# Albums that take their title from a line in a song thereon (but not the title!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405 "2004-03-03T23:18:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/61 "2004-03-06T21:06:23Z")
Hole’s Live Through This is from the song “asking for it”, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Angel\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/62 "2004-03-07T01:57:13Z")
Sting’s Mercury Falling is the first line and last lines in the song “The Hoounds of Winter” and “Lithium Sunset”. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/63 "2004-03-07T02:45:12Z")
This is more in the vein of what **Nonsuch** was saying, but Tim Easton has an album called **The Truth About Us**. It’s very evocative of the album as a whole, because most of the songs seem to be about relationships. However, that exact phrase doesn’t appear in any of the songs on the album. Last year he released **Break Your Mother’s Heart** (which is a line in the first track, "Poor, Poor L.A.) that contained a song called “Hanging Tree” that has that line. In addition to containing a line that corresponded to the previous album, that song seemed like it would fit in well it. So this past fall, when we were at one of his shows, my boyfriend asked him if that song was intended to be on the previous album. Tim said that it was originally, but it was cut just prior to the album being released. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/64 "2004-03-07T03:10:06Z")
Ben Folds Five’s _Whatever & Ever Amen_ is from the song The Battle of Who Could Care Less. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/65 "2004-03-07T08:17:02Z")
Ok, going for the obscure here…a little known band called **Storyhill** …album is _Clearing_ taken from a line in the song _Somewhere in between_ where they are between 'the clearing and the blurry." ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/66 "2004-03-07T08:18:28Z")
> [@Jman](#): > > Ok, going for the obscure here…a little known band called **Storyhill** …album is _Clearing_ taken from a line in the song _Somewhere in between_ where they are between 'the clearing and the blurry." I actually just remembered that, though now Storyhill, they were just “Chris and Johnny” for Clearing. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/67 "2004-03-08T20:34:40Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Shriekback’s **Big Night Music** comes from the song **Sticky Jazz** I have nothing to add at the moment, except to say “sweet candy coated jesus, another Shriekback fan!” ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405/68 "2004-03-12T01:19:09Z")
**Counting Crows “August and Everything After”** is from a song that was never released or played anywhere, so it doesn’t quite fit. But **Shawn Mullins “Soul’s Core”** appears in the song “The Gulf of Mexico” **Ryan Adams “Gold”** appears quite prominently in “Tina Toledo’s Streetwalking Blues” and in passing a few other tracks. **Evanescence “Fallen”** appears in the song “Whisper”, but with one depressing word on a goth-rock album, I’m shocked it doesn’t appear in more tracks. All I could find on my mp3 player that wasn’t already mentioned. Being bored at work is not so fun. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-that-take-their-title-from-a-line-in-a-song-thereon-but-not-the-title/232405.md?page=3)