ITA’s resurrection of its “Solve This. Work Here.” subway ads spurred a dream a couple nights ago: my company announced a contest to come up with the most and most original overlaps of pop song titles and movie titles. In between snooze alarms, I came up with several not very creative entries, including:
- Remains of the Day Tripper
- Right Here, Right Now Voyager
- Take a Load Off Annie Hall (even in my dream, I didn’t think that this was the title of The Band song)
- The Waiting Room with a View
- I Am Curious (Yellow) Submarine
Terri says:
May 11th, 2007 at 9:57 am EDTVisit Terri
I feel like I was doing this on the train the other day, too.
Hmm…
Skin Is, My Left Foot
Yawny at the Apocalypse Now
Interview with a Vampire/Forest Fire
School of Rock Lobster
The Nutty Professor Booty
Mullholland Drive My Car
The Stars of Track and Field of Dreams
The Lion in Winter Wooskie
Lost Highway 61 Revisited
…OK, this is too much fun.
2fs says:
May 11th, 2007 at 10:36 am EDTVisit 2fs
Isn’t it “Fanny” in the Band song?
Steve says:
May 12th, 2007 at 10:57 pm EDTVisit Steve
Isn’t it “Fanny” in the Band song?
No
Heather says:
May 13th, 2007 at 3:43 pm EDTVisit Heather
How funny to see someone mention I am Curious Yellow, I love that movie (but doesn’t everyone?)…
Ezra says:
May 13th, 2007 at 9:00 pm EDTVisit Ezra
I thought it was Fanny for years. Basically until I saw Easy Rider.
Terri and I are sitting here thinking some up.
I’ve Got a Match Point
In the Nightgown of the Sullen Moonstruck
No Children of the Corn
Annie’s Song of the South
Baby Got Back To The Future
Slowly Goes the Night of the Living Dead
G.I. Jane Says
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Shut Your Mouth
Easy Rider on the Storm
Talledega Nights In White Satin
Days of Thunder Road
One Step Beyond Thunderdome
(You Make Feel Like) A Natural Woman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
2fs says:
May 13th, 2007 at 9:41 pm EDTVisit 2fs
Not sure what Easy Rider has to do with it (other than the song being featured in the movie), but:
1. This extensive and fairly authoritative-looking site has it as “Fanny”;
2. In this interview with Rick Danko, he doesn’t correct the interviewer when the interviewer says “Fanny”;
3. There’s a “Miss Fanny” in the last verse, corroborating the reading of “Fanny” in the chorus (unless this is an early draft of “Rock’n'Roll Dreams’ll Come Through”…);
4. Most importantly, as this excerpt from the chorus of the original recording indicates, they’re clearly singing “Fanny” and not “Annie.”
Case closed.
Editrix says:
May 13th, 2007 at 10:14 pm EDTVisit Editrix
Um, just a reminder on lyrical verisimilitude: I was making titles up in my dream. Last night I dreamed I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy orangutan, and had to nurse him every 15 minutes while bombs rained down in a world war started by Kim Jong Il.
Terri and Ezra, your contributions are brilliant!
It reminds me of happy times spent with my music-obsessed friends at clubs before the bands started up, seeing who could come up with the most song titles that mention fruit, or band names featuring colors. Good clean fun.
Ezra says:
May 14th, 2007 at 9:04 am EDTVisit Ezra
Unless you actually pause for a full second after you say “off”, it’s really very hard to tell whether it’s Fannie or Annie. And I know it doesn’t matter, but just for the sake of clarification and argument…
0) Why Easy Rider? I saw it in the theater and the sound was good. “Fannie” also makes less sense in context. The scene where it plays is all about freedom and riding your big ol bike into a hippie utopia. “Take a load off Fannie” sounds goofy, like your feet are tired; they were clearly shooting for more.
1) You can’t believe everything you read on the internet
2) Unless the interviewer did the interview in writing, he probably just said “takealoadoffannie” just as unintelligibly as anybody would. I have it on good authority* that Danko was not offered a chance to edit the transcript, as he was too busy riding his big ‘ol motorcycle back to his hippie utopia.
3) OK
4) It still sounds like it could go either way.
*ok, this is made up.
2fs says:
May 14th, 2007 at 10:17 am EDTVisit 2fs
But: a man appeared to me upon a flaming pie, and he said unto me, it is “Fanny” with an F, as in the name, not as in your bottom, silly; and verily I say therefore unto you, never shall it be “Annie”! Anyway: to me, the singers clearly articulate a second “F” there…but I suppose unless someone e-mails Robbie Robertson for clarification, this will have to be one of those unresolvable issues. (Except that I’m right.)
2fs says:
May 14th, 2007 at 7:57 pm EDTVisit 2fs
Incidentally: the real diff between “off Annie” and “off Fanny” is that the latter has far stronger aspiration on the “F” of “Fanny.” If you say the two to yourself, and listen closely, you’ll hear that “off Fanny” has a puff of air along with that “F” (put a lit match in front of you to prove it) whereas “off Annie” does not.
Now, if only we could stick burning matches in front of the singers as they recorded it…then we’d have our answer!
Ezra says:
May 15th, 2007 at 9:01 am EDTVisit Ezra
The Matrix Revolutions Will Not Be Televised.
Ezra says:
May 15th, 2007 at 8:07 pm EDTVisit Ezra
Your meme has taken over our lives. Please make it stop. The following are what Terri and I came up with over dinner at Johnny D’s: they were playing a lot of 80’s and our challenge was to come up with one per artist played. We missed some, and some of these were off the menu bonus tracks.
Canary in a Coalminer’s Daughter
Robert DeNiro’s Waiting for Guffman
Booty Call Me
Stand and Deliverance
Personal Jesus Christ Superstar
It Happened One Night In Bangkok
Cars (I know this is lame, but Gary Numan only has one-word song titles!!! It temporarily spawned a sub-meme where we attempted to find songs that *were* movie titles that weren’t the themesong)
Withnail and I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Doctor Doctor Zhivago
God Save the Queen Christina
It’s a Miracle on 34th Street
Just Like Heaven Can Wait
Pictures of You and Me and Everyone We Know
In Your House of Sand and Fog
Child’s Play for Today
The Upstairs Room with a View (as you see, Terri’s Cure fandom kicked into overdrive a couple titles ago)
Glory Days of Thunder (if you combine it with the above “Days of Thunder Road”, you get “Glory Days of Thunder Road”– a Springsteen DOUBLE THREAT!!!)
Inbetween Days of Wine and Roses
Chains of Love Story
Pride (in the Name of Love), Actually
Betty Blue Monday
The Return of the King of Pain
The Young Guns of Brixton
Cradle Will Rock the Casbah
American Werewolf in London Calling
Getting Better Off Dead
White Men Can’t Jump (for your Love)
Ezra says:
May 15th, 2007 at 8:33 pm EDTVisit Ezra
Terri got “Doctor Doctor Zhivago” which made me snort and laugh OUT LOUD much longer than I should have.
I don’t know what is up with my sudden HODGMANESQUE CAPS. That is all.
Terri says:
May 15th, 2007 at 9:05 pm EDTVisit Terri
…hours of entertainment.
Ezra says:
May 30th, 2007 at 3:50 pm EDTVisit Ezra
Killer Queen Christina