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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 8, 2019 14:04:16 GMT -5
Which Top 40 hits contain the title in the lyrics but in a different order? Examples:
* Paramore's "Misery Business" ("I'm in the business of misery, let's take it from the top") * Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance" ("Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain")
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Post by Hervard on Sept 8, 2019 14:40:03 GMT -5
Not a Top 40 hit, but it might as well have been, given its recurrent airplay on classic rock stations...
"Breakfast In America" by Supertramp
They say "America" in both choruses (as in "like to see America"). They only mention "breakfast" at the beginning of the second verse ("Could we have kippers for breakfast"). The word "in" is mentioned in very next line ("They gotta have them in in Texas", as well as both choruses ("See the girls in California").
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Post by pb on Sept 8, 2019 17:13:15 GMT -5
Yes's "Your Move" contains the words "your" and "move" but not together. Granted, although Casey called the song "Your Move" during its chart run, most people would call it "I've Seen All Good People."
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 8, 2019 21:33:49 GMT -5
Third Eye Blind "Semi-Charmed Life" goes "semi-charmed kind of life".
The Cardigans' "Lovefool" includes "love me" and "fool me".
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 9, 2019 5:37:38 GMT -5
Yes's "Your Move" contains the words "your" and "move" but not together. Granted, although Casey called the song "Your Move" during its chart run, most people would call it "I've Seen All Good People." Song examples I came up with for this thread were more fitting for the post about songs whose sung lyrics do not contain the title (For example, Raydio's "Jack And Jill" and "The Killing Of Georgie" by Rod Stewart.) Then I read pb's comment about "Your Move" by Yes. That seems to fit in yet another thread, "Did you ever think a song was mistitled?" Seems like there's some gray area here. But bring on more songs with rearranged titles.
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Post by renfield75 on Sept 9, 2019 12:53:44 GMT -5
Metallica's "Enter Sandman" contains both words in the lyrics but not together.
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 9, 2019 17:31:34 GMT -5
Yes's "Your Move" contains the words "your" and "move" but not together. Granted, although Casey called the song "Your Move" during its chart run, most people would call it "I've Seen All Good People." Song examples I came up with for this thread were more fitting for the post about songs whose sung lyrics do not contain the title (For example, Raydio's "Jack And Jill" and "The Killing Of Georgie" by Rod Stewart.) Then I read pb's comment about "Your Move" by Yes. That seems to fit in yet another thread, "Did you ever think a song was mistitled?" Seems like there's some gray area here. But bring on more songs with rearranged titles. "Jack and Jill" is a good example, but "Killing of Georgie" probably isn't because "killing" does not appear in the lyrics. By the way, it isn't a big deal if words like "and", "in", "of", etc. aren't in the song, or if a word is pluralized in the title but not in the lyrics. As long as the major nouns and verbs are included, that's probably fine. I also have additional examples: * "The Way I Want to Touch You" by Captain and Tennille has "The way THAT I want to touch you" in the lyrics. * Dan Fogelberg's "Heart Hotels" has "heart" and "hotel" on separate lines. * The Jacksons' "Heartbreak Hotel" doesn't count with its original title, but after it was renamed "This Place Hotel" (which is probably the worst replacement title I've seen), then it counts, because the lyrics have "This place is Heartbreak Hotel".
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Post by johnnywest on Sept 10, 2019 8:29:27 GMT -5
"Another Day In Paradise" is sung as, "it's just another day for you, for you and me in paradise."
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 10, 2019 10:59:53 GMT -5
Dave Matthews Band's "Ants Marching" says "ants are marching".
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Post by Hervard on Sept 10, 2019 14:20:06 GMT -5
* Dan Fogelberg's "Heart Hotels" has "heart" and "hotel" on separate lines. Wow - I always thought that the opening line (as well as the first line in the last verse) was "...too many windows in this heart hotel". Checking the lyrics, I see that it's actually "this old hotel". You learn something new every day!
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 10, 2019 16:24:10 GMT -5
Another example: Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" has "You're hot then you're cold".
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 10, 2019 20:49:39 GMT -5
In the chorus of Color Me Badd's 1996 hit, they do mention the earth, the sun and the rain, but not all together.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 12, 2019 8:26:38 GMT -5
"What's love got to do, go to do with it?"
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Post by mkarns on Sept 12, 2019 17:21:21 GMT -5
If we can split words, there's "In a flash it takes hold of my heart, What a feeling, Bein's believin...Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life."
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Post by markmcneil on Sept 19, 2019 12:33:41 GMT -5
"Wildflower" by Skylark ("She's a free and gentle flower growing wild".)
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