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Alternative Song Titles

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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

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Molesworth | 21 April 2009 - 9:04am

Very good!

(Although there is also a Prince song of that title)

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Paolo Meccano | 21 April 2009 - 10:16am

Surely the Prince one

is Kashmir?

We could do this all day...

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Molesworth | 21 April 2009 - 10:35am

Smiths

This Farming Man-The Smiths

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David Wright | 21 April 2009 - 10:23am

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

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paulwright | 21 April 2009 - 10:34am

Smashing

EXCELLLENT work!

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David Wright | 21 April 2009 - 11:37am

I am the God of Hellebore!

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Retropath2 | 21 April 2009 - 11:39am

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?

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Retropath2 | 21 April 2009 - 11:42am

Call the...

Dahmer Police

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Clerk Kent | 21 April 2009 - 12:46pm

Belinda Carlisle

"I get wee when I think of you".

Surely?

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kinkywolfgang | 21 April 2009 - 1:46pm

'The Lady Is a Trampolinist'

(Spike Milligan)

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Paolo Meccano | 21 April 2009 - 12:05pm

Frank

Come Fry With Me-Frank Sinatra

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David Wright | 21 April 2009 - 12:57pm

Hank

I'm So Lonesome I Could Fry - Hank Williams

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Norwegian Blue | 22 April 2009 - 11:32pm

Twenty-Four Hours From

Twenty-Four Hours From Towcester.

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Tom | 21 April 2009 - 1:25pm

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?)

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Steven C | 21 April 2009 - 2:09pm

Prog Curry followed by Irish flirting at watering hole

Korma Police-Radiohead
Frisky In The Bar-Thin Lizzy

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David Wright | 21 April 2009 - 2:17pm

David Bowie's

The Man Who Sold The Sun

Knocking On Helen's Door - Bob Dylan

Ticket To Riyadh - The Beatles

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Norwegian Blue | 21 April 2009 - 3:37pm

English Bob?

Sad Eyed Lady Of The Leylands
M61 Revisited

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Tom | 21 April 2009 - 3:53pm

After the smoking ban

Nicorettes & Alcohol - Oasis

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Norwegian Blue | 21 April 2009 - 4:23pm

Sweet Don Williams

I Recall A Gypsy Cream-Don Williams

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David Wright | 21 April 2009 - 5:51pm

Elton's song about his first marriage

Don't Let The Hun Go Down On Me

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Norwegian Blue | 21 April 2009 - 6:58pm

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

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Glenbervie | 21 April 2009 - 7:07pm

Where Did You Sweep Last Night - Nirvana

You've been with Meat Loaf again, haven't you?

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Norwegian Blue | 22 April 2009 - 11:28pm

Owsabout

Bohemian Nonsense.....Queen
Smells Like White Spirit.... Nirvana
Hoe Down.....Jethro Tull

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geacher53 | 21 April 2009 - 7:35pm

Queen in the kitchen

Bohemian Rapeseed Oil

We Are The Champignons

Stove Of My Life

We Will Cook You

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Norwegian Blue | 21 April 2009 - 7:36pm

Bored At Work Today

Good ones, funny!

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David Wright | 21 April 2009 - 8:24pm

I want to break free range eggs

Under Pressure cooker

and even one vision has it's fried chicken

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Los Aromas | 22 April 2009 - 10:38pm

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

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Sheev | 21 April 2009 - 7:48pm

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

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Norwegian Blue | 21 April 2009 - 9:18pm

And

Hot Towels California - Eagles

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Clerk Kent | 22 April 2009 - 10:03am

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.

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Niks | 21 April 2009 - 10:46pm

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.

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Molesworth | 22 April 2009 - 1:17am

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

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Sam Fiddian | 22 April 2009 - 7:04am

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

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Herman Kortado | 22 April 2009 - 10:49am

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...

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über-über | 22 April 2009 - 11:24am

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

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Norwegian Blue | 22 April 2009 - 3:37pm

You missed one

Champagne Vauxhall Nova

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Sven Garlic | 22 April 2009 - 8:11pm

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

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Norwegian Blue | 22 April 2009 - 10:31pm

Spendid

Another excellent effort!

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David Wright | 26 April 2009 - 4:55pm

There was the

Napalm Death cover of the Vince Hill hit, originally from "The Sound Of Music" - Anal Vice

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Molesworth | 22 April 2009 - 3:14pm

Very early hit for The Kinks

Dedicated Follower Of Ration

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Norwegian Blue | 22 April 2009 - 5:54pm

Norwiegen Blue

Yours are comedy gold.

Michael Jackson: Billy Joel (Is Not My Lover)
Mylo: Valley Of The Dahls

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Tom | 22 April 2009 - 6:14pm

One More Cup Of Cocoa - Bob Dylan

Highway To Hull - AC/DC

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Patrick Crowther | 22 April 2009 - 6:46pm

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

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geacher53 | 22 April 2009 - 6:57pm

More

Little Red Courgette - Prince

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Norwegian Blue | 22 April 2009 - 9:02pm
Patrick Crowther | 22 April 2009 - 6:58pm

We have a winner!

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Molesworth | 22 April 2009 - 7:06pm

Cleaning Out My Water Closet - Eminem

Hygiene is very important for Mr. Mathers.

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Norwegian Blue | 23 April 2009 - 12:48pm

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.

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Norwegian Blue | 23 April 2009 - 4:38pm

Late Entry

Diamond White And Pearls-Prince

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David Wright | 26 April 2009 - 5:00pm

668 !!! ..

...the Neighbour of the Beast

I think I stole that :)

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spinoza013 | 27 April 2009 - 1:26pm

999... the number of police

;)

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Patrick Crowther | 27 April 2009 - 11:38pm

666

The Number Of The Beastie Boys

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lovelyian | 28 April 2009 - 12:01am

There Must Be An Angel

And He's Playing With My Arse

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lovelyian | 27 April 2009 - 11:28pm

Your own

Personal Cheeses

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lovelyian | 27 April 2009 - 11:35pm

We gouda

get outta this place

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Molesworth | 27 April 2009 - 11:37pm

or

Blasphemous Tunas

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lovelyian | 28 April 2009 - 12:12am

Hall & Oates

Cheese Scone

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lovelyian | 27 April 2009 - 11:49pm

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

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Norwegian Blue | 29 April 2009 - 12:54am

For Those About To Rock..

[Port Salut You !]

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spinoza013 | 29 April 2009 - 3:59am
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