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.
Steely Dan, “Show Biz Kids”
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, “The Blimp”
Yes, “Tempus Fugit”
The Who also had the albums Who’s Next and The Who By Numbers.
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.
Wang Chung?
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.”
Bad Religion has a song “Bad Religion” from a very long time ago.
Night Ranger
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.
Captain Cool and the Kongs
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?
Mr.Blobby
Doop
S*Express
(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.
Yes, see post #28.