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

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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

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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."

Weezer - In the Garage

Songs about sweat dripping down balls

tlc - waterfalls

Perhaps "Panama":

Yeah, we're runnin' a little bit hot tonight
I can barely see the road from the heat comin' off
Know what I'm sayin'
Uhh, I reach down between my legs n' ease the seat back

Don't go chaffing waterballs
Please stick to the thighs and the boxers that you're used to
I know that you're gonna scratch it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast

Little-known fact: in an early draft of "Night and Day," Cole Porter originally wrote

Like the drip drip drip of the sweat-drops
Between the choad and the taint
So a voice inside me whispers...
Night and day
You are the one

Frank Ocean "Nikes"

songs where a woman corresponds with her husband under an assumed identity and arranges a liaison with him as a test of his marital fidelity:

Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
Kate Bush - Babooshka

― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered)

Haha, I didn't know someone posted this a year before I polled these two songs.

to my shame, it appears that the Steve Hoffman forum beat me to it by about eight years:

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/kate-bushs-babooshka-vs-rupert-holmes-escape.211500/

Songs that contain lyrics with “sorrow” being rhymed and resolved by “tomorrow”

Black Sabbath - megalomania

John Prine, "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" is one, but there are hundreds.

It's up there with "college" / "knowledge."

A bit behind "night-time" / "right time" but still in the Overused Rhyme Hall of Shame.

heart / part, life / wife

fire/desire

^oh yeah, that’s the big one

Songs that contain lyrics with “sorrow” being rhymed and resolved by “tomorrow”

From Autumn to Ashes, "Autumn's Monologue"

Steven Wilson, "Happy Returns"

In reverse (tomorrow/sorrow): Nilsson, 'Without You'

"What I Did for Love" from A Chorus Line

kid cudi - “pursuit of happiness”