Ob-La-Di-Oh

I see you crying and I want to kill your friends

"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," The Beatles (The Beatles)
"Oblivious," Aztec Camera (High Land, Hard Rain)
"The Ocean," The Choir (Free Flying Soul)
"Ocean Breathes Salty," Modest Mouse (Good News for People Who Love Bad News)
"Ode to Billy Joe," Gigi Dover (Gigi)
"Odious," Vigilantes of Love (Driving the Nails)
"Of Minor Prophets and Their Prostitute Wives," Pedro the Lion (It's Hard to Find a Friend)
"Of Up and Coming Monarchs," Pedro the Lion (It's Hard to Find a Friend)
"Off of My Mind," Terry Taylor (Ten-Gallon Hat)
"Oh How I Love Jesus," Elvis Presley (A Touch of Platinum)

(That earnestly schmaltzy Elvis track should probably be "O How I Love Jesus," but that's how they spelled it on the album. Plus Webster's tells me that "O and oh are now often interchangeable." I think that interchangeability loses a useful distinction between two similar-sounding, but differently used, interjections, but who am I to argue with the dictionary?)

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[Linkmeister]

"Oh Lady, Be Good," Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
"Oh No, Not My Baby," Linda Ronstadt
"Oh Susanna," James Taylor
"Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning," Irving Berlin & Cast
"Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'," Gordon MacRae

[Stacia]

Oddly, I've had "Oblivious" stuck in my head for a few days now. I'd suggest "Oh! Darling" but I think you had that on a recent list already.

[Kutsuwamushi]

I always understood "O" to be a vocative marker. If that's the case, wouldn't "Oh" be correct in that song title? It's not vocative.

[Tom]

O Death - Ralph Stanley (from O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
O Green World - Gorillaz
Objects in the Rear-view Mirror - Meat Loaf
Ocean Drive - FPU
Ode to L.A. - The Raveonettes
The Odyssey - Symphony X
Of Sins and Shadows - Symphony X
Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams (and a cover version by Red Razors)

[Ray]

Objects of my Affection - Peter, Bjorn and John
Oblivion Express - Brian Auger & the Oblivion Express (no idea)
Observatory Crest - Mercury Rev
Ocean of Noise - Arcade Fire
Octopus's Garden - Beatles
Of Angels And Angles - The Decemberists
Off The Hook - Cansei De Ser Sexy
Officer - The Pharcyde
Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?) - Sufjan Stevens
Oh Jean - The Proclaimers

You should definitely give Peter, Bjorn and John, Cansei De Ser Sexy, The Pharcyde, and Sufjan Stevens a listen. Allow me to repeat my amazement that _you_ have no Sufjan Stevens.

[julia]

[O Holy Night Bing Crosby
O Holy Night Aaron Neville
O, Little Town Of Bethlehem Ella Fitzgerald
O Samba Zeca Pagodinho]
Oh Girl Paul Young
Ogive Number 1 (Erik Satie) William Orbit
Oh Boy Buddy Holly
Oh Very Young Cat Stevens
OhNo VeggieTales
Oh Holy Night Andy Williams
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Elvis Presley
Off Minor Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane
Oh Babe, What Would You Say Hurricane Smith
Oh Happy Day Edwin Hawkings Singers

[cjmr's husband]

O-U (The Hound Song) - Tom Lehrer
Obsession - Animotion
Ode To a Superhero - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Oedipus Rex - Tom Lehrer
Oh Jean - The Proclaimers

[cjmr]

If we get to include "O" as functionally equivalent to "Oh", I have a fair number:

"O(h) Day full of Grace" recorded by St. Olaf Choir
"O(h) Lord, You're Beautiful" recorded by Don Marsh
"O(h) Lord, Hear My Prayer" recorded by the Daughter of St. Paul
"O(h) Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go" instrumental
"O(h) Sacred Head Now Wounded" Don Marsh, again
"O(h) Worship the King" instrumental
"Oh, Lonely Peas" Adam Bryant (from Sandra Boynton's Rhinocerous Tap)
"Of my Hands" Echelon
"Oh How He Loves You and Me" Don Marsh, again

And a couple husband already mentioned. Boy, there's a lot of hymns in there.

[wanderingoutlaw]

"Obviously Five Believers" - Bob Dylan
"The Ocean" - Led Zeppelin
"Odds and Ends" - Bob Dylan and The Band
"Oh Freedom" - Roger McGuinn
"Oh Mary Don't You Weep" - Roger McGuinn
"Oh You New York Girls" - Roger McGuinn
"Oh, Boy!" - Buddy Holly (& the Crickets)
"Oh, Sister" - Bob Dylan (2 versions)
"Oh, The Thinks You Can Think" - Dylan Hears a Who

[Geds]

This one's kinda funny to me for some reason...

"October," U2
"Of the Girl," Pearl Jam (5 versions)
"Off He Goes," Pearl Jam (5 versions)
"Offerings," Candlebox
"Oh," Dave Matthews Band
"Oh My God," Dovetail Joint

[Tonio]

Oh, oh oh oh oh oh, you don't have to go...sorry, that's not the title of that Led Zeppelin song.

[zzyzx]

I have in a group that makes my collection look more well rounded than it is :

Ob La Di, both the Beatles and Phish's Halloween cover.

Occam's Blazer - Perpetual Groove

An Occasional Dream - David Bowie

Ocean - Velvet Underground

October 1970 - Mushroom

Ode To Billy Joe - covered by Henry Kaiser

Ode to Street Hassle - Spaceman 3

Odopodopodop - Rockin' Teenage Combo

...of love and colors - Lisa Germano

Off to Sea Once More - Garcia/Grisman

Oh - Dave Matthews and Friends

Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie - Jerry Garcia Band

Oh Daddy - Fleetwood Mac

Oh Death - Camper Van Beethoven

Oh Kee Pah Ceremony - Phish

Oh No! - Camper Van

Oh Well - Mike Gordon/Leo Kottke

Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - both the VU original and Phish's cover

Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie

Oh... Uh Canada? - Camper Van

[Jon]

"O Children" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
"O' Sailor" - Fiona Apple
"Oceanic" - Bond
"An Ode To Locksmiths" - Type O Negative
"Of Wolf and Man" - Metallica
"Oh Lord" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
"Oh Well" - Fiona Apple

[cminus]

"Obsession," Animotion
"Oceans," Pearl Jam
"Octopus's Garden," The Beatles
"Odin's Court," Black Sabbath
"Odyssey," The Boogie Knights
"Oedipus Rex," Tom Lehrer
"Of Angels And Angles," The Decembrists
"Off My Line," Spin Doctors
"Oh Daddy," Fleetwood Mac
"Oh Darling," Supertramp
"Oh Lei," Comotion
"Oh Man, I Understand," Pat McCurdy
"Oh Maureen," Black 47
"Oh Penelope," Pat McCurdy
"Oh Yes I Do," Pat McCurdy

Plus, I have the following that are outside today's range because of how my computer alphabetizes punctuation. However, my computer's alphabetization rules don't seem to be universal, so here goes:
"Oh, Bury Me Not," Johnny Cash
"Oh, Jean," The Proclaimers
"Oh, L'Amour," Erasure
"Oh, Mein Papa/Dialogue," The Simpsons
"Oh, Streetcar!/Dialogue," The Simpsons
"Oh!," Sleater-Kinney
"Oh! Darling," The Beatles

No clear recommendation. Plenty of decent choices, but the best songs on the list are not really the kind I would recommend to Fred, based upon his revealed preferences. Fleetwood Mac, maybe?

[Mark]

I'll only cite one, which is alphabetically outside of the range, but I take it Fred wanted all our "Oh" songs

Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?) - Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan.

Why do you not have any Sufjan Stevens Fred? WHY?

[Chris Koeberle]

121 tracks, 110 after clearing duplicates. (6 of which are "Oh!" tracks, which may or may not count.) Things I enjoy:

"Objection (Tango)," Shakira
"Obscured," Smashing Pumpkins
"Oceans," Rob Costlow
"Ödugen Taiga," Huun-Huur-Tu
"Off Side," Ray Mang and Nathan D'troit (Röyksopp remix)
"Offend in Every Way," The White Stripes
"Officer," Operation Ivy
"Oh," Fugazi
"Oh Comely," Neutral Milk Hotel
"Oh No," Gogol Bordello
"Oh Shit!," Buzzcocks

[Greg]

Not a whole lot but

Oh Me-Nirvana (Originally by the Meat puppets)
Oh, George-Foo Fighters
Oh! Darling The Beatles

[Jake]

"Oboe Concerto in C", Mozart (performed by Antony Pay)
"Obvious Child", Paul Simon
"Octopus's Garden", The Beatles
"Odd Ones", The Seatbelts
"Oedipus Rex", Tom Lehrer
"Ofana Naye", Ladysmith Black Mambazo
"Oh mama!", P-Model
"Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You)", Aretha Franklin
"Oh Wow, It's You", Steely Dan
"Oh! Darling", The Beatles
"Oh! Never, Never Bow We Down", Handel (from Judas Maccabeus, performed by the Choir of New College)
"Oh, Barbarella", Omega
"Oh, Jöjj!", Omega
"Oh, kisleány", Illés
"Oh, Lady Be Good", Ella Fitzgerald
"Oh, my God, who is there", Kalyi Jag Group
"Oh, My Pregnant Head", The Flaming Lips

[GeoX]

"Oh-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," The Beatles
"Objects in Motion," Jim White
"Objects in the Rear View Mirror (may appear closer than they are)," Meat Loaf
"Obvious Song," Joe Jackson
"Obviously 5 Believers," Bob Dylan
"Occasional Dream, An," David Bowie
"Occupation," The Statalites
"Occurrence on the Border," Gogol Bordello
"Ocean," Dead Can Dance
"Ocean Doesn't Want Me, The," Tom Waits
"Ocean Orphan," Thomas Truax
"Ocean Rain," Echo and the Bunnymen
"Ocean Spray," Manic Street Preachers
"Oceanside," The Decemberists [sic]
"Ochi Chyormie (dark eyes)," The Bad Things
"October Song," The Incredible String Band
"October Song," The Miles Martin Folk Group
"Octopus's Garden," The Beatles
"Odalisque," The Decemberists [sic]
"Oddjob's Polka/Sally Gardens," The Druids
"Ode to a Butterfly," Nickel Creek
"Ode to a Centipede," Buckner and Garcia
"Ode to a Schoolgirl," Jan Dukes the Grey
"Ode to London Transport," David Sugar
"Ode to My Employer," A Midnite Choir
"Odessa," Aesop Rock
"Of All the Birds," Tim Hart and Maddy Prior
"Of Angels and Angles," The Decemberists [sic]
"Of Silas Fauntleroy's Willingness to Influence the Panel," Jay Munly
"Of Walking Abortion," Manic Street Preachers
"Off and Running," Buck 65
"Off the Cuff," Woven Hand
"Og Rua," Tuna
"The Oggie Man," Cyril Tawney
"Oh Darling!," The Beatles
"Oh Dear, Rue the Day," Nic Jones
"Oh Jim," Gay Dad
"Oh Kitchen," The Water Callers
"Oh Lord, Why Have You Been so Cruel to Me?," Reverend Glasseye
"Oh My Love," John Lennon
"Oh No," Gogol Bordello
"Oh Shit!," Buzzcocks
"Oh Well," Joe Jackson
"Oh Yoko!," John Lennon
"Oh You Beautiful Doll," Steeleye Span
"Oh Dear Me," Ewan MacColl
"Oh, No More," Gordon Bock
"Oh, Sister," Bob Dylan
"Oh! Daisy," Mario Freaks Orchestra
"Oh! You Pretty Things," David Bowie
"Ohureo," Baka Beyond

[Robb]

Dude, WTF Fred - No "Oliver's Army"? Easily one of the best Elvis Costello songs. Ah, that's ok, the rest of Armed Forces isn't quite so great.

[Ray]

But 'Ol' is after 'Oh' - and if we don't stop him talking, he could talk all night...

[GeoX]

Armed Forces is almost entirely great. "Senior Service," "Big Boys," "Goon Squad," come on.

[Jeff]

Can you mention "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and not mention The OffSpring? I don't THINK so!!!!

[Jeff]

The "official" version is here, along with a lot of other Offspring goodies.

[burgundy]

One of these days I will have all my music on my computer. And on that day, there will be a completely new and incompatible medium for listening to music, and I'll have to start all over again. And I will have spent more money on buying songs from iTunes than it will cost to replace them with the new medium.

"Ocean," The Cure
"Oh England My Lionheart," Kate Bush

[borealys]

Obvious Heart - Finger Eleven
Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse
Ocean Size Love - Leigh Nash
Off to Work - Michael Giacchino
Oh! - Sleater Kinney
Oh Francisco - Danny Michel
Oh Love - Melissa McClelland
Oh What a World - Rufus Wainwright
Oh Yeah - The Cliks

I take back what I said last week. *This* is the best list I've ended up with so far. Top two recommendations, hands down, the Cliks track, and the Melissa McClelland one.

[mcc]

Oblivion - 30 Seconds to Mars
Obsidian - Sander Kleinenberg
Ocean Song - The Mathletes
Oceania - Bjork
Oceania - Bjork (Kelis remix)
Octaeder 0.1. - Oval
Ode to the Big Sea - Cinematic Orchestra
Oh yeah - Daft Punk

[wb]

Well, looks like tonight we've got a few originals:

"Off My Mind" - Eric Johnson
"Off She Goes" - Lorinda Jones
"Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip On Me" - James Taylor
"Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight" - Rod Stewart
"Oh Well" - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
"Oh Atlanta" - Allison Kraus and Union Station
"Oh Lonesome Me" - The Kentucky Headhunters
"Oh Sweet Mary" - Big Brother and the Holding Company

Just another sampling from the "Too Old To Listen To Music" collection.

[Theo]

"O(h) Death" - Ralph Stanley
"Obviously 5 Believers" - Bob Dylan
"Odds and Ends" - Bob Dylan & the Band
"Ödeland" - Hiroshima
"Off the Hook" - the Rolling Stones
"Oh Bondage Up Yours" - X-Ray Spex
"Oh Yeah" - the Shadows of Knight
"Oh Yeah - Oh No" - the Robots
"Oh Shit" - the Buzzcocks
"Oh, Sister" - Bob Dylan
"Oh, Sweet Mary" - Big Brother & the Holding Company

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