40 Songs That Aren’t on the Albums They Were Named After

Listed here are 40 songs that are not on the albums they had been named after.

Again earlier than artists started taking albums extra severely than as mere collections of their newest singles plus some record-filling cowl songs, their LP titles did not overthink the method. Usually titled after a giant single (Please Please Me) or with the artist’s identify prominently on show (With the Beatles), it wasn’t till the album format turned an artwork kind that LP titles acquired extra inventive, whether or not to replicate the contents or to position the file inside a conceptual framework.

However because the beneath record of 40 Songs That Aren’t on the Albums They Had been Named After reveals, generally an awesome title or title observe would not make the ultimate lower.

After all, not all LP titles have a companion tune; we’re nonetheless ready for Fiona Apple’s “When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King/What He Is aware of Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Combat/And He’ll Win the Complete Factor ‘Fore He Enters the Ring/There’s No Physique to Batter When Your Thoughts Is Your Would possibly/So When You Go Solo, You Maintain Your Personal Hand/And Keep in mind That Depth Is the Biggest of Heights/And if You Know The place You Stand, Then You Know The place to Land/And if You Fall It Will not Matter, Cuz You will Know That You are Proper” to floor.

By no means ones to go away an awesome title or title observe unheard, although, artists over the many years have resurrected shelved songs – lower for one purpose or one other, whether or not for area or as a result of it did not match an LP’s theme – for later initiatives: B-sides, subsequent albums, later albums and even bonus tracks on reissues or expanded editions of the albums they had been omitted from within the first place.

AC/DC, “Excessive Voltage”

When AC/DC’s debut album, Excessive Voltage, was launched of their native Australia in 1975, the title observe wasn’t among the many eight songs included. However a yr later, when their first worldwide LP, additionally referred to as Excessive Voltage, got here out, the observe itemizing appeared completely different. The 1976 version contained 9 songs: a condensation of their first two Australian information, together with “Excessive Voltage,” first launched on the Aussie-only T.N.T.

 

AC/DC, “If You Need Blood (You have Received It)”

A small grammatical alteration distinguishes AC/DC’s 1979 Freeway to Hell tune “If You Need Blood (You have Received It)” from the same-named reside album (no parentheses) from the yr earlier than. The live performance set helped set up the band outdoors of Australia, however their sixth studio album was the file that broke them, particularly within the States, the place they cracked the High 20 for the primary time. Singer Bon Scott died seven months later.

 

Beck, “One Foot within the Grave”

Three months after his major-label debut Mellow Gold and the single “Loser” pushed 23-year-old Beck into public consciousness, an indie label issued an album recorded earlier than his breakthrough LP. One Foot within the Grave is relatively scaled again from Mellow Gold‘s bag of studio methods, its 16 songs a lower from the 25 on Stereopathetic Soulmanure, Gold’s predecessor that features the tune “One Foot within the Grave.”

 

Bee Gees, “Cucumber Fort”

In mid-1969, Robin Gibb left his brothers Barry and Maurice to work on their seventh Bee Gees album with out him. Down a singer and songwriter, the 2 remaining Gibbs constructed Cucumber Fort for a TV particular that aired in 1970. By then, Robin had returned, however the album was, on the time, their lowest charting within the U.S. and U.Okay. Curiously, the tune “Cucumber Fort” surfaced years earlier than on their first LP.

 

Huge Nation, “The Crossing”

Scottish band Huge Nation struck gold in 1983 with their debut album The Crossing, which benefited from radio assist and MTV airplay of “In a Huge Nation.” Bandleader Stuart Adamson, guitarist Bruce Watson and producer Steve Lillywhite tweaked results pedals to imitate bagpipes, a key component to their sound. The epic title observe, operating seven minutes, was reserved for the Wonderland EP launched in 1984.

 

Blind Melon, “Soup”

Blind Melon’s 1992 debut turned a shock hit due to the success of “No Rain,” a people/psychedelic/alt-rock hybrid remembered for its “Bee Woman” video. Their second LP, Soup, launched three years later, had no such luck. Singer Shannon Hoon’s drug-related dying two months later stalled the band’s momentum. In 1996 they gathered leftovers for the Nico compilation, which included “Soup,” left off their second album.

 

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, “Protected as Milk”

Protected as Milk, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s 1967 debut, did not stray removed from the blues-based storage rock that outlined their cowl of Bo Diddley’s “Diddy Wah Diddy.” However traces of the psychedelia and avant-garde experimentalism of their later work had been already creeping inward. Protected as Milk‘s title tune was slated for an deserted double LP, It Involves You in a Plain Brown Wrapper, later streamlined as Strictly Private.

 

Julian Cope, “World Shut Your Mouth”

The Teardrop Explodes frontman Julian Cope introduced his solo profession in 1984 with the World Shut Your Mouth album, a continuation of the psych-pop he performed along with his former band. It might take two extra years earlier than he recorded a tune with that title for his third LP, Saint Julian. It was definitely worth the wait: “World Shut Your Mouth” was Cope’s greatest hit, making the High 20 in his native U.Okay. and gracing the U.S. charts.

 

Elvis Costello, “Imperial Bed room”

One yr earlier than “Imperial Bed room” the tune was left off Imperial Bed room the album, Elvis Costello carried out an identical trick with Nearly Blue. However “Imperial Bed room” wasn’t an outtake from the 1982 art-rock LP; it is not even credited to Costello and the Sights. As an alternative, the tune – initially discovered on the B-side of the Imperial Bed room single “Man Out of Time” – is attributed to Napoleon Dynamite & the Royal Guard.

 

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Elvis Costello & the Sights, “Nearly Blue”

Elvis Costello entered the ’80s with a brand new dedication to not repeat himself. 1980’s R&B throwback Get Comfortable!! was adopted a yr later with the nation tribute Nearly Blue, consisting of songs from the ’50s by the ’70s. There was no tune named “Nearly Blue” on there, however the next yr’s baroque pop masterpiece Imperial Bed room features a tune by that identify, a Chet Baker-influenced jazz temper piece.

 

Counting Crows, “August and Every thing After”

Counting Crows got here out of nowhere in 1993 with their intriguingly named debut album August and Every thing After. The lyrics for a tune with that identify are scrawled on the LP’s entrance cowl, however it is not amongst the 11 tracks contained inside. It isn’t included in a 2007 reissue both. The band debuted “August and Every thing After” onstage within the mid-’00s; in 2019, the almost 10-minute tune lastly surfaced on streaming providers.

 

Tradition Membership, “Color by Numbers”

Tradition Membership wasted little time delivering new music to their followers. After “Do You Actually Wish to Damage Me” hit No. 1 within the U.Okay. in 1982, a number of singles (with non-LP flips) and two albums had been launched by the top of the next yr. Color by Numbers topped the chart of their residence nation and reached No. 2 within the States, thanks to 5 hit singles. The album’s title observe, MIA on the LP, surfaced because the B-side to “Victims.”

 

Def Leppard, “On By way of the Night time”

Def Leppard’s debut album – 1980’s On By way of the Night time – rode in with the New Wave of British Heavy Metallic earlier than they was one of many decade’s greatest bands after streamlining their music. The 1981 follow-up LP, Excessive ‘n’ Dry, is extra of the identical, with new producer Robert John “Mutt” Lang inching them towards pop chart success. “On By way of the Night time,” named after their first album, retains the sooner LP’s rock muscle.

 

Dokken, “Again for the Assault”

This one will get a bit complicated. In 1985 Dokken recorded a tune referred to as “Again for the Assault” in the course of the classes for his or her third album, Underneath Lock and Key. The observe was shelved however resurfaced two years later as a part of the “Dream Warriors” single, from the A Nightmare on Elm Road 3: Dream Warriors soundtrack. The subsequent yr, the Los Angeles steel band launched their fourth album referred to as – prepared? – Again for the Assault.

 

The Doorways, “Ready for the Solar”

An early instance of an artist holding again the title tune of certainly one of their albums for later work, the Doorways’ third album, and their solely No. 1, 1968’s Ready for the Solar, did not embrace a observe with that identify amongst its 11 choices. Two years later, “Ready for the Solar,” the tune, appeared on the band’s fifth album, the back-to-basics Morrison Resort, launched seven months after the experimental soft-rock of The Smooth Parade.

 

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, “Mind Salad Surgical procedure”

1973’s Mind Salad Surgical procedure is usually thought to be certainly one of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s best albums, however followers needed to wait 4 years to listen to the unreleased title tune that was recorded in the course of the LP’s classes. It first confirmed up because the B-side to the trio’s prog replace of Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Widespread Man” single; later in 1977 it appeared on ELP’s group-album-but-not-really assortment Works Quantity 2.

 

Foo Fighters, “The Color and the Form”

Recording with a band for the primary time – Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut was a Dave Grohl solo file – the previous Nirvana drummer had a stockpile of leftover songs for his group’s second album. Even at 13 songs deep, The Color and the Form left off the title observe, which first surfaced as a bonus observe on the “Monkey Wrench” single. The observe additionally appeared on the Tenth-anniversary version of the album that shares its identify.

 

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Mild Large, “The Energy and the Glory”

Like many prog albums of the interval, Mild Large’s sixth, 1974’s The Energy and the Glory, is a free idea file. Even so, its eight tracks are comparatively lean, averaging lower than 5 minutes every. Nonetheless, its lasting affect will be traced to rapper Travis Scott’s No. 1 2023 LP Utopia, which samples Energy‘s opening “Proclamation.” The LP’s title tune, nevertheless, was launched as a stand-alone single across the similar time.

 

Guided by Voices, “Bee Thousand”

DIY revolving-door indie band Guided by Voices launched a nine-minute EP in 1993 referred to as The Grand Hour. Amongst its six songs are “Bee Thousand” and “Alien Lanes,” each of which had been granted second lives because the titles of two of the prolific band’s finest albums, from 1994 and 1995, respectively. Even with 20 tracks, the career-best Bee Thousand passed over the tune that gave the album its title.

 

Daryl Corridor & John Oates, “Larger Than Each of Us”

1976’s Larger Than Each of Us gave Daryl Corridor and John Oates their first No. 1 with “Wealthy Woman.” Seven months after the discharge of the LP they returned with their sixth album, Magnificence on a Again Road, which did not yield a High 40 hit. (The album hit the High 30, although.) However it did embrace the tune “Larger Than Each of Us,” a soulful slice of precision pop that will have effortlessly match onto any of the duo’s ’70s albums.

 

PJ Harvey, “Dry”

PJ Harvey’s 1992 debut Dry arrived nearly absolutely shaped, the interaction amongst bassist Steve Vaughan, drummer Rob Ellis and the guitar-wielding singer and songwriter calling the photographs zeroing in on a post-rock, various blues. Tracks similar to “Gown” and “Sheela-Na-Gig” sparked an electrical new voice, however it wasn’t till the follow-up LP in 1993, the extra abrasive Rid of Me, that the tune “Dry” discovered a spot in her canon.

 

Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, “Queen Elvis”

Years, and 6 albums, as a left-of-center cult artist lastly paid off for Robyn Hitchcock in 1989, who had a Fashionable Rock radio hit with “Madonna of the Wasps.” A lot of the remainder of Queen Elvis is almost as accessible, discovering crossover attraction in alt-rock’s rising affect. The title observe, nevertheless, did not seem till 1990’s Eye, a solo acoustic file made with out his backing band the Egyptians.

 

Iron Butterfly, “Scorching Magnificence”

4 years after they broke up, drummer Ron Bushy reunited with guitarist Erik Brann (who left after Iron Butterfly’s third album) for the group’s fifth LP in 1975. Scorching Magnificence stalled at No. 138, however that did not cease them from releasing one other file 9 months later. Solar and Metal did not chart altogether and turned out to be Iron Butterfly’s final album. Included: “Scorching Magnificence,” a tune left off the earlier LP.

 

The Jayhawks, “Tomorrow the Inexperienced Grass”

Minneapolis-based alt-country group the Jayhawks lastly cracked the charts with their third LP, 1992’s Hollywood City Corridor. Their subsequent album, 1995’s Tomorrow the Inexperienced Grass, gave them their highest-charting file thus far. It was additionally the final album to incorporate singer, songwriter and cofounder Mark Olson. The guitar-heavy sing-along title tune was left off the album however confirmed up as a observe on the “Blue” single.

 

The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Psychocandy”

The Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1985 debut, Psychocandy, instantly discovered an viewers with its distorted noise rock tethered to traditional ’60s melodies. The album helped spur a motion in Eighties U.Okay. indie rock, ultimately setting the template for shoegaze over the following decade. The LP’s title observe – barely altered to “Psycho Sweet” – first appeared on the Some Speaking EP and in a while the B-sides assortment Barbed Wire Kisses.

 

Led Zeppelin, “Homes of the Holy”

The king of lacking title tracks, “Homes of the Holy” was first the identify of Led Zeppelin’s fifth album, however the tune, recorded for the LP however left off, did not seem till the following file, Bodily Graffiti. Like “The Rover” and “Black Nation Girl” – different outcasts from Homes of the Holy – the tune joined with different Zeppelin outtakes and a few newly recorded songs for the band’s 1975 double-album chart-topper.

 

The Mars Volta, “Frances the Mute”

The Mars Volta’s second LP is full of sometimes complicated and time-stretching songs by the new-school prog rockers. Although Frances the Mute contains solely 5 tracks, they clock in at greater than 75 minutes, with not a lot room left for any outcasts labored on in the course of the classes. The epic title tune, which runs almost quarter-hour, was one of many left-off casualties. It later appeared as a bonus lower on the LP’s Japanese version.

 

The Moms of Invention, “Completely Free”

The Moms of Invention’s first three albums – Freak Out!, Completely Free and We’re Solely in It for the Cash – nearly hyperlink collectively as a single piece, unified of their defiant spirit and takedowns of Summer season of Love vacancy. Frank Zappa’s avant-garde music pushes in opposition to the conventions of psychedelia – “Completely Free” is a first-rate instance: We’re Solely In It for the Cash spotlight shares its identify with the band’s earlier album.

 

Alan Parsons, “The Secret”

In 2019, Alan Parsons launched his fifth solo album (after years of fronting the Alan Parsons Venture) with assist from unique Foreigner singer Lou Gramm, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett and ’00s singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. What The Secret did not have was the title tune – new-century prog-rock with a lean towards pop – which was held over for Parsons’ subsequent file, 2022’s From the New World.

 

Primal Scream, “Screamadelica”

Primal Scream’s Screamadelica is a landmark file in early ’90s acid-house-influenced various rock. However good luck discovering its title tune on the 1991 launch. As an alternative, search for it on the Dixie-Narco EP launched a yr later to advertise the album observe “Movin’ On Up.” (The later file additionally features a cowl of the Seaside Boys’ “Carry Me Residence.”) The almost 11-minute “Screamadelica” sounds like a chunk with the LP.

 

Public Picture Ltd., “Comfortable”

Public Picture Ltd.’s sixth album, 1987’s Comfortable?, coyly references chief John Lydon’s plastered-on sneer and distress, ever-present traits courting to his Intercourse Pistols days. Its opening tune “Seattle” was a dance membership favourite later that yr. When the band returned two years later with 9 (confusingly, their seventh studio LP), the lead observe shared a title with PiL’s earlier album – sans query mark, although.

 

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Queen, “Sheer Coronary heart Assault”

Queen was beginning to develop their signature sound extra sharply on their third album, 1974’s Sheer Coronary heart Assault. “Killer Queen” and “Now I am Right here” are a launchpad for the international success of their subsequent album, A Night time on the Opera. However followers must wait one other three years for the tune “Sheer Coronary heart Assault” to look on Information of the World, rerecorded by the band after it was shelved from the 1974 classes.

 

The Smashing Pumpkins, “Siamese Dream”

At 62 minutes, the Smashing Pumpkins’ breakthrough 1993 album, Siamese Dream, may have made time for the title tune, however as an alternative, the observe – like a number of others recorded for the LP – ended up as a single B-side. A 7″ single for “Disarm” launched in early 1994 was the primary to embrace “Siamese Dream,” which later appeared on some Smashing Pumpkins compilations and the album’s 2011 three-disc reissue.

 

Elliott Smith: “Determine 8”

Singer-songwriter Elliott Smith’s fifth album dived additional into the chamber pop mapped out on predecessor XO in 1998. The minute-and-a-half-long “Determine 8” – written by Bob Dorough for the Schoolhouse Rock sequence – was left off the 2000 LP of the identical identify, maybe as a result of of its minimalist instrumentation and hazy vocals that recall a demo nonetheless within the sketch stage. Discover it within the deluxe version of the album.

 

The Smithereens, “Particularly for You”

New Jersey power-pop purveyors the Smithereens arrived as school rock was making inroads into the mainstream in the course of the mid-’80s. Their 1986 debut album, Particularly for You, contains radio staples “Blood and Roses,” “Behind the Wall of Sleep” and “In a Lonely Place.” What it would not have is “Particularly for You,” which ended up on their subsequent LP, 1988’s Inexperienced Ideas, because the Aspect One nearer.

 

Speak Speak / Mark Hollis, “The Color of Spring”

Speak Speak traded their synth-pop success for one thing extra progressive and fewer chart-friendly on their third album, The Color of Spring, a religious ancestor to Radiohead’s mid-’90s makeover from 1986. After two extra LPs, frontman Mark Hollis broke up the group and began a solo profession, which resulted in only one album earlier than his 2019 dying: an eponymous 1998 LP. The opening lower? The career-linking “The Color of Spring.”

 

Tv, “Journey”

Tv made two albums earlier than taking a 14-year hiatus damaged by their third and remaining self-titled LP in 1992. Whereas 1977’s debut Marquee Moon is the band’s undisputed masterpiece, the following yr’s Journey comes from an identical place carved from traditional rock and new wave. The album’s title observe, a five-and-a-half-minute shuffle that includes a climaxing guitar solo, sat unreleased on the shelf earlier than a 2003 reissue resurrected it.

 

They Would possibly Be Giants, “They Would possibly Be Giants”

Brooklyn geek-rock duo They Would possibly Be Giants named their 1986 debut album They Would possibly Be Giants. Nineteen songs lengthy, the LP included their first school radio hit “Do not Let’s Begin” and fan favorites “Put Your Hand Contained in the Puppet Head” and “(She Was a) Resort Detective.” What it did not embrace was a tune referred to as “They Would possibly Be Giants.” That must wait for his or her third album and major-label debut, Flood.

 

Tom Waits, “Frank’s Wild Years”

After seven albums as a scat-talking, beat-influenced boho, Tom Waits turned his consideration to extra summary work with 1983’s Swordfishtrombones. The transient, not-even-two-minute “Frank’s Wild Years” looks like a carryover from his previous – a spoken-word narrative atop a hip jazzy rhythm. 4 years later, Frank reappeared (with out apostrophe this time) as an idea album impressed by the sooner tune.

 

Neil Younger, “Journey By way of the Previous”

9 months after Neil Younger lodged his solely No. 1, Harvest, in 1972, a double LP named Journey By way of the Previous – a soundtrack to a little-seen movie – arrived with reside songs, TV performances and outtakes from 1966 by 1971. Among the many recordings are Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger songs. However the title observe, a Harvest outtake, sat on the shelf till the Archives nearly 4 many years later.