Members stickboymusic Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Just got totally hooked by the title of this song recorded by Sinatra and others. "The night we called it a day" I don't even need to hear the song THIS is genius. I think I need to spend more time thinking of clever ideas like this (although I did come up with "we were mourning in the afternoon" to give myself a little credit - ha!) Oh and the song. Perfect. [video=youtube;NWOr-026oAk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWOr-026oAk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 A friend of mine comes up with great titles like this: Second Once in a Lifetime Girl, Forever Once Again, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 A Hard Day's Night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Next songwriting challenge: Write a song called "When I Was Jung" and incorporate some of Carl Jung's psychological concepts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 When I was Jung I dreamed I wandered on a stage A dream within a dream A 'Gator played an old B3 A soulful Gymnopédie From a different age I joined and played the 'Gator's teeth I don't remember how But I was so much Adler then I'm Junger than that now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 Some good ones here: http://www.tonmeister.ca/personal/geoff/stuff/funny/country.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted January 6, 2015 Moderators Share Posted January 6, 2015 When I was Jung I dreamed I wandered on a stage A dream within a dream A 'Gator played an old B3 A soulful Gymnopédie From a different age I joined and played the 'Gator's teeth I don't remember how But I was so much Adler then I'm Junger than that now Hey Now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted January 6, 2015 Members Share Posted January 6, 2015 When I was Jung I dreamed I wandered on a stage A dream within a dream A 'Gator played an old B3 A soulful Gymnopédie From a different age I joined and played the 'Gator's teeth I don't remember how But I was so much Adler then I'm Junger than that now Yeah that's pretty sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Delmont Posted January 9, 2015 Members Share Posted January 9, 2015 Warren Zevon said that once you have a good title, the song writes itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rickidoo Posted January 11, 2015 Members Share Posted January 11, 2015 I think there is a lot to be said for a clever title, and correspondingly clever hook. Something new and fresh; not trite. Companies pay big dollars to think up product names that resonate with culture - and I might add current culture. They look for memorable, with just the right balance of edgy and meaningful to a wide group of consumers. It's interesting - to me at least - over the last few years - when I have stumbled upon a clever title for one of my songs - or someone elses song - I can almost predict more comments in the thread. Even if everything else is equal. Conversely, boring, trite, overly used, of blunt titles seem to have a depressing effect on interest. Of course, that's not always true - there are a lot of commercially successful songs without cutting edge titles. Thankfully so - the song itself still counts for something! But still, like a label on a grocery or new health product, 1st time users are definitely (IMHO) swayed by the title. They may never be a 2nd time user, but can help to get ears to song for at least a partial 1st time listen. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jinny Posted January 12, 2015 Members Share Posted January 12, 2015 I think there is a lot to be said for a clever title, and correspondingly clever hook. Something new and fresh; not trite. Companies pay big dollars to think up product names that resonate with culture - and I might add current culture. They look for memorable, with just the right balance of edgy and meaningful to a wide group of consumers. It's interesting - to me at least - over the last few years - when I have stumbled upon a clever title for one of my songs - or someone elses song - I can almost predict more comments in the thread. Even if everything else is equal. Conversely, boring, trite, overly used, of blunt titles seem to have a depressing effect on interest. Of course, that's not always true - there are a lot of commercially successful songs without cutting edge titles. Thankfully so - the song itself still counts for something! But still, like a label on a grocery or new health product, 1st time users are definitely (IMHO) swayed by the title. They may never be a 2nd time user, but can help to get ears to song for at least a partial 1st time listen. Rick agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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