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* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': "Can't Quit the RCG" doesn't have that exact phrase, instead its third-last line being "I can't quit these River City Girls".

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* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': "Can't Quit the RCG" doesn't have that exact phrase, instead its third-last line being "I can't quit these River City Girls".Girls".
* The ''Series/{{Kidsongs}}'' version of the Italian song "Funiculi, Funicula" replaces the TitleDrop with "Tra la la la, tra la la la".
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* Music/Yello's "Blazing Saddles".

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* Music/Yello's Music/{{Yello}}'s "Blazing Saddles".

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* Music/GreenDay has a lot of them, namely "16", "American Eulogy", "Armatage Shanks", "At the Library", "Bab's Uvula Who?", "Basket Case", "Brain Stew/Jaded", "Brat", "Burnout", "Dirty Rotten Bastards", "East Jesus Nowhere", "Emenius Sleepus", "Father Of All...", "F.O.D." (although the phrase "Fuck off or die," for which this stands, does appear), "Good Riddance" (although the song's subtitle, "Time of Your Life," appears several times), "Going to Pasalacqua", "Green Day", "Having a Blast", "Homecoming", "J.A.R.", "Jackass", "Last Night on Earth", "Letterbomb",[[note]]Although "Homecoming" does include "Letterbomb" in the final segment[[/note]] "Longview", "Panic Song", "Platypus (I Hate You)", "Poprocks & Coke", "Prosthetic Head", "Pulling Teeth", "Sassafras Roots", "Stuck With Me", "The Grouch", and "¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)".

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* Music/GreenDay has a lot of them, namely "16", "American Eulogy", "Armatage Shanks", "At the Library", "Bab's Uvula Who?", "Basket Case", "Brain Stew/Jaded", "Brat", "Burnout", "Burnout" (though this does have "I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out"), "Dirty Rotten Bastards", "East Jesus Nowhere", "Emenius Sleepus", "Father Of All...", "F.O.D." (although the phrase "Fuck off or die," for which this stands, does appear), "Good Riddance" (although the song's subtitle, "Time of Your Life," appears several times), "Going to Pasalacqua", "Green Day", "Having a Blast", "Homecoming", "J.A.R.", "Jackass", "Last Night on Earth", "Letterbomb",[[note]]Although "Homecoming" does include "Letterbomb" in the final segment[[/note]] "Longview", "Panic Song", "Platypus (I Hate You)", "Poprocks & Coke", "Prosthetic Head", "Pulling Teeth", "Sassafras Roots", "Stuck With Me", "The Grouch", and "¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)".



* The Music/ManicStreetPreachers have 'Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart', 'Facing Page: Top Left', 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time', 'The Intense Humming of Evil', 'Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier', 'Stay Beautiful', 'Crucifix Kiss', 'Nostalgic Pushhead', 'Symphony of Tourette', 'Yes', 'Archives of Pain', '4st 7lb', 'Mausoleum', 'Faster', 'Peeled Apples', 'Virginia State Epileptic Colony', 'The Convalescent', 'Golden Platitudes' and 'A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun.

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* The Music/ManicStreetPreachers have several, mostly those with lyrics by Richey Edwards - 'Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart', 'Facing Page: Top Left', 'William's Last Words', 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time', 'The Intense Humming of Evil', 'Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier', 'Stay Beautiful', 'Crucifix Kiss', 'Nostalgic Pushhead', 'Symphony of Tourette', 'Yes', 'Archives of Pain', '4st 7lb', 'Mausoleum', 'Faster', 'Peeled Apples', 'Virginia State Epileptic Colony', 'The Convalescent', 'Golden Platitudes' and 'A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun.



* Music/TheSmiths' "The Headmaster Ritual", "How Soon Is Now", and "Suffer Little Children".
** And: "Shakespeare's Sister", "Nowhere Fast", "Half a Person", "Barbarism Begins at Home" and "Paint A Vulgar Picture".

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* Music/TheSmiths' "The Headmaster Ritual", "How Soon Is Now", and "Suffer Little Children".
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Children", "Shakespeare's Sister", "Nowhere Fast", "Half a Person", "Barbarism Begins at Home" and "Paint A Vulgar Picture".

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* Music{{Ash}} have "Petrol", "Goldfinger", "I'd Give You Anything", "Let it Flow", "Lost in You", "Low Ebb", "Jesus Says", "Numbskull", "Orpheus", "Polaris" and "Planet of Excess" (originally intended to be called "Suicide Girls" which does appear in the lyrics) among others.



* {{Music/Muse}}'s "Knights of Cydonia", "Muscle Museum", "Apocalypse Please", "Bliss", "Butterflies and Hurricanes", "Exo-Politics", "Map of the Problematique", "Thoughts of a Dying Atheist", among others.

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* {{Music/Muse}}'s "Knights of Cydonia", "Muscle Museum", "Apocalypse Please", "Bliss", "Butterflies and Hurricanes", "Exo-Politics", "Map of the Problematique", "Thoughts of a Dying Atheist", among others.



* Music/{{REM}} have quite a few songs like this: "Wolves, Lower" (though does contain the phrase "Lower, wolves"), "9-9", "So. Central Rain" (which contains the subtitle, "I'm Sorry", which does appear in the song), "Little America", "Feeling Gravitys Pull", "Good Advices", "Flowers of Guatemala", "Walter’s Theme", "Lightnin’ Hopkins", "King of Birds", "Pop Song 89", "The Wrong Child", "I Remember California" and probably dozens of others.

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* Music/{{REM}} have quite a few songs like this: "Wolves, Lower" (though does contain the phrase "Lower, wolves"), "9-9", "So. Central Rain" (which contains the subtitle, "I'm Sorry", which does appear in the song), "Little America", "Feeling Gravitys Gravity's Pull", "Good Advices", "Flowers of Guatemala", "Walter’s Theme", "Lightnin’ Hopkins", "King of Birds", "Pop Song 89", "The Wrong Child", "I Remember California" and probably dozens of others.others. Noticeably more common before they became really famous.



* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins' "Cherub Rock", "Rocket", "Soma", "Geek U.S.A.", Mayonnaise", "Silverfuck", "Luna", "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness", "Jellybelly", "Here Is No Why", "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)", Cupid de Locke", "Galapogos", "Muzzle", "Pocelina of the Vast Oceans", "Where the Boys Fear to Tread", "Thirty-Three", "In the Arms of Sleep", "Tales of a Scorched Earth", "Thru the Eyes of Ruby", "X.Y.U." and "Farewell and Goodnight", [[SignatureStyle among countless others.]]

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* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins' "Cherub Rock", "Disarm", "Rocket", "Soma", "Geek U.S.A.", Mayonnaise", "Silverfuck", "Luna", "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness", "Jellybelly", "Here Is No Why", "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "Fuck You (An Ode to No One)", Cupid de Locke", "Galapogos", "Muzzle", "Pocelina "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans", "Where the Boys Fear to Tread", "Thirty-Three", "In the Arms of Sleep", "Tales of a Scorched Earth", "Thru the Eyes of Ruby", "X.Y.U." and "Farewell and Goodnight", [[SignatureStyle among countless others.]]



* Music/{{Snow Patrol}}'s "How to be Dead", "Spitting Games", "If There's a Rocket, Tie Me to It", "Olive Grove Facing the Sea", "Disaster Button", "Life-ning", "The President". "You're All I Have" doesn't have the name ''per se'', but it does have "you are all that I have".

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* Music/{{Snow Patrol}}'s "How to be Dead", "Spitting Games", "Chocolate" (the UK single release featured a sticker quoting the chorus "this is the straw, final straw") "If There's a Rocket, Tie Me to It", "Olive Grove Facing the Sea", "Disaster Button", "Life-ning", "The President". "You're All I Have" doesn't have the name ''per se'', but it does have "you are all that I have". Noticeably more common up to and including their breakthrough album Final Steaw,
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* Music/{{Rush}} has "2112", "Cygnus X-1 Book I" and "Book II", "The Spirit of Radio", "Manhattan Project," "Distant Early Warning", "War Paint" and "Presto".

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* Music/{{Rush}} Music/{{Rush|Band}} has "2112", "Cygnus X-1 Book I" and "Book II", "The Spirit of Radio", "Manhattan Project," "Distant Early Warning", "War Paint" and "Presto".

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** Another exception to this and the above J-Pop rule (sort of) is the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' end theme, "The Real Folk Blues."
** The musicals ''Love Life'', ''Celebration'' and ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'' each averted this with a song titled "Love Song."

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** A double exception: Music/NeilDiamond's "Song Sung Blue".
** Another exception to this and the above J-Pop rule (sort of) is the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' end theme, "The Real Folk Blues."
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** The musicals ''Love Life'', ''Celebration'' and ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'' each averted this with a song titled "Love Song."Song".
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* Music/JethroTull's "Hymn 43," which takes the form of a prayer to Jesus to save Himselg from glory seekers who use His name for the purpose of killing.
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* Music/JethroTull's "Hymn 43," which takes the form of a prayer to Jesus to save Himselg from glory seekers who use His name for the purpose of killing.
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* Music/FleetwoodMac's "Oh, Well." With the opening line "Can't help about the shape I'm in / I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin."

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' features a scene where the girls sing a rousing song encouraging the students to help Twilight Sparkle win the Fall Formal crown. The name of the song? "Equestria Girls". That's right -- the song named after the movie features no {{Title Drop}}s whatsoever.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'':
** The first movie
features a scene where the girls sing a rousing song encouraging the students to help Twilight Sparkle win the Fall Formal crown. The name of the song? "Equestria Girls". That's right -- the song named after the movie features no {{Title Drop}}s whatsoever. The title ''does'' appear in the modified version of the song used for the franchise as a whole, however.
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* Quite a few songs from Music/{{Beck}}, including "E-Pro" and "Jack-Ass". The latter is played with, in that you hear an ''actual'' jackass braying at the end.

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* Quite a few songs from Music/{{Beck}}, Music/{{Beck|Musician}}, including "E-Pro" and "Jack-Ass". The latter is played with, in that you hear an ''actual'' jackass braying at the end.
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* Music/HarveyDanger's "Flagpole Sitta".

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* Music/HarveyDanger's "Flagpole Sitta". A flagpole ''is'' mentioned in one verse, in the context of the cliche "run it up the flagpole and see who salutes".

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John Mellencamp has one partial example I know of.


* Music/FairportConvention - "Genesis Hall", "Autopsy" and "Percy's Song" on Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}

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* Music/FairportConvention - "Genesis Hall", "Autopsy" and "Percy's Song" on Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}''Music/{{Unhalfbricking}}''



* Music/EltonJohn's "The Greatest Discovery", "Indian Sunset", "Curtains", "Song For Guy" (nearly entirely instrumental, but contains the lyrics "Life isn’t everything" near the end), "American Triangle", "Postcards from Richard Nixon".
* Ricky Lee Jones' "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963".

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* Music/EltonJohn's "The Greatest Discovery", "Indian Sunset", "Curtains", "Song For for Guy" (nearly entirely instrumental, but contains the lyrics "Life isn’t everything" near the end), "American Triangle", "Postcards from Richard Nixon".
* Ricky Rickie Lee Jones' "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963".



%%* Local H's "Bound For The Floor".

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%%* Local H's "Bound For The for the Floor".



* The Mamas and the Papas' "Creeque Alley". The song is about their time on Creeque Alley in the US Virgin Islands but the title is never said.

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* The Mamas and the Papas' "Creeque Alley". The song is about their time on Creeque Alley in the US Virgin Islands Islands, but the title is never said.


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* Music/JohnMellencamp's "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" is a partial example. None of the words in the main title appear in the lyrics, but the subtitle appears multiple times in the chorus.
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* Music/{{Creed}}'s "Ode", from their first album ''My Own Prison''.

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* Music/{{Creed}}'s Music/{{Creed|band}}'s "Ode", from their first album ''My Own Prison''.
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* The Hitachi advertising jingle "Hitachi no Ki" does not have that phrase anywhere in the lyrics, not even in the full version.

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* The Hitachi advertising jingle "Hitachi no Ki" does not have that phrase anywhere in the lyrics, not even in the full version.version.
* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': "Can’t Quit the RCG" doesn't have that exact phrase, instead its third-last line being "I can't quit these River City Girls".
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* The 1993 jazz-rap classic by [=Us3=], "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", is based mainly off a sample of Music/HerbieHancock's "Cantaloupe Island". While the main title (regardless of spelling) isn't in the lyrics, the subtitle appears several times.

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* The 1993 1992 jazz-rap classic by [=Us3=], "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", is based mainly off a sample of Music/HerbieHancock's "Cantaloupe Island". While the main title (regardless of spelling) isn't in the lyrics, the subtitle appears several times.

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Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) is another example in which the main title is absent, but the subtitle is present.


* The 1993 jazz-rap classic by [=Us3=], "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", is based mainly off a sample of Music/HerbieHancock's "Cantaloupe Island". While the main title (regardless of spelling) isn't in the lyrics, the subtitle appears several times.



** "Shae No To This" is a parody of "Say No To This" from ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', but retains none of the instances of the titular sentence.

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** "Shae No To to This" is a parody of "Say No To to This" from ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', but retains none of the instances of the titular sentence.



* "The Breakup Song" by The Greg Kihn Band. Subtitled "They Don't Write 'Em". Granted, the first line is "We had broken up for good just an hour before".

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* "The Breakup Song" by The Greg Kihn Band. Subtitled "They Don't Write 'Em". Granted, the first line is "We had broken up for good just an hour before".before", and the subtitle does appear in the chorus.
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* Music/{{Rush}} has "2112", "Cygnus X-1 Book I" and "Book II", "The Spirit of Radio", "Manhattan Project," "Distant Early Warning" and "Presto".

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* Music/{{Rush}} has "2112", "Cygnus X-1 Book I" and "Book II", "The Spirit of Radio", "Manhattan Project," "Distant Early Warning" Warning", "War Paint" and "Presto".

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** 'Chelsea Hotel #2' is a borderline example, with the words 'Chelsea Hotel' appearing but not the number, as is 'Paper Thin Hotel, which has all of the words in the title but not in the same order.

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** 'Chelsea "Chelsea Hotel #2' #2" is a borderline example, with the words 'Chelsea Hotel' "Chelsea Hotel" appearing but not the number, as is 'Paper "Paper Thin Hotel, Hotel", which has all of the words in the title but not in the same order.


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* Music/{{Donovan}}'s "Sunshine Superman".
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* Music/{{Mono}}'s "Life in Mono".

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* Music/{{Mono}}'s Music/{{Mono|Band}}'s "Life in Mono".
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* Music/TheBlackAngels: Most of their songs don't include the title in the lyrics, such as their most popular song, "Young Man Dead."
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* A lot of songs by Music/{{Love}} have titles that allude to the song's subject but never appear in the lyrics, like "The Red Telephone" and "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This".

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* A lot of songs by Music/{{Love}} Music/{{Love|Band}} have titles that allude to the song's subject but never appear in the lyrics, like "The Red Telephone" and "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This".
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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic does this with his parodies whenever the new title lyric no longer makes a fitting title ([[Music/{{Eminem}} "Lose Yourself"]] -> "Couch Potato" rather than "Lose Your Mind"), contains a trademark he can't get the rights to use as a title ([[Music/BillyJoel "Piano Man"]] -> [[Franchise/SpiderMan "Ode to a Superhero"]], and [[Music/DonMcLean "American Pie"]] -> [[Film/ThePhantomMenace "The Saga Begins"]]), or hasn't actually changed from the original ([[Music/AvrilLavigne "Complicated"]] -> "A Complicated Song", [[Music/CrashTestDummies "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"]] -> "Headline News"). By coincidence, ''all'' the parodies on ''Poodle Hat'' - three of them being examples above - were subjected to this, except for "eBay".

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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic does this with his parodies whenever the new title lyric no longer makes a fitting title ([[Music/{{Eminem}} "Lose Yourself"]] -> "Couch Potato" rather than "Lose Your Mind"), contains a trademark he can't get the rights to use as a title ([[Music/BillyJoel "Piano Man"]] -> [[Franchise/SpiderMan [[ComicBook/SpiderMan "Ode to a Superhero"]], and [[Music/DonMcLean "American Pie"]] -> [[Film/ThePhantomMenace "The Saga Begins"]]), or hasn't actually changed from the original ([[Music/AvrilLavigne "Complicated"]] -> "A Complicated Song", [[Music/CrashTestDummies "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"]] -> "Headline News"). By coincidence, ''all'' the parodies on ''Poodle Hat'' - three of them being examples above - were subjected to this, except for "eBay".
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* Music/TheDoors' "Shaman's Blues".
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* Stereophonics' "Dakota".

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* Stereophonics' Music/{{Stereophonics}}' "Dakota".

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Cream has a second example.


** "Josie," more recognizable by the chorus, the repeated "I know that everything/know that everything's gonna be fine."
** "Edging," which features Tom [=DeLonge=]'s return to the band, refers to the sexual practice of the same name.

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** "Josie," "Josie", more recognizable by the chorus, the repeated "I know that everything/know that everything's gonna be fine."
** "Edging," "Edging", which features Tom [=DeLonge=]'s return to the band, refers to the sexual practice of the same name.



** And "One Day Women Will All Become Monsters." It's the last line.

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** And "One Day Women Will All Become Monsters." Monsters". It's the last line.



* Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Amsterdam," "Don't Panic," "Parachutes," "The Scientist," "X&Y," "Life in Technicolor" (mostly instrumental), "Life in Technicolor II" (not mostly instrumental, but still no TitleDrop), "Viva la Vida" (the title track for an album, but this phrase isn't in any of their songs; supposedly it was a LineOfSightName found while recording the album), "Twisted Logic," "Lovers in Japan," "Chinese Sleep Chant" ([[IndecipherableLyrics probably]]), "The Escapist," "Charlie Brown," "Ink", "Midnight", "Hymn for the Weekend", "Adventure of a Lifetime", and probably more in the future if this is any indication...

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* Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Amsterdam," "Amsterdam", "Don't Panic," "Parachutes," Panic", "Parachutes", "The Scientist," "X&Y," Scientist", "X&Y", "Life in Technicolor" (mostly instrumental), "Life in Technicolor II" (not mostly instrumental, but still no TitleDrop), "Viva la Vida" (the title track for an album, but this phrase isn't in any of their songs; supposedly it was a LineOfSightName found while recording the album), "Twisted Logic," Logic", "Lovers in Japan," Japan", "Chinese Sleep Chant" ([[IndecipherableLyrics probably]]), "The Escapist," Escapist", "Charlie Brown," Brown", "Ink", "Midnight", "Hymn for the Weekend", "Adventure of a Lifetime", and probably more in the future if this is any indication...



* Music/{{Cream}}'s "Badge": Music/RingoStarr misread Music/GeorgeHarrison's handwriting on the sheet music, and asked "what's badge?" where it actually said "bridge".

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"Badge": Music/RingoStarr misread Music/GeorgeHarrison's handwriting on the sheet music, and asked "what's badge?" where it actually said "bridge"."bridge".
** "SWLABR": An initialism for "She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow" (or possibly "Was" instead of "Walks");[[note]]Jack Bruce, who wrote the music, gave both words as the expansion of "W" at different times.[[/note]] neither the initialism nor its expansion ever appears in the lyrics. In fact, apart from the article "a", the only part of the expanded title that appears verbatim in the lyrics is "rainbow". ("Bearded" never appears, but "beard" does.)
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* A few cases among theme songs for the Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime. Among the openings there's "Mezase Pokémon Master", "Advance Adventure", "Battle Frontier", "Saikou - Everyday!" and "Best Wishes!"

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* A few cases among theme songs for the Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime.''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. Among the openings there's "Mezase Pokémon Master", "Advance Adventure", "Battle Frontier", "Saikou - Everyday!" and "Best Wishes!"

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