Two different songs with the same name written by the same person

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George Michael: Freedom
Depeche Mode: It Doesn't Matter

Get the picture?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

That would be Margin Gore: It Doesn't Matter

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

You mean people who do their songs solo after doing it in a band setting before or after?

zzzzzzzz.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

No, both of these are examples of completely different songs, only with the same title.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Ah.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

don't Quasi have two songs titled "Birds"? or am i remembering wrong?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Although G. Michael was helpful enough to call the second one "Freedom '90."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Martin Gore called the second one "It Doesn't Matter Two"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

It was only 'Freedom 90' as a single, and 'Freedom!' on the album.

Or was it the other way round?

Either way, the Wham! track was just 'Freedom'. I think.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Lemonheads - "It's About Time"

― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Miles Davis - Milestones

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't Jad Fair own this thread based on Best Wishes?

― dlp9001, Friday, 22 April 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

butthole surfers-hey

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 22 April 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

James Kavoussi wrote one song called "Best Boy" in Fly Ashtray and another one in Uncle Wiggly.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 22 April 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Did Paul McCartney write two songs called "Woman" for other artists, or am I remembering the same song in two different contexts?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 22 April 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

butthole surfers-hey
-- charltonlido

Close, but not quite. Two different spellings, "hey" and "hay".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

xpost are you thinking of Lennon's "woman" or macca's "Oh woman oh why?"

Anyway, how many Annie Lennox songs are "Why?" based?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh, OMD had two "Joan of Arc" songs, one got the title switched to be a single, I think.

In fact both were singles, consecutively...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 April 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

McCartney did at least write both "Too Many People" and "How Many People", but they didn't have the exact same title anyway.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 22 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed - Heroin/The Heroine .... ? I got nothin'

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm almost sure Miles had other ones but I can't think of any right now.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 April 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Not quite the same, but Bill Leeb is always a bit forgetful with his titles. After naming one of his side projects Delerium (spelling it wrong!) he released a harsh moody industrial EP with the title track "Euphoric" in 1991. He'd evidently forgotten all about that after he turned Delerium into a platinum selling Enigmaesque group and released "Euphoria" in 1997.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

the inclusion of It Doesn't Matter suggests that 'Hazard (part 1)' and 'Hazard (part 2)' count. also, Elliott Smith did 6 'No Name' songs.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

do sigur ros count?

― elwisty (elwisty), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

If numbering counts, then there's this.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

The Beach Boys did "All I Want To Do" and "All I Wanna Do" on consecutive albums - totally different songs.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Macca wrote a song called "Woman" for Peter and Gordon.

― everything, Friday, 22 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

The 3 Soft Bombs by the Chills.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 22 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Referencing above, Annie Lennox provided her own answer record by recording tunes called "Why?" and "Don't Ask Me Why."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty certain that DAT Politics have had two different albums where the songs are just 1, 2, 3, 4 etc, if that counts?

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

not many people have done this i'd expect. it's kind of stupid.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Paul Simon rather famously wrote two songs called "Think Too Much."

― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 22 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Kylie Minogue "Love At First Sight" (didn't necessarily write both/either of them)

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

The Beach Boys did "All I Want To Do" and "All I Wanna Do" on consecutive albums - totally different songs.

I was going to mention this as well. Although they're not on consecutive albums. "All I Wanna Do" (from 20/20) is the Dennis Wilson penned rocker with Mike Love on vocals.. it kinda invented Neu! Anyway, those grunts at the end of the song I've finally grown to appreciate after thinking how, well, non-subtle and cheesy they were.

"All I Want To Do" is, I think, on Carl And The Passions/So Tough... and it's nothing like the former.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

ARG. My mistake.

"All I Want To Do" is the song I described on 20/20.. and "All This is That" is on Carl And The Passions/So Tough, but yeah, Sunflower has "All I Wanna Do". Doglatin ist CORREKT!

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

don't mantronix and schooly-d have at least five or six songs called "gangsta boogie" between them?

― xhuxk, Friday, 22 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

If the songs can be numbered differently, then "Heavy Metal 1" and "Heavy Metal 2" from Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Ian Curtis often switched his song titles around. "Incubation" was once "A Means to an End" if I'm not mistaken, although obviously he changed that.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

The Monkees have two songs called "You and I": Davy co-wrote one; Micky wrote the other, IIRC.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

Seminal hard rock/metal band Riot released two different songs called "Run For Your Life." The first track was from the band's 1981 release, the band's third, Fire Down Under and the second was on a 1988 comeback album Thundersteel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rOXqQOpSsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PXAh5MPCSU

What other bands released completely different songs that shared the same name?

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 19 February 2015 13:59 (eleven years ago)

Madonna - Forbidden Love

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:27 (eleven years ago)

First thing that springs to mind are Radiohead's entirely different songs called "Reckoner," but one of them was never actually released.

― zchyrs, Thursday, 19 February 2015 15:18 (eleven years ago)

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