Mistakes in song titles

I like to collect rock trivia, and I realized that I have a few anecdotes that all fit into the same category. Here are 4 songs whose title, in some way, contains a mistake or misunderstanding. I'd love it if you all could add any of your own examples.

  • The Rolling Stones, "Paint It Black". Someone at Decca Records made a typo, and the single was registered and printed up as "Paint It, Black". It even stayed that way on the 1969 re-release on Big Hits. Keith Richards said he got very weird letters from people who, based on that one comma, misinterpreted the entire song as being racial commentary.
  • Gorillaz, "DARE". The chorus of the song has the line "it's there," but Shaun Ryder's Mancunian accent makes it sound like he's singing "it's dare." So Ryder suggested that they call the song, which had been untitled, "Dare." (Ryder insists that he's not illiterate, he just thinks spelling mistakes are fun.) Then, the Gorillaz decided to stylize the word "Dare" as "DARE." But when DARE is in all capitals, it becomes the name of a notorious anti-drug program in the USA. Given both Ryder and Damon Albarn's easygoing attitudes about drug use, it was all too easy for Americans to assume that Gorillaz was mocking the American DARE program.
  • Cream, "Badge". This is perhaps the most famous one -- George Harrison was writing the bridge of the song while sitting across from Eric Clapton, so he wrote "Bridge" on his sheet music. Clapton read it, upside-down, as "Badge," and found his own misunderstanding so funny that he kept it as the name of the song. Tons of people who know a little bit about guitars assumed that perhaps the song had a chord progression of B-A-D-G-E (it doesn't) or even that Clapton had heroically tuned his guitar to B-A-D-G-E to play it (he most definitely did not).
  • Pearl Jam, "I Got Id." The pre-chorus has the line, "I got shit," and that's what Pearl Jam wanted to title the song. Someone at Epic told Eddie Vedder that they wouldn't promote a single with "shit" in the title, so he changed the title to "Id", which to him was some fun wordplay -- the id is the psychological term for the deepest, least conscious part of the brain, and indeed the song is about him struggling with his id. Well, the style at Epic at the time was to print titles in all-caps, so while the liner notes say "I Got Id," the CD itself reads "I GOT ID." A lot of DJs and music reviewers who should have known better thought the title was "I Got ID", as in, "I Got Identification Document." There are unintentionally hilarious reviews about how brilliant Vedder was to compare his psyche to an identification document. Vedder was reportedly delighted that Epic's censorship had caused this nonsensical twist.