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Song Titles by Synonyms #1

Guess these song titles, where most of the words have been replaced by synonyms.
Not all synonyms are exact
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Last updated: October 12, 2018
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First submittedMay 9, 2013
Times taken37,366
Average score55.0%
Rating4.18
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Synonyms
Song Title
Miniscule Ballerina
Tiny Dancer
Phone Me Perchance
Call Me Maybe
Big Spheres of Flame
Great Balls of Fire
Untamed Equines
Wild Horses
Uncolored Nuptials
White Wedding
Sabbath Sanguine Sabbath
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Thoroughfare to Perdition
Highway to Hell
Violet Precipitation
Purple Rain
Bison Warrior
Buffalo Soldier
Rudy the Scarlet
Proboscised Caribou
Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer
Synonyms
Song Title
When Pigeons Weep
When Doves Cry
Observing the Sleuths
Watching the Detectives
The Teeny Weeny Arachnid
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Saccharine Feeling
Sweet Emotion
Prepared to Perish
Ready to Die
We Located Romance
We Found Love
Coitus Contraption
Sex Machine
Ensnared Up in Cerulean
Tangled Up in Blue
Hazard Area
Danger Zone
Compassion for the
Antichrist
Sympathy for the
Devil
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Level 84
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.

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Level 80
Jul 12, 2013
You've never heard the Rolling Stones? For shame.
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Level 84
Jul 12, 2013
I've heard of them. Had no idea they had a song by that title.
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Level 66
Mar 29, 2019
The song was also covered by Guns N Roses, and used at the end of Interview with the Vampire.
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Level 87
Dec 31, 2019
Please allow the song to introduce itself.
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Level 26
Jul 12, 2013
I thought it was Crazy Horses at first
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Level 61
Dec 13, 2014
Me too. The Osmonds only real success.
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Level 69
Apr 15, 2016
or Niel Young's band
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Level 44
Jul 12, 2013
Fun quiz.
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Level 75
Jul 12, 2013
Missed four - might have got them all with a bit more time.
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Level 61
Jul 12, 2013
"Antichrist" and "the Devil" are not synonyms.

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

You might want to go with "Satan" instead.

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Level 14
Jul 12, 2013
the itsy bitsy spider is incy wincy spider in England. Could you make it an answer possibly?
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Level 23
Jul 13, 2013
I agree
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Level ∞
Jul 13, 2013
That will work now. I had 7 different ways, but forgot that one.
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Level 59
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!
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Level 39
Jul 12, 2013
Great quiz!
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Level 17
Jul 12, 2013
I'm from England and I put Incy Wincy Spider :S.
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Level 21
Jul 13, 2013
haha the rudolph one is funny
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Level 64
Jul 16, 2013
Now I have Andrew WK stuck in my head. For shame.
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Level 17
Jul 17, 2013
This was the funniest, haha
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Level 36
Mar 3, 2014
Only 11% for Bob Dylan. That's a shame.
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Level 72
Jul 7, 2014
He's a poet, not much of a musician; he may be a beloved lyricist, but I don't like his sound at all. People have different tastes
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Level 67
Feb 19, 2017
Regardless if you like a performer or not, you should recognize he's tremendously influential. Shame that far, far more know whoever did Call Me Maybe. Guess everyone on here is in junior high, though
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Level 17
Feb 27, 2023
Call Me Maybe was definitely more influential in my life than any Bob Dylan song.

Call Me Maybe was my favorite song as a child.

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Level 66
Jun 12, 2018
More recent things are always going to score higher than all but the absolute most famous older stuff. That's not a value judgment, just that most people are more familiar (or at least can more readily bring to mind) more recent stuff.
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Level 81
Jun 16, 2019
I think there's also the fact that the Dylan one is simply a harder clue: one synonym isn't very exact and the other uses an obscure word. Most of the others are reasonably guessable without knowing the song; that one I can imagine even people who know the song failing to get if they don't know what "cerulean" means.
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Level 82
May 17, 2014
Only missed the most popular one! I love this kind of quiz.
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Level 77
Feb 24, 2015
Lana. Lana.

LANA!!

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Level 73
Jul 11, 2015
Could also be Road to Hell (Chris Rea). Great driving song!
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Level 66
Oct 12, 2015
can you accept road to hell by Chris Rea for Thoroughfare to Perdition?
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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.
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Level 45
Jan 20, 2016
Purple Rain, if referring to the Future song, is called Purple Reign
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Level 60
Jan 20, 2016
Pretty sure it's referring the Prince song, "Purple Rain".
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Level 60
Jan 20, 2016
I loved "Coitus Contraption" hahaha.
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Level 73
Jan 20, 2016
I thought Sabbath means Saturday, not Sunday?
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Level 66
Jun 12, 2018
Depends on the religion or the particular sect, apparently.
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Level 84
Jun 12, 2018
It definitely does not.
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Level 84
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.
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Level 81
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.

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Level 84
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).

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Level 66
Sep 14, 2019
Yea I even typed it out fully, Saturdaybloodysaturday, when I realised, ow wait that is not the name of the song..

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Level 72
Jan 21, 2016
What about Ring of Fire by the great Johnny Cash for Big spheres of flame?
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Level 88
Jan 21, 2016
Last time I checked, rings aren't spheres.
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Level 67
Jan 26, 2016
Accept "Sweet Love" by Anita Baker for Saccharine Feeling?
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Level 18
Feb 15, 2017
Compassion for the antichrist XD
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Level 23
Jun 27, 2017
is it weird that i'm 11 and I only got tiny dancer and purple rain?
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Level 88
Sep 1, 2017
I was stuck on "Sweet Dreams" for "Saccharine Feeling". Damn you MTV and the endless loops of that video in my formative years.
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Level 70
Oct 1, 2017
Please accept Rudolf as an alternative spelling. I stared at it so long and couldn't work out the problem
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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.
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Level 60
Dec 25, 2018
Please accept Eensy Weensy Spider. That's the way I've always seen it spelled.
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Level 75
Dec 25, 2018
Sweet Sensation would also work
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Level 20
Feb 4, 2019
For "Thoroughfare to Perdition", Road to Hell by Bruce Dickinson should also be an acceptable answer.
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Level 81
Mar 29, 2019
Re: "White Wedding". Technically, "white" is all colors together, not uncolored.
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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."
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Level 74
Mar 29, 2019
There's a song by Black sabbath called "Sabbath bloody Sabbath". Might wanna change that one.
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Level 61
May 28, 2019
Sweet Sensation - couldn't work out why it didn't work.
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Level 61
Aug 22, 2021
When I see White Wedding I think of the Red Wedding
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Level 77
Jan 20, 2022
I read "Contraption" as "Contraception." no wonder I couldn't get that one
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Level 72
Feb 21, 2023
Instead of having the same words in the clue as in the song, what about the following alternatives:

At the time pigeons weep

The two of us located romance

Ensnared in cerulean

Compassion on account of the antichrist

Phone my person perchance