History IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming / Music

* Pg. 99 title all their releases in the format ''Document No. X'', with X being [[ChronologicalAlbumTitle whatever number of releases they had so far including that one]]. However, some releases also have subtitles, like ''Document No. 9: A Split Personality''. Members have said that the significance is that each release documents the state of the band at that time.

* Pg. 99 title all their releases in the format ''Document No. X'', with X being [[ChronologicalAlbumTitle whatever number of releases they had so far including that one]]. However, some releases also have subtitles, like ''Document No. 9: A Split Personality''. Members have said that the significance is that each release documents the state of the band at that time.

* Pg. 99 title all their releases in the format ''Document No. X'', with X being [[ChronologicalAlbumTitle whatever number of releases they had so far including that one]]. However, some releases also have subtitles, like ''Document No. 9: A Split Personality''. Members have said that the significance is that each release documents the state of the ban at that time.

* Pg. 99 title all their releases in the format ''Document No. X'', with X being [[ChronologicalAlbumTitle whatever number of releases they had so far including that one]]. Some releases got subtitles, like ''Document No. 9: A Split Personality''. Members have said that the significance is that each release documents the state of the ban at that time.

* 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]". The songs thus far include "Friday's Good Mornings", "Sunday's Secret", and "Wednesday's Promise". Sena's little sister Mona also had a romantic song with a similar naming scheme--"Monday's Melancholy".

* Starting with their second release ''Je m'Appelle Babe'', Babe The Blue Ox have titled all their albums after Creator/BarbraStreisand albums, either using the exact same title or replacing the word "Barbra" with "Babe" - ''Je m'Appelle Babe'' is a play on ''Je m'Appelle Barbra'' for instance.

* Starting with their second release ''Je m'Appelle Babe'', Babe The Blue Ox have titled all their albums after Creator/BarbraStreisand albums, either using the exact title or replacing the word "Barbra" with "Babe" - ''Je m'Appelle Babe'' is a play on ''Je m'Appelle Barbra'' for instance.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s album released in 2002, ''Music/TheEminemShow'', was originally planned to be called ''The Eminem LP'' to close off the trilogy with ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' and ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'', but he felt that the theme had gotten old and replaced it with "Show".

* Music/PeterGabriel initially wanted all of his solo albums to simply be named "Peter Gabriel," as if they were issues of a magazine. The label let him get away with that for three albums, but then they named his fourth album "Security" themselves and told Peter to knock it off.

* Music/Eminem's album released in 2002, ''Music/TheEminemShow'', was originally planned to be called ''The Eminem LP'' to close off the trilogy with ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' and ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'', but he felt that the theme had gotten old and replaced it with "Show".

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

** A number of Music/{{REM}} albums. They also tended to turn the creativity UpToEleven with their side names: ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' (1986), for example, had the "Dinner" and "Supper" sides, while ''Green'' (1988) -- which was promoted by the band as [[GreenAesop an environmental message]] -- had the "Air" and "Metal" sides ([[DontExplainTheJoke the oxygen in the air reacting with metal to make rust, of course]]). The last album to do with was ''Collapse into Now'', the band's final studio effort with "X-Axis" and "Y-Axis".

* Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling's songs are all titled after episodes of ''Series/ThePrisoner'', preceded by an "episode number" (which corresponds to the order of episodes of the show, not the order of the songs): "Episode 1 - Arrival" for instance. This is unsurprising, since all of their songs are actually about ''The Prisoner''. The only exception thus far is a cover of Music/LeonardCohen's "First We Take Manhattan".

** ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'' by Music/TheSmashingPumpkins has the CD version spanning two discs, entitled "Dawn to Dusk" and "Twilight to Starlight". The vinyl edition instead has the songs differently arranged over three, records, with each side being named (in order) "Dawn", "Tea Time", "Dusk", "Twilight", "Midnight", and "Starlight".

* ''Music/PetShopBoys'' name all of their albums with just one word, and usually one with a possible double meaning. Most of their compilation albums are similarly terse (the only exception being the Japan-exclusive ''In Depth'', and the numbered sequels to ''Disco''). Only for their soundtrack albums have they used longer titles--because the movie or stage show wasn't theirs to name. Chris and Neil have stated that the pattern of one-word titles is deliberate.
** Music/Bjork names all of her studio albums with a single word as well.

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

* Many of rapper Rich Homie Quan's mixtape titles feature some variation on the phrase "going in". These include ''I Go In On Every Song'', ''Still Goin In'', ''I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In'', and ''If You Ever Think I Will Stop Goin' in Ask RR (Royal Rich)''.

* Music/{{DROELOE}}’s trilogy of [=EPs=] released between 2017 and 2019 all share the same cadence when said out loud: ''A Moment in Time,'' ''The Choices We Face'' and ''A Promise Is Made.''

* With the exception of their first track released, Icelandic electronica duo Kiasmos has titled all their tracks to date as past tense verbs, e.g. "Drawn", "Swept", "Thrown" etc. Their reasoning behind this is that they attempt to create the presence of a fictional physical "entity" via their music, and the song titles are what is happening to this entity.

** A number of Music/{{REM}} albums. They also tended to turn the creativity UpToEleven with their side names: ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' (1986), for example, had the "Dinner" and "Supper" sides, while ''Green'' (1988) -- which was promoted by the band as [[GreenAesop an environmental message]] -- had the "Air" and "Metal" sides ([[DontExplainTheJoke the oxygen in the air reacting with metal to make rust, of course]]). Sadly, this was abandoned with ''Up'' (1998).

* Hip hop duo Camp Lo named their first two albums after films starring Bill Cosby and Sidney Portier - ''Uptown Saturday Night'' and ''Let's Do It Again''. Their third was originally going to be named after a third such movie, ''A Piece Of The Action'', but ended up being called ''Black Hollywood'' instead. They did call a song "A Piece of the Action" and later used the title for a series of mix tapes.

** The Music/DonMcLean album ''American Pie'', which labels its sides as "One Side" and "Another Side".

** Also, many of his ''Film/{{Batman}}''-era scores (including ''Batman'') have a track called "The Final Confrontation."

** ''Mellon Coliie and the Infinite Sadness'' by Music/TheSmashingPumpkins has the CD version spanning two discs, entitled "Dawn to Dusk" and "Twilight to Starlight". The vinyl edition instead has the songs differently arranged over three, untitled records.

* The vinyl release of Music/JoyDivision's ''Music/UnknownPleasures'' labeled the sides "Outside" and "Inside".

* Global Communication's magnum opus 76:14 had all its tracks named after the length of the song much like the album name itself (being 76minutes and 14seconds long. The reasoning is they didn't want to influence anyone's interpretation of the songs by naming them a certain way.

** Similarly, his ''Selected Ambient Works Volume 2'' is named by pictures instead of words. The songs are based on lucid dreams and the pictures associated all tie into it. It's kinda unnerving but also really cool.

** ''Every song'' in Richard's discography from ''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.
* Music/{{KMFDM}} album titles have been five letters long since "UAIOE" up to "Hau Ruck" (originally FUBAR), which broke the chain. Hell, KMFDM even ''misspelled'' words to keep the chain moving (Attak, Xtort), and Tohuvabohu came close to resuming the tradition with five syllables, but it wasn't until Blitz when the tradition resumed.

** All releases by the Foetus moniker for JG Thirlwell, aka "That guy who does the music for WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers," are titled the exact same way.

* Most albums by Music.{{Chicago}} are called "Chicago" followed by the number of the album.