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The shortest was, of course, only 10 words in length. To that end, here is the Everything Indie Over 40 Top Ten Songs With Ten Or More Words In Their Title (that’s fifteen words in our own title, if you’re counting…)įor the statisticians amongst you, there were 75 different suggestions for songs to fit this category, with an average length of 12.72 words per title.
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However, taking the song as an art-form, sometimes a longer title is much more appropriate and representative of the song’s intent. To be remembered effectively a song should have a catchy hook, usually a line of the song that is also the title, and consequently the shorter the better. The art of naming a song is perhaps a bit more challenging than that of a naming a poem after all, most poetry anthologies contain both a list of titles and an index of first lines. Song For A Beautiful Girl Petrol-Pump Attendant On The Motorway Amongst the wit and rhyme contained within was a poem whose title was almost as long as the poem itself, written by Adrian Henri: Three poets, all from Liverpool, contributed to the anthology which was entitled ‘The Mersey Sound’. When I was a young child I came across a book of poetry on the bookcase in the kitchen. The Indie Top Ten Songs With Ten Or More Words In The Title Our resident curator John Hartley ( then ponders, disects and finally presents. In this regular feature we ask the Everything Indie Over 40 social media community to help us compile a top ten list of a chosen topic.