith
Last Train To Leicester - ELO
Don't Bring Me Dung - ELO
Where The Streets All Have Names - U2
The answer, my friend...
... is Bowling In The Wind.
Also:
Hit Me With Your Blemish Stick - Ian Dury.
You Can Call Me Al Quaida - Paul Simon
A Florist - The Cure
MORE FROM THE ALTERNATIVE SONG WORLD
How do these grab you:
'No Woman No Fry' - Bob Marley
'Bizarre Lard Triangle' New Order
'The Boy with the Horn On His side' - The Smiths
'Just Like Kevin' - The Cure
'Are Fiends Eclectic?' - Gary Numan
'Sex & Drugs & Frock n Roll' - Ian Dury
'Instant Korma' - John Lennon
'Dirty Old Pants - The Pogues
'This Woman's Wok' - Kate Bush
'Shoplifters of the World Ignite' - The Smiths
'Supermassive Black Vole' - Muse
'The Great Pig in the SKy - Pink Floyd
'Street Farting Man – Rolling Stones
'I Shit the Sheriff' – Bob Marley
'In Your Pies - Peter Gabriel
'Its My Wife' - Talk Talk
'Life with a Northern Frown' - Dream Academy
'Lucky Van' - The Verve
'Sweet Gnome Alabama' - Lynard Skynard
'Fake Plastic Brie' - Radiohead
Phew...
Vroom
The Cortina Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
Girlfriend In A Corsa - The Smiths
Austin Maxi Prison - Johnny Cash
Austin 7 Nation Army - The White Stripes
Morris Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam Alpine - The Vaselines
Running Up That Hillman - Kate Bush
Thank You For Sending Me An Anglia - Talking Heads
Where Nissan Bluebirds Fly - Radiohead
Mazdas Of War - Bob Dylan
Toyotas In The Attic - Aerosmith
Smack My Mitsubishi Up - The Prodigy
Take My Honda, Precious Lord - Various
Saabotage - Beastie Boys
No Line On The Talbot Horizon - U2
The Peugeot Must Go On - Queen
You missed one
Champagne Vauxhall Nova
Forza Italia
Ferrari Cross The Mersey - Gerry And The Pacemakers
The Lambo Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
Alfa Romeo And Juliet - Dire Straits
Fiathead - Fratellis
Love Will Tear Us Abarth - Joy Division
Heaven Knows I'm Maserati Now - The Smiths
Spendid
Another excellent effort!
There was the
Napalm Death cover of the Vince Hill hit, originally from "The Sound Of Music" - Anal Vice
Very early hit for The Kinks
Dedicated Follower Of Ration
Norwiegen Blue
Yours are comedy gold.
Michael Jackson: Billy Joel (Is Not My Lover)
Mylo: Valley Of The Dahls
One More Cup Of Cocoa - Bob Dylan
Highway To Hull - AC/DC
I work in a shop, so retail fings
Midnight Drinking Oasis: Maria Muldaur
Pegs and Rugs and Filled Rolls: Ian Drury
New Boots and Pasties: Ian Drury again
My Sweetcorn: Geo Harrison
Slush: Deep Purple
Buy Buy American Pie: Don McLean
Back Seat For My Car:Macca
Beeswax: Richard Thompson
Blackberry Angel Delight: Macca
Coke: Eric Clapton
More
Little Red Courgette - Prince
The Fletcher and Godber Memorial Home - Pink Floyd
.
We have a winner!
Cleaning Out My Water Closet - Eminem
Hygiene is very important for Mr. Mathers.
Not songs, but records
Toast In The Machine - The Police
After hours of tantric sex you need a good breakfast.
Songs In A Morris Minor - Alicia Keys
They were so poor they even had to drive a british car.
Late Entry
Diamond White And Pearls-Prince
668 !!! ..
...the Neighbour of the Beast
I think I stole that :)
999... the number of police
;)
666
The Number Of The Beastie Boys
There Must Be An Angel
And He's Playing With My Arse
Your own
Personal Cheeses
We gouda
get outta this place
or
Blasphemous Tunas
Hall & Oates
Cheese Scone
Dairy Of A Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
Sex & Drugs & Roquefort - Ian Dury
Whey Ya! - Outkast
Difficult To Curd - Rainbow
Edam And Eve - Bob Marley
You're Gorgonzola - Babybird
For Those About To Rock..
[Port Salut You !]