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Monday Coffee Break: Acronym Song Titles

Posted at 8:54 AM on March 28, 2011 by Steve Seel (66 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

Bouncing off our discussion earlier about acronyms that have just been added to the new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - LOL, IMHO and BFF have made it into the latest version - we're wondering how many song titles are made up of acronyms for today's 9:30 Coffee Break. Can you think of any?

Songs played:
OK GO "WTF"
Interpol "PDA"
Michael Jackson "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
Wilco "ELT"
Semisonic "F.N.T"
The Flaming Lips "The W.A.N.D."

Comments (66)

Not quite but...
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles

or
The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones

Posted by loran | March 28, 2011 9:04 AM

"F.N.T." - Semisonic

Posted by IndyR | March 28, 2011 9:08 AM

I.O.U. - The Replacements

Posted by ken | March 28, 2011 9:08 AM

WTF? - Ok Go

Posted by ken | March 28, 2011 9:09 AM

AFK - Pinback
(away from keyboard)

Posted by Kelly | March 28, 2011 9:10 AM

OMG - Usher

Get Outta Your Mind - LMFAO

Posted by Cat | March 28, 2011 9:11 AM

The Flaming Lips – The W.A.N.D.

Wilco – ELT

Broken Social Scene – TBTF

Interpol – PDA

Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.

Posted by sadie | March 28, 2011 9:11 AM

U R A Fever - The Kills

Posted by Joe | March 28, 2011 9:11 AM

Songs that come to mind...

A.K.A. Driver - They Might Be Giants
N.I.B. - Black Sabbath


And of course Y.M.C.A. by the Village People

Posted by Cynthia | March 28, 2011 9:12 AM

"B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" - OutKast

Posted by Joe | March 28, 2011 9:12 AM

URAQT by M.I.A. (A two-fer!)

Posted by Elizabeth | March 28, 2011 9:13 AM

B.O.B. - Outkast

Posted by adam | March 28, 2011 9:13 AM

D.i.v.o.r.c.e. - Tammy Wynette

Posted by ken | March 28, 2011 9:13 AM

All the way: P.y.t.

Posted by Andie | March 28, 2011 9:13 AM

Michael Jackson - P.Y.T.

Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.

Posted by Oj | March 28, 2011 9:14 AM

VCR - the XX

Posted by ken | March 28, 2011 9:14 AM

B.O.B. --outkast

DLZ--tv on the radio

PYT--michael jackson

OPP--naughty by nature

Posted by kim | March 28, 2011 9:14 AM

T.N.T. - AC/DC

Posted by Derek | March 28, 2011 9:14 AM

L.O.V.E. - Frank Sinatra

Posted by laura | March 28, 2011 9:14 AM

PYT -- Michael Jackson

B.O.B. [Bombs Over Baghdad] -- OutKast

TAIG [That's All I Got]

Posted by lou | March 28, 2011 9:14 AM

P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) – Michael Jackson

Posted by Samantha | March 28, 2011 9:14 AM

PYT- Michael Jackson

A.D.I.D.A.S.- Korn

Posted by Justin | March 28, 2011 9:15 AM

JAR - Jason Andrew Relva by Green Day.

Posted by cal | March 28, 2011 9:16 AM

PACO, by Ladytron

Posted by ChrisD | March 28, 2011 9:16 AM

a.d.i.d.a.s. KoRn. Uh... probably not.

Posted by Todd Faulhaber | March 28, 2011 9:16 AM

PYT. duh.

Posted by Brooks | March 28, 2011 9:16 AM

SOS - Abba
ICBM - Monolith

Another reach..
Thank God Its Friday, the disco classic by Graham Blvd.

Posted by loran | March 28, 2011 9:18 AM

HWC - Liz Phair

Posted by kris | March 28, 2011 9:18 AM

WTF- OK Go

Posted by matt | March 28, 2011 9:18 AM

ELT by Wilco

The WAND by The Flaming Lips

Harper Valley P.T.A. by Jeannie C. Riley

TNT by ACDC


Posted by beth | March 28, 2011 9:18 AM

O.N.E. - Yeasayer
AAA - Paul Westerberg
D.G.T. - Paul Westerberg
DLZ - TV on the Radio

Posted by ken | March 28, 2011 9:18 AM

YMCA by The Village People. Young Men's Christian Association

Posted by John | March 28, 2011 9:18 AM

The G.O.A.T. - LL Cool J

M.I.S.S. I - LL Cool J

Posted by sam | March 28, 2011 9:18 AM

"SWLABR" - Cream (She walks like a bearded rainbow)

"The W.A.N.D" - Flaming Lips (Will Always Negates Defeat.)

"ELT" - Wilco - (Every Little Thing)

Posted by Patrick | March 28, 2011 9:19 AM

"DND" by Semisonic

Posted by kNoizey | March 28, 2011 9:19 AM

I second the following:

URAQT by MIA

U R A Fever by The Kills

WTF - OK Go

Posted by Cat | March 28, 2011 9:20 AM

P.Y.T.- Michael Jackson

Posted by Brett | March 28, 2011 9:21 AM

I know you can't play it, but I'm still going to bet all my chips on:
Ween - L.M.L.Y.P.

Posted by Robin M | March 28, 2011 9:21 AM

ELT - WILCO

Posted by Juan | March 28, 2011 9:23 AM

D.R.E.A.M. - The Transplants

Posted by Leah T | March 28, 2011 9:24 AM

FCC probably won't go for L.M.L.Y.P. -- WEEN

Posted by Brett | March 28, 2011 9:24 AM

"PCB '98" -- Dan Sartain

Posted by Zach | March 28, 2011 9:24 AM

Prince - D.M.S.R.

Posted by Chris | March 28, 2011 9:25 AM

ELT by Wilco
BYOB by System of a Down

Posted by Kevin | March 28, 2011 9:25 AM

CCCP- los caparos

Posted by Rachel Abrams | March 28, 2011 9:25 AM

OMG! - Doomtree

F.O.D. - Green Day

Posted by Nick | March 28, 2011 9:26 AM

Bad Brains - P.M.A.

Posted by Harlo | March 28, 2011 9:27 AM

P.S. You Rock My World - Eels
P.s.a. (a.k.a. Bay Day) - R.E.M.

Posted by ken | March 28, 2011 9:27 AM

NERD ALERT!
Most of these suggestions are actually initialisms not acronyms.

Posted by Chris | March 28, 2011 9:27 AM

OMG - Cults :)

Posted by rae | March 28, 2011 9:27 AM

d.a.n.c.e. by justice

Posted by sarah | March 28, 2011 9:29 AM

Back in the USSR - Beatles
PYT - MJ
ELT - Wilco (another acronym "will conform"

Posted by Tom Proehl | March 28, 2011 9:30 AM

S.O.S. - Aerosmith
T.I.T.S./F&J - Terence Trent D'Arby

Posted by nellcote | March 28, 2011 9:31 AM

Fishbone "VTTLOTFDGF" (Voice to the land of the freeze dried godzilla farts)

Posted by brad olson | March 28, 2011 9:31 AM

"UFO UFO UFO" -- RFTC

Posted by Zach | March 28, 2011 9:32 AM

DLZ - TV on the Radio
ELT - Wilco

and a little more loosely...
VCR - The XX

Posted by Rosie | March 28, 2011 9:32 AM

(Re: WTF - per Modern Family, it's "Why the face?")

How about Poster Children's "If You See Kay"? Not quite an acronym but in the same neighborhood.

Posted by Bill Childs | March 28, 2011 9:33 AM

Kasabian - L.S.F.

Posted by Erik | March 28, 2011 9:33 AM

L.S.F. - Kasabian

B.Y.O.B. - System of a Down

PDA - Interpol

DWTS - Sissy Wish

Posted by Andy | March 28, 2011 9:35 AM

D.M.S.R. by Prince. Great dance tune.

Posted by Nan | March 28, 2011 9:36 AM

Oh, if it isn't too late, I second "B.Y.O.B.", byt the group commonly shortened as S.O.A.D.

This group got me interested in the hard rock genre, after being so tired fo the same old crud.

Posted by Justin | March 28, 2011 9:40 AM

YFLMD - Giant Drag
The acronym is awesome and so is the song.

Posted by choate | March 28, 2011 9:42 AM

I see that someone did mention this issue above - many of the suggestions and all the songs played thus far are initialisms not acronyms.

Posted by eric | March 28, 2011 9:45 AM

Are the Chipmunks credited for singing back up on PYT ?

Posted by ken | March 28, 2011 9:45 AM

Paul McCartney

get back
beatles

Posted by Melanie | March 29, 2011 9:00 AM

elton john

the bitch is back

Posted by Melanie | March 29, 2011 9:02 AM

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