Biffy, I have noticed that you and I seem to be soul mates in terms of musical tastes. Anybody who loves the Beatles as much as you do and also knows enough about Hatfield & the North to know that the title of The Rotters Club comes from “Share It” is someone I could probably talk to for hours (and never say anything that any normal person would find interesting).
Oh yes, one more contribution: Yello’s album Claro Que Si takes its title from a line in the song “Pinball Cha Cha”.
Sheena Easton’s “Do You.” Two of the songs “Do It For Love,” and “The Magic Of Love” feature Miss Easton reapeating the pharse “Do you,” over and over.
Shawn Colvin’s “A Few Small Repairs” is a line from her hit “Sunny Came Home”
Van Halen: “Fair Warning” is a line from “Mean Street”.
Jane’s Addiction: “Nothing’s Shocking” is from “Ted, Just Admit it…”. I think that’s what Ted (Bundy) is supposed to admit.
“New World Man”, actually. Otherwise, you and JC beat me to it on the Rush.
The first line of Chemistry is “Signal transmitted, message received”, and in fact the whole song is basically about emotions being biochemical/bioelectrical signals. Interestingly, Vital Signs, the final song from their previous album, also talked about these kinds of signals.
Continuing the Rush train of thought:
The title of their most recent album, “Snakes & Arrows” comes from the first line of the album’s second track, Armor & Sword:
“The snakes and arrows a child is heir to are enough to leave a thousand cuts”
The Beastie Boys did this quite a bit:
License to Ill (Paul Revere)
Paul’s Boutique (B-Boy Bouillabaisse)
Ill Communication (Sure Shot)
Hello Nasty (Putting Shame In Your Game)
How about the U2 album & movie Rattle & Hum.
From the song Bullet the Blue Sky.
None of the Cardigans records have title tracks, but their last two album titles come from songs:
Long Gone Before Daylight from ‘03:45 No Sleep’
Super Extra Gravity from ‘Holy Love’
The Corrs In Blue is from ‘Give Me A Reason’, and Talk On Corners is from ‘Queen Of Hollywood’
Regina Spektor’s Soviet Kitsch is in a song NOT on the album, but written before it/released after it, ‘Dusseldorf’
Pocket Full of Kryptonite by the Spin Doctors (appears in “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”)
Time by Electric Light Orchestra, appears in 5 different songs on the album:
Chutes Too Narrow by the Shins – the title comes from a line in the song “Young Pilgrims.”
Soda Stereo’s first live album was called “Ruido Blanco”, which is a line in the song “Prófugos”.
Just thought of a really obvious one:
Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (“Scarborough Fair”)
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again (from “Pipeline”)
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (from “Lie to Me”)
Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel (from “The Darkest Star”)
Mesh - In This Place Forever (from “Confined”)
Mesh - The Perfect Solution (from “Who Says?”)
Anything Box - The Universe is Expanding (from “Welcome to the End”)
Color Theory - Perfect Tears (from “Until Last Night”)
Color Theory - Life’s Fairytale (from “Ponytail Girl”)
Color Theory - Tuesday Song (from “The Perfect Song”)
Bob Dylan’s worst album (so far), Knocked Out Loaded, gets its title from Bob Dylan’s worst songwriting collaboration (so far), “Under Your Spell,” co-written with Carole Bayer Sager.
I was knocked out and loaded in the naked night.
When my last dream exploded, I noticed your light.
:dubious:
Vertical Horizon has done this twice -
Running on Ice is from the song Falling Down
Burning the Days is in both Carrying On and I Believe In You
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, in which I nominate two like that but miss several, despite having the albums. Sheesh.
Sting, Nothing Like the Sun (from the lyric – actually a Shakespeare quote – in “Sister Moon”)
The latest Carbon Leaf CD is called Nothing Rhymes With Woman, which is a line from the song “Another Man’s Woman.”
Katy Lied by Steely Dan. Part of the lyrics of the song Doctor Wu, but not a title.
Under The Table and Dreaming by Dave Matthews Band. A lyric in Ants Marching (one of their best songs, I think.)
I think this is pretty common with live albums.
For example, Neil Young’s “Rust Never Sleeps” takes its title from a line in the song “Hey Hey, My My.”