History IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming / Music

* 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".

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

** Similarly, Music/{{Queen}}'s ''Queen II'' featured a "Side White" and a "Side Black", with each side respectively containing the tracks "White Queen (As It Began)" and "March of the Black Queen". However, the disc labels for each side aren't color-coded. A double-LP reissue of the album, however, ''did'' divide the two sides on appropriately-colored vinyl.

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

* Every song on the RemixAlbum for Music/{{Kelela}}'s ''Take Me Apart'' is rendered in AllCaps with underscores separating the words and the BPM specified at the end (e.g., what was simply titled "Waitin" on ''Take Me Apart'' becomes "KAYTRANDA_WAITIN_115 BPM" on the remix album), as if to evoke the digital file names of the songs' rough drafts.

* All of Music/WeirdAlYankovic's polka medleys have the word "Polka" as part of the title - usually a pun ("Now That's What I Call Polka!" "Polka Your Eyes Out") but sometimes describing the main inspiration ("[[NuMetal Angry White Boy]] Polka", "[[Music/TheRollingStones Hot Rocks]] Polka", "[[AlternativeRock The Alternative]] Polka").

** Albums that feature a picture on one side and a tracklist on the other; because the picture side is unlabeled, it is typically referred to on the tracklist side as "Other Side" or "That Side"; the side with the tracklist, meanwhile, is typically labeled "This Side". Examples of this include ''Crises'' by Music/MikeOldfield and ''Music/TrueStories'' by Music/TalkingHeads.

** Music/YellowMagicOrchestra's ''BGM'' and ''Music/{{Technodelic}}'', being companion pieces to one another released in the same year, both list the two sides "Face ⌊•" and "Face ⌊••" on their initial Japanese LP releases.

* See if you can guess what links the following track titles (and all the other ones) on Christophe Beck's soundtrack for ''{{Film/Red}}'': "Rotating Enforcement Device," "Regular Easygoing Dudes," "Russian Embassy Divertimento," "Rehash Every Detail," "Ridiculously Extravagant Disguises," "Ruined Election Dinner" and "Relieved Embrace, Done."

* For a while Gravity Kills seemed to have a thing with one-word song titles - every song title on their debut ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Gravity Kills]]'' was a single word, such as "Guilty" or "Blame", while their second album ''Perversion'' only broke with the convention for its last track, "Belief (To Rust)". However, on their final album ''Superstarved'' the majority of song titles were more than one word.

* The first six albums by alternative rock band Music/KingsOfLeon's albums all had five syllable titles (being ''Youth and Young Manhood'', ''Aha Shake Heartbreak'', ''Because Of The Times'', ''Only By The Night'', ''Come Around Sundown'', and ''Mechanical Bull''). Their 2016 album ''WALLS'' finally broke the trend - though the band have said it's an acronym for the 5 syllable phrase "We Are Like Love Songs".

* Music/PeterGabriel initially wanted all of his solo albums to simply be named ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Peter Gabriel]]'', as if they were issues of a magazine. The label let him get away with that for three albums, but then his American label at the time, Creator/GeffenRecords, named his fourth album ''Music/{{Security}}'' themselves and told Peter to knock it off, though each of the first three albums had a FanNickname, ''Music/{{Car}}'', ''Music/{{Scratch}}'' and ''Music/{{Melt}}'' have now become the albums' respective titles on streaming services.

* All of the songs on ''Wilderness'' by The Handsome Family have one word titles and are named after animals that appear in the songs' lyrics. For instance, the first three tracks are "Flies", "Frogs", and "Eels".

* A Giant Dog have a pattern of one-word album titles that can be read as EpisodeFinishesTheTitle when paired with the band's name: Examples include ''Pile'', ''Bone'', ''Fight'', and ''House''.

* Thus far, Music/{{Adele}} has a pattern of naming her albums after the age she was when she recorded them. Accordingly, her debut was called ''19'', the follow-up was ''Music/TwentyOne'', and the one after that was ''25''.

* 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.

* Not everyone does this, but this also happens with the sides of an album (in record and cassette media). While the majority of albums are labeled "Side 1/A" and "Side 2/B", a number of albums have gotten creative with this. (see also DistinctDoubleAlbum) Among ''many'' examples are:

* For a while Gravity Kills seemed to have a thing with one-word song titles - every song title on their debut ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Gravity Kills]]'' was a single word, while their second album ''Perversion'' only broke with the convention for its last track, "Belief (To Rust)". However, on their final album ''Superstarved'' the majority of song titles were more than one word.

** Music/JoyDivision's 1979 debut album ''Music/UnknownPleasures'' labeled the sides "Outside" and "Inside". Conversely, their second [[AuthorExistenceFailure and final]] album ''Music/{{Closer}}'' didn't label the sides at all, with the only indications of which side was which being etchings in the runout area.

* Music/PeterGabriel initially wanted all of his solo albums to simply be named ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Peter Gabriel]]'', as if they were issues of a magazine. The label let him get away with that for three albums, but then his American label at the time, Creator/GeffenRecords, named his fourth album ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1982 Security]]'' themselves and told Peter to knock it off, though each of the first three albums had a FanNickname, ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1977 Car]]'', ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1978 Scratch]]'' and ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1980 Melt]]'' have now become the albums' respective titles on streaming services.

* Music/PeterGabriel initially wanted all of his solo albums to simply be named ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Peter Gabriel]]'', as if they were issues of a magazine. The label let him get away with that for three albums, but then his American label named his fourth album ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1982 Security]]'' themselves and told Peter to knock it off, though each of the first three albums had a FanNickname, ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1977 Car]]'', ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1978 Scratch]]'' and ''[[Music/PeterGabriel1980 Melt]]'' have now become the albums' respective titles on streaming services.

* 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 his American label named his fourth album ''Security'' themselves and told Peter to knock it off, though each of the first three album had a FanNickname, ''Car'', ''Scratch'' and ''Melt'' have now become the albums' respective titles on streaming services.

** 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 this ''Collapse into Now'', the band's final studio effort, with "X-Axis" and "Y-Axis".
** Music/CheapTrick's debut had the sides labeled Side 1 and Side A, as a joke about there not being any "b material" on the album. This actually led to some confusion when it was first released on cd - though the initial cd release put the tracks in the order they were listed in on the record's back cover, it apparently started with what the band considered the second "side" of the album. A later reissue altered the running order accordingly.

** Similarly, Music/{{Queen}}'s ''Queen II'' featured a "Side White" and a "Side Black", with each side respectively containing the tracks "White Queen (As It Began)" and "March of the Black Queen". However, the disc labels for each side aren't color-coded.

** 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 cardboard cd case.
** One vinyl side of Music/{{Wings}}'s 1979 album ''Back To The Egg'' was subtitled "Sunny Side Up", the other being "Over Easy".

* Thus far, Music/{{Adele}} has a pattern of naming her albums after the age she was when she recorded them. Accordingly, her debut was called ''19'' and the followup was ''Music/TwentyOne''.

** The double album ''Double Nickels On The Dime'' by Music/{{Minutemen}} had Side D, Side Mike, Side George and Side Chaff: The first 3 sides were named after whatever member chose the tracklisting for that particular side, and the fourth was called "chaff" because it was all the remaining songs no one picked.

* Every track on Music/YoLaTengo's ''We Have Amnesia Sometimes'' is titled with a full sentence where the subject is one or more band members, followed by a subtitle that's a weekday - for instance the opening track is "James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday)".

* 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 his American label named his fourth album ''Security'' themselves and told Peter to knock it off, though they were FanNicknames for the first three albums, ''Car'', ''Scratch'' and ''Melt'' have now become the albums' respective titles on streaming services.

* 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 his American label named his fourth album "Security" themselves and told Peter to knock it off.

** A good deal of the songs released in the ''Analord'' series of 12" singles are named after viruses or malicious software, or else named to ''sound'' like viruses ("Backdoor.Ranky.S" for instance) - apparently this was something of a prank on those who would try to find them on filesharing programs.

** A good deal of the songs released in the ''Analord'' series of 12" singles are named after viruses or malicious software ("Backdoor.Ranky.S" for instance) - apparently something of a prank on those who would try to find them on filesharing programs.

** Starting around 1996, they got in the habit of naming live tours with "tour" puns, which were usually also {{Intentionally Awkward Title}}s. Examples include "Spinchtour", "Clitour US", and "Masturbatour".

* The first six albums by alternative rock band Music/KingsOfLeon's albums all had five syllable titles (being ''Youth and Young Manhood'', ''Aha Shake Heartbreak'', ''Because Of The Times'', ''Only By The Night'', ''Come Around Sundown'', and ''Mechanical Bull''). Their 2016 album ''WALLS'' finally broke the trend.