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Favorite Songs That Don't Have Their Titles in the Lyrics

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  1. Manny Ramirez

    Manny Ramirez The Music Man

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    What are your choices of the greatest songs that don't have their titles in the lyrics?? You know those type of songs, the ones that make you say "how in the hell did they come up with blah blah as the title of this song?"

    There are lots that I could pick but I will go with these:

    "True Faith" - New Order
    "Epic" - Faith No More
    "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - Smashing Pumpkins
    "For Martha" - Smashing Pumpkins
    "How to Disappear Completely" - Radiohead
    "Paranoid Android" - Radiohead

    That is all I'm gonna list although Radiohead and the Pumpkins have had some others (Airbag, Optimistic, Cherub Rock, Mayonaise, Drown, etc.) plus there are other songs I have that I just can't think of right now that are good.

    So, hopefully some of you can jog my memory with your choices.
     
    #1 Manny Ramirez, Aug 23, 2002
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    Can't go wrong with the ultimate gen-x slacker song of the 90's...
     
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  3. Behad

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    Black Dog by Led Zepplin, so named because a black dog wandered into the studio during recording.
     
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    "Corduroy" - Pearl Jam
    "Yellow Ledbetter" - Pearl Jam
    "Longview" - Green Day
    "Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots
    "Enter Sandman" - Metallica
    "Clint Eastwood" - Gorillaz
    "El Scorcho" - Weezer (technically, the title is said in a garbled voice before the song starts, but it's not IN the song.)
     
    #4 DCkid, Aug 23, 2002
  5. Rocket River

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    which song . ..

    Rocket River
    I thought the like 'smells like teen spirit' was in there somewhere . . .i must confuse it with the Weird Al version
     
    #5 Rocket River, Aug 23, 2002
  6. Manny Ramirez

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    River,

    That is the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and thanks to A-Train for reminding me about it because it is a classic.
     
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    Although a little more research could have been put in, heres a top 5.

    1 yer blues - the beatles
    2 brain damage - pink floyd
    3 brick is red - pixies
    4 a summer song - chad and jeremy
    5 true faith - new order (great call, manyard)
     
    #7 DEANBCURTIS, Aug 23, 2002
  8. Rocketman95

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    #41-Dave Matthews Band
     
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    "Subterranean Homesick Blues", Bob Dylan.
     
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    Stinkfist- TOOL

    Also, 7 Words by the Deftones kicks arse!
     
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    Baba O'Reilly - The Who
    Thru The Eyes Of Ruby - Smashing Pumpkins
    Ride The Lightning - Metallica (come to think of it, they've got several songs without the title in the lyrics)
    Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones (does this count?)
     
    #11 keeley, Aug 23, 2002
  12. Manny Ramirez

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    bah...deleted post...
    :eek:
     
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  13. Stickfigure

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    A lot of New Order songs didn't have the titles in the lyrics -- perhaps a reason why they didn't sell so well? Maybe people didn't know what song they were looking for?

    A couple that spring to mind, besides the already-mentioned "True Faith," are "Bizarre Love Triangle" (probably best known to people as "Every Time I See You Falling") and "Round and Round."
     
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    good call. "Blue Monday"
     
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    how about...any instrumental.
     
    #15 Another Brother, Aug 23, 2002
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    Maxwell - From the Album "NOW", Track#2 "Untitled"

    "never pass me byyeee, blahblahblah, just cryyyyyyy"
    or something like that . Excellent album doe...
     
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  17. TheFreak

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    Geez, I'm sure there are tons...

    "Santa Monica" - Everclear
    "Possum Kingdom" - Toadies
    "Christian Woman" - Type O Negative
     
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    Not all of these are necessarily my favorites, but they meet the other criteria:

    Ballad of El Goodo - Big Star
    Thirteen - Big Star
    Then She Did - Jane's Addiction
    Ted, Just Admit It - Jane's Addiction
    Siva - Smashing Pumpkins
    Paranoid - Black Sabbath
    May This Be Love - Jimi Hendrix
    Elderly Woman Behind a Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam

    Of course, most of my favorite jazz and ambient artists don't have any words in their songs. Do they count?
     
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    A Murder of One - Counting Crows
    Possesion - Sarah McLachlan
    Vox - Sarah McLachlan
     
    #19 Hydra, Aug 23, 2002
  20. TheFreak

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    "Bohemian Rhapsody"


    Game Over ;)
     
    #20 TheFreak, Aug 23, 2002
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