# Albums whose titles are lyrics from one of the songs, but not the title of a song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785 "2006-08-15T05:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/41 "2006-08-18T09:28:10Z")
The one that immediately comes to mind for me is the corrs sophomore album, “Talk on corners.” Line comes from ‘queen of hollywood.’ “… and her friends would talk on corners: they could never comprehend.” ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/42 "2006-08-18T12:50:15Z")
_Praise The Fallen_- VNV Nation. It’s from the song _Honor_. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/43 "2006-08-18T16:56:19Z")
Pink Floyd: **The Dark Side of the Moon** U2: **All That You Can’t Leave Behind.** ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/44 "2006-08-18T17:15:12Z")
Alison Krauss’ _Lonely Runs Both Ways_ is from the song “Borderline” _So you’re on your own looking down the road that goes only by one way, and you don’t read the signs that say lonely still runs both ways._ ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/45 "2006-08-18T17:56:18Z")
Peter Gabriel’s albums: “So” and “Us” _What?_ ---
**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:** [August 18, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/46 "2006-08-18T20:06:06Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] [quote=fishbicycle Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True is from “Alison.”[/quote] Also\* Last Year’s Model\* from “I Don’t Want to go to Chelsea”. [/QUOTE] Also: _Punch the Clock_, from “The Greatest Thing” _King of America_, from “Brilliant Mistake” _Blood and Chocolate_, from “Uncomplicated” _Brutal Youth_ from “Favourite Hour” Elvis also has a couple of title tracks not on the album they share a title with: “Imperial Bedroom” and “Almost Blue.” ---
**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:** [August 18, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/47 "2006-08-18T21:34:38Z")
I even forgot _Taking Liberties_ (from “Crawling to the USA”)! ---
**Author:** ![Sutremaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sutremaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sutremaine)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/48 "2006-08-19T01:43:54Z")
Dream Theater – _When Dream And Day Unite_ comes from ‘Only A Matter Of Time’. (‘and though the time will come when dream and day unite / tonight the only consolation causing him to fight / is fearless faith in destiny’) _Images And Words_ comes from ‘Wait For Sleep’. (‘she shuts the doors and lights and lays her body on the bed / where images and words are running deep’) _Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory_ comes from ‘Metropolis Pt. 1’ off ‘Images And Words’. (‘somewhere / like a scene from a memory / there’s a picture worth a thousand words’) They don’t write 'em like that any more. They don’t play 'em like that any more either. Sigh. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/49 "2006-08-19T01:54:27Z")
Off the top of my head from some of my favorite artists: Ryan Adams _Gold_ comes from the song “Tina Toledo’s Streetwalking Blues”. Counting Crows _This Desert Life_ appears in the song “High Life”. (And their Greatest Hits album _Films About Ghosts_ is from the song “Mrs Potter’s Lullabye”) ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/50 "2006-08-19T03:52:54Z")
_Before These Crowded Streets_ - Dave Matthews Band (The Dreaming Tree) _A Picture of Nectar_ - Phish (Cavern) _Odelay_ - Beck (Lord Only Knows) _Whatever and Ever Amen_ - Ben Folds Five (Battle of Who Could Care Less) _Willy and the Poor Boys_ - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Down on the Corner) _Thunder, Lightning, Strike_ - The Go! Team (The Power Is On) ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/51 "2006-08-19T10:39:28Z")
The 1988 album _Chalk Mark In a Rain Storm_ by **Joni Mitchell** takes its name from a line in “The Beat of Black Wings” ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/52 "2006-08-19T10:47:22Z")
[QUOTE=Punoqllads] **Nirvana** - _Nevermind_ - from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” [/QUOTE] [Nevermind.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7681256&postcount=4) ---
**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/53 "2006-08-19T11:07:30Z")
Two albums by The Corrs (mentioned in previous threads on this topic but not yet in this one): [ul] [_][Talk on Corners](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yta9qj1iojja) (lyric from track 12, Queen of Hollywood) [_][In Blue](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7lw67ul010jk) (lyric from track 2, _Give Me a Reason_)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![ACC\_Expat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@ACC\_Expat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ACC_Expat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/54 "2006-08-20T00:43:10Z")
TV on the Radio’s album title _Desperate Youths, Bloodthirsty Babes_ is taken from the first song, “The Wrong Way.” ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/55 "2006-08-20T03:27:17Z")
A couple other **Pink Floyd** albums have been mentioned, but they also did it with: _A Momentary Lapse of Reason_ - in “One Slip” ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/56 "2006-08-20T20:21:22Z")
Oysterband do it all the time: **Holy Bandits. Freedom and Rain. Deep Dark Ocean. Here I Stand** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mighty\_Loa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@The\_Mighty\_Loa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mighty_Loa)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/57 "2006-08-20T21:58:39Z")
Wilco’s **A Ghost is Born** comes from the track _Theologians_. “I lay me down, a ghost is born, a ghost is born, a ghost is born…” Gary Jules’ **Trading Snake Oil for Wolf Tickets** is from the song _Broke Window_. “Got snake oil in spades for the wolf ticket trade” ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/58 "2006-08-21T00:06:10Z")
_Kick_ – **INXS** – lyric from “Devil Inside” ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785/59 "2006-08-21T04:22:05Z")
Blur - _Modern Life is Rubbish_ is from “For Tomorrow”: “Then he puts the TV on/Turns it off and makes some tea/Says ‘Modern life, well, it’s rubbish/I’m holding on for tomorrow’.” Love is All - _Nine Times That Same Song_ comes from “Busy Doing Nothing.” Magazine - _Real Life_ comes from the song “Definitive Gaze”: “So this is real life, you’re telling me/And not everything is where it ought to be.” Joanna Newsom - _The Milk-Eyed Mender_ is from the song “Sadie”: “Down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender/You and I and the love so tender.” Camper Van Beethoven - _Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart_ is a slight alteration of a line from “Tania”: “Oh, my beloved revolutionary sweetheart/How I long to see your newsprint face turn yellow in the gutter.” Modest Mouse - _Good News For People Who Love Bad News_ is from “Bury Me With It.” David Byrne - _Look Into the Eyeball_ is from “The Great Intoxication.” The Cure’s _Standing On A Beach_/_Staring At The Sea_ compilation is named from lines in the song “Killing An Arab.” Sonic Youth - _Sister_ is from the song “Schizophrenia.” The White Stripes - _Get Behind Me, Satan_ is close to the line “Get behind me,” repeated several times in the song “Blue Orchid.” ---
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Resurrecting this thread to add an almost example, “Life’s rich demand” is a lyric in “Begin the Begin,” on R.E.M.’s “Lifes Rich Pageant.” also, it might be interesting to see if there are examples since 2006…though albums and their titles are less important these days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785.md?page=4)