What's

The holy dream becomes a holy face
And it leaves me reeling ...

"What's Come Over Me," Daniel Amos
"What's Going On," Marvin Gaye
"What's Gonna Happen to Us?" Daryl Hall
"What's Happened to You," The Call
"What's He Building in There?" Tom Waits
"What's My Name?" The Clash
"What's My Scene?" Hoodoo Gurus
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?" Elvis Costello
"What's the Matter Here?" 10,000 Maniacs
"What's Wrong With This Picture?" Bourgeois Tagg
"What's Your Name?" Adam Again

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[Anna]

"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?" Lucy Kaplansky
"(What's the Story) Morning Glory" Oasis
"What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
"What's up?" 4 Non Blondes

I have a sad lack of 'what's' music! I do have a ton of 'what' music though. I could go on for pages if we dropped that pesky 's'.

[Chris Koeberle]

Only 29, this time, featuring three duplicates ("What's the Matter Here?", "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?" and "What's Up?"), and not much else I like.

"What's Going On," Hüsker Dü
"What's Love Got To Do With It?" Tina Turner (I get this stuck in my head whenever someone uses the phrase "You must understand...")
"What's My Age Again," Blink-182 (and Richard Cheese)
"What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)," Information Society
"What's Wrong Sidney?" The Blackouts

[Ray]

Just the Elvis Costello and
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? - REM
for me

[wanderingoutlaw]

besides the Elvis Costello (& the Attractions) and The Clash,
What's Love Got to Do With It - Tina Turner
What's Your Game - Ramones
Whatsername - Green Day (not sure if this in range since there's no apostrophe)

[Geds]

"What's Left of the Flag" - Flogging Molly (2 versions)
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding" - Chris Cornell and Maynard (the only song I've ever not hated Maynard in)
"What's the Matter with Kids Today?" - NoFX
"(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" - Oasis

[eavesdropper]

"What's the World Got in Store" - Wilco

[damnedyankee]

"What's Good" by Lou Reed

[zzyzx]

I came on to post that Lou Reed song. It's a good one.

I have two What Goes Ons - the Beatles and the VU...

The only Phish song is What's the Use.

[hapax]

Having no musical taste, I very rarely post on these threads. I must, however, descry the absence of Bugs Bunny's "What's Opera, Doc?" (Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!)

[Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little]

No "what's" for me, but two "what"s and a "whatever". I shall refrain from mentioning them for fear of starting a cascade. We could be here all day!

My husband and I went with some friends to a Tom Waits concert in Denver in 2000 or 2001. We weren't familiar with the musician, and after the concert we hadn't become fans. But Waits did succeed in firmly planting the catch phrase "What's he building in there?" in our household. We said it to each other a lot when our next-door neighbor began making strange banging and sawing noises.

(As it turned out, our next-door neighbor was installing a dryer-on-toppa-washer set in the closet in there.)

[Theo]

What's He Building In There? - Tom Waits
What's My Name - the Clash
What's the Buzz - from Jesus Christ Superstar
What's Your Game - the Ramones
What's a Simple Man to Do? - Steve Earle

[cminus]

"What's Going On?", U2
"What's Gonna Happen?", Pat McCurdy
"What's Left Of The Flag", Flogging Molly
"What's My Age Again?", Blink 182
"What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)", The Information Society
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, And Understanding?", Curtis Stigers
"What's That Blue Thing Doing There?", They Might Be Giants
"What's The Frequency, Kenneth?", REM
"What's Your Favorite Color?", Living Colour

Most recommended: "What's Left Of The Flag," edging out "What's Gonna Happen?" and "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" The rest isn't bad either, but the Curtis Stigers cover of Elvis Costello is nothing special and the They Might Be Giants entry is just an incidental track and not a real song.

[Jack Bishop]

"What's Going On" and "What's Happening Brother", by Marvin Gaye
"What's the Use of Wond'rin'", performed by Barbara Cook
"What's Wrong", by Dennis Wilson

[borealys]

What's a Little Wait - Calexico
What's New - St. Germain
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - REM

[Tonio]

I once saw 4 Non Blondes in a TV appearance, and I knew then that the band would be a one-hit wonder. The singer went off key several times.

I find Natalie Merchant's lyrics too preachy at times. The abuse theme of "What's the Matter Here" was handled much more effectively by Susanne Vega in "Luka." And does anyone know what "Wonder" is supposed to be about? I can't figure out if the narrator is a woman miraculously cured of a fatal disease or a modern-day version of Mary.

[vanya]

Too mny here to list. I'll segment.

Very cool that so many people have Flogging Molly. I thought they were fairly obscure. I'm surprised no-one else has the following:
"What'd I say" Ray Charles
"What a day that was" Talking Heads
"What Difference does it make" The Smiths
"What Is and What should never be" Led Zeppelin
"What Is Life" George Harrison
"What You Feel" Buffy The Vampire Cast (well, surprised Fred doesn't have this.

From the more obscure cuts I recommend:
"What A Wonderful Man" My Morning Jacket
"What Is the Light" The Flaming Lips
"What You Do To Me" Teenage Fanclub, gorgeous power pop
"What You Want" My Bloody Valentine, gorgeous noise

[Chris]

"What's Been Lost" - Communique
"What's it for?" - Yoko Kanno
"What's up, people!?" - Maximum the Hormone (Japanese Death Metal. I'm a sucker for insane genres)
"What a Wonderful World" - Joey Ramone
"What planet is this?" - The Seatbelts
"What Would Brian Boitano Do?" - South Park: BLU Soundtrack

[wb]

Only a couple of unique titles from the "Too Old To Listen To Music" collection:

"What's Done Is Done" - The Allman Brothers Band
"What's Goin' On" - Joe Cocker
"What's Your Name?" - Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Sophist, FCD]

These are the ones I have that no one has yet posted:

"What's Gonna Happen on the 8th Day?" - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
"What's in Store" Architecture in Helsinki
"What's Mine is Yours" - Sleater-Kinney
"What's the Word" - We Are Scientists

[cminus]

I'm surprised no-one else has the following:

Actually, I have a bunch of those, but limited my post to song titles beginning with "What's." Which made for a much easier job of sorting, let me tell you.

[vanya]

Good point. I'll read more carefully next time.

[The Cynic Sage]

"What if?" Coldplay
"What is love?" Björn Gustafsson
"What's up with the lack of LB Friday this week?" Cynic Sage

[Courtney]

"What Katie Did" - The Libertines
"What Became of the Likely Lads" - The Libertines
"What Katy Did Next" - Babyshambles

[Jake]

Friday will be over in 1 minute! No LB? Le sigh..

[Spalanzani]

Ironically, Fred has been raptured and can no longer do Left Behind Fridays anymore.

(OK, so I read the earlier post where he said he'd be out of town and whatnot.)

[Boze]

yay for Brent Bourgeois! :)

[Dahne]

No one has mentioned What's Up People?

[Jesurgislac]

I think we should turn all the active threads into food threads as a surprise for him when he gets back.

Assuming he does get back, and hasn't been raptured.

What's your favorite story about music in a restaurant? Mine is the time someone "accidentally" started playing "Meat is Murder" in McDonalds.

...okay, I just made that up, but it would have been funny.

[Jake]

(OK, so I read the earlier post where he said he'd be out of town and whatnot.)

Amazingly enough, so did I. It just completely failed to register that it meant no LB.

[pepperjackcandy]

Amazingly enough, so did I. It just completely failed to register that it meant no LB.

Me, too. 8-(

[Hummingwolf]

To go back to the music theme:

"What's My Name" by DJ Earworm. Because mashups are tasty (with melted butter).

[Luke]

"What's Golden"-Axis of Justice
"What's in Store?"-Architecture in Helsinki
"What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding?"-Axis of Justice
"What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding?"-Elvis Costello
"What's the Frequency Kenneth?"-REM
"What a Time for a New Year"-Danny Wilson
"What Can I Say?"-Brandi Carlile
"What Ever Happened?" The Strokes
"What I Got"-Sublime
"What I Got"-Tufts Beezlebubs
"What if I Do?" Foo Fighters"
"What Sarah Said" Deathcab for a Cutie (I liked them before the OC made Tweeners buy their CDs....sigh)
"What Sin?" Ryan Adams
"What the Devil Wanted"-Whiskeytown
"What Were the Chances"-Damien Jurado
"What You Feel (reprise)-Buffy Cast
"What You Wish For"-Guster
"Whatever Happened to Us"-Loudon Wainwright III
"Whatsername"-Green Day

Bonus: "When the Sun Goes Down" Arctic Monkeys

[Cynic Sage]

Listen up, brothers and sisters
Come hear my desperate tale
I speak of our friends of nature
Trapped in the dirt like a jail

Vegetables live in oppression
Served on our tables each night
This killing of veggies is madness
I say we take up the fight

Salads are only for murderers
Cole slaw's a fascist regime
Don't think that they don't have feelings
Just 'cause a radish can't scream

{Refrain}
I've heard the screams of the vegetables, scream scream scream
Watching their skins being peeled, having their insides revealed
Grated and steamed with no mercy, burning off calories
How do you think that feels, bet it hurts really bad
Carrot juice constitutes murder, and that's a real crime
Greenhouses prisons for slaves, let my vegetables grow
It's time to stop all this gardening, it's dirty as hell
Let's call a spade a spade, it's a spade it's a spade it's a spade

I saw a man eating celery
So I beat him black and blue
If he ever touches a sprout again
I'll bite him clean in two

I'm a political prisoner
Trapped in a windowless cage
'Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips
By killing five men in a rage

I told the judge when he sentenced me
"This is my finest hour
I'll kill those farmers again
Just to save one more cauliflower"

How low as people do we dare to stoop
Making young broccolis bleed in the soup
Untie your beans, uncage your tomatoes
Set potted plants free, don't mash that potato, ah

I've heard the screams of the vegetables scream scream scream
Watching their skins being peeled fates in the stir fry are sealed
Grated and steamed with no mercy you fat gourmet scum
How do you think that feels leave them out in the fields
Carrot juice constitutes murder V8's genocide
Greenhouses prisons for slaves yes your compost's a grave
It's time to stop all this gardening take up macramé
Let's call a spade a spade it's a spade it's a spade it's a spade

"Carrot Juice is Murder" -The Arrogant Worms.

[lemur]

What Do I Have to Do - Stabbing Westward
What Child is This?
What the Fuck Do You Think You're Doing? - Everflow
Whatever You Say - Over the Rhine

I'm missing LB Friday.

[Mrs Tilton]

What's Become of the Baby -- Greatful Dead
What's Going On -- Marvin Gaye
What's My Name -- The Clash
What's My Name (RmX) Panjabi MC ft. Snoop Dogg
(What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding -- Elvis
What's the Matter Here? -- 10,000 Maniacs
What's the Time (Hey Buddy) -- Bow Wow Wow
What's the Use of Getting Sober (When you're Going to Get Drunk Again)? -- Joe Jackson
and this, which is sort of a "what's":
Whatsername (Susanna Hoffs) -- Dean Gray

[Mrs Tilton]

Crikey. "Grateful", of course.

[damnedyankee]

What happened to Fred?

No, that's not a song title. I'm starting to worry.

[Caravelle]

Didn't he say he'd be gone this week ?
Or maybe one of the Bachelor Chow recipes went terribly, terribly wrong...