Top 40 hits containing the album title in their lyrics

[jlthorpe]

Someone posted about this in another thread once, so I decided to give it its own thread. Not counting title tracks, what Top 40 hits mention the name of the album they come from in the lyrics?

Starship's "Knee Deep in the Hoopla" was mentioned in "We Built This City".

Janet Jackson's "Control" was mentioned in "Nasty".

Vanilla Ice's "To the Extreme" was mentioned in "Ice Ice Baby".

Nirvana's "Nevermind" was mentioned in "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" was mentioned in "You Learn".

[beegee3]

Rick Springfield mentions "Working Class Dog" in "Love Is Alright Tonite"
And it's once removed, but Culture Club's "Miss Me Blind" mentions their previous album, "Kissing To Be Clever."

[jlthorpe]

Amy Grant's "Heart in Motion" was mentioned in "Baby Baby".

[beegee3]

Sade's "Smooth Operator" started with the album's title, "Diamond Life."

[jlthorpe]

Lady Gaga spells out the title of "Artpop" at the end of "Applause".

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From the old days, "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" by Simon & Garfunkel.

Also..."Nikita" by Elton John (Ice On Fire)

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And then there is the unusual case of Captain & Tenille paying tribute to the album containing the *original version* of the song in "Love Will Keep Us Together" (Sedaka's Back).

[beegee3]

Def Leppard mentioned "Pyromania" in their hit "Rock of Ages.

And the Breeders' "Cannonball" mentioned the album it came from, "Last Splash." (This might have been an AT40 hit. I remember it on Casy's Top 40.)

[johnnywest]

Capital Cities mention "In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery" in "Safe And Sound."

[mstgator]

From the 1998-2004 incarnation of AT40:

Alanis Morissette's hit "So Pure" managed to work in the album title "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie".

And the Nelly/P. Diddy/Murphy Lee hit "Shake Ya Tailfeather" included the unlikely shoutout "Bad Boys 2 the Soundtrack" in its intro.

[kchkwong]

"New York-London-Paris-Munich" was mentioned in Pop Muzik by M.

[dukelightning]

Jun 4, 2014 18:00:48 GMT -5 mstgator said:

From the 1998-2004 incarnation of AT40:

Alanis Morissette's hit "So Pure" managed to work in the album title "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie".

And the Nelly/P. Diddy/Murphy Lee hit "Shake Ya Tailfeather" included the unlikely shoutout "Bad Boys 2 the Soundtrack" in its intro.

Alanis also pulled that trick with her monster CD, 'Jagged Little Pill', with that title in the first verse of "You Learn". #1 on the CT40 from 8/10/96 that I heard today.

[johnnywest]

The album title that has Sheppard's "Geronimo" is "Bombs Away."

[mct1]

Straying off topic a little, here are a few examples where there is a song that did this, but it wasn't a Top 40 hit:

Van Halen -- Fair Warning -- phrase appears in the song "Mean Street".

Dire Straits -- Making Movies -- phrase appears in the song "Skateaway".

Steely Dan -- Katy Lied -- phrase appears in the song "Doctor Wu".

Pink Floyd -- The Dark Side Of The Moon -- phrase appears in the song "Brain Damage", which a lot of people erroneously think is called "The Dark Side Of The Moon".

U2's live albums Under A Blood Red Sky and Rattle And Hum are named for phrases that had previously appeared in the songs "New Year's Day" and "Bullet The Blue Sky", respectively.

Madonna's remix album You Can Dance shares its title with a phrase that had previously appeared in the song "Into The Groove".  I've always assumed that line of lyric was the inspiration for the album's title, but I don't that for a fact.

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And for a weirder example, Steely Dan's album title Can't Buy A Thrill comes from a Bob Dylan song.