Longest Song Names, But The Song Must Rule!

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"Standing Outside A Broken Telephone Booth With Money In My Hand" - The Primitive Radio Gods.....man this song roxxx!!!

― Kyle Everett, Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah it freakin' RULEZ too!!! Boo-ya!!!

― Kyle Everett, Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Do not display such naked enthusiasm, lest ILx rip it to shreds!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone should actually write a song called that.

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I can stand the ripping. The song can stand it too. It's one that our descendants will pick out as an uncontested winner for many generations to come!

― Kyle Everett, Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And that.

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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)"

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The Orb -- A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain that Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld
(It even contains the word "rules" in the proper context. This is always the first song I think about when the subject of lengthy titles comes up)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 8 August 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Botch - I Wanna Be A Sex Symbol On My Own Terms

Hope that's long enough.

― Reed Rosenberg (reed), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore"

― Seb (Seb), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Guided By Voices: Everyone thinks i'm a raincloud (when i'm not looking)

― aa, Monday, 9 August 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Liars - We Fenced Other Houses With The Bones Of Our Own

― Santesh (scottkundla), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Liars - We Fenced Other Houses With The Bones Of Our Own

― Santesh (scottkundla), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oopsie - I Fucked Up And Posted My Respone Twice

― Santesh (scottkundla), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

moz - the last of the famous international playboys, the more you ignore me the closer i get, etc.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Carcass - "Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition", or something to that effect.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mountain Goats, "Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph of"

― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark & Hilldale

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s: You Can Have Watergate But Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 9 August 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Bert Jansch "Come Sing Me A Happy Song To Prove We All Can Get Along The Lumpy, Bumpy, Long And Dusty Road"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Monday, 9 August 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The Boo Radleys - I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been Even If I Know The Answer

Bal Sagoth - The Splendour Of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon Of The Hyperborean Empire

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(Part III)!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown - "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)"

― slim_cop, Monday, 9 August 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Funkadelic: 'Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo Doo Chasers)'

― Bob Klanac (newamsterdam), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - I Am Not Good At Not Getting What I Want

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Were The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve" by Johnny Boy

(my single of 2004 so far, like Saint Etienne and The Ronettes performing "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" uning only fireworks!)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Current 93 - The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow And The Hohohobow.

― Roger in M, Monday, 9 August 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Fripp - I May Not Have Had Enough Of Me But I've Had Enough Of You

― Dave Vinson (Gaughin), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(my single of 2004 so far, like Saint Etienne and The Ronettes performing "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" uning only fireworks!)

This sentence is so great.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 9 August 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"see jungle, see jungle go join our gang yeah, city all over go ape crazy" Bow Wow Wow

― winterland, Monday, 9 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This sentence is so great.

*blushes* aw shucks. I especially liked my use of the word "uning".

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

some of these probably 'rule', whatever the hell that means:

Your favourite long song titles

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
I'll have two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
I'll have some pickled onions,
And a little bit of cheese, please.
Thank you.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Eh. Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
And I've got all the right money
And all that, please.
Thank you.
Oi! Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Ay! Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
I've been here half hour
And I'm getting very thirsty!
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Over here!
Oi! Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Why won't you serve me?
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please.
Two pints of lager—
Listen, I'm getting impatient, John!
Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps.
Two pints of lager and a packet of fff crisps.
Two pints of lager and a packet of
(Time, gentlemen, please!)
And a packet of crisps.

Oh. Ooh."

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

All fine, but I think John Fahey: "The Waltz That Carried Us Away And Then A Mosquito Came And Ate Up My Sweetheart" may be tops.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Out Hud: "Dad There's a Little Phrase Called Too Much Information." (Also: "The L Train is a Swell Train, and I Don't Want to Hear You Indies Complain" but that song doesn't rule as much.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"A Plane Scraped It's Belly On A Sooty Yellow Moon" by Soul Coughing/Roni Size is pretty amazing.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hank Ballard - "How You Gonna Get Respect, If You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet"

Barry White - "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Babe"

Love Unlimited - "It May Be Winter Outside, But in My Heart It's Spring"

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hoagy Carmichael:

"I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokahama with My Honolulu Mama Doing Those Beat-O Beat-O Flat On My Seat-O Hirohito Blues"

― chuck, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

― earlnash, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Two by Love: "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale" and "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince - '17 Days (The Rain Will Come Down, Then U Will Have To Choose. If U Believe Look 2 The Dawn And U Shall Never Lose)'

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

the chills, "look for the good in others and they'll see the good in you"

which i seem to remember mentioning on a very similar thread not that long ago but, hey, it still rules. and if the question gets asked again, the song will rule again. fa fa fa fa.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the chi-lites, "there will never be any peace (until god is seated at the conference table)"

an actual (albeit minor) pop hit!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Banana Splits, "Caliopasaxaviatrumparimbaclarbassatrombophone"
Isaac Hayes, "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"
Mary Poppins, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

― chuck, Monday, 9 August 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Banana Splits, "Caliopasaxaviatrumparimbaclarbassatrombophone"

hey, that's not on my banana splits album! which i thought was the only banana splits album there was! where does it come from?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to own it as a cardboard cereal box cuout 45 B-side (of "Doin the Banana Split," I think) as a kid. Unless I just dreamed it....

― chuck, Monday, 9 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmmm, unreleased banana splits music!

but that only leads to question number two: cereal box cutouts had b-sides? for some reason i thought they were one-sided things, and the b-side would just be a flat piece of cardboard. no?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, it wasn't my imagination, though I may have spelled the title wrong (and it may actually have been the B-side of the "Tra La La Song" for all I know -- by B-side I may mean the second cut on the same side, so no, not technically a flipside I guess; I call the second cut on CD singles B-sides too); this is from jumptheshark.com (i.e., by somebody other than me, who I've probably never met):

"My favorite BANANA SPLITS songs were "Wait 'Til Tommorow", which had a sort of Buckinghams/Ohio Express bubblegum sheen to it, and "The Beautiful Calliop-a-Saxa-Fier-Trumpa-Rina-Clara-Bassa-a-Trombaphone", with Fleegle dancing like a nut, his tongue hanging out and front paws waving like he's wacked out of his mind. Groovy, maaaaan!"

― chuck, Monday, 9 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

and damn if "the beautiful calliopa" isn't in fact on the banana splits cd, somewhere around track #29, after all the beagles tracks. emergency averted. no need to get varese sarabande on the phone after all.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Liars - We Fenced Other Houses With The Bones Of Our Own
every liars song title is super long, and some of the songs rule.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The Weakerthans - "Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961)"

― Spike, Monday, 9 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Details on How to Get ICEMAN on Your License Plate" by Don Caballero.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

All fine, but I think John Fahey: "The Waltz That Carried Us Away And Then A Mosquito Came And Ate Up My Sweetheart" may be tops.

I change my mind — that Chi-Lites tune wins.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

shark vegas: you hurt me but now your flesh lies rotting in hell. factory obscurity from 1984.

actually ... checking dennis remmer's wonderful factory site there, i see it was actually two songs: the a-side being "you hurt me" and the b-side being "but now ..." no idea what they sounded like, but it's factory, so by default it rules.

http://home.dialix.com/~u3336/factory/images/111.jpg

simon

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 9 August 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Royal Trux - "The United States vs One 1974 Cadillac El Dorado Sedan"

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The Flaming Lips "Thank You Jack White For The Fiberoptic Jesus That You Gave Me", while not as long a title as "What Is The Light? yadda yadda", is a good'un.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I had one of those Post cereal-box records too (Bobby Sherman's "It Boggles The Mind"!) but also can't remember if it had grooves on both sides. Also can't remember if it was as good a song as "The Tra-La Song", Liz Phair's cover of which was, for me, the highlight of her recording career.

Oh, and the longest title so far has gotta be that one from Game Theory's Lolita Nation LP. It's INSANELY long & incoherent, plus impossible for me to reproduce, having sold that record years ago, but it begins with "All Clockwork and No Bodily Fluids Makes Hal a Dull Humbert" and goes on and on and on, incorporating the titles of Kubrick films and other stuff. The track itself lasts less than 2 minutes, if memory serves.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink Floyd "Several Species of Small Furry
Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict"

actually I can't remember if this song is any good or not (probably not)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 9 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a bunch of guys down my local use that as a pub quiz team name. I have no idea if the song is any good either, unfortunately.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

If you can't do it when you're young, when can you do it? by theaudience is rather pleasant, and quite a long title.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

"High Stepping' Hip Dressin' Fella (You Got It Together)" by Love Unlimited is pretty long and pretty much the best song ever.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 4 February 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

"[Don't Worry] If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go," Curtis Mayfield

― Fetchin Bones (Fetchin Bones), Sunday, 4 February 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Juno - "The Great Salt Lake / Into The Lavender Crevices of Evening the Otters Have Been Pushed"

song is good, title is terrible (but long!)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

oh, I think there were some good ones on the first Detachment Kit album, too ("The Illustrious Daniel Boone: Pioneer of Social Ingenuity" is the only one I can recall, but it does indeed rule)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

haha that pink floyd title. they seriously must have taken shitloads of drugs back in the day. not just syd obviously.

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 5 February 2007 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

There's a whole bunch of fantastical metal titles like this one by the Meads of Asphodel:
"On Graven Images I glide beyond the Monstrous Gates of pandemonium to face the Baptized warriors of Yahweh in the skull littered Plain of Esdraelon"

Yes!!

― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Rednex - "The Sad But True Story Of Ray Mingus, The Lumberjack Of Bulk Rock City, And His Never Slacking Stribe In Exploiting The So Far Undiscovered Areas Of The Intention To Bodily Intercourse From The Opposite Species Of His Kind, During Intake Of All The Mental Condition That Could Be Derived From Fermentation"

oh dear.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

...and yes that song rulez haard.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

James Brown - Let a Man Come In And Do The Popcorn (Parts I & II)

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

John Greaves & Peter Blegvad, Seven Scenes from the Painting "Exhuming the First American Mastodon" by C.W. Peale

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

american heritage - the psychoreactive flow in cavernous passages under the villas, manors, castles, haciendas and mansions of the superpredator class has poisoned the potato crops and caused eyes to blaze with blind tuber rage

― m the g, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Drexciya 'C To The Power Of X + C To The Power Of X = MM = Unknown'

― blueski, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

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