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* Daniel Defoe:

** ''{{smallcaps|The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of [[Robinson Crusoe]], of York, Mariner}}: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of {{smallcaps|America}}, near the Mouth of the Great River of {{smallcaps|Oroonoque}}; Having been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself {{smallcaps|with}} An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by {{smallcaps|[[Pirate|Pyrates]]}}.'', by Daniel Defoe.

* ''How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare, robbed a grave, made a new friend who might not have really been there at all, and while he was at it committed a terrible sin which everyone was doing even though he didn't know it''.

* John Hodgman

* ''Dealing, or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues'' by [[Michael Crichton]] and Douglas Crichton.

* Everyone should be at least familiar with Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem ''Ozymandias'' best known for the lines, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Less familiar is the fact that Shelley wrote it as something of a competition with a frend of his, Horace Smith. Smith's poem, on the same subject, was printed in the next month's issue of the magazine in which Shelley's was, and initially also titled ''Ozymandias.'' However after that initial publication, Smith decided to rename it to ''On A Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below.'' Note that at 20 words, the title is just over 1/5 the length of the 99-word poem itself. (Title aside, it's a pretty good poem.)

* Hungarian writer István Örkény's [[Flash Fiction|"One minute stories"]] parodies this in one of its stories, consisting of a hilariously long title and a two-word sentence.

* ''[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/BuytheBooks.html Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity]'' by IT entrepreneur and blogger Joel Spolsky.

* There was a 70s British kids' show called ''Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?'', often abbreviated as ''WDYJSOYTSAGADSLBI'' or just ''Why Don't You...?''

* [[The One With]] episode naming style used by ''[[Friends]]'' occassionally resulted in rather long titles like "The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister" or "The One Where Monica and Richard are Just Friends".

* Multiple programs on [[HGTV]] like ''House Hunters'' decide instead of a snappy and short title for each episode, to describe every situation of every episode, resulting in tongue twisters such as "Albert and Marie, Graduates of Harvard University, Decide to Look for a Reasonably Priced Townhouse in the Back Bay Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts So That They May Start Their Careers and Later Raise a Family." Most likely this is because there's only so many episodes you can name ''Townhouse Search''.

* ''[[The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret]]'' has a long title, and "A Plan Is Hatched and a Date Is Not a Date" is the shortest episode title of the show.

** Before that, he had "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." On the same album (''Blonde on Blonde'') there's "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine."

** Later on, there's "You'll Make Me Lonesome When You Go" (which is surprisingly almost exactly the same title length as "Stuck Inside of Mobile")

** [[Beatallica]] made a style parody with this song (among two others, one being by [[Metallica]]) called "Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning".

* Primitive Radio Gods' "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand." Abbreviated to "Phonebooth" by fans and the Billboard charts.

** There's also "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off", "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage". And from their new album ''Vices and Virtues'', we have "Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)" and "Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met)".

* [[Cobra Starship]] has a song titled "Prostitution is the World's Oldest Profession and I, Dear Madam, Am a Professional."

* There's a Nile song called "Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks From He Who Is In the Water."

** 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.

* Type O Negative used to love long titles. From the Slow Deep and Hard album, we have "Unsuccesfully Coping With The Natural Beauty of Infidelity", "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences", and "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2". From the October Rust album we have "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa".

* The J-Rock band [[Buck Tick]] has, on their album Six/Nine, two: "Aikawarazu no "Are" no Katamari ga Nosabaru Hedo no Soko no Fukidamari" (As usual,"that thing's" package, idle at the end of a spew drift), and "Mienai Mono o Miyo to Suru Gokai Subete Gokai da"" (Misunderstanding in trying to see the invisible, everything is misunderstood).

* Allen O'Neal And Nario Take An Afternoon Stroll Through A Field Of Poppies For A Picnic Lunch Of Wine, Cheese, And Whale Face.

* Modest Mouse. Most of their albums have really long titles. From "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" to [[We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank]] to "This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About" this indie group fits this trope.

* Snow Patrol's album "When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up" and the song "We Can Run Away Now They're All Dead And Gone".

** "When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up" is a song, too. Songs for Polarbears had "One Hundred Things You Should Have Done In Bed," they've been fairly concise since then, though "Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands" and "If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It" are getting up there.

* 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)".

* "You Will Be Reincarnated As an Imperial Attack Spaceturtle" by Behold... the Arctopus

* Alt-country band Richmond Fontaines latest album (and one track on it) is called 'We used to think the freeway sounded like a river'.

* 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'.

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* Wormphlegm's "In an Excruciating Way Infested with Vermin and Violated by Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism and Desanctifying the Pious"

* [[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".

* "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.

* "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. Inspired by a comment from a fan about what Voltaire's music was like.

* NIS America has ''Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This?'' (later changed to ''What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord?''), a real-time strategy game in which players control an evil overlord protecting his stronghold from invading heroes.

* An obscure ''[[Centipede]]'' rip-off is known as ''War of the Bugs or Monsterous Manouvers in a Mushroom Maze''.

* Many of the later ''[[Street Fighter]]'' games are guilty of this, as they were essentially [[Updated Rerelease|updated rereleases]] of [[Updated Rerelease|updated rereleases]], the title got more modifiers to distinguish the newer games from the previous installments. The already overly long ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'' is known in Japan as ''Super Street Fighter II X: Grand Master Challenge'' (that's a roman numeral two and the letter "ex") in Japan. The HD [[Video Game Remake|remake]] follows the tradition by being titled ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix''.

** Which, if spelled out completely, gives the even longer ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo High Definition Remix''.