(Songs where most of the title is in) parenthesis. (How many can you name/Search & Destroy)

And even though it's not most of the song, the most stupid use of parentheses award goes to:

52. Shakespeare's (Way With) Words - One True Voice.

I think the parenthesized part becomes the unparenthesized part and vice versa on the little sticker on the inside of the record. Or vice versa.

What about that Sigur Ros album where the entire title IS parentheses?

From the Bang! thread:
68. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Nancy Sinatra/Sonny and Cher

69. I Hate You (But Call Me) - The Monks
[RIP Roger Johnston]

70. (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got - Johnny Paycheck

71 I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie Honeybunch) - The Four Tops

81. Hot Pants (She's Got To Use What She's Got To Get What She Wants) - James Brown

which also wins for Most Ungrammatical Title Forced By Parentheses.

83. December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) -the Four Seasons
84. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)- Marvin Gaye

85. gary numan -- we take mystery (to bed)

90 Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full Of Shit)

Oh, man I knew I should have gotten round to sorting my LPs. This is going to be like trying to determine whether the song is called "Honky Tonk Woman" or "Honky Tonk Women." I distinctly remember on the LP, the jacket had

(Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The) Memphis Blues Again

and the LP center label had

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The (Memphis Blues Again)

or possibly it was the other way round, but there were definitely parentheses and they were definitely switched up. Maybe this enjoyable little paradox has been cleaned up by the CD rerelease people, the same way that Get Happy! must now have a clearly defined first side. Well, a clearly defined first track.

91. She's A Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked) -Carl Carlton

Surely I didn't imagine these parentheses. Or maybe the Bad Mama Jama is so built and so stacked that mere parentheses could not contain her and she has long since busted loose.

Perhaps THIS will explain things.

This in one of Dylan's favorite songtitling tics, like calling songs things like Incrementally Subtitled Josephine, Half Ghislaine Wholeheartedly and Annabel Explicated Summarily so I can't escape the nagging feeling that there are more. I want to say Rainy Day Women #12 and #35 (everybody must get stoned), but BE CAREFUL! What is in the brackets is not an actual part of the title, but merely a helpful extract from the lyrics that some gentle soul might THINK is the title.

96. The Chrysanthemums: "(They Must Have Made It With Their) Hats"

Rick James - 1,2,3 (U, Her and Me)

Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)

the primitives - (we've) found a way (to the sun)

even as we speak - (all you find is) air

The Buckinghams- "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)"

Arthur Alexander - "Anna (Go To Him)"

"I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" - Duke Ellington

"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" - Bruce Springsteen

There's a song on the new Van der Graaf Generator album called "(Oh No I Must Have Said) Yes". Hammill also did a song once called "(On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga".

My favourite is Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)", because the bit in the parenthesis is completely useless, yet it's somehow cute he decided to add the the repeated phrase from the chorus to the title.

Camper Van Beethoven - (I Was Born in a) Laundromat

Tommy Overstreet: Ann (Don't Go Runnin'); Gwen (Congratulations); (Jeanie Marie) You Were a Lady
George Jones: Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)

Zolar X - "I Pulled My Helmet Off (I'm Going to Love Her)"

Smashing Pumpkins - Fuck You (An Ode To No One)

Mcluskey - (Sometimes) I Have to Concentrate

*Mclusky

(most of the title ;)

Terry Allen

Lubbock (On Everything)
"Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)"
"Collector (And the Art Mob)"
"Oui (A French Song)"

Juarez
"The Juarez Device (AKA 'Texican Badman')"
"La Despedida (The Parting)"

Smokin' the Dummy
"The Heart of California (For Lowell George)"
"Whatever Happened to Jesus (And Maybellene) ?"
"The Lubbock Tornado (I Don't Know)"

Car Seat Headrest - (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)

Frank Black - (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain

This is debatable, since it doesn't always have the parens but
Clarence Carter/Chairmen of the Board - "Patches (I'm Depending On You)"

Talking Heads- “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”

The Bee Gees - “Odessa (City on the Black Sea)”

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie

y'all got hendrix, but you don't have:

ydi - 1983 (a place in the sun)

also:

the byrds - 5d (fifth dimension)

and peter hammill should also get credit for:

peter hammill - the lie (bernini's st. theresa)

let's also remember:

scott walker - the old man's back again (dedicated to the neo-stalinist regime)
yes - the fish (shindleria praematurus)

and a BRAND NEW SONG for 2018

palm - (didn't what you want) happen

“Dawn (Go Away)” - The Four Seasons

“Zira (Call Out My Name)” - Redd Kross

what about “singles that inexplicably LACK the seemingly important clarifying parenthesis?”

so, then,

“Edge of Seventeen (Just Like The White-Winged Dove)”

Every track on Ian Dury's Lord Upminster:

1. Funky Disco (Pops)
2. Red (Letter)
3. Girls (Watching)
4. Wait (For Me)
5. The (Body Song)
6. Lonely (Town)
7. Trust (Is a Must)
8. Spasticus (Autisticus)

(you drive me) crazy - Britney

Half Man Half Biscuit: Styx Gig (Seen By My Mates Coming Out Of A)

Electric Six - (It Gets) (A Little) Jumpy

Tony Christie?- “Is This the Way to) Amarillo”

Chic - Will You Cry (When You Hear this Song)

Tank - (He Fell in Love With A) Stormtrooper

Bob Dylan, "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)"

The Tank one reminded me of another one:

Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip - (I Lost My Heart to A) Starship Trooper

The Miracles - (You Can't Let the Boy Overpower) The Man in You

Jim Croce - Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)

Same song, different parentheses:

"Walk Tall (Like a Man)" by The 2 of Clubs
"(Walk Tall) Like a Man" by The New Faces

The 2 of Clubs version is gem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyxU9jmk21E

Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - "Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers)"
Wilco - "Wilco (The Song)"

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)

Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy)

Van Halen with a few for y'all:
"Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)"
"A.F.U. (Naturally Wired)
"Don't Tell Me (what Love Can Do)"
"Take Me Back (Deja Vu)"

I was super-surprised when going over their catalogue to realize that the wild, over-the-top DLR era only gave us one of such songs - "Big Bad Bill". Then again, before Diamond Dave was axed for Hagar, they were far more into placing random punctuation in their titles over parentheses, whether it was actually merited ("So This is Love?", "Bottoms Up!", "Could This Be Magic?"); accurately exuberant ("Everybody Wants Some!!"), inaccurately exuberant ("Sinner's Swing!", "Where Have All The Good Times Gone!")
and leaving us with more questions than answers ("And The Cradle Will Rock...", "Women In Love...", ""Dirty Movies"").

There are also the inexplicable omissions of exclamation points. Dave, if you are reading this (and we know you are), during the next re-re-re-release of the catalogue, nobody will be upset if a couple of fun scream-along tracks get listed as "Jump!" and "Somebody Get Me A Doctor!!", but the world? The world will be cheering you, with a drink in their hand and their toes in the sand!

Not just any Manalishi

BUT:

"The Green Manalishi (with the Two Prong Crown)"

Young & Company – I Like (What You're Doing To Me)

DJ Sprinkles - Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone)
Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)
Soul II Soul - Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
Blut Aus Nord - Antithesis of the Flesh (...And Then Arises a New Essence)
Green Velvet - (You Don't Have to Be) Fake and Phoney

The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)
Janet Jackson - Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)
The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love)
Sly and the Family Stone = (You Caught Me) Smilin'

That Human League one always kills me, since it has "Love" in the regular and the parenthetical side of the title

Great song, too!

"If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me (In The Sense That You Would Find My Appreciation Of Your Physique To Be Inappropriate)"; b-side was "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me (In The Sense That You Would Put Yourself In Close Physical Proximity To Me, Possibly With Sexual Implications)"