Entertainment For Lively Minds
No Naming Songs
Posted by David Wright on 15 June 2011 - 8:08am.
Bit of a ridiculous thread this, for a Wednesday morning, but I've been thinking about song titles that aren't mentioned or sung in songs.
For example, we could start with Acquiesce by Oasis or Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. Over to you...
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Paint a Vulgar Picture
by The Smiths.
and
How Soon is Now?
Hmmm, but it IS a paraphrase of a lyric...
..."Well you say it's gonna happen soon / But when exactly do you mean?"
We're sort of in the Sherlock never QUITE saying "Elementary, my dear Watson" territory...
True re Queen is Dead version...
...although it is mentioned in demo version recently, ahem, released
it's
in a verse on the demo ..but does not benefit from it
Brain Damage
by Pink Floyd
Pyjamarama - Roxy Music
SWLABR - Cream
On Elliott Smith's "Roman Candle" album there are
the following tracks:
No Name #1
No Name #2
No Name #3
No Name #4
Surprising, the titles of these tracks do not appear in the songs.
ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
Although, of course, that album contains far more tongue-twisting phrases which *are* included in the lyrics.
Pre-empting a TMFTL
Bradfield Scansion.
The Pop Singers Fear of the Pollen Count
ooh, and how about
Several Species of Small Furry Creature Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Wonder Stuff
Room 512
More stuff of wonder
Song Without An End
Room 410
Unfaithful
Some Sad Someone
My obligatory Webb references
Gary Numan - Complex
Tubeway Army - The Machman
Gary Numan - Telekon
More Numan (and others)
Gary Numan - Warriors
Big Country - Close Action
The Piranhas - Tom Hark
An intriguing Numan one
We Take Mystery (To Bed)
Why intriguing? Well, it's the brackets. Usually a song title will have something in brackets to inform the casual reader a bit more about how the song goes e.g. It's in his Kiss (the Shoop Shoop song).
Unchained...
...Melody.
Then Jericho
The Motive.
At least, I don't think so.
A lot of words but...
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
Bob Dylan
Positively 4th Street
See also
Ballad of a Thin Man, It Takes a Lot to Laugh it Takes a Train to Cry, Rainy Day Women etc etc etc
And..
Dakota-Stereophonics
Thompy
Roll Over Vaughan Williams
The Pogues
Fairy Tale of New York
HJH Ballad of John & Yoko (I guess most songs with Ballad in the title will count)
Shane McGowan - The Song with No Name
Madness
Shut Up!
The Fall "Bill Is Dead"
HMHB "Friday Night And The Gates Are Low"
Most of Scott Walker's Climate of Hunter album - apart from the obvious "Track 3, 5, 6,7" etc, iirc "Rawhide" and "Dealer" aren't mentioned in the actual lyrics.
New Order
Ceremony, Everything's Gone Green, Temptation, Blue Monday, Thieves Like Us, Bizarre Love Triangle, Sub culture, True Faith, Fine Time, Round and Round, Run, Krafty...and many many more
I'm surprised
no-one has mentioned THJH:
Tomorrow Never Knows & A Day in the Life
.
.
John Denver...
...Annies song
Mr Bloe - Grooving with mister bloe
Led Zep - D' yer maker
Stevie Wonder - masterblaster
David Bowie - Space oddity
New order - Blue monday
Re Mr Bloe
Instrumentals, by their very nature, don't mention the title.
A great record though.
Masterblaster
I think you might find the title mentioned by the backing singers, behind the chorus.
"-something-something-something-
-something-something- masterblaster jamming"
..If I remember correctly, which I obviously don't completely, hence the -something-s.
I can't easily check my facts because my library is shockingly lacking in Stevie Wonder. I must rectify that soon.
Yes
I can never quite make it out, but they sing;
We're in the middle of the *something* of the master blaster jammin'.
It could be "making", but I wouldn't swear on it.
Corner
Coles Corner-Richard Hawley
and speaking of Bohemian Rhapsody
Fairport's
"Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For the 77th Mounted Lancer's Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie" (though admittedly it is another instrumental.
but Sloth isn't
John
The Ballad Of John & Yoko-The Beatles.
Jethro Tull
Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me
Son Volt - Windfall
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Blur & most Gorillaz singles
M.O.R.
Song 2
Good Song
Clint Eastwood
Feel Good Inc
19-2000
Dirty Harry
Dare (Shaun Ryder is actually saying, "It's there')
Dexys & The Jam
Dexys Midnight Runners - Thankfully Not Living In Yorkshire, It Doesn't Apply
Jam - Tales From The Riverbank
Oasis - Acquiesce was not in the lyric of the song of that title, but did appear in The Masterplan. Both from 1995, and released on the B Side of subsequent singles
Pink Floyd - loads of them but.....
the most obvious would be
"Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict"
or almost all the Animals album, Pigs(three different ones), Dogs, Sheep. Only Pigs on the Wing would fall foul.
Pig man, pig man!
I can't help thinking that posting an instrumental track is somehow missing the point...
just try
counting wire ones..
do the cocteaus get in?