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Some songs have titles that aren't used in the lyrics, and end up becoming better known for their lyrics than their title. Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is better known for the refrain "Everybody must get stoned" than it is for the title.
Band | Song | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Nat King Cole | The Christmas Song | Also known as "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire", from its first line. The word "Christmas is in the song, as it wishes "Merry Christmas to you" in its last line, but the word "song" is not in the lyrics. - Thessaly Danes | ||
| Nazareth | Hair of the Dog | Known as "Son of a B*tch", but that may not fly as a title of a song in the 70's. - Paul Warren | ||
| Neil Young | After The Gold Rush | The title is never found in the lyrics. Probably the best known lyrics are in the various choruses, with lines like "Look at Mother Nature on the run / In the nineteen seventies." and "They were flying Mother Nature's silver seed / To a new home in the Sun." So a presumed title might be something like "Mother Nature On The Run" or "Mother Nature's Silver Seed". - The Quirkfetch Kid | ||
| Nektar | A Tab in the Ocean | "A greatly under-rated Prog-Psych. group. None-the-less, I always felt the title of the first cut (and the whole album), was just used as a hook to lure prospective buyer's to take a chance, and spend a buck. It could have been just as easy to label the whole effort "Lake of Acid" - princejellyfish | ||
| New Order | Blue Monday | How does it feel to treat me like you do? - Eric Andrews | ||
| New Order | Blue Monday | New Order wrote a lot of songs like this, other examples include "Thieves Like Us" and "Bizarre Love Triangle". There is a term for these kind of songs, does anybody know what it is?? - Scunny | ||
| New Order | True Faith | I used to think that this day would never come. I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun. My morning sun is the drug that brings me near, to the childhood I lost replaced by fear. - Brian Kelly | ||
| New Order | Bizarre Love Triangle | Another New Order song in which the title is nowhere to be seen. Like "Blue Monday" it had a hit cover---by the group Frente. - britrock | ||
| Nirvana | Smells Like Teen Spirit | "Here we are now, entertain us" - B1982 | ||
| Nirvana | Sliver | "Grandma" probably would have been better, since Kurt's telling her to take him home several times. - rocky | ||
| Nirvana | In Bloom | The chorus is really well known: He's the one Who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means Don't know what it means, when I say - sm1 | ||
| Nirvana | Lithium | Although Kurt Cobain mentions "I'm not gonna crack" several times (and 'cracking' is why some people are prescribed lithium), the drug is not mentioned in the song. - rocky | ||
| Nirvana | Lounge Act | No lounge act mentioned, but Kurt does say the 'f'-word, which would be contraidictory to what a real lounge act would allow. - rocky | ||
| Nirvana | Smells Like Teen Spirit | As this song is known for having misheard lyrics, my dad believed this song was called "Let Me Entertain You". If that was the case, I could belittle Robbie Williams for ruining a perfectly good song. But he didn't, so I can't. - Ned |
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