Making the Most of Your Song Title
A (usually) small slice of poetry conveying a larger theme that gets represented more thoroughly by its song. Here are some good ones. I'm judging by how intriguing they are; how much they'd make you want to hear the song if you'd never heard it before. And also by their subtle tricks of language, the same things I'd look at when reading a poem. |
| 1 |  | Tortoise
TNT
Almost Always is Nearly Enough |
| 2 |  | Fear Before
The Always Open Mouth
Dog Sized Bird |
| 3 |  | Atheist
Unquestionable Presence
Mother Man |
| 4 |  | The Blood Brothers
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Fucking's Greatest Hits |
| 5 |  | Storm and Stress
Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights
the sky's the ground, the bombs are plants, and we're the sun, love |
| 6 |  | Their / They're / There
Their / They're / There
Apocalypse (Not Right) Now |
| 7 |  | Algernon Cadwallader
Some Kind Of Cadwallader
Yo Soy Milk |
| 8 |  | Thought Industry
Mods Carve The Pig
Horsepowered |
| 9 |  | Fall Out Boy
From Under the Cork Tree
I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was this Stupid Song Written about Me |
| 10 |  | The Dillinger Escape Plan
Ire Works
Party Smasher |
| 11 |  | Explosions in the Sky
The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean |
| 12 |  | Glassjaw
Worship and Tribute
Trailer Park Jesus |
| 13 |  | toe
For Long Tomorrow
Everything Here is Not Everything |
| 14 |  | The Books
The Lemon Of Pink
Don't Even Sing About It |
| 15 |  | Daughters
Hell Songs
Recorded Inside a Pyramid |
| 16 |  | The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium
Televators |
| 17 |  | Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Jesus, Etc. |
| 18 |  | Kayo Dot
Choirs of the Eye
A Pitcher of Summer |
| 19 |  | Pig Destroyer
Phantom Limb
Girl in the Slayer Jacket |
| 20 |  | The National
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
Slipping Husband |
| 21 |  | Bomb the Music Industry!
To Leave or Die in Long Island
Syke! Life is Awesome! |
| 22 |  | Talking Heads
Remain in Light
Crosseyed and Painless |
| 23 |  | Neurosis
The Eye of Every Storm
A Season in the Sky |
| 24 |  | Dads
American Radass (This Is Important)
If Your Song Has the Word "Beach" in It, I'm Not Listening to It - followed by Get to the Beach |
| 25 |  | Look Mexico
This Is Animal Music
Dude, You Have A Bazooka |
| 26 |  | Boards of Canada
Music Has the Right to Children
Sixtyten |
| 27 |  | Four Tet
Rounds
Spirit Fingers |
| 28 |  | Cannibal Ox
The Cold Vein
Ridiculoid |
| 29 |  | Stars of the Lid
And Their Refinement Of The Decline
The Evil That Never Arrived |
| 30 |  | The Knife
Shaking the Habitual
Full of Fire |
| 31 |  | Mouse on Mars
Iaora Tahiti
Preprise |
| 32 |  | Tipper
Broken Soul Jamboree
Class 5 Roaming Vapour |
| 33 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
We Drift Like Worried Fire |
| 34 |  | Eric Dolphy
Out To Lunch
Hat and Beard |
| 35 |  | Madvillain
Madvillainy
America's Most Blunted |
| 36 |  | Emperor
In the Nightside Eclipse
Into the Infinity of Thoughts |
| 37 |  | Of Montreal
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
We Were Born the Mutants Again With Leafling |
| 38 |  | Demilich
Nespithe
Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort |
| 39 |  | Gorguts
Obscura
Subtle Body |
| 40 |  | Weakling
Dead as Dreams
Cut their Grain and Place Fire Therein |
| 41 |  | Deafheaven
Sunbather
Dream House |
| 42 |  | Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) |
| 43 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
Bleak |
| 44 |  | Wolf Eyes
Human Animal
Rationed Rot |
| 45 |  | At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
Sleepwalk Capsules |
| 46 |  | Sonic Youth
Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
Skink |
| 47 |  | Regina Spektor
Soviet Kitsch
Ode to Divorce |
| 48 |  | This Heat
Deceit
A New Kind of Water |
| 49 |  | Botch
We Are the Romans
Frequency Ass Bandit |
| 50 |  | The Beatles
Revolver
Tomorrow Never Knows |
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