What's your favorite song title? Does it make you go hmmm or huh? Maybe it makes you giggle. Whatever. It's all good.

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2001

Answers

I was just thinking about this today myself. Thank you for asking. I would have to say that my favorite is A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) By Simon & Garfunkel. I think it's my fav cause I had to look up two of the three words in the main title. I'm a geek like that.

The song isn't all that bad either. It eludes to both masturbation and pot smoking. You gotta like that. j/k

The lyrics can be found at http://imv.aau.dk /~jfogde/lyrics/parsley.html just in case you too are a geek.

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2001

Does the fave song title have to also be a fave song?

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2001

Because, if not, I'm nominating Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict". That's a great song title!

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2001

Cake usually has good titles, but they usually come directly from the clever lyrics: "Friend Is A Four Letter Word," "Satan Is My Motor," etc.. Led Zeppelin is the champ at cool song titles that do not come from the lyrics: (just a small sample) "Battle of Evermore," "Boogie With Stu," "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp," "Achilles Last Stand," and way too many more to mention.

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2001

I love that title Milla. I always get this Disneyesque picure in my head. You know, if Disney ever animated Picts. There's a joke in there somewhere.

And it doesn't have to be a good song. That's not my favorite Simon & Garfunkel song.

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2001

Oh come on, people. The best song title in the worls is Baby Got Back!

-- Anonymous, March 29, 2001

I dunno, "Drop-Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life" always made me laugh. I have no idea what the song sounds like, though.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

What about the Dead Milkmen? Great song titles, such as "If You Love Someone, Set Them on Fire" and "Takin' Retards to the Zoo" and, well, whatever, I kind lost my steam there.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

Bitchin' Camaro! Bitchin' Camaro!

There's also "Punk Rock Girl"...

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

Probably my all time favorite Dead Milkmen song is 'Stuart.' No melody, but funny as hell. :-)

That "Drop Kick Me, Jesus" song title comes from an old late night comedy series on TBS, from way back in the early '80s, named "Tush". It starred Bill Tush and Jan Hooks, among others. "Drop Kick" was supposedly a song by a female church organist character with an overbite (who was also voted in high school "Most Difficult To Look At").

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

I thought someone actually made a real song out of it later. No? Maybe?

I could be imagining things. Wouldn't be the first time my personal alternate universe intruded upon my reality.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

Actually, Paul, I first saw a reference to "Drop-Kick Me, Jesus.." way before the early 80s. Like in the late 60s. Pre-dates TBS, even.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

I will take your words for it. I was wholly convinced it was made-up. Can you blame me? Does anyone remember how this song actually goes, who wrote it and/or when?

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

Remember? No. I'm country-deprived by choice. But I did some research.

Drop-kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life
(Paul Craft)

Drop-kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life,
End over end, neither left nor to right.
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop-kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life.

Make me, Oh make me, Lord, more than I am
Make me a part of your master game plan
Free of the earthly tempestions below
I've got the will, Lord, if you've got the toe.

chorus

Bring on the brothers who've gone on before
Bring on the sisters who've knocked on your door.
Bring on those sainted relations of mine
And put them up front in the offensive line.

chorus

Country singer Bobby Bare had great hits such as ``Detroit City'' and ``Your Husband, My Wife.'' But his ballad ``Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through the Goalposts of Life)'' wears thin after repeated listenings. Written by Paul Craft, Bare is forced to sing maudlin lyrics such as ``All the departed loved ones of mine/Stick 'em up front in the offensive line.''

And here's the kicker: Liner notes on the 1997 compilation ``Essential Bobby Bare'' reports ``Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through the Goalposts of Life)'' is former President Bill Clinton's favorite song.

Can't find a date on that, but it on several websites it was clustered with songs from the early sixities, so I'm guessing 1963 or thereabouts.

There ya go.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

Thanks, Milla! I'm almost sorry I asked (seems to lend itself better to a title than to lyrics). :-D

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001

"Detroit City" sure don't wear me thin. That's a great one, Milla!

I kind of like "Cryin my eyes out over you". It gives you a good idea about what kind of song you're about to hear.

Nice question. This is my kind of stuff.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001