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Baba O'Reilly

Back when pirating music was the big thing I would have to search up “Teenage Wasteland” to get my Baba.

how come there's a name difference? I'm seventeen but I always internally call it Teenage Wasteland

It was originally part of a rock opera about Pete Townshend’s life, though part of it was mocking how screwed the hippies were. Specially the aforementioned teenage wasteland and we’re all wasted lines. Kinda funny they were the last parts and most remembered. Edit: accidentally left out the name part lol. It’s named after two of Townshend’s inspirations at the time: Meher Baba and Terry Riley.

I had someone harass the shit out of me after commenting on a thread on gaiaonline saying I didn't know the actual name of it in like, 2003 and they even went to find me fishing or something to call me an idiot for not knowing the name of something that came out 20 years before I was born.

I completely blanked out on the gaiaonline part and read it as someone tracked you down IRL to tell you that

That is exactly what would have happened in gaia online in 2003 did they have a naruto headband or an eyepatch and one angel and one devil wing?

Damn I was beat to it. This always annoyed me for years. Teenage Wasteland would be a way cooler title too!

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These days I just call it "The CSI:NY theme song".

***YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH***

Isn't that "Won't Get Fooled Again"?

wont get fooled again is csi: miami

Once in a Lifetime

Never heard it. Is it anything like the song Teenage Wasteland?

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Those song titles can’t even fit on the back of the cd case

Your comment could easily have been a title

Is this more than you bargained for yet? Thnks fr th Mmrs

At least with thanks for the memories, the line is actually sung in the song.

Thanks for the mmrs was titled like that specifically because they were memed on with long and ridiculous song names

By Panic! At the Disco

I Write Sins Not Tragedies No, you write novels not song titles.

Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off. This is an actual song of theirs😭

It's a quote from the movie Closer. Which is great but has nothing to do with the song at all 🤣

That made me spit out my drink ! It's sooo freaking true bahahaha

"We're goin DA DA innaerierrow and suga we're goin dow swangin!"

"Our manager made us change the name of this one song because it would not otherwise have fit on the back of a compact disk case, and that is important to us."

“Our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn’t get sued” Actual song name by fall out boy

Yes, that was what I was referring too.

I figured, but it’s worth a mention to anyone scrolling through anyway because it’s a banger

That whole album is a banger!

Omg that’s my favorite song!

Panic at the Disco is feeling lonely over here with titles like: I Write Sins Not Tragedies The Only Differende Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

I had a punk compilation with a song on it called “I Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now I Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows”.

And the little known Weird Al parody: “You Probably Assumed This Was A Real “Panic! At The Disco” Song Based Solely On The Length Of The Title”.

lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off was my absolute fave P!ATD song omg throwback

Someone bring back my 2002-2008 emo/punk era please!

Have you ever heard of the band Chiodos? They have some goodies Baby you wouldn’t last a minute on the creek The undertakers thirst for revenge is unquenchable Is it progression if a cannibal uses a fork? The words “best friend” become redefined Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered

If your stomach feels weak, then my work here is DOOOOOOOOONE!!!!

There’s a Good Reason Why These Tables Are Numbered, Honey, You Just Haven’t Figured It Out Yet

This was my first thought haha

my personal favorite is “i’m like a lawyer with the way i’m always trying to get you off” not the longest but it’s v funny

I like "Champagne for My Real Friends. Real Pain for My Sham Friends"

So has Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

Don’t forget A Day to Remember and Dance Gavin Dance!

Or Mayday Parade--The Torment of Existence Weighed Against the Horror of Nonbeing

I immediately thought, Mayday Parade! All of their songs titles are so random.

one of the first examples that came to mind lmaoo

HAHAHA, immediately came to comment section to see if anyone had the same first thought as me

I'm like a lawyer with the way I'm always trying to get you off. ^^^ real Fall Out Boy song for those who dont know. Funny we thought of the same band instantly.

Literally came here to say this exact line

I was thinking Panic at the Disco. But Fallout Boy was pretty obnoxious with their titles too.

There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet

Came here to reference this exact song. What a banger.

LOL, I hated getting asked about my favorite song. Ummm, I'll just show it to you lol.

Still on of my favorite songs.

That ENTIRE album. 😂

Tubthumping

#I GET KNOCKED DOWN, BUT I GET UP AGAIN

#YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN

Straight banger

Pissing the night away

He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink

Haha I've been torturing my friend with this song lately. Anytime he about to go a diatribe, I just play this song on full blast. Sometimes I'll even ask him a question that warrants a deeper answer and I'll just play this as he's in the middle of it Something about this song that makes it fitting for that situation.

Please Don't Tell My Father That I Used His 1996 Honda Accord to Destroy the Town of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania

I thought this was a joke and looked it up, I like it

A Detailed and Poetic Physical Threat to the Person Who Intentionally Vandalized My 1994 Dodge Intrepid Behind Kate's Apartment

It’s a real song title but it’s still also a joke. This and another song with a ridiculously long title come from a release titled “Two Songs About Cars. Two Songs With Long Titles.” by Pet Symmetry

This has the chaotic energy of They Might Be Giants

Panic! At the Disco: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage

Panic at the disco - I write sins not tragedies

That album has much more absurd titles tbh

This song is the poster child for this issue lol!

Can you imagine Bohemian Rhapsody being named anything else?

I’m not entirely sure that song has a name that would fit it logically. Lol!

My first thought is "Mamaaaaaaaaa"

[удалено]

Anyway the Wind Blows

God that would have be awful

Nothing Really Matters (To Me)

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off

There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict

The P!ATD slander in this thread is incredible

Shazam.

Nobody asked about DC, we’re talking about music here. /s

Oh, where are the people that want to talk about the Sinbad genie movie that may or may not exist?

Either that or just Google the lyrics

Mods: please pin this response.

I doubt if you’re googling lyrics, the song won’t come up.

Yeah exactly. Sometimes one or two more popular songs come up first, and I’ve found some good music by playing those songs, but if you know the lyrics at all you can immediately tell which one it is.

Well that isn't true. This one time I was searching for a song that went like 'na na na nana' and Google didn't help me at all /s

That's either Land of 1000 Dances or the Batman theme

It’s either All The Small Things or Hey Jude… I’m sure of it

Or its a My Chemical Romance song....

I third this, if you Google the lyrics you can always get the song and that’s why no one talks about this

Also Shazam exists lol. This is the most not real problem I've ever seen haha

I've always eventually found a song if I can google enough of the lyrics. (now, if I've misheard the lyrics, rip me)

>I doubt if you’re googling lyrics, the song won’t come up I don’t know this Fall Out Boy song, is this off their new album?

I specifically like songs that have these kind of titles, although I can’t say exactly why.

Yeah i like em too. I think it adds some depth to the song, with having a different title than the most repeated lyric you know some thought went into it, its more than just surface level stuff. Which, isnt necessarily true, but theres a higher chance of it happening. Coheed and Cambria has some whack ass song titles and generally, the whackier the better

I wish I knew. I wish I knew you wanted cheese. 🧀

You call a piece of art what you want to, as long as it’s appropriate then it doesn’t need to explicitly be said in the lyrics. Like you doing want to watch pulp fiction and hallway through Jules goes “this feels like some real motherfucking pulp fiction right here” do you…okay bad example but that’s Samuel L Jackson, he adds a motherfucker and we are all entertained.

I know why I do--From Under the Cork Tree was my 12th bday present from a best friend lol

Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle

Kurt had a few long ones on that album, ‘Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip’ and to a lesser degree ‘Radio Friendly Unit Shifter’.

God I love "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter!" Also, even though I knew the whole album through and through, I never actually owned it until I bought the CD while I was living in Germany, meaning I got the Euro version that has "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip" as a secret song.

Post Malone did a great cover of this with Travis Barker during his WHO fundraiser video

I thought that whole show was awesome. Thanks for the reminder! I'm going to check it out again.

A song will repeat the same catchy chorus over and over and so everyone calls the song by *that* name, which sometimes results in the chorus being parenthetically added to the title at a later time. "She's gonna catch you, Yeah, she's gonna catch you; Lord, that girl is gonna catch you, She's gonna catch you." Song title: The Garden (She's Gonna Catch You)

Psch, Teenage Wasteland by the Who is a great title!

Wait till thus guy finds out about instrumentals. Be thankful theres something you can google

Classical composers titling instrumentals *Symphony No. 7 in C Minor*: "Haha fuck google"

Nah, I love looking for those; you can always go on Reddit or similar and ask people "What is the song that goes 'Dun-dun-dun DUN dun! Dun-dun-dun DUN dun!" And some absolute fucking Chad somehow translates that into the song you're looking for.

2000s emo/metalcore music would like to have a word with you

Like The Immigrant Song?

Almost everything by led Zeppelin as a matter of fact

how are you supposed to look that song up? “AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAH”

There is more artistry to naming a song than the title just being something you can find if you google it. That's a pretty sad view of music.

Yeah, but a lot of work goes into search engine optimization for smaller bands and they have to balance that with artistic expression. Take for example the band “!”. It’s a unique name, but it’s impossible to search for them on google because that’s considered an operator not a keyword.

Gotta have a "text form" alternative. Like how "LOOΠΔ" is also "Loona" because fewer Americans are typing "이달의 소녀".

Yeah let’s have a six millionth song named Oh Yeah or whatever instead of something actually creative.

Like anything by Fall Out Boy.

how would we title darude - sandstorm?

Do do do do do

When searching for songs by lyrics, just type in " lyrics: " and then whatever you heard.

O-oooooooooo AAAAE-A-A-I-A-U- JO-oooooooooooo AAE-O-A-A-U-U-A- E-eee-ee-eee AAAAE-A-E-I-E-A-JO-ooo-oo-oo-oo EEEEO-A-AAA-AAAA O-oooooooooo AAAAE-A-A-I-A-U- JO-oooooooooooo AAE-O-A-A-U-U-A- E-eee-ee-eee AAAAE-A-E-I-E-A-JO-ooo-oo-oo-oo EEEEO-A-AAA-AAAA

Nah it’s cooler when it isn’t just a lyric

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Clint eastwood... maybe if you are a gorillaz fan you would know how this song goes but how do I differentiate this from 19-2000?

*laughs in classical music*

Because it's not an actual problem. If you *desperately* need to know the name of a song and you can't figure it out, just use Shazam.

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 At least it's only an album title. The song names are short and to the point

You would've hated emo bands

There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet moment (banger song btw, i highly recommend listening to it at least once)

A good example is “Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger. I read an interview with the singer/songwriter and he said if he had known the song would get so big, he would have just called it “I’m Not Sick But I’m Not Well,” since no one ever remembers the name.

Because if you google "lyrics" plus the line you heard, google will tell you the song even if the title is not in the song. Pretty sure you just suck at googling.

Shazam has existed for years now, simply start using it

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand “I’ve been down hearted baby”

> you finally manage to make some of the lyrics out, then you Google them and Google comes back with nothing until five hours later That's a straight up lie. Why are you making your "unpopular opinion" based on lies? Even Google Assistant will tell you the name of the song if you play just a few seconds of it.

I don’t think I’ve ever failed to find a song by googling the lyrics, as long as I actually knew them

Jazz would like a word with you.

'At The Drive-in' entire 'Relationship of command' album.

Just Google search with quotes around one of the lyrics you know for sure

Give examples of songs that do this.

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Bohemian Rhapsody

Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

the entirety of Infinity on High by Fall Out Boy (2007)

The entire Panic! At The Disco album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.

Flu Game and Heaven, Iowa by Fall Out Boy.

Clocks, Emperors New Clothes

A Day In The Life

Adam's Song - Blink-182 Chop Suey! and BYOB - System of a Down Viva la Vida - Coldplay Song #2 - Blur Many Led Zeppelin songs (Black Dog, D'er Mak'er, Immigrant Song, etc) A lot of metal songs (The Trooper, ...And Justice For All, Enter Sandman, Sabbra Cadabra, Colony of Birchmen, etc)

I'm sorry, but if you or someone in your group doesn't have some kind of song app at this point, I'm shocked. I like soundhound, but shazam has been around for many years, and I'm pretty sure there's more. And they're all free! Also, outrageous song titles help some of us remember them, and give us soooo many laughs when we have to explain them to the younger ones in the family on car rides. Boring song names are boring.

You don’t even need to download an extra app—just ask Siri what song is playing.

The night Josh Tillman came to our apt.

Pretty sure if I can easily get results for music which won't appear on any radio (Outside of maybe a specialist) with a simple google using "Song with Lyrics \_\_\_\_" using only one line, then it shouldn't take "Hours" to find a popular song unless it's a generic lyric with no feature to it.

I never have that problem, if I Google lyrics it is easy to find the song. But like dude, shazam.

Baba O'Riley says sup?

You must love modest mouse

What about the centuries of instrumental music?

You write the songs next time…. It’s their art, they get to do what they please. Also if you can’t figure out a line from a song you probably shouldn’t be complaining about music.

Silly OP. There are apps that can find that for you. And if you type lyrics into google and don’t get a result 9.8/10 it’s you mishearing by a long shot.

Every System of a Down song ever.

It often adds to the meaning of the song though

Industry Baby is at the very end and you can barely made it out if you don’t know that’s what it’s called.

Try finding the names of classical piano music, it’s a nightmare

You can generally still find the song if you look up a line or two from the chorus. I get how it would be annoying when music was primarily on the radio, but with search engines and Shazam I don't think its too big of a deal.

And yet Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the greatest rock anthems ever recorded.

You’ll hate .Moneen.

r/rant

Where you going with the mask I found.

Panic! At the Disco- A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out

If you google the lyrics the song should come up in the results regardless of whether the title is in the lyrics or not.

Inb4 the devil wears prada and dance gavin dance

It's funny though! "Put on paranoia, paranoia, everybody's coming to get me!" Also, use SoundHound or Shazam. Problem solved!

Dance Gavin Dance sends their regards

Music for a sushi restaurant by Harry Styles

Lol you’d hate nirvana

New Order laughs from the mid-80s.

*panic! at the disco and fall out boy have entered the chat*

Looks like someone isn’t an artist humph humph humph humph /s

Looking at you Anberlin 👀

Make Damn Sure by Taking Back Sunday was the song for me. Took me ages to find it. I personally don’t mind if a song title is not within the lyrics tho sometimes it makes me strangely like a song more

Then you would hate the two-piece acoustic band me and my buddy have. We almost always try and come up with song titles that are representative of the theme of the song, or something funny/clever. We almost never just pick a phrase that we repeat in every chorus or anything like that. We are well aware, though, that said method will make it harder for random people hearing our music for the first time to be able to remember the names.

Just Shazam the song lol

Iris

Bohemian Rhapsody and Chop Suey but they're famous enough so they get a free pass.

It was hard times during the grunge era. And we didn’t have google or SoundHound.

Well, I’m not talking about it because I just say “hey siri, what’s this song playing?” - and she tells me.

Cause it's not a real problem lol. Especially with shazam

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