Favorite song name

[BP3]

What song name really fits the song (instrumental music especially)?

[Mark Zeger]

For a title that really fits the song, the first that came to mind is "Birdland". This is a quote from the All Music Guide:

 

"Birdland" is a remarkable bit of record-making, a unified, ever-developing piece of music that evokes, without in any way imitating, a joyous evening on 52nd St. with a big band.

[Slowly]

I'm not allowed to look at your avatar

 

Summer Maddness, Kool and the Gang. Kcbass

[Jojje]

I think your avatar is sexist and degrading to women. You probably have a problem with your female relations,

How about a picture of yourself naked and tied up...

[Gulliver]

CountMeln, please more, MORE of such avatars. I beg you!!!

 

...Er... what? Song name...

I just finished my new instrumental composition called "Roboghost". I think its name really fits the music. Hope to prove it soon...

 

Oh, what a brunette...!

[Magpel]

I dunno, just introducing myself to an electronic compilation called Aural Gratification, and one of the more aptly titled tracks is "Slow Day at the Face Factory." I guess you have to hear it.

[Gulliver]

Hey, where is that babe at the top of this thread ... the brunette one??

I came in specially to see her again...

 

Back to the topic.

"Service with a Smile". For quite a long time I thought exactly the opposite, "gee... this title doesn't fit the music absolutely!" (The song itself is an excellent instrumental from Happy The Man album Crafty Hands). But gradually I started to appreciate the name of that song and now I think this title fits the track just perfectly. So I guess it's a matter of how much time you need to get used to such "unusual" combinations.

One can write extremely dense arrangement (full of twists and turns, crazy meter changes, screaming guitars and pounding drums) and put a name on it like, for instance: "The Angels Are Singing..." Just listen to such stuff for several times (in a row) and you'll see what I mean.

[Superbobus]

Yeah, she made me think of all kinds of weird Zappa song titles.

I think he's a master at this.

[Roto]

Constipated Duck by Jeff Beck http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov75/drc800/c843/c843597bqm7.jpg

[sevush]

Cold, Cold, Cold - Little Feat

Mr. Bassman - unknown

 

and though I've never heard the song, the title says it all -

 

I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like Having You Here

[Dave Pierce]

My Mom, who has written a few country songs in her day, keeps threatening to write a country song with this title:

 

"When Your Phone Doesn't Ring Tomorrow Morning, You'll Know It's Just Me, Not Calling You."

 

 

--Dave

[BP3]

Originally posted by Superbobus:

Yeah, she made me think of all kinds of weird Zappa song titles.

I think he's a master at this.

Zappa has some great ones.

 

Titties and Beer

Illinois Enema Bandit

Punky's Whips....

 

For those missing the recent avatar, check out the Halloween avatar thread at CA's forum. Speaking of Halloween, I never saw a Zappa Halloween show, but I always listen to a good dose of Zappa on the 31st.

 

As far as Happy the Man goes, who else but Stan Whitaker could come up with -

Knee Bitten Nymphs in Limbo or

Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in Stencil Forest

[marino]

"Close to the Edge" (Yes)

"Aoxomoxoa" (Grateful Dead)

"Not Available" (Residents)

"Stinkfoot" and

"I Promise not to Came in your Mouth" (Zappa)

"At First Light" (a 'classical' piece by British composer G.Benjamin)

"The Elders" (Weather Report)

 

And a couple from Italy:

"Song"

"That Song"

"A"

 

etc.