User:You&Me!!/Starts With Title

From This Might Be A Wiki

TMBG songs where the title of the song is the first lyric (or almost).

Starts With Title (Non-Debatable)

Starts With Title? (Debatable)

These songs DO start with the title, but only depending on who you ask.

Title Words Are Repeated Before Title Is Actually Said

(Almost) Starts With Title

Songs where 5 or less words precede the title of the song.

Flubbed Title

Songs where the first lyric is the title with an extra word wedged in, disqualifying it.

Mixed

  • Hypnotist Of Ladies- “He’s a hypnotist, hypnotist of ladies”
  • Mr. Me- Song begins with scat and goes into “once a boy named Mr. Me”
  • Too Tall Girl- Song begins with scat and goes into “fall in love with a too tall girl”

Special Cases

  • All “ID” Songs- Songs with ID at the end of them kind of have it bad, because ID is never actually said, but for some of them, the non-ID part of the title is the first lyric (Nick Rocks ID, WMOB ID, and Morgan In The Morning ID, if you aren’t including the count-off). Similarly to this, Radio They Might Be Giants 1’s first lyric is “Radio They Might Be Giants”.
  • Even Numbers- There’s a countoff in this song before the first true lyric, which happens to be the title, except it’s not really a countoff; it consists of only, you guessed it, even numbers, so instead of “1 2 3 4”, it’s “2 4 6 8”.
  • Hiya Hi- The song’s first lyric line is “Hiya hiya hiya hi”. While the actual title does not get said until after the other two “hiya”s, if someone were to pause the song as soon as they heard the title, they would pause it at the 1 and a half hiya point, since the sound and spelling of the first half of the word “hiya” is “hi” and the title is “hiya hi”. Are you confused? Good.
  • I Am A Human Head- The first lyric of the song is “I’m a human head”, which is technically saying the title, since “I’m” is just “I am”, but looking at the lyrics alone, it’s incorrect
  • I Can Hear You- This is a very weird song to classify, as it’s said first in the opening part where Flansburgh tells us where it’s being recorded, then there’s a countoff, and then it’s the first lyric of the song itself.
  • Older- The song’s first words are “You’re older”, which would classify it as Almost Starts With Title, but here’s the thing: the first two words of the song share a name with the song’s demo title.
  • Shoehorn With Teeth- The lyric is “he wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth”. Someone on a TMBG-related Discord server notified me about my 5 word rule for the Almost category would allow this to be there. That category is intended for 5 words or less before the title is actually said, but I guess it’s a good point, so I’m putting it here.
  • What Is A Shooting Star?- This song was not made for Here Comes Science, instead, it’s a song they covered back in 2001 for TMBG Unlimited, but back then, it was called “A Shooting Star Is Not A Star”, which also happens to be the song’s first lyric.

The Issue With Venue Songs

While Venue Songs are usually known and titled by the city they’re played in, the song always includes the title of the venue, and most people would agree that they remember the venue talked about in the song more so than the actually city that venue happens to be in. Just in case, here is a list of the venue songs that fit under these certain conditions.

  • Albany (The Egg)- First lyric
  • Atlanta (Variety Playhouse)- “The Variety Playhouse is like a hospital”
  • Austin (Stubb's) - First lyric
  • Charleston (Music Farm)- “Farm, farm, music farm”
  • Charlottesville (Starr Hill Music Hall)- First lyric (if you aren’t including the disconnected “Yeah!” that happens earlier on during the guitar intro)
  • Glasgow (The Garage)- The first lyric is letters spelling out the venue’s name, so I’m going to count it as the first lyric, although if it weren’t for the specific case of the venue songs being weird, this would definitely fall under Special Cases
  • Leeds (Leeds Irish Center)- “Ball, windows, bar, bar, stage, Leeds Irish Center”
  • New Orleans (New Orleans House Of Blues)- One of the rare cases in which a venue song says the city name disconnected from the rest of the venue as (one of) the first lyrics; “There is a house in New Orleans” (this is also if you aren’t counting the opening, where they explain the song)
  • Omaha (Sokol Auditorium)- First lyric
  • Philadelphia (T.L.A.)- “How do you spell T.L.A.?”
  • Pittsburgh (Mr. Small’s)- “We are the guests of Mr. Small’s”
  • Raleigh (Lincoln Theatre)- If you aren’t including the opening or the “na”s, the first lyric is (albeit mangled by Linnell singing the wrong lyric) “Lincoln Theatre”
  • San Francisco (Fillmore)- “Golden Gate, Divisadero, Turk, Fillmore!”

See also

Retrieved from "https://tmbw.net/wiki/index.php?title=User:You%26Me!!/Starts_With_Title&oldid=345980"