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

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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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

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

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.

The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124342501#Comment_124342501

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

The Who - Baba O'Riley

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

Rod Stewart - The killing of Georgie

'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

Lovesong for a Vampire - Annie Lennox

Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground

The Princess Bride

The Unforgettable Fire, 40 and Bad by U2.

Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.

Lovesong - The Cure

Lullaby- The Cure

Lithium - Nirvana

Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays

Epic - Faith No More

Here is an example from Billy Joel that I like: Goodnight Saigon.

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

Latin Quarter - Modern Times

Depeche Mode - Any Second Now (Voices)

Talking Heads - The Great Curve

Stereophonics - Dakota

"Immigrant Song", Led Zeppelin.

Another example that I really like: Paranoid Android by Radiohead.

"Mother Whale Eyeless" by Brian Eno

Though it's referenced in the line:

In the sea, there is a whale without any eyes

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

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.

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

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.

Some more superb songs…..

Pink Floyd - High Hopes

Joy Division - Decades

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.

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

R.E.M. - Tongue

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.

4 Non Blondes - What's Up.

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.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124441848#Comment_124441848

It gets close though.

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

Joy Division - Disorder