History IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming / Music

* Music/{{Emery}}'s album ''The Question'' has the back cover provide the first part of the titular question ("Where were you when I was...") and the track titles form the second part (e.g. "So Cold I Could See My Breath", "Listening to Freddie Mercury", "In a Lose, Lose Situation").

* For his first three albums, Pete Yorn used titles referring to a time of the day: ''Musicforthemorningafter'', ''Day I Forgot'', and ''Nightcrawler''.

** The CD version of the double album ''Music/TheFragile1999'' by Music/NineInchNails has a "Left" disc and a "Right" disc rather than disc one and disc two-- the titles refer to where each disc is oriented when you open the digipak.

** The original UK release of Music/TheFallBand's ''The Wonderful and Frightening World of...'' subtitles Side 1 as the "Frightening" side and Side 2 as the "Wonderful" side. The subtitles seem to suggest a [[DistinctDoubleAlbum distinct single album]], with the A-Side being more PunkRock and GarageRock influenced, and the B-Side being relatively softer and more melodic.

* Music/{{Fantomas}}' self-titled album identifies tracks by page numbers: "Book 1: Page 1", "Book 1: Page 2", etc... However, on ''Millenium Monsterwork 2000'', a live album by Fantômas {{Music/Melvins}} Big Band, songs from that album were given totally different titles, maybe because the original ones were too hard to keep straight when it came to devising set-lists for a live performance. ''Suspended Animation'' titles songs after a date in April of 2005 followed by one or more holidays or observances held on that day in various parts of the world, for instance "04/02/05 International Children's Book Day (USA) Battle Of The Flowers (France) National Peanut Butter And Jelly Day (USA)"; A limited edition version of the CD runs with this by making the packaging an actual daily calendar for April 2005.

** Music/{{Belly}} use four letter nouns for album titles - ''Star'', ''King'' and ''Dove''.

** Creator/FactoryRecords' 1978 sampler double EP ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A Factory Sampler]]'' decides to take a JustForPun angle, labeling each side "Aside", "Beside", "Seaside", and "Decide".

* Music/{{Queen|Band}} named two consecutive albums after Creator/MarxBrothers films: ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'' and ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''.

* The 1995 album ''Made In England'' by Music/EltonJohn entirely contains songs with one-word titles, except for the title song. (Tracklisting: "Believe", "Made In England", "House", "Cold" "Pain", "Belfast", "Latitude", "Please", "Man", "Lies", "Blessed")

* Music/HundredGecs: The titles of most of the releases by the duo are a multiple of 100 followed by gecs, with their first EP being a SelfTitledAlbum, their first studio album being "1000 gecs", and "10,000 gecs" being the second one.
* The score for ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is titled idiosyncratically: the first track, ''Vespertilio'', is the Latin word for bat, and the other titles are all scientific names for different genera of bat. This is not the case for ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s music; however, many of the track titles are either taken from lines of dialogue in the film, or a slight variation on them: "I'm Not A Hero", "Blood On My Hands", "And I Thought My Jokes Were Bad", "Like A Dog Chasing Cars"; etc. However, it's noteworthy that the lines of dialogue spoken do not correspond to the scenes in which the music plays. For example, "Like A Dog Chasing Cars", an energetic treatment of one of the main themes, is not played over the scene where the line is spoken, which is a quiet conversation with the Joker. In fact, it's not even played over any of the scenes involving high-speed vehicular chases, which mostly go without score.

* Music/DannyElfman has written a cue called "Weepy Donuts" for every Gus Van Sant film he's scored.

** Their next album, 2011's ''All Eternals Deck," also conforms to this trope: all its songs have three-word titles.

* Progressive Doom Metal band, Madder Mortem, use their name as an acronym for the titles of their albums: M - Mercury, A - All Flesh is Grass, D - Deadlands, D - Desiderata...

* Asia's studio albums were all named with a word beginning and ending with "a" up until the eighth one, ''Rare''.

* Boys Night Out's Trainwreck album had all its songs named (verb)-ing such as 'Dreaming', 'Waking', 'Medicating' etc.

* Music/{{BROCKHAMPTON}}'s first three albums all have similar title structures for each album. Every song title on ''SATURATION'' is four letters long (''HEAT'', ''GOLD'', ''STAR'') except for the final track, ''WASTE''. Every song on ''SATURATION II'' is five letters (''GUMMY'', ''QUEER'', ''JELLO'') except for the final track, ''SUMMER'', and ''SATURATION III'' finishes it off with six letter titles (''BOOGIE'', ''ZIPPER'', ''JOHNNY''), except for the final track, ''TEAM''. The four letter title of the final track on the final installment of the ''SATURATION'' trilogy calls back to the song titles on the first ''SATURATION'', representing a cycle of sorts.

** ''Every song'' in Richard's discography from ''Music/{{Syro}}'' onward features unusual titles presumed to be the original file names for the tracks, like ""4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26]" and "[=DISKPREPT1=]". Very few of them use proper capitalization, opting instead for titles with AllLowercaseLetters or all caps.

* Punk band SNFU makes sure each of their album titles has exactly seven words. They currently have eight studio albums, one live album and one compilation album, starting with 1986's "...And No One Else Wanted to Play" through 2013's "Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You". The sole exception being the 1996 album [[InitialismTitle FYULABA]], which instead had seven letters, [[ExecutiveMeddling because they were not allowed to use the original title]], which according to the band stood for "Fuck You Up Like A Bad Accident".
* All the song titles on German singer Annett Louisan's debut album ''Boheme'' follow the pattern (article/noun) - ''Das Spiel'' (the game), ''Das Gefühl'' (the feeling) etc., with the [[OddNameOut sole exception]] of ''Daddy''.

** Belly use four letter nouns for album titles - ''Star'', ''King'' and ''Dove''.
* Of Montreal's demo collection ''The Early Four Track Recordings'': Evidently none of the songs were given proper titles when they were recorded, so the track listing consists of [[NonAppearingTitle non-appearing titles]] that form a surreal story about the misadventures of Dustin Hoffman ("Dustin Hoffman Does Not Resist Temptation to Eat the Bathtub," "Dustin Hoffman's Wife Comes Home", "Dustin Hoffman's Wife Seems Suspicious About the Absent Bathtub", etc).

** The CD version of the double album ''The Fragile'' by Music/NineInchNails has a "Left" disc and a "Right" disc rather than disc one and disc two-- the titles refer to where each disc is oriented when you open the digipak.

* Uk Subs albums follow an alphabetical pattern. Observe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uk_subs#Albums

* Thus far power pop band The Cab has named them albums with names that have the first word related to sound and the second to warfare: "Whisper War" and "Symphony Soldier".

* All of the tracks on Miles Davis' album "Aura" (except for the first track, Intro) are named after colors: White, Yellow, Orange, Red, Green, Blue, Electric Red, Indigo, and Violet.

* All of hip-hop duo [=EPMD=]'s albums contain the word "Business". So far it's ''Strictly Business'', ''Unfinished Business'', ''Business as Usual'', ''Business Never Personal'', ''Back in Business'', ''Out of Business'', and ''We Mean Business''.

* Sander van Doorn's ''Eleve11'' is named after 2011, the year of its release.
* Music/{{Blink 182}} ''started'' to do this, but then stopped for some reason - Buddha, Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch, Enema Of The State.
** However up until their album Neighborhoods featured what would be the following letter on the album art instead. (the album after enema featured an F, the album after that featured a G on the art etc.)

* Each EP by French Synthpop artist Danger is named after a date (e.g., 9/14/2007, 9/16/2007) and each track named after a specific time (e.g., 11h30, 07:46)

* Fantômas' self-titled album identifies tracks by page numbers: "Book 1: Page 1", "Book 1: Page 2", etc... However, on ''Millenium Monsterwork 2000'', a live album by Fantômas {{Music/Melvins}} Big Band, songs from that album were given totally different titles, maybe because the original ones were too hard to keep straight when it came to devising set-lists for a live performance. ''Suspended Animation'' titles songs after a date in April of 2005 followed by one or more holidays or observances held on that day in various parts of the world, for instance "04/02/05 International Children's Book Day (USA) Battle Of The Flowers (France) National Peanut Butter And Jelly Day (USA)"; A limited edition version of the CD runs with this by making the packaging an actual daily calendar for April 2005.

* Music/EdSheeran's solo studio albums are all named after mathematic symbols: ''+'' (pronounced "plus"), ''×'' (pronounced "multiply"), ''÷'' (pronounced "divide"), and ''='' (pronounced "equals"). His 2019 album ''No.6 Collaborations Project'' breaks this convention, however.

* All six songs on Botch's EP ''An Anthology of Dead Ends'' are named after countries, but with "n" replaced with "m" - for example the first three tracks are "Spaim", "Japam", and "Framce".

** At first, the only theming on ''Wars and Rumors of Wars'' seems to be that some track titles have punctuation attached to them ("Evolve:", "Impress."). But take the first and last letters from each title, and you get

* Japanese BlackMetal band Sigh do this with their major releases. Each one begins with one of the letters of the band's name, in order: '''S'''corn Defeat, '''I'''nfidel Art, '''G'''hastly Funeral Theatre, '''H'''ail Horror Hail, '''S'''cenario [=IV=]: Dead Dreams, '''I'''maginary Sonicscape, '''G'''allows Gallery, '''H'''angman's Hymn, '''S'''cenes from Hell, '''I'''n Somniphobia, '''G'''raveward.

* The first three Music/CoheedAndCambria albums' names corresponded to the album's place in the mythos: ''Second'' Stage Turbine Blade; In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth ''3''; Good Apollo I'm Burning Star ''IV'', Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. The fourth album's full name follows this trend (Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World for tomorrow), but the newest, Year of the Black Rainbow, (a prequel) [[OddNameOut Subverts this completely]]. It should be noted, however, that the first track on the album is entitled "One".

* Music/GoodKid's [=EPs=] are ''Good Kid'', ''Good Kid 2'', and ''Good Kid 3''.

** Merritt also claims the albums ''Distortion'' and ''Realism,'' both released in the same year, were named after the [[HellIsThatNoise elements]] [[NewSoundAlbum of each]] that he anticipated fans were likely to complain about.

* Starting in 2019, Music/FooFighters released a series of "Foo Files", digital compilation [=EPs=] marking the band's 25th anniversary and consisting of various {{B Side}}s, live recordings, and other rarities: Each EP has IdiosyncraticCoverArt looking like a drawer of a filing cabinet, and is [[TitleByNumber titled with an eight digit series of numbers]]. The numbers refer to the year or years the material was recorded, and all end in 25, as in the aforementioned anniversary: e.g. ''009500025'' consists of two live songs performed at the Reading Festival in England in 1995, and one performed in Melbourne, Australia in 2000. A few of the [=EPs=] are full live sets and have subtitles indicating a location (though for consistency's sake the actual cover art still only uses the numbers), e.g. ''00070725 Live at Studio 606'' is a 2007 live in-studio performance at the band's own studio, Studio 606.

* Starting in 2019, Music/FooFighters released a series of "Foo Files", digital compilation [=EPs=] marking the band's 25th anniversary and consisting of various {{B Side}}s, live recordings, and other rarities: Each EP has IdiosyncraticCoverArt looking like a drawer of a filing cabinet, and is [[TitleByNumber titled with an eight digit series of numbers]]. The numbers refer to the year or years the material was recorded, and all end in 25, as in the aforementioned anniversary: e.g. ''009500025'' consists of two live songs performed at the Reading Festival in England in 1995, and one performed in Melbourne, Australia in 2000. A few of the [=EPs=] are full live sets and have subtitles naming a location (though for consistency the actual cover art still only uses the numbers), e.g. ''00070725 Live at Studio 606'' is a 2007 live in-studio performance at the band's own studio, Studio 606.

* Starting in 2019, Music/FooFighters released a series of "Foo Files", digital compilation [=EPs=] marking the band's 25th anniversary and consisting of various {{B Side}}s, live material, and other rarities: Each EP has IdiosyncraticCoverArt looking like a drawer of a filing cabinet, and is [[TitleByNumber titled with an eight digit series of numbers]]. The numbers refer to the year or years the material was recorded, and all end in 25, as in the aforementioned anniversary: e.g. ''009500025'' consists of two live songs performed at the Reading Festival in England in 1995, and one performed in Melbourne, Australia in 2000. A few of the [=EPs=] are full live sets and have subtitles naming a location (though for consistency the actual cover art still only uses the numbers), e.g. ''00070725 Live at Studio 606'' is a 2007 live in-studio performance at the band's own studio, Studio 606.

* Starting in 2019, Music/FooFighters released a series of digital compilation [=EPs=] to mark the band's 25th anniversary, consisting of various {{B Side}}s, live material, and other rarities: Each EP has IdiosyncraticCoverArt looking like a drawer of a filing cabinet, and is [[TitleByNumber titled with an eight digit series of numbers]]. The numbers refer to the year or years the material was recorded, and all end in 25, as in the aforementioned anniversary: e.g. ''009500025'' consists of two live songs performed at the Reading Festival in England in 1995, and one performed in Melbourne, Australia in 2000. A few of the [=EPs=] are full live sets and have subtitles naming a location (though for consistency the actual cover art still only uses the numbers), e.g. ''00070725 Live at Studio 606'' is a 2007 live in-studio performance at the band's own studio, Studio 606.

* All six songs on Botch's EP ''An Anthology of Dead Ends'' are named after countries, but with "n" replaced with "m" - for example the first three tracks are "Spaim", "Japam", and "Framce".

** Music/BlueOysterCult's ''Tyranny and Mutation'' contains the song "The Red and the Black". The sides were labeled "The Red" and "The Black". The "Red" side was labeled with [=CBS=] Records' usual red label with black lettering, but the "Black" side featured red lettering on a black background.

* Music/AphexTwin's ''I Care Because You Do'' features several anagrams of "Aphex Twin", "The Aphex Twin" and "Richard David James", such as "Wax the Nip" and "The Waxen Pith".

* Downplayed with Music/TheAngelicProcess. All of their releases have at least one track titled "Mouvement - (rest of song name)". For instance, ''Weighing Souls with Sand'' has "Mouvement - World Deafening Eclipse" and "Mouvement - The Smoke of Her Burning"

* The ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee'' discography likes to take every mainline song about the Sena Narumi/Midori Hamanaka relationship and give it the naming theme "[Weekday]'s [X]", subsequently calling the whole collection the "Youbi" (Days of the Week) series. The songs thus far include "Friday's Good Mornings", "Sunday's Secret", "Wednesday's Promise", "Tuesday is Kiss Day", and "Thursday's Scandal". Sena's little sister Mona also had a romantic song with a similar naming scheme--"Monday's Melancholy".