Inexplicably Strange Song Names: Nominations

NZ_Chris · Post by **NZ_Chris** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:21 pm

How about Joe Satriani's "The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing" ?

IvanP · Post by **IvanP** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:21 am

Heck, have any of you heard the Beatles' "You know my name (Look up the number"? Those are the only words.

I used to thing "The Hag with the Money" was an IRA thing about the Queen.

dreamerlass · Post by **dreamerlass** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:11 am

How about "The Goose and Bright Love"?

mcbob · Post by **mcbob** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:47 am

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band did a number called:
There's no lights on the christmas tree mother, (they're burning Big Louie tonight)

or the Gin Bossoms "you can't call it cheating ( she reminds me of you)"

norseman · Post by **norseman** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:19 am

How about some of Leo Kottke's titles:

Vaseline Machine Gun
The Driving of the Year Nail
The Brain of the Purple Mountain
A Trout Toward Noon

Bob

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:26 am

How about the old blues standard, Gimme Back My Wig. The lyrics are hilarious!

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:13 pm

IvanP wrote:
I used to thing "The Hag with the Money" was an IRA thing about the Queen.

I would be ashamed to tell you what I thought "The Star above the Garter" was about when I was thirteen.

Slan,
D.

Albanach · Post by **Albanach** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:14 pm

The piper's maggot.. A slow aire for the scottish smallpipes.. In 18th Century Scots slang maggot meant slow aire.

Skyclad01 · Post by **Skyclad01** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:41 am

May not be music to most people's likings, but the song titles are appropriate for this thread.

All by Lawnmower Deth

Spook Perv Happenings In The Snooker Hall

Flying Killer Cobs From The Planet Bob

Sumo Rabbit And His Inescapeable Trap Of Doom

Maim Mower Maim

Cobwoman Of Deth Meets Mr. Smellymop

Do You Wanna Be A Chuffed Core?

Buddy Holly Never Wrote A Song Called We're Too Punk

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:50 pm

The Cat that Ate Roddy's Navel.

Supposedly a Connemara name for a particular reel, more likely to be rendered in the Gaelic.

Just came across that one Monday evening. I thought it was worth a resurrection of this thread.

Father Emmet · Post by **Father Emmet** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:51 pm

'Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge' - Screaming Blue Messiahs

Urger · Post by **Urger** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:11 pm

Trad tune: The vultures ate my little brother.

Bela Fleck: Cheeseballs in Cowtown

Tony Trischka: A robot plane flys over Arkansaw

dreamerlass · Post by **dreamerlass** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:16 pm

"The goose that stood on my mother's bottom lip to hang the curtains on St. Patrick's day"

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:27 pm

Urger wrote: Tony Trischka: A robot plane flys over Arkansaw

Oh, so that's what that was! I coulda sworn it was a UFO!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:39 pm

Whack the pot lid.