ptooey, he said...

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

The Wind Cries Hortense

Certain names must just be more poetic than others. There are a lot of songs with names in them, but there are some names that just get neglected. I can think of at least 3 Valerie songs. There are a couple of Glorias, a Veronica, a gazillion Marys, an Allison, heck, Tori Amos even managed to fit Lydia into a tune.

Bah. Just imagine how cool it would've been for Them to record "Blanche" instead of "Gloria."

"B-L-A-N-C-H-E
Blaaaaaaaaaaannnnnche"

No?

posted by ptooey at 10:27 AM

11 Comments:

  • Edwiiii-na! You make my heart siiiiiiing-a

    88 lines about 44 women with really unfortunate names

    Cripes; I'll be at this all day now... lol

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wed Sep 06, 11:36:00 AM  

  • Ahem. It's A-L-I-S-O-N.

    Thankyaverahmuch.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wed Sep 06, 03:44:00 PM  

  • Alison - You a Pixies fan?

    Just curious.


    Okay, okay...Alison for Costello's version.

    By Blogger ptooey, at Wed Sep 06, 04:04:00 PM  

  • Ooooops. I'm obviously not a Pixies fan. Mea culpa. (But I blame it on being in France during the 1990s. Call it "oblivion," not "not being a fan.")

    Have you ever heard that "Alison" song by Slowdive? It kind of sucks. :)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thu Sep 07, 08:51:00 AM  

  • Nah, it's my bad. To be honest, I had Elvis' song in mind. I figgered the Pixies one would be too obscure to include. Gess i nevr rilly payed mush atention two teh speeling ov thatt Evlis Costelo somg.

    Don't remember the Slowdive song, so I've either never heard it or it didn't make much of an impression.

    FWIW, my cousin's daughter spells that there name with the two ells.

    By Blogger ptooey, at Thu Sep 07, 09:14:00 AM  

  • LOL

    OMG - hortense. i LOVE that name.

    and why are there no songs with "Edger" or how about "Rebecca" is Rebecca that unfortunate of a name?

    i often plug in my name instead of "melissa" to that alman brother's song. LOL. ego.

    By Blogger rebecca, at Thu Sep 07, 09:26:00 AM  

  • STELLLAAAAAAA!!!!!

    By Blogger Mermaid Melanie, at Thu Sep 07, 03:08:00 PM  

  • LOTS of songs over the years featuring names of the female persuasion.

    I do think that we could do with some more obscure names used in song, though. I mean Rhiannon has already been done, what's next?

    By Blogger newwavegurly, at Fri Sep 08, 10:16:00 PM  

  • Terry only made it to one song, but it's a good one.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sun Sep 10, 07:56:00 PM  

  • Didn't PJ Harvey do a song called Rebecca?

    Mel - Stella would be good. How about Gertrude?

    NWG - A few years ago, I met a (very) young mother who said she had named her daughter Rhiannon. When I asked her if the kid rang like a bell through the night, she just stared blankly at me. It scared me a little.

    Jrzy - Which song is that? I'm drawing a complete blank.

    By Blogger ptooey, at Thu Sep 28, 01:26:00 PM  

  • Eric- Springsteen's Back Streets. he wrote it about me after I dumped him for Buzz.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Fri Sep 29, 09:31:00 PM  

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