Ob-La-Di-Oh

Ob-La-Di-Oh November 30, 2007

I see you crying and I want to kill your friends

Tgh_4Ob-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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