One Word Title / Music

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• "One". There's actually more than one "One".
• Miles Davis was particularly partial to these, many of which were songs penned by Wayne Shorter:
  • "Iris"
  • Panthalassa
  • The Idiosyncratic Episode Naming albums with a "[Verb]in" pattern:
    • Workin
    • Cookin
    • Walkin
    • Steamin
    • Relaxin
• Moby's album Play having:
  • "Honey"
  • "Porcelain"
  • "Rushing"
  • "Bodyrock"
  • "Machete"
  • "7": Which is also Title by Number.
  • "Everloving"
  • "Inside"
  • "Flower"
  • "Sunday"
  • "Summer"
  • "Spirit"
  • "Sunspot"
  • "Running"
• Although Tears for Fears seem rather fond of lengthy titles, they do have over a dozen songs (plus one album) which fit this trope.
  • "Wino" ^note the B-Side of "Suffer the Children"
  • "Change"
  • "Shout"
  • "Broken"
  • "Listen"
  • "Pharaohs" ^note the B-Side of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
  • Elemental and its Title Track
  • "Cold"
  • "Power"
  • "Secrets"
  • "Sorry"
  • "Ladybird"
  • "Stay"
• Disturbed is a fan of this trope. Most of their albums contain twelve or so songs, all but one or two of which are an example. Their band name however, is an example of the Sub-Trope, Verbed Title.
• Lionel Richie, with the Commodores:
  • "Superman", from Machine Gun.
  • "Free", "Time" (not to be confused with Richie's later solo song of the same title), and "Cebu", from Movin' On.
  • Commodores (known as Zoom in the UK and Australia), plus "Zoom" and "Easy".^note The latter is also known as Easy Like Sunday Morning.
  • "Visions", from Natural High.
  • "Still", from Midnight Magic.
  • Heroes and its title track, plus "Celebrate".
  • "Lucy", from In the Pocket.
• Richie as a solo artist:
  • "Truly", from his solo debut Lionel Richie.
  • "Hello", from Can't Slow Down.
  • "Change", "Paradise", and "Climbing", from Louder Than Words.
  • Time and its title track, plus "Zoomin'", "Touch", "Forever", "Everytime", "Stay", "Someday", and "Lady". The last of these was a song he had originally written for Kenny Rogers.
  • Renaissance, and also the tracks "Angel", "Cinderella", and "Tonight".
  • "Heaven" and "Outrageous", from Just for You.
  • "Why", from Coming Home.
  • "Forever", "Pastime", and "Eternity", from Just Go.
  • Tuskegee,^note A Meaningful Name—he was born and spent most of his childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama (though he went to high school in Illinois), and after high school returned to his birthplace to attend Tuskegee Institute (now University). which consisted of reinterpretations of songs that he wrote in full or part. "Hello", "Lady", and "Easy" appeared on this album.
• Pearl Jam are prone to this in studio albums (exceptions are No Code, Riot Act, Lightning Bolt and the Self-Titled Album), and were on song titles (which they retracted by writing "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town", though there already were exceptions like "Why Go" and the B-sides "Dirty Frank" and "Yellow Ledbetter").
• Brazilian band Skank have 8 studio albums. Only one doesn't fit the trope.
• That Handsome Devil's reinterpretation of The Jungle Book (1967) condenses each of the songs' titles into one word (i.e. "Bare" for "The Bare Necessities).
• Every song on Elton John's Made in England album has a one-word title, with the exception of the title track.
• "Go" from Asia's Astra album.
• Toxicity by System of a Down, which contains the tracks "Needles", "Bounce", "Forest", "Science", "Shimmy", "Toxicity", "Psycho" and "Aerials". ("Chop Suey!" from this album was originally titled "Suicide", so it could count too.)
  • Their fourth and fifth albums, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, each have a one-word title. Collectively, they contain the one-word tracks "Revenga", "Cigaro", "Question!", "Attack", "Dreaming", "Hypnotize", and "Tentative".
• Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which is a Portmanteau between "California" and "fornication". Contains the tracks "Porcelain", "Californication", "Easily", and "Otherside" (which is a portmanteau between... well, you probably know).
• Strip by Adam Ant.
• Dennis Wilson had several one-word song titles, such as "Moonshine", "Dreamer", "Time" and "Rainbows", all from Pacific Ocean Blue.
• Strip by Adam Ant.
• The Beach Boys have had their fair share of such titles: Smile, Friends, Sunflower, and Holland.
• The Beatles had Help! and Revolver.
• Björk enjoys this trope too: Debut (as well as the tracks "Crying" and "Aeroplane"), Post, Homogenic, Vespertine, Medúlla,...
  • The "best of" album by her previous band The Sugarcubes, The Great Crossover Potential, doesn't have a one-word title, but is composed entirely of songs which do.
• Black Sabbath's album Paranoid, as well as the song of the same name.
• David Bowie's Low (as well as the track "Warszawa"), the Title Track of Heroes (as well as the tracks "Neuköln" and "Blackout" on that album) and Lodger.
• The Velvet Underground has Loaded, which is an example of the Sub-Trope, Verbed Title, but they also fit here because they have Squeeze.
• Jeff Buckley's Grace, as well as the title track.
• The Cars:
  • Panorama and its title track.
  • "Cruiser" (from Shake It Up).
  • "Magic" and "Drive" (from Heartbeat City).
  • "Soon" and "Free" (from Move Like This).
• Sandinista! by The Clash.
• Homework and Discovery by Daft Punk.
• Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist, which is also Portmantitle of "Frankenstein" and "Christ".
• Doe Maar: 4US (Album).
• Fleetwood Mac:
  • "Albatross" (a 1968 instrumental non-album single that remains the only UK #1 single from any incarnation of the band)
  • "Underway" (from the original 1971 version of Then Play On)
  • "Dragonfly" (a non-album single that appeared as a bonus track on the remastered Then Play On in 2020)
  • "Sometimes" (from Future Games)
  • "Dust" (from Bare Trees)
  • Penguin (and the tracks "Dissatisfied" and "Revelation'')
  • "Hypnotized", "Forever", and Why" (from Mystery to Me)
  • "Angel" (a Bob Welch composition from Heroes Are Hard to Find)
  • "Rhiannon", "Crystal", and "Landslide" (from Fleetwood Mac (1975))
  • Rumours (and the tracks "Dreams" and "Songbird")
  • Tusk and its title track, as well as the tracks "Sara", "Storms", and "Angel" (Stevie Nicks composition).
  • "Gypsy" (from Mirage)
  • "Everywhere", "Caroline", and "Mystified" (from Tango in the Night)
  • "Freedom" (from Behind the Mask)
  • "Miranda", "Come", and "Peacekeeper" (the first two from the original release of Say You Will, the last included on a bonus disc in that album's "Deluxe Edition")
• Peter Gabriel has three (arguably four) studio albums with such a title, and all of his studio albums have at least one track that fits.
  • "Humdrum" and "Slowburn" (from the 1977 album Peter Gabriel, aka Car)
  • "Indigo", "Exposure", and "Perspective" (from the 1978 album Peter Gabriel, aka Scratch)
  • "Intruder", "Start", and "Biko" (from the 1980 album Peter Gabriel, aka Melt)
  • "Wallflower" (from the 1982 album Peter Gabriel, aka Security)
  • So (and the track "Sledgehammer")
  • Up (and the track "Darkness")
  • Us (and the track "Steam")
  • The cover album Scratch My Back includes "Heroes" (David Bowie), "Mirrorball" (Elbow), "Flume" (Bon Iver), and "Philadelphia" (Neil Young).
  • "Panopticom" and arguably "i/o" (from i/o)
• Ellie Goulding: Halcyon.
• Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
• Melina KB:
  • Her single "Hollow".
  • From her album Playing Adult
    • "Invitation"
    • "Oscar"
    • "Unavoidable"
    • "Famous"
• Michael Jackson also had a tendency to use one word for his album titles: Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, History, Invincible,...
• Jethro Tull: Aqualung
• Closer by Joy Division (with the tracks "Isolation", "Passover", "Colony" and "Decades")
• Tapestry by Carole King (as well as the title track and "Beautiful").
• Abigail (and the individual tracks "Abigail", "Arrival" and "Omens") by King Diamond
• KISS who have:
  • Destroyer (and the track "Beth")
  • Dynasty (and the track "Charisma")
  • Unmasked, which is the Sub-Trope Verbed Title, has the track "Shandi").
• Autobahn by Kraftwerk.
• Kwon Eunbi's solo career began with exclusively with one-word titles for her singles "Esper," "Door," "Glitch," and "Underwater," and her mini-albums Open, Color, and Lethality.
• John Lennon's Imagine.
• Linkin Park's Meteora, and the individual tracks "Session", "Numb" and "Faint".
• Erotica and the individual tracks "Erotica", "Fever", "Waiting", "Words" and "Rain", by Madonna. Also her Self-Titled Album Madonna. She holds the record for the most UK hit singles with one-word titles: 17 of them including number ones with "Vogue", "Frozen", "Music" and "Sorry".
• Burnin', Live, Exodus, Kaya, Survival, Uprising, Confrontation and Legend by Bob Marley.
• McCartney and Ram by Paul McCartney.
• Robert Palmer:
  • "Blackmail" (from Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley).
  • "Trouble" (from Pressure Drop).
  • Secrets, plus the track "Jealous".
  • Clues.
  • Pride and its title track, plus "Deadline".
  • Riptide and its title track, plus "Hyperactive" and a reprise of the title track.
  • "Happiness", "History", "Housework", and "Aeroplane" (from Don't Explain).
  • "Aeroplane" also appeared on his next album (Ridin' High), which had two other examples in "Witchcraft" and "Chance".
  • "Honeymoon" (from Honey).
  • "Tennis" (from the UK and Canada versions of Rhythm & Blues).
  • Drive, plus the tracks "Lucky" and "Stella".
• The Police:
  • "Roxanne" and "Peanuts" (from Outlandos d'Amour).
  • "Deathwish" and "Contact" (from Reggatta de Blanc).
  • "Omegaman" and "Darkness" (from Ghost in the Machine).
  • Synchronicity, plus the track "Mother".
• Murmur by R.E.M..
• Lou Reed's Transformer and Berlin.
• Joyride by Roxette.
• Todd Rundgren's 2008 album, Arena, has all the tracks be exactly 1 word long.
• Run DMC by Run–D.M.C..
• Supertramp:
  • The band's self-titled debut album, plus its opening track "Surely".
  • "Travelled", "Remember", "Forever", "Potter", and "Aries", from Indelibly Stamped.
  • "School" (about an Assimilation Academy), "Asylum", "Dreamer" (about a Mad Dreamer), and "Rudy" from Crime of the Century.
  • "Lady", from Crisis? What Crisis?
  • "Babaji", from Even in the Quietest Moments...
  • The live album Paris, which includes all four examples from Crime of the Century.
  • "Crazy" and "Bonnie", from ...Famous Last Words...
  • "Cannonball", from Brother Where You Bound.
  • "Downstream", from the live album It Was the Best of Times.
  • "Goldrush", from Slow Motion.
• Amy Winehouse's Frank.
• Skylarking (and the individual tracks "Grass" and "Dying" by XTC).
• Stand! by Sly and the Family Stone.
• Horses (and the individual tracks "Gloria", "Land" and "Elegie") by Patti Smith. Her albums Easter and Wave are another two examples.
• Tourist by St Germain
• U2:
  • Boy (and the track "Twilight").
  • October and its title track, as well as the tracks "Gloria", "Rejoice", "Fire", "Tomorrow", and "Scarlet".
  • War (and the tracks "Seconds" and "40").
  • "Wire", "Promenade", and "Bad" (all from The Unforgettable Fire). "MLK", from the same album, is borderline, as it's explicitly a tribute to Martin Luther King.
  • "Exit" (from The Joshua Tree).
  • "Desire" and "Heartland" (from Rattle and Hum).
  • "One" and "Acrobat" (from Achtung Baby).
  • Zooropa, which opens with the title track, with the next three being "Babyface", "Numb", and "Lemon".
  • Pop (and the tracks "Mofo", "Gone", "Miami", and "Please").
  • "Elevation", "Kite", and "Grace" (from All That You Can't Leave Behind).
  • "Verttigo" and "Yahweh" (from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb).
  • "Magnificent" and "Breathe" (from No Line on the Horizon).
  • "Volcano" (from Songs of Innocence).
  • "Landlady" (from Songs of Experience).
  • "Invisible" (a non-album single that appeared years later on Songs of Surrender).
• Apostrophe ('), Thing-Fish and Guitar by Frank Zappa.
• Aftermath (Album) by The Rolling Stones.
• Dummy (and the tracks "Mysterons", "Numb","Roads", "Biscuit" and "Pedestal") by Portishead.
• Pink Floyd has three albums with a one word title: More, Animals and Meddle.
• Pushing Up Daisies had one album: "Wheedle." All ten tracks consisted of a single word.
• Bleach, Incesticide and Nevermind by Nirvana.
• The Residents have Eskimo.
• Joyride by Roxette.
• Santana has quite a few albums that fit, and almost every album in the band's discography has at least one example:
  • Santana (1969) and the tracks "Waiting", "Savor", "Jingo", "Persuasion", and "Treat".
  • Abraxas
  • Santana (1971) and the tracks "Batuka", "Taboo", "Guajira", and on the 1998 reissue only, "Gumbo".
  • Caravanserai
  • Welcome and its title track.
  • Borboletta and its title track, plus the tracks "Aspirations" and "Mirage".
  • Amigos and the track "Gitano".
  • Festival and the tracks "Carnaval", "Jugando", and "Revelations".
  • Moonflower and the new tracks "Zulu", "Bahia", and "Transcendance" [sic] (plus live versions of "Carnaval" and "Jugando" from the previous album).
  • "Stormy" and "Wham!" from Inner Secrets.
  • Marathon and its title track, plus the tracks "Runnin'" and "Love".
  • Zebop! and the tracks "Changes", "Searchin'", "Winning", and "Hannibal".
  • Shangó and its title track, plus the track "Warrior".
  • "Brotherhood" and "Spirit" from Beyond Appearances.
  • Freedom and the tracks "Veracruz", "Praise", and "Mandela".
  • "Choose" and "Jin-go-lo-ba" from Spirits Dancing in the Flesh.
  • Supernatural and the tracks "Smooth", "Migra", and "Primavera".
  • Shaman and the tracks "Adouma", "America", "Sideways", and "Novus".
  • "Hermes", "Twisted", and "Trinity" from All That I Am.
  • The Def Leppard cover "Photograph" from the cover album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time.
  • "Dom", "Nomad", "Melatron", and "Canela" from ''Shape Shifter".
  • Corazón and the tracks "Saideira", "Margarita" and "Indy".
  • "Yambu", "Sueños", "Caminando", "Echizo", and "Forgiveness" from Santana IV.
  • "Batonga" and "Bembele" from Africa Speaks.
  • "Rumbalero", "Joy", "Move", and "Break" from Blessings and Miracles.
• Graceland by Paul Simon.
• The albums Illinois! and Michigan by Sufjan Stevens, as well as many individual songs ("Chicago", "Borderline", "Eugene", "Vesuvius", "Holland", "Romulus", "Djohariah", "Pittsfield", "Sister", "Kill", "Arnika", "Heirloom", "Rake").
• Flood by They Might Be Giants
• dubnobasswithmyheadman by Underworld.
• Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits.
• Pinkerton (and the track "Getchoo") by Weezer.
• Emergency! by Tony Williams.
• Blue by Joni Mitchell.
• Elephant (and the track "Hypnotize") by The White Stripes.
• Dry by PJ Harvey.
• Tourist by St Germain.
• Pet Shop Boys: Every album.
• Primal Scream: Screamadelica.
• The Smashing Pumpkins: Adore
• M.I.A.: Kala and Arular.
• Syd Barrett: Barrett
• Slint: Spiderland
• The Antlers: Hospice
• Fugazi: Repeater
• Belly: There was the name of the band. There were their two albums, Star and King. Then there were about half the songs on those albums, including "Angel", "Dusted", "Gepetto", "Witch", "Star", "Stay", "Puberty", "Red", "Silverfish", "King", "Broken", and "Thief".
• There's also a rapper with the name Belly
• Korn: "Pretty", "Justin", "Seed", and "Cameltosis" from Follow the Leader.
• Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust"
• Benny Goodman's "Moonglow"
• Listie.
• BTS's album WINGS, as well as the Japanese album Youth. Also plenty of songs: "Mikrokosmos", "Dionysus", "HOME", "Euphoria", "Serendipity", "Singularity", "Epiphany", "IDOL", "Fire", "Begin", "Lie", "Stigma", "Reflection", "MAMA", "Awake"...
• Jean-Michel Jarre:
  • Non-album singles and albums with one-word titles and parts rather than song titles:
    • Hypnose (only "Hypnose (Partie 2)" is credited to Jarre as the artist)
    • Oxygène ("Oxygène Part I" through "VI")
    • Équinoxe ("Equinoxe Part I" through "VIII")
    • Chronologie ("Chronologie Part 1" through "8")
  • Albums with one-word titles and one-word song titles:
    • Zoolook ("Ethnicolor", "Diva", "Zoolook", "Wooloomooloo", "Zoolookologie")
    • Revolutions ("Revolutions"^note replaced with the live version "Revolution, Revolutions" as of the 1997 remaster due to intellectual property issues, "September")
    • Metamorphoses ("Bells", "Silhouette")
    • Aero ("Aero", "Aerology", "Aerozone")
  • Other one-word song titles:
    • "Erosmachine" (La Cage/Erosmachine)
    • "Rose", "Hésitation", "Reconstruction", "Générique" (OST Les granges brûlées)
    • "Cartolina", "Heiza" (Cartolina/Heiza)
    • "Arpegiator" (The Concerts In China)
    • "Calypso" (Waiting For Cousteau)
    • "Palawan" (soundtrack to Palawan - The Last Refuge)
    • "Eldorado" (first released on Images - The Best Of Jean Michel Jarre)
    • "Digisequencer" (from the Europe In Concert tour and the nameless Hongkong concert, first released on Hong Kong)
    • "RaveOlution" (extension of "Revolution, Revolutions" at the concerts of 1997 and 1998, never officially released, only available as a bootleg)
    • "Akropolis" (a.k.a. "Hymn To Acropolis", never officially released, only available as a bootleg)
    • "Chatterbox", "Gossip", "Vintage" (Téo & Téa)
    • "Glory", "Automatic" (two-parter), "If..!", "Immortals", "Conquistador", "Stardust" (Electronica Part 1)
    • "Electrees", "Exit", "Gisèle", "Circus" (Electronica Part 2)
    • "Herbalizer" (from Jarre's performance at the 2018 Coachella festival, first released on Planet Jarre - 50 Years Of Music)
    • "Infinity" (Equinoxe Infinity)
  • Concerts and performances with one-word titles:
    • Aor (1971 ballet)
    • Aero (2002 concert in Denmark)
• Heavenly Beat: every album and every song.
• Good Kid is partial to this. Good Kid EP has this for 5/6 tracks ("Nomu", "Alchemist", "Witches", "Faster", and "Atlas") and Good Kid 2 has "Slingshot", "Pox", and "Drifting". There's also their single, "Orbit".
• Caravan Palace: A lot of songs: "Miracle", "Midnight", "Panic", "Pirates", "April", "Wonderland", "Comics", "Tattoos", "Russian", "Mighty", and more.
• On Talking Heads' Fear of Music album, 7 of the 11 tracks have one-word titles.^List "Mind", "Paper", "Cities", "Air", "Heaven", "Animals", and "Drugs"
• Jhariah has "Doomsday", "Reverse", "Promises", "Goodbye", and "SPLIT!"
• Vile, Kill and Torture by Cannibal Corpse.
• True, Stories and Tim by Avicii.
• Stereophonics have the albums Kind and Oochya!, as well as the songs "Dakota", "Superman", "Devil", "Traffic", "Lolita", "Rooftop" and "Surprise".
• There are quite a few on the album Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow...) by Vylet Pony — "Brohoof", "Hush!", "Carousel", "Futura" and "Creekflow".

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