# Songs in which the title does not appear within the lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941 "2011-06-01T09:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/21 "2011-06-01T15:35:49Z")
The Dylan and Led Zep songs that I first thought of when I read the thread title were already taken, so, um… Annie’s Song - John Denver The Spirit of Radio - Rush Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Iris - Goo Goo Dolls (as mentioned by Dr. Girlfriend, a few seconds faster than me!) Flagpole Sitter - Harvey Danger ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/22 "2011-06-01T15:54:34Z")
Caring Is Creepy - The Shins ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/23 "2011-06-01T15:56:39Z")
Talking Heads – “Don’t Worry About the Government” Eno – “Sky Saw” and probably a lot of others Pink Floyd – “A Pillow of Winds”, “Matilda Mother”, “Flaming”, “Astronomy Domine”. (An amusing near-miss is their song “Free Four”, which is named after the Cockney-accented count-in, “One two free four”.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/24 "2011-06-01T15:59:21Z")
Why bother listing Bob Dylan tunes that fit the OP? The answer is “Most of them.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/25 "2011-06-01T16:03:46Z")
“Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order. Always kind of bugged me, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/26 "2011-06-01T16:40:11Z")
Pretty much every _Interpol_ song. Special props to _Leif Erikson_, which lyrically has nothing to do with Norse explorers but rather the isolated keyboard parts sounding rather Viking. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/27 "2011-06-01T16:55:51Z")
My favorite song by The Pipettes is “The Burning Ambition Of Early Diuretics”, or “Burning Ambition” for short. A really great love song. Even the short form doesn’t appear in the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/28 "2011-06-01T16:57:13Z")
“Young Turks” by Rod Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/29 "2011-06-01T17:00:15Z")
every instrumental ever recorded? Stray Cat Blues, the Stones Power Trip, SoundGarden Suite Sister Mary, Queensryche Nugget, Cake (sort of anyway, the word Mc Nuggets is in the song) Dedicated to the Press, Betty Davis there are piles of songs like this. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/30 "2011-06-01T17:02:51Z")
“Bullet with Butterfly Wings” by Smashing Pumpkins. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/31 "2011-06-01T17:06:43Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > there are piles of songs like this. [Probably](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=520559) [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241444), [too](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=191360%5B/url). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/32 "2011-06-01T18:49:52Z")
“Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by Crosby, Stills & Nash. “On the Way Home” by Buffalo Springfield. “SWLABR” by Cream. “Third Stone from the Sun” by Jimi Hendrix. “From Silver Lake” by Jackson Browne. “Everybody’s Everything” by Santana. “Sir Duke” by Stevie Wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/33 "2011-06-01T19:02:52Z")
El Condor Pasa, Simon & Garfunkle Strawberry Letter 23, Brothers Johnson-- although strawberry letter 22 gets mentioned a few times. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/34 "2011-06-01T19:44:10Z")
Most of the songs off of Sufjan Stevens’ “Come on Feel the Illinoise” album. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/35 "2011-06-01T20:30:02Z")
“The Last Polka” by Ben Folds Five “Fred Jones Part 2” By Ben Folds “Prison Food” by Ben Folds “Lullaby” by Ben Folds Five “Brick” by Ben Folds Five “Hospital Song” by Ben Folds Five “Narcolepsy” by Ben Folds Five “Song for the Dumped” by Ben Folds Five “Summerteeth” By Wilco “Pieholden Suite” by Wilco “Another Horsedreamer’s Blues” by Counting Crows “Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood)” by Counting Crows doesn’t mention the parenthetical part of the title. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/36 "2011-06-01T21:32:13Z")
Side one of Led Zeppelin IV. None of those songs mentions _Kashmir_. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/37 "2011-06-01T22:21:01Z")
“Hair Of The Dog” by Nazareth. Better known as the “Now you’re messin’ with a son of a bitch” song. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/38 "2011-06-01T22:33:21Z")
Lots of Rush songs. The first to come to mind were _Manhattan Project_ and _Bravado_. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/39 "2011-06-01T22:35:14Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > “Prison Food” by Ben Folds “Prison Sex” by Tool ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/40 "2011-06-01T23:12:28Z")
Just from the album I’m currently listening to, “Dust Bowl Dance” by Mumford & Sons mentions none of those words. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941.md?page=3)