Best/most original song titles

[Lionel Ritchie]

plus the song is almost as good as the title.

Any HMHB song title is pretty good

"Hair like Brian May blues"
"Friday night and the gates are low"
"24 hour garage people"
"Tonight Matthew I'm going to be with Jesus"
"Dickie Davies Eyes"
"Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gob****e"
"Styx Gig (Seen By My Mates Coming Out Of A)"

You get the idea.

Flying over to see HMHB in Leeds on thursday night (28.7.05). Have arranged to meet the band and all. I can't fcukin' wait!!!!!!!! 19 years later I finally get to meet the men behind such additional titles as...

"23 Years (Tending The Wrong Grave)"
"Even Men With Steel Hearts (Love To See A Dog On The Pitch)"
"Clocked In Laid Off Signed On"
"He Who Would Valium Take"
"Outbreak of Vitus Gerulitus"
"The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an On Coming Train)"

Here's their setlist from Exeter two weeks ago...

****in' 'ell It's Fred Titmus
Len Ganley Stance
Trumpton Riots
Time Flies By When You're The Driver of a Train
Vatican Broadside
Monmore Hare's Running
PRS Quick The Drawbridge
Help Me Rhonda
Joy Division Oven Gloves
Letters Sent
Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years
Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis
San Antonio Foam Party
If I Had Possession Over Pancake Day
Look Dad No Tunes
Twenty Four Hour Garage People
99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd
Them's The Vagaries
Bad Review
Bob Wilson Anchorman
CAMRA Man
CORGI Registered Friends
For What Is Chatteris
Running Order Squabble Fest
Everything's AOR
Lark Descending

[noby]

Excellent stuff. I'm quite jealous.

[superfrank]

Another Parliament one - Dr. Funkenstein's Supergroovalisticprosifunkistication Medley.

[EnDai]

Hilarious - if you're 12 years old.

The title asked for original. Shít band, shít song, but the title always makes me smile. My apologies for posting.

[fosterdollar]

Fair enough but i wouldn't say that it was all that original. Have a look at some of the song titles they and their ilk have besides. They really need to get out more, poor lads.

[Flea]

I suppose Underworlds Born Slippy is the most original, says it all about the scene

[Pat O' Banton]

Any HMHB song title is pretty good

Would also mention the album titles as well, 'Trouble over Bridgewater' being a particular favourite of mine

[Gerrit]

Eels usually come up with nice titles as well... Their best ones IMO are:


Woman driving, man sleeping
Cancer for the cure
Last stop: this town (a very soft title for a song about somebody dying after unsuccesfully fighting a disease)

[speedking]

Best one I've ever seen was Anal Cúnt's "I Snuck A Retard Into A Sperm Bank". I nearly fell over laughing when I saw it!

[holidaysong]

Eels usually come up with nice titles as well... Their best ones IMO are:


Woman driving, man sleeping
Cancer for the cure
Last stop: this town (a very soft title for a song about somebody dying after unsuccesfully fighting a disease)

Love the Eels - seen them live in Vicar Street earlier this year. My favourite song titles by them are 'Going to Your Funeral' and 'Climbing to the Moon'.

[sylvo]

The Pixies, Nimrod son, ''You are the son of a mother ******'', as well as ''you are the son of incestious union''

Said that to a manager once at work, he didn't understand what incestious meant, well he was a Hertfordshire hillbilly.

[Gerrit]

Love the Eels - seen them live in Vicar Street earlier this year. My favourite song titles by them are 'Going to Your Funeral' and 'Climbing to the Moon'.

Yeah, though in fact the original Eels (line-up of E, Butch and Tommy) is long gone. In fact Eels to day is Mark Oliver Everett solo, using a different name than in his early solo years.

[holidaysong]

The Pixies, Nimrod son, ''You are the son of a mother ******'', as well as ''you are the son of incestious union''

Said that to a manager once at work, he didn't understand what incestious meant, well he was a Hertfordshire hillbilly.

Oh a Pixies fan, as my username suggests I am also one Going to see them on August 23rd

Yeah, though in fact the original Eels (line-up of E, Butch and Tommy) is long gone. In fact Eels to day is Mark Oliver Everett solo, using a different name than in his early solo years.

Yeah I know that, don't worry I'm a REAL fan not a "Oh that Goddamn right it's a beautiful day song was good" fan... I think E was right to stick with the Eels name as it is more familiar to people.