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0:00 Introduction.
1:18 5th most typical song title.
2:34 4th most typical song title.
4:30 3rd most typical tune title.
6:32 2nd most common song title.
8:11 the most typical tune title!
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What is the most overused song title?
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Huh. And here I am thinking it’d be “Symphony No. 1”
@Ástríður Rexbur I realised that after I posted. In that movement, the original song is transformed into a sardonic funeral march.
@Simon Vaughan well, quite a lot of early church music was written as a response to that, in an attempt to make people NOT want to sing or dance to it.
Symphonies are not songs. You have songs written by the same composers who also wrote symphonies, and so the fact that someone like Mahler or Schubert would distinguish some of their work with the term “Symphony” and other work with “song” makes it pretty clear they see a distinction between the two, and I’m not inclined to argue with the artists’ themselves about how their work is classified.
That said, I think the distinction is fairly fluid. I would tend to think of a symphony as more akin to an album in modern music, with the songs on that album being more comparable to the individual movements of a symphony than the whole itself.
So perhaps “first movement” is the most common song title, because it could also apply to just about any other classical form (concerto, sonata, etc) as it does to the symphony?
@chloemchll I can agree with that
@Ástríður Rexbur The first paragraph of Chloe’s comment is essentially what I said at the top of the thread! The only thing I might take issue with is comparing the songs of an album to the movements of a symphony. Obviously there are often thematic connections between songs (that was the idea behind concept albums), but the movements of a symphony will usually have tonal relationships with one another that give the whole piece musical coherence. There may have been some prog rock bands that attempted something similar, but generally the songs in an album will be more loosely connected musically.
The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů wrote a piece called Česká rapsodie, which could be translated as Bohemian Rhapsody (the original meaning of “Bohemian” is “Czech”), but in practice it’s translated as A Czech Rhapsody!
@Jonathas Marques I’m not sure I understand you, but if you’re referring to the Roma, they were called “Bohemians” because they passed through Bohemia (the historical kingdom that makes up the western two-thirds of the modern-day Czech Republic) on their way west, just as they were called “Gypsies” because they passed through Egypt.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm and HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM as a rapsodie myself, this is racist, and the b word is not to be used by outsiders.
These replies are NOT it ❌ 🙅♂️🤦♂️
@Simon Vaughan I mean, yes Bohemia is ancestral of Czechia, but indo-european is ancestral of a lot of people, and african humans are ancestors of us all.
@Jonathas Marques Well, in that case you might as well call “American Pie” “Indo-European Pie” or “African Pie”.
time to make an album using only titles of very well known songs. brb writing stairway to heaven
@Patrick Holland thanks for the suggestions! maybe after i finish smells like teen spirit 🤣
The song remains the same.
Uptown Funk about to be a hit at weddings
a niche thing I love is when artists purposefully name their song that of a more famous song or album. like You Am I (cult Aussie rock band) wrote a song called Cathy’s Clown that has no relation to the Everly Bros song or when The Replacements called their album Let It Be to piss off their Beatles fan producer.
Dont forget its sarcastic counterpart: Highway to hell! 🙂
Closer is definitely one that comes to mind. Though it’s probably not as common as others, enough songs with the title Closer have become popular that it gets confusing
Chainsmokers and Lemaitre are the ones that come to mind.
@Alejandro Fondebrider There’s also Nine Inch Nails, Lacuna Coil, Kings of Leon, and Ne-Yo just from songs that I know.
@Noah H Joy Division too
Anathema
I was actually expecting it to be a love-related phrase like “I want you”, but somehow that’s only second. Was honestly surprised about the 1st one.
It would be very interesting to see how lists like this for other languages would compare (translated to English to compare it of course)
it would be pretty similar i guess, all people have the same problems, songs are usually based on harmful (is this word correct or “painful” would be better? guys help me please) experience
That would be interesting. Speaking for German music, there is barely a Hold on. And no Breathe. Only Kraftwerk’s very early piece Atem (Breath) comes to my mind.
But there are a lot of Without You(s). Just like Ohne Dich by Rammstein or by Münchner Freiheit.
It’s a treat to hear so many genres of music all in a short time.
As a composer, i try to name my songs as unique as possible. I even go as far as searching for another song with the same title. If I find a one, ill change mine😂
I never heard of you tho maybe you should start using these song titles
Same technique with your usernames?
Breaking Benjamin have songs called “Without You”, “Home”, “Forever”, “You” and “Believe”. And then also “Breath” (Breathe), “Evil Angel” (Angel), “Close to Heaven” (Heaven). So probably the one band with the most entries from this list.
I really wonder who ticks the most off the list, well that’s definitely a good run 😀
@tidy hell yeah, Without You especially
@cyberfutur5000 I wouldn’t even know how to go about checking that, but now I’m invested and have to know lol
@David Damien haha 😀 Sadly I have no clue how to find that out either… I guess… Someone would have to make some kind of algorithm that checks wiki bandcamp and spotify or something and spits out a diagram. but I don’t know how to do that (agin, sadly). it’s one of the times again, where I wish live would have some sort of statistics button, like a gta game, or something 😂😅
There’s a list of release plan with such songs names. C-combo!
Guess I gotta think of a new name for my song I just wrote. I was going to go with, “Hold On, I Want You to Breathe at Home When I Am Without You”.
har har har
The world needs to hear that song!
YOU need to STAY with that one FOREVER, as I BELIEVE, in PARADISE, that the ANGELS of HEAVEN have GONE CRAZY with LOVE for that song title.
Sound like a Smiths song, very nice
Fascinating David (as always). Thank you
as someone who went through a big musical theatre phase, the first songs that came to my mind were without you (rent), home (beetlejuice) and breathe (in the heights)
What a cool idea for a video!! Listening to the different sounds singing the same title is great.
I’d suggest the title “Invincible”. I’ve seen it on Muse, Tool, Michael Jackson, and so on. Also I’ll suggest “Love Song”
“Do It Again” was used by the Beach Boys in 1968, AGAIN by Steely Dan in 1972 and AGAIN by the Kinks in 1984. All were Top 20 US hits.
The songs lived up to their name and did it time and time again
These following weren’t top 20 hits, but both Chemical Brothers and Röyksopp have songs with that title as well
Honestly, some of the words that come to mind for me is “Love”, “You”, “Close”/”Closer” but it was kinda interesting to see “Breathe” as a common word (The first one that comes to mind for me being the Floyd song)
Kiss came first to my mind with I Want You.
Great to see Sheryl, Iggy and Jethro with Home. All great tracks. But Sheryl Crow’s Home is so intense it hurts! We once covered it, translated it in German langage. Some listeners found the lyrics very hard to bear.
“Tonight” is the most overused word in songs, not just in titles. I believe it was Todd in the Shadows who created a compilations of too many songs that say “tonight” at the end of a line.
Honestly, the first song that popped in my mind for Without You was that duet between SpongeBob and Mr Krabs when he went to work at the Chum Bucket
I always thought it was kind of strange there were three songs called “Creep” within a short time span of one another, by STP, Radiohead and TLC