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

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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)

Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave

i am nervous (cochere), Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Palace - (i was drunk at the) pulpit

subspace, Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

It seems to me that the title of every song on Vision Creation Newsun except "Zutto" is completely enclosed in parentheses. So:
"(circle)"
"(star)"
"(heart)"
"(spiral)"
"(tilde)"
"(two circles)"
"(arrow up)"
"(omega)"

Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

The Dictators - (I Live for) Cars and Girls)

matulageci (matulageci), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

The Dictators - (I Live for) Cars and Girls

matulageci (matulageci), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" -- Hall and Oates
"Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" -- John Fred and his Playboy Band

There are so many more -- what a cool topic!

Elspeth, Monday, 21 March 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...
Revive!

The Flaming Lips - "Race for the Prize (Sacrifice of the New Scientists)"
The Flaming Lips - "The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot)"
The Flaming Lips - "What Is The Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That The Chemical [In Our Brains] By Which We Are Able To Experience The Sensation Of Being In Love Is The Same Chemical That Caused The "Big Bang" That Was The Birth Of The Accelerating Universe)"
The Flaming Lips - "Waitin' for a Superman (Is It Gettin' Heavy??)"
The Flaming Lips - "Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Death Anxiety Caused By Moments Of Boredom)"
The Flaming Lips - "The Gash (Battle Hymn For The Wounded Mathematician)"
The Flaming Lips - "Sleeping On The Roof (Excerpt From 'Should We Keep The Severed Head Awake??')"
The Flaming Lips - "Buggin' (The Buzz Of Love Is Busy Buggin' You)"

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 18 July 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

So Stark (You're A Skyscraper): Pavement

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 18 July 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)- The Impalas

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link

"You're My Girl (I Don't Want To Discuss It)" - Little Richard
"Just Sometimes (Song Of Laughter And Forgetting)" - Swervedriver
"It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)" - Merle Haggard
"Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)" - Saint Etienne
"She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man)" - Husker Du
"Who Do You Think You Are (Jesus Christ The Superstar)?" - Staple Singers

Euler, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)
Hall & Oates - Why Do Lovers (Break Each Other's Heart?)

musically, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link

(Don't Fear) the Reaper

or maybe this was said already

Bill Magill, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link

My personal favorite:

The Saints "(I'm) Stranded"

Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link

DEVO - "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')"

Rock Hardy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Lefty Frizzell was all about this shit:

Always Late (With Your Kisses)
Don't Think It Ain't Been Fun, Dear (Cuz It Ain't)
Forever (And Always)
Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses)
How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You)
I Never Go Around Mirrors (I've Got a Heartache to Hide)
Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday)
I'm an Old, Old Man (Tryin' to Live While I Can)

etc.

jim, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses)
How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You)
Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday)

that's less than half!

Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh shit yeah.

His brother David has one with more than a half, also hilarious.

I'm Gonna Hire a Wino (to Decorate Our Home)

jim, Thursday, 31 May 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Gangsta Boo - Can I Get Paid? (Get Your Broke Ass Out) (Da Strippers Anthem)

clotpoll, Friday, 1 June 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

"I (Who Have Nothing)" - Ben E. King

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Choice picks from The Happy Flowers:
"I Wanna BB Gun (And Some Glass Eyes)"
"If This Gun Were Real (I Could Shoot You and Sleep in the Big Bed With Mommy)"
"Let's Eat the Baby (Like My Gerbils Did)"

Also, from Dwight Yoakam's band in Sling Blade: "Stuart Drives a Comfortable Car (There's Usally Someone In the Trunk)"

Pillbox, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link

mbv - (you're) safe in your sleep (from that girl)

worst offender

see also (when you wake) you're still in a dream

electricsound, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link

A Quick One (While He's Away) -- The Who

Jake Brown, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link

(No Pussyfooting) - Fripp & Eno

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link

just going over the thread.

maybe like 20 people who posted in this thread actually read the title.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes I know (No Pussyfooting) is all in the parentheses but I couldn't think of anything else. Call it bandwagonism.

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link

pet shop boys - se a vida e (that's the way life is)

stephen, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link

(I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and) Whittle Away My Furniture - TISM

Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link

"Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognised Anthem of World Contact Day)"

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link

(Hmm. I had already mentioned that, but ILX skipped the middle part when I tried searching)

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)

Can't believe no-one's said it yet.

nate woolls, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link

The Jesus Lizard - (Fly) On (The Wall)

braveclub, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link

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

nate woolls, Sunday, 18 November 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

"Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird" - Chuck Jackson
"I'm Blue (The Gong Gond Song)" - The Ikettes

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link

Messed up that first last parenthesis.

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link

"Chi Mai (Main Title Theme From The BBC TV Series 'The Life And Times Of David Lloyd George)" by Ennio Morricone
"You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Short Comings)" by the Faces

Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Did that James Brown song Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn have parentheses? If not I feel as though it should.

RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

"(I Feel Like A) Dictionary" - Trend

one time, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link

No, but "Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) (Part I)" did.
(xpost)

James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link

But "...Popcorn..." was also split into parts 1 & 2, so it did have the one set of brackets.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link


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