Better living through song titles: FAVORITE PHILOSOPHICAL SONG TITLE

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Better living through song titles: FAVORITE PHILOSOPHICAL SONG TITLE

Sorry I had to yank off Every Rose Has Its Thorn and I Wanna Be Sedated. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Which of these do you live your life by? Or which would you like to? Sorry if some of these are weak (and Let It Be and That's the Way of the World are saying the same thing) but you'd be amazed how few song titles feature complete thoughts, especially ones that are worth living one's life by. So if I'm even more of a butthole than usual about keeping this kicked a while, forgive it please; more effort went into this than you'd think.

Gimme good other votes within an hour and I'll get No Woman No Cry off there; kinda tacky I'll admit. (If it has votes by then, I'll at least replace whatever's skunked at that time, so don't rush to vote Other.)

[flowomo]

1. I Kan't Stop Loving You

[NC_Nurse]

2. "Seekers who are lovers"

and "Know who you are at every age"
both by the Cocteau Twins:loveya:

[TheBlob]

3. "Spirits In The Material World"

The Police

[MichaelUK]

4. It's a motherf*cker

By Eels

Nice track too, if you don't mind swear words.

[flowomo]

5. Only Love Can Break a Sarte

[Bossy Monkey]

11. or fart, for that matter n/t

[tigereye]

27. good one

[Misunderestimator]

6. You gotta know when to hold em

Is that a song title or just some of the lyrics?

[Bossy Monkey]

10. That's "The Gambler"

For Kenny, I guess you could go with Don`t Fall In Love With A Dreamer or Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In).

[Misunderestimator]

7. Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys

Now that's a timely one, philosophically speaking.

[ihaveaquestion]

8. Don't Worry, Be Happy

That song always made me laugh.

Don't flame me too bad, please.

[BurtWorm]

9. My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains

[Rowdyboy]

12. "Que sera, sera..." from Hitchcock's remake of

The Man Who Knew Too Much.....

Whatever will be, will be

[Bossy Monkey]

23. Also the theme from The Doris Day Show

Another one I probably would have put on the poll to replace a non-vote-getter if my brain and typing fingers were a little quicker. (Sorry)

[Rowdyboy]

24. Doris Day was the female lead in the ,ovie and she sang it first there

Jimmy Stewart was also in it.

[felonious thunk]

13. My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus

Or many other Jimmy Buffett titles.

[OneBlueSky]

14. damn! . . . you beat me to it! . . . :) n/t

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[Bossy Monkey]

20. This would have been one of the replacement songs were my reflexes better

Sorry!

[cosmicdot]

15. Imagine

[Arbustosux]

16. Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

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[arwalden]

17. Relax

[ACK]

18. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing by the Minutemen

Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
list monitors arrive with petition iron-fisted philosophy is your life worth a painting? is this girl vs. boy with different symbols? being born is power scout leader nazi tagged as big sin your risk chains me hostage me, i'm fighting with my head, am not ambiguous i must look like a dork me, naked with textbook poems spout fountain against the nazis with weird kinds of sex symbols in speeches that are big dance thumps if we heard mortar shells we'd cuss more in our songs and cut down the guitar solos (guitar solo) so dig this big crux organizing the boy scouts for murder is wrong ten years beyond the big sweat point man, it was still there, ever without you coming back around, look! coming together, for just a second, a peek, a guess at the wholeness that's way too big

[Bossy Monkey]

19. Last second edit: Let It Be and Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing replaced

by two other songs that won't get votes either (can't BELIEVE Let It Be didn't get any love it an entire hour!), Momma's don't let your babies and Love will turn you around, respectively. Sorry, I let too much time elapse and didn't leave myself enough to think this through too well. The Other slot and reply function still work, however.:D

[Westegg]

21. "In Every Dream Home a Heartache"---Roxy Music

[SarahB]

22. "Revolution"

[Atlas Mugged]

25. 'You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw'

I have no idea who recorded it, and I've never heard it, but the song title is still stuck in my head. Of course, 'Love Stinks' is a favorite, no nonsense title.

[Bossy Monkey]

26. Best album title ever-- by Spooky Tooth. Dunno if it was a song though

but a very good suggestion regardless, as was Love Stinks. Spooky Tooth is the band from which Gary Wright sprung, although he may have already departed by that point.
PS: Welcome to DU!

[Bossy Monkey]

29. Upon further research, indeed album title not song title, but what the hey

It's a silly poll question, so why not album titles as well as song titles? By the way, Mick Jones of Foreigner was also in Spooky Tooth. (Further useless 70s trivia I realize, but still)

[Whitacre D_WI]

30. "You Broke My Heart (and I Broke Your Jaw)" is by the Brentwoods.

I'm holding the 45 in my hands right now.

It featured Karen Singletary from Supercharger on vocals and drums.

Great song.

[Kellanved]

28. "no alcohol isn't a solution either"

Die Toten Hosen, original title: "Kein Alkohol ist auch keine Lösung".

[Atlas Mugged]

46. Woo hoo!!! The Pants of Death!!!

I love Die Toten Hosen! I'm usually in Berlin on a yearly basis and I always look forward to their videos. Isn't "Ich will nicht!" by them?

[BrotherBuzz]

31. "How can I miss you if you won't go away"

by Dan Hicks
Oh, how about "I scare myself just thinking about you" also by Hicks

[Bossy Monkey]

45. Then there's If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? by Mental As Anything n/t

[UCLA02]

32. U2's "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Pretty much sums up my law school days...

[markses]

33. The Smiths: "How Soon is Now"

A erudite meditation on temporality and the metaphysics of presence

[markses]

34. The Smiths: "What Difference Does it Make"

Here Morrissey and Johnny Mar contemplate the philosophy of difference in the context of the eterenal return of the same. As my kid sister said, Yowza, Patrick Moynihan!

[markses]

35. The Smiths: "Bigmouth Strikes Again"

Morrissey's retort to Plato on the problems of rhetoric. Dazzling in its profundity.

[markses]

36. The Smiths: "There is a Light that Never Goes Out"

Ruminations on the soul and particle physics. Johnny Marr plays the flute. Bizarre and apposite.

[markses]

37. The Smiths: "Hatful of Hollow"

Here the boys take up the debate between Hobbes and Boyle regarding the existence of a vaccum in nature.

[markses]

38. The Smiths: "Vicar in a Tutu"

While The Smiths generally consider themselves metaphysicians of first order, and generally decline to get involved in distassteful cultural arguments, they here take on Judith Butler's thesis in "Gender Trouble" with characteristic British elegance. A virtuoso performance. Some claim that the work also stands in as a biography of Augistine of Hippo, but these stories are mostly apocryphal.

[markses]

39. The Smiths: "Paint a Vulgar Picture"

A strange(ways) contemplation of the Kantian sublime and aesthetic theory generally. Adorno is here elevated to the stature of a god, though a pagan one.

[markses]

40. The Smiths: "I Want the One I Can't Have"

A little known attack on the work of Jacques Lacan. Devastating and preposterous.

[markses]

41. The Smiths: "Half a Person"

A careful analysis of Aristophanes argument in Plato's Symposium. Thought by some to be one of the most insightful reads of the dialogue to emerge of of 20th century Manchester.

[markses]

42. The Smiths: "Girl Afraid"

Here Morrissey interrogates Spinoza's Ethics - and particularly the geometrical method - while at the same time putting forth a theory of feminist affect. Medieval in its subtlety.

[markses]

47. Shoplifters of the World

How could I have left out Shoplifters of the World? Here, Morrissey not only places into question the labor theory of value, but also does a jujitsu move on Baudrillard's understanding of the Real:

Shoplifters of the World
Unite and take over
Shoplifters of the world
Hand it over hand it over hand it over....

I tried living in the real world
Instead of a shell
But before I began
I was bored before I even began....

[markses]

48. Meat is Murder

Conceived as a polemic against the New Philosophy in France, and especially the work of Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut's Why We are Not Nietzscheans, this work devolves into an unrestrained attack on Ferry's The New Ecological Order, and develops, at last, an ethics of the animal not founded on human difference. Startling in its honesty and anti-humanism.

[markses]

49. The Smiths: "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"

Little more than a clever retread of Bergson's essay on laughter.

[markses]

50. The Smiths: "The Queen is Dead"

A beautifully crafted encomium to Simone de Beauvoir. With a guitar solo by Toril Moi.

[markses]

51. The Smiths: "Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me"

We see the influence of Marr's anti-psychoanalytic obsession in this witty takedown of Freudianism. In the background, one hears the faint repeated murmering of Deleuze and Guattari's Mil Plateau: "Everychild knows that wolves travel in packs. Not Freud." This beat is rhizomatic.

[Failure]

43. Imagine.

[thestatusquo]

44. how about 'this little light of mine'

I'm gonna let it shine...everybody.........this little light of mine.........

[ThoughtCriminal]

52. Sound of Silence

nt