100-ish songs about NOT getting married

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100. Morrissey - "Will Never Marry"
99. Hidden Cameras - "Ban Marriage"
98. Banbarra - "Shack Up" (ACR, too)
97. Raincoats - "No One's Little Girl"

henry s, Saturday, 30 October 2010 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

96. America - "Sister Golden Hair"

balls, Saturday, 30 October 2010 14:47 (fifteen years ago)

95. Rolling Stones - "Sittin' on a Fence"

Ioannis, Saturday, 30 October 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)

94. Jefferson Airplane: Lather
93. Idle Race: I Like My Toys

(implicit in both cases)

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 30 October 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

92 afraid again orlando
91 father ruler.. echobelly
90 2000 miles erasure

one of my fave sub genres!

piscesx, Saturday, 30 October 2010 14:59 (fifteen years ago)

89. "Take It Easy," Eagles ("four of them wanna own me...")

clemenza, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

88. Better Off Without A Wife - Tom Waits

iago g., Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)

87. It doesn't promote not getting married, but "Eleanor Rigby" certainly alludes to it.

clemenza, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)

86, "A Legal Matter," the Who (though it may be more about getting divorced than not getting married)

Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)

Gram Parsons - "1,000 Wedding"
Rolling Stones - "Dear Doctor"

(unless it doesn't count when the shoe is on the other foot, i guess)

Ioannis, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

oops forgot the $

Ioannis, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

and to number the tracks...

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Ioannis, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

83. traditional - "silver dagger"

fact checking cuz, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

82. Fine Young Cannibals- "I'm Not Satisfied" ("Going steady - have been a while/Ain't ready - not by a mile/I try to tell her that I'm not he marrying kind")

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

81. stephen sondheim - "getting married today"

fact checking cuz, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

80. joni mitchell - "my old man"

fact checking cuz, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

79. Hank Williams - "I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die"

Ioannis, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

78. Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Alone Again (Naturally)"

Multi-spectral Imogene (los blue jeans), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

"single girl, married girl"
"will never marry" (trad not morrissey)

The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)

with numbers:

77 single girl, married girl
76 i never will marry

The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

77 wham young guns (" a married man you're out of your head... if you're happy with a nappy then you're in for fun ...death by mat-ri-mony...")
the most seething anti-marriage song imaginable.

piscesx, Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)

74. Prefab Sprout - "Wedding March"

"I know that you love dancing, and so, I know that you'd hate dancing, with me"

henry s, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

73 Find 'em, Fool 'em (Fuck 'em) and Forget 'em -Bobby Gentry, George Jackson etc.

sonofstan, Saturday, 30 October 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

72. "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" maybe?

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)

71. Matrimony - Whiskeytown

kornrulez6969, Saturday, 30 October 2010 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

70. The Marriage - Billy Bragg

john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 30 October 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

I don't want to be married in a pet semetary
I don't want to die before I live

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Saturday, 30 October 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

(I get hat second line wrong every time, bluh)

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Saturday, 30 October 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

69. the cymbaline - matrimonial fears

(song fucking rules btw)

dronestorm (electricsound), Saturday, 30 October 2010 22:43 (fifteen years ago)

68. Single Girl - Lush

Not the real Village People, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

67. E-40 - Bitch f/ Too $hort

"homie please don't marry that bitch"

chilli, Sunday, 31 October 2010 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

66. Don't Marry Her - Beautiful South (contains the classic line "Don't marry her.... fuck me!")

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

65. Foolish Little Girl - Shirelles

gospodin simmel, Sunday, 31 October 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

64. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Way

Number None, Sunday, 31 October 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

63 Brooklyn Bridge - The Worst That Could Happen

bidfurd, Sunday, 31 October 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

62. daniel johnston - i'll never marry

"i'll never marry, i'll never wed. nobody wants to kiss you when you're dead! nobody wants to lie in bed with you when your flesh is rotting"

fennel cartwright, Monday, 1 November 2010 01:41 (fifteen years ago)

61. - taylor swift - speak now

johnny crunch, Monday, 1 November 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

60. PJ Harvey - Pocket Knife

Fellini.Kuti, Monday, 1 November 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)

59. Minor Threat - Filler

Fellini.Kuti, Monday, 1 November 2010 01:56 (fifteen years ago)

58. Nina Simone - Marriage Is For Old Folks

R Baez, Monday, 1 November 2010 01:57 (fifteen years ago)

57. Drive By Truckers - Zip City

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 1 November 2010 01:58 (fifteen years ago)


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