h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Has anyone mentioned "Thank God and Greyhound She's Gone"? Don't know who wrote it, but Roy Clark did a great rendition of it!

NM

My favourite country song is "I Shoulda @#$%ed Ol' What's-Her-Name." By the way, do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife, your dog, and your truck back.

I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend...

It's called 'They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away 'Cause I'm Not Raking 'Til Spring.'

I'd just like to pass on my favourite song title so far this year, which comes to you courtesy of the fine London indie band My Life Story: "If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?"

Awesome

NM

Come on Ormondroyd, play the game - this is meant to be BAD song titles.

I'll have to keep my eyes out for this band.

You need look no further than here:
http://www.mylifestory.uk.com
(I'll try to think of a really BAD song title now)

D'oh! If only I'd known this a week ago I could have gone to see 'em at LA2.

There's another track on their new album called "There's Nothing For Nobody And Everybody Wants To Be Someone" - a far worse title if you ask me!

"Ice Pick Mike" by Lalo Schifrin is pretty bad song title..

What about the Pet Shop Boys' "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk" - I can't decide if that's good or bad!

"Turdy Point Buck"....by Bannanas at Large

"Grandma got run over by a Reindeer"...don't know the artist.

"Who's Gonna' Mow Your Grass"....Don't know that artist, either....shame....actually a pretty bad song!

NM

Another of my favourite songs of recent times was the Pet Shop Boys' UK Top 10 hit, "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk". I could certainly relate to that sentiment.

Goddarn (as country types allegedly say) I should know by now to look back up the thread before posting! Well, EV, great minds think alike!
Pet Shop Boys do have a history of great song titles, though. They also hit the top 10 in Britain with "Being Boring", and had a minor hit with "Yeaterday, When I Was Mad"!

"Webbed Feet" by Chicken Shack.

Whats worse, the song tittle or the group name?

They're both equal!
Just before we leave Pet Shop Boys territory, what about their double A-side *deep breath* "Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)"/"How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?"

Do they think they are taken seriously?.....NOT!!!

Well, I like 'em, Sid - but more to the point, I happen to know that the title quoted above holds the record as the longest-titled UK hit ever! Meanwhile, a friend of mine who works for Guinness Publishing told me the other day that Fiona Apple has just made it into the "Guinness Book Of Records" by releasing an album with the longest title ever - 90 words long! (The first three are ("When The Pawn...", but I can't find the full version even on her official website).
Going back to bad country song titles - Elvis Costello once covered a song that I thought took country gloominess to quite amazing heights, or depths. It was about being so miserable that not even getting drunk could help, and it was called "Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down".

Courtesy of CDNow.com the full title is:

"When the Pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you’ll know that you’re right"

I get the feeling that not many people will ever refer to it by it's full title...