{"id":67,"date":"2016-04-26T00:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T04:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:28:22","slug":"top-5-songs-with-long-song-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/top-5-songs-with-long-song-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Songs With Long Song Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like I lot of people, I&#8217;ve been listening to Prince (R.I.P.) a lot lately.  <strong>&#8220;I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man&#8221;<\/strong> has always been one of my favorites and got me thinking about songs with long titles.  It takes a special artist to write a song that lives up to a wordy title; bonus points when the name is actually in the lyrics; extra bonus points if the title is used as the chorus.  So here&#8217;s my Top 5 songs that justify their long titles.  <em>NOTE: To qualify, the song title had to be at least 9 words without counting anything in parenthesis.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Top 5 Songs With Long Song Titles<\/h2>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Prince<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/swf\/iframe_pub.php?width=240&amp;height=192&amp;id=qxr8qm&amp;url_artist=http:\/\/www.jukebo.com\/prince\/music-clip,i-could-never-take-the-place-of-your-man,qxr8qm.html&amp;autoplay=0&amp;mdtk=04516441&amp;site=.fr\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Manic Street Preachers<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B7dBBCHYcZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; R.E.M.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0GFRcFm-aY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Interpol<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSXmKEAK3cI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You&#8217;re Drunk&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Pet Shop Boys<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zHVMCugvrMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did I miss your favorite?  I welcome your comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like I lot of people, I&#8217;ve been listening to Prince (R.I.P.) a lot lately. &#8220;I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man&#8221; has always been one of my favorites and got me thinking about songs with long titles. It takes a special artist to write a song that lives up to a wordy title;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}