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can anyone think of any good songs with bad titles? It doesn't matter if the titles are irrevilent, too long, one letter/number, etc. just a song you think is good, but has a bad title. and post the lyrics to back it up.

my pick was Blink 182's apple shampoo. The song has nothing to do with shampoo....


She didn't mean to deceive you, believe me
But sometimes the hardest part is conceiving

The good intentions that you had
Now only came to this
And although she saw the mark
The arrow missed

It isn't exciting reciting the stories
Of kind words turned hurting when routine gets boring

Both getting tired of punk rock clubs
And both playing in punk rock bands
The start was something good
But some good things must end

And she said, "It could never survive
With such differing lives
One home, one out on tour again

We may never come back
The strike of a match
The candle's burning at both ends."

And now she knows too much
And I'm too ****ed up
It's awkward trying to make my move

I'll pretend that I'm fine
Show up right on time
But I know I'll never be that cool

I never wanted to hold you back
I just wanted to hold on
But my chance is gone

I know just where I stand a boy
Trapped in the body of a man and

I'll take what you're willing to give
And I'll teach myself to live
With a walk-on part of a background shot
From a movie I'm not in

She's so important
And I'm so retarded

And now I realize
I should have kissed you in L.A.
But I drove home all alone
As if I had a choice, anyway

Where are you coming from?
What are you running from?
Is it so hard to see?

And if you're feeling scared
Remember the time we shared
You know it meant everything (everything)
You know that it meant everything to me

You know that it meant everything to me
 
Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire

Length! I recommend it to people and they've lost interest before I've finished telling them.
 
Ah! I have the best two songs for this:
Vomitron - Orgasmeus, God of Masturbation
Vomitron - The Long-Distance Ejaculator
:lol: MP3.com used to kick ass. They're both good songs, but I can't tell anyone about them, lest they look at me funny. As I suspect you're doing.
 
I hate bands that start every title with "The" i.e. The Killing, The Death, The Happy Ending, etc. Some of the songs are actually good, but it bothers me for some innate reason. I love long song names, such as "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things To Do Today" by Fall Out Boy and "I Liked You Better Before You Were Naked On The Internet" by From First to Last. It seems to have become a trend in the emo genre to have excessively long titles.
 
Silverzone
Brnad New: Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't

I think all the titles off of Deja Entendu are a bit weird.

Agreed. I have another couple to donate.

Dredg - Traversing Through The Arctic Cold We Search For The Spirit Of Yuta

and

Manic Street Preachers - IfWhiteAmericaToldTheTruthForOneDayIt'sWorldWouldFallApart
 
Not so much good songs but funny nonetheless:

Bloodhound Gang - A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Striper Is Crying
Bloodhound Gang - The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope
Bloodhound Gang - The 10 Coolest Things About New Jersey (really just 10 seconds of silence)

Not really bad names, but good songs with odd names:

A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rythmn Of The War Drums
System Of A Down - This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song
Tool - Maynards Dick
Tool - Prison Sex
Tool - Jerk Off
Tool - Hooker With A Penis
Blindspott - S.U.I.T (So Us Is This)
 
Alice in Chains-"Frogs"

Nothing to do with frogs or anything of the like, but god DAMN if the song ain't good! ...Very depressing, though. Just my style, I guess. lol

An extremely easy song to play on the acoustic guitar but it's beauty lays in it's simplicity. All of the chords are minor except one (for those who don't play, minor chords have a sort of "sad"sound to them; look up sound bites online--for example compare "D major" to "D minor")

Lyrics:
What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me, confused
All included but you
Alone...

The sounds of silence often soothe
Shapes and colors shift with mood
Pupils widen and change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way

Flowers watched through wide brown eyes bloom
A child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold cocoon
Grow to see the pain too soon

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way (5x)

"At 7 am on a Tuesday, usual August ...
Next week I'll be 28...
I'm still young; it'll be me...
Off the wall I scrape... you...
I can't wake, I gotta wake...
To cause this wake, I gotta wake no more...
It causes wake, to drown this hate....
To never really stay, never will.....
You take your plate...
Put me through hell, live, live...
Direct your fate...
You say I can do it so well...
Your expiration date...
Fate, date, expiration date...
(this was the last time)
Hate...
And don't **** with me again...
My own clean slate...
Don't **** with me again...
Makes your eyes dilate...
Makes you shake...
Irate..."

Much like the song "Sludge Factory", this song has a lot do with drugs, more specifically with others doin drugs. Part of the reason it makes little sense in parts.
 
Just thought of one;
Cradle of Filth - Of Dark Blood and ****ing
and pretty much anything by Anal ****, a full discography and what the second half of their name is can be found here.

ash6660
Hocus Pocus - by Focus...what a great song! (except the yodelling)
I didn't like the original, Helloween's cover rocks though.
 
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are a great band - but I can't recommend them to anyone over the age of 30 because of the band name or the song lyrics.
 
Anything by AN*L **** like "beat your wife" the whole song is just "Beat beat beat beat beat beat beat your wife" over and over again its just funny

"elderly woman behind a counter in a small town" by pearl jam is a great song but has no mention of a old lady
 
Creedence Clearwater Revival - PORTERVILLE (written by J.C. Fogerty)

It's been an awful long time since I been home,
But you won't catch me goin' back down there alone.
Things they said when I was young are quite enough to get me hung.
I don't care! I don't care!

They came and took my Dad away to serve some time,
But it was me that paid the debt he left behind.
Folks said I was full of sin, because I was the next of kin.
I don't care! I don't care!

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo!
I don't care! I don't care!

Folks were out one night to put me up a fence,
And you can guess that I've been runnin' ever since.
Ain't no one that's 'bout to help, and I'll keep on, I tell myself.
I don't care! I don't care!

I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!

Ain't no one that's 'bout to help,
And I'll keep on, I tell myself.
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!
I don't care! I don't care!

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Now tell me what the hell is porterville?
 
Underoath - I Got 10 Freinds and a Crowbar that Says You Aint Gonna Do Jack

Actually quite a deep song, and not as heavy as most their stuff.
 
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