Cats Laughing – “Black Knight’s Work”
Danzig – “Sistinas”
Garbage – “Parade” and “Temptation Waits”
Suzanne Vega – “Pilgrimage,” “Knight Moves,” “The Queen and the Soldier,” “Songs in Red and Gray,” “St. Clare”
…okay, so some of those are a bit obscure…
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen
“Tomorrow Never Knows” by the Beatles
“Love You To” by the Beatles (does anyone even have any idea what that title is supposed to mean? Love you to what?)
Down Bottom - Ruff Ryders
The 59th Street Bridge Song - Simon and Garfunkel
In The Flesh, In The Flesh? and Young Lust - Pink Floyd
Nautical Disastor - Tragically Hip
“All The Hot Babes In The World Should Rip Off Their Clothes And Throw Themselves At Me” by, uh, me.
It’s an unreleased track.
“Clint Eastwood” an “19-2000” - Gorillaz.
The strangest thing is, what the hell are doing that titles there?
n.s.u. and swlabr, both of these by Cream.
**ALSO**
I can’t think of many instrumentals that have the Title in the Lyrics. But I guess that’s cheating.
Sorry, I forgot that “no instrumentals” was mentioned in the OP. :o
I wonder if this should count, since the song’s original title (“Ue o muite aruko”) is in fact the first line of the song.
Legend has it that DJ’s playing the song called it “Sukiyaki” because they couldn’t pronounce the original, and sukiyaki was one of the few Japanese words extant in the Western World at that time.
The actual(?) story is perhaps a bit more prosaic: the producer of a British cover version happened to change the name before the original caught on in the charts.
Won’t Get Fooled Again – the Who (they sing “We don’t get fooled again,” not “won’t”)
A Quick One While He’s Away – The Who
Heaven and Hell – The Who/John Entwistle
Summer '68 – Pink Floyd
The Intro and the Outro – Bonzo Dog Band
Postcard – Bonzo Dog Band
The Bride Stripped Bare by the ‘Bachelors’ – Bonzo Dog Band
Steve Miller’s Midnight Tango by the Steve Miller Band
Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 by Bob Dylan
Karn Evil 9 by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (“Welcome back my friends…”)
Baba O’Riley by The Who (“teenage wasteland”)
The greatest rock song of all time doesn’t say it’s title in it’s lyrics:
"Hair of the Dog" - Nazareth
Basket Case - Green Day
Timberwolves in New Jersey - Taking Back Sunday
There’s No I In Team - Taking Back Sunday
Bike Scene - Taking Back Sunday
You’re So Last Summer - Taking Back Sunday
Venus In Furs - Velvet Underground (?)
Eskimo Joe - Ruby Wednesday
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
Poprocks and coke- Green day
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Sublime - Date rape song
Audioslave- cochise
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again.
Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin’ through Kashmir.
So. Central Rain - R.E.M.
“Rain, the Park and Other Things” - the Cowsills
LOADS of Led Zepelin songs, including
“Black Dog”
“Over the Hills and Far Away”
“The Crunge”
“Trampled Under Foot”
“D’yer Mak’er”
“The Immigrant Song”
“The Wanton Song”
“Black Country Woman”
“Bron-yr-aur Stomp”
“Hats Off to (Roy) Harper”
“The Battle of Evermore”
“For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her”
“A Simple, Desultory Philippic”
The James Gang’s “Funk 49”
LOADS of Bob Dylan songs, including:
“Positively Fourth Street”
“Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”
“Rain, the Park and Other Things” - the Cowsills
LOADS of Led Zepelin songs, including
“Black Dog”
“Over the Hills and Far Away”
“The Crunge”
“Trampled Under Foot”
“D’yer Mak’er”
“The Immigrant Song”
“The Wanton Song”
“Black Country Woman”
“Bron-yr-aur Stomp”
“Hats Off to (Roy) Harper”
“The Battle of Evermore”
“For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her”
“A Simple, Desultory Philippic”
The James Gang’s “Funk 49”
LOADS of Bob Dylan songs, including:
“Positively Fourth Street”
“Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”
Blue Oyster Cult’s “I’m On the Lamb, But I Ain’t No Sheep”
John Denver: “Annie’s Song”
Longview - Green Day
David Bowie has several, but the best known would be:
“Space Oddity” (the song about Major Tom. “Major Tom” is the rip-off, uh, homage by Peter Schilling.
“Ziggy Stardust” (only his first name is mentioned).