Top 100 Songs With Misleading Titles

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90. american analog set - punk as fuck

89. nation of ulysses - the sound of jazz to come

Adolescence Mokushiroku! (gendo ikari), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

88. Yoko Ono - Listen, The Snow Is Falling

You can't hear snow. You can hear the vibrations left by wind, but you can't hear snow falling. To be more literalist, you can, presuming there's a significant amount falling at once, probably make out something rather slight when the snow hits some surface, but you can't hear snow falling.

Richard Baez (Johnny Logic), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I LOVE THIS SONG.

There is a sound of something that presumably is snow on the record. I suppose this title is better than "listen, you can hear snow hitting surface". Although if anybody could get away with such a title, its Yoko.

hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, a quick check of her lyrics to "Who Has Seen the Wind?" might give an indication how you can listen to the falling snow.

Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

87. Bill Haley & the Comets - Rock Around the Clock

Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

86. AC/DC - "Big Balls" (apparently, it's about the large parties that people throw on occasion)

hank (hank s), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it's about... oh never mind.

Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link

85. "Come On Eileen" is NOT the soundtrack to a bukakke video. Well, I suppose it could be.

max (maxreax), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, a quick check of her lyrics to "Who Has Seen the Wind?" might give an indication how you can listen to the falling snow.

just the other week i read this poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) that seems a bit familiar :

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.

zappi (joni), Thursday, 22 June 2006 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark, you do know that that Palace song title is the set-up to punchline in a corny old musician joke, don't you? The punchline is "No, but if you hum a few bars, I'll fake it."

Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

84. 10cc - "The Worst Band In The World"

(not by a long shot, fellas)...

hank (hank s), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

83. "This is Hardcore"

A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

82. "Quiet" - The Smashing Pumpkins

flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

Scooter - We Are The Greatest

Siegbran, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link

Most of Throbbing Gristle's 20 Jazz Funk Greats qualifies.

pomenitul, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link


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