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Digging through songs for the delightful "Song Name Chain" threads I noticed that I tend to like songs with a fair amount of word play. Sometimes it's double entendres, sometimes it's actually making up new words, occasionally it's even "private" jokes that only fans would understand.
Here's a few which come to mind for me to get this started:
-- Untitled Too (Steve Kilbey song...second untitled song on the album Dabble)
-- Constant in Opal (song by The Church. Say it out loud, and run the words together)
-- Cantilever (another song by The Church. A cantilever is apparently an attachment on a guitar which is used to get a really distinctive sound in this song. But, if you sound it out, cantilever sounds like Can't I Leave Her, which is very appropriate when you listen to the song.)
-- in The Church (yeah, yeah, them again! But it gives the rest of you every other band to use) song Tel Aviv, it's the making up words trick -- "you better hope the dope don't make you telepathetic"
-- There was a band named The Bhagavad Guitars -- a play on The Bhagavad Gita
-- In the song No Such Thing (Steve Kilbey), there's the line "and please don't mention the church." Kind of an in joke as Sk's "day" job is as a member of the band The Church.
-- The Church song Welcome (which is essentially a list of names) has a lot of the inside joke type of thing. A few are: Gavin McKillop -- producer of the band's P=A cd; Nick Ward -- the band's first drummer (he didn't last long); Tom Miller (Tom Verlaine's original name); Trevor Johnstone -- The Church lighting guy; Wendy Fuller -- prettiest girl at Steve kilbey's school in Dapto. Awww... ; Joyce Bell -- Steve's mum; Alan Muller -- the artist who painted Steve's portrait which appears on his (SK's) Remindlessness cd. A more complete list of names (some are pretty interesting), is at the following link.
"Welcome" names list
What examples of word play in music (titles, lyrics, even band names) can you dig up?
Here's a few which come to mind for me to get this started:
-- Untitled Too (Steve Kilbey song...second untitled song on the album Dabble)
-- Constant in Opal (song by The Church. Say it out loud, and run the words together)
-- Cantilever (another song by The Church. A cantilever is apparently an attachment on a guitar which is used to get a really distinctive sound in this song. But, if you sound it out, cantilever sounds like Can't I Leave Her, which is very appropriate when you listen to the song.)
-- in The Church (yeah, yeah, them again! But it gives the rest of you every other band to use) song Tel Aviv, it's the making up words trick -- "you better hope the dope don't make you telepathetic"
-- There was a band named The Bhagavad Guitars -- a play on The Bhagavad Gita
-- In the song No Such Thing (Steve Kilbey), there's the line "and please don't mention the church." Kind of an in joke as Sk's "day" job is as a member of the band The Church.
-- The Church song Welcome (which is essentially a list of names) has a lot of the inside joke type of thing. A few are: Gavin McKillop -- producer of the band's P=A cd; Nick Ward -- the band's first drummer (he didn't last long); Tom Miller (Tom Verlaine's original name); Trevor Johnstone -- The Church lighting guy; Wendy Fuller -- prettiest girl at Steve kilbey's school in Dapto. Awww... ; Joyce Bell -- Steve's mum; Alan Muller -- the artist who painted Steve's portrait which appears on his (SK's) Remindlessness cd. A more complete list of names (some are pretty interesting), is at the following link.
"Welcome" names list
What examples of word play in music (titles, lyrics, even band names) can you dig up?