In this thread, we discuss the finest, most elegantly crafted...song titles?

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

I present to you the entire tracklisting for Of Montreal's Early Four Track Recordings.

1. "Dirty Dustin Hoffman Needs a Bath"
2. "Dustin Hoffman Gets a Bath"
3. "Dustin Hoffman Thinks About Eating the Soap"
4. "Dustin Hoffman Scrubs Too Hard and Loses Soap"
5. "Dustin Hoffman Does Not Resist Temptation to Eat the Bathtub"
6. "Dustin Hoffman's Wife Comes Home"
7. "Dustin Hoffman's Wife Seems Suspicious About the Absent Tub"
8. "Dustin Hoffman Feigns Ignorance of Missing Bathtub"
9. "Dustin Hoffman's Wife Calls in Detective to Dust for Porcelain Particles on Dustin Hoffman's Tongue"
10. "Dustin Hoffman's Tongue Taken to Police Lab Where It Is Used as Toilet Paper and Reading Material While on the Toilet"
11. "Dustin Hoffman Offers Lame Possible Explanation for Missing Bathtub"
12. "Dustin Hoffman's Wife Makes a Sarcastic Remark, Cuts the Head Off a Duck, Places It Where the Tub Was and Begins to Groan (Growl)"
13. "Dustin Hoffman Becomes Indignant and Wets Himself"
14. "Dustin Hoffman Quits Bathroom and Climbs a Tree"
15. "Dustin Hoffman's Children Enter the Bathroom"
16. "Dustin Hoffman's Children Don't Enter the Bathroom"

Though none of these really show off Kevin Barnes' flair for language and referential material, which can be better observed in titles like "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse", "An Eluardian Instance", or "We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling".

Hehe, nice! That reminds me of the song titles on the Venetian Snares album Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole:

1. "Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole"
2. "Winnipeg Is a Dogshit Dildo"
3. "Winnipeg Is Fucking Over"
4. "Winnipeg Is Steven Stapleton's Armpit"
5. "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die"
6. "Winnipeg as Mandatory Scat Feed"
7. "Winnie the Dog Pooh (Not Half Remix)"
8. "Winnipeg Is a Boiling Pot of Cranberries (Fanny Remix)"
9. "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die (Spreading the Hepatitis SKM-ETR Style)"

[Phantom Limb]

Originally Posted by mr dave

Pearl Jam:
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me

Soundgarden - Never the Machine Forever

Butthole Surfers - I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas

Charles Mingus - The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife are Some Jive Ass Slippers


Though my personal favourite song title...

Faith No More - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

[Alfred]

Dillinger Four have some great ones.

"Portrait of the Artist As a Fucking Asshole"
"Total.Fucking.Gone.Song"
"A Floater Left with Pleasure in the Executive Washroom."

[Frownland]

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond, The Man With the Woman Head, and Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee

Frank Zappa - It Isn't Necessarily the Saint James Infirmary, It Just Might be a One-Shot Deal, and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask

That's all for now, this whole thread could be dedicated to Zappa songs if you think about it.

[Friend]

The only thing that comes to mind is

Giraffes? Giraffes! - I Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me and We Am I And I Are All Our Together: Our Collective Consciousnesses Psychogenic Fugue

[bob.]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Hehe, nice! That reminds me of the song titles on the Venetian Snares album Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole:

1. "Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole"
2. "Winnipeg Is a Dogshit Dildo"
3. "Winnipeg Is Fucking Over"
4. "Winnipeg Is Steven Stapleton's Armpit"
5. "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die"
6. "Winnipeg as Mandatory Scat Feed"
7. "Winnie the Dog Pooh (Not Half Remix)"
8. "Winnipeg Is a Boiling Pot of Cranberries (Fanny Remix)"
9. "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die (Spreading the Hepatitis SKM-ETR Style)"

for all of them but mainly the bolded

[GuitarBizarre]

A few from the gloriously epic anime series "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann"

Rappu ha Kan no Tamashii da! Onore wo Shinjite Ten wo Yubisasu Dotou no Otoko Kamina-sama no Teema wo Mimi no Ana Kappojitte Yo~ku Kikiyagare!!

Translation: Rap is the Soul of a Man! Perk Up Your Earholes and Listen REAL Close to the Theme of Lord Kamina, the Man of Raging Billows Who Believes in Himself and Points to Heaven!!



Or

Rappu ha Kan no Tamashii da! Muri wo Too****e Douri wo Kettobasu! Ore-tachi Dai-Guren Dan no Teema wo Mimi no Ana Kappojitte Yo~ku Kikiyagare!! (Short Start Edit)

Translation: Rap is the Soul of a Man! Go Beyond the Impossible and Kick Reason to the Curb! Perk Up Your Earholes and Listen REAL Close to the Theme of Our Team Dai-Gurren!! (Short Start Edit)

[Mrd00d]

@Plankton, gotta love Pink Floyd - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict

41° 4' 23'' N, -81° 31' 4'' W by If These Trees Could Talk
A Little Squirrel and His Crackpipe by Nuclear Rabbit
Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse by Minus the Bear
Allez Ali Baba Black Sheep Have You Any Bull ****- Mama Mya Mantram by Gong
Astrochickens Victorious Attack by Ioannis Anastassakis
Caution Should be Used While Driving a Motor Vehicle or Operating Machinery by Sausage
Delirious, Where Have You Been by By the End of Tonight
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey by The Beatles
Everyone I Went to High School With Is Dead by Mr. Bungle
Execution Of The Will Of The Marquis De Sade (aka Hokey Cokey) by Porcupine Tree
From The Isle Of Every Where To The End Of The Story Of by Gong
Hollow Stone Escape Of The Space Pirates by Khan

Stolen from my own post from this similar but slightly different thread:

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...es-ever-2.html

I have more to add, I'm just doing em up in a text document.

[sopsych]

Phil Collins - Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
Winger - Blind Revolution Mad
The Who - Don't Let Go the Coat

I'll probably think of more later.

[anticipation]

Neil Perry:
"I Bought This Southern Rap Compilation and All I Got Was This Lousy Hi-Hat"
"So Tom Cruise Turns To Me and Says..."
"When My Favorite Sports Team Loses It Makes Me Want To Punch My Girlfriend"
"Millions Lost At The Penny Arcade"
"Igor, My Girlfriend Dumped Me... Let's Write Sad Songs"