new diversion

[rone]

Think of two songs that share the same title but have diametrically opposed content.

Example: "So What", by Miles Davis, and Ministry.

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[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

That is a very cool idea. Sadly, I am too tipsy to think of any such songs.

Or maybe it's not that sad.

[manfire.livejournal.com]

Can we cheat by consulting this page (http://www.thepeaches.com/music/dupes/)?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I hate you, Milkman Dan.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

They forgot to through "Always" by Erasure in there.

-- Schwa ---

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

Example: "So What", by Miles Davis, and Ministry.

Which made me think of: Metallica - So Fucking What.

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

I don't know that they're diametrically opposed, but the Beatles's "Let it Be" and Malvina Reynolds's "Let it Be" have somewhat different themes.

[kodi]

After a good, solid 10 minutes of thinking, this is what I've come up with:

• I don't know who originally recorded "Stay," except that it wasn't Jackson Browne
• That's cool, though, because the Shakespear's Sister song by the same name isn't different enough, content-wise
• I suck at coming up with song titles off the top of my head
• But I'm really good at getting "So What" (Ministry) stuck in my head just from staring at the title for a while
• I'm certain that there's a song called "Heaven" that pairs up with Bryan Adams' song, but I can't for the life of me think of it

Checking the list of duplicates, I see that I was at least right about "Heaven." There are only two others I'm ashamed to have missed from the list.

[sneaux.livejournal.com]

There's "Heaven," by Talking Heads, the last song on *More Songs about Buildings and Food.*

Does the old standard "(I'm in) Heaven" count? I'm not sure if there are parentheses in the title or not.

sneaux

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think i'll clench my buttocks and say, "No."

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Pavement's "Home" and Sheryl Crow's tune of the same name have somewhat orthogonal lyrical content, but to my ears have rather similar "feel."

Does that count?

[nothings.livejournal.com]

At some point I ran into a third song titled "Modern Love" (besides Bowie's and Peter Gabriel's), but I can't remember who it was now and I don't remember what the lyrics were about; Bowie's and Gabriel's do not seem to be opposed ("never gonna fall for modern love" vs. "modern love can be a strain")