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Post by dukelightning on Sept 29, 2013 6:48:38 GMT -5
Stevie Wonder does it in his 1980 hit "Master Blaster" when 'Hotter Than July' is sung in the first verse IIRC. HTJ being the name of the album.
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Post by jlthorpe on Oct 2, 2013 20:29:18 GMT -5
Does "S&M" by Rihanna only have the title in the bridge? Because there's two parts where the title appears.
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Post by mytwocents on Oct 5, 2013 15:45:23 GMT -5
The recent discussion about songs containing their titles in the lyrics reminds me that back in the day, listening to AT40, I came across a fair number of songs where the title of their parent album appeared in their lyrics (without being the album's title track)! Right now, though, I can only think of three examples off the top of my head: Alanis Morissette did it three times: "You Learn" from Jagged Little Pill, "So Pure" from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and "Hands Clean" from Under Rug Swept all made CT40/AT40; all mentioned the title of their albums in their lyrics. Wow, I don't recall noticing any artist do it more than once! I think I would have smiled inwardly at the successive Alanis Morrissette songs climbing up the charts if I were still regularly listening to countdown shows between 1995 and 2002... Stevie Wonder does it in his 1980 hit "Master Blaster" when 'Hotter Than July' is sung in the first verse IIRC. HTJ being the name of the album. Yeah; name-dropping the album in the ode to Bob Marley! This might have been my baseline example of this phenomenon if I'd discovered AT40 before September 1981!... Meanwhile, I've dredged another example up from my memory... Bob Seger, "Even Now" ("out in the distance / always within reach / there's a crossroad / where all the victims meet") from the 1982 album "The Distance" I thought I'd had a second example, too, but during my quick fact-checking online research, I discovered that Culture Club's "Miss Me Blind" ("but you know I'm never really sure / if you're just kissing to be clever") is from their 1983 album "Colour By Numbers", not their 1982 album "Kissing To Be Clever"!!!...
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Post by freakyflybry on Oct 5, 2013 16:58:26 GMT -5
I thought I'd had a second example, too, but during my quick fact-checking online research, I discovered that Culture Club's "Miss Me Blind" ("but you know I'm never really sure / if you're just kissing to be clever") is from their 1983 album "Colour By Numbers", not their 1982 album "Kissing To Be Clever"!!!... Aerosmith did something similar; their song "Amazing" uses the phrase "permanent vacation" in the lyrics, but it's not even from that album! (it's from "Get A Grip")
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Post by Hervard on Jun 9, 2018 10:50:02 GMT -5
Bringing this topic back from the graveyard after nearly five years...
"Shanghai Breezes" by John Denver is another example. At the end of the choruses, Denver sings "the breezes here in old Shanghai", but the bridge is the only part where he sings the title ("Shanghai breezes, cool and clearing, evening's sweet caress/Shanghai breezes, soft and gentle, remind me of your tenderness").
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Post by tangibleanalogue on Jun 9, 2018 15:00:33 GMT -5
There is a Glen Ballard song called "The Places You Find Love" that has been recorded by Barbra Streisand and Quincy Jones. The title appears in the the lyric in the last line before the chorus starts, which is probably a refrain and not a bridge. But it's the only time I remember a title showing up in a song like that.
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Post by Hervard on Sept 8, 2019 11:38:10 GMT -5
"Lovelight In Flight" by Stevie Wonder
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 8, 2019 13:54:08 GMT -5
"The Hills" by The Weeknd
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