More Beatles:
The Ballad of John and Yoko
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Tomorrow Never Knows
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
And Stones:
Let It Bleed
Sympathy for the Devil
And The Who:
Won’t Get Fooled Again
mmm
R.E.M. – Country Feedback
Against Me!: “Thrash Unreal”
“Corduroy,” Pearl Jam
“Nautical Disaster,” The Tragically Hip
“Texarkana,” REM
“Interstate Love Song,” Stone Temple Pilots
“Song 2,” Blur (Actually, most songs that have the word “song” in the title)
Incidentally, for fun, I looked up the first list of great songs Google would provide; Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The top rated song that does not have the title in the lyrics is the already-cited “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at #9.
Also high on the list: “The Weight,” by The Band, which never uses the word “weight.”
Lots of Ozzy era Black Sabbath. “Black Sabbath”, “N.I.B.”, “Behind The Wall Of Sleep”, “Warning”, “Paranoid”, “Hand Of Doom”, “Planet Caravan”, and tons more. I guess it helps that a lot of their early songs didn’t really have choruses.
The 12 Days of Christmas
Odd to realize that.
“Country Death Song” by Violent Femmes
Actually, this is the case for almost every New Order song up until the last album or so.
All by Counting Crows:
“A Murder of One”
“Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby”
“Einstein On the Beach (for an Eggman)”
“Carriage”
“On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago”
“On Almost Any Sunday Morning”
“Another Horsedreamer’s Blues”
“Speedway”
I was going to mention this. Even on the last album, “Krafty” and “Guilt Is A Useless Emotion” don’t have the titles in the song.
It’s probably easier to name the pre-reformed New Order songs that do have the title in the lyrics: “The Perfect Kiss,” “Shellshock,” “Confusion,” “State of the Nation,” “Touched by the Hand of God.”
Unsurprisingly, this tendency dates back to Joy Division. “Means to an End,” “Kokamino,” “Glass,” “Warsaw,” “Dead Souls,” “Atmosphere,” etc.
Nitpick: Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” has the title in the lyrics. When Thom Yorke sings “What’s there?” you can hear the Mac voice “Marvin the Paranoid Android” saying “I am Paranoid Android.” Of course Marvin has his own track on the album, “Fitter Happier.”
Counry Joe & The Fish–I-Feel-Like-I’m-A-Fixin-To-Die-Rag
Tom Paxton-Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues
Well, I may be crazy, but I think not.
I swear to God that I smell pot.
But who’d have pot in Vietnam?
He said “What do you think you’ve been sitting on?”
These funny little plants. Thousands of them.
Good God Almighty. Pastures of Plenty.