# Bands with songs of the same name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472 "2004-12-18T03:04:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/21 "2004-12-18T15:27:46Z")
_Iron Butterfly_ Theme Cooking with de _Redbone_ (I think that’s right - it’s a jam on their live album) _Canned Heat_ Boogie, wasn’t there… _Chairman of the Board_ by Chairm **e** n of the Board ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/22 "2004-12-18T18:48:38Z")
1968 Band, October Country,their only hit, “October Country” ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/23 "2004-12-18T20:13:46Z")
Village People ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/24 "2004-12-18T20:23:35Z")
Adam Ant: “Antmusic” and “Ant Rap” [shudders] John Lennon wrote a few, with and without Yoko, with titles like “The Ballad of John and Yoko”. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/25 "2004-12-18T20:35:18Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > Talk Talk The funniest thing about Talk Talk was that that was also the name of the album. One time they played the video on VH1 and the credit looked like: Talk Talk “Talk Talk” Talk Talk (name of record company) Color Me Badd had a song called “Color Me Badd.” Off an album called C.M.B. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/26 "2004-12-18T20:46:42Z")
ELO- Ole ELO White Town - White Town Jeff Beck - Beckola ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/27 "2004-12-18T21:29:44Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Only if you include Queen/ Killer Queen. And, of course, ‘The March of the Black Queen’ and ‘White Queen’ off their second albums ‘Queen II’. Dead Girls and other stories has a song called ‘Dead Girls’. Nice band that never went anywhere. Cowboy Mouth has ‘The Ballad of Cowboy Mouth’ which delineates how the band formed. For self-referential things I think their name is legion. 311 did it in ‘Down’. Counting Crows did it in ‘Murder of One’. And so on and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/28 "2004-12-18T23:36:38Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Bad Company had a song called “Bad Company” on the “Bad Company” album. Same for **Black Sabbath**. **The Flowers** did it retrospectively by changing their name to be the same as their most previously successful track \*\*Icehouse \*\*. If we’re also doing individuals, then **Bo Diddley** is the first (and best!) to qualify that I’m aware of. **Blue Oyster Cult** finally did a song named after themselves on the \*Imaginos \*album, after references to “the oyster boys” and similar close calls on previous albums. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/29 "2004-12-18T23:51:18Z")
Whilst not adding hugely to the debate, Madness chose their name using what Suggs described as the ‘classic method’ of reading their set list and choosing a title as their name, implying that many bands do the same. Certainly I did this in once naming a band ‘Brilliant Mistake’, and if true of others the list could become very long. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/30 "2004-12-19T00:01:31Z")
The song “Madness” (which the band covered and took their name from) was originally by Jamaican ska star Prince Buster. There’ve gotta be other examples of bands taking their names from _other_ artists’ songs, but I can’t think of any right now. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/31 "2004-12-19T00:23:41Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > The song “Madness” (which the band covered and took their name from) was originally by Jamaican ska star Prince Buster. There’ve gotta be other examples of bands taking their names from _other_ artists’ songs, but I can’t think of any right now. Local band \*\*Powderfinger \*\*took their name from a **Neil Young** song. Similarly with **Silverchair** , although I don’t recall offhand who did the original track - \*\*Helmet \*\*perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/32 "2004-12-19T03:04:05Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > The song “Madness” (which the band covered and took their name from) was originally by Jamaican ska star Prince Buster. There’ve gotta be other examples of bands taking their names from _other_ artists’ songs, but I can’t think of any right now. We could start with a little band called ‘The Rolling Stones’ who named themselves after a Muddy Waters track. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/33 "2004-12-19T03:28:57Z")
Old and In the Way performed a song called Old and In the Way on the album Old and In the Way. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/34 "2004-12-19T05:22:41Z")
The band **Okkervil River** has a song called Okkervil River. Please, somebody listen to this band. Do it! ZJ ---
**Author:** ![spiralscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@spiralscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spiralscratch)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/35 "2004-12-19T08:49:03Z")
“Slowdive”, by Slowdive, from the album _Blue Day_. ---
**Author:** ![fontor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/34f0e0/32.png) [@fontor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fontor)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/36 "2004-12-19T09:16:23Z")
Anyone remember Icehouse? from the 80s. Their first album had a song called Icehouse on it. The interesting thing about this was that at the time of the album’s release, the band was called ‘Flowers’. Early Australian editions of the album have this name. By the time the album got picked up for US distribution, they band had renamed itself after the song (and possibly the album, IIRC). Maybe they didn’t think ‘Flowers’ gave the right image. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/37 "2004-12-19T16:31:31Z")
Believe it or not, [Fleetwood Mac](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781CDF49A97620C8852D1599E620D210DF4BF58150234558C0B73844810473FD0DA7C6CCB8E577B479ABB32FA5500DDAC0EC57ECAD1B&sql=10:hnfuxqealdhe) (see track 7). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/38 "2004-12-19T16:36:20Z")
Another “close call”: The Who’s “Who Are You”, off the album of the same name. A similar category might be bands that worked their name into their album titles. I haven’t noticed many contemporary bands doing this, but it seems to have been popular in the 1960s – **The Who Sell Out** , **Something Else by The Kinks** , etc. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/39 "2004-12-19T16:48:12Z")
> [@Made in Macau](#): > > Whilst not adding hugely to the debate, Madness chose their name using what Suggs described as the ‘classic method’ of reading their set list and choosing a title as their name, implying that many bands do the same. Certainly I did this in once naming a band ‘Brilliant Mistake’, and if true of others the list could become very long. **Godsmack** is an **Alice in Chains** song. I don’t know if the band’s ever played the AiC song before. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/40 "2004-12-19T16:49:27Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > The song “Madness” (which the band covered and took their name from) was originally by Jamaican ska star Prince Buster. There’ve gotta be other examples of bands taking their names from _other_ artists’ songs, but I can’t think of any right now. I meant to quote Thudlow. Oh well [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472.md?page=3)