Non title-tracks whose lyrics feature the name of the album

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Could possibly be a large thread this: A few examples:

Depeche Mode: Construction Time Again ("Pipeline")
Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward ("Lie To Me")
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound ("Dancing With The Moonlight Knight")
Aztec Camera: High Land Hard Rain ("This Boy Wonders")
Prefab Sprout: From Langley Park To Memphis ("Venus Of The Soup Kitchen")
Beck: Sea Change ("Little One")

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh jeez, I wanted to do a thread on this a while ago but couldn't figure out how to word it/describe my intention.

Gang of Four - Entertainment! ("5:45")
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom ("A Last Straw" although he sings "rockY bottom")
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance ("Today I Died Again")
Kitchens of Distinction - Love is Hell ("Hammer")
Breathless - Between Happiness and Heartache ("Clearer Than Daylight")

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 21 March 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Pavement - Speak, See, Remember ("Terror Twilight")

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus & Mary Chain "Automatic" ("Blues from a Gun")

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Poi Dog Pondering - Wishing Like a Mountain and Thinking Like the Sea ("Watermelon Song")

― Shawn Jacobs (Jakels), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

smells like teen spirit

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

elvis costello - my aim is true (alison)

― gem (trisk), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Starship "Knee Deep In The Hoopla" (from "We Built This City")

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck: Que Onda Guero ("Guero")

There's that XTC string which is slightly related:
XTC: "Ballet for a Rainy Day" ("Oranges and Lemons") [from Skylarking]
XTC: "Chalkhills and Children" ("Nonsuch") [from Oranges and Lemons]
XTC: "Then she Appeared" ("Apple Venus") [from Nonsuch]

― caspar (caspar), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (sort of)
Elliott Smith - XO

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon ("Brain Damage")

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam Philips - Martinis and Bikinis ("Love And Kisses")
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation ("Hyperstation")
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back ("Party For Your Right To Fight")

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cure - The Head On The Door ("Close to me")
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me ("The Kiss")
The Cure - Wish ("To wish impossible things")

― Seb (Seb), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Steely Dan - Katy Lied (Doctor Wu)

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Monday, 21 March 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"elvis costello - my aim is true (alison)"

Elvis Costello does this a lot:
Punch the Clock (The Greatest Thing)
King of America (Brilliant Mistake)
Blood and Chocolate (Uncomplicated)

Some others:
Chemical Brothers - Push the Button (Galvanize)
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (Road to Joy)
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow (Young Pilgrim)
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen (Battle of Who Could Care Less)
Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy s/t (Something to Talk About)
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free (It Was Supposed to be So Easy)
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish (For Tomorrow)

― se3_uk (se3_uk), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It (from Mirror in the Bathroom)

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Pixies - Surfer Rosa (Oh My Golly!)
Pixies - Bossanova (Hang Wire)
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim (Levitate Me)
Pixies - Doolittle (Mr. Grieves)
New Order - Technique (Fine Time)

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Monday, 21 March 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (Jamming)

― Bobby M (bobbym), Monday, 21 March 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Girls Aloud - 'Love Machine' ("What will the neighbours say - this time?")

― BARMS, Monday, 21 March 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wrens: Meadowlands (Everyone Choose Sides)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Roots -- Things Fall Apart ("You Got Me")
Old 97s -- Drag It Up ("Smoker")
Wilco -- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ("Poor Places")
Wilco -- A Ghost Is Born ("Theologians")
John Eddie -- Who The Hell Is John Eddie? ("Play Some Skynyrd")
Rodney Crowell -- The Houston Kid ("Why Don't We Talk About It")
Talking Heads -- Stop Making Sense ("Girlfriend Is Better")
Joni Mitchell -- Clouds ("Both Sides Now")
The Band -- Cahoots ("Smoke Signals")
Beck -- Odelay ("Lord Only Knows")
The Reputation -- To Force A Fate ("The Ugliness Kicking Around")

There are far too many of these.

How about -- Albums the title track of which got cut from the album:

The Doors -- Waiting For The Sun
Counting Crows -- August And Everything After
Holly Cole -- Blame It On My Youth
Bob Dylan -- Bringing It All Back Home (actually, I doubt he ever did that song)
The Hooters -- Nervous Night (added back for the CD)
Old 97s -- Satellite Rides

― Vornado (Vornado), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Built to Spill - "Randy Described Eternity" (Perfect From Now On)

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Halen - Fair Warning ("Mean Street")
Van Halen - Women & Children First ("Could This Be Magic?")

― dave q (listerine), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Boredoms - [circle] (Vision Creation Newsun)

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The Shins - "Young Pilgrims" (Chutes Too Narrow)

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 21 March 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Sad as I am, I made an iTunes playlist about this a while ago....

Here are some I've not seen above

Billy Joel "Everybody Loves You Now" (...to go to COLD SPRING HARBOUR anymore")

Thrills - Big Sur ("...SO MUCH FOR THE CITY....")

REM - I've Benn High ("...have I missed the big REVEAL?"...)

The Cross - Top Of The World, Ma ("...she makes me MAD BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW...")

Squeeze - Daphne ("...Daphne, don't be RIDICULOUS...")

Queen - Dancer ("...HOT SPACE, Let's Go!")

Bob Dylan - Under Your Spell ("...I was KNOCKED OUT & LOADED, In the naked night...")

Simple Minds - -Book Of Brilliant Things ("...that shoots up and SPARKLES IN THE RAIN...")

Eminem - Cleaning Out My Closet ("..I'd like to welcome y'all to THE EMINEM SHOW...")

U2 - Silver and Gold ("..comes a RATTLE AND HUM...")

Extreme - Cupid's Dead (in the outro, singer adlibs "THREE SIDES TO EVERY STORY")

That geeky enough for ya?

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Nas - The Genesis (Illmatic)
Nas - Intro (Stillmatic)
Elliott Smith - Memory Lane (From a Basement On The Hill)

― - (smile), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember Jane Siberry saying "no borders here" in some song that may have been on that LP or even the next one.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Graham Parker, Squeezing Out Sparks ("You Can't Be Too Strong," I think)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rubicon" by Killing Joke - "The magic of our science shines Brighter Than a Thousand Suns"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Marisa Monte: Barulhinho Bom, "Chuva No Brejo" - " Faz um som assim/ Um barulhinho bom"

(The album title is usually translated as "A Great Noise." The song title means "Rain on the Swamp." The lyric means something like '"It makes a sound like this/ A good little noise." I think)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Foreigner - Mr. Moonlight ("All I Need To Know")

― ZionTrain, Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Shawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs ("Sunny Came Home")

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

my head hurts with the lack of consistent formatting of these examples. goddamn it. i dont want to be at work.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

vaguely linked, and half-remembered ...

joy division's "unknown pleasures" (the vinyl) didn't have a side one and side two, but an "inside" and an "outside". IIRC, the run-out-groove message on the "inside" reads: "this is the way, step ..."

... which of course would become the refrain from "atrocity exhibition", the first song on "closer".

― grimly fiendish is on particularly sad form today (grimlord), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind ("Walk On")

Tigersaw, Gimme Danger, Gimme Sweetness ("R U Courageous?")

Hole, Live Through This ("Asking for It")

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Cray - Strong Persuader ("Right Next Door")

― billy budapest, Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender ("Sadie")
Modest Mouse - Good News... (I think it was "Bury Me")
Capstan Shafts - Chick Cigarrettes ("Day You Called Me Pretty")
Shins - Oh, Inverted World ( Second track)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps ("Hey Hey , My My (Into the Black)")
Frank Black and the Catholics - Pistolero ("Western Star")
Nirvana - Nevermind ("Smells Like Teen Spirit")
Ugly Cassanova - Sharpen Your Teeth ("Pacifico")
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves ( I think on the first track)
Rancid - Out Come the Wolves ("Junkie Man")
Op Ivy - Hectic EP ("Healthy Body, Sick Mind")
Does the Magnetic Fields' album "I" count?

― Glading the Wanderer, Friday, 25 March 2005 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary Numan- Dance ("My Brother's Time)

― ZionTrain, Friday, 25 March 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young: Mirror Ball (Downtown)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard & Linda Thompson "Night Comes In" (Pour Down Like Silver)

artist "song" (album title included in song lyric)

― carly, Friday, 25 March 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush- Signals ("Digital Man")

― ZionTrain, Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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