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Post by matt on Jul 7, 2018 8:16:38 GMT -5
I'll go with, 'The Goonies 'R' Good Enough'. Regarding that song, the original working title for the song was "Good Enough", but Cyndi probably wanted to add more pizzazz to the title, since it would be featured in the popular Steven Spielberg film. Using a standalone letter "R" instead of the word "are" may be more due to what pirates utter. I hate that song, but not because of the song title. Bobby Brown's "Good Enough" is good enough for me. I agree with "The Goonies R Good Enough", and Cyndi Lauper might even agree with you also. Apparently Cyndi wrote the song with an original title of simply "Good Enough", but it was the motion picture company that had the brilliant idea of incorporating the word Goonies into the title. Cyndi hated the change to the new song title so much that she refused to play it live for years. When she finally did start playing the song again years later, she would refer to it by its original title of "Good Enough" without "The Goonies R" part. I personally have always felt that the title likely helped to stunt the song's chart success and long term staying power.
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Post by matt on Jul 7, 2018 8:21:07 GMT -5
Here's another one-"Let Me Tickle Your Fancy" by Jermaine Jackson from 1982 Interesting...I really like that song, and the title fits it well. What else would you call it?
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Post by matt on Jul 7, 2018 10:53:40 GMT -5
From the Shadow Stevens era, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies may get some votes. I love that song but I was always a little embarrassed to say the title. Yeah I'm thinking you're not alone with that one. I've heard more times than I can count what a stupid song title people think that is.
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Post by trekkielo on Jul 7, 2018 17:08:21 GMT -5
If risque titles are an issue, it's hard to beat "Me So Horny", which isn't even grammatically correct. And it may have never been said on a countdown; Shadoe didn't say it when it was on AT40, and since the 2 Live Crew never charted in Radio & Records neither Casey nor Rick Dees ever had to. Of course "Me So Horny" isn't grammatically correct, 2 Live Crew samples a Vietnamese prostitute's dialogue from the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket!
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Post by trekkielo on Jul 7, 2018 17:13:49 GMT -5
How about "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car?" Casey even did a story on where such a title came from. Yeah, from the #1 hit cover of Johnny Burnette's "You're Sixteen" by Ringo Starr in 1974!
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 8, 2018 7:44:55 GMT -5
There was also during the Shadoe AT40 era "The Humpty Dance", "Gett Off", and "Mind's Playing Tricks on Me".
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 10, 2018 8:03:43 GMT -5
"Make Love Like A Man" by Def Leppard sounds pretty pretentious to me.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jul 10, 2018 11:18:33 GMT -5
Another one is “What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes. Especially weird considering Linda Perry never actually says “What’s Up”. I only recently learned that this song's title was chosen because the likelier title of "What's Going On?" was already used by Marvin Gaye.
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 10, 2018 11:25:57 GMT -5
^Odd that something like that would stop them. How many songs have been named "Hold On" or "Stay" or "My Love" or "Home"?
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Post by slf on Jul 10, 2018 17:21:46 GMT -5
Another excellent example of a really bad song title that just recently came to mind is that top 10 "comedy" single from 1974: Cheech and Chong's "Earache My Eye". Funny that, in the late summer, early fall of that year, I was familiar with the existence of that song, but I don't remember actually hearing it on the radio (although I was hearing all the other top 10 songs). It was years later that I actually first heard both parts of the song and finally learned the meaning of that obtuse, nonsensical title. And after being exposed to that pathetic, obnoxious "comedy" segment of that song, I would have just as soon been kept in the dark as to the title's meaning. (Although the Alice Bowie song is kinda funny.)
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Post by Michael1973 on Jul 20, 2018 15:32:47 GMT -5
How about "Ho Hey?" Or even better, "De Doo Doo Doo De Da Da Da?"
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Post by markmcneil on Jul 20, 2018 18:04:27 GMT -5
If risque titles are an issue, it's hard to beat "Me So Horny", which isn't even grammatically correct. And it may have never been said on a countdown; Shadoe didn't say it when it was on AT40, and since the 2 Live Crew never charted in Radio & Records neither Casey nor Rick Dees ever had to. Actually, Shadoe did mention the title when it debuted.
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Post by Hervard on Jul 20, 2018 18:36:29 GMT -5
How about "Ho Hey?" Or even better, "De Doo Doo Doo De Da Da Da?" Indeed, and both are very annoying songs, to boot.
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 21, 2018 22:26:54 GMT -5
Big Log.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 22, 2018 1:05:00 GMT -5
Which doesn't even appear in the song. This was not new for Robert Plant, of course; of Led Zeppelin's six singles to reach the Billboard pop top 40, only "Whole Lotta Love" actually includes the title in the lyrics.
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