Posted September 30, 201311 yr Seeing how the Faroese band Byrta has the song titled Byrta on their debut self-titled album sparked my interest about whether there are many cases of this. So does anyone know any artists that self-titled one of their albums AND one song on it?
September 30, 201311 yr 'The 1975' from 'The 1975' by The 1975 is the only other one that I can think of.
September 30, 201311 yr Seeing how the Faroese band Byrta has the song titled Byrta on their debut self-titled album sparked my interest about whether there are many cases of this. So does anyone know any artists that self-titled one of their albums AND one song on it? Visage
September 30, 201311 yr To help you out in a search, here is a list of top 75 singles where the artist & title are the same (any initial "The" is disregarded"). The list is not necessarily exhaustive. 21st Century Girls - 21st Century Girls Absolutely Fabulous - Absolutely Fabulous Adiemus - Adiemus Age Of Love - Age Of Love Ayla - Ayla Bel Amour - Bel Amour Black And White Army - Black And White Army Breakbeat Era - Breakbeat Era Calibre Cuts - Calibre Cuts Chairmen Of The Board - Chairmen Of The Board Colour Field - Colour Field Deep Forest - Deep Forest Deepest Blue - Deepest Blue Doop - Doop General Public - General Public Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Goodbye Mr Mackenzie Gouryella - Gouryella Hi Tension - Hi Tension Immaculate Fools - Immaculate Fools Jilted John - Jilted John Johnny Panic & The Bible Of Dreams - Johnny Panic & The Bible Of Dreams Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brothers Last Rhythm - Last Rhythm Latin Thing - Latin Thing LFO - LFO Liberation - Liberation Lionrock - Lionrock Living In A Box - Living In A Box Love City Groove - Love City Groove Mig 29 - Mig 29 Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby Mystery - Mystery Natural Life - Natural Life Oh Well - Oh Well Pink Grease - Pink Grease Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave Rich Kids - Rich Kids Schnappi - Schnappi School Of Rock - School Of Rock Small Ads - Small Ads Snoop Dogg - Snoop Dogg Star Turn On 45 (Pints) - Star Turn On 45 (Pints) Storm - Storm Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino Sundance - Sundance Superstar - Superstar Talk Talk - Talk Talk Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco Unity - Unity Vernons Wonderland - Vernons Wonderland Vicious Circles - Vicious Circles Visage - Visage Warrior - Warrior Whoosh - Whoosh Wigwam - Wigwam I'm sure some of these will feature on a self-titled album as well
September 30, 201311 yr Can I be the pedant who points out that the Jungle Brothers song is actually just called 'Jungle Brother' and that the Pink Grease song was, bafflingy, called 'The Pink G.R.Ease'? Neither of those was from a self-titled album anyway; I can think of quite a few others in the list that aren't (or were never on albums at all), though I'm not sure I should bore you with all of them. It does remind me that, as I think somebody mentioned here not long ago, Midge Ure was a member of both Visage and Rich Kids, who both had eponymous hit singles - but the Rich Kids album was called Ghosts Of Princes in Towers, so he doesn't get the triple. I believe They Might Be Giants had an eponymous album and an eponymous song, but separately.
September 30, 201311 yr No apologies for pedantry needed, if it helps improve the quality of the data in my system, it is positively welcomed. Jungle Brothers fixed - I had the original entry down as Jungle Brother and the re-entry as Jungle Brothers, now merged to the former. Pink Grease is a more iffy one - the credit on the Top 75 chart for that week in Musicweek shows it as The Pink Grease without any superflouous formatting, so I think I'll leave that one for now. I agree with you on the They Might Be Giants, the song of the same name is on the rather excellent "Flood" album Furthermore on the Midge Ure theme, he was of course also a member of Slik, who had a self-titled album but not a self-titled single. Edited September 30, 201311 yr by fchd
September 30, 201311 yr It's clearly 'PINK G.R.EASE' on the single artwork: http://chartarchive.org/artwork/20427-raw.jpg and it does seem to be listed as such on the album too (which is called This Is For Real, BTW) but I suppose it is intentionally ambiguous.
October 1, 201311 yr No apologies for pedantry needed, if it helps improve the quality of the data in my system, it is positively welcomed. Jungle Brothers fixed - I had the original entry down as Jungle Brother and the re-entry as Jungle Brothers, now merged to the former. Pink Grease is a more iffy one - the credit on the Top 75 chart for that week in Musicweek shows it as The Pink Grease without any superflouous formatting, so I think I'll leave that one for now. I agree with you on the They Might Be Giants, the song of the same name is on the rather excellent "Flood" album Furthermore on the Midge Ure theme, he was of course also a member of Slik, who had a self-titled album but not a self-titled single. Then he spoilt it by not naming any of his solo albums Midge Ure. The closest he got was with Pure.
October 1, 201311 yr And of course if anyone's wondering, the "Ultravox!" album (and the band had the exclamation mark at the end of their name at the time) was before Midge joined that band. Edited October 1, 201311 yr by fchd
October 1, 201311 yr Train's first album (in 1998!) was called "Train" and had a song called Train on it :)
October 2, 201311 yr The only one I can think of where Artist name = album title = song title, is 'Deep Forest' by 'Deep Forest' from their album (you guessed it) 'Deep Forest'.
October 3, 201311 yr Seether just released a cover of the song 'Seether' by Veruca Salt. It's the song they named the band after, and it's the lead single from Seether's forthcoming greatest hits 'Seether: 2002-2013'...close enough, right? :)
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