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Song titles that are just someone's name

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by thommo

like for instance

Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath
Black Box Recorder - Andrew Ridgeley
The Lovely Feathers - Rod Stewart

i'm trying to think of some more but going blank.

i'm not talking about songs that have names IN them, like Gareth Brown Says or Robert De Niro's Waiting or anything like that, but the name IS the title.

Any?

thommo | 12 Mar '08, 11:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

GoodBooks - Alice

Frattellis - Henrietta?
My Chemical Romance - Helena

VALERIE?!


mildred pierce

by sonic youth


Scarlett Johansson by The Teenagers

I like this game


Jilted John

by Jilted John

i'm on fire this morning.


hang on..thats not right

*fire burns OUT*


thank you though.


patty lee

les savy fav


Jerome by SPAN

Ruby by Le Kaisers
Elviss by These New Puritans


full names?

because there's surely hundreds of first name's: lola.

If not, then new Tapes N' Tapes song = George Micheal.


Oh yeah

full names would be better.


Hot Snakes - Ben Gurion

Mogwai - Hugh Dallas
Trail of Dead - Mark David Chapman


Distophia

Robert Redford!


Neon Neon - Michael Douglas

Do these names have to be famous or can they just be names? If so,

Muse- Jimmy Kane
Stone Roses- Sally Cinnamon
Beatles- Eleanor Rigby


Just people

not necessarily famous.

i thought of another one

Mu - Paris Hilton


...

Luka - Suzanne Vega
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
Michael Caine - Madness
MLK - U2
Wolfe Tones - Bobby Sands


Mika

Grace Kelly


'Andy Warhol' - David Bowie

'Patrick Bateman' - Manics
'Kevin Carter' - Manics
'R.P. McMurphy' - Manics
'Mr Crowley' - Ozzy Osbourne


fuxxake

i should have thought of that one at least.


what about...

Kelly Jones – Suzy
Kelly Jones – Rosie
Kelly Jones – Liberty
Kelly Jones – Katie
Kelly Jones – Violet
Kelly Jones – Jayne
Kelly Jones –Misty
Kelly Jones – Emily
Kelly Jones – Jean
Kelly Jones – Summer
?


and: karl blau

in a vague attempt to restore credibility.


not full names

unless they all wrote a song called Kelly Jones


Mogwai

Stanley Kubrick


Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole

quite a common name, i believe


Tracie – Level 42

Ben – Michael Jackson
Grace - Supergrass
Mary Jo – Belle and Sebastian
Jolene – Dolly Parton
Roxanne – The Police


The Kinks - David Watts

Do they have to be real people?


no


so

Tracy Jacks counts as well.

Didn't somebody do a song called Tracey Emin recently?


Me

Tracey Emin, you have a big face
Tracey Emin, I'd like to punch it
Tracey Emin, please go away
Your hurting my eyes with your stupid chin.


:(


:D


:(


:D

(sorry)


Was it...

These New Puritans - I Wanna Be Tracey Emin?


Hmm, maybe.

i might write a song just called Tracey Emin...a NICE one.


Mark Kozelek has a few

Ruth Marie
Duk Koo Kim
Glenn Tipton


yo la tengo

tom courtenay


The Blood Brothers - Johnny Ripper

Blink 182 - Wendy Clear
Rocket From The Crypt - Lorna Doom
OXES - Tony Baines
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin
Jetplane Landing - Sam Cooke


Mary

Mary - Supergrass
Mary - Scissor Sisters
Mary Wana - Nicotines


ooh and

Mary Jane - The Vines
old school is the only school!


Nicotines

fucking hell!


Sally Webster

by Gorky's


Seymour Stein

B&S


Timothy Leary - Moody Blues

Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd

Dinah Mo Hum - Frank Zappa


Leif Erikson

Interpol


that's wrong.

They haven't got his name right.

bloody interpol.


That's not the full title though

it's James Dean (I Wanna Know)

but there is an Eagles song called James Dean :D


:)


There's this

Blur - Ernold Same


or

Dan Abnormal.

Although that's Damon' pseudonym.


Sonic Youth have a few...

Marilyn Moore
Mildred Pierce
Karen Koltrane
Heather Angel
Helen Lundeberg


A few more...

Gomez - Steve McCroski
Gomez - Rex Kramer
Good Shoes - May Lannoye
Hope of the States - George Washington


Ah

it's already been mentioned


Fountains of Wayne - Denise

Ben Folds Five - Kate/Uncle Walter/Julianne
Fosca - Kim
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay


Matilda V

Lupen Crook


ben folds (five):

eddie walker
alice childress
fred jones (part 2)


Sons and Daughters - Johnny Cash

The Like - June Gloom


Bob Wilson, Anchorman

Half Man, Half Biscuit


CHOON


And also by HMHB 'F-in Hell, It's Fred Titmus

and
- Vitus Gerulaitis
- Hedley Verityesque
- A Lilac Harry Quinn
- D'Ye Ken Ted Moult


jens lekman - julie

arab strab - kate moss
underworld - bruce lee


Mandy

by Barry Manilow or Drop Nineteens
Baba O'Riley by The Who
Buzz Fledderjohn by Tom Waits
Lindsay Lohan by Spankrock
Stagger Lee by Nick Cave
er... Santa Claus by The Sonics?
Skylon! by Gruff Rhys


The Frank and Walters Tony Cochrane

Fantastic song. They also have one called "Johnny Cash".


Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso

The Milkshakes - General Belgrano
Jedi Knights - Noddy Holder
Byrds - Old John Robertson
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson & John McLaughlin & Billy Preston
Royal Trux - Stevie
Johnny Cash - Joe Bean
Beatles - Rocky Racoon
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jnr
Miss Kitten - Frank Sinatra
Lemonheads - Frank Mills
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Blur - Colin Zeal
Prince - Dorothy Parker


Hi


WEEZER-BUDDY HOLLY

Pixies-Crackity Jones
Nick Cave-Henry Lee
Bowie-Ziggie Stardust
SFA-Venus and Serena
Sufjan Stevens-Abraham
Red hot chili peppers- Magic Johnson
Toumani Diabate- Ali Farke Toure
Pixies- Alec Eiffel
Euros Childs-Ali Day
Kenickie-brother John (assuming john was a monk)
Neon Neon-Michael Douglas
Hefner-Lee Remmick
Hefner-Mary Lee
Russian Futurists-Paul Simon
Wannadies-Lee Remmick


and more

add n to x buckminster fuller


if you were allowed part

mountain goats- linda blair was born innocent
Mountain goats- Myke myers resplendent
Jeff Lewis-williamsburg will oldham horror
help she can't swim-what would morrissey say


it's only a first name

but elvis costello did alison...


The Go-Betweens had a Lee Remick too

Don't know if it's the same as the Wannadies', but Hefner's is different.


liza radley

the jam


The Boats

We made it for you, was just a series of names, but not full ones.

How about:

1. Dirty Dustin Hoffman Needs a Bath
2. Dustin Hoffman Gets a Bath
3. Dustin Hoffman Thinks About Eating the Soap
4. Dustin Hoffman Scrubs Too Hard and Loses Soap
5. Dustin Hoffman Does Not Resist Temptation To Eat the Bathtub
6. Dustin Hoffman's Wife Comes Home
7. Dustin Hoffman's Wife Seems Suspicious About the Absent Tub
8. Dustin Hoffman Feigns Ignorance of Missing Bathtub
9. Dustin Hoffman's Wife Calls in Detective to Dust for Porcelain Particles on Dustin Hoffman's Tongue
10. Dustin Hoffman's Tongue Taken to Police Lab Where It Is Used as Toilet Paper and Reading Material While on Toilet (Naughty)
11. Dustin Hoffman Offers Lame Possible Explanation For Missing Tub
12. Dustin Hoffman's Wife Makes Sarcastic Remark, Cuts the Head Off of a Duck, Places It Where the Tub Was and Begins to Groan (Growl)
13. Dustin Hoffman Becomes Indignant and Wets Himself
14. Dustin Hoffman Quits Bathroom and Climbs a Tree
15. Dustin Hoffman's Children Enter the Bathroom
16. Dustin Hoffman's Children Don't Enter the Bathroom


all by

Of Montreal (I forgot to add)


John Belushi - BROKEN FAMILY BAND

John Barleycorn - millions of acts (although recent On The Bone-signee Benjamin Wetherill is best)

Daniel - ELTON JOHN
My Sister - TINDERSTICKS
Alice - SISTERS OF MERCY
Emma - SISTERS OF MERCY (and HOT CHOCOLATE)


Thursday-ian curtis

tribe of toffs- John Kettley


reuben - freddy krueger

do they have to be real people? i sort of assumed not.


dont think anyone said

john wayne gacy, jr. by sufjan...


Animal Collective - Derek

Pink Grease - Lou Reed
Dan Deacon - Jimme Joe Roche


er

The Beatles-Eleanor Rigby


The Blood Brothers

Jennifer
James Brown


A few

Maria - Rage Against The Machine
Mark David Chapman - ....Trail of Dead
Nicole - Ash
Peggy Sue - Blink 182
James Brown - The Blood Brothers
Jesus Christ - Brand New (haha)
Jane Doe - Converge
Bill McCai - The Coral

Meh it's taking too long to go down my music :(


Maggie May

by Rod Stewart

My fave Rod tune, couldn't see it in the lists....


ditto

on the fav rod (solo) tune