# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/41 "2004-12-19T17:02:55Z")
The Colourfield (ex-Specials, ex-Fun Boy Three) had a song called “The Colourfield”. Talulah Gosh (later Heavenly) had a song called “Talulah Gosh”. Bands that namecheck themselves in otherwise-titled songs: Ultra Vivid Scene (“She Screamed”), the Jasmine Minks (“Cold Heart”), the House of Love (“Shine On”), probably lots of others if I really sat and thought about it. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/42 "2004-12-19T20:25:22Z")
> [@ruadh](#): > > Bands that namecheck themselves in otherwise-titled songs: Ultra Vivid Scene (“She Screamed”), the Jasmine Minks (“Cold Heart”), the House of Love (“Shine On”), probably lots of others if I really sat and thought about it. Steely Dan, “Show Biz Kids” Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, “The Blimp” Yes, “Tempus Fugit” ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/43 "2004-12-20T00:43:36Z")
The Who also had the albums Who’s Next and The Who By Numbers. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/44 "2004-12-20T00:57:36Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Similarly with **Silverchair** , although I don’t recall offhand who did the original track - \*\*Helmet \*\*perhaps? The story goes that Daniel Johns wrote “silver” and “chair” on a piece of paper, intending to request “Sliver” by Nirvana and “Berlin Chair” by You Am I when he rang a radio station. He wrote “silver” by mistake or else they might be **Sliverchair**. **KISS** had “Love Theme from KISS” on their first album. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/45 "2004-12-20T03:52:12Z")
Wang Chung? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/46 "2004-12-20T04:19:06Z")
The Yellow Balloon did the song “Yellow Balloon” on the album “The Yellow Balloon.” To top it off, the flip side of their single “Yellow Balloon” was “Noollab Wolley.” But the champs are Focus, who had the song “Focus III” on the album “Focus III.” They also had the albums “In and Out of Focus,” “Mother Focus,” “Focus 8,” and “Focus on Focus,” and song titles “Focus II,” “Focus IV,” “Mother Focus,” and several others with “Focus” in the title. It’s just icing on the cake that their biggest hit _rhymed_ with “focus.” ---
**Author:** ![colour\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@colour\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colour_wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/47 "2004-12-20T06:27:59Z")
Bad Religion has a song “Bad Religion” from a very long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Flipstrip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Flipstrip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipstrip)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/48 "2004-12-20T07:02:47Z")
Night Ranger ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/49 "2004-12-20T07:20:03Z")
Another band nobody listened to… _Gals Panic_\*, on their only album _I Think We Need Helicopters_, had a track called _Gals Panic_\*\* \*The best band ever named after a series of pornographic arcade games. \*\*The song is about the arcade game, not the band itself. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/50 "2004-12-20T07:33:52Z")
Captain Cool and the Kongs ---
**Author:** ![Joools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@Joools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joools)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/51 "2004-12-20T07:41:44Z")
Who can forget the band **Living in a Box** , who debuted with the band-album-and-song of the same name thing in 1987, and then promptly disappeared from the face of the earth? ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/52 "2004-12-20T14:01:58Z")
Mr.Blobby Doop S\*Express ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/53 "2004-12-20T20:38:11Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > …Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, “The Blimp” (Mousetrapreplica). Zappa mentions the Mothers many many times, most memorably when comparing themsselves to the Velvet Underground & Black Sabbath in 200 Motels. Paul mentions the fact he’s been “mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled, Roy Halee’d and Art Garfunkel’ed” on Simon & Garfunkel’s A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission). The Mama’s & Papa’s mention themselves (but not the name of the band) in Creeque Alley. ---
**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 21, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472/54 "2004-12-21T02:57:12Z")
> [@fontor](#): > > Anyone remember Icehouse? from the 80s. Yes, see post #28. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-with-songs-of-the-same-name/280472.md?page=2)