Songs that had no other lyrics than their title

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P.I.L: This Is Not a Lovesong
Steve "Silk" Hurley: Jack Your Body
Doop: Doop
ATB: Don't Stop

More? :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

John Lennon- Imagine

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

not sure if this counts
Super Furry Animals - Some Things Come From Nothing.

"Some things come from nothing, Nothing seems to come from something"

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Be Sure to Loop!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

"Fuck You, Man" - Pussy Galore

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

I wanna say "Sex Bomb," but I think there are a few other words in their as well.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Another one that basically fits the bill, but could be disqualified on a technicality:
"You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" - The Beatles

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

"Pretty Suzanne"- The Monks

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

"Too Much Pressure" - The Selecter

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

"Hey" - Fear
Anything by Jud Jud.

― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

"Shoot Speed Kill Light" - Primal Scream

Okay, I guess he does say "kill THE light".

― thisguy, Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Lemon Jelly - Come, Closer, Come Down On Me, The Slow Train
Cornelius - Monkey
Sparks - My Baby's Taking Me Home

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

The Paradise - In Love With You

― ian p is playing at my house (ian p is playing at my house), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Calling Wesley Willis

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Husker Du - "New Day Rising"

― gear (gear), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

calling anal cunt

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Exploited - 'Sex and Violence'

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 4 December 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

P.I.L: This Is Not a Lovesong
[...]
John Lennon- Imagine
[...]
"Too Much Pressure" - The Selecter

htf do these fit the question?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Sunday, 4 December 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Moby - "Yeah"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Daft Punk - "Robot Rock"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

"Sex Bomb" definitely has other words = baby, yeah.

"I Feel Love" by Donna Summer, maybe? Not "Love to Love You Baby," though.

And "Tequila"? "Wipe Out"?

― xhuxk, Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

"I Feel Love" does have other lyrics, although perhaps not many.

Daft Punk's "Around the World" springs to mind.

Rock over London, rock on Chicago...

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 4 December 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Fatboy Slim "Right Here Right Now"

― Roz (Roz), Sunday, 4 December 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

beatles fanclub flexi : wonderful christmas time

― retroboy, Sunday, 4 December 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe somebody here knows Jud Jud.

The Fall's "Extricate".

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 4 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

The only song I know that really doesn't have any other words is 'There is no love between us anymore' by the inestimable Pop Will Eat Itself.

Oh, and 'Sex and Violence' by The Exploited would also qualify if it could be classed as a song...

― Niall, Sunday, 4 December 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Lotsa funk tracks like this:

Soul Finger, Hollywood Swinging, etc.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 4 December 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Actually, come to think of it, "Hollywood Swinging" also has 'hey hey hey, what you got to say?' so it's disqualified.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 4 December 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

The Chemical Brothers - 'It Doesn't Matter'

― Who the hell do you THINK I am? I'm the goddamn Batman! (Barima), Sunday, 4 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Pink Floyd, "Is There Anybody Out There"

― Deluxe (Damian), Sunday, 4 December 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Kraftwerk, "Spacelab"
Kraftwerk, "Metropolis"

― Deluxe (Damian), Sunday, 4 December 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

AWB "Pick Up The Pieces"
Van McCoy "The Hustle" (unless you count the word "do")

― mike a, Monday, 5 December 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

The Bucketheads - "The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)"

Yeah, that's a technicality. Whatever.

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 5 December 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Soul to Soul"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

The Bucketheads - "The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)"

Yeah, that's a technicality. Whatever.

Disqualified since those aren't even the correct lyrics.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

I somehow don't think they would put the incorrect lyrics to the song in the title.

Another....

Outkast "Hold On, Be Strong"

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 5 December 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

Aside from some "yeah yeahs":
"Bat Macumba"

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

the Meters, "Soul Island"

― Deluxe (Damian), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

butthole surfers "hey"

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

100 (well, OK, we only actually got up to 55) songs whose entire lyrics consist of the title

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

The Deviants "Eating Jello with a heated fork"

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

let's go bowling - let's go bowling

― Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Coltrane, "A Love Supreme", no?

― Clay (cws), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Blur "We've Got A File On You"

― Ben (crispyben), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

I somehow don't think they would put the incorrect lyrics to the song in the title.

The lyric is sampled from Chicago's "Street Player." It goes, "Street sounds swirling through my mind."

― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Husker Du - "New Day Rising"

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Peter Gabriel - "Soft Dog"

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

And one that has no lyrics other than its subtitle, Yes, "the fish (Schindleria Praematurus)".

― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

hollywood swinging has two verses inw hich they do not once say "hollywood swinging"

― ashley shey (stillearning), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yello - "Oh Yeah" (I think)

They Might Be Giants - "Minimum Wage" (unless you count the "heeeyaaah!" as a lyric)

John Linnell - "Pennsylvania"

Paul McCartney - "Yeah Yeah"

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

half the goddamned Fall catalog... "LA", "Chicago Now", etc

My favorite version of "This Is Not A Love Song" is the utterly simpleminded version on _Live in Tokyo_ where Lydon gets the Japanese crowd to sing along. The refrain is so actively annoying that Hongro is forgiven for forgetting there actually were other lyrics to the song. I don't know whether it's ironic or just sad and dumb that Lydon pulled together a crew of studio ringers and dragged them around the planet just so he could hear some PiL songs recorded digitally.

― ozymandias G desiderata (othiym23), Thursday, 7 September 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yello - "Oh Yeah" (I think)

Beautiful.... Sooooo Beautiful.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 7 September 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Moby: "Go"
Westbam: "Celebration Generation"
Airto: "O Galho da Roseira"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 7 September 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Airto: "Andei"

Probably some more Airto songs too, if you don't count his wordless vocalizing as lyrics.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 7 September 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Eddie Harris: "Get on Down"
Mongo Santamaria: "Watermelon Man"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 7 September 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Fall's "L.A." has other lyrics: Brix sings something like "This is my happening, and it freaks me out".

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

dj godfather - get on da flow
dj godfather - bang bang

ghettotech owns this thread

oh, and, cls - can you feel it

― boom! i fucked your hard-drive (don), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

boredoms - 'acid police'
boredoms - 'vision creation newsun' (pt 1)
sleepytime gorilla museum - 'bring back the apocalypse'
kaada - 'thank you for giving me your valuable time'

― guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Blur "We've Got A File On You"

-- Ben (crispybe...), December 6th, 2005.

See also: Don't Bomb When You're the Bomb

― Lex D (finefinemusic), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

sleepytime gorilla museum - 'ambugaton'

― guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" possibly?

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

Does "House Nation" by House Master Boyz apply?

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

Cato Salsa Experience - "Listen to Me Daddy-O"

Maybe Nick Lowe's "Ba-Doom," but I can't be bothered to confirm it.

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

These are close. A (very) few extra words along with the title, repeated.

I Walked With A Zombie by Roky Erickson
Stormy Weather by the Pixies

― craven, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

The Turtles, "Buzzsaw"

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 07:53 (seventeen years ago)

maurice joshua - i got a big dick

― or something, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:10 (seventeen years ago)

LiLiPUT - "Ü"

― Sara Sara Sara, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

DJ Assault - "Ass n' Titties"
Daft Punk - "Oh Yeah"

― henry s, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 14:01 (seventeen years ago)

Roxy Music - Your Applications Failed.

― Jack Battery-Pack, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

The Replacements - Buck Hill

― Meg (Meg Busset), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

Did I miss "Tequila" by the Champs? If not, then that.

― ellaguru, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

Mr Coffee Man by Smudge

― Investment bankers are falling from the sky! (SeekAltRoute), Thursday, 18 September 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

^not true (it also goes "knows what he wants he wants some coffee")

― Lovenasium (electricsound), Thursday, 18 September 2008 03:43 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't heard it in about a decade, but "Sexy Boy" by Air comes immediately to mind. If there are other lyrics, I sure as hell can't remember them now.

― ilxor, Thursday, 18 September 2008 06:03 (seventeen years ago)

Oher French stuff... Ou sons, dans le fortons etc..

Oh, and

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" possibly?

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 23:54 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is not even a bit right.

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 September 2008 07:06 (seventeen years ago)

LiLiPUT - "Ü"

Nope.

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 September 2008 07:06 (seventeen years ago)

not counting spoken intro:

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 18 September 2008 07:30 (seventeen years ago)

DJ Assault - "Ass n' Titties"

rong.

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 18 September 2008 07:32 (seventeen years ago)

Men's Recovery Project - Men's Recovery Project

Not sure if they make it to the "project" part though.

half the goddamned Fall catalog... ..."Chicago Now", etc

Shockingly wrong: http://fall.byethost13.com/extricate.html

― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Thursday, 18 September 2008 07:32 (seventeen years ago)

About 95% of this songs mentioned in this thread have lyrics other than their title

― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 September 2008 08:50 (seventeen years ago)

some very short punk songs do this ... "Counselor Troi Boy Toy" by Furious George, "You Gotta Stay Positive" by Good Clean Fun, "No All" by All.

― zaxxon25, Thursday, 18 September 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

The Godz, Eleven

― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 September 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

About 95% of this songs mentioned in this thread have lyrics other than their title

― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 September 2008 08:50 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh, sure, but a fair few of them have not much more.

I'm calling out the ones where there are loads of words actually, but people often sing only the title and think that's all there is.

e.g. "That's not my name"

― Mark G, Thursday, 18 September 2008 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

The Webb Brothers' wonderful "All the Cocaine in the World" has only one other line: "...won't bring back the girl." So for our purposes it should count.

Same is true for that record's title track, "Marooned" which only has "...for days."

Great songs, both.

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 18 September 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Super Furry Animals - Check It Out

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 July 2012 11:14 (thirteen years ago)

Obits, "Spot the Pikey"

― cwkiii, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:14 (thirteen years ago)

Sepultura - We Who Are Not As Others

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:29 (thirteen years ago)

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