song titles that effortlessly sum up the artist's entire oeuvre

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e.g. "young and innocent days" by the kinks

na (NA), Monday, 12 December 2016 22:45 (eight years ago)

i feel like "i'm a man" is the ur-pissed jeans song title

― na (NA), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:09 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

na (NA), Monday, 12 December 2016 22:45 (eight years ago)

rhcp - 'hump de bump' or 'californication'

Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Monday, 12 December 2016 22:47 (eight years ago)

Paranoid android by radiohead

Moka, Monday, 12 December 2016 23:22 (eight years ago)

bo diddley - bo diddley

mookieproof, Monday, 12 December 2016 23:46 (eight years ago)

similarly Motorhead - Motorhead

Οὖτις, Monday, 12 December 2016 23:47 (eight years ago)

Roxy Music - Remake/Remodel

funk79, Monday, 12 December 2016 23:49 (eight years ago)

king crimson - one more red nightmare

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:00 (eight years ago)

Fugazi - "Merchandise"

JRN, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:27 (eight years ago)

Pavement - Gold Soundz

alpine static, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:33 (eight years ago)

Seriously this time: The Fall "Prole Art Threat"

JRN, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:35 (eight years ago)

Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce

Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:36 (eight years ago)

The 1975 - Ugh!

Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:28 (eight years ago)

James Brown - Make It Funky

new noise, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:28 (eight years ago)

Faust - Krautrock

new noise, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:31 (eight years ago)

The Who - The Kids Are Alright

Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:31 (eight years ago)

The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:33 (eight years ago)

similarly Motorhead - Motorhead

Or Pigbag- "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag"

I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:07 (eight years ago)

stereolab possibilities:

lock-groove lullaby
metronomic underground
refractions in the plastic pulse
john cage bubblegum
excursions into oh, a-oh

mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:38 (eight years ago)

i bleed - pixies

flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 02:43 (eight years ago)

Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 03:10 (eight years ago)

What about Buffalo Daughter, "New Rock"?

I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 03:11 (eight years ago)

Nine Inch Nails - help me i am in hell

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 03:12 (eight years ago)

T. Rex - Raw Ramp

Specially the version with the "there was a time" intro as it also sounds like his earlier psychfolk songs before going into glam mode.

Moka, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 03:52 (eight years ago)

Low - Majesty / Magic

that's not my post, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 05:32 (eight years ago)

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We're Floating in Space

Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 09:51 (eight years ago)

nirvana - i hate myself and want to die

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 12:44 (eight years ago)

Fugazi - "Merchandise"

― JRN, Monday, December 12, 2016 6:27 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Genuine lol.

The Pleasure Principal (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 12:54 (eight years ago)

i love kanye - kanye west

flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:15 (eight years ago)

Lil Wayne - "I Am Not a Human Being"

I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:34 (eight years ago)

there's a song on Neil Young's new record called "Can't Stop Workin'"

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:38 (eight years ago)

I know it's an album title, not a song title, but I've always thought Rust Never Sleeps was a good summation of Neil's ethos/career.

I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:39 (eight years ago)

Sleep - Dopesmoker

ringworm, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:23 (eight years ago)

Beating of Hearts - XTC

flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:25 (eight years ago)

Anthony Braxton - https://crossmix.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/braxton.jpg

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:36 (eight years ago)

B-52s - Dance This Mess Around

that's not my post, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:07 (eight years ago)

I know it's an album title, not a song title, but I've always thought Rust Never Sleeps was a good summation of Neil's ethos/career.

Didn't it arise from some proposed Devo collabo?

I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:12 (eight years ago)

it was a slogan used by Rust-Oleum paint:

In 1979 the company's slogan, "Rust Never Sleeps", was adopted by Neil Young (upon a suggestion by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, who had actually invented the phrase for Rust-Oleum when he had previously worked in advertising) as a name for an album.[9]

(though I've read that the bit about Mothersbaugh having invented the phrase himself is a myth?)

soref, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:35 (eight years ago)

but it was Devo that suggested it to Neil, apparently

soref, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:36 (eight years ago)

Spacemen 3 ‎– Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To
Minutemen - Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?
Godspeed You Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity

enochroot, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:10 (eight years ago)

"Icky Thump"!

scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:22 (eight years ago)

"Big Jesus Trash Can" - Nick Cave
(right down the Americanism...)

juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:25 (eight years ago)

some obvious ones:

mellon collie and the infinite sadness - the smashing pumpkins
changes - david bowie
among dreams - ariel pink
isolation - john lennon
silly love songs - paul mccartney
prayers for rain - the cure

flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:32 (eight years ago)

rhcp - 'hump de bump' or 'californication'

― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Monday, December 12, 2016 5:47 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would have gone with 'sikamikanico'

how's life, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:48 (eight years ago)

Animal Collective - Chores

Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:49 (eight years ago)

Michael Jackson - Black or White

Moka, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:51 (eight years ago)

Green Cobra is Awesome vs. the Sun - Dan Deacon

flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:10 (eight years ago)

the more i think about icky thump the more i'm convinced its perfect because it sums up perfectly the two people in the band.

scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:12 (eight years ago)

Didn't make the icky thump connection that one is very good indeed.

Moka, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:13 (eight years ago)

Kraftwerk - We are the robots

Moka, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:15 (eight years ago)

Kaiser Chiefs - Everything Is Average Nowadays

Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:17 (eight years ago)

ac/dc - let there be rock
charlie parker - ornithology

mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:22 (eight years ago)

Sexual Healing

dinnerboat, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:10 (eight years ago)

Spacemen 3 ‎– Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To

this is not a song title

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:11 (eight years ago)

although that makes me think of

P.I.L. - This Is Not a Love Song

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:11 (eight years ago)

Dead C - The Marriage of Reason and Squalor

Yelploaf, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:12 (eight years ago)

Guru Guru - Tribes and Vibes

Yelploaf, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:15 (eight years ago)

Funkadelic - Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:09 (eight years ago)

otm re: Dead C

Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)

sleeve, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:24 (eight years ago)

Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

spastic heritage, Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:05 (eight years ago)

The Stooges- Raw Power

spastic heritage, Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:06 (eight years ago)

Hawkwind - Time We Left This World Today (they've got a bunch of song titles that might fit the bill)

spastic heritage, Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:08 (eight years ago)

Springsteen - 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).

that's not my post, Thursday, 15 December 2016 02:04 (eight years ago)

Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon

Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 December 2016 02:59 (eight years ago)


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