chapters:songtitles [songsthatsoundlikeothersongs]

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====== Non-American Heavy Metal groups with classic American novels as song titles ======





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//Moby Dick// -- Led Zeppelin





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//Tom Sawyer// -- Rush





====== New wave groups with classic American novels as song titles ======





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//The Sound & the Fury// -- Zeitgeist



This band changed its name to The Reivers, after William Faulkner's last novel, which he wrote in three days [<< I just saw this fact in my notes, but I can't find it now; wikipedia doesn't mention this; wikipedia says it was a best-seller, but also that it was not critically well-regarded]. I recently saw the Steve McQueen (1969) movie based on that novel -- pretty good movie, I thought

====== Repetition, rhyming, alliterativeness, and "palindromitiveness" in Abba titles ======





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//Knowing Me, Knowing You//





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//Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!//





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//I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do//





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//Ring Ring//





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//Money, Money, Money//





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//Voulez Vous//





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//Super Trouper//





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//Mamma Mia//





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//Chiquitita//





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//SOS//







====== Different (and all good) songs with the title "Let the Good Times Roll" ======





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Cars





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Phoebe Snow





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Shirley & Lee





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Dr. John (album: Gumbo)





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Louis Jordan, Ray Charles





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Sam Cooke/Aretha Franklin





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Buck Owens (album: Live in Las Vegas)





====== Two early Elvis song titles with a similar structure ======





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//You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone//





//I Want You, I Need You, I Love You//









====== Cryptic Soul Song Titles ======


==== New Entry ====


//I'll Kill a Brick about My Man//, Hot Sauce




==== Older Entries ====


//One Monkey Don't Stop No Show// -- Honeycone





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Written by Joe Tex





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//One Chain Don't Make No Prison// -- Four Tops







====== Portmanteau Songs ======

In which the song title is an internally referenced song (//portmanteau// probably doesn't mean this)

==== New Entry ====

//Oh Yeah//, Roxy Music -- "they're playin' Oh Yeah on the radio"


==== Earlier Entries ====


//Tennessee Waltz//, Patti Page


//Kentucky Waltz//, Bill Monroe


//Truck Drivin' Man//, George Hamilton IV





====== Two songs called ...  ======





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//Misty Blue// -- Dorothy Moore





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//Midnight Blue// -- Melissa Manchester





====== "Foxey Lady" should be called "Foxey Ladey" ======





====== Neil Young's shared song titles ======





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//Goin' Back// -- Byrds





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//Peace of Mind// -- Loggins and Messina





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//Tell Me Why// -- Beau Brummels





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//Tonight's the Night// -- Rod Stewart





====== Different songs, same title ======





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//Our Town// -- Iris Dement





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//Our Town// -- Marshall Crenshaw





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//Games People Play// -- Joe South





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//Games People Play// -- Spinners





====== Three songs on Blur's Leisure album that share titles with Beatles songs ======





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//Come Together//





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//Birthday//





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//Slow Down// (sort of)