The question is in the song title
Posted by Commoner on 29 July 2008 - 9:44am.
3 reasons for posting this
(1) Its Chris Rea and I like him, particularly his latest stuff
(2) Its an OGWT clip...never tire of those
(3) A challenge: How many songs can you recall that have a question in the title?
Here is mine, Chris Rea with "Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?"
...a touch early Springsteen here dont you think? Or was Springsteen like an early Chris Rea? Ah you decide
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Benny Santini
was his original stage name.
well done
now tackle the challenge on point 3.
Off the top of my head, I'll pitch in with...
Why? - Carly Simon
Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb? - Eels
When Will I See You Again? - 3 Degrees
Is It Wicked Not to Care? - Belle and Sebastian
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? Bruce Springsteen
Very
impressive
Some more...
Is It Love You're After - Rose Royce
Are Friends Electric - Gary Numan
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
Is This The Way To Amarillo
Does Your Mother Know - Abba
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Why - Annie Lennox
Where's The Party - Madonna
Can You Feel It - Jacksons
Why Does It Always Rain On Me - Travis
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window
The lists are getting longer
Or my challenge was too easy....not trying to take anything away from you Simon
A pedant writes..
Do you have a question mark button on your keyboard?
A question mark ?
I figured it would be taken as read as the thread is about questions.
Anyway, some more...
Are You Lonesome Tonight ? - Elvis Presley
Are You Gonna Go My Way ? - Lenny Kravitz
Why Should I Love You ? - Kate Bush
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour ? - Lonnie Donegan
How Can I Be Sure ? - David Cassidy
Can I Play With Madness ? - Iron Maiden
Do You Want To ? - Franz Ferdinand
Can I Get A Witness ? - Marvin Gaye
Have I The Right ? - Honeycombs
Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman ? - Bryan Adams
Where Do Broken Hearts Go ? - Whitney Houston
Who Were You With In The Moonlight ? - Dollar
Do You Want To Know A Secret ? - Beatles
Why Don't We Do It In The Road ? - Beatles
What Have I Done To Deserve This ? - Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield
What Do I Have To Do ? - Kylie Minogue
Can We Fix It ? - Bob The Builder
How Many More Times ? - Led Zeppelin
Don't It Make You Feel Good ? - Stefan Dennis
Is This Love ? - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Is Vic There ? - Department S
Bit of everything - classic pop, rock, soul, rotten power ballads, kids telly and Stefan Dennis.
you must have
a dedicated playlist just for questioning song titles.....
That was just an excuse...
... to show off yours, wasn't it ???
And longer. . .
What's Love Got To Do With It
Who Are You
Where Did I Love Go
What Kind Of Fool Am I
Just a few, before I go out :
What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
What Difference Does It Make and How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful
Who Loves The Sun - The Velvet Underground
Are You Alright and Where Is My Love - Lucinda Williams
Where Is My Love - Cat Power
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
What you might call a mixed bag. And there's loads more, but I'm late now...
Yet more
Ever Fallen In Love? - Buzzcocks
Have You Fed The Fish? - Badly Drawn Boy
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid(s)
Am I Wry? No - Mew
In The Flesh? - Pink Floyd
Do You Realise?? - Flaming Lips (double points for that one?)
96 Tears
? and the Mysterians
(Gosh, I'm really getting the hang of this!)
Ummm
Where Did You sleep Last Night? - Leadbelly
What's the Frequency Kenneth? - REM
Ummm... errr... how about bands with questions for names?
Does it Offend You Yeah?
Therapy?
Good game
Where's my Everything? - Nick Lowe
Where Do You Think You're Going? - Dire Straits
Why Does The Sun Shine? - They Might Be Giants
What's Goin' On? - Marvin Gaye
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? - Richard Hawley
What? - Captain Sensible
Also available with brackets
Where do you go to (my lovely)? - Peter Sarstedt
Are you gonna be there (at the love-in)? - Chocolate Watch Band
Two threads via
one post.....nice
Encore
War (What Is It Good For?)
Absolutley nothing
say it again...WARRRR.....phew sorry about that
Stackridge
Anyone For Tennis?
Who's That Up There With Bill Stokes?
Can Inspiration Save The Nation?
Ruth, Did You Read My Mind?
There are more questions than answers
What? - Soft Cell
Whatever happened to Corey Haim? - The Thrills
How Can A Man Withstand These Times and Live? - I think Ry Cooder did a version of this, not sure who wrote it
What is the Mare Rack? - Memphis Slim
What's The Point? - Fuzzbox
How Am I Supposed To Live Without You? - Michael Bolton (possibly the most self-pitying song title ever, to which the answer may well be "you're not.")
How Long Is The Coast of Brittany? - Bobby Previte (I've never heard this, but found the title looking for another piece by him, and never forgot it)
If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me? - Bellamy Brothers
Can I Get A Witness? - Marvin Gaye
Can I Kick It? - Can't remember who this was
Where Is The Love? - Betty Wright
Where Is Your Love? - Gail Ann Dorsey
Who Is He What Is He To You? - Bill Withers
The unpunctuated question
Song titles that pose questions rarely use a question mark. Is this down to sloppy punctuation, sleeve designers don't like them or something else entirely?
I don't know
But The Strokes were just trying to be cool when they left it off the album title Is This It.
Is this it
an easy anagram to describe the album?......only kidding
Some fonts
don't do punctuation(?) It's an idea
Please please tell me now
Is There Something I Should Know
Are Friends Electric
Is She Really Going Out With Him
Could You Be the One
Do You Know Where You're Going To
Well Did You Evah?
How Am I Driving
Have You Seen Her?
Could It Be Magic
Who
loves the sun?
Plagiarism Alert!
Ahem. I suggested this one before going out, and I return home to find this. Or are you just doing a cover version, Ian? (Found my question mark, Niks!)
A cover version with love
Maybe just getting giddy
lennon
How??
How Do You Sleep??
Lovin Spoonful
"Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind??"
Bo Diddley
"Who Do You Love??"
The Move
"Do Ya?"
Ok Enuff
Another Spoonful
Do You Believe In Magic?
Answers
Other side of the question...?
Because we want to - Billie
(That's why) the lady is a tramp - Ol' Blue Eyes
Because - The Beatles
Let me ask you a question
What Time Is Love?
Those spiritual Moody Blues
Question, anybody????
This thread again
demonstrates the immeasureable knowledge of The Word Massive
Band name as question...
Therapy?
I would also like to add "How Soon Is Now" to the list please.
Truly, I'm flattered
by these cover versions. Admittedly it's more of a chore now to read through the lot than when I had my two pence worth..... (How Soon Is Now posted yesterday at 11:12 am.)
Okay, you got me. Here's a few more though.....
What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful
Are You Alright and Where Is My Love - Lucinda Williams
Where Is My Love - Cat Power
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Just kidding.
Shamefaced,
I have to confess that you had me going for a moment there. The penny dropped when I reached Lucinda....
That was just an excuse...
...to show off yours, wasn't it ???
I've got a few
Should I stay or Should I go?- The Clash
Why Do Men Fight- Carbon/Silicon
What the Fuck?!- Carbon/Silicon
Where is Home- Bloc Party
Now, I wonder, would "Don't Cha" by The PussyCat Dolls count?
Oh, just thought of some more!
What's up with that?- The Dictators
What's so funny about Peace, Love and Undrstanding?- Nick Lowe
In These Shoes- Kirsty MacColl
Two before bedtime
It Is Are You? by King Creosote (check it out -bass sax honking at its finest) and Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream? by T Rex, including these deathless lines :
Silver surfer
And the ragged kid
Are all sad and rusted
Ah, they don't have a gift
Believe me Pope Paul,my toes are clean
Whatever happened to the teenage dream?
Night, night
Nick Lowe
A couple of these have been mentioned above but I think this is probably the complete list of Nick Lowe's questions:
How Do You Talk to an Angel?
Has She Got a Friend?
Who Was That Man?
Where's My Everything?
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
A few more
What kinda guy? Steve Forbert
Why the long face? (album title) Big Country
Is she really going out with him? Joe Jackson
and
Can I Have My Money Back? Gerry Rafferty
Just Who Is The Five O'Clock Hero? The Jam
Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
and also
Just remembered Richard Thompson made an album with three question marks in the title. You? Me? Us?
More questions
The Waterboys had their own composition Has anyone here seen Hank? followed by the traditional When will we be married? on Fisherman's Blues.
Free had Remember. It's unpunctuated, but as the 1st line is "Do you remember...?" it is quite clearly a question and not a statement.
Counting Crows sang Have you seen me lately?
Lucinda Williams also has What if?
Question Mike
... also wrote "How long will I love you?" on Room To Roam
Hang on a minute..
From the Sultans of Ping the sublime Where´s me Jumper ?
From the ridiculous to the sublime....
Where's Captain Kirk?
The inestimable Spizz Energy, (nee Spizz Oil, later Athletico Spizz 80, Spizzorwell, Spizzsexual, Spizzorbit and, no doubt, etc etc.) Above song apparently covered by REM on a Christmas fans only release.
Whilst musing on many changing permutations of, essentially, the same thing, I am minded of the various Pete Wylie Wah! variations, so is it not time we seek out the exclamation mark, as a worthy compatriot of the question mark?
Help!
That's too hard.
More uncomfortable to answer
Frank Zappa- Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?
The Chameleons (Yes, I know it´s an album)
What Does Anything Mean, Basically?
Do You Remember the First Time?
(I do!)
Lest we forget
Alice In Chains- Would?
The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go?
John Cale – Baby, What You Want Me To Do?
The Cure – Why Can´t I Be you?
Nick Cave – Do You love Me?
The Contours – Do You Love me?
Bo Diddley –Who Do you Love?
Leonard Cohen – Who By Fire?
Ween – Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
Barry White – What Am I Gonna Do With You?
Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love?(etc)
The Undertones – You´ve Got My Number (Why Don´t You Use It?)
Miles Davis – So What?
Cowded House – How Will You Go?
Mike Scott – What Do You Want Me To Do?