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.”
Praise The Fallen- VNV Nation. It’s from the song Honor.
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
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.
Peter Gabriel’s albums: “So” and “Us”
What?
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.”
I even forgot Taking Liberties (from “Crawling to the USA”)!
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.
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”)
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)
The 1988 album Chalk Mark In a Rain Storm by Joni Mitchell takes its name from a line in “The Beat of Black Wings”
Two albums by The Corrs (mentioned in previous threads on this topic but not yet in this one):
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[]Talk on Corners (lyric from track 12, Queen of Hollywood) []In Blue (lyric from track 2, Give Me a Reason)[/ul]
TV on the Radio’s album title Desperate Youths, Bloodthirsty Babes is taken from the first song, “The Wrong Way.”
A couple other Pink Floyd albums have been mentioned, but they also did it with:
A Momentary Lapse of Reason - in “One Slip”
Oysterband do it all the time:
Holy Bandits.
Freedom and Rain.
Deep Dark Ocean.
Here I Stand
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”
Kick –INXS – lyric from “Devil Inside”
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.”
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.