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.
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!”
Blue Oyster Cult’s album “Agents of Fortune”. The album title is heard in the song “E.T.I.”
The name of Peter Hammill’s album In a Foreign Town is a line from the song This Book
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…
The Tragically Hip album “Phantom Power” has no song by that title, but the words are used in the song “Something On.”
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.
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”.
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.”
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.”
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”)
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. 