how many artists release the 'title track' after the album?

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for example:
primal scream - screamadelica (not on the album but as an ep)
the teardrop explodes - kilimanjaro (not on the album but a single b-side)
julian cope - world shut your mouth (not on the album but on 'saint julian', a couple of albums later)

― keefus (keefus), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Beat Happening - Dreamy (released as 7", earlier)
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (a few LPs later)

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun

(This thread has surely been done before?)

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Costello - "When I Was Cruel Pt. 1" was a Japanese b-side while "Pt. 2" made it to the eponymous album.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Arab Strap - The Week Never Starts Around Here - four albums later, no less.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape (b-side to one of the singles from that album)

― mason r butler, Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Nick Cave - Nocturama (b side to a single)

― jz, Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Julian Cope : "Peggy Suicide"

He still hasn't released this. (Nice that I have this on a 'cassette')

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Costello - "When I Was Cruel Pt. 1" was a Japanese b-side while "Pt. 2" made it to the eponymous album.

other elvis title tracks released after the album:
"almost blue"
"imperial bedroom"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Wow!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Ride: "Going Blank Again"
Jandek: too many times to mention

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Guided By Voices: too many times to mention also

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

The Harvest Ministers: "A Feeling Mission."

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

PJ Harvey-"Dry"

― C.D., Friday, 9 December 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

There's a new Belle & Sebastian song called "The Life Pursuit" which is not on the album The Life Pursuit. Whenever they get around to putting that out...

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

This is sort of the inverse, like the Foo Fighters item above:

Superchunk's "On The Mouth" was released as a b-side to a single, and not on the album of the same name.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

The B-side to the Mars Volta's single "The Widow" is the song "Frances The Mute."

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Big Country's insanely epic and awesome song "The Crossing" showed up as a b-side to "Chance," and later on the "Wonderland" EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ZMQAw8QZk

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 November 2019 19:24 (six years ago)

Robyn Hitchcock did this with "Queen Elvis", which appeared on "Eye".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:32 (six years ago)

Oh, and with "You & Oblivion", which is found on "Moss Elixir".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:35 (six years ago)

The Triffids only released the track 'Born Sandy Devotional' as a brief edited version on the subsequent woolshed album In The Pines. The full version appeared on the 2007 reissue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXujhXBkf_M

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 15 November 2019 20:50 (six years ago)

Kathryn Williams "Little Black Numbers" - first track on the subsequent album

― fetter, Friday, 15 November 2019 21:06 (six years ago)

Blind Melon's 'Soup' first appeared on Nico, the album released after the death of Shannon Hoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lec_LszFoT4

― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 15 November 2019 21:06 (six years ago)

five years pass...

thought there was a bigger thread for this but

Neil Young - "Buffalo Springfield Again" from Silver and Gold is a funny one of these.

― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 02:22 (one year ago)

A similar example is "The Colour of Spring" on Mark Hollis.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 02:29 (one year ago)

bigger thread:
Artists who have songs which have the same name as an album, but aren't on that album

― visiting, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 02:49 (one year ago)

Kingmaker - Eat Yourself Whole

(on an EP the year after the album came out)

― groovypanda, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 13:36 (one year ago)

JAMC - Psychocandy (subsequent b-side)

― fetter, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 17:54 (one year ago)

Magnolia Electric Co - What Comes After the Blues (later in the Sojourner collection)

― JifMoose, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 23:00 (one year ago)

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