This has really been sticking in my craw..In that stupid song "Horse With No Name", can someone tell me WHY?

Don't fret your lovely head over it, Cel. It ain't exactly James Joyce we're talking about here.

I mean, "The heat was hot"? No ****, Sherlock.

I've been living in Phoenix for 41 years now, and that poor horse did have a name. Of course it's an Indian name,so it doesn't translate well.

Running Stud with Tail, translates to, Mineisbiggerthanyours.

America just couldn't fit the name into the song, so they didn't bother.

I think the horse HAD a name. The horse was with "No Name". No Name was a crazy old desert guy.

<<--- loves woodland creatures

.... i've no bloody idear WHY the horse has no name ... BUT i CAN tell you, that if one more person says it's a Neil Diamond or James Taylor song, i swear by the throne of heaven AND the worn out strings on Lindesy Buckinghams guitar, that i am going to personally rip their musically challenged eardrums straight out through their nostrils!

AMERICA is the artist. *sighs*

xoxo ♥

EDIT: Who's this creep insulting Cel? What a wanker.

Goat cheese.

Medically speaking, during exposure to goat cheese the recessive gene will trigger "Afternoon Delight," while the dominant trait manifests itself with "Horse with No Name."

The fastest way to come down off that particular mountain is Totino's Pizza Rolls, and Diet Dr. Pepper.

i love america the group and yes the country. but the reason why the horse didn't have a name is because the horse was deaf.he couldn't hear a fly .well he did have a name but he was just a colt,a mere lad of a horse.all of a sudden he got transferred to the desert and the heat got to him and his mother.she eventually died of heat stroke and then he lost his hearing cause he rammed his ears into a catus.och that must of hurt bad. so then was when he lost his hearing and he was to young to know his name. poor horse,who knew that someday that he would make it big in the movies.he was in the horse whisperer.only as one of the back up horses that was in the back ground.he eventually died and became glue in the glue factory.poor horse with no name.rumors has it and urban legends has it that his name was ED after his great grandfather MR.ED.

well the end.

If memory serves me I think it was a song about a guy doing Peyote. It's up in the air if there actually was a horse or not. he may have imagined it. But anyways, the reason you can't get the song out of your head is that you secretly(Or not) want to go on a pony ride on a nice hunk of Angus Beef. Giddy up Cel!

Hey "Your Favorite Troll" leve Cell alone - she is one of the main reasons I come here. There has to be some hidden symbolism in the fact the Horse had no name. I'm just to stupid to figure it out.

Yep, Pirate KG nailed it first. Think about the lyrics and it will fall into context.

Hmmmmm. Woodland creatures.

<lovely sexy woodland creatures, woof>

Cel - the horse really did have a name, but was embarassed about it. His name was Norbit, but he didn't want the other horses to know & make fun of him, so he went all Clint Eastwood on 'em & decided to be a no-name horse.

In the desert, you can't remember your name. So it probably had a name, but it just couldn't remember what it was to tell the dude. Either way, the fact that you've had a horse stuck in your craw would not surprise me one bit.