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Song Titles by Synonyms #1

Try to guess these song titles, where most of the words have been replaced by synonyms.
Not all synonyms are exact
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First submittedMay 9, 2013
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Synonyms
Year
Song Title
Phone Me Perchance
2011
Call Me Maybe
Miniscule Ballerina
1971
Tiny Dancer
Big Spheres of Flame
1957
Great Balls of Fire
Untamed Equines
1971
Wild Horses
Prepared to Perish
1994
Ready to Die
Uncolored Nuptials
1982
White Wedding
Violet Precipitation
1984
Purple Rain
Hazard Area
1986
Danger Zone
Compassion for the Antichrist
1968
Sympathy for the Devil
Rudy the Scarlet Proboscised Caribou
1949
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
When Pigeons Weep
1984
When Doves Cry
Evil Bloke
2019
Bad Guy
The Teeny Weeny Arachnid
?
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Bison Warrior
1983
Buffalo Soldier
Thoroughfare to Perdition
1979
Highway to Hell
Sabbath Sanguine Sabbath
1983
Sunday Bloody Sunday
We Located Romance
2011
We Found Love
Coitus Contraption
1970
Sex Machine
Jogging Up That Knoll
(A Contract With Zeus)
1985
Running Up That Hill
(A Deal With God)
Choreography Simian
2019
Dance Monkey
kalbahamut
+13
Level 82
Jun 12, 2013
Hold me closer, Tony Danza!

I got some of these even though I'd never heard of the songs before.. like.. Wild Horses, and Sympathy for the Devil.

BobSaget
+19
Level 78
Jul 12, 2013
You've never heard the Rolling Stones? For shame.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Jul 12, 2013
I've heard of them. Had no idea they had a song by that title.
kenpo17
+1
Level 66
Mar 29, 2019
The song was also covered by Guns N Roses, and used at the end of Interview with the Vampire.
IsleAuHaulte
+17
Level 89
Dec 31, 2019
Please allow the song to introduce itself.
JWatson24
+8
Level 71
Apr 4, 2023
It's a song of wealth and taste!
NekroNeko
+1
Level 26
Jul 12, 2013
I thought it was Crazy Horses at first
stockiebasher97
+1
Level 60
Dec 13, 2014
Me too. The Osmonds only real success.
tom88
+4
Level 72
Apr 15, 2016
or Niel Young's band
RobNobody
+4
Level 77
Apr 4, 2023
You'd probably recognize Sympathy for the Devil if you heard it — it's used in a LOT of media — but the title isn't in the lyrics so you might not have connected the two.
BlendedCow
+2
Level 44
Jul 12, 2013
Fun quiz.
yankeh
+11
Level 60
Jul 12, 2013
"Antichrist" and "the Devil" are not synonyms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist

You might want to go with "Satan" instead.

BeccaScorer20
+11
Level 14
Jul 12, 2013
the itsy bitsy spider is incy wincy spider in England. Could you make it an answer possibly?
KatM
+2
Level 23
Jul 13, 2013
I agree
Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Jul 13, 2013
That will work now. I had 7 different ways, but forgot that one.
DrWhoFanJ
+1
Level 62
Apr 21, 2023
I tried the same but with “wincey” (how it was always spelled where I lived) and it wouldn’t take it.

Always a recurring issue with songs like this; they spread so far and wide that many slight variants arrive along the way. It might be easier to regex just a check for two Y’s between “The” and “Spider” than manually add every single variant.

Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Mar 25, 2024
Hansje pansje kevertje in Dutch ;)

Edit and kever is beatle, not even spider! (I guess that wouldnt flow because spin is one syllable, though I guess they could have gone with spinnetje..)

mal
+2
Level 61
Jul 12, 2013
Did ok, but didn't get Incy Wincy Spider, also kept putting Road to Hell rather than Highway two very different songs!
JuliaMM
+1
Level 40
Jul 12, 2013
Great quiz!
Wolfy
+5
Level 16
Jul 12, 2013
I'm from England and I put Incy Wincy Spider :S.
Algernon
+3
Level 72
Apr 8, 2023
Yeah, I think QM should allow that as a type in. I did the same and a quick Google shows they are the same nursery rhyme just with slightly different lyrics/titles on different sides of the pond. Probably just one of those where QM doesn’t know it has a different name elsewhere.
ItzIngenious
+2
Level 60
Apr 21, 2023
This answer has worked since 2013
scottyc
+1
Level 20
Jul 13, 2013
haha the rudolph one is funny
Yossarian
+1
Level 64
Jul 16, 2013
Now I have Andrew WK stuck in my head. For shame.
Campioni
+1
Level 17
Jul 17, 2013
This was the funniest, haha
Packerswin14
+1
Level 83
May 17, 2014
Only missed the most popular one! I love this kind of quiz.
stubblyhead
+2
Level 76
Feb 24, 2015
Lana. Lana.

LANA!!

ACrewAndR
+1
Level 73
Jul 11, 2015
Could also be Road to Hell (Chris Rea). Great driving song!
pksairish
+1
Level 66
Oct 12, 2015
can you accept road to hell by Chris Rea for Thoroughfare to Perdition?
Carry
+1
Level 63
Jan 20, 2016
Some of these synonym words I've never heard before and couldn't imagine what they might mean so I only got 8.
RandomSportsKid
+1
Level 48
Jan 20, 2016
Purple Rain, if referring to the Future song, is called Purple Reign
Kestrana
+13
Level 60
Jan 20, 2016
Pretty sure it's referring the Prince song, "Purple Rain".
Kestrana
+4
Level 60
Jan 20, 2016
I loved "Coitus Contraption" hahaha.
InterAlia
+3
Level 75
May 1, 2023
I'm surprised more people aren't figuring that one out, regardless of whether they know the song.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Mar 25, 2024
I tried sex bomb initially..
TomatosRaafatos
+4
Level 73
Jan 20, 2016
I thought Sabbath means Saturday, not Sunday?
kenpo17
+4
Level 66
Jun 12, 2018
Depends on the religion or the particular sect, apparently.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Jun 12, 2018
It definitely does not.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Dec 25, 2018
It is. The Sabbath is and always has been Saturday for every Abrahamic religion. Sunday, for Christian's, is the Lord's Day. Not the Sabbath. Because Jews prohibited doing work on the Sabbath (Saturday), and Christians go to church on Sunday and therefore Sunday became a common day off from work in Christian countries, many Christians were confused into conflating the two things. But Sunday is not the Sabbath Day. Never has been. Not in any religion or denomination.
phalocrocorax
+13
Level 83
Jun 16, 2019
What you say about "not in any denomination" is just wrong. Baptist, Methodist and Congregational denominations typically consider that after the resurrection the Sabbath changed from Saturday to the Christian Sabbath of Sunday. This can be found explicitly in several denominational statements of faith, for example see paragraph 22.7 of the 1689 Baptist confession.

Admittedly there are other Christian denominations which consider that the Sabbath is still on Saturday (some of which additionally celebrate the Lord's day on Sunday). But there certainly are major denominations in which Sunday is the Sabbath.

kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Dec 25, 2018
Before some confused Christian comes along and tries to argue with me as always- If you want to know why Sunday is holy for Christians it's because of the resurrection story.

Jesus was crucified on a Friday. The Jews had to cut down his body and bury him quickly because it was almost Saturday (the Sabbath) and they can't do work on the Sabbath. This is why Jesus was buried very nearby the spot where he was crucified, and not on the Mount of Olives (visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the two spots are within 20 seconds walking distance). So.. he was buried on Friday, to avoid doing work on the Sabbath (Saturday), and.. on the third day (Sunday) he rose from the dead. This is why Sunday is holy to Christians. It has nothing to do with it being the Sabbath (it's not).

Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Sep 14, 2019
Yea I even typed it out fully, Saturdaybloodysaturday, when I realised, ow wait that is not the name of the song..

BiggieSmalls
+3
Level 73
Jan 21, 2016
What about Ring of Fire by the great Johnny Cash for Big spheres of flame?
Jacktheguy
+8
Level 89
Jan 21, 2016
Last time I checked, rings aren't spheres.
Tummykong
+2
Level 66
Jan 26, 2016
Accept "Sweet Love" by Anita Baker for Saccharine Feeling?
Magikarp1
+1
Level 17
Feb 15, 2017
Compassion for the antichrist XD
kailu11
+1
Level 23
Jun 27, 2017
is it weird that i'm 11 and I only got tiny dancer and purple rain?
kenpo17
+1
Level 66
Jun 12, 2018
Who is this Chris Rea people keep bringing up? I too thought of Road to Hell for that question, but I was thinking of Bruce Dickinson. Even so, I quickly realized the AC/DC song was much more likely and got the answer.
ChaosQuizzer
+2
Level 22
Feb 4, 2019
For "Thoroughfare to Perdition", Road to Hell by Bruce Dickinson should also be an acceptable answer.
Tomtrific
+1
Level 82
Mar 29, 2019
Re: "White Wedding". Technically, "white" is all colors together, not uncolored.
flanin
+3
Level 53
Sep 5, 2019
That's only when mixing colors of light (with black being the absence of any color). In paint colors, however (or really anything that's not light), black is the presence of all colors and white is the absence of any, hence "uncolored."
Ferbin
+4
Level 76
Mar 29, 2019
There's a song by Black sabbath called "Sabbath bloody Sabbath". Might wanna change that one.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Aug 22, 2021
When I see White Wedding I think of the Red Wedding
GrammarBeane1
+2
Level 82
Jan 20, 2022
I read "Contraption" as "Contraception." no wonder I couldn't get that one
PynchonsOverbite
+1
Level 91
Apr 4, 2023
Love "coitus contraption." Sounds like something you might buy from Acme. And really regret it.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 67
Apr 4, 2023
Just missed Highway to Hell
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Apr 4, 2023
Wow, Prince is the only one here to have two songs! Both amazing though, both deserve very well to be on here. RIP Prince :(
phalocrocorax
+1
Level 83
Apr 5, 2023
Not the only one - the Rolling Stones also have two.
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Apr 21, 2023
Oh whoops, didn't notice Wild Horses when I made that comment :P
skelAtoN
+1
Level 65
Apr 4, 2023
Dance Monkey really do be one of the worst songs ever made
JoshPen
+2
Level 79
Apr 9, 2023
"Baby Shark" has entered the game.
CliveDexter
+1
Level 75
Apr 5, 2023
Shouldn't Eentsy Weentsy Spider be accepted?
Koopa
+1
Level 77
Apr 5, 2023
While these are creative, I'd rather see prepositions replaced ("during the time that" for "when", "my person" for "me", "the two of us" for "we", etc.)
ItzIngenious
+2
Level 60
Apr 21, 2023
Wow… nobody has gotten offended yet about the fact that QM put in “Zeus”, and not “Jesus”.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Mar 25, 2024
It is a (divine) miracle!
iliyas17
+1
Level 56
Apr 21, 2023
I'm too young to know half of these
aFuzzyPanda
+1
Level 57
Apr 21, 2023
Ugh, kept mashing in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath to no avail :(
AnnikaKim
+1
Level 62
Apr 22, 2023
Ran out of time because wasted too much time trying several ways to type the itzy bitchy spider and never got the right one anyway. Note that white is not uncoloured but quite the opposite, it is the mixture of all colours, i.e. white things reflect all the visible wavelengths of light.
naginisnake42
+1
Level 36
Apr 25, 2023
Choreography Simian... this is good stuff!!
Quizmaster12453
+2
Level 38
Apr 25, 2023
Sabbath isn't on a sunday though, it's saturday. This is because the first day of the week is actually sunday, and the last day of the week it's sabbath. Because the working week starts on monday, everyone thinks (and now it kinda is) the first day of the week is monday
JulienPaschoud
+1
Level 46
Feb 4, 2024
I read anarchist instead of antichrist... and still figured it out, hahahaha.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Mar 25, 2024
wow I actually managed to get them all! while I only know snippets of 7 (hearing something when you zap past something) mainly just the few seconds of the title. I think the only one I actually fully know is rudolph haha, and the melody of itsy bitsy spider but not the english lyrics
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