Aug 282009
As an homage to The Great 48’s I Wanna Be…the Last Man Standing thread, I present the I Can’t version:
I Can’t Explain – The Who
As an homage to The Great 48’s I Wanna Be…the Last Man Standing thread, I present the I Can’t version:
I Can’t Explain – The Who
I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down – Elvis Costello & the Attractions (covering Sam and Dave)
I Can’t Get Next To You by The Temptations
I Can’t Hide by Flamin’ Groovies.
I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
The immortal I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) by James Brown.
i can’t stop loving you
I Can’t Hold Myself In Line – Merle Haggard. Very “rock” for a country tune (see also John Doe cover version).
I Can’t Take It by Cheap Trick
I Can’t Reach You – The Who (now taking the lead in bands with multiple “I Can’t” songs)
I Can’t Be Satisfied — Muddy Waters
Doesn’t Love have a song called “I Can’t Explain”? If so, I am Last Man Standing!
Sorry Mr. Mod…
I Can’t Make it Alone — The Continental Drifters.
I believe I downloaded this awesome number right here at this lovely site. Thanx to whoever posted it. It’s in heavy rotation on my iTunes.
I Can’t Stand It by the Velvet Underground.
I Can’t Forget (Pixies)
I Can’t Turn You Loose – otis
I Can’t Make It On Time- The Ramones
I Can’t Stand It – Eric Clapton. He’s right, I can’t stand that song and now it’s stuck in my head.
I can’t stand losing you-Police
I psyched I beat CDM and HVB on this one:
I Can’t Drive 55! Hagar.
I Can’t Stand It – Clapton
Well played, CF.
I Can’t Hold Out. Elmore James
Ooops – sorry 2000 Man.
how about “I Can’t Quit You Baby” – Led Zepp
I Can’t Help it If I’m Still In Love With You – Hank
i can’t find the words to say goodbye
(bread)
this can be disqualified because it sucks sooo bad
I Can’t Believe Somebody Proposed a Last Man Standing That Probably Has About Ten Million Answers
I Can’t Tell You Why – The Eagles!
I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) Hall & Oates
I Can’s Sleep – The La’s
I Can’t Help Myself (When I Help Myself To You ) Jason & The Scorchers
Slow down, cowboy: the frequently unwritten rules of a Last Man Standing state that we can only post one entry at a time. Good ones, though, jungleland2!
I Can’t Believe How Many of These Songs Are Such Turds.
i can’t live if living is without you
I Can’t Give You Anything – The Ramones
I Can’t Stand the Rain – Ann Peebles (for one.)
I Can’t Dance- Gram Parsons
I Can’t Take It – Badfinger
I hate to play this card, but it will be worth the sweet smell of (temporary) victory:
I Can’t Dance – Genesis
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby by many people, but I first heard the Duke Ellington version.
Wilco – I can’t stand it.
Pince Nez: That Wilco song is actually called “Can’t Stand It.”
Thanks, Oats. While we’re at it, don’t get excited about posting Bad Company’s big hit. That also drops the personal pronoun.
I Can’t Believe We Were Married – Paul Kelly and the Messengers
Ok…. I can’t hold on – Squeeze
I Can’t Let Go – The Hollies
I Can’t Let Maggie Go- The Honeybus
I can’t own her – XTC
I Can’t Stop Loving You – Ray Charles
I Can’t Smile W/o You – Barry Mannilow
So that’s the way you want to play, Andyr? How about Bonnie Raitt’s tender, Grammy-winning ballad, “I Can’t Make You Love Me”?
I Can’t Read by the mighty Tin Machine
I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You by Elvis
I Can’t Believe it’s not Butter – Parkay Spread.
I Can’t Quit Her – Blood, Sweat, & Tears
I. Kant
He must have stopping thinking.
Hey, Mod — maybe I’m just being a crusty old turd, but this “I Can’t” thread is already bugging the hell out of me, in an oxygen-choking, kudzu-spreading, algae-bloom-fish-killing kind of way. If somebody doesn’t weigh in with some kind of further qualifier — like, “songs that start with ‘I Can’t’ that also feature singers with facial hair” or something — it’s going to go on *forever* in an orgy of nerdy meat-spankery. I promise to post a new thread concept to take its place, so I’m doing more than just complaining, but for now I’m just complaining.
I can’t stop crying – sam philips.
How is this “Last man standing” more meat-spankin’ than any of the others?
Hrrundi, first of all, complain to the author of the thread, your man and mine, cdm.
Second, what cherguevarra said. Have you ever launched a Last Man Standing thread? I know it sometimes skirts with my longtime warnings about posting lists for the sake of posting lists (eg, My 83 Top 5 Rolling Stones Albums!), but there is a thrill in seeing the numbers pile up. Every once in a while we break 100 posts. We’ve even broken 200 posts a few times. It’s exciting, and it’s an opportunity for newcomers and more thin-skinned Townspeople to join in. It’s good that you feel above the fray, really, but think of those beneath you once in a while.
Finally, you’ve already done THE MOST IMPORTANT THING A TOWNSPERSON CAN DO: launch a new thread and rearrange the pillows on the couch the way YOU want them ordered. Thanks!
P.S. – I’ll be writing you offlist shortly to pass along a request from a fellow Townsman – good stuff, don’t worry!
Discuss navel gazing if you wish, but I am still the Last Stan Manding!
I Can’t Make It Without You by Fred Hughes
Welcome aboard, chuckflack! What a way to enter the Halls of Rock – as the Last Man Standing! At least to date…
Charlie Rich’s I Can’t Go On.
I’ve actually been surprised how many fine songs have turned up on this list. It sounds like it might be a worthwhile songwriting exercise to dream up an I Can’t… title and try to join the tradition.
Oh shit, I’m actually gonna win one of these things?
“I Can’t Forget” by Leonard Cohen
Sadly no. There’s a song on the Genuine Basement Tapes bootleg called I Can’t Come In With a Broken Heart.
UB40 used a parenthetical “I Can’t” when they covered Elvis Presley’s – as UB40 listed it – “(I Can’t Help) Falling in Love With You.” Cheap? Yes, but I’m last man standing.
Prince covered that Mike Reid song made famous by Bonnie Raitt, but he called it I Can’t Make U Love Me. He took a co-writing credit too. Is that all it takes?
Ok I know that doesn’t count. I can’t believe the collective RTH knowledge base hasn’t yet come up with Liza Minelli’s I Can’t Say Goodnight, a Lowe/Tennant song from her album produced by the Pet Shop Boys.
Ricky Nelson – I can’t help it.
No funny stuff: Radiohead, “I Can’t.” Standing tall!
i cant get enough of your lovin’
bad co
Nope, buddy! I wanted to verify the title, and they drop the personal pronoun. I wish that one would have stuck – it would have been much more satisfying with some of the entries I’ve put forth.
i can’t go fot that
hall & oats
Good one, Buddy, but taken much earlier by jungleland2. Keep trying!
The Magnetic Fields have a song on 69 Love Songs called I Can’t Touch You Anymore.
Hrrundi,
Point well taken but ultimately ignored. I’m going for volume, not quality. All I care about is hitting 100 posts. Syndication baby!
Another song entitled, “I can’t stand it”, by the Soul Sisters.
That’s right!
I Can’t Get You Off My Mind
Hank Williams
I Can’t Believe It’s not Butter!!… I WIN! (oh, that’s not a song…)