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can't be the name of a song.

radiohead hail to the thief ("2+2=5")
the breeders last splash ("cannonball")
pavement terror twilight ("speak, see, remember")

― f ath, Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me ("Stone the Crows")

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and

pixies come on pilgrim ("levitate me")
pixies surfer rosa ("oh my golly")
pixies doolittle ("mr. grieves")
pixies bossanova ("hang wire")

― f ath, Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll get this one out of the way;

Nirvana - Nevermind ("Smells Like Teen Spirit")

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the Sisters of Mercy - Floodland ("This Corrosion")

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind ("Walk On")

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Or then there's XTC's habit of taking album titles from lyrics that appeared in previous albums.

"Oranges and Lemons" --> Skylarking "Ballet for a Rainy Day"
"Apple Venus" --> Nonsuch "Then She Appeared"

It seems there's one or two more examples...

― mikef (mfleming), Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Turn On the Bright Lights, Interpol ("NYC")

― jsk, Saturday, 14 August 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns by Killing Joke ("Rubicon")

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Citadel - Legendary Pink Dots (From Here You'll Watch The World Go By)

Come to think of it, nearly every album title from the Dots comes from one of their lyrics.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Saturday, 14 August 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Room on Fire by The Strokes ("Reptilia")

Don't Tell Me Now by The Halo Benders ("The Halo Bender")

In the Zone by Britney Spears ("Me Against the Music")

Sandinista! by The Clash ("Washington Bullets")

My Aim is True by Elvis Costello ("Alison")

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Saturday, 14 August 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Desolation Boulevard -- Sweet ("The 6-Teens")

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Saturday, 14 August 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

sonic youth - daydream nation ("the wonder")

― Andrew Calaman (Andrew Calaman), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid ("Junkie Man")

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

elastica's 'elastica' was going to be 'keys, money and fags'*
until the american connotation dawned on them. shame, cause it's ann
ace title.

*(line up)

― piscesboy, Saturday, 14 August 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beat - I just Can't Stop It (from Mirror in the Bathroom)

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Head on The Door - The Cure (from Close To Me)
The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk (from April 5th or whatever its called)
Stop making Sense - Talking Heads (from Girlfriend is Better)
High Land Hard Rain - Aztec Camers (from The Boy Wonders)

― darren (darren), Saturday, 14 August 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming ("Ants Marching")

Starship - Knee Deep in the Hoopla ("We Built This City")

Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs ("Sunny Came Home")

Dire Straits - Making Movies (I forget which song)

― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 14 August 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Dre - The Chronic (probably every song!)

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dire Straits - Making Movies (I forget which song)

Skateaway.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune ("E.T.I.")
Sam Phillips - Martinis And Bikinis ("Love And Kisses")
Van Halen - Women And Children First ("Could This Be Magic")
Van Halen - Fair Warning ("Mean Street")

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Bongo Fury -- Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers ("Sam With the Showing Scalp Flat Top")

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Sunday, 15 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

CCR: Willy And The Poorboys

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 15 August 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Guided By Voices, Half Smiles Of The Decomposed -- Sleep Over Jack (song).
But which came first?

― aa, Sunday, 15 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

TV On The Radio -- Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes ("Wrong Way")

― Jack, Monday, 16 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah yeah yeahs - "fever to tell" (from "man," I think)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Turn On the Bright Lights by Interpol (from "NYC")

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

D-D-Don't Stop the Beat by Junior Senior (from "Move Your Feet")

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

elastica's 'elastica' was going to be 'keys, money and fags'

Six years later, I now know why the two Frischmann-obsessed lesbians who ran the music section of the Lancaster Uni student newspaper used this title of the section. (I mean, they told me what it meant -- the three things you check to see if you have on you before you go to a gig -- but I never knew where they got it. I thought they made it up!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a few more:

Simon & Garfunkel - "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme)
Steely Dan - "Dr. Wu" (Katy Lied)
Walter Egan - "Magnet & Steel" (Not Shy)
Spin Doctors - "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" (Pocket Full Of Kryptonite)
Graham Parker - "Get Started, Start A Fire" (The Mona Lisa's Sister)
Randy Newman - "Dixie Flyer" (Land Of Dreams)
Jefferson Starship - "All Fly Away" (Dragonfly)
Jason Mraz - "Curbside Prophet" (Waiting For My Rocket)
Grateful Dead - "Here Comes The Sunshine" (Wake Of The Flood)

― mark schroeder, Monday, 16 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

then there are albums whose titles come from a lyric buried in a *different* artist's song

BoDeans Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams from the Stones "Shattered"
Sweet Give Us A Wink from the Beatles "Lovely Rita"
The Knack But The Little Girls Understand from the Doors "Back Door Man"

― mark schroeder, Monday, 16 August 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

then there are albums whose titles come from a lyric buried in a *different* artist's song

steely dan can't buy a thrill from dylan's "it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry"

and "back door man" is a howlin' wolf song, written by willie dixon

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 16 August 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

Can't Slow Down by Lionel Ritchie.

Only realized that the other day.

― pplains, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:12 (eleven years ago)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - "Brain Damage"

― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:22 (eleven years ago)

alanis morissette - jagged little pill ("you learn")

― dyl, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:36 (eleven years ago)

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me ("The Kiss")
The Cure - Wish ("To Wish Impossible Things")

― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:40 (eleven years ago)

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peepshow ("Peek-A-Boo")

― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:41 (eleven years ago)

nine years pass...

tom petty & the heartbreakers - hard promises ("insider")

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:37 (two years ago)

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ("Poor Places")

― henry s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:19 (two years ago)

XTC had three albums in a row titled after a lyric from the previous album, which I think is pretty cool, though apparently the first two were not on purpose (once it was pointed out to Andy he came up with the title "Apple Venus")

― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:32 (two years ago)

Game Theory - Lolita Nation ("We Love You Carol and Alison")
Game Theory - Two Steps From the Middle Ages ("Rolling With the Moody Girls")
Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things ("He Do the Police in Different Voices")
Loud Family - Days for Days ("Crypto-Sicko")

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:08 (two years ago)

then there are albums whose titles come from a lyric buried in a *different* artist's song

Loud Family - Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things from America's "A Horse With No Name"

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:10 (two years ago)

Replacements- Don't Tell A Soul ("We'll Inherit the Earth")

― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 20:03 (two years ago)

prefab sprout - from langley park to memphis ("the venus of the soup kitchen")

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 20:09 (two years ago)

Madonna - You Can Dance ("Into the Groove")

― Josefa, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 20:30 (two years ago)

Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! ("Jungle Boy")

― Josefa, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 20:58 (two years ago)

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 21:01 (two years ago)

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