seriously though do they have a thing against naming their songs after any of the lyrics?
Doctor_Who
“Dare” is named after the lyrics…as a joke.
Shaun Ryder, the guest on that track, has a pretty thick Manchester accent. In the booth he was asking to have the levels on his headphones adjusted and said “It’s coming up, it’s coming up…it’s there!”. But it sounded like “It’s Dare!”
So they put him mispronouncing There in the song.
Someguy
That’s my favorite Gorrilaz song, so that’s funny as hell
Chris (the other one)
@Doctor_Who … that is …. that is awesome. And now it’s something I never knew but can’t unhear. You can even hear Ryder’s saying there and yet, it sounds like dare every time. Didn’t know that, and thank you.
It’s getting so popular culture and I aren’t even in the same universe, anymore. I used to at least know the names of the popular groups. Now I haven’t heard of any of them.
I had a wild realization today. My grandma, who was born in 1925, is a massive Dolly Parton fan. Dolly’s debut album dropped in 1967. That means my grandma was actively seeking out new music when she was 42 and older. And back then, you had to like, go to a record store! And my grandma was in rural Iowa! She must have made a hardcore effort to stay up on new stuff, and that’s dope.
Felian
That sounds amazing! GO Grandma!
I hope we’ll all grow up more like her, because we all need to stop the narrative that life is over when you’re middle aged. it’s called middle aged for a reason. Go pursue that second half of your life! Learn things! Change your mind about things! Listen to young people and the things they come up with! Just don’t get set in your ways!
Taffy
Before we get over “life ends when you’re middle aged”, we’ll have to get past “Life ends at 25”.
Also that’s really not a hard and fast rule and a lot of songs have the title at the start rather than the end of the refrain. “Wrecking Ball” is at the start, the end is “You Wreck Me”. “Hotel California” is at the start. There’s lots more examples out there.
When she sings “Bring me to Life” I can honestly BARELY understand her.
It’s like… “BREEEEEEE MAAAAAAAY OOOOOOOO LAAAAAAAAAAA” and then with one or two exceptions in the entire song it’s walked over by the part of the chorus people actually remember.
Taffy
I can’t understand half the lyrics to most songs unless I’m really trying to, ever since I was a kid. I mishear damn near everything and then people give me shit for not knowing some “obvious” lyric that to me just sounds like “hummahhamamam ooh baby aaamamamnenenemjejskyop” or whatever.
“‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy” Famous Mondegreen
Taffy
And my brain would probably mangle that into something like “scoot smear wahmah kiss diskop” if I hadn’t read the lyric before I ever heard the song. There’s really no logic to it.
Mr. Random
I’m still convinced the blue alien says if he was green he would die.
Taffy
I got beat up by a first grader because he said the line was “I was seen out of sight” and I disagreed.
Casi
It’s obviously “I’m blue and if i breathe i won’t die”
not someone else
Goddamn hearing definition problems…
Wizard
That one’s so well known, there’s a site called Kiss This Guy devoted to misheard lyrics.
Dr Sharks
The “Kiss the sky”/ “Kiss this guy” one is especially fun because Jimi Hendrix was aware of it and would intentionally sing it both ways. On at least one occasion he pretended to kiss his bassist after the line.
Taffy
Sounds like a cool guy. Now I’m scared to go to his Wikipedia page and learn about him doing something heinous.
not someone else
Thankfully for the world, Jimi Hendrix never did anything heinous that got into the news.
…He also died really quickly after making it huge, but you can’t win ’em all.
Like “Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued”?
someone
Probably the reason why Four Non Blonde’s song “what’s going on” is actually titled “what’s up” despite “what’s up” not being part of the lyrics. But there was already a “what’s going on” song by Marvin Gaye.
(Though it’s mostly known as the He-Man heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa song now.)
Daibhid C
Which is interesting, because there totally are completely unrelated songs with the same title (Pink Floyd and Queen with “The Show Must Go On”, for instance), so I wonder what the difference is.
Daibhid C
I looked it up on Wikipedia.
The song actually titled “Teenage Wasteland” was also written by Pete Townsend, so it seems like it was less about being sued, and more about not confusing himself by giving two songs the same title.
Wikipedia doesn’t say why “What’s Up?” is titled like that, but it turns out there are ten seperate songs called “What’s Going On?” so I don’t know what’s … er, happening … there.
Alan in DC
It must be an itch-bay to own the house next door to their lead singer.
She wakes up every morning, steps outside, takes a deep breath, gets real high, then screams at the top of her lungs.
That would get really damn old in a hurry.
Needfuldoer
That’s why Weird Al’s Money for Nothing parody was officially named Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies* (yes, including the asterisk).
To his credit, Mark Knopfler’s only stipulation was that he got to play the guitar part. And he did.
He’ll get over it. I’m pretty sure Mike isn’t really dead. The last we saw him he was hooked up to some machines. Maybe he’ll wake up from a coma with a different personality and he’ll be a really nice guy.
Hanson in class? I’d heard about classes on nineties hip-hop, but I’d thought that would be to Hanson as Shakespeare to the Elizabethan/Jacobian Gilbert O’Sullivan.
I love this relationship, and give it until Dan starts making puns like “Salutatory” and “Salacious”. (Which I predict will be in a 4 months and change, our time.)
114 thoughts on “Avoiding”
Ana Chronistic
How about “I Got Sunshine in a Bag”?
Doctor_Who
Gorillaz frigging rules. End of message.
Sirksome
No one’s too cool to not know the title of a Gorrillaz song.
AntJ
seriously though do they have a thing against naming their songs after any of the lyrics?
Doctor_Who
“Dare” is named after the lyrics…as a joke.
Shaun Ryder, the guest on that track, has a pretty thick Manchester accent. In the booth he was asking to have the levels on his headphones adjusted and said “It’s coming up, it’s coming up…it’s there!”. But it sounded like “It’s Dare!”
So they put him mispronouncing There in the song.
Someguy
That’s my favorite Gorrilaz song, so that’s funny as hell
Chris (the other one)
@Doctor_Who … that is …. that is awesome. And now it’s something I never knew but can’t unhear. You can even hear Ryder’s saying there and yet, it sounds like dare every time. Didn’t know that, and thank you.
Paradox
“Feel Good Inc” is kind of named after the lyrics
jeffepp
“Dirty Harry” , of course.
BarerMender
It’s getting so popular culture and I aren’t even in the same universe, anymore. I used to at least know the names of the popular groups. Now I haven’t heard of any of them.
Leadsynth
It requires serious effort!
I had a wild realization today. My grandma, who was born in 1925, is a massive Dolly Parton fan. Dolly’s debut album dropped in 1967. That means my grandma was actively seeking out new music when she was 42 and older. And back then, you had to like, go to a record store! And my grandma was in rural Iowa! She must have made a hardcore effort to stay up on new stuff, and that’s dope.
Felian
That sounds amazing! GO Grandma!
I hope we’ll all grow up more like her, because we all need to stop the narrative that life is over when you’re middle aged. it’s called middle aged for a reason. Go pursue that second half of your life! Learn things! Change your mind about things! Listen to young people and the things they come up with! Just don’t get set in your ways!
Taffy
Before we get over “life ends when you’re middle aged”, we’ll have to get past “Life ends at 25”.
Needfuldoer
Don’t forget “Lonely Road”. I think everyone downloaded that song as a .mp3.exe back in the day.
Pylgrim
Don’t you mean the “cool shoeshine”?
Ana Chronistic
I was honestly expecting to come back to a thread of “song titles” that aren’t the title at all, like “Piña Coladas”
Stephen Bierce
Totay’s strip was sponsored by Crest toothpaste. For some reason.
Doctor_Who
Sal right now.
Sirksome
Wholesome. It will probably cut away after this cause we can’t have too much sweetness at once.
Shitbird
Literally the only wholesome het couple I’ve ever seen.
JepMZ
Aww, I like how happy they are. It’s like an oasis in a mad max desert of angst and depression
Nono
That song by Evanescence is 20 years old, by the way. You’re welcome.
Doctor_Who
Hell, even “Welcome to the Black Parade” which Sal sang earlier is old enough to get a driver’s license.
MMMBop is old enough to rent a car.
Taffy
Time is an illusion and we’re all just rapidly aging to our natural deaths. A retro emo song isn’t really much of a shock.
Needfuldoer
Eat Arby’s.
Taffy
They got decent gyros, so sure. Their roast beef is mid, though.
Songbird
I think they were referencing Nihilist Arby’s.
eh, whatever
Only 20? There was still Evanescence in the 21st century? *shocked-pikachu.gif or something*
RassilonTDavros
…well now I understand why the title of the storyline is what it is.
Thag Simmons
Sal and Danny have been great for diagetically working in the song-based titles
Mr. Random
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxaaGgTQYM
“Bring me to Life”
Rose by Any Other Name
I don’t know why people find that so hard. The title is the end of the refrain rather than the start. Like, you know, a lot of songs.
The hard ones are when the title never actually appears as lyrics in the song.
Nono
Because the catchiest part of the song is what people remember.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
See “Escape” by Rupert Hines.
[Better know as “The Pina Coloda Song.”
Azhrei Vep
See also: Frankenstein By the Edgar Winter group.
… Granted, it doesn’t have any lyrics, but that just makes it even easier for the title to not show up, now doesn’t it?
Nono
Also that’s really not a hard and fast rule and a lot of songs have the title at the start rather than the end of the refrain. “Wrecking Ball” is at the start, the end is “You Wreck Me”. “Hotel California” is at the start. There’s lots more examples out there.
ZerglingOne
When she sings “Bring me to Life” I can honestly BARELY understand her.
It’s like… “BREEEEEEE MAAAAAAAY OOOOOOOO LAAAAAAAAAAA” and then with one or two exceptions in the entire song it’s walked over by the part of the chorus people actually remember.
Taffy
I can’t understand half the lyrics to most songs unless I’m really trying to, ever since I was a kid. I mishear damn near everything and then people give me shit for not knowing some “obvious” lyric that to me just sounds like “hummahhamamam ooh baby aaamamamnenenemjejskyop” or whatever.
Opus the Poet
“‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy” Famous Mondegreen
Taffy
And my brain would probably mangle that into something like “scoot smear wahmah kiss diskop” if I hadn’t read the lyric before I ever heard the song. There’s really no logic to it.
Mr. Random
I’m still convinced the blue alien says if he was green he would die.
Taffy
I got beat up by a first grader because he said the line was “I was seen out of sight” and I disagreed.
Casi
It’s obviously “I’m blue and if i breathe i won’t die”
not someone else
Goddamn hearing definition problems…
Wizard
That one’s so well known, there’s a site called Kiss This Guy devoted to misheard lyrics.
Dr Sharks
The “Kiss the sky”/ “Kiss this guy” one is especially fun because Jimi Hendrix was aware of it and would intentionally sing it both ways. On at least one occasion he pretended to kiss his bassist after the line.
Taffy
Sounds like a cool guy. Now I’m scared to go to his Wikipedia page and learn about him doing something heinous.
not someone else
Thankfully for the world, Jimi Hendrix never did anything heinous that got into the news.
…He also died really quickly after making it huge, but you can’t win ’em all.
The Wellerman
Hard same ?
Chaucer59
Oh, like “Baba O’Riley.”
Needfuldoer
Or Orinoco Flow by Enya?
Deanatay
You mean “Sail Away”, right?
Needfuldoer
That’s the one, but I thought we were posting the actual titles in this thread?
Rayndel
Like “Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued”?
someone
Probably the reason why Four Non Blonde’s song “what’s going on” is actually titled “what’s up” despite “what’s up” not being part of the lyrics. But there was already a “what’s going on” song by Marvin Gaye.
(Though it’s mostly known as the He-Man heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa song now.)
Daibhid C
Which is interesting, because there totally are completely unrelated songs with the same title (Pink Floyd and Queen with “The Show Must Go On”, for instance), so I wonder what the difference is.
Daibhid C
I looked it up on Wikipedia.
The song actually titled “Teenage Wasteland” was also written by Pete Townsend, so it seems like it was less about being sued, and more about not confusing himself by giving two songs the same title.
Wikipedia doesn’t say why “What’s Up?” is titled like that, but it turns out there are ten seperate songs called “What’s Going On?” so I don’t know what’s … er, happening … there.
Alan in DC
It must be an itch-bay to own the house next door to their lead singer.
She wakes up every morning, steps outside, takes a deep breath, gets real high, then screams at the top of her lungs.
That would get really damn old in a hurry.
Needfuldoer
That’s why Weird Al’s Money for Nothing parody was officially named Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies* (yes, including the asterisk).
To his credit, Mark Knopfler’s only stipulation was that he got to play the guitar part. And he did.
Hof1991
Scenes from an Italian restaurant by Billy Joel. The restaurant is mentioned but isn’t particularly part of the song.
Rex Vivat
Have you noticed the name of this storyline?
BBCC
Oh GOD, please let me see Danny’s first encounter with Evanescence at some point, that sounds hilarious.
Doctor_Who
With Ethan in his current state, if you put your ear to his like a seashell you hear Evanescence.
StClair
*lol for real*
oh god, that’s perfect
(and probably true)
Marvelman
He’ll get over it. I’m pretty sure Mike isn’t really dead. The last we saw him he was hooked up to some machines. Maybe he’ll wake up from a coma with a different personality and he’ll be a really nice guy.
insomniac
It was an AMV. You know it was an AMV.
Taffy
If we wait a few years, we get to assume his first exposure to the song was in a Siivagunner rip.
insomniac
Those aren’t words I know.
goggleman64
God I love these two
Suet
“Going Under”?
*beat*
Roll Credits!!
JessWitt
Oh, not quite a title drop but that’s cheeky.
Raen
Hanson in class? I’d heard about classes on nineties hip-hop, but I’d thought that would be to Hanson as Shakespeare to the Elizabethan/Jacobian Gilbert O’Sullivan.
Reltzik
I love this relationship, and give it until Dan starts making puns like “Salutatory” and “Salacious”. (Which I predict will be in a 4 months and change, our time.)
Nono