So, it started with a tweet from Jeph Jacques, webcomic demigod.
And I thought to myself, “Self? How many song titles could we mangle like this?” I opened up MediaMonkey and, after some arguing with its search settings so that only titles appeared in the rankings, I found myself looking at a list of 182 songs which include “love” in the title. Now, that’s not precisely what Mr. Jacques instructed; he’s talking about lyrics. I don’t have a lyrics library to search, however, so we’ll have to make do with song titles. And because it’s been that kind of week and I need something to amuse myself during lunch, here’s a list of the highlights out of that search result, skulls-ified for your pleasure.
Note that I’m leaving out duplicates, remixes, and entries where the word replacement just doesn’t scan very well at all. (Which is to say: It didn’t make me laugh, so I chucked it.)
- All My Skulls - Led Zeppelin
- Almost Like Skulls - Yes
- Baby Really Skulls Me - Dada
- Big Skulls - Robert Plant
- Break For Skulls - Pet Shop Boys
- Can’t Refuse Your Skulls - The Sighs
- Can’t Stop Skulls - Two-Mix
- Chains Of Skulls - Erasure
- Church of Logic, Sin and Skulls - The Men
- City of Skulls - Yes
- Crazy Skulls Vol II - Paul Simon
- Digital Skulls - Daft Punk
- Do You Skulls? - Natalie Imbruglia
- Don’t Take Your Skulls Away - VAST
- First Skulls - Cellarful of Noise
- From Rusholme With Skulls - Mint Royale
- Get Down, Make Skulls - NIN (Queen cover)
- Higher Skulls - Depeche Mode
- I Am In Skulls With You - Imogen Heap
- I Don’t Believe In Skulls - Queensrÿche
- I Don’t Want Your Skulls - Duran Duran
- Interstate Skulls Song - Stone Temple Pilots
- Skulls Can Kill You - BT
- Skulls Comes Again - Tiësto
- Skulls etc - Pet Shop Boys
- Skulls Is A Battlefield - Pat Benetar
- Skulls Is Stronger Than Justice - Sting
- Skulls On Haight Street - BT
- Skulls Rescue Me - U2
- Skulls Siren - The Men
- Skulls Slave - UNDER17
- Skulls To Blame - Apoptygma Berserk
- Skulls Voodoo - Duran Duran
- Skulls Will Find A Way - Yes
- Skullstown - Peter Gabriel (yes, this one was a reach, I don’t care)
- Luminous Times (Hold On To Skulls) - U2
- Make Skulls - Daft Punk
- Nothing But Skulls - Seabound (also the name of a Jan Hammer track from Beyond The Mind’s Eye)
- One Year Of Skulls - Queen
- Only Skulls - Way Out West
- Outbreak of Skulls - Midnight Oil
- Power Of Skulls (The Tao Of Skulls) - Rick Springfield
- Prayer For Skulls - Dolce Triade
- Pride (In The Name Of Skulls) - U2
- Prisoner Of Skulls - Tin Machine
- Real Skulls - Yes
- Rhythm Of Skulls - Yes
- Send A Little Skulls - Dream
- Shine Your Skulls - The Breeze
- Sign Of Skulls - Immi
- SOS (Anything But Skulls) - Apocalyptica
- Soul Skulls - David Bowie
- Spacy Spicy Skulls - Mejale Pirates (Voice artists from the Vandread anime)
- Stadium Skulls - Metric
- Tainted Skulls - Nikolaj Steen (that’s the cover version I have in the library, anyway)
- The Dumbing Down Of Skulls - Frou Frou
- The Game Of Skulls - Daft Punk
- The Skulls Thieves - Depeche Mode
- The Meaning Of Skulls - Depeche Mode
- The Night I Fell In Skulls - Pet Shop Boys
- The Speed Of Skulls - Rush
- This Is Skulls - Tony Banks (the judges would also have accepted the different song of the same name by The Space Brothers)
- This Is Not Skulls - Jethro Tull
- This Must Be Skulls - Phil Collins (thus completing the trilogy…?)
- True Skulls - Wang Chung
- When It’s Skulls - Van Halen
- When Skulls Comes To Town - U2
- When You Give Your Skulls To Me - Kevin Gilbert
- Whole Lotta Skulls - Led Zeppelin
- Wreckless Skulls - Robert Plant
- You Can’t Hurry Skulls - Phil Collins
We now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcast day.
