Listening to Love and Money’s excellent ….All You Need is Love and Money debut album yesterday, alongside better-known tracks Candybar Express and River of People is Love and Money. By Love and Money. On …all you need is Love and Money. Going the extra mile on the eponymiser. So, who else liked their name so much they put it on an album, and a track on that album. If only the Beatles had a track called The Beatles. Instrumentals allowed, though more points for a track not just called Love and Money on Love and Money by Love and Money, but with love and money in the lyrics. You get the idea. One incredibly famous not the Beatles example in the comments to clear that one up. No youtube clip for Love and Money though.
The Eponymiser – full house! AKA Band, song, album
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Side 1, track 1, album 1 so pretty perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJ6QP8BYn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXnYu-Or4w
Ditto
Iron Maiden’s debut album was (unsurprisingly) titled Iron Maiden.
The closing track was their live set do ‘Iron Maiden’
And for a bonus point it remains in their usual set list still today
The Pentangle, ‘The Pentangle’ (1968), ‘Pentangling’:
Pretty sure we’ve done this before…
Bad Company, Bad Company, Bad Company
Motorhead Motorhead Motorhead
Going one further, Bo Diddley’s 1958 album Bo Diddley opens with Bo Diddley, written by Bo Diddley!
Then there’s Can’s 1979 album Can featuring a recording of Offenbach’s Can Can!
Band = Focus
Debut album = Focus Plays Focus
Track 1 = Focus
Why didn’t I think of that?
If only Charles Mingus had thought of writing a tune called ‘Mingus’ on his album ‘Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus’.
The only thing that could have beaten that would surely have been The Creation’s album on Creation (label) with its opening track ‘Creation’… IF the album had also been called ‘Creation’. But it wasn’t; it was called ‘Power Surge’. A dropped ball, there…
Wilco (the song) from Wilco (the album) by Wilco.
“The Court Of The Crimson King” from “In The Court Of The Crimson King – An Observation By King Crimson”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em2Bvb-Hz6Q
Macc Lads..
Lads from Macc.
Can anyone locate a solo artist doing this? I’m chuckling away at the thought of the ego required to say, have a track called Elton John on Elton John by Elton John.
Jilted John by Jilted John.
And for the purposes of this post, the album was titled Jilted John: True Love Stories
Good spot, though makes more sense for a comic character. Can’t believe there isn’t a rapper who hasnt’ done it.
Ahem! Cough!
I think “The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt.” by Father John Misty counts here (sort of…)
On the recent ‘album to album’s podcast Nicholas Pegg mentions that the dame makes self reference on three of his songs. Chronologically the last of these was his cover of cactus. Sadly, it was not on his eponymous album.
Orville’s Song by Orville. (And Keith Harris).
Appears on At The End of the Rainbow so close @captain-haddock but blistering barnacles no eponymous album.
Who Are You on Who Are You by The Who
(it’s close enough …)
Jets To Brazil have an album called Orange Rhyming Dictionary. They also have a song called ‘Orange Rhyming Dictionary’ which features that phrase in the lyric – BUT it’s on a different album. Do I win a no-prize?
Alas, Killer Queen was on Sheer Heart Attack.
I can hardly pass up an opportunity to mention my favourite dance band. Blowzabella named themselves after a track on their first album, though sadly the album was called something else.
White Queen and March Of The Black Queen from Queen II very nearly fit the model
Costello was a bit of a contrarian with Album titles and their eponymous songs. Imperial Bedroom didn’t appear on the original incarnation of the album of the same name. So too Almost Blue.
Copey didn’t bring out a single called World Shut Your Mouth until several years after the album of the same name. Indeed it came out on Saint Julian, to which Locust refers below.
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
That one is particularly satisfying.
I agree though even better if they could have gone for Talk as a band name and the track as Talk Talk Talk. So Talk Talk Talk on Talk Talk by Talk. Same for !!! -who a quick check reveal as having eponymised the debut lp but sadly no track !!!. Surely a winner there.
Except the debut album was called “The Party’s Over”…
Another one denied. What with Keith Harris and Orville shot down too, the factcheckers are working overtime.
Re: solo artists – I think Julian Cope’s track Saint Julian from the album Saint Julian counts.
Education. Education. Education.
Weren’t they big in the nineties?
Icehouse Icehouse Icehouse
PS I didn’t think that Love And Money was much good, certainly not compared with their next album the magnificent Strange Kind Of Love.
At the risk of appearing pedantic, the album Icehouse, featuring the song Icehouse, was recorded by Flowers. They then had to change their name upon legal advice so they went with the by-then familiar, you guessed it, Icehouse.
I know what you mean @neil-jung it’s four excellent tracks (eponymous, Candybar Express, River of People and Cheeseburger) and a bit of mid-eighties overproduced filler.
This, from a wee gem of an album from a couple of years back:
(Applewood Road x 3)
And @neil-jung or any other Love and Money fans I have had a Proustian rush here. I think they had featured on a Select cassette or similar freebie a b-side and ep track called Soon. Not on any LP and I would very much like to hear it again as I recall it was one of those sophisticated and bruised ballads they did so well. Anyone who can post a link. Not on Spotify of course as neither are the first two LPs more surprisingly.
@moseleymoles
James Grant is one of my showbiz chums, I have everything L&M put out in some form or other. PM me for {Cough} “help”.
Out of interest, does an artist like James Grant make enough to live off the proceeds from his occasional gigs and associated music sales or is he now doing a proper job like the rest of us?
L&M got a decent publishing deal back in the day so, as the main songwriter, he trousered most of that. They had proper dosh spent on them for a while – Strange Kind of Love recorded in California with The Dan, etc.
Solo career and touring/session guitarist with Karen Matheson (Capercaillie) helps.
I am not aware of JG having a day job. If he’d have been born 10 years later he probably would have by now.
I can commend James Grant solo work: it sounds insulting to call him Jackie Leven lite, but it isn’t a bad compare and certainly no intended back handed complement.
Indeed.
Start with My Thrawn Glory, which is utterly wonderful, then try I Shot the Albatross and Holy Love.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fh4qh
@neil-jung that’s one! A cracking track with a beautiful vocal, can’t believe it was buried as a b-side.
@fentonsteve will PM you – and re the ACR gigs the Fenton is not the Stokie Fenton then.