There are a few 'Wipeout's though
― Mark G, Saturday, 25 February 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
119. Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette
He sings that several times at the end
― Warren's Treat (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 25 February 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Emmy the Great - "We Almost Had a Baby" as my daughter pointed out to me today.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 2 April 2017 03:44 (seven years ago) link
Quasi - our happiness is guaranteed
― kinder, Sunday, 2 April 2017 07:31 (seven years ago) link
Sublime - Same in the End
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Sunday, 2 April 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
138. Coldplay - Square One
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
I wonder if kornrulez6969 ever wrote that dissertation.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 14 May 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
we found >100 examples, we held up our end of the bargain
― henry s, Sunday, 14 May 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
I did write it. It's called "The Overload--Exploring Songs Where the Title Is Sung Once, As The Last Line of the Song"
The Professor gave me a C, he said it was a flawed concept. Oh well.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 15 May 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
fuck that
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 May 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
it's a great concept
Nothing Indeed - The Minutemen
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
73. Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand - Cursive.
― charlie h, Thursday, February 5, 2015 9:35 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
goddammit i came here to post this
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 06:13 (six years ago) link
i love this thread
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 April 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
i find it fascinating and a good challenge as a songwriter
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 April 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
139. Dismemberment Plan, "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich"
― bone thugs & prosody (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 April 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
140. Courtney Barnett, "Nameless, Faceless"
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 13 April 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
141. Waxahatchee - "Never Been Wrong"
"you walk around like it's your god-given right/and you love being right, you've never been wrong"
― austinb, Saturday, 21 April 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
142. U2 - Running to Stand Still
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
love this thread
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
143. Tenderness - Parquet Courts
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
144. "Number Three," They Might Be Giants
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
145. Big Thief – Pretty Things
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 27 September 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
146. the clash - stay free
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
Wow, believe I have been trying to get that one to surface for years, thanks
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
Does it count if the song title is sung exactly once and is the only line in the song? If so, then “Topsy Part 1” and “Topsy Part 2” by Cozy Cole
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 16 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
147. Frank Zappa - "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"
― visiting, Sunday, 16 December 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
148. The Only Ones - "It's the Truth"
And, almost, "Instrumental" by the same band, but he sings it twice.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 December 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
149. Bob Dylan - "Boots of Spanish Leather"
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 April 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
film version of this: the man who shot liberty valance.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
also (“visually,” if you’ll permit it) – The Dark Knight Rises
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:38 (three years ago) link
An example from the stage may be The Playboy of the Western World – though I don’t recall if the title phrase is used elsewhere in the play, besides the closing line (“I’ve lost the only Playboy of the Western World.” CURTAIN.”)
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
(Ok, never mind – just skimmed thru it, and itdoes appear earlier.)
― down like 6:30 (morrisp), Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
150. 'Kommando Untergang' by Anna Depenbusch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_VN7n-lr68
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
151. Nico/Jackson Browne “The Fairest of the Seasons”
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 11 December 2020 07:34 (three years ago) link
152. Robert Pollard - "I've Owned You for Centuries"
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 11 December 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
153. Southern Cross - Crosby Stills & Nash
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
154. "Dr. Phil" by Lil B
155. "Lose My Breath" by My Bloody Valentine
― irerisered, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
xp the last line is "in the southern cross". also, "southern cross" appears earlier in the song.
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
"but i was born to lose my breath"
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link
Well I suck at life.
― irerisered, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
lil b is a good one!
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
156. The The - Angels Of Deception
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Monday, 30 August 2021 07:35 (two years ago) link
I really want to add Lee Hazlewood's "I'm Glad I Never" but he takes a couple of lines to spit out what he's glad about, including three syllables after the titular phrase.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 30 August 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
157
Mgła - Exercises in Futility VI
― Devilock, Monday, 30 August 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
well he doesn't say "six"
maybe that doesn't count
― Devilock, Monday, 30 August 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
last line is "another chapter in the handbook for exercises in futility"
― visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Thought for a moment that the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would be one of these, but that line somehow comes in at the centre of the song instead.
― Kim, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:23 (two 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