# Album title is in a song, but it's not the song's title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834 "2009-12-03T12:28:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/21 "2009-12-03T17:27:14Z")
“I’ll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/22 "2009-12-03T17:33:54Z")
_Stop Making Sense_ is a line from the Talking Heads’ “Girlfriend is Better” And if you want to split hairs, their albums are called _Little Creatures_ and _Naked_, but those specific phrases are featured in the songs “Creatures of Love” and “Totally Nude”, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/23 "2009-12-03T17:40:01Z")
Nirvana’s _Nevermind_ is from the song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. ---
**Author:** ![Clare\_de\_Loone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/clare_de_loone/32/3407_2.png) [@Clare\_de\_Loone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clare_de_Loone)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/24 "2009-12-03T17:56:30Z")
New Order’s _Technique_ is from the first track, “Fine Time”. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/25 "2009-12-03T18:06:30Z")
Alan Jackson’s _A Lot About Livin’ (And a Little 'bout Love)_ comes from a line in “Chattahoochee.” ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/26 "2009-12-03T18:12:09Z")
Nirvana has a compilation called With the Lights Out, which is part of Smells Like Teen Spirit. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/27 "2009-12-03T18:13:08Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > [Boys and Girls in America](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_and_Girls_in_America) by The Hold Steady. The line is used in two of the songs (_Stuck Between Stations_ and _First Night_). Same story for their debut, _Almost Killed Me_. The line shows up in “Positive Jam” (“the 80s almost killed me”) and “Killer Parties” (“Killer Parties almost killed me”). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/28 "2009-12-03T18:18:38Z")
Rush’s ‘Counterparts’ has the song ‘Animate’ which contains the phrase ‘my counterpart, my foolish heart’ ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/29 "2009-12-03T18:28:12Z")
_Knee Deep in the Hoopla_ by Starship (“We Built This City”) (and a leading candidate for Worst. Lyrics. Evar. in a #1 Billboard song) Does this count? Nellie McKay’s debut album was titled _Get Away from Me_, with no songs by that title or using that line. She waited until her 3rd album, _Obligatory Villagers_, to use the line in the song “Identity Theft”. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/30 "2009-12-03T18:29:22Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Nirvana has a compilation called With the Lights Out, which is part of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Offhand, I would guess that greatest-hits compilations use this device a lot… grab fans’ attention by using a well-known phrase from a song as the title. Makes them feel knowledgeable, kind of like an inside joke. For example, the Jimi Hendrix compilation _Kiss the Sky._ ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/31 "2009-12-03T18:59:23Z")
Pink Floyd’s last two albums, _A Momentary Lapse of Reason_ and _The Division Bell_, are lyrics in _One Slip_ and _High Hopes_, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/32 "2009-12-03T19:07:13Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Offhand, I would guess that greatest-hits compilations use this device a lot… grab fans’ attention by using a well-known phrase from a song as the title. Makes them feel knowledgeable, kind of like an inside joke. For example, the Jimi Hendrix compilation _Kiss the Sky._ Such as the box sets of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett, called _Shine On_ and _Crazy Diamond_, respectively (in the latter case, a double “inside joke”.) ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/33 "2009-12-03T19:09:01Z")
Sloan made a habit of doing this in the 90’s. _Twice Removed_: From a line in “Before I Do” (well, sort of) _One Chord to Another_: “G Turns to D” (“If you eliminate the swearing then I can show my mother/That you can go from one chord to another”) _Navy Blues_: “Sinking Ships” (“From Captain Everyday, on station Navy Blues”) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/34 "2009-12-03T19:09:36Z")
Def Leppard’s breakout hit album _Pyromania_ takes its title from a line in the song “Rock of Ages.” ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/35 "2009-12-03T19:13:16Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The title of Wilco’s _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_ album is repeated at end of the song “Poor Places”, although not as lyrics, but from a snippet of a broadcast from a [numbers station](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station). Also - The title of Wilco’s album, “A Ghost is Born,” is a lyric in the song “Theologians.” ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/36 "2009-12-03T19:15:57Z")
Nightwish – “[Dark Passion Play](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Passion_Play).” The phrase appears in the opening track, “Poet and the Pendulum.” ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/37 "2009-12-03T19:25:48Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Rush’s ‘Counterparts’ has the song ‘Animate’ which contains the phrase ‘my counterpart, my foolish heart’ Also - “Hold Your Fire” is the opening lines to “Mission”. Slight hijack - Several Rush albums have titles that are close to words from songs but don’t match: “Vapor Trails” is not used in the song “Vapor Trail” and “Signals” appears only in the singular form in “Chemistry”. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/38 "2009-12-03T19:33:04Z")
Radiohead’s _Hail to the Thief_ in “2 + 2 = 5” _All hail to the thief All hail to the thief But I’m not But I’m not_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/39 "2009-12-03T19:33:38Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Such as the box sets of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett, called _Shine On_ and _Crazy Diamond_, respectively (in the latter case, a double “inside joke”.) Not the same thing, since the song is titled “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” Hatfield & the North: _The Rotters Club_ (“Share It”) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/40 "2009-12-03T19:46:30Z")
“Willie and the Poor Boys” was the title of a Creedence Clearwater Revial album, but not of a song on the album. Willie and his friends were characters mentioned in the song “Down on the Corner.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834.md?page=3)