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Disembodied title tracks
Posted by Moose the Mooche on 4 September 2011 - 9:10pm.
Hello. I'm new here.
What do all of these albums have in common?
Dodgy - Homegrown
Grace Jones - Living My Life
Pulp - His'n'Hers
Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Gomez - Bring It On
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Kathryn Williams - Little Black Numbers
They all have title tracks... but they were not included on the original albums.
Come on, there must be loads more of these.
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off the top of my head
Waiting for the Sun - The doors
World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
Blue Oyster Cult
Rewrote 'Subhuman' and changed its name to 'Blue Oyster Cult' for their 11th album Imaginos, 16 years after their eponymous debut.
Another Elvis one
Almost Blue was on Imperial Bedroom.
Houses
Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin
XTC
had a habit of naming albums after a distinctive lyric off their previous album.
'Nonsuch' gets mentioned in Chalkhills and Children off Oranges and Lemons.
In turn, 'Apple Venus' crops up in Then She Appeared on Nonsuch.
And in turn...
... Oranges & Lemons are mentioned on preceding album "Skylarking" (in "Ballad For A Rainy Day")
Crimso
Did it the opposite way round. The track (instrumental) Starless and Bible Black is on the album of the same name. But the lyric appears on Red which came out later that year.
[Thinks: Can you imagine anyone nowadays bringing out two cracking albums in the same year?]
Showing my age
Sheer Heart Attack is the only one that comes to mind, but I just stepped put of the Aspidistra and everything's a little hazy. But welcome to the ... erm... here, Moose, if I can call you that.
I'm new here too - only a couple of weeks in, and I've been on holiday for a week. It's just not on, is it?
Gene - Drawn To The Deep End
Title track ended up as a b-side. Not a bad song but you can see why it didn't make it onto the album.
Frank Zappa
The track Absolutely Free was on the following album We're Only In It For The Money
Ride
Going Blank Again, was the B-side of Leave them all behind. On the extended version of the CD I think.
In the UK
It first appeared on the lovely Twisterella EP.
Which reminds me - Nowhere. Wasn't on the original LP.
Brain Salad Surgery
First appeared on an NME flexidisc, if memory serves...
Disembodied Title Tracks
May have already appeared on the previous album:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/albums-where-title-song-is-on-a-pr...
and I'm not 100% that even this version is the original.
Nic Jones'
album Penguin Eggs has no song of that name on it. But he does sing a (rather good) song of that name on the 'Knaresborough Folk Club' bootleg..
I don't think it appears on any of his official recordings though...(?)
The song 'The Little Pot Stove' on Penguin Eggs
contains the line
Salt fish and whalemeat sausage, fresh penguin eggs a treat.
I've not heard the Knaseborough recording so could it be this one given a different title?
Journey Through The Past
didn't appear on the dreary, unlistenable Neil Young album of the same name, but was instead saved for the dreary, listenable follow up "Time Fades Away".
Kingmaker
Eat Yourself Whole appeared as a single but not on the album of the same name.
More Gomez
High On Liquid Skin doesn't appear on Liquid Skin.
others
BRMC - Take Them On, On Your Own (b-side)
Elbow - Asleep In The Back (only on album re-release)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy (EP track)
When I bought the album "Psychocandy"
it came with the Some Candy Talking ep included. So, for me, it's on the album.
My man Stephen Ryan, when he was in The Stars Of Heaven, had an album called "Speak Slowly". The debut by his next band The Revenants featured a song of the same name.
Elbow
Asleep in the Back isn't on Asleep in the Back.
In the lead up to Christmas
there seem to be loads of albums released called 'Greatest' Hits. That aren't.
Auto-strangulation
The Stranglers based an entire album, "The Gospel According To The Meninblack", on the similarly named "Meninblack" from their previous LP.
Perhaps in an effort to compensate for all of the above
The Creation put a song called "Creation" on their Creation Records debut, whose working title was "Creation".
Similarly
the b-side of Pet Shop Boys' very first release of West End Girls was called "Pet Shop Boys". They also recently recorded a cover of a song by My Robot Friend, called "We're The Pet Shop Boys".
Also, They Might Be Giants' album "Flood" didn't include a song called "Flood", but it did have one called "They Might Be Giants".
This could be a whole new tangent of this topic - bands who've recorded songs named after themselves.
You can have Black Sabbath and Bad Company for starters...
Both, of course, on albums named for the bands as well.
Or acts that merely refer to themselves in verse:
such as:
The Human League on "Love Action" ("this is Phil Talking")
Mark E Smith on "How I Wrote Elastic Man" ("the people ask me how I wrote Elastic Man")
Public Enemy on "Public Enemy No. 1 ("Because I'm Public Enemy No. 1")
and inevitably,
Craig David on Everything by Craig David ("Craig Da-vid!")
Why is the world in love again?
Why are we marching hand in hand?
Why are the ocean levels rising up?
It's a brand new record,
For Nineteen-ninety!
They Might Be Giants' brand new album...
Floooooooooooood!
Theme From Flood, on the album, erm, Flood.
(actually this may be my candidate for things that make me feel old - our sixth form album is 21!?!)
"Theme from..."? Pah! Doesn't count.
Or alternatively, I forgot about that one. You decide.
I love that album.
Everytime I hear it, I'm 15 again.
cf Pax Romana
Comparing those last two posts, there's even a track called 'They Might be Giants' on Flood.
And reading my previous post
you'll notice I mentioned that.
Both of these were only b-sides
'Colour By Numbers' by Culture Club
'Kilamanjaro' by The Teardrop Explodes
Jets To Brazil
Their first album was "Orange Rhyming Dictionary" (and is TOTALLY BRILLIANT), but the song of that name is on their second album "Four Cornered Night" (which is QUITE GOOD).
Frank's Wild Years
Tom Waits dedicated a whole album to the spoken word track recorded for Swordfishtrombones album.
Nice thread
Welcome to the blog, Moose!
The moral of the story is...
.. artists often write a song starting with the title. Or they like the title more than they like the song.
What if the White album had been called "What's the New Mary Jane" or better still, "Not Guilty"?
Would You Believe?
Hollies' LP '65.
Track on 'Butterfly' in '67.
Another
Adventure - Television
it is on the reissue now though