The only two that come to mind are Living in a Box, by … Living in a Box, from their hit album … Living in a Box. They were a one-hit wonder with a minor hit, but the other song that comes to mind with the thread title is Bad Company by … Bad Company. They made it big and are being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
In the early days of MTV, I remember the song “Icehouse”, by the band Icehouse, on their self-titled debut album, and also the song “Iron Maiden”, by Iron Maiden, on their STDA.
“Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath, from the album Black Sabbath.
Black Sabbath. Found on the album Black Sabbath, no less.
Edit: Ack! Ninja’d!
Not a band, but there’s this:
Bad Company, by the band Bad Company.
“Buena Vista Social Club” by the Buena Vista Social Club, as featured in the documentary Buena Vista Social Club.
This might be borderline: “Utopia” from the album Todd Rundgren’s Utopia
(On subsequent albums the band name was just “Utopia” and the song became the “Utopia Theme” on the reissued album and later live releases.)
Metal Church had a song called “Metal Church” on their album Metal Church.
Does this count?
Night Ranger, by the band Night Ranger. But the album wasn’t called Night Ranger.
Queensryche almost makes it with Queen of the Reich.
Anthrax had a song called Anthrax on the Fistful of Metal album. And Over Kill had a song by that name on the 1st album (and then several sequels like Overkill II: the nightmare continues, etc.)
In a Big Country, by Big Country. Excellent song by a good Scottish band.
But the definitive answer is Bad Company, IMO.
Not sure how this link will work here, but here’s a Spotify playlist
They Might Be Giants by They Might Be Giants.
Kaleidoscope by Kaleidoscope
Blue Öyster Cult had a song called Blue Öyster Cult, but it wasn’t on the album [i]Blue Öyster Cult[/i] - it came out first on the album [i]Secret Treaties[/i] (albeit under the title “Subhuman”), and was then rerecorded for the [i]Imaginos[/i] album under its original title.
Hocus Pocus by Focus doesn’t count obviously. But I feel like an honorable mention could be due as (after a close inspection of the, umm, lyrics), the song title had to based solely on the band’s name.
As an aside, the live version from the show The Midnight Special in 1973 is spectacular (and on YouTube) compared to the album version which was a more proggy 7-minute song. The producers of the show told them they had only 4 minutes slotted for them and to remove parts of the song. The band conferred amongst themselves, and decided they’re not cutting jack and speed-metal-powered the 7-minute song in 4 minutes. Yes, even the yodeling, everything.
The result: A rare standing ovation from the studio audience and immortality. A viewing of this will have you thinking there’s no way this live performance can get more WTF (in an awesome way), and then it does.
Actually when they recorded that track they were called Flowers. They later changed their name to match that track, as they moved to a more electronic sound.