Unchained Melody

Many of New Order's song titles, maybe a majority, are not mentioned in the lyrics. Here are a number of examples from their single releases: Blue Monday, Thieves Like Us, True Faith, Ceremony, Everything's Gone Green, Procession, Temptation, Bizarre Love Triangle and Krafty. When the title is mentioned in a New Order song, more or often than not it is only mentioned once: 1963, Regret, The Perfect Kiss, Ruined in a Day and 60 Miles an Hour, for example.

Most of the songs on the album The Final Straw by Snow Patrol have song titles not mentioned in the songs. That includes three singles: How to be Dead, Spitting Game and Chocolate. In fact, one of the exceptions on that album is their most well-known single from it - Run.

New Order's predecessor Joy Division had quite a few examples of this, such as: Digital, Atmosphere, Decades, Twenty Four Hours, A Means to an End and The Eternal.

One of Coldplay's singles Don't Panic is an example of this phenomenon, as is their hit Adventure of a Lifetime.

The Beatles' A Day in the Life was mentioned in the previous post. Other Beatles songs with no mention of the title are Tomorrow Never Knows and The Ballad of John and Yoko. Arguably, you could also have Revolution Number 9 as, although Number 9 is said a number of times, revolution is not! What these songs have in common is that they were all largely written by John Lennon, except for the middle section sung by Paul McCartney in A Day in the Life.