Songs Where The Title Is The First Thing Sung

[Captain Z]

2Pac & Dr Dre - California Love
Air - Sexy Boy
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
Bob Marley and The Wailers - One Love (People Get Ready)
Bomfunk MCs - Freestyler
Camila Cabello - Havana
Foo Fighters - All My Life
Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
No Mercy - Where Do You Go
The Prodigy - Breathe

[Dusty Substance]

O.M.D - Enola Gay

[Captain Z]

Obligatory Phoenix Nights link:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54mxfq (3:17)

[The Culture Bunker]

The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
Madness - Night Boat to Cairo (I think)

[massive bereavement]

Come to think of it Lennon might be the king of this. In addition to the above:

Power to the People
Whatever Gets you Thru the Night
Woman is the n**ger of the World (!)

Hold on
Remember
Look at me
My Mummy's Dead
How?
Do the Oz
Angela
Out the Blue
Bless You
Nobody Loves You (When you're down and out)

[idunnosomename]

Bob the builder

[Fr.Bigley]

Say say say by McCartney and that other Lad

[massive bereavement]

Laurie Anderson - O Superman, unless you count the "ha ha ha ha ha ha" loop as being sung.

[Gulftastic]

'Gulf Coast Highway' by Nanci Griffith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnK4P9stK9U

'From A Distance' by Nanci Griffith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzORgC1NpM

'If I was Your Girlfriend' by Prince (ignoring the vocalising)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0j2ZAqeVk

'No Sleep Till Brooklyn' by The Beastie Boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Y0cy-nvAg

[massive bereavement]

Contender for the most amount of words (12) for a song where the title is the first thing sung......
Funkadelic - I got a thing, you got a thing, Everybody's got a thing


Annoyingly close but not quite the same words as the title......
The Kinks - People take pictures of each other [sings "People take pictures of the summer"]
Kim Fowley - Flower Drum Drum [sings "Flower Flower Drum Drum"]

If there was a new rule introduced to music that every song title now had to be the opening line, The Beatles would have a song called "Wednesday Morning at 5am" whilst Simon and Garfunkel's ode to the middle of the week would now be "I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love".

[NoSleep]

In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly.

[bushwick]

Technohead - I Wanna Be A Hippie
Semisonic - Closing Time

[massive bereavement]

Rolf Harris - Sun Arise
Paul Raven - Goodbye Seattle

[Gulftastic]

Rolf Harris - Sun Arise
Paul Raven - Goodbye Seattle

Speaking of whom:

2 Little Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL3m2zcoOI

[Ray Travez]

There is no love between us anymore

[Huxleys Babkins]

Love Sensation - Loleatta Holloway

[Jockice]

Different round + too old

Oh okay then. Mis-shapes by Pulp.

[DrGreggles]

Oh okay then. Mis-shapes by Pulp.

Perfecto

[Jockice]

Madness - Night Boat to Cairo (I think)

And indeed the single before that, My Girl.

Although that's outside the 40 years limit. God, I'm getting old.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

The first words to that were " My girl's", strictly speaking.

[Jockice]

The first words to that were " My girl's", strictly speaking.

And the first words to Can't Get You Out Of My Head are 'I just can't get you out of my head.' I checked.

[ersatz99]

Dum dum girl.

[Twit 2]

Sorry to raise the tone, but if operas count, Peter Grimes and Wozzeck.

[Jockice]

After All by The Frank And Walters.

[The Culture Bunker]

Because I was just listening to the album from which they came:

99.9F°
When Heroes Go Down
In Liverpool
As a Child
If You Were In My Movie

by Suzanne Vega.

[Inspector Norse]

Nice opportunity to reuse my suggestion of SFA's 'If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You' from the Lalala thread.

Oh okay then. Mis-shapes by Pulp.

Also 'Help the Aged'. And 'I Spy' but that wasn't a single.

[Jockice]

Lest I forget, the two worst singles of all time. You know what the worst is, but the runner-up is Look Mama by Howard Jones, which if I remember correctly (I'm not playing the bloody thing) had some indistinct speaking voices at the start but the first words sang by Mr Jones are the title.

And going from the shit to the great, Breakout by Swing Out Sister and It Doesn't Have To Be This Way by The Blow Monkeys.

[eifion]

Karma Police - Radiohead
Northside - Shall We Take a Trip? (if you ignore the whispered 'L.S.D.' at the start).
Depeche Mode - Strangelove
Depeche Mode - Little 15 (only a single in France, I think)
Blur - Sunday Sunday

[Catalogue Trousers]

Walking Down Madison by Kirsty MacColl.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Because I was just listening to the album from which they came:

99.9F°
When Heroes Go Down
In Liverpool
As a Child
If You Were In My Movie

by Suzanne Vega.

All the same album, too. Lazy cow.