SONGS WHERE/SONGS THAT/SONGS WITH/SONGS IN WHICH

Simon & Garfunkel - 'The Sound of Silence' (from Sounds of Silence)

nvm, I'm an idiot and the song is actually called 'The Sounds of Silence'

songs where the "titular phrase" is slightly different from the title of the song:

L'Trimm - Cars With the Boom ("we like the cars, the cars that go boom")

Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it:

R.E.M., “Begin the Begin” (“Life's rich demand creates supply in the hand...”) (Album: Lifes Rich Pageant)

Bob Dylan, “Where Are You Tonight?” (“Her father would emphasize / You got to be more than street-wise....”) (Album: Street-Legal)

songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same:

Thought of another one of these:

Unrest - “Imperial” (Album: Imperial f.f.r.r.)

and another:

Cyndi Lauper, “He’s So Unusual” (Album: She’s So Unusual)

Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it:

...and one more in this category (although it’s more “direct” than the other examples):

The Strokes, “Reptilia” (“The room is on fire, and she’s fixing her hair...”) (Album: Room on Fire)

another one of those "songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same":

superchunk's "like a fool" from foolish

Sort of surprised not to see Insane Clown Posse itt

Juggalo Springfield

Songs about headaches (this thread inspired by my current migraine)

Dylan, "Pledging My Time"
Springsteen, "I'm on Fire" (At least, I'm going to interpret "a freight train running through the middle of my head" as a migraine)

Others?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqpXVAY3fI

boyz ii men, end of the road ('pain in my head oh i'd rather be dead')

frank black, headache

xpost wrong head

Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it:

I realized that Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind (aka The 6th Greatest Album of All Time) contains of these songs -- namely, the lead single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

another one in that category:

replacements "answering machine" - "losing hope, never be together," in which paul westerberg's "never be" can easily be mis-heard as "let it be" (as i did, for years), which is both the album title and a pretty good response to the rest of the song.

Songs featuring answering machine messages:

Papa M - Crowd of One
Blind Melon - Letters from A Porcupine

Songs featuring abusive answering machine messages which are actually tracks from another artist, though the group seem not to be aware of this

Placebo – Evil Dildo

Songs whose title(s) were the title of the band's preceding album, rather than the album they appeared on:

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Sleepyhead - Punk Rock City U.S.A.

xxp (answering machine messages)

Thurston Moore - Queen Bee and Her Pals

Btw - now I'm wondering if Sleepyhead did that as a deliberate nod to Zeppelin.

Elvis Costello sometimes had a habit of titling albums using a lyric inside a song that's not the title track (e.g. My Aim Is True), or a lyric from a different album, but he wasn't even remotely consistent about it

literal elvis example: "almost blue"

Yes. But there are as many counterexamples (Punch the Clock, All this Useless Beauty, This Year's Model) as to render the generalization false

was i generalizing?

this year's model does fit this one:

"songs which have a SIMILAR title to the album title, but aren't exactly the same" - "this year's girl"

and this one:

"Songs with a lyric that suggests/evokes the album title, without directly providing the source for it": "capital punishment, she's last year's model" from "(i don't want to go to) chelsea"

Wow, sorry, I was going from sloppy memory and miscategorized This Year's Model for some reason. My bad. And you r cool, fcc

Quite right that Almost Blue - song title but from different album

Punch the Clock - lyric but not song title

My Aim Is True - lyric but not song title

This Year's Model - lyric but not song title

King of America - lyric but not song title (and it's on a different album)

Imperial Bedroom - I think, not on the album but a bonus track?

All this useless beauty, however, is both the song title and it's on that album.

There are so many, I haven't thought about this in a while.

EC is the king of this thread, huh...

Songs whose lyrics reference Un Chien Andalou:

Sexy Death Soda - When the Money Falls
Pixies - Debaser

King of America - lyric but not song title (and it's on a different album)

isn't the lyric from "brilliant mistake"? which is the opening track from King of America?

Yes, you are right, sorry.

Songs in which the singer acknowledges there may be a shortcoming in his lyrics:

Beatles - only a northern song
Black Sabbath - the writ

There is a Mansun song which is entirely on this topic, it is not a good song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10Jk58zFa0

Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven ("Lyrically weak, but the music's the thing")

Max Tundra - Labial ("I only sing about things that happen to me / I never learned how to fill my songs with allegory")

TMBG, "Number Three"

Alice Cooper - "School's Out" ("We can't even think of a word that rhymes")

Tower to the skies, an academy of lies
And what goes up surely must come down
And we felt the mighty blowout with the walls coming down
Or something like that

Taupin/John “Your Song” seems like the apotheosis of this

Orange Juice:
"Nothing worth finding is easily found,
Try as we might,
That was supposed to sound very profound,
It probably sounds trite."

Natasha Bedingfield - These Words

(basically boils down to, "sometimes even my deepest, cleverest lyrics are no match for the heartfelt directness of a simple 'I love you' (but don't get me wrong, I have entire notebooks full of deep lyrics)"

Our New Song by The Wonder Stuff

Songs in which the singer acknowledges there may be a shortcoming in the previous writer's lyrics:

Herman's Hermits' cover of I'm 'enery the Eighth, I Am

Billy Joel - If I Only Had the Words is sort of a song about this topic, kinda like Your Song.

Neil Young Ambulance Blues isn't it exactly but "It's hard to say the meaning of this song" is in the same genre

I don't agree with the OP and I'm perfectly fine with ILM being the TVTropes of music as one of its roles.

Songs that get all meta and mention 'this song' in the lyrics

Xp

Angie Aaron, "Spaceship" says "this is just a song to pay the rent."

Angie Aparo

Prince: "I was dreaming when I wrote this"

Spin Doctors: "I hope you heard this song and it passed you off"

This seems like a pretty common trope

Klymaxx, "I miss you / there's no other way to say that rhymed."