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* Technicality with Patty Loveless' "Blame It on Your Heart", which is listed on BMI as "Blame It on Your Lyin, Cheatin', Cold, Dead-Beatin', Two-Timin', Double-Dealin', Mean, Mistreatin', Lovin' Heart", but is just "Blame It on Your Heart" on the album.
* "Three Minute Positive Not-Too-Country Up-Tempo Love Song" by Alan Jackson, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* One of alt-country band Richmond Fontaines' albums (and one track on it) is called "We used to think the freeway sounded like a river".
== Electronic: Or, music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology. ==
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* Video game remixer Norg's song "Allen O'Neal and Nario Take an Afternoon Stroll Through a Field of Poppies for a Picnic Lunch of Wine, Cheese, and Whale Face," a remix from ''[[Metal Slug]]''.
* Add in names of remixes and you can get some ridiculous stuff indeed, like the [[Pet Shop Boys]]' "I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More (Peter Rauhoffer New York Mix)".
* JLIAT (aka James Whitehead), obsessively fond of pristine sine-wave ambient devoid of embellishment. Not all of his CD titles, however, reflect this desire for simplicity. Most notably ''A Long Drone-Like Piece of Music Made With Synthesizers, Samplers and Digital Delays Which Attempts in its Minimalism to Be A Thing In Itself Without External Reference, Having an Analogue in Certain States of Consciousness Where Being is Experienced Also''; another example would be ''When We Focus On Nothing as Opposed to The Set Or Subset Of Infinite Events with Whatever Intellect We Have in That Moment the Conscious State Becomes Aware of the Alternative to the Infinity of States Which in its Apprehension is Enlightenment.'' (yes, the period is included)
* From ''life changing moments seem minor in pictures'' by C418, including the title track, "Long songs are for people who don't have time to make them short", "Lack of creativity is dangerous in Berlin", "If you don't know what to do just steal the amen break", "Kitchens are best for making sound effects" and "I will perhaps never meet you in person".
* [[Bring Me the Horizon]]'s 2019 EP ''Music to listen to~dance to~blaze to~pray to~feed to~sleep to~talk to~grind to~trip to~breathe to~help to~hurt to~scroll to~roll to~love to~hate to~learn Too~plot to~play to~be to~feel to~breed to~sweat to~dream to~hide to~live to~die to~GO TO.''
== Folk: Or, a wide variety of genres that began with and then evolved from the folk revival of the mid-20th century; all music that is called folk that is not traditional music (music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time). ==
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* Folk musician Bert Jansch had "Come Sing Me a Happy Song to Prove We All Can Get Along the Lumpy, Bumpy, Long and Dusty Road"
* Fairport Convention gave on of their instrumental numbers the title 'Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament for the 77th Mounted Lancer's Retreat from the Straits of Loch Knombe, in the Year of Our Lord 1727, on the Occasion of the Announcement of Her Marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie', specifically in an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
* [[Simon and Garfunkel]] have "A Simple Desultory Phillippic (Or How I Was [[The Vietnam War|Robert MacNamera]]'d Into Submission)".
== Hip Hop: Or, a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted, developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. ==
* ''Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik'' by [[OutKast]].
** "A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)", from ''Speakerboxxx/The Love Below''.
* ''Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik'' by Freddie Gibbs, named in homage to the OutKast album above.
* PM Dawn's albums ''Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad'' - and ''Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience''.
* "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)" by [[DJ Shadow]].
* "Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter's Daughter" and "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" by Kendrick Lamar.
* "Operation Lifesaver AKA Mint Test" by Madvillain ([[MF DOOM]] and Madlib).
* ''Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present.'' by Bedwetter, a side-project of Travis Miller, better known as Lil Ugly Mane.
* ''I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside'' by [[Earl Sweatshirt]].
* "Jesus Is the One (I Got Depression)" by Zack Fox and Kenny Beats.
* "You Can Put It in a Zag, I'mma Put It in a Blunt" by [[Snoop Dogg]] & Wiz Khalifa, from ''Mac + Devin Go to High School''.
* "The Nang, the Front, the Bush and the Shit" and "Dr. Hellno and the Praying Mantus" by El-P.
* "The Fantabulous Rap Extravaganza" and "The News (A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Microsoft Inc.)" by Deltron 3030.
* Most songs on ''Black Up'' by Shabazz Palaces qualify, like "An Echo From the Hosts That Profess Infinitum", "A Treatease Dedicated to the Avian Airess From North East Nubis (1000 Questions, 1 Answer)" and "Endeavors for Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.)"
* From [[Death Grips]], "You Might Think He Loves You for Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You for It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat"
** "I Break Mirrors With My Face in the United States"
* "I Spoke to the Devil in Miami, He Said Everything Would Be Fine" by XXXTentacion.
** "BUY GARETTE'S CLOTHING OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU (Snippet)", featuring Craig Xen, Robb Banks and Killstation.
** "IN THIS BITCH LIT, FREE KEKE & FREE 2 WOOP FREESTYLE"
** "Looking for a Star (Cant Get You Out My Head)"
** "#PROUDCATOWNER #IHATERAPPERS #IEATPUSSY"
* "you can not put a fire out by pouring fuel in the wound" by Lil Bo Weep.
* From Trap Metal artist PRXJEK, "Take This As You Will, This Is Just Something That Needed to Be Said", "Yes I Can Actually Rap, You Fucking Idiot (Freestyle)", "BlackEyesBlackMindBlackThoughtsBlackHeart", "I Am God's Mistake (SweetReleaseOfDeath)", "THIS IS THE PART WHERE YOU RUN (YOU'RE FUCKED)", "At Night All My Doubts Gather, And I'm Just Left Feeling Empty" and "NO LONGER IS THIS A WARNING (BE SILENT WHEN THE KING IS SPEAKING Pt. 2)".
* "ʀᴇᴍᴏᴠɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀsᴛ ᴏʙsᴛᴀᴄʟᴇs ɪɴ ʜɪs ᴀsᴄᴇɴsɪᴏɴ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ" by NxxxxxS.
* ''[][][][][][][][][][][[]][][][][][[][][][][]][][]][]][][[][[[][]][]][][]][][][]]][][[]][][][][].666%'' by ATIVAN COREA ([https://soundcloud.com/yayay/check-it-out-i-made-it-today SoundCloud link])
== Metal: Or, a genre of rock music that uses a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. ==
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** Nile loves this trope: in fact, Karl Sanders has said in an interview that he does it on purpose so he can annoy his managers. The worst offender so far is "Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns," though "Papyrus..." comes close.
** There's also "In Their Darkened Shrines III: Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of Ra" and "Libation Unto The Shades Who Lurk In The Shadows Of The Temple Of Anhur." The last one is rather ironic, since it's an interlude track, in the time it takes to say the name twice, the song's almost over.
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* Gamma Ray have a live DVD called "Hell Yeah!! - The Awesome Foursome (And The Finnish Keyboarder Who Didn't Want To Wear His [[Donald Duck]] Costume) Live in Montreal." .
* Bal-Sagoth likely takes the crown on this trope. They have an ''album'' called ''Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule'', which contained no song which had less than seven words (the biggest one had twenty). And, of course, there's ''The Dark Liege of Chaos is Unleashed at the Ensorcelled Shrine of A'Zura Kai (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire Part II)''. Go on, check Wikipedia.
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* Nǽnøĉÿbbörğ VbëřřĦōlökäävsŦ, an Ambient Cosmic Extreme Funeral Drone Doom Metal band, has songs like ''Eternal Darkness Vortex (Part VI: The Inescapable Singularity Is Intruded Upon As The Atoms and Quarks Of The Body Are Obliterated And Require An Escape Velocity Of Infinite Exponence To Retreat)'' and ''Doom Apocalypse X, The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe (Part VIII: The Black Hole Era)''. Many of the songs are more than a hour long with 7 hours maximum so song title length isn't compensating anything.
* "You Will Be Reincarnated As an Imperial Attack Spaceturtle" by Behold... the Arctopus
* Tourniquet has several, though many are not as long as the other examples. In order: "Harlot Widow And The Virgin Bride", "Gelatinous Tubercles of Purulent Ossification", "Proprioception: The Line Knives Syndrome", and almost every song on the album ''Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm'', including [[Better Than It Sounds|"The Skeezix Dilemma, Part 2: The Improbable Testimony Of The Pipsisewah"]]
* Wormphlegm's "In an Excruciating Way Infested with Vermin and Violated by Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism and Desanctifying the Pious"
== Pop: Or, a genre of popular music that uses basic songwriting (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as repeated choruses, melodic tunes and hooks, for generally short to medium-length songs. ==
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* In August 2009, Danish Indie-Pop band Mew released their fifth album, entitled ''No More Stories, Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away''. The title is taken from the lyrics of a mid album track which is itself only 1 minute 48 seconds long.
* [[Bjork]] has a song called "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)."
** Bjork's remix compilation ''The Best Mixes from the Album Debut For All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels'' (which also falls under [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]])
* [[Feist]]'s "That's What I Say, It's Not What I Mean".
* [[Eurythmics]] have "Better To Have Lost At Love (Ten Never To Have Loved At All)".
* [[Stereolab]] have an album titled ''Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night''.
* The song [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|"Prisencolinensinainciusol"]] by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano.
* [[Of Montreal]] has released songs with titles like "We Were Born the Mutants Again with Leafling", "Inside a Room Full of Treasures, a Black Pygmy Horse's Head Pops Up Like a Periscope", and "Upon Settling on the Frozen Island, Lecithin Presents Claude and Coquelicot With His Animal Creations for Them to Approve or Reject (The Rejected Inventions Walk Towards the Reverse Magnetizer)"
* "A Bunch of Us Were Sitting Around a Candle in San Francisco Getting Stoned and I Hope You're There Next Time" by 1960s singer-songwriter Gordon Alexander.
* "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored" by [[Ariana Grande]]
* From [[Was (Not Was)]], "Somewhere In America There's a Street Named After My Dad".
== Punk: Or, a rock music genre rooted in 1960s garage rock and other forms of what is now known as "proto-punk" music, that produces short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. ==
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* "We Threw Gasoline On The Fire And Now We Have Stumps For Arms And No Eyebrows" by [[NOFX]]
* Zebrahead has a couple: "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, But Three Rights Make a Left", "Mike Dexter is a God, Mike Dexter is a Role Model, Mike Dexter is an Asshole", and "We're Not a Cover Band, We're a Tribute Band".
* Post-hardore band Chiodos seems to be fond of these. Some examples include "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard"; "Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered"; "We Swam from Albatross, the Day We Lost Kayley Coast"; and "The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)".
** AND, lest we forget, 'Is It Progression If A Cannibal Uses A Fork'?
* Alexisonfire had their fair share of songs with long titles, but The Philosophical Significance Of Shooting My Sister In The Face: An Essay By James Secord takes the cake.
* [[Half Man Half Biscuit]] have a few. ''All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit'', ''We Built This Village On A Trad. Arr. Tune'', ''99% Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd'', ''I Love You Because (You Look Like Jim Reeves)'', ''Took Problem Chimp To Ideal Home Show'', ''Tending The Wrong Grave For 23 Years'', and so on.
* The album ''The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire'' by the disappointingly short-named [[Mc Lusky]].
* Defunct band I Am Ghost had ''Pretty People Never Lie, Vampires Never Really Die''
* [[Mayday Parade]] has several relatively long titles, but the longest by far is "You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The Ground, I'll Be The Wings That Keep Your Heart In The Clouds".
* "Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated" by [[Rise Against]].
* "Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell" by [[The Offspring]].
== Rock: Or, a broad genre of popular music centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass, drums, and one or more singers. ==
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* Jonathan Mann's "Song a Day #264: Quantum Decoupling Transition in a One-Dimensional Feshbach-Resonant Superfluid".
* "You Got To Get Through What You've Got To Go Through To Get What You Want, But You Got to Know What You Want To Get Through What You Got To Go Through" by The Wildhearts
* "Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)" by Wilco.
* One of The Hives' early song titles was "Some People Know All Too Well How Bad Liquorice, Or Any Candy For That Matter, Can Taste When Having Laid Out In The Sun Too Long - And I Think I Just Ate Too Much."
* Though it could be the result of extreme Engrish, Japanese post-rock band té uses extremely long and incomprehensible song and album titles. For example, "It is Supposed to be 'Ordinary' that Imagination Moves Much Faster and More Freely than Bright Light in the Darkness" and "Increasing, if Heart and Senses Agree, All Best Change is Sly in Music"
* Post-rock band Red Sparowes has several albums where every track consists of page stretching glory. In them are such gems like "And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent in Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, the Locusts Noisily Thanked Us and Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole.", which might I add is under two minutes.
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* [[My Chemical Romance]] have had their fair share, with songs such as "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us", "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" and "It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Fucking Deathwish."
** And from their new album [[Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys]], (which is a long title itself), we have Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na).
* [[Amanda Palmer]] has a song titled "Do You Swear To Tell The Truth The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass."
* Japanese visual kei band D (that's not a long title, heh) has a song called "Yami Yori Kurai Doukoku No Acapella To Bara Yori Akai Jounetsu No Aria" translating to "An Acapella Lamentation Darker Than Darkness And An Aria Of Passion Redder Than The Rose"
* [[The Police]]'s "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around."
* The Scottish singer/songwriter Malcolm Middleton debuted with an album called '5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine'. It also featured a track called 'The Loneliest Night of My Life Came Calling'.
* Producer and singer/songwriter T Bone Burnett appears to like making long song titles. Notable examples are 'Anything I say can and will be used against you', 'I'm going on a long journey never to return' and 'The strange case of Frank Cash and the morning paper'.
** The phrase "I'm Going on a Long Journey Never to Return" is [[Non-Appearing Title|never heard in the song's lyrics]]. A good choice, perhaps: because the [[Better Than It Sounds|crucial, repeated lines]] are:
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* Game Theory's song, "All [[A Clockwork Orange|Clockwork]] and No [[Dr. Strangelove|Bodily Fluid]] Makes [[2001: A Space Odyssey|Hal]] a [[Full Metal Jacket|Dull Metal]] [[Lolita|Humbert]] / In Heaven Every Elephant Baby Wants to Be So Full of Sting / Paul Simon in the Park with Canticle / But You Can't Pick Your Friends / Vacuum Genesis / DEFMACROS / HOWSOMETH / INGDOTIME / SALENGTHS / OMETHINGL / ETBFOLLOW / AAFTERNOO / NGETPRESE / NTMOMENTI / FTHINGSWO / NTALWAYSB / ETHISWAYT / BCACAUSEA / BWASTEAFT / ERNOONWHE / NEQBMERET / URNFROMSH / OWLITTLEG / REENPLACE / 27", off their album, ''Lolita Nation'', is one of the longetst song titles of all time.
* A song by a band called Naikaku, has a song called "I found a deep dark hole and I am going to jump in ! There will be no proof of my existence in this dark abyss. No - one will find me here ! I have to compensate for being born by the redemption of my life into death. I will become a commendable entity and stop all the senseless butchery and useless cruelty I have inflicted onto other souls. Right from the start we only live in the "now". But if we even stop to think of the here and now, it has already become the past in a twinkling of a moment. In turn, the future is pushing against the now and this whole perception as we know it soon becomes the past. To try and verify the moment of "Life" is an impossible task. When trying to prove life, it becomes a past existence in which there are too many memories. All in all, in the end life and death are exactly the same. So I am going to follow my dream and dive into my chosen fate !" ...Those are not lyrics, the song is an instrumental.
* [[Jethro Tull]] have "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day", "One White Duck/0¹⁰=Nothing At All", "Too Old To Rock'n Roll, Too Young To Die", "From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser", "Gold Tipped Boots, Black Jacket And Tie" and "..And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps".
* From the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Christmas Songs|Christmas album]], and also released separately: "What Can You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb?)"
* Giraffes? Giraffes! have one called "...And Then She Look'd Down and Saw Miniature Houses and Miniature People and Inside the Miniature People Were Miniature Hearts Pumping Blood Through Miniature Veins (Her Mouth was Watery and Wet"
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* The Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band & Choir unsurprisingly have a few examples, such as the album ""This Is Our Punk Rock", Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing" and tracks like "Brothers! Sisters! Small Boats
* Anathallo has a few long song titles. "Hanasakajijii III: The Man Who Made Dead Trees Bloom". "Don't Kid Yourself, You Need a Physician". "To Gary and Marcus: The Sovereignty of God is Omnipresent". But the one that really takes the cake is, "I Thought in my Heart, 'Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.' But that also proved to be meaningless".
* The Soup Dragons' album ''This Is Our Art: Useless, Boring, Impotent, Elitist And Very Very Beautiful''. Generally known by the first 4 words, though some would prefer words 5 or 6.
* ''...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead'' is an example of a long band name. Often shortened to just Trail of Dead, though.
* [[Brand New]]:
** "Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die" (which is a 7 minute song on top of the title)
** "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows"
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** "Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't"
** "The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot"
* "There's Something Not as Valid When the Scenery Is a Postcard" by The Faint, from their album, ''Media''.
* [[Queens of the Stone Age]] have "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire", which is little more than a cool intro song.
* [[Everything Else]] has "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)".
* The Spoon [[B-Side]] "It Took A Rumor To Make Me Wonder, Now I'm Convinced I'm Going Under". It's also a [[Non-Appearing Title]], and seems to be an unlikely [[Shout-Out]] to Bonnie Raitt's "Something To Talk About".
* "Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking From a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children" by [[Voltaire (musician)|Voltaire]]. Inspired by a comment from a fan about what Voltaire's music was like.
* From [[R.E.M.]], "How the West Was Won And Where It Got Us", "Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando, and I" and "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".
* From [[U2]], "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own", "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" and "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World".
* "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow" by [[The Rolling Stones]]
* From [[65daysofstatic]], "I Swallowed Hard, Like I Understood", "Install a Beak in the Heart that Clucks Time in Arabic", "Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here"
== Other: Or, examples of long titles in music that either have not yet been sorted into their proper genre, or do not fit into any defined music genre listed on this page. ==
* [[Les Luthiers]] has ''La bella y graciosa moza marchóse a lavar la ropa, la mojó en el arroyuelo y cantando la lavó, la mojó sobre una piedra, la colgó de un abedul''.
** Lest we forget one of their more ingenious and memorable works, the ''Cantata del adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, de sus hazañas en tierras de Indias, de los singulares acontecimientos en que se vio envuelto, y de cómo se desenvolvió'' (which could be roughly translated as ''Cantata about the adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras, about his feats in the land of the Indies, about the unique events in which he got involved, and about the ways in which he untangled himself from them'').
** And ''every'' jazz tune has a long title. example: Pepper Clemens sent the messenger nevertheless the reverend left the herd.
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars".
* [[David Cross]]' [[Stand Up Comedy]] album ''It's Not Funny'' has long track titles that have absolutely nothing to do with the content of the joke.
** That's because they're intended to mock the routines of lame comedians.
* Taku Iwasaki sure had a lot of fun making up titles for the tracks on the ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] Original Soundtrack''. The Team Dai-Gurren rap theme's title is very, very, very long. The Japanese title is "Rappu wa Kan no Tamashii da! Muri o Tōshite Dōri o Kettobasu! Ore-tachi Dai-Guren-dan no Tēma o Mimi no Ana Kappojite Yo~ku Kikiyagare!!". The OST cut of the song adds "(Short Start Edit)" to the end (since the 60 second-ish orchestral opening is cut). [[This Troper]]'s chosen translation of the title, "Rap is a Man's Soul! We Kick Reason to the Curb to Make the Impossible Possible! Open up Your Ears and Listen to Our Team Dai-Gurren Theme!!", is so long that when used as a filename, "(short start edit)" is cut off at "(short ", and the length of the title caused all sorts of weird bugs to happen to Windows Explorer until he finally cut "(short start edit)" to "(SSE)". Oh, and to make it worse, the most common English translation uses wording that makes the title at least two words longer.
* The movie musical ''Royal Wedding'' has a song titled "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life?"
* Two Brazilian songs: Zé Ramalho's "Mulher Nova, Bonita e Carinhosa Faz o Homem Gemer Sem Sentir Dor" ("New, young and careful women makes men groan without feeling pain") and Guanabaras' "Preciso Te Ver Urgentemente Pois Se Eu Não Te Ver Urgentemente Logo, Logo Vou Enlouquecer" ("I need to see you urgently because if I don't see you urgently soon, soon I'll get mad").
* [[Lonnie Donegan]], "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight?"
* A borderline example is [[Tom Lehrer]]'s ''Lobachevsky'', where the title of the song is just the character's name, but it mentions that his first original paper was on ''Analytical Algebraic Topology of a Locally Euclidean Metricization of an Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold.'' This is a joke, of course: Riemannian geometry was developed quite a bit later after the Lobachevsky's paper had been published. According to Wikipedia, the Lobachevsky's paper was called ''A concise outline of the foundations of geometry'' - which, while not outrageous, still qualifies for this trope.
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|Experimental Post-Punk Psychadelic Industrial]] musician [[Edward Ka-Spel]] of [[The Legendary Pink Dots]] and [[The Tear Garden]] does these from time to time. Notable examples are the LPD album ''Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves'', [[The Tear Garden]] album ''To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide'', and the solo album ''Down in the City of Heartbreak and Needles''.
* [[IOSYS]] has a few among their [[Touhou Project]] remixes, which only get longer as the songs are themselves remixed, but the prize goes to the [[Nico Nico Douga]] [[Affectionate Parody|parody]] "[Ensou Shite Mita] Kanbu no Dekiru Oyome ni Taihen na Taiyou Kitare, Perfect Gumin-domo! [Prismriver]" ("[Singing Attempt] The Brides that Queue Up the Affected Area are Impending the Precious Sun, Perfect Ignorant Fools! [Prismriver]"), a medley of several of their [[Memetic Mutation|most]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|popular]] songs.
* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] has two, related songs with long titles. Both are usually just called "Rap is a Man's Soul!" The full names are "Rap is a man's soul! Now Open Your Ears Wide And Listen To The Mighty Team Dai-Gurren's Theme!" Which is played in Parallel Works 1, and another song where "Team Dai-Gurren" is replaced with "Kamina." It is the remix played in the bathhouse and for Parallel Works 5.
* ''This is Howlin' Wolf's new album. He doesn't like it. He didn't like his electric guitar at first either.''
* Inspired by the play ''Marat/Sade'' (see theatre section), Lalo Schifrin released an album titled ''The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music from the Past as Performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis de Sade''.
* So, so many of Charles Mingus's pieces, like "All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother."
** "Gunslinging Bird, or, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger There'd Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats]]"
** "The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers"
* Speaking of jazz, (Rahsaan) Roland Kirk was known to employ this trope. Favorite example: "The Ragman and the Junkman Ran from the Businessman They Laughed and He Cried."
* Some indie bands take it past long song titles by having long band names, such as "Somebody Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin."
* Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays' ''As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls'', both a song and an album from 1980.
* Arizonian industrial group The Strand's third album is titled ''Destroyers of That Which is Destroyed and Rulers of That Which is Not Destroyed!''
* Harold Barlow is probably best remembered (if he's remembered at all anymore) for "I've Got Tears in My Ears from Lyin' on My Back in My Bed While I Cry Over You"
* The Swedish 18th century songwriter Carl Michael Bellman has some rather long titles, although it can sometimes be argued that what is written above the actual body of the song is not so much a title as a description or dedication — for example ''[http://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Fredmans_epistel_n:o_21 Fredmans epistel n:o 21. Varutinnan han 1:o avmålar natten med dess nöjen, 2:o tycks liksom för ögonen ställa ett slags aequlibrium emellan vinets och kärlekens styrka, men omsider ljusligen uppenbarar övervikten]'' (Fredman's epistle number 21, in which he ''primo'' depicts the night with its pleasures, ''secundo'' appears to visualise a kind of æquilibrium of the respective strengths of wine and women, before the domination is eventually clearly revealed). However in the case of ''[http://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/I_närvarande_parter Fredmans sång n:o 54: Om handlingarna rörande Bacchi konkurs 8. Rådsturättens voteringsprotokoll och slutliga utslag i konkurstvisten emellan Bacchus och dess borgenärer]'' (Fredman's song number 54, on the documentation of Bacchus's bankruptcy 8: Voting protocol and final verdict of the county court in the case of Bacchus vs. its creditors) it is clear that this really is the title.
* Everything Goes Cold has a couple: "I've Sold Your Organs on the Black Market to Finance the Purchase of a Used Minivan" and "I Will Harness the Powers of Darkness to Destroy You". Both songs have remixes, adding respectively "I Don't Want Those Organs If There's Cancer In Them Mix" and "Because You Made Me Title This Mix".
* ''The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''.
* ''Stereophonic Musical Listenings That Have Been Origin in Moving Film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"'', the soundtrack to ''[[Borat]]: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.''
* ''The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels'', a spoken word album by [[Alan Moore]].
* From [[Bloodhound Gang]], "The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope", "A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying", "I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks" and "Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)"
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