So, it started with a tweet from Jeph Jacques, webcomic demigod.

And I thought to myself, “Self? How many song titles could we mangle like this?” I opened up MediaMonkey and, after some arguing with its search settings so that only titles appeared in the rankings, I found myself looking at a list of 182 songs which include “love” in the title. Now, that’s not precisely what Mr. Jacques instructed; he’s talking about lyrics. I don’t have a lyrics library to search, however, so we’ll have to make do with song titles. And because it’s been that kind of week and I need something to amuse myself during lunch, here’s a list of the highlights out of that search result, skulls-ified for your pleasure.

Note that I’m leaving out duplicates, remixes, and entries where the word replacement just doesn’t scan very well at all. (Which is to say: It didn’t make me laugh, so I chucked it.)

• All My Skulls – Led Zeppelin
• Almost Like Skulls – Yes
• Baby Really Skulls Me – Dada
• Big Skulls – Robert Plant
• Break For Skulls – Pet Shop Boys
• Can’t Refuse Your Skulls – The Sighs
• Can’t Stop Skulls – Two-Mix
• Chains Of Skulls – Erasure
• Church of Logic, Sin and Skulls – The Men
• City of Skulls – Yes
• Crazy Skulls Vol II – Paul Simon
• Digital Skulls – Daft Punk
• Do You Skulls? – Natalie Imbruglia
• Don’t Take Your Skulls Away – VAST
• First Skulls – Cellarful of Noise
• From Rusholme With Skulls – Mint Royale
• Get Down, Make Skulls – NIN (Queen cover)
• Higher Skulls – Depeche Mode
• I Am In Skulls With You – Imogen Heap
• I Don’t Believe In Skulls – Queensrÿche
• I Don’t Want Your Skulls – Duran Duran
• Interstate Skulls Song – Stone Temple Pilots
• Skulls Can Kill You – BT
• Skulls Comes Again – Tiësto
• Skulls etc – Pet Shop Boys
• Skulls Is A Battlefield – Pat Benetar
• Skulls Is Stronger Than Justice – Sting
• Skulls On Haight Street – BT
• Skulls Rescue Me – U2
• Skulls Siren – The Men
• Skulls Slave – UNDER17
• Skulls To Blame – Apoptygma Berserk
• Skulls Voodoo – Duran Duran
• Skulls Will Find A Way – Yes
• Skullstown – Peter Gabriel (yes, this one was a reach, I don’t care)
• Luminous Times (Hold On To Skulls) – U2
• Make Skulls – Daft Punk
• Nothing But Skulls – Seabound (also the name of a Jan Hammer track from Beyond The Mind’s Eye)
• One Year Of Skulls – Queen
• Only Skulls – Way Out West
• Outbreak of Skulls – Midnight Oil
• Power Of Skulls (The Tao Of Skulls) – Rick Springfield
• Prayer For Skulls – Dolce Triade
• Pride (In The Name Of Skulls) – U2
• Prisoner Of Skulls – Tin Machine
• Real Skulls – Yes
• Rhythm Of Skulls – Yes
• Send A Little Skulls – Dream
• Shine Your Skulls – The Breeze
• Sign Of Skulls – Immi
• SOS (Anything But Skulls) – Apocalyptica
• Soul Skulls – David Bowie
• Spacy Spicy Skulls – Mejale Pirates (Voice artists from the Vandread anime)
• Stadium Skulls – Metric
• Tainted Skulls – Nikolaj Steen (that’s the cover version I have in the library, anyway)
• The Dumbing Down Of Skulls – Frou Frou
• The Game Of Skulls – Daft Punk
• The Skulls Thieves – Depeche Mode
• The Meaning Of Skulls – Depeche Mode
• The Night I Fell In Skulls – Pet Shop Boys
• The Speed Of Skulls – Rush
• This Is Skulls – Tony Banks (the judges would also have accepted the different song of the same name by The Space Brothers)
• This Is Not Skulls – Jethro Tull
• This Must Be Skulls – Phil Collins (thus completing the trilogy…?)
• True Skulls – Wang Chung
• When It’s Skulls – Van Halen
• When Skulls Comes To Town – U2
• When You Give Your Skulls To Me – Kevin Gilbert
• Whole Lotta Skulls – Led Zeppelin
• Wreckless Skulls – Robert Plant
• You Can’t Hurry Skulls – Phil Collins

We now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcast day.