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* TheBirthdayMassacre's "The Dream", "Looking Glass", "Movie", "Play Dead", "Science", and "Under The Stairs".

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* TheBirthdayMassacre's "The Dream", "Looking Glass", "Movie", "Play Dead", "Science", Dead" and "Under The Stairs"."Science".

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* Swans did/do this [[Understatement a lot]]. Some especially worthy examples:
** The piano ballad "Blackmail" from ''Children Of God'', although [[FridgeHorror subtly loaded with]] [[LyricalDissonance dissonantly creepy lyrical implications]], never mentions the title, even indirectly (except on, perhaps, an emotional level).
** "You Fucking People Make Me Sick" on ''My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky'' seems to be a kind of trippy ObsessionSong... [[LastNoteNightmare Until it isn't.]]
*** Also, when you combine it with the album title, [[LongTitle you realize just how long it all takes to type...]]
** ''Soundtracks For The Blind'' contains many titles which have apparently little to no relation to the subject matter. [[FridgeBrilliance Then you think about it.]] [[GeniusBonus Or look it up.]] After which, seeing as this is a Swans album, you begin to smell the HighOctaneNightmareFuel...
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** Their song "Enjoy the Silence" subverts this trope: You won't hear the name of the song for what appears to be its entire running time; and then, a full six seconds after the music has faded, the title is dropped and the song finally ends. Since some radio stations would occasionally cut the song once the music faded, you could be left thinking the trope was played straight, if it was the first time you heard it.
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A-Punk totally has its title in the chorus: "A! A! A! A!"


* A-Punk and White Sky by Vampire Weekend

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* A-Punk and White Sky by Vampire Weekend
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** Many of their songs, actually: "About a Girl", "Aero Zeppelin", "Aneurysm", "Hairspray Queen", "Lithium", "Sliver", "Tourette's"...

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** Many of their songs, actually: "About a Girl", "Aero Zeppelin", "Aneurysm", "Hairspray Queen", "Lithium", "Sliver", "Tourette's"..."[[SingingSimlish Tourette's]]"...
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* DepecheMode's "I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead" (also a NonIndicativeName, as it's a SillyLoveSong)
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* The song "Helena" by My Chemical Romance does not feature the titular name anywhere in the lyrics.
* Band of Horses "I Go to the Barn because I Like the..." features a title that bears no clear relation to the song at all, as well as a title whose words are nowhere to be found in the song proper.
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* Sufjan Stevens' "Chicago", the only well-known track from the album ''Illinois'', is also the only track on the entire album where the entire title appears in the song. Of course, it'd be difficult to fit in names along the lines of [[LongTitle "To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament"]] or [[LongTitle "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!"]].

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* Sufjan Stevens' "Chicago", two "state albums", Michigan and Illinois, have a total of three songs whose lyrics contain the only well-known track from the album ''Illinois'', is also the only track on the entire album where the entire title appears in the song. Of course, it'd be difficult to fit in names along the lines of [[LongTitle "To the Workers completely: Romulus, Jacksonville and Chicago. Much of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament"]] or [[LongTitle "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!"]].other titles are long, reference-laden sentences.
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hey, i know about new order...


* Most NewOrder songs, except "Confusion, "Crystal", "Regret", "Shellshock", "Perfect Kiss" (the TitleDrop isn't until near the end of the song, though), and a handful of others.

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* Most NewOrder songs, except "Confusion, "Confusion", "Crystal", "Regret", "Shellshock", "Perfect Kiss" (the TitleDrop isn't until near the end of the song, though), "1963", "Touched by the Hand of God" and a handful of others.

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* Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11."

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* Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11."F1-11", commonly called "Shoot It Up".



* Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11", commonly called "Shoot It Up".
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* {{Creed}}'s Ode, from their first album, My Own Prison.
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** ''Heartcatch'' is, however, the first ''PrettyCure'' series to actually have the full title of its ''[[AnimeThemeSong opening]]'' theme song appear in the song (though ''[[YesPrettyCure5 YPC5]]'' had several near-misses).
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* Billy Joel: "Summer Highland Falls," "Goodnight Saigon," "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant." "Famous Last Words" is close, as the line is "These are the last words I have to say" (which was true, as it was the last song on his last studio album that ''had'' lyrics.)

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* PinkFloyd has "Eclipse", "Brain Damage" (the latter being the one song that says "I'll see you on [[AlbumTitleDrop the Dark Side of the Moon!]]"), and in ''TheWall'', "In The Flesh?"/"In The Flesh", "The Trial", "Outside the Wall" and the parts of "Another Brick of the Wall" [[BlackSheepHit people don't know]].

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* PinkFloyd has "Eclipse", "Brain Damage" (the latter being the one song that says "I'll see you on [[AlbumTitleDrop the Dark Side of the Moon!]]"), and in ''TheWall'', "In The Flesh?"/"In The Flesh", "The Trial", "Outside the Wall" and the parts of "Another Brick of the In The Wall" [[BlackSheepHit people don't know]].know]].
** To clarify the last, the three parts of "Another Brick In the Wall", which are separated from one another on the album, have a shared refrain that runs as follows:
*** Part 1: "All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall."
*** Part 2: "All in all, it's just another brick in the wall. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall."
*** Part 3: "All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall. All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall."
** Part 2 is both the best-known, and the only one to state the title.
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* The BarenakedLadies almost did this with their song "Wizard of Magic Land," which was actually the last line in the song. However, the song does have an alternate title of "It's Only Me," which ''is'' sung in every chorus.
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** With the notable exceptions of {{Queen}}'s "Melancholy Blues", {{Bob Dylan}}'s "Tombstone Blues", {{The White Stripes}}' "300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues", The {{Manic Street Preachers}}'s "Watsville Blues", Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", and [[DavidBowie David Bowie's]] "Running Gun Blues."

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** With the notable exceptions of {{Queen}}'s "Melancholy Blues", {{Bob Dylan}}'s "Tombstone Blues", {{The White Stripes}}' "300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues", The {{Manic Street Preachers}}'s "Watsville Blues", Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", Glenn Frey's "Smuggler's Blues", and [[DavidBowie David Bowie's]] "Running Gun Blues."
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** With the notable exceptions of {{Queen}}'s "Melancholy Blues", {{Bob Dylan}}'s "Tombstone Blues", {{The White Stripes}}' "300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues", The {{Manic Street Preachers}}'s "Watsville Blues", and [[DavidBowie David Bowie's]] "Running Gun Blues."

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** With the notable exceptions of {{Queen}}'s "Melancholy Blues", {{Bob Dylan}}'s "Tombstone Blues", {{The White Stripes}}' "300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues", The {{Manic Street Preachers}}'s "Watsville Blues", Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", and [[DavidBowie David Bowie's]] "Running Gun Blues."
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* {{U2}} - "Drowning Man", "Premonade", "MLK", "Exit", "God Part II", "Bad", "Mothers of the Disappeared, "Red Light", "Mofo", "The Three Sunrises", "Indian Summer Sky", "The Unforgettable Fire"

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* {{U2}} - "Drowning Man", "Premonade", "MLK", "Exit", "God Part II", "Bad", "Mothers of the Disappeared, "Red Light", "Mofo", "The Three "Three Sunrises", "Indian Summer Sky", "The Unforgettable Fire"Fire" "A Sort of Homecoming"
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* {{Coldplay}}'s "Amsterdam", "Don't Panic", "Parachutes", "The Scientist", "X&Y", "Life in Technicolor", "Life in Technicolor II", "Viva la Vida", "Twisted Logic", "Clocks", "Lovers in Japan", "Chinese Sleep Chant" and "The Escapist"

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* {{Coldplay}}'s "Amsterdam", "Don't Panic", "Parachutes", "The Scientist", "X&Y", "Life in Technicolor", "Life in Technicolor II", "Viva la Vida", "Twisted Logic", "Clocks", "Lovers in Japan", "Chinese Sleep Chant" and "The Escapist"
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* "Professional Widow" by Tori Amos, among others.

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* "Professional Widow" by Tori Amos, ToriAmos, among others.



* Erasure - Breath of Life.

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* Erasure {{Erasure}} - Breath "Breath of Life.Life".
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* "[[SerialExperimentsLain Duvet]]" by BoA.
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** With the notable exceptions of {{Queen}}'s "Melancholy Blues", {{Bob Dylan}}'s "Tombstone Blues", {{The White Stripes}}' "300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues", and The {{Manic Street Preachers}}'s "Watsville Blues".

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** With the notable exceptions of {{Queen}}'s "Melancholy Blues", {{Bob Dylan}}'s "Tombstone Blues", {{The White Stripes}}' "300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues", and The {{Manic Street Preachers}}'s "Watsville Blues".Blues", and [[DavidBowie David Bowie's]] "Running Gun Blues."
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** "Impressive Instant".
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This trope can be turned to eleven by the title not being thematic or an intentional contrast of the lyrics; except by stretching imagination really far beyond the rule of cool to find a link. It wouldn't be turned to eleven if it were named _vampire_ and would be about taxation in transylvania, though, because that would fall under the rule of cool.
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* {{U2}}- "Drowning Man", "Premonade", "MLK", "Exit", "God Part II"
* {{The Bloodhound Gang}} - "Bad Touch"

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* {{U2}}- {{U2}} - "Drowning Man", "Premonade", "MLK", "Exit", "God Part II"
II", "Bad", "Mothers of the Disappeared, "Red Light", "Mofo", "The Three Sunrises", "Indian Summer Sky", "The Unforgettable Fire"
* {{The The Bloodhound Gang}} Gang - "Bad Touch"

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* {{U2}}- "Drowning Man", "Premonade", "MLK", "Exit", "God Part II"
* {{The Bloodhound Gang}} - "Bad Touch"

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* TheWho's "Baba O'Riley", [[RefrainFromAssuming famously]]. Ironically, and also overlooked, the title phrase "Won't Get Fooled Again" is never actually sang. Listen carefully, the line at the end of each chorus is "...we DON'T get fooled again!"

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* TheWho's "Baba O'Riley", [[RefrainFromAssuming famously]]. Ironically,
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and also overlooked, the title phrase "Won't Get Fooled Again" is never actually sang.uttered in the song of that title. Listen carefully, the line at the end of each chorus is "...we DON'T get fooled again!"
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* TheWho's "Baba O'Riley", [[RefrainFromAssuming famously]].

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* TheWho's "Baba O'Riley", [[RefrainFromAssuming famously]]. Ironically, and also overlooked, the title phrase "Won't Get Fooled Again" is never actually sang. Listen carefully, the line at the end of each chorus is "...we DON'T get fooled again!"
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**"Blood", "Mama", "Teenagers", "Dead", "Sleep", "To The End", "Heaven Help Us", "I Don't Love You". So that's 38 (82%) of their songs - not counting covers - that follow this trope. It is worthy of not that all the songs except "To The End" that don't follow the trope are from their third album, ''TheBlackParade''.

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**"Blood", "Mama", "Teenagers", "Dead", "Sleep", "To The End", "Heaven Help Us", "I Don't Love You". So that's 38 (82%) of their songs - not counting covers - that follow this trope. It is worthy of not that all the songs except "To The End" that don't follow the trope are from their third second album, ''TheBlackParade''.''Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge''.

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