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112. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics

Was it just me, or shouldn't that song have been called "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)"?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

113 What Made Milwaukee Famous (Made A Loser Out of Me) -Various
pending 114. Funky Watergate (People It's Bad)
yet another JB classic but I can't verify that the bracketed part is indeed part of the title

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

115. i got my mojo working (and i thought you'd like to know) - young fresh fellows

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 November 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

116. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) -The Crystals

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

And I'll also throw this in your face

117. 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - Hendrix

― Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Massive Attack - (Exchange)

This is the Exchange reprise at the end of Mezzanine. I've seen it listed with parentheses, but both amazon and allmusic omit them. I haven't got the packaging handy to check.

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 15 November 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

118. Simon & Garfunkel, "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or, How I Was Robert McNamara'ed Into Submission)"

As an aside: three years ago, my friend Sarah-poo had made for our friend Alli-poo a shirt that said, "My friend was Robert McNamara'ed into submission and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Alli-poo wore it to a Paul Simon show soon afterwards, I never found out if he saw it ...

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

119. Norweigian Wood (This Bird has Flown) - Beatles

― darin (darin), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

120. Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day) - Klaatu

Fucking great song, and probably one of the longest songtitles ever. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown - I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the tracks on Sigurd Ros' "( )" album were called "( )", no?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't barry white have a few songs with titles like

(Baby, I need your love) Because Your Love Is So Wonderful (Baby)

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

123. The Cure - (I don't know what's going) On

― Melson (ArchCarrier), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Song I wish had parentheses so it could be on the list:
She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Double - Gary Stewart

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

124. Tunic (Song for Karen)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Song I wish had parentheses so it could be on the list:
She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Double - Gary Stewart

a good title indeed, but it would be a lot better if george jones hadn't already done (the equally unparenthesized) "feeling single, seeing double" a decade earlier. i'm all for borrowing and stealing in music, but stealing someone else's joke is a bit unseemly. (yeah yeah, i know comedians do it all the time, and it's standard operating procedure, and all that. but something just seems weird about a songwriter grabbing another songwriter's pun like that.)

(neither gary nor george wrote either song, they just sang 'em, for whatever that's worth. and it seemed important to add this so, even if i wasn't discussing a song title in parentheses, at least my answer would be mostly in parentheses.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

fcc,
are you in fact by profession a fact checker or copy editor ?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

not specifically, but i've been a writer, reporter, researcher and editor, so it's kind of in my blood. i can't help it sometimes, though i wish i could.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Two more IWTHP (I Wish They Had Parentheses)

I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone - Elvis
I Was Checking Out, She Was Checking In - Don Covay

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Things You See (When You Haven't Got Your Gun) - Allan Holdsworth

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice Cooper "Clones (We're All)"
Alice Cooper "Inmates (We're All Crazy)"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

First time I became aware of the phenomenon:

128. Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Yoyur Body)"

I think Smash Hits wrote something along the lines of "(Don't you just hate it when) artists put parentheses in song titles?"

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The only song I can think of that actually mentions parentheses in its lyrics is Dan Baird's great "I Love You Period".

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A personal favorite: "In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the deftones actually have a number of these kinda songs ...

"my own summer (shove it)"
"be quiet and drive (far away)"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Azita-You're Not Very (Honest is that the way they drifted on to get to Rome?)

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bogdan Raczynski - "There Are Many Things I Don't Understand But I Knew That I Loved You (But It's Too Late, You've Taken Me For Granted)" and "That First Time I Met Her and She Hugged Me (And Then Laughed at Me Heartlessly When I Said I Wanted to Know What It Meant to Love Her)"

Good...gravy...no, I did not type those out, either.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry. I really am. But...

I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf

― Klamm (VampireSubmarine), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear - Blondie

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Bunnybrains win thread prizes with:

"(What Kind Of)SHAPE(Are You In?)"

"(How Many Times) Are We Gonna Let Aretha (Franklin) Get [Away](With This) (Lame Shit)"

"(The Gibbons) Aren't The Only Monkees (On The Planet)"

"Don't Give Up (Yer Day Job)(In Parentheses)"

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

actually my fave bunnybrains title might be:

"(Another Glass Of) Milk"

("Stratagien Gegen Nik Kershaw" is good too. But no parentheses."Seat Me In The (Vivisection)" and "Kill Yer-(S)elf" have nice ones though.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

New Slang (When you notice the Stripes) - The Shins

― papa november (papa november), Monday, 22 November 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read Jonathan Lethem's "The Fortress of Solitude," in which one of the major characters, the former leader of a Motown group, records a song under the pseudonym Doofus Funkstrong, titled "(Did You Press Your) Bump Suit"

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 22 November 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I just went to look something up in my ancient copy of Joel Whitburn's Top 40 book, and this hit me in the face, which amazingly enough is not on the list already.

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) -The First Edition

I feel like I caught the Loch Ness Monster.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

CHEATER ALERT:
Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) - Janice Ian
(You're My) Soul and Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers
Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly) - Icicycle Works

Man, I just keep finding a whole lot of these this morning with no effort at all- by accident in fact, without any clicking and reloading- using this amazingly fast random access technology called "a book." It is quite an old technology from what I understand- this "book" I have is from 1985. I believe they had something called "proofreading" back in those days, which means any mistakes I make must have been introduced by me.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

For instance: in the "book," the word "icicle" is spelled correctly. Presumably those wise people knew that it was not a bicycle made of ice.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The Vibators - Judy Said (Gonna Go Knock You in The Head)

And can't you fuxors read: "...where most of the title..." - shit like this isn't correct:

"my own summer (shove it)"
"be quiet and drive (far away)"

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, you may have started this thread, I'll grant you that, but scrolling through the list and looking at all the great entries that don't obey the letter of your law, I say:

The Man Can't Bust (Our Parentheses)!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

And nobody did a Search and Destroy either, so I would ask:

Are You Going To Enforce That Rule Too (Or Does It Impact Too Much On The Bottom Line)?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

One for Sasha:
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

One for me:
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame

One that seems to have paren's but not all the time (LP avec, single sans?):
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Richard X feat. Tiga - "You (Better Let Me Love You x4) Tonight"
Spandau Ballet - "Chant No. 1 (I Dont Need This Pressure On)"

― Seb (Seb), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

How about that song "San Francisco (be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)"..? Don't know the name of the singer..

― J Dublin, Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Wilco - I Got You (At The End Of The Century)
Styx - Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
The Knack - Siamese Twins (The Monkey And Me)

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 20 March 2005 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave

― i am nervous (cochere), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Handsome Boy Modelling School - Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)
Electric Six - Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)
Busta Rhymes - Woohah! (Got You All In Check)
Ryan Adams - To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)
Radiohead - every song title on "Hail To The Thief"

― brilliant young and angsty (thatguy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Revealing Science Of God (Dance Of The Dawn)
The Remembering (High The Memory)
The Ancient (Giants Under The Sun)
Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Palace - (i was drunk at the) pulpit

― subspace, Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Home & Garden: "(please) FIX MY HORN (my brakes don't work)"

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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