Ridiculously long song titles you will never hear
JOBURG – Some bands and artists are known for their extreme song titles, which can be entertaining and deceiving.
You might have the Fall Out Boys’ song, Get busy living or get busy dying (Do your part to save the scene and stop going to shows), or the Beatles’ song, Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey, on your playlist, but you would still not nearly have the song with the longest or most complicated title.
According to Listology, an online repository of movie, book, music, television and other lists, some of the longest song titles were given to us by Christine Lavin, a contemporary folk music singer-songwriter; Fairport Convention, an English folk rock band and Rednex, a Swedish electronic country group.
Examples of such long-winded and sometimes tongue-twisting titles include:
Long live British democracy which flourishes and is constantly perfected under the immaculate guidance of the great, honourable, generous and correct Margaret Hilda Thatcher. She is the blue sky in the hearts of all nations. Our people pay homage and bow in deep respect and gratitude to her. The milk of human kindness by Test Dept.
The sad but true story of Ray Mingus, the lumberjack of bulk rock city, and his never slacking tribe in exploiting the so far undiscovered areas of the intention to bodily intercourse from the opposite species of his kind, during intake of all the mental condition that could be derived from fermentation by Rednex.
Some people know all too well how bad liquorice, or any candy for that matter, can taste when having laid out in the sun too long and I think I just ate too much by The Hives.
Sir B. McKenzie’s daughter’s lament for the 77th mounted lancers retreat from the straits of Loch Knombe, in the year of our Lord 1727, on the occasion of the announcement of her marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie by Fairport Convention.
Regretting what I said to you when you called me 11am on a Friday morning to tell me that at 1pm Friday afternoon you’re gonna leave your office, go downstairs, hail a cab to go out to the airport to catch a plane to go skiing in the Alps for two weeks, not that I wanted to go with you, I wasn’t able to leave town, I’m not a very good skier, I couldn’t expect you to pay my way, but after going out with you for three years I don’t like surprises by Christine Lavin, is possibly the longest song title – ever!
The above song titles have abbreviated or additional titles that are easier to remember and say, which are more mainstream and commonly known to fans, but aren’t as interesting as the full title.
