Your favourite long song titles

"Thankfully Not Living In Yorkshire It Doesn't Apply" - Dexy's

"In Love With All You Are And Forever Maybe As If My Soul Depended On It To Survive" - Kid606

"The Sound OF Someone You Love Who's Going Away And It Doesn't Matter" - Penguin Café Orchestra

"A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes As He And His Wife Drive Off A Cliff"- Of Montreal

"A Shangri-La In The Desert/Garden With Cuddly Tiger"- Louis & Bebe Barron, from the film Forbidden Planet, which has LOADS of my favourites which just miss out by a word, or a couple of letters, grrr- please let me have "Robby Arranges Flowers, Zaps Monkey", it is so so good...

Hmmm, there are bloody loads that are only seven words or thirty-five letters or something, grrr.

As does NakliGroup's "What Notorious & Nefarious Inhuman Insectoid Activities Have Bill & Fly Posters Perpetrated To Cause The Initiation Of A Nationwide Manhunt For Them In Which Mysterious Signs Intersect With Our Spacetime Reality And Announce Their Imminent Prosecution?"

And just for hilarity's sake I must mention Dogliveroil's "A Dream Of England's Last Tory MP Hung From The Guts Of The Last Spice Girl".

"Don't Be Afraid. Even If Your Nerves Snap, You Can Tie Them To A Fragment Of The Universe"- Fushitsusha.

I think there's probably quite a few of these types of titles, actually, as covered in that 'novelty indie' or whatever it was, thread...

'William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed' - Phil Ochs

'Dostoyevsky Gets Mugged Outside a Donut Shop in Jersey' - Kind of Like Spitting

"A Disgruntled Postal Employee Gets High in the Parking Lot of the Winn Dixie one Morning while listening to Metallica" by Alice Donut (from the nearly as long winded album called The Untidy Suicides of Your Degenerate Children.)

"Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" by Pearl Jam (this is to make up for every other song they've ever made having one word titles.)

And I've already mentioned them in another thread, but the Freshies' singles "I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk" and "I Can't Get 'Bouncing Babies' By The Teardrop Explodes."

Last Night I dreamed that somebody loved Me - The Smiths

How can you expect to be taken seriously? - Pet Shop Boys

and a mini-boxset for 12 bucks that contained three Black Sabbath CD's (Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath)

the orb's A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules from the Center of the Ultraworld (Loving You)

"Bring My Car I Feel To Smash It" - Sea and Cake

No fair! Never Underestimate The Ignorance Of The Rich is only 39 characters! Bad luck Klaxon 5

Success! The Home Secretary Briefs the Forces Of Law And Order is 44 characters! Well done McCarthy!

favorites:

"perfumed pink corpses from the lips of ms. celine dion"

"sister! brother! small boats of fire are falling from the sky!"

"lonely as the sound of lying on the ground of an airplane going down"

"we support iran in their bid to win the 1998 world cup" (from the exhaust side project)

Old Fart!!!!

"I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go"
"Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee"
"The Thousandth and Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole"
"The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back"
"You Should Know By The Kindness Of Uh Dog The Way Uh Human Should Be"

The last is a poem but they all are really

also there are a few people who refer to the Stars on 45 song by the full title: "Intro: Venus / [and then every Beatles song they run through]" ...

'i just bought a car from a guy that stole my girl, but the
car don't run so i figure we're even'

http://www.mistupid.com/people/countrysongs.htm

Oh, and "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again".

Incidentally, that's also the first lyric in the song!

supposedly they wanted to get it into Guinness Book of World Records.

As someone said upthread about a different song, these don't live up to their titles, but what could?

"I Remember a Time when Once You Used to Love Me"--Dirty 3
"Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Save the World"--Flaming Lips
"The Venerable Song (The Meaning of Which Is No Longer Known)"--Sun City Girls
"Don't Tell a Lie on Me and I Won't Tell the Truth on You"--James Brown
"Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague"--Zappa/Mothers
"The Old Man's back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)"--Scott Walker
"I Was the Fool beside You for Too Long"--Yo La Tengo

fuck, over the weekend I backed up a lot of my music to an external hard drive, but my computer kept refusing to to copy songs with really long titles. I got a message like "error copying files: file name is too long", and instead of giving me the option to change the file name and resume copying the folder, the process just stopped dead even though there were a lot of other files (besides the ones with the long names) waiting to be copied. why does Windows allow me to give files superlong names when I'm not allowed to copy or edit or delete them until I change the names to something acceptable? morons.

I always thought "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" was really long, but I guess it's nothing special.

Somebody already posted "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale", so I'll add
"The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This" off the same album.

"We Was Just Boys, Living in a Dead Ass German Shepard: Movement 12"

Hello, thread :)

Double Nickels On The Dime is good for these...

Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?

I'm willing to bet that somewhere, there was a new wave band called The Truth.

Stella - "Si vous connaissez quelque chose de pire qu’un vampire, parlez m’en toujours, ça pourra peut-être me faire sourire"

(translation: "If you know of anything worse than a vampire, tell me; maybe it will make me smile")

"Making People Apologize For Accusing You Of Things You Actually Did" by Shai Hulud

A lot are on here: Songs (whose titles are mostly contained in parentheses)

one of the songs that tripped up my computer (per my rant upthread) was The Waitresses' "I Could Rule The World, If I Could Only Get The Parts". the mp3 was titled "05 - The Waitresses - I Could Rule The World, If I Could Only Get The Parts - I Could Rule The World, If I Could Only Get The Parts", which is kinda nuts tbh.

(it was originally a Tin Huey song)

The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

With No Definite Future And No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow

King Crimson - Mother Hold the Candle Steady While I Shave the Chicken's Lip

Another good Waitresses one: "They're All Out of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party"

I love that Pet Shop Boys/Morrissey/Sparks school of song-titling where a long title is basically required by the lyrics and so it ends up feeling completely natural and unpretentious:
"I Wouldn`t Normally Do This Kind of Thing"
"This Must be the Place I Waited Years to Leave"
"We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful"
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
"This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us"
"I Thought I Told You To Wait In The Car"
etc.

international karate - our heads are in the stars our behinds weigh us down like anchors

normally this sort of title annoys the buggery out of me but i like this one

most of these song titles are quite crap, tbh

"Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again"

No mention of "I'm A Cranky Old Yank In A Clanky Old Tank On The Streets Of Yokohama With my Honolulu Mama Doing Those Beat-o Beat-o Flat On My Seat-O Hirohito Blues," written by Hoagy Carmichael and sung by Bing Crosby, yet? Really??

Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China - Camper van Beethoven

(Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Going To Go - Curtis

You’ll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart) - Dionne

Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard - John Prine

Conservative Christian, Right-Wing, Republican, Straight, White, American Man - Todd Snider

You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push the River - Van

Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) - Van

Tim Keegan, "I Know You Didn't Mean It When You Said That You Don't Love Me Any More"

a bit like "I didn't mean it when I said I didn't love you last night", off some old "Rock and Roll" e.p. on Embassy (more Bill Haley style than elvis and beyond...)

I didn't see it listed yet which surprises me:

Type O Negative - Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity (I Know You're Fucking Someone Else)

"all the things you could be by now if sigmund freud's wife was your mother"

"the shoes of the fisherman's wife are some jiveass slippers"

"orange was the color of her dress, then silk blue"

"gunslinging bird, or if charlie parker was a gunslinger there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats"

"oh lord don't let them drop that atomic bomb on me"

― charles mingus

"gunslinging bird, or if charlie parker was a gunslinger there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats"

Favourite song title full stop. Ah-um.

We'll Never Live Up To The First LP
Why Did I Change A Word In The Last Song?
Biochemistry Revision Can Wait

Red Birds Will Fly Out Of The East And Destroy Paris In A Night (Coil)

The Stranglers - '(The Strange Circumstances Which Lead To) Vladmir And Olga (Requesting Rehabilitation In A Siberian Health Resort As A Result Of Stress In Furthering The People's Policies)'

Hello, thread :)

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 2 February 2011

New Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) track: "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About And That Joy Used In His RA Mix And Daphni Played On Boiler Room"

Shawn Phillips - She Was Waiting For Her Mother At The Station In Torino And You Know I Love You Baby But It's Getting Too Heavy To Laugh (Woman)

Sunroof! - From A Lilypad In A Meteorite Shower (I'm Not Saying Kermit Must Be Destroyed, Just Reborn...)

The Uniform - If It Takes the Form of Human, I'll Kick It's Ass

Dan Deacon - The House I Was Isn't My Girlfriend's Porsche
Don Caballero - Delivering the Groceries at 138 Beats Per Minute

wow, how are there not more don cab songs in here, I assumed it'd be filled so I didn't mention these:

Let's Face it Pal, You Didn't Need that Eye Surgery
A Lot of People Tell Me I Have a Fake British Accent
Details on How to Get ICEMAN on Your License Plate
Bears See Things Pretty Much the Way They Are
No One Gives a Hoot About FAUX-ASS Nonsense