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Sometimes bands made their song titles a question or an exclamation!

What are some of your fave examples? I'm hoping to learn of some new songs from you all, TIA! [:)]

Off the top of my head:

The Specials - Why?
The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?
The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down!
Bow Wow Wow - Why Are Babies So Wise?
Gary Numan - Are 'Friends' Electric?
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love? (also covered by The Fine Young Canibals) and What Do I Get?
Howard Jones - What Is Love?
Spizz Energi - Where's Captain Kirk?
Martini Ranch - How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?
Cetu Javu - Quien Lo Sabia?

Many more...



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Pet Shop Boys:
Was It Worth It?
What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Was That What It Was?
Do I Have To?
What Keeps Mankind Alive?
Can You Forgive Her?
How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?

Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke? / The Alarm
What Kind Of Girl?, Is The Music Loud Enough? / APB
Is That You Mo-Dean? / B-52s
How Is The Air Up There? / The Bangles
Why Is It? / Big Audio
What About Love?, Is Yours Working Yet? / Big Audio Dynamite
Which Side Are You On?, Must I Paint You A Picture? / Billy Bragg
Why? / Bronski Beat
Is Your Love Strong Enough? / Bryan Ferry
What Do I Get? / The Buzzcocks
Who The Hell Is David Butler? / Camouflage
Will You Stay Tonight?, What Else? / Comsat Angels
Why Can't I Be You? / The Cure
Alone Again Or?, Why Did Punk Happen? / The Damned
Life On Mars? / David Bowie
What's Your Name ? / Depeche Mode
Am I Right?, How Many Times? / Erasure
Would I Lie To You? / Eurythmics
You Know I Love You, Don't You?, Is There A Difference?, Will You Still Be There? / Howard Jones
Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero? / The Jam
Is She Really Going Out with Him? / Joe Jackson
Who Can It Be Now?, How Does It Feel?, Where Do the Boys Go? / Men At Work
Do They Know It's Christmas? / Midge Ure & Ultravox
How Soon Is Now?, Is It Really So Strange?, What Difference Does It Make? / Smiths
Who's Joe? / New Order
Who Killed Bambi?, Who Was It? / The Sex Pistols
Where Did Our Love Go? / Soft Cell
Who Wants the World? / The Stranglers
Who Killed Tangerine? / Tears For Fears
Is That All? / U2
What's The Matter Here? / 10,000 Maniacs
Nanga Def? / YMO

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Just Play Music! / Big Audio
Sightsee M.C!, Sudden Impact! / Big Audio Dynamite
Help Me Now! / Cetu Javu
Hot Hot Hot!!!, Hey You!!!, Gone!, / The Cure
Shout!, Get the Balance Right! Boys Say Go!, Tora! Tora! Tora! / Depeche Mode
Peek-A-Boo! / Devo
Stop!, Yahoo!, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Drama! / Erasure
To Hell With Poverty! / Gang Of Four
So What! / Jane's Addiction

Balancing Act - Who Got the Pearls?
Comsat Angels - Will You Stay Tonight?
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?
Department S - Is Vic There?
Devo - Gut Feeling
Dramarama - What Are We Gonna Do?
Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You?
Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Whaddya?
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Liz Phair - Why Can't I?
Men Without Hats - Where Do The Boys Go?
REM - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
The Passions - Why Me?
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
Soft Cell - What?
World Party - Is It Like Today?





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Are We Ourselves? - The Fixx

Are You Ready For The Sex Girls?- Gleaming Spires
Could you be the one?- Husker Du
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?- Culture Club
Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?- Ramones
How Long Will It Take?- The Plimsouls
Johnny, Are You Queer?- Josie Cotton
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?- Elvis Costello
Will Anything Happen?- Blondie

Do You Wanna Touch Me- (Oh Yeah!) Joan Jett
Start!- The Jam
Young Guns (Go For It!)- Wham!





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Monster! - Fred Schneider & the Shake Society
Don't Try to Stop It! - Roman Holiday
Anarchy in the UK! - Sex Pistols
C30, C60, C90, Go! - Bow Wow Wow
Doctor Doctor! - Thompson Twins
Ah! Leah - Donnie Iris
I'm Afraid! - Oingo Boingo
Golly! Golly! Go Buddy! - Bow Wow Wow
Melt! - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Superblast! - Lush

Do You Wanna Hold Me ? - Bow Wow Wow

Do You Dream in Colour ? - Bill Nelson
What Do All the People Know? - The Monroes
Wouldn't It be Good ? - Nike Kershaw
Have You Heard the News ? - David Johansen
How Much Are They ? - Jah Wobble
If You Leave, Can I Come Too ? - Mental As Anything
What Is Love ? - Dee Lite

XTC - Are You Receiving Me?

We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
-Johnny Ramone-

Tones on Tail - Go!

a-ha - Touchy!

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Antennas - Adapt!
The Beatles - Help!
Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again
Charles Trenet - Boum!
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands!
Depeche Mode - Get the Balance Right!
Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah!
Frazier Chorus - Typical!
Gary Numan - Me! I Disconnect From You
OutKast - Hey Ya!
The Passions - Oh No! It's You
Shania Twain - I'm Gonna Getcha Good!
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!
The Wonders - That Thing You Do!

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This topic made me think of the Seinfeld episode The Sniffing Accountant
http://www.seinology.com/scripts/script-68.shtml
Episode 68 - The Sniffing Accountant

[Pendant publishing. Elaine is at Lippman's office.]

ELAINE: You wanted to see me, Mr. Lippman?

LIPPMAN: I was just uh going over the Jake Jarmel book and I understand you worked with him very closely on this.

ELAINE: Yes (clears her throat) yes I did.

LIPPMAN: And uh, anyway I was just reading your final edit and um, there seems to be an inordinate number of exclamation points.

ELAINE: Uh well um, I felt that the writing lacked certain emotion and intensity.

LIPPMAN: Ah, (reads an excerpt) "It was damp and chilly afternoon, so I decided to put on my sweatshirt!"

ELAINE: Right, well...

LIPPMAN: You put exclamation point after sweatshirt?

ELAINE: That's that's correct, I-I felt that the character doesn't like to be ch-ch-chilly...

LIPPMAN: I see, (reads another excerpt) "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark bar didn't come out!" Exclamation point?

ELAINE: Well, yeah, you know how frustrating that can be when you keep putting quarters and quarters in to machine and then (prrt) nothing comes out...

LIPPMAN: Get rid of the exclamation points...

ELAINE: Ok, ok ok ...

LIPPMAN: I hate exclamation points...

ELAINE: ...ok I'll just....



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[quote][i]Originally posted by Panorama[/i]
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Soft Cell - What?

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Good song, the title was actually with an Exclamation mark. ("What!")

[quote][i]Originally posted by Screen13[/i]
[quote][i]Originally posted by Panorama[/i]
Soft Cell - What?[/quote]
Good song, the title was actually with an Exclamation mark. ("What!")[/quote]Hmmmmmm, I always thought it was What? with a question mark, because he is singing al the questions (though there is an intensity to his asking, so it's kind of, more of a statement)...

Do you want me to get down on my knees, beg you baby, please, Cry a million tears
Do you want me to call you on the phone, Beg you to come home, Think of all the years

What can I do when I still love you
What can I say when I still want you
What can I do
What can I say

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Checking a few online sources...

on itunes it's listed as What?, on allmusic.com it's listed as What?
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... w67ur080jj
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... foxq85ldse
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... foxxykldae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stop_Ecstatic_Dancing
also listed as:
"What?" - 4:33
"What?" - 4:31
"What!" (Extended) - 6:11

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Soft-Ce ... 337&sr=8-1
What?

photo of the 12" singles clearly lists it as "What!"
http://www.strangeinvitation.com/media/ ... CDBack.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz8emEF4eZc
But in this youtube video, you can clearly see it says What! on the wall behind Marc Almond

http://www.discogs.com/release/449949
Soft Cell - What!


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That's cool.

I was mainly going by the sleeve of the single version and the mention of it on The Great Rock Discography. For some reason, it was just something to add on to the title. It was a cover of a song sung by Judy Street (Possibly a Northern Soul favorite), possibly just titled originally without any punctuation.

The book of Soft Cell by Simon Tebbutt didn't have either when mentioning the song, and neither did The Encyclopedia of Rock Stars (The Mid-90's edition p.799). Either way, it's still a good track.

Soft Cell - Insecure...Me? (Classic B-Side to "Torch")

I'm surprised no one here mentioned "What Does Sex Mean To Me?" by Human Sexual Response. Unless my eyes are deceiving me.