Songs where the title is only sung once, as the last line of the song

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27. The Monks - Blast Off

Mark G, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link

28. 12XU - Wire

Vic Perry, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link

29. Loss of Innocence - The Residents (prob. plenty more on The Commercial Album too)

Vic Perry, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link

Does Nine Inch Nails' "The Day The World Went Away" count?

"the day the whole world went away"

it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link

I've always considered the count off of 12XU to be part of the song, but it meets the criteria if you don't hear it that way.

J. Sam, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link

12XU is a gray area, which means more work for me and my dissertation but so be it.

Another gray area song:

30. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker - Prince

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link

It's not ad the end, but

31. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

LimbsKing, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link

Ah -- I misread the instructions to be "as in" not "as" so, that doesn't count

LimbsKing, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link

31. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link

this is really hard

when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link

32. You Suffer... But Why - Napalm Death. If a song with only 4 words, over in 3 seconds counts.

Oblique Strategies, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link

33. Confessions - Violent Femmes

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link

Bette Midler, "The Rose"

andrew m., Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link

35. The Overload - Talking Heads

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link

Great thread. Can't think of any that haven't been posted already though. Maybe if I sleep on it.

Beats By Doré (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:35 (nine years ago) link

i love threads like this. truly useful.

I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link

felt have a few of these:
stained glass windows in the sky.
there's no such thing as victory.
the final resting of the ark.

sleepingsignal, Thursday, 5 February 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link

36. Minutemen - Maybe Partying Will Help

it takes 14 to make a baby (WilliamC), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link

Does it count if the title is repeated at the end?

37. Circle Jerks, "Live Fast Die Young"

andrew m., Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link

Sorry friend, but D. Boon says Maybe Partying Will Help multiple times.

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link

Songs where the title is only sung once, as the last line of the song

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link

38. Public Enemy- Meet the G that Killed Me

ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link

the "said only once" bit makes this a challenge !

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link

Indeed. It is hard to retrieve such songs from brain even if one had once upon a time already remarked that they had this property, especially if that happened before this thread or even ILX existed. For example, in theory I could have gone to sleep, woken up and my subconscious would have supplied #38, but I highly doubt it.

Beats By Doré (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link

39. Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode

(unnerstan' that there's a weird Pink Floyd-like constipated robot voice saying something right towards the end)

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link

arrgh, I forgot that they start the song with 12XU as well as finish it with 12XU!!! I'd say don't count it then.

Vic Perry, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:37 (nine years ago) link

36. Minutemen - Maybe Partying Will Help

Sorry friend, but D. Boon says Maybe Partying Will Help multiple times.

Sub in "Fanatics," then.

bentelec, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link

40. Fugazi - Back To Base

cock chirea, Thursday, 5 February 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link

41. Blackwater Park - Opeth

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link

Very Funny - Magnetic Fields

Vic Perry, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link

43. Alanis Morissette - Perfect

Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link

44. Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes

Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:06 (nine years ago) link

Everclear - heartspark dollar sign

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link

Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes

nah, she repeats the last line 4 or 5 times

cock chirea, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:12 (nine years ago) link

44. Shudder to Think - Sweet Year Old

cock chirea, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link

45. superchunk, 'here's where the strings come in'

mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link

46. mbv, 'to here knows when'

mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:34 (nine years ago) link

47. Down Through - Red House Painters

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link

48. "Life and How to Live It" - REM

about a dozen duck supporters (carl agatha), Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:52 (nine years ago) link

49. Elizabeth My Dear - Stone Roses

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 04:55 (nine years ago) link

50. Slayer - "Live Undead"

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link

51. Serenade - Roxy Music

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:26 (nine years ago) link

52. The Wedding Present - "Give My Love to Kevin"

Liquid Plejades, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:26 (nine years ago) link

53. I'm Still Here - Tom Waits

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link

54. Alice - Peter Hammill

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:47 (nine years ago) link

though the title is actually Alice (letting go), so i don't know if you want to count it...

charlie h, Thursday, 5 February 2015 05:51 (nine years ago) link

55. Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

Ari (whenuweremine), Thursday, 5 February 2015 06:28 (nine years ago) link

Free Bird?

Mark G, Thursday, 5 February 2015 07:47 (nine years ago) link

56. Emmy the Great - First Love

Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 5 February 2015 08:23 (nine years ago) link

the "said only once" bit makes this a challenge !

Yeah. I was gonna say Neil Young "For The Turnstiles" but he says it three times at the end.

Dinsdale, Thursday, 5 February 2015 09:09 (nine years ago) link

Against All Odds is a near miss, but he sings a few more words afterward

Kim, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

Can't believe no one has posted: HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles

A couple of others:
LATE FOR THE SKY - Jackson Browne
BIG CITY CAT - Steve Forbert

Junkman, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Can't believe nobody has posted ...(actually I can, I only noticed last week!)

Sex Pistols "I wanna be me"

Mark G, Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link

er, “Here, There and Everywhere” is sung twice at the end

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link

It isn't - "here" is missed the "first" time.

Mark G, Saturday, 26 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link

huh, thanks crap memory!

assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 26 March 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link

161. Nick Drake - "Harvest Breed"

Lee626, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link

162. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link

xp last line is "And you're ready now for the harvest breed"

visiting, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link

"Jigsaw falling into place" is also sung earlier in the song.

visiting, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link

but the title is only sung once and it's the last words of the song, so it counts

Lee626, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link

"Jigsaw falling into place" is also sung earlier in the song.

― visiting

Crap it’s true.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:37 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "The One Who Got Us Out"

I swear this one has been on the tip of my tongue since the thread started, and I'm only just managing to spit it out

Attached by piercing jewelry (bernard snowy), Thursday, 14 July 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

Sebadoh - The Freed Pig.

He actually mutters it sotto voce-like more than sings it though.

gjoon1, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link

164. Patsy Cline - "A Church, a Courtroom and Then Goodbye"

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 25 November 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link

Aha - Train of Thought is soo close but it has a softer repetition and then some other indistinct words

Kim, Friday, 25 November 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link

Weezer - Perfect Situation (the rubbish single version with the title shoehorned in at the end)

PaulTMA, Friday, 25 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link

The Cure "A Man Inside My Mouth" sounds like it fits to me.

The "internet" says there's one more lyric during the outro ("This won't hurt at all") but I just hear a bunch of screaming.

billstevejim, Friday, 25 November 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link

six months pass...

168(?) Brandy Clark - Buried

Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 June 2023 11:28 (nine months ago) link

"But I'll love you till I'm buried" is the last line.

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 19 June 2023 15:43 (nine months ago) link

I wonder how many songs fit the "My Name Is Jonas" pattern of having the title sung exactly twice, as the first and last lines of the song.

The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 19 June 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link

Simple Minds - Premonition

visiting, Monday, 3 July 2023 03:08 (nine months ago) link

three weeks pass...

170(?) The Clientele: "Claire's Not Real"

Tim, Friday, 28 July 2023 10:43 (eight months ago) link

I wonder how many songs fit the "My Name Is Jonas" pattern of having the title sung exactly twice, as the first and last lines of the song

"I Got Life" from the original cast album of Hair does essentially this.

Nina Simone's Hair medley, "Ain't Got No, I Got Life," strikes "I Got Life" from the beginning but leaves the one at the end, so it is sort of an example of the original format.

Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:45 (eight months ago) link

Which is kind of interesting bc we've already established itt that Hair already has a song that does title once at the end only, namely "Frank Mills."

Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:50 (eight months ago) link

Wait, brain lapse. "Frank Mills" is a different thing, it's a song with no repeating lines at all.

Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:52 (eight months ago) link

Oh right!

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 July 2023 14:20 (eight months ago) link


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