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)
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Monday, 7 September 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
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
― ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Sort of surprised not to see Insane Clown Posse itt
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
Juggalo Springfield
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
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?
― Lily Dale, Friday, 18 September 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqpXVAY3fI
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Friday, 18 September 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
boyz ii men, end of the road ('pain in my head oh i'd rather be dead')
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 18 September 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
frank black, headache
xpost wrong head
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 19 September 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link
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."
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
Songs featuring answering machine messages:
Papa M - Crowd of OneBlind Melon - Letters from A Porcupine
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
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
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
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 HolySleepyhead - Punk Rock City U.S.A.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
xxp (answering machine messages)
Thurston Moore - Queen Bee and Her Pals
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Btw - now I'm wondering if Sleepyhead did that as a deliberate nod to Zeppelin.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
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
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
literal elvis example: "almost blue"
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 September 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Yes. But there are as many counterexamples (Punch the Clock, All this Useless Beauty, This Year's Model) as to render the generalization false
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
was i generalizing?
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
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"
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 September 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
Wow, sorry, I was going from sloppy memory and miscategorized This Year's Model for some reason. My bad. And you r cool, fcc
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
EC is the king of this thread, huh...
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Songs whose lyrics reference Un Chien Andalou:
Sexy Death Soda - When the Money FallsPixies - Debaser
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
isn't the lyric from "brilliant mistake"? which is the opening track from King of America?
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 September 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
Yes, you are right, sorry.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 September 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Songs in which the singer acknowledges there may be a shortcoming in his lyrics:Beatles - only a northern songBlack Sabbath - the writ
― calstars, Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
There is a Mansun song which is entirely on this topic, it is not a good song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10Jk58zFa0
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven ("Lyrically weak, but the music's the thing")
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Max Tundra - Labial ("I only sing about things that happen to me / I never learned how to fill my songs with allegory")
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
TMBG, "Number Three"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
Alice Cooper - "School's Out" ("We can't even think of a word that rhymes")
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Tower to the skies, an academy of liesAnd what goes up surely must come downAnd we felt the mighty blowout with the walls coming downOr something like that
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
Taupin/John “Your Song” seems like the apotheosis of this
― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Orange Juice:"Nothing worth finding is easily found, Try as we might,That was supposed to sound very profound, It probably sounds trite."
― everything, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
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)"
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
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
― huge rant (sic), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
I don't agree with the OP and I'm perfectly fine with ILM being the TVTropes of music as one of its roles.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
Songs that get all meta and mention 'this song' in the lyrics
Xp
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 17 December 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Angie Aaron, "Spaceship" says "this is just a song to pay the rent."
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
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
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
Klymaxx, "I miss you / there's no other way to say that rhymed."
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Weezer - In the Garage
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
Songs about sweat dripping down balls
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
tlc - waterfalls
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Perhaps "Panama":
Yeah, we're runnin' a little bit hot tonightI can barely see the road from the heat comin' offKnow what I'm sayin'Uhh, I reach down between my legs n' ease the seat back
― mother should I build the walmart (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
Don't go chaffing waterballsPlease stick to the thighs and the boxers that you're used toI know that you're gonna scratch it your way or nothing at allBut I think you're moving too fast
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link