# Songs with the same name as the band themselves **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 6, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646 "2025-11-06T23:47:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/21 "2025-11-07T08:00:12Z")
There’s the song “Wilco” by the band Wilco on the album “Wilco.” ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/22 "2025-11-07T10:16:14Z")
[The E Street Shuffle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLMaZ7H3B0) Sort of. I’ll allow it. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/23 "2025-11-07T10:19:41Z")
Motörhead by Motörhead. Lemmy had written the song for his former band Hawkwind, but they hadn’t recorded it when he got kicked out of the band. So he took the song for his new band which he called after the song. Belle And Sebastian - Belle And Sebastian. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/24 "2025-11-07T10:42:16Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Lemmy had written the song for his former band Hawkwind, but they hadn’t recorded it when he got kicked out of the band. Actually, Hawkwind _did_ record it, with Lemmy on vocals even. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/25 "2025-11-07T10:43:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Actually, Hawkwind _did_ record it, with Lemmy on vocals even. Well, I didn’t know that. Was it officially released back in the day or only later? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/26 "2025-11-07T10:44:26Z")
It was on _Warrior at the Edge of Time_, the last album they did with Lemmy. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0tThYybLTws/maxresdefault.jpg "Hawkwind - Motorhead (1975)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tThYybLTws) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/27 "2025-11-07T10:45:22Z")
Thanks for the correction and the link. 👍 ETA: is that a violin? Never would have thought that a Lemmy song worked with strings. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/28 "2025-11-07T11:20:17Z")
Came to write Motörhead, have discovered an earlier version called Motorhead, not yet with an ö but with an o. Things you learn on the Dope 🙂 Will add Ziggy Stardust by Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and Aladdin Sane by Aladdin Sane. Perhaps they count. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/29 "2025-11-07T11:45:37Z")
Madness is named after a song by Prince Buster, which they covered. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/30 "2025-11-07T12:50:11Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > There’s the song “Wilco” by the band Wilco on the album “Wilco.” Minor nitpick, it’s “Wilco (The Song)”, from the album “Wilco (The Album)”. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/31 "2025-11-07T13:20:54Z")
Though not a big chart hit, the first single I recall hearing on the radio by Kool and the Gang was titled “Kool and the Gang” in 1969. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/32 "2025-11-07T14:25:49Z")
Not a perfect name-title match, but the Rolling Stones have covered Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.” Even more of a reach, King Crimson’s “In the Court of the Crimson King.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/33 "2025-11-07T14:57:04Z")
KMFDM does not, but they mention themselves a lot in their songs. Like, each album has a song that that mentions themselves in comical ways, disparaging or even calling themselves awesome in an obviously sarcastic way. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/34 "2025-11-07T15:31:11Z")
> [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](#): > > **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. Focus also had a song “Focus,” plus “Focus II, “ “Focus III,” and “Focus IV.” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/35 "2025-11-07T15:48:47Z")
The Monkees sang a song that’s often referred to as “Hey Hey We’re The Monkees”, although it’s title is technically “(Theme From) _The Monkees”._ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/36 "2025-11-07T15:51:42Z")
Stars on 45 on the album Stars on 45 by the studio cover band Stars on 45. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/37 "2025-11-07T16:03:02Z")
To get just a little meta, there’s Johnny B Good, Sultans of Swing and St. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I know what you’re thinking…”Those performers didn’t perform the song.” No, but the musicians did perform _in_ the song. You can hear them playing. Chuck Berry, Dire Straits and The Beatles each show you what their song sounded like, so therefore the song Sultans of Swing is at least in part _by_ the Sultans of Swing. Contrast this is the Devil in Devil Went Down To Georgia. “It sounded something like this.” But the song name is neither Devil nor Johnny, so it doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/38 "2025-11-07T16:05:49Z")
Public Image by Public Image Ltd Blockheads by Ian Dury And The Blockheads j ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/39 "2025-11-07T16:12:30Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > They Might Be Giants by They Might Be Giants. The first one that came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-the-same-name-as-the-band-themselves/1024646/40 "2025-11-07T16:26:17Z")
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