Hey! I should’ve gotten that. Good grab.
I’m not sure how this fits. The Beatles don’t have a song called “Rubber Soul,” only an album. We’re looking for albums and songs with the same title, but not appearing on the same album.
Oops! Sorry!
OK, going the other way (song first, album later), I found these:
Tom Waits “Frank’s Wild Years” on Swordfishtrombones (1983) followed by Franks Wild Years (no apostrophe) in 1987.
Guided by Voices has “Bee Thousand” on The Grand Hour EP (1993). The following album is entitled Bee Thousand, and original release does not contain a song of that name, but a 6-side “director’s cut” of it does.
Similarly, off the same Grand Hour EP, there’s a song called “Alien Lanes,” with an album of that same name, but no track named after it, in 1995.
Going in this direction seems a little tougher.
Should’ve thought of that, I have and love both albums.
I feel like there should be more of these “song title came first” examples, but I’m having a rough time of finding any.
In 1979 the was a documentary about The Who called The Kids Are Alright. That movie, and the soundtrack album, didn’t include the title song.
Good one, Mr. Fudd! It was on “Morrison Hotel.” I’ve always wondered why. Did they just not include that song on “Waiting for the Sun” for some reason, or did they name the album that (because it was a catchy title for an album) and come up with a song with that title later? It’s one of my favorite Doors album tracks.
Wikipedia says the song was intended for the their third album but needed more work. As you surmised, the band found the title catchy and kept it for the album.
At the time, a friend of mine said that when her grandparents visited, wanted to hear “some of the music you kids like.” You guessed it, she put on Queen’s “Sheer Heart Attack.”
Grandma said, “That could GIVE someone a heart attack!”
I read the thread and didn’t see this one, but forgive me if I missed it. The song August and Everything After by Counting Crows was not released on their amazing debut album of the same name. The song didn’t get an official release until it appeared on side two of the album “Butter Miracle: Suite One” in 2021.
The Mothers of Invention had the Album Absolutely Free. Their next album, We’re Only in it for the Money, used that as a song title.
Way up in post 8.
I know both those albums well and never made that connection!
the term ´relayer’ appeared as a repeated lyric in the song The Remembering from Yes’ Tales from Topographic Oceans and then became the title of their next album.
The first album by Jets to Brazil was Orange Rhyming Dictionary but a song of that name by them did not come until later.
Concrete Blonde “Free” didn’t show on the album “Free”, but on the later “Still In Hollywood” compilation album.
The original 1979 vinyl debut album by The Ruts (they seemed hard core punks at the time but these days their songs sound like Power Pop) called The Crack didn’t have the song of that name. The Crack was used as a B side to a later single from their second album, a compilation of bits and pieces since lead singer Malcolm Owen had died of an overdose, Grin & Bear It although it didn’t appear on that vinyl album either. However it appeared on the CD extended reissues of both albums.
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The Counting Crows released their debut album called August & Everything After, which is also the title of a song that didn’t make it onto the album itself.