Songs With No Lyrics Other Than The Title Sung Over And Over

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Man, start this thread over. LOOK MOST OF THE SONGS STATED HAVE VERSES! You'll be singing the beatles' "Yeah yeah yeah" song next...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 May 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

Something Against You - Pixies

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 24 May 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

jesus christ already I'll say it again.

We Did It Again by the Soft Machine totally owns.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

"Life's So Short" repeats the title over and over, but ends with "Life's so short - so don't waste it!"

Yeah, I know. The song's really over by the time he says that, though-- it's more like a send-off than anything else.

Daft Punk's "Musique" is another example, right?

And yeah, "We Did It Again" is the clear winner for this thread, although I may be thinking of the Bongwater version when I say that.

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

Frankie Laine - Rawhide

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

I really don't think most dance music should be allowed, there's too many songs that are just one thing repeated. After all...it's time for the percolator

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

Travis - Turn
Travis - Sing
Travis - Safe
Travis - Luv
Travis - Happy

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 May 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

Do The Hustle!

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 24 May 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

I keep wanting to say "What You Do To Me" by Teenage Fanclub, but that has one other line too. It's still a damn sight nearer than "World Shut Your Mouth" - that's not even the only lyrics to the chorus...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

Dayglo Abortions "Argh Fuck Kill"
Pop Will Eat Itself "There Is No Love Between Us Any More"

― dave q, Monday, 24 May 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

salsoul orchestra - (ooh i love it) love break
=>(not even all of the title is in the song)

also
salsoul orchestra - chicago bus stop (sorta the same thing, they only say "Do the bust stop")

and why would you take dance music out? then you'd be left with mostly just a buncha crappy prog rock things :-p

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

erm, that should be "do the bus stop"

(though 'bust' works quite well in there, on second thought)

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

Future Sound of London - We Have Explosive:

We Have Explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have we have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have explosive
We have
We have
We have explosive

boom!

― harshaw (jube), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link

Flipper.

"She's a sex bomb my baby YEAH!"

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 24 May 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

Soul Finger!
Soul Finger!
Soul Finger!

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 24 May 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

"Tequila!"

― wetmink (wetmink), Monday, 24 May 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

I vote for "Jackals, False Grails:the Lonesome Era" even though the one line is actually "I've got one holy life to live" and not in fact the song's title, but what the hell

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 24 May 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

5,6,7,8's - Woo Hoo!

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 24 May 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

David Crosby "Music Is Love"

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"house of jealous lovers" comes pretty close

You have to remember that the full title is "House of Jealous Lovers (SHAKE DOOOOOOOOWN)" which means it definitely counts.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Does the Posies' "I Could Dream All Day" have any lyrics besides that title repeated a few thousand times?

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Nomeansno, "Joy"
Butthole Surfers, "Hay" (tho not "Hey")
Judas Priest's "Defenders Of The Faith" counts, if you pretend it's actually called "(We're All) Defenders Of the Faith"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Wesley Willis to thread.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Sly & the Family Stone's "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" comes pretty close.

Except that the inversion is the whole point of the song!

But what about "Wipe Out"?

― no opinion, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"She Was a Visitor"-Robert Ashley
Oh, sorry, that's not a "song."

Well, in that case how about the version by Minimal Man.

― no opinion, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link

falcon & bangalter own this thread!!!

― fernando, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Its not the title, but Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy just goes I WANT YOUR SOUL over and over. Thats oddly all I can think of, for some reason one line songs dont pop into my head, even though when I read others already listed I go "oh yeah that one". Weird.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Funny Little Man. :)

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The Replacements - 'Buck Hill'

― Mog, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Orange Juice "MOSCOW!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Onyx - Busdatazz

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Cassius 'Nothing'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Art Of Noise 'Moments In Love'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link

but yeah, Bangalter...'Together', 'So Much Love To Give', 'Call On Me' - phew what a loony

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Morrissey almost does with Dagenham Dave:

Dagenham Dave Dagenham Dave Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave Dagenham Dagenham
Dagenham Dave Dagenham Dave Daegnahm Dave
Dagenham Dave Dagenham Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave Dagenham Dave
Oh Dave Oh Dagenham
Dagenham Dagenham Dave
Dagenham Dave Dagenham Dave
Oh Dave Oh Dave Oh Dave Oh Dave

I've always wondered what that lyric looked like written down. And now I know.

― harveyw (harveyw), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Seven Ways To Love - Cola Boy feat Janie Lee
I Can't Take The Power - Offshore
Injected With A Poison - Praga Khan
Get Ready For This - 2 Unlimited

The top 40 in 1991-3 seemed to be comprised almost entirely of songs with only one line sung over and over. This was partly due to the attempted European unification of the UK charts by pilled-up Belgian techno-heads.

― John Allison, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

'it's a rainy day sunshine girl' (kind of)

― a, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

bankshot - op ivy

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

'Injected With A Poison' features more than just the title - maybe you're thinking of Digital Orgasm's 'Running Out Of Time'?. i was going to say 2 Unlimited but there are a lot of 'YEAHs!' 'I Can't Take The Power' is a good one tho.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Roky Erickson - "I Walked With A Zombie . . .

. . . last night."

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Jack Your Body

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Of course, Running Out Of Time! That's exactly what I was thinking of. Injected With A Poison said "we don't need this anymore".

On the ITV Chart Show they were "Digital O" because orgasms are kind of rude.

― John Allison (John Allison), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

The Who/High Numbers: "Top Gear" (was that a cover?)

― no opinion, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't Dinosaur Jr.

― ddb, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

close is Throbbing Gristle: "Discipline"
(Discipline, discipline, we need some discipline in here)

― no opinion, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

The Godz, "Elevem" (and a few other Godz songz)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH FOR THE DUMB FREE SPEECH FREE SPEECH FOR THE DUMB

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Buffalo Daughter - "no new rock"

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

NEU! - "la bomba"

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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