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Another fun and pointless music game (for the very bored)...
Posted by lit doof on 21 April 2008 - 6:58pm.
Righto - ever notice how there is an abundance of album titles which also feature a song of the same name thereupon - I refer thee to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Help, Number of the Beast, Wish You Were Here, A Kind of Magic to name but 5....
BUT can you think of any artists' songs which do NOT appear on the album of the same name - I've got 4;
1. Sheer Heart Attack by Queen appeared on the News of the World album as opposed to Sheer Heart Attack
2. Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin appeared on Physical Graffiti as opposed to Houses of the Holy
3. On Through the Night by Def Leppard appeared on High and Dry
4. Out of the Silent Planet by King's X appeared on Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
....too boring?
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The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
The song that provided the title of the band's third album surfaced two years later on their fifth album Morrison Hotel.
One or two more
Almost Blue by Elvis Costello was on Imperial Bedroom
Brain Salad Surgery by ELP was on a flexidisc (and probably on Works or something)
Kathryn Williams
Had an album called Little Black Numbers - the song which appeared on the album Old Low Light - the song which appeared on the album Over Fly Over.
Does this count?
Warren Zevon's The Wind appeared not on the album of the same name, but sung by Billy Bob Thornton on the posthumous tribute Enjoy Every Sandwich.
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain track Psychocandy didn't appear on their classic debut Psychocandy. Think it was the b side of Some Candy Talking and appeared on the Barbed Wire Kisses compilation.
And Screamadelica wasn't on
Screamadelica.
2 more
Julian Cope's World Shut Your Mouth isn't on the album of that name.
Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom, as noted above, contains Almost Blue but it doesn't contain Imperial Bedroom, which came out as a B side.
Colour By Numbers
It was Culture Club's second album, but the song itself, if I remember correctly, only appeared as a B side.
Also: Eurythmics' song Revenge did not appear on the album of that name; can't recall off the top of my head, but I think it's on Touch.
nicely done everyone...
we're up to 14....any more? keep 'em coming.
Guided By Voices
The tracks "Bee thousand" and "Alien Lanes" appeared on "The Grand Hour" EP not "Bee Thousand" and "Alien Lanes" Lp's and "Isolation Drils" appears on the "Glad Girls" cd single not the self titled album.
Gomez and Sandy D
The Gomez song Bring It On appeared on the album Liquid Skin rather than the earlier album Bring It On.
Also I don't know if this counts but the album Fotheringay by the band Fotheringay did not feature the song Fotheringay - that was on the Fairport album What We Did On Our Holidays. Not the same band I realise but they did, of course, have the same singer.
we'll give you the
we'll give you the Fotheringay one Niks....nicely done
TANGENTIAL THREAD ALERT
On being reminded that the album "Fotheringay" is by the band Fotheringay, I remembered that the album "Black Sabbath" is by the band Black Sabbath and contains a track called Black Sabbath.
Are there any other examples of Band/Album/Track with synchronised nomenclature?
I know! I know!
Motorhead and Bad Company for starters.....
...although pedants might argue the album is actually called 'Bad Co.'
But ignore them. I'd count it.
Bo Diddley
His first album was called Bo Diddley and the first track was called Bo Diddley. It also had a track on it called Hey, Bo Diddley. He was clearly better at inventing rock and roll than he was at thinking up names.
Bo Diddley...
...Is A Gunslinger has a title track.

Close enough?
that counts...
for the sleeve artwork alone!
tangential thread alert contd
keeping on the metal theme
Iron Maiden (band), Iron Maiden (song) from Iron Maiden (album)
Close enough?
Free's 2nd album Free has the song Free Me on it.
And at a self referential tangent from your tangent, on the album Free At Last in the outro of the song Travelling Man Rodgers sings "I just love to be (pause) Free".
Concrete Blonde - Free
Was left off the Free album and was instead used as one of the B-sides for the God Is a Bullet single.
The Gun Club - Pastoral Hide & Seek: Never made the track listing of the identically titled album. It was later released as a single, where it was referred to in parentheses as (The lost song).
AC/DC
In light of the current metal thread, AC/DC released a live album called If You Want Blood and then a song of that title on their next studio album, Highway to Hell.
Possibly stretching this to breaking point, but according to Joe Boyd Richard Thompson wanted the title track of Shoot Out the Lights left off the album in favour of a piece of fluff called Living In Luxury (it showed up on a b-side). Of course, what we can't say is whether the album would still have been called Shoot Out the Lights if he had succeeded.
Told you it was tenuous, but it does shoe-horn the obligatory Richard Thompson reference into the tread.
Nick Cave
Nocturama was B-Side to the single 'Rock of Gibraltar' but not on the album of the same name.
Quasi-Title tracks
Albums that don't have a title track, but have the album's title in the lyrics of one of the songs e.g.
REM - Reveal
In "I've Been High", Stipey sings "Have I missed the big reveal"
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
In "Walk On", Bono sings "The only baggage you can bring is all that you can't leave behind"
Hall & Oates - Beauty On A Back Street
In "You Must Be Good For Something", Daryl Hall sings "Sitting in the back seat, beauty on a back seat"
Any more?
Bright eyes
Four Winds on the album Cassadaga contains the line "Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps all the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead".
got a couple - not sure if they count
1. Bryan Adams Reckless, - Summer of 69 he sings "we were young and reckless, we needed to unwind"
2. Queen Jazz - track "More of that Jazz"
i'll keep thinking...
Massively obvious but...
Teen Spirit on the Nirvana album Nevermind 'yeah, well, whatever, never mind'.
Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen
The phrase 'whatever and ever amen' crops up in the song 'The Battle Of Who Could Care Less'.
I like this thread. Good, clean, tangental fun.
not sure if this counts either, but
Crowded house brought out a Best of called 'Recurring Dream' which was named after a much earlier b-side.
Also, the Lightning Seeds 'best of' Like You Do was named after a track on the previous album, 'Dizzy Heights'
Well this one used to count...
The Teardrop Explodes' Kilimanjaro was originally the b-side of the 'When I Dream' single, and didn't appear on the subsequent album of that name.
But then, as if to deliberately ruin this game, it was added to the re-issued re-release. But if we'd have been doing this 10 years ago, it would have counted.
a child of the meat and potatoes indie era never grows up
Kingmaker - Eat Yourself Whole (best forgotten in actuality)
James - Stutter (included on `One Man Clapping` but not debut album of same title)
The Flying Creams - Boo Khaki (on second album `Milky Malted Milk` instead)