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Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 04 2011, 14:21 The use of parentheses in song titles can be interesting and powerful, but perhaps also anti poetic. They are often used to bring you back down to Earth and concrete things. Vangelis - Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria (Into Eternity) Genesis - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) U2 - Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop) Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Jan. 04 2011, 14:41 A personal favorite is WASP's "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)"! Can't help but noticing how the eyebrow-raising part of the title is coquetteishly placed within parathesis. And when I say favorite I mean favorite use of parantheses in song title, nothing else. The song is not very noteqorthy at all. Not even for being a WASP song. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: Jan. 04 2011, 14:54 Mike Oldfield - Speak (Tho You Only Say Farewell) Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Jan. 04 2011, 15:10 I always found very interesting the use of a slash on the title White Light / White Heat, which is a song AND and album by the Velvet Underground. I also like it when parentheses are used on the title of an album, like Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Jan. 04 2011, 15:21 weird because only a little while ago I was listening to Sigur Ros ( ) ...one hell of a sad album, beautiful - but sad -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 04 2011, 19:29 Quote (bee @ Jan. 04 2011, 21:21) ( ) ...one hell of a sad album, beautiful - but sad I don't think that any of Sigur Ros' music can be classified as happy or sad or anything. Indeed, to me the music on ( ) doesn't express any particular emotion. I just feel a trememdous sense of power being conveyed all the way through tracks 6 to 8, but that's pretty much all. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Jan. 04 2011, 19:32 Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Jan. 04 2011, 15:10) I always found very interesting the use of a slash on the title White Light / White Heat, which is a song AND and album by the Velvet Underground. Yes, it signals something a bit out of the ordinary, which, of course, the VU's record certainly was. By violating song title conventions they're pointing to the violating of other conventions as well. Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Jan. 05 2011, 02:37 Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 04 2011, 19:29) Quote (bee @ Jan. 04 2011, 21:21) ( ) ...one hell of a sad album, beautiful - but sad I don't think that any of Sigur Ros' music can be classified as happy or sad or anything. Indeed, to me the music on ( ) doesn't express any particular emotion. I just feel a trememdous sense of power being conveyed all the way through tracks 6 to 8, but that's pretty much all. I can't help what I feel, it just happens, and I feel sadness everytime I listen -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Jan. 05 2011, 06:24 Quote (bee @ Jan. 05 2011, 02:37) Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 04 2011, 19:29) Quote (bee @ Jan. 04 2011, 21:21) ( ) ...one hell of a sad album, beautiful - but sad I don't think that any of Sigur Ros' music can be classified as happy or sad or anything. Indeed, to me the music on ( ) doesn't express any particular emotion. I just feel a trememdous sense of power being conveyed all the way through tracks 6 to 8, but that's pretty much all. I can't help what I feel, it just happens, and I feel sadness everytime I listen Actually, I agree with you, bee - although I really only know Takk. I suspect half the musical instruments in that are icicles, and they can't help but creating an un-warm feeling! Back to top

Hastengas Group: Members Posts: 319 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Jan. 06 2011, 08:09 Quote (nightspore @ Jan. 05 2011, 11:24) Quote (bee @ Jan. 05 2011, 02:37) Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 04 2011, 19:29) Quote (bee @ Jan. 04 2011, 21:21) ( ) ...one hell of a sad album, beautiful - but sad I don't think that any of Sigur Ros' music can be classified as happy or sad or anything. Indeed, to me the music on ( ) doesn't express any particular emotion. I just feel a trememdous sense of power being conveyed all the way through tracks 6 to 8, but that's pretty much all. I can't help what I feel, it just happens, and I feel sadness everytime I listen Actually, I agree with you, bee - although I really only know Takk. I suspect half the musical instruments in that are icicles, and they can't help but creating an un-warm feeling! Its very much an individual thing....we all hear things slightly differently. Much of Sigur Ros's music can sound slightly disturbed or even forlorn to me, but I still enjoy it....when the mood is right of course. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Jan. 06 2011, 10:18 Don't forget the classic "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"! Back to top

HR lover Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Sep. 2010 Posted: Jan. 06 2011, 10:46 Sorry but what is parenthesis? -------------- Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Back to top

Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 06 2011, 11:33 Quote (HR lover @ Jan. 06 2011, 10:46) Sorry but what is parenthesis? parent + thesis -> parenthesis It's when your parents tell you their point of view. Back to top

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: Jan. 06 2011, 12:23 Quote (Olivier @ Jan. 06 2011, 17:33) Quote (HR lover @ Jan. 06 2011, 10:46) Sorry but what is parenthesis? parent + thesis -> parenthesis It's when your parents tell you their point of view. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 06 2011, 18:30 (Main Title from) Chariots of Fire - Vangelis. Titles of pieces on  soundtracks are always either stupid or peculiar. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Hastengas Group: Members Posts: 319 Joined: Nov. 2010 Posted: Jan. 08 2011, 11:27 Dead dogs two (Boards of Canada remix) cLOUDDEAD Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 08 2011, 19:05 @ Hastengas: I don't think remixes count. Otherwise I should feel complelled to list "Got to Be Certain (Out For a Duck, Bill, Platter Plus Dub Mix)" by Kylie Minogue - a.k.a. the instrumental version of the song. Yes, it does exist. Check this out. Most outrageously funny title I ever saw for a simple instrumental version. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 08 2011, 19:17 The thing with remixes is they sometimes use square brackets in lieu of parentheses. They often deconstruct the smooth originals to inhuman square waves, maybe that's why. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Jan. 08 2011, 20:53 Quote (Ugo @ Jan. 08 2011, 19:05) @ Hastengas: I don't think remixes count. Otherwise I should feel complelled to list "Got to Be Certain (Out For a Duck, Bill, Platter Plus Dub Mix)" by Kylie Minogue - a.k.a. the instrumental version of the song. Yes, it does exist. Check this out. Most outrageously funny title I ever saw for a simple instrumental version. She's trying to make a play on "duckbill platypus", presumably. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Jan. 09 2011, 07:06 Quote (nightspore @ Jan. 09 2011, 02:53) She's trying to make a play on "duckbill platypus", presumably. I don't think that she was behind that. After all, this was Stock-Aitken-Waterman... back then, Kylie was not much more than one of their puppets. By the way, I believe that a duckbill platypus is what we call ornitorìnco here. Am I correct? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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