Song Titles That Espouse Bad Ideas
In an earlier Comments section (Feb 10th),
black_and_bloom said: I seem to remember some "Top 10 Songs that are Bad Ideas" list floating around eons ago...[Steven Stills' "Love The One You're With"] was included, along with [The Talking Heads'] "Burning Down the House."
I searched for "Top 10 Songs that are Bad Ideas" via Google to no avail.
We'll have to create our own new list.
The actual songs may or may not support the courses of action or behaviors mentioned in their titles.
Afrika Bambaataa & John Lydon--World Destruction
Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves--Drive It Like You Stole It
David Wrench--World War IV
Air--Surfing on a Rocket
Ambulance Ltd.--Dancing Through A Eulogy
Tom Petty--Free Fallin'
Andy Gibb-I Just Want To Be Your Everything
(co-dependency!)
Anthony Newley--Oh, What A Son Of A Bitch I Am!
Art Attacks--Neutron Bomb
Ash--I Started A Fire
Komakino--Shotgun Valentine
Atom And His Package--I Am Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just A Hammer
Baby Teeth--Celebrity Wedding
(Odds are, it won't last.)
Ballboy--Donald In The Bushes With A Bag Of Glue
Ballboy--Meet Me At The Shooting Range
Ladytron--Destroy Everything You Touch
Bandees--Hand In The Fire
Bauhaus--Terror Couple Kills Colonel
Blondie--I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No
(Be assertive! Be, Be assertive!)
Camper Van Beethoven--Take the Skinheads Bowling
(It'll all end in tears)
Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman--Cannibal Fantasy
Dirty Pretty Things--Gin & Milk
Dr Spacetoad (Cap'n Sensible and Monty Oxy Moron)--Trying To Be Weird
Electric 6--Feed My Fuckin' Habit
Eric Clapton--I Shot the Sheriff
(...But He Didn't Shoot the Deputy)
Flight of the Conchords--Frodo, Don't Wear the Ring
(Wait...that's good advice.)
Franz Ferdinand--Cheating On You
Gnarls Barkley v Supertramp v Who v Rockwell--Crazy Logic
Graham Coxon--Painting People Blue
Marah--Goin' Through The Motions
Half Man, Half Biscuit--Four Skinny Indie Kids Drinking Weak Lager
(Life's too short for bad boozahol.)
Helvissa--Everybody's Writing That Slash Fic
Jarvis Cocker--I Will Kill Again
Skafish--Disgracing The Family Name
John Cale--Fuckin' Your Neighbour's Wife
Johnny Lloyd Rollins--Let’s Be Poor Together
Larry Groce--Junk Food Junkie
Maximo Park--Graffiti
(If you get caught, anyway.)
Modest Mouse--Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
Momus--The Hairstyle Of The Devil
(Probably a spiral perm with mall bangs!)
Múm--They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded
Nathan Anthony--Screwin' Up
Naughty By Nature--O.P.P.
('Other People's Partners', supposedly)
Of Montreal--Sleeping in the Beetle Bug
(You'll never stand fully upright again)
OK Go--A Million Ways to Be Cruel
Momus--Hotel Marquis de Sade
(No mints on your pillow! No air conditioning! Polyester sheets! No hot showers!)
Primitive Radio Gods--Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Radiohead--A Punch-up At A Wedding. (No No No No No No No No.)
Space--Hitch-hiking
Morrissey--The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
(This is called stalking.)
Spoon--Jealousy
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names--Rent A Wreck
Super Furry Animals--Bad Behaviour
Super Furry Animals--Shoot Doris Day
Supergrass-Caught By The Fuzz
(...while on a buzz, no less.)
Split Enz--Six Months In A Leaky Boat
The 88--Hide Another Mistake
The (International) Noise Conspiracy--Smash It Up!
The Atomic Fireballs--Torch This Place
The Beatles--Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Snow Patrol--Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
The Damned--Smash It Up (Parts 1 & 2)
The Dandy Warhols--Horse Pills
Muse--Plug In Baby
The Dears--Expect the Worst, 'Cos She's a Tourist
The Libertines--Who's Got The Crack?
(Pete Doherty as a role model is a bad idea.)
The New Pornographers--The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
The New York Dolls--Dance Like A Monkey
The Rapture--House Of Jealous Lovers
The Raveonettes--Cops On Our Tail
The Rolling Stones--Play With Fire
The Shins--When I Goosestep
Of Montreal--Rapture Rapes The Muses
Supergrass--Sometimes I Make You Feel Sad
The Soviettes--Paranoia Cha Cha Cha!
Tenacious D--I'm the Only Gay Eskimo
The Subways--Staring At The Sun
The Sweet Hurt--Driving Round in Circles
The Auteurs--How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
The Von Bondies--Crawl Through The Darkness
Thirteen Senses--The Salt Wound Routine
Ok Go - Hello, My Treacherous Friends
(Get new friends, man.)
TISM----I'm on the Drug (That Killed River Phoenix)
Tom Lehrer--Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
XTC--Making Plans For Nigel
Metric--Torture Me
The Church--Witch Hunt
Owls--I Want The Blindingly Cute To Confide In Me
(The blindingly cute are often stunningly boring. Alas.)
The Count Five--Psychotic Reaction
Animotion--Staring Down The Demons
Bloodhound Gang--You're Pretty When I'm Drunk
The Damned--I Just Can't Be Happy Today
The Tubes--White Punks On Dope
Mr John Dowie--Naked Noolies In The Moonlight
(Public indecency charges can get expensive)
The James Kochalka Superstars--Show Respect To Michael Jackson
and...but only depending on your landlord's policies...The Monkees--Gonna Buy Me A Dog
Got any to add?
black_and_bloom said: I seem to remember some "Top 10 Songs that are Bad Ideas" list floating around eons ago...[Steven Stills' "Love The One You're With"] was included, along with [The Talking Heads'] "Burning Down the House."
I searched for "Top 10 Songs that are Bad Ideas" via Google to no avail.
We'll have to create our own new list.
The actual songs may or may not support the courses of action or behaviors mentioned in their titles.
Afrika Bambaataa & John Lydon--World Destruction
Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves--Drive It Like You Stole It
David Wrench--World War IV
Air--Surfing on a Rocket
Ambulance Ltd.--Dancing Through A Eulogy
Tom Petty--Free Fallin'
Andy Gibb-I Just Want To Be Your Everything
(co-dependency!)
Anthony Newley--Oh, What A Son Of A Bitch I Am!
Art Attacks--Neutron Bomb
Ash--I Started A Fire
Komakino--Shotgun Valentine
Atom And His Package--I Am Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just A Hammer
Baby Teeth--Celebrity Wedding
(Odds are, it won't last.)
Ballboy--Donald In The Bushes With A Bag Of Glue
Ballboy--Meet Me At The Shooting Range
Ladytron--Destroy Everything You Touch
Bandees--Hand In The Fire
Bauhaus--Terror Couple Kills Colonel
Blondie--I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No
(Be assertive! Be, Be assertive!)
Camper Van Beethoven--Take the Skinheads Bowling
(It'll all end in tears)
Damon Albarn & Michael Nyman--Cannibal Fantasy
Dirty Pretty Things--Gin & Milk
Dr Spacetoad (Cap'n Sensible and Monty Oxy Moron)--Trying To Be Weird
Electric 6--Feed My Fuckin' Habit
Eric Clapton--I Shot the Sheriff
(...But He Didn't Shoot the Deputy)
Flight of the Conchords--Frodo, Don't Wear the Ring
(Wait...that's good advice.)
Franz Ferdinand--Cheating On You
Gnarls Barkley v Supertramp v Who v Rockwell--Crazy Logic
Graham Coxon--Painting People Blue
Marah--Goin' Through The Motions
Half Man, Half Biscuit--Four Skinny Indie Kids Drinking Weak Lager
(Life's too short for bad boozahol.)
Helvissa--Everybody's Writing That Slash Fic
Jarvis Cocker--I Will Kill Again
Skafish--Disgracing The Family Name
John Cale--Fuckin' Your Neighbour's Wife
Johnny Lloyd Rollins--Let’s Be Poor Together
Larry Groce--Junk Food Junkie
Maximo Park--Graffiti
(If you get caught, anyway.)
Modest Mouse--Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
Momus--The Hairstyle Of The Devil
(Probably a spiral perm with mall bangs!)
Múm--They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded
Nathan Anthony--Screwin' Up
Naughty By Nature--O.P.P.
('Other People's Partners', supposedly)
Of Montreal--Sleeping in the Beetle Bug
(You'll never stand fully upright again)
OK Go--A Million Ways to Be Cruel
Momus--Hotel Marquis de Sade
(No mints on your pillow! No air conditioning! Polyester sheets! No hot showers!)
Primitive Radio Gods--Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Radiohead--A Punch-up At A Wedding. (No No No No No No No No.)
Space--Hitch-hiking
Morrissey--The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
(This is called stalking.)
Spoon--Jealousy
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names--Rent A Wreck
Super Furry Animals--Bad Behaviour
Super Furry Animals--Shoot Doris Day
Supergrass-Caught By The Fuzz
(...while on a buzz, no less.)
Split Enz--Six Months In A Leaky Boat
The 88--Hide Another Mistake
The (International) Noise Conspiracy--Smash It Up!
The Atomic Fireballs--Torch This Place
The Beatles--Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Snow Patrol--Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
The Damned--Smash It Up (Parts 1 & 2)
The Dandy Warhols--Horse Pills
Muse--Plug In Baby
The Dears--Expect the Worst, 'Cos She's a Tourist
The Libertines--Who's Got The Crack?
(Pete Doherty as a role model is a bad idea.)
The New Pornographers--The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
The New York Dolls--Dance Like A Monkey
The Rapture--House Of Jealous Lovers
The Raveonettes--Cops On Our Tail
The Rolling Stones--Play With Fire
The Shins--When I Goosestep
Of Montreal--Rapture Rapes The Muses
Supergrass--Sometimes I Make You Feel Sad
The Soviettes--Paranoia Cha Cha Cha!
Tenacious D--I'm the Only Gay Eskimo
The Subways--Staring At The Sun
The Sweet Hurt--Driving Round in Circles
The Auteurs--How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
The Von Bondies--Crawl Through The Darkness
Thirteen Senses--The Salt Wound Routine
Ok Go - Hello, My Treacherous Friends
(Get new friends, man.)
TISM----I'm on the Drug (That Killed River Phoenix)
Tom Lehrer--Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
XTC--Making Plans For Nigel
Metric--Torture Me
The Church--Witch Hunt
Owls--I Want The Blindingly Cute To Confide In Me
(The blindingly cute are often stunningly boring. Alas.)
The Count Five--Psychotic Reaction
Animotion--Staring Down The Demons
Bloodhound Gang--You're Pretty When I'm Drunk
The Damned--I Just Can't Be Happy Today
The Tubes--White Punks On Dope
Mr John Dowie--Naked Noolies In The Moonlight
(Public indecency charges can get expensive)
The James Kochalka Superstars--Show Respect To Michael Jackson
and...but only depending on your landlord's policies...The Monkees--Gonna Buy Me A Dog
Got any to add?