Games Alternative tune names

[mrjulian]

Here's a fun one for a rainy Thursday afternoon.

We have a bit of a thing in my mainstream band with, shall we say, massaging tune names for our amusement.
Here are some of my favourites...
What is this thing called, love?
People will think we're in Hove
There is no grater, love
Blue Mink (aka Blue Monk)
Stollen moments
and probably my favourite:
I've got you under my sink :laugh:

Any others you have come across?

 

[peedee]

Hold my hand,
I'm a strange looking parasite.

Strange men in the night.

🙂

 

[Pjonah]

Don't leave me this Wa'hay - Communards

Dark Side of the Sun - Irish Pink Floyd Tribute Band

I'm Mandy Fry Me - 10cc

All Around My Cat - Steeleye Span

and so on, could go on for hours but must get back to work!

 

[Jules]

We used to play the John Barry theme to 'Experiment on Terror'- renamed 'Experiments on Terriers' we also played 'Sid James Infirmary'.
I like 'There is no Grater, Luv' :laugh:

 

[stephen_howard]

A few of my faves:

I've thrown a custard in her face
I took a thrip on a train

...and the punk/jazz 5/4 version of that ol' favourite - I remember you ( you **** ).

Oh yes.

 

[rhysonsax]

I'm getting cement all over you (or ewe).
Lady in Redcar

Rhys

 

[Jules]

The duke ellington classic "Curry Van",
"There will never be another Ewe" ( )
one for Irish pubs- "Murphys, Murphys. Murphys"

 

[Flipper2008]

668, Neighbour of the Beast : Iron Maiden :laugh:

Flipp.

 

[Jules]

I'm a Nine Stone Cowboy

 

[Pete Thomas]

And that lovely Michel Legrand tune:

What Are You Doing With the Rest of My Wife?

 

[young_col]

Not quite the same, but mis-heard lines (which is probaby a whole new thread):
Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World -
"Bright blessed day, dogs say goodnight".

 

[josh_johnson]

Duke Ellington's Suffocated Lady. I once used to play in a band who used to play a Meters tune called Sissy Strutt; the drummer renamed it Pissy Slut. A bridge too far for me, sisters.

 

[Mikec]

Sam and Janet Evening.

And, of course from "The Perishers" (a long-running uk cartoon strip) "Gladly, the Cross-eyed bear".

 

[josh_johnson]

I Left My Harp In San Fran's Disco....

 

[Bobby G]

what is this thing called love can be punctuated or italicised practically any way.

Or there's that old Adam Ant classic, 'Stand in a River'.

 

[AlanU]

Bike up the Strand, for 'Strike up the Band'.

The bright young things at NYJO came up with a tune which was a mixture of 'Sweet Georgia Brown' and the nursery rhyme 'London bridge is falling down'.
The sugestion to call it 'Georgia Brown is falling down' gave way to
'Sweet London Bridge'. Hopefully in deference to the singer of that name.

 

[Bobby G]

I have often wondered who those two blokes were in that song by the Kinks - you know, Al Day and Oliver Knight.

 

[Mamos]

The band Half man half biscuit brought out an album called Trouble over Bridgewater.

I alway found that funny

Mamos

 

[Jules]

back in the days of the original rock against racism bands used to all get on stage together and sing- "he's a dedicated follower of of fascism....."

 

[Pete Thomas]

And there's that great Hendrix album, Electric Landlady.

(see: Kirsty McColl)