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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 06:25 PM
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Post a favorite song title
"If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats"
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 06:27 PM
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1. "I'm just a
cranky old yank in a cranky old tank on the streets of Yokahama with my Honolulu mama doing those beat-o beat-o flat on my seat-o Hirohito Blues"
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 06:28 PM
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2. "All The Things You Could Be Right Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife
Was Your Mother" - Charles Mingus
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 06:36 PM
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4. oh!
one of my ex bandmates paraphrased that Mingus title for one of his songs! I'm shocked. Oh, well steal from the best, I suppose.
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 06:43 PM
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6. So did Lester Bangs....
One of his proposed book titles was the above, with "Iggy Pop" substitued for Sigmund Freud.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 07:31 PM
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7. his title was
All the things you could be by now if Henry Miller's wife was your mother. And I thought it was original... I don't know my Mingus titles as well as I should. :)
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 10:07 PM
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14. Yes--mine's also a Mingus (nt)
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 06:34 PM
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3. You're Ageing Well
by Joan Baez
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 06:36 PM
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5. "From You To The Gutter is Up"
An old C&W song that Don Imus used to sing from time to time. Back when he was funny...
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 07:32 PM
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8. Homer & Jethro - "Thank God and Greyhound You're Gone"
:-)
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redsoxliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 07:32 PM
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9. Echoes
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 07:33 PM
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10. Accidentally Like a Martyr
by the late great Warren Zevon.

He had lots of great titles.
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Tesibria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 07:34 PM
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12. yes he did (titles AND songs ... )
Did he write a BAD song?

don't think so, but I don't know them ALLLL.
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 10:11 PM
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15. "For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer"
and of course

"My Shit's Fucked Up".
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 11:39 PM
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16. and then
Things to do in Denver when You're Dead
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Tesibria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 07:33 PM
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11. "All I Need is Everything" nt.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 07:36 PM
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13. "Future Homemakers of America" n/t
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 11:40 PM
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17. Tell Me Johnny Are You Queer
is a good one, too.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 11:51 PM
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18. "America Drinks and Goes Home"
Zappa has hundreds. Must I choose?

"Were We Really Ever Safe In San Antonio?"
"The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution"
"Broken Hearts Are For Assholes"
"Hungry Freaks, Daddy"
"The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny"
"G-Spot Tornado"

Hundreds, I'm tellin' ya.
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