(Songs where most of the title is in) parenthesis. (How many can you name/Search & Destroy)

I thought there'd have been more Meatloaf in here, as he's the king of the song title parenthetical aside:

You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)
I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
Out of the Frying Pay (And Into the Fire)
Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)
Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)
If This is the Last Kiss (Let's Make it Last All Night)

Waylon Jennings- "Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)"

get up (i feel like being a) sex machine

this always causes cognitive dissonance. so is the abbreviated song title "get up," "sex machine," or "get up sex machine"?

(That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace - Low

If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got To Stay All Night) - Bob Dylan
(If I Had To Do It All Over Again I'd Do It) All Over You - The Raiders, written by Bob Dylan
(If You Let Me Make Love To You Then) Why Can't I Touch You? - Ronnie Dyson
Ain't No Woman (Like the One I Got) - The Four Tops
Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express

I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee) - Ben Vaughn, Marshall Crenshaw

Rick James - 1,2,3 (U, Her and Me)

Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)

the primitives - (we've) found a way (to the sun)

even as we speak - (all you find is) air

The Buckinghams- "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)"

Arthur Alexander - "Anna (Go To Him)"

"I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" - Duke Ellington

"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" - Bruce Springsteen

There's a song on the new Van der Graaf Generator album called "(Oh No I Must Have Said) Yes". Hammill also did a song once called "(On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga".

My favourite is Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)", because the bit in the parenthesis is completely useless, yet it's somehow cute he decided to add the the repeated phrase from the chorus to the title.

Camper Van Beethoven - (I Was Born in a) Laundromat

Tommy Overstreet: Ann (Don't Go Runnin'); Gwen (Congratulations); (Jeanie Marie) You Were a Lady
George Jones: Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)

Zolar X - "I Pulled My Helmet Off (I'm Going to Love Her)"

Smashing Pumpkins - Fuck You (An Ode To No One)

Mcluskey - (Sometimes) I Have to Concentrate

*Mclusky

(most of the title ;)

Terry Allen

Lubbock (On Everything)
"Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)"
"Collector (And the Art Mob)"
"Oui (A French Song)"

Juarez
"The Juarez Device (AKA 'Texican Badman')"
"La Despedida (The Parting)"

Smokin' the Dummy
"The Heart of California (For Lowell George)"
"Whatever Happened to Jesus (And Maybellene) ?"
"The Lubbock Tornado (I Don't Know)"

Car Seat Headrest - (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)

Frank Black - (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain

This is debatable, since it doesn't always have the parens but
Clarence Carter/Chairmen of the Board - "Patches (I'm Depending On You)"

Talking Heads- “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”

The Bee Gees - “Odessa (City on the Black Sea)”

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie

y'all got hendrix, but you don't have:

ydi - 1983 (a place in the sun)

also:

the byrds - 5d (fifth dimension)

and peter hammill should also get credit for:

peter hammill - the lie (bernini's st. theresa)

let's also remember:

scott walker - the old man's back again (dedicated to the neo-stalinist regime)
yes - the fish (shindleria praematurus)

and a BRAND NEW SONG for 2018

palm - (didn't what you want) happen

“Dawn (Go Away)” - The Four Seasons

“Zira (Call Out My Name)” - Redd Kross

what about “singles that inexplicably LACK the seemingly important clarifying parenthesis?”

so, then,

“Edge of Seventeen (Just Like The White-Winged Dove)”

Every track on Ian Dury's Lord Upminster:

1. Funky Disco (Pops)
2. Red (Letter)
3. Girls (Watching)
4. Wait (For Me)
5. The (Body Song)
6. Lonely (Town)
7. Trust (Is a Must)
8. Spasticus (Autisticus)

(you drive me) crazy - Britney

Half Man Half Biscuit: Styx Gig (Seen By My Mates Coming Out Of A)

Electric Six - (It Gets) (A Little) Jumpy

Tony Christie?- “Is This the Way to) Amarillo”

Chic - Will You Cry (When You Hear this Song)