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Your Favourite Songs Where the Title is not in the Lyrics (No Instrumentals Please)

  • 25-03-2026 01:59PM
    #1
    Declan A Walsh
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    Please think of songs that you really like where their titles are not mentioned in the lyrics.

    I will list some of mine to start this off.

    New Order have many examples of this. Some of my favourites include: Everything's Gone Green, Temptation, Fine Time, Chemical, Liar, Guilt is a Useless Emotion, Superheated and of course Blue Monday.

    Also:

    Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit

    Snow Patrol - Chocolate

    That's off the top of my head. I know there are others!

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  • #2
    waterfaerie
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    My favourite is an obscure one that most people won't know:

    Ayla Nereo - Turning Wake

    Some others I can think of:

    Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

    The Smiths - How Soon is Now

    Nirvana - About a Girl

    David Bowie - Space Oddity

    There are lots of songs whose title is more of a statement of what the song is about / for. Some examples I can think of:

    Traditional song (many artists) - The Cowboy's Lament

    The Beatles - The Ballad of John and Yoko

    John Denver - Annie's Song

    Sinead O Connor - This is a Rebel Song - also one of my favourites

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  • #3
    Declan A Walsh
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    Another example from New Order that I really like is Bizarre Love Triangle. I will also add Gypsy by Suzanne Vega to the list.

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  • #4
    adaminho
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    Not sure which thread this falls under but Susan Vega's Toms Diner mentions a diner in the first verse but doesn't say Tom's.



  • #5
    Ceist_Beag
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    The Pogues - Fairytale of New York



  • #6
    Declan A Walsh
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124342501#Comment_124342501

    Technically that is an example as it did not mention the actual song title.

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  • #7
    littlevillage
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    The Who - Baba O'Riley

    (they really should have just called the song "Teenage wasteland")

    Rod Stewart - The killing of Georgie



  • #8
    magicbastarder
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    'What Godzilla Said To God When His Name Wasn't Found In The Book of Life' by American Music Club

    'Tom Traubert's Blues' by Tom Waits



  • #9
    adaminho
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    Lovesong for a Vampire - Annie Lennox

    Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground



  • #10
    The Princess Bride
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    The Unforgettable Fire, 40 and Bad by U2.

    Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.



  • #11
    Stripeyman
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    Lovesong - The Cure

    Lullaby- The Cure

    Lithium - Nirvana

    Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays

    Epic - Faith No More



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  • #12
    Declan A Walsh
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    Here is an example from Billy Joel that I like: Goodnight Saigon.

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  • #13
    BOSTIK
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    Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

    Gerry Rafferty - Shipyard Town

    Oasis - Columbia

    New Order - Age of Consent

    REM - Monty Got a Raw Deal

    Arcade Fire - Intervention



  • #14
    BOSTIK
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    Latin Quarter - Modern Times

    Depeche Mode - Any Second Now (Voices)

    Talking Heads - The Great Curve

    Stereophonics - Dakota



  • #15
    its_steve116
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    "Immigrant Song", Led Zeppelin.



  • #16
    Declan A Walsh
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    Another example that I really like: Paranoid Android by Radiohead.

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  • #17
    growleaves
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    "Mother Whale Eyeless" by Brian Eno

    Though it's referenced in the line:

    In the sea, there is a whale without any eyes



  • #18
    Mental Mickey
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    Paranoid - Black Sabbath



  • #19
    Declan A Walsh
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    German synthpop band Propaganda had some great songs in the 1980s, a number of which are examples for here: Dr. Mabuse, Duel and P:Machinery.

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  • #20
    Mike Litoris
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    Manic Street Preachers - Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart

    OK so that one's cheating a bit! :p

    Muse - Uprising

    UB40 - Food for Thought

    The Beatles - A day in the Life



  • #21
    HBC08
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    Came here to say Bad by U2 but someone beat me to it!

    Exit and Mothers Of The Dissappeared by U2 also.

    2 underrated classics from the Joshua Tree.



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  • #22
    Declan A Walsh
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    Some more superb songs…..

    Pink Floyd - High Hopes

    Joy Division - Decades

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  • #23
    Fanny Wank
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    Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.

    It does contain the lyric "Anarchy *for* the U.K." however

    R.E.M. - Tongue



  • #24
    waterfaerie
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124449410#Comment_124449410

    That reminds me of another REM one, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite.

    Lyrics mentions the sidewinder sleeping in a coil and on its back but nothing about tonight.

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  • #25
    adaminho
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    4 Non Blondes - What's Up.



  • #26
    Declan A Walsh
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    E=MC² by Big Audio Dynamite - by far their most famous song and for me their best, although I did like a few other songs by them.

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  • #27
    Benedict XVI
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124441848#Comment_124441848

    It gets close though.

    "I may be paranoid but I'm not an android"



  • #28
    Fanny Wank
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    Joy Division - Disorder



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