have you ever stolen a track name?

i read a lady's opendiary, and she had a line in a poem that read "trained the stumbling clouds" which i admired

so i used it as a track title and only later did i ask her when she said it was fine she didn't like that line anyway

have you ever reappropriated a line from something to use as a track title for one of your tracks and what was it

yeah: "untitled"

  On 5/29/2011 at 5:12 AM, yek said:

yeah: "untitled"

but are you bothered, though?

Nope!

yek why don't you share your music? or at least sell it

impressive

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  On 5/29/2011 at 6:12 AM, yek said:

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weak dude

"For My Electric Sheep" is a line from 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'

I tried to get a track on a compilation called "Psi-Onyx (Autechre Psix Million Dollar Myx Oscar Goldmans Bonus)" but they weren't fucking having it. Wankers.

I used the line "Dawning Comprehension" from Calvin and Hobbes.

I used "William Blake's America" as a track name, and took bits of the poem to use as lyrics, coupled with some found sound of a gangster drunkenly yelling at me on a street corner and then trying to sell me drugs.

No, my track titles are all original.

yea shasta mcnasty named from the 1999 upn sitcom shasta mcnasty

Tantric Abstinence: Some Comedian I saw one night on Comedy Central

Qtrplxy: from a mutated character on SNL. just added the "y"

When The Minutes Drag: A repeated verse from a Love And Rockets Song called Haunted

It Virus: John Stewart described the SARS epidemic as an "IT Virus" on the Daily Show

Iron Egg Technique: from an old Hip Hop Shaolin DVD(?). There were Shaolin Munks demonstrating the "Iron Egg Style"... gettin' kicked in the nuts and not being phased... changed the word Style to Technique

Pig Lizard: an Alien creature on Galaxy Quest.

Bizarre Apparatus: A Wrestler back in the 80s had an S&M mask on and the commentator described it as a "Bizarre Apparatus"

Beartrap in the Ocean?: From Sealab 2021

Forward Lateral: A Pass in American Football

A.Y.C.E.N.: An Acronym for a segment on the Phil Hendrie Show. The Samples of that show are heard throughout the track.

Red Right Return: A Navigation Rule in the Navy.

  On 5/29/2011 at 10:16 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Forward Lateral: A Pass in American Football

i like that

I decided to name my album Vampire State Building, because of an inside joke between me and some friends, and before I released I noticed that there had been a band and an album already released with that name, but it didn't really matter to me so I released it like that anyways...

i think there is a reggar group called irari come to think of it but i only found that out after i came up with the acronym myself

mountains of the moon

contrary to popular belief it is not taken from the grateful dead song, i stole it from the work in progress title for mark hollis' self titled solo album.

otherwise, i try to be as original as i can when it comes to track/album/artist names

Flight Of The Navigator : from early late 80s or early 90s? kids movie that the track reminded me of

Had the random idea to name two tracks I haven't finished from a couple of months ago after the two movies that kind of sub consciously inspired the vibes for the tracks (Never Let Me Go & Black Swan) and naming the two track EP DBL FTR after the double feature combo movie showings that rarely happen

I think that's about it.. Had a working title track called Kristen Bell's Lazy Eye.... uhhh I dunno I'm sure I had a lot of working titles for songs that were references to shit

  On 5/30/2011 at 5:34 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

Flight Of The Navigator : from early late 80s or early 90s? kids movie that the track reminded me of

[dub]that was a good movie imo-oh-oh-oh[/dub]

I once stole an acid riff, hence the title Stolen Acid.

http://soundcloud.com/pseen/stolen-acid

As far as I remember I did that once with "Junpei's Sandbugs" which is a reference to a film I saw some months ago and which I found amazing : The Woman in the Dunes. Junpei, the protagonist, likes to collect sand bugs and to classify them.

That's not the story at all but anyway just get it and watch it if you didn't already.

I've stolen a whole album name...

Steal some words, steal some tunes... it's all here for us to use.