Just This

Once you were tethered / and now you are free

"This Charming Man," The Smiths
"This Cowboy Song," Sting
"This Disco (Used to Be a Cute Cathedral)," Steve Taylor
"This Flower," Kasey Chambers
"This Is Cracker Soul," Cracker
"This Is Hell," Elvis Costello
"This Is Life," Jacob Altemus
"This is the Sea," The Waterboys
"This Land Is Your Land," The Waterboys
"This Property Is Condemned," Maria McKee
"This World Is Not My Home," Lone Justice

Two from Woody. Two from the Waterboys. Two from Maria. Not bad. Here's one more:
Lone Justice live at the Ritz in 1985, playing "Fortunate Son."

Comments

[cjmr's husband]

"This Is The Life" Weird Al Yankovic
"(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" Weird Al Yankovic
"This Old Feeling" Go-Gos
"This Town" Go-Gos

Very surprised that my iTunes doesn't have any more This than that. (Correction, there are only three "That")

[Ian Mathers]

This - The Wind-Up Bird
This Condition - Lupine Howl
This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open - The Weakerthans
This Is A Low - Blur
This Is A Message - The Joel Plaskett Emergency
This Is Hardcore - Pulp
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song - Belle & Sebastian
This Is Our Sound - Ladytron
This Is Radio Clash - The Clash
This Is What Happens (Live) - DJ Spooky vs. The Freight Elevator Quartet
This Is Where You End - Loop
This Island - Le Tigre
This Mess We're In - PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke
This Modern Love - Bloc Party
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Shawn Colvin
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Live) - Talking Heads
This Picture - Placebo
This Town's Religion - Delays
This Year's Love - David Gray

There are a lot of really, really great songs that start with "This," especially the Talking Heads and Belle & Sebastian ones.

[hilker]

"This," Brian Eno
"This Is the End," Doctor Rockit
"This Is the One," The Stone Roses
"This Island Earth," Coldcut
"This Time," Herbert
"This Too Shall Pass," Morgan Geist
"This Whole World," The Beach Boys

[Luna]

"This," Brian Eno
"This Flight Tonight," Joni Mitchell
"This Heart's On Fire," Wolf Parade
"This Is Not The House That Pain Built," Dar Williams
"This Is Us," Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler
"This Mountain," Hugh Blumenfeld
"This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)," Taking Back Sunday
"This Place Is Empty," The Rolling Stones
"This Street, That Man, This Life," Cowboy Junkies
"This Was Pompeii," Dar Williams
"This Woman's Work," Kate Bush
"This Year," The Mountain Goats

Joni, Dar, Kate, Emmylou, and Cowboy Junkies all in one group. Girly.

[James]

This Could Be My Last Day - Duke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest
This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell - Blue
This Heart's On Fire - Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
This Is A Low - Blur - Parklife
This Is A Song - The Magic Numbers - Those The Brokes
This Is Baghdad - Bruce Cockburn - Life Short Call Now
This Is Love - PJ Harvey - Songs From The City, Stories From The Sea
This Is New - Wilco - The Wilco Book CD
This Is The One - The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
This Love Affair - Rufus Wainwright - Want Two

[Jen R]

some from above, plus:

This Is The Way We Funk With You - Parliament
This Song - Ookla the Mok

[daniel]

This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich - Current 93
This Heart's on Fire - Wolf Parade
This I Don't Need - Starflyer 59
This is Just a Modern Rock Song - Belle & Sebastian
This Lamb Sells Condos - Final Fantasy
This Modern Love - Bloc Party (or covered by Final Fantasy here)
This Stupid Song - Damien Jurado

[Steve]

This Band Is Our House - Adam Again
This Is That New Song - Badly Drawn Boy
This Time - Bryan Adams
This Is Your Life - The Call
This Old House - Loretta Lynn
This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds) - Peter Gabriel
This Could Be The Moment - Phil Keaggy
This Never Happened To The Other Feller - Sex Mob
This Is The Way Love Is - The Seventy Sevens

[the opoponax]

"This Is House Music", Chicks on Speed
"This Is Our Emergency", Pretty Girls Make Graves
"This Is Our Sound", Ladytron
"This Island", Le Tigre
Two cuts of "This Land Is Your Land", one by Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, and one of which seems to be the collective effort of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and possibly some others I can't identify.
"This Side of the Blue", Joanna Newsom

wow, that is so incredibly indicative of my musical tendencies... oh, and i'm back, in case anybody missed me. two weeks of family, and by and large a lack of wireless internet and sufficient boredom, in South Louisiana.

[David]

This Felony - the parent teacher association
This Is Shangrila - Mother Love Bone

[Theo]

"This Wheel's on Fire", Bob Dylan & the Band
"This Is Not a Love Song", PIL

[wb]

"This Land is Your Land" - Bob Dylan
"This Hard Land" - Bruce Springsteen
"This Old House" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
"This Year's Kisses" - Nina Simone

Huh, bet I'm the only person here that has Nina Simone on their player...

Oh, I've also got "This Bird Has Flown" but it probably doesn't count. You may know it by it's alternate title.

[cminus]

As always, everything that doesn't duplicate Fred's list, and recommendations that I hope are appropriately oriented toward Fred:

"(This Song's Just) Six Words Long," Weird Al Yankovic
"This Ain't The Summer Of Love," Blue Oyster Cult
"This And That," Michael Penn
"This Boy," The Beatles
"This Fire," Franz Ferdinand
"This Hard Land," Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band
"This Is How We Bite The Dust," Q-Unit (Queen/50 cent mashup)
"This Is Love," P.J. Harvey
"This Is My Life Without You," Pat McCurdy
"This Is Not America," David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group
"This Is Radio Clash," The Clash
"This Is Radio Clash," The Urge
"This Is The Life," Weird Al Yankovic
"This Is Your Life," Yipes!
"This Island Earth," Glass Tiger
"This Kind Of Love," Meg Hentges
"This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)," Talking Heads
"This Piece Of Poetry Is Meant To Do Harm," The Ark
"This Sadness Alone," Reach The Sky
"This Time," Los Lobos
"This Time," The Verve
"This Time Next Year," Pat McCurdy
"This Town Is Dying," Pat McCurdy And The Confidentials
"This Town Is Wrong," The Nields
"This Train That I Ride," Snakefarm
"This Will Be My Year," Pat McCurdy

Wow. Just... wow. Any playlist where over a dozen songs would be recommended before getting around to "This Must Be The Place" is a deep list indeed. I'm going to give pride of place to "This And That," edging out "This Kind Of Love" and "This Town Is Dying" (both of which you may need to be a Midwesterner to fully appreciate), with "This Train That I Ride," "This Time Next Year," both versions of "This Is Radio Clash," "This Is My Life Without You" and "This Hard Land" also jockeying for position. My sense is that Fred wouldn't necessarily go for "This Fire," "This Ain't The Summer Of Love," "This Town Is Wrong," or "This Piece Of Poetry Is Meant To Do Harm," but for the genre and style they represent, they're excellent.

[mcc]

This is what it means - Hybrid
This room - The Notwist
This place is a prison - The Postal Service

[Theo]

Can't believe I forgot these two...

"This Business Is Killing Me", the Ramones
"This Jesus Must Die", from Jesus Christ Superstar

[GeoX]

"This Business of Love," Wall of Voodoo
"This Charming Man, The Smiths
"This Cruel Life of Mine," The Skels
"This Girl's Got Nothing," Manic Street Preachers
"This Hollywood Life," Suede
"This House is Condemned," Pulp
"This Is a Low," Blur
"This Is Hardcore," Pulp
"This Is How We Do Things in the Country," Slim Cessna's Auto Club
"This Is Not My Crime," Gene
"This Is Radio Clash," The Clash
"This Is the Night," The The
"This Is the One," The Stone Roses
"This Is Yesterday," Manic Street Preachers
"This Little Box," trash80
"This Nelson Rockefeller," McCarthy
"This One's from the Heart," Tom Waits
"This Place Is Haunted," DeVotchKa
"This Time," Suede
"This Time," The Verve
"This Town...," Elvis Costello
"This Way Out," Wall of Voodoo
"This Will Be Our Year," The Zombies
"This World Needs a Father," Suede
"This Year's Girl," Elvis Costello

I'm actually sort of dumbfounded that I'm the first person to list "This Year's Girl." If I had to recommend one song from this list, it would have to be "This Is How We Do Things in the Country," an intense bluegrass murder ballad. Actually, I'd recommend all of Slim Cessna's stuff. And their live show is electrifying.