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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:41
- Post subject: Does the title of a song affect the song?
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Thoughts?
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MrFrogger
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:42
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Nope
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:43
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That's settled it then.
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EyeKanFly
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:44
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Typically the title of a song is some kind of lyric in the song. And lyrics definitely affect the song. So I suppose by that logic...
Usually if the title isn't a lyric, it somehow describes the song.
But on the other hand you have "Baba O'Riley", so I'm going to say no, the title doesn't affect the song.
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:47
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Most good songs recorded in the past 20 so years are Untitled so ya no
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:48
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I would make a case for album art, what clothes the artist/band wear and the name of an album effecting an album and the songs within. For the song title... I won't rule it completely out...
I'll say hardly. Hardly at all.
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:51
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| an_outlaw wrote: | I would make a case for album art, what clothes the artist/band wear and the name of an album effecting an album and the songs within. For the song title... I won't rule it completely out...
I'll say hardly. Hardly at all. |
For a song like Sour Times by Portishead the song seems rather creepy and sour on it's own but the title emphasises that.
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Patman360
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 19:54
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| an_outlaw wrote: | | I'll say hardly. Hardly at all. |
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- Posted: 04/17/2013 20:05
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I see. The Sour Times example is good. It is related to you and obviously effects how you feel about the song. Got me thinking about titles that don't get repeated in the chorus or a great deal of times through the songs. I thought of one called Williams Last Words:
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How would you say the title effects this song? The 'last words' part does become more haunting with the context of when and how it was wrote. Williams Last Words. I can't think of a more appropriate title. I think it wouldn't feel the same if it has been 'The Party' or 'Bandaling Bowling'. The title definitely adds something to this one.
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