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The Minor Threat/d just reminded me: MT and young Marble Giants both have songs called "Salad Days": so, favourite examples of the same title, dfft treatment? (esp. if particularly weird lyric-content comparisons can be achieved...)

― mark s, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(plus: asked this before and no one then got it: name two some-time pop/rock jehovah's witnesses who have sung songs titled "Thriller")

― mark s, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, there's 'God Save the Queen'

― dave q, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cheer-Accident had a "Salad Days" as well. And I'm sure there are more.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

biggie's 'me & my bitch' is SO MUCH BETTER than mc eiht's 'me & my bitch'

― ethan, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ice-T's Power vs Kool Moe Dee's (and later Snap's cover) of Power. I guess PE's Welcome to the TerrorDome can't go up against Welcome To The Pleasuredome?

― zacko, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not only did Bobby Brown and Cheap Trick both hit with "Don't Be Cruel" and "Don't Be Cruel," respectively, they both hit at the same time and, for one week, within one spot of each other on the charts. (I don't remember the numbers; perhaps Bobby was at five and Cheap Trick at six.)

― Frank Kogan, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kool Moe Dee = Chill Rob G, perhaps?

― Frank Kogan, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Dressed in Black" -- The Shangri Las, Depeche Mode, Teengenerate (which is so distorted that I can't tell whether it's a cover of something else), the Gossip.

― Kris, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoops, Chill Rob G it is. Dang, I thought I recalled Kool Moe Dee's sunglasses in the video.

― zacko, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Michael Jackson and David Thomas are the two Jehovah's Witnesses who have recorded songs called "Thriller" !

― Patrick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Billy Ocean's "Loverboy" and Teena Marie's "Lovergirl" were once back to back on Billboard's top 40.

― Patrick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eddie and the Hot Rods also recorded an alb called 'Thriller' of course, before m jackson, but dunno anything abt their religious persuasions.

― Andrew L, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not wishing to de-rail Mark's thread, but also wonder what's the most common song/alb title?

― Andrew L, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frizzle Fry?

― mark s, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Hold On", "Hold Me", "Call Me"...

― Patrick, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In UK chart terms 1952-1999, most used title "Crazy": 14 different songs in 16 versions.

Trad "Reynard the Fox" OK, Julian Cope's "Reynard the Fox" awesome. There are many where I quite like both, I'm sure, but irritatingly can't remember now. George Michael recorded a solo single called "Freedom" which was totally different to the song he did with Wham!, but I don't much like either.

Just remembered: "It's My Life" by Talk Talk and "It's My Life" by the Animals both wonderful. So that's my answer, I guess.

The other two that come to mind: "It's My Life" by Dr Alban OK but Culture Beat, 2 Unlimited et al pissed on it, "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi not OK at all, and funnier than they would have hoped.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Come Together": the bug band, Primal Scream, Spiritualized. I think all three versions are -- on some level -- about drugs.

― Ian White, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the Imperial Dogs - "This Ain't the Summer of Love" Blue Oyster Cult - "This Ain't the Summer of Love"

look the same on the outside; pretty funny on their insides...

― jon, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tori Amos & Bjork (plus umlauts) both had "batchelorette".

― 1 1 2 3 5, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

which was first?

― ethan, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The MC5 had a 'Come Together' too

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If come together is supposed to be a double entendre, I am so pissed off. You know Maryann is a real popular and excellent song title: Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Link Wray, Spaceman 3 (the original by Juicy Lucy was titled 'Just One Time' but wisely they changed it to Maryann for their version), Leonard Cohen, Straitjacket Fits, and even the Dictators have a song that ought to be called Maryann but unfortunately it's called 'Everybody Knows.' So if you're a songwriter, try it out. And tell me about it. If you want a real winner, try 'Maryann I Love You, Angel.' Because I reckon that would combine some of the most popular titles and the song itself could be any old thing and would go straight to number one, in fact I personally guarantee it.

― maryann, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't Talk, Just Kiss" - Right Said Fred and The Wedding Present. Unsurprisingly, very different.

― Karl, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Country/Western "I'll Be There" sung by Ray Price in 1954 --> "I'll Be There" by Jackson 5. Latter a confirmation of a love achieved, former a slightly stalker-esque promise to wait: "I never have seen a road too rough to ride / Ain't no chain strong enough to hold me / Ain't no breeze big enough to slow me / I'll be there, if you ever want me / by your side."

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also a Come Together by Kool & The Gane, Blur and Peter Tosh

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and I was very disappointed to find no similarity between the Special AKA's Racist Friend and They Might Be Giant's Your Racist Friend.

look, just go off to www.allmusic.com, type in the name of a track you like, and bingo, you can play this game too! Bob Marley - Is this Love - Whitesnake. Easy as pie.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, go back and do the hard and interesting bit then, Andrew (and everyone else who didn't net-cheat), which = opening up how the titles lead to difft worlds, sound- wise, word-wise, dream-wise, anything-you- like-wise...

― mark s, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't trust allmusic.com, I lookied up "Fuck You" and I only found the Smashing Pumpkins one, when I know there are at least two others (the Avengers and the Subhumans). I did find a song called 'Fuck Your Cat', though...by Eugene Chadbourne!

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cherry Bomb-Runaways. Fab LA jailbait anti-parent, anti-school trashy stutter anthem. Stone age love and strange sounds too. RIGHT ON! Cherry Bomb-John Cougar Mellencamp. Not so fab small town glory days-style reminiscing, pink houses for you and me, "that's when a sport was a sport". Yawn.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was most disappointed that The Model on the last B+S album wasn't a Kraftwerk cover (Luckily for them, it's one of the best tracks they've done. They get away with it, this time).

They're surprisingly similar actually: "I saw her on the cover of a magazine/Now she's a big success I want to meet her again" "Because you know how much I wanted/To meet your friend the star of stage and local press". Of course stylistically they're completely different, and there's loads of rambling about other stuff in the B+S song.

― Graham, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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