Female name song titles?!

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I just came to the realization that Andrew has quite a few songs with female names in the titles...

Emma
Alice
Marianne
Jolene
Lucretia (My Reflection)
Suzanne (We Are The Same)

I thought it was interesting, that's all.

Am I missing any? I'm not too familiar with his newer (unrecorded) material.
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and the point is ?
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beatnick138 wrote:
Am I missing any? I'm not too familiar with his newer (unrecorded) material.
Familiar enough to mention Susanne... :D
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All of the names end in either a or e.
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And if you take the first letter of every song title (apart from Jolene) then it spells MALES which could be a symbol of the writers latent homosexuality. :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
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But where do you put the J? :/
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Is Anaconda a girl ? :lol:
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beatnick138 wrote:Am I missing any?
Indeed, indeed, indeed! ;D
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itnAklipse wrote:All of the names end in either a or e.
I think you'll find Marian doesn't :wink:
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doctoravalanche wrote:Is Anaconda a girl ? :lol:
Good point. It's about a girl - so does that count? ;D
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Hom_Corleone wrote:
doctoravalanche wrote:Is Anaconda a girl ? :lol:
Good point. It's about a girl - so does that count? ;D
Anna Konda.
She worked down the road from Andy in Leeds. With the guy in the chipshop who swore he was Elvis........

And it ends in an A

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:lol:
That way or another, I think it's a nice thing for a rock band to have so many songs with female names, and in general - to have so many songs in which women play a vital role.
Not to mention that the roles they play are so much more distinctive and complicated than the roles women play in most other rock bands' songs. 8) :notworthy:
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Does Sister Ray count?
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Gollum's Cock wrote:And if you take the first letter of every song title (apart from Jolene) then it spells MALES which could be a symbol of the writers latent homosexuality. :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:
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itnAklipse wrote:But where do you put the J? :/
Stuff the J in the back, I'd say. Andy's passions unraveled!

Of course, during the 80s, Andy was desperately in love with SELMA JONES, aka SELMA J -- the notorious punkrocking bimbo with the superb hairdo and stiletto-sized fingernails!

That clearly explains the lyrics in 'home of the hit-men' !



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Bartoszek wrote:and the point is ?
Must there always be a point? I like a bit of meaningless chatter every now and then. It passes the time, you know.
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beatnick138 wrote:I like a bit of meaningless chatter every now and then.
We already have a lot of that around here ! :roll: :lol:
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beatnick138 wrote:I just came to the realization that Andrew has quite a few songs with female names in the titles...

Emma
Alice
Marianne
Jolene
Lucretia (My Reflection)
Suzanne (We Are The Same)

I thought it was interesting, that's all.

Am I missing any? I'm not too familiar with his newer (unrecorded) material.
Yes and that's why we named our little daughter to one of aboves names... With the single included in every birth card that we've sended... Grtz...
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beatnick138 wrote:I just came to the realization that Andrew has quite a few songs with female names in the titles...

Emma
Alice
Marianne
Jolene
Lucretia (My Reflection)
Suzanne (We Are The Same)

I thought it was interesting, that's all.

Am I missing any? I'm not too familiar with his newer (unrecorded) material.
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beatnick138 wrote:I just came to the realization that Andrew has quite a few songs with female names in the titles...

Emma
Alice
Marianne
Jolene
Lucretia (My Reflection)
Suzanne (We Are The Same)

I thought it was interesting, that's all.

Am I missing any? I'm not too familiar with his newer (unrecorded) material.
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itnAklipse wrote:All of the names end in either a or e.
Marian?
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psichonaut: Marianne is the german spelling for the name (and germans don't get to participate in this debate if it's not) and since it's about Hamburg, we must consider that :D Ergh.
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itnAklipse wrote:psichonaut: Marianne is the german spelling for the name (and germans don't get to participate in this debate if it's not) and since it's about Hamburg, we must consider that :D Ergh.
Did Eldritch or Marx write the lyrics for "Red Skies Disappear"? That was where "Marianne" first appeared as a name. Marx said in a recent-ish interview that the process they used to write the songs around 1984/5 was that Marx or Hussey would write the music, make a rough demo (presumably with some self-penned lyrics to show the vocal line) then Eldritch would write the "real" lyrics for the music. Which kinda indicates that it was Marx who coined the name "Marianne".

And we should all remember that names were changed to protect the guilty anyway - names used in the songs are picked because they've got the right number of syllables or other such criteria.
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lazarus corporation wrote:Did Eldritch or Marx write the lyrics for "Red Skies Disappear"?
Definetely Marx's lyrics. So you're right, that name was adopted by Marx though i'm not sure he used it to symbolize the city of Hamburg - i'd wager au contraire.
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