Weekly Track Roundup 2/28/23: Silly Titles

For this week’s roundup, we shifted focus towards how songs are presented, particularly in the artform of the song title and how it functions as a window into the music. These titles make some interesting cases for that…

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⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ - “ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(ƟӨ)ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ ꐑ(ཀ ඊູ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ✧✧✧✧✧✧ළඕั࿃ूੂ࿃ूੂ”

This side project by Four Tet is upbeat and repetitive in all the right ways. Perfect study music— except it’s nearly impossible to look the song up, which makes it a fun treat when it pops up in my queue.
-Liam Waldman

I really like this song and every time it comes on my liked song shuffle I get so excited because there's no way I can type out the title or artist name.
[editor’s note: submitted as I dont know how to copy and paste the song title]
-Julia Augustyn

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Neru - “potatoになっていく (Becoming Potatoes)”

I turned myself into a potato, Morty! I'm potato Rick!
-Alexandra Taylor

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JID - “Off Da Zoinkys”

Something about referring to pills as “zoinkys” is hilarious to me for how serious the subject matter of the song is.
-Emmett Favreau

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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”

The name is crazy. You know how when the names of songs are too long they scroll across your screen like a news headline? Well when that happened I really had no idea where it was going and i was so confused that it stuck with me. Also I found out later that the "leopard skin pillbox hat" is a bob dylan reference... so thats neat.
-Oliver Sahlman

death grips funny song name haha good music
-Lukas Shvetsov

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Rush - “I Think I’m Going Bald”

male pattern baldness is an ongoing prevalent issue. so glad geddy lee is bringing awareness to this tragedy
-Cecilia Dondorful-Amos

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OK Go - “WTF?”

i was 12 when i discovered this song and found out that people could put swear words in song titles. it completely destroyed the world as i knew it,
-Max Levin

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Ghais Guevara - “I Personally Wouldn’t Revive Queen Elizabeth (Pack Watch)”

I think the title stands for itself.
-Lily Lazar

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Brutalismus 3000 - “Satan Was A Baby Boomer”

Have you ever wanted a German dominatrix to scream at you unintelligibly for 7 minutes straight? And then have her voice broken up and pitched around the mix like the most annoying bat call of all time? And of course it’s fully self aware. Why else would she be screaming that Satan’s a Baby Boomer?
-Philip Keith

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Home is Where - “Sewn Together from the Membrane of the Great Sea Cucumber”

I first heard Home is Where at a Glass Beach concert they opened for in Brooklyn a few years ago. The album, I Became Birds, has some other good titles, such as “L Ron Hubbard Was Way Cool” and “The Scientific Classification of Stingrays”.
-Asher Weintraub