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Thread started 09/02/15 1:17pm

Shawy89

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What's the point of having songs "untitled"...

Like D'Angelo's "How Does It Feel", It obviously HAS a title.

What's the concept of leaving songs without a title anyway? Some even have a chorus, and a repeated phrase or sentence that can clearly serve as a title!

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Reply #1 posted 09/02/15 4:26pm

Hamad

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Probably an attempt to let the listener come up with their own interpretations, in order to make a dialoug about the music? Or maybe they were simply too lazy to title the songs at the time lol

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Reply #2 posted 09/02/15 5:15pm

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D'angelo's song is about the only song I know "untitled" doh!

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Reply #3 posted 09/02/15 6:13pm

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I suspect most artists aren't trying to make a point when they leave a song untitled. On the contrary, it seems more likely they haven't found a title that captures whatever point they are trying to make. So they don't bother.

One exception that immediately comes to mind is Terence Trent D'Arby's "As Yet Untitled." The sheer labour of saying/writing that entire phrase suggests a certain intentionality -- an intentionality that does strike me as pretentious.

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Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #4 posted 09/03/15 7:20pm

SoulAlive

one thing that has always annoyed me....

When artists have a song in which the title is never mentioned anywhere in the lyrics! lol nuts

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Reply #5 posted 09/03/15 11:10pm

EroticDreamer

purplepolitician said:

D'angelo's song is about the only song I know "untitled" doh!

In my library these artists have 'untitled' songs:

Crash Test Dummies

The Cure

D'Angelo

Interpol

Keane

Smashing Pumpkins

Terence Trent D'Arby

I wrote a poem in college about missing/abducted children and didn't want to give it a title but I wouldn't get a grade on it if I didn't.

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Reply #6 posted 09/04/15 8:27am

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I've always heard D'Angelo's Untitled was named that as a dedication to Prince who at some point changed his name to an Untitled Symbol.
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