# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/61 "2009-12-04T16:26:06Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Which would be a great addition to my old thread [Groups that have a song and album of the same name, but the song is not on the album](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=434444), in which I nominate two like that but miss several, despite _having the albums_. Sheesh. Actually, not quite. The album “Starless and Bible Black” does contain a song of the same name – it’s just that it’s an instrumental. The phrase “starless and bible black” appears in a song simply entitled “Starless” which appeared on the next album. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/62 "2009-12-04T21:49:18Z")
David Lindley & El Rayo X’s _Very Greasy_. These words are recited in their cover of _Zevon’s Werewolves of London_, which appears on the album. “And his hair was… well?.. Very, very greasy! Way too greasy!” ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/63 "2009-12-04T22:39:16Z")
Blue Oyster Cult’s album “Agents of Fortune”. The album title is heard in the song “E.T.I.” ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/64 "2009-12-05T15:12:37Z")
The name of **Peter Hammill** ’s album _In a Foreign Town_ is a line from the song _This Book_ ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/65 "2009-12-05T18:53:37Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > David Lindley & El Rayo X’s _Very Greasy_. These words are recited in their cover of _Zevon’s Werewolves of London_, which appears on the album. > > “And his hair was… well?.. > Very, very greasy! > Way too greasy!” David Lindley and El Rayo Ex—what a great band!!! I saw them open for Jimmy Cliff when in 1988 when I was 17, and though I had never heard of them before, I was instantly a huge fan… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/66 "2009-12-07T02:41:49Z")
The Tragically Hip album “Phantom Power” has no song by that title, but the words are used in the song “Something On.” ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/67 "2009-12-07T02:53:53Z")
> [@Roadfood](#): > > Blue Oyster Cult’s album “Agents of Fortune”. The album title is heard in the song “E.T.I.” Actually the track’s full name is **E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)** … which 6 years later became the title of a live album of theirs - well, nearly anyway: **Extraterrestrial Live**. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/68 "2009-12-07T03:07:59Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The Tragically Hip album “Phantom Power” has no song by that title, but the words are used in the song “Something On.” There’s also We Are The Same, which takes its title from “Now The Struggle Has A Name”. And the Killers’ _Day and Age_ has the title in “Neon Tiger” and “The World We Live In”. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/69 "2009-12-07T03:29:39Z")
From the song **Nautical Wheelers** , by Jimmy Buffett: “And everyone here is just more than contented, To be living and dying in three-quarter time.” ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/70 "2009-12-07T04:24:59Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Sting, _Nothing Like the Sun_ (from the lyric – actually a Shakespeare quote – in “Sister Moon”) Also, Sting’s _Mercury Falling_ - first lyric in the opening track, “Hounds of Winter,” and the last lyric in the closing track “Lithium Sunset.” But no tracks by that name on the album. I was going to mention **Captain Lance Murdoch’s** observation about XTC albums. Andy Partridge swears that Oranges and Lemons was entirely by coincidence. Maybe… Blur’s _Modern Life Is Rubbish_ is a lyric from “For Tomorrow.” The English Beat’s _I Just Can’t Stop It_ is a lyric from “Mirror in the Bathroom.” ---
**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 7, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/71 "2009-12-07T14:17:07Z")
Tyrannosaurus Rex: _My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair but Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows_. The line is from “Frowning Atahuallpa.” Elvis Costello: _Blood and Chocolate_ (“Uncomplicated”) ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834/72 "2009-12-07T20:13:40Z")
Shawn Colvin’s _A Few Small Repairs_ was already mentioned, but she did it for the first time on _Fat City_ with the song “Round of Blues.” B\*Witched named their second album _Awake and Breathe_ after the first line in “I Shall Be There.” John Mayer’s _Heavier Things_ is part of the last line of the song “New Deep.” Hey, nobody said this list excluded music that nobody but me still listens to. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-title-is-in-a-song-but-its-not-the-songs-title/519834.md?page=3)