Can you name an album whose title is a phrase from a song (but not the song title)?

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― Barringer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nirvana - Nevermind
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, Still

― danzig, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison-It's Too Late to Stop Now

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Alanis Morrissette-Jagged Little Pill

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

My Aim Is True

― M.V., Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Come on Pilgrim

(you know he loves you)

― MC, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

almost every XTC album

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

(although most of those are phrases from OTHER albums, surprisingly - Oranges and Lemons, Apple Venus, etc.)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

What XTC albums?

Go 2?
White Music?
Black Sea?
Drums and Wires?
English Settlement?
Mummer?
Oranges and Lemons?
Skylarking?

― Barringer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

What XTC albums?

Go 2?
White Music?
Black Sea?
Drums and Wires?
English Settlement?
Mummer?
Oranges and Lemons?
Skylarking?

― Barringer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

REVEAL - rem. a truncation of 'the big reveal' which is the full phrsae and the original working title.

― pisces, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oranges and Lemons is named for a line in Ballad for a Rainy Day off of Skylarking, Apple Venus is from a line from Then She Appeared off of Nonsuch, etc. There are others but I can't remember them off the top of my head. Partridge has noted this tendency in interviews.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

The Wrens: Meadowlands (Everyone choose sides)
Elvis Costello: Blood and Chocoate (Uncomplicated)
Elvis Costello: King of America (Brilliant Mistake)
Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks (You Can't Be Too Strong, although technically he says "squeezing out a spark'"
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps (Hey Hey My My)
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Girlfriend Is Better)

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

One more:

Steely Dan: Katy Lied (Dr. Wu)

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (and Sister and A Thousand Leaves)
Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It

also a huge number of hip hop albums, although those are usually a case of the rapper making explicit reference to the album title in a song, which is kind of something else entirely.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost re: Steely Dan! and I was also just about to name a bunch of Elvis Costello albums (you forgot My Aim Is True and I'm probably forgetting a few more)

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Doolittle
Dark Side of the Moon

― ablaeser, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Snow Patrol - Final Straw

― V, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward ("Lie To Me")
The Cure - Head on the Door ("Close To Me')

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic ("Blues from a Gun") (not sure if that counts since it's just a word!)

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh and duh: Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say?
Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It.

― V, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Perfect Teeth - Unrest

― William Selman, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Rogue Traders - Here Come The Drums

― musically, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Aye

― henry s, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think this is like a good 40% of albums, isn't it?

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Aztec Camera "High Land Hard Rain"

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Counting Crows - This Desert Life
Counting Crows - Films About Ghosts

― Tape Store, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

just because there are so many "never" answers already,
phoenix - it's never been like that

― ryborg3k, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Every Pixies studio album except 'Trompe Le Monde'.

― Aerial Telly, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Def Leppard - Pyromania ("Rock of Ages")

― eatandoph, Saturday, 24 March 2007 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Guns N' Roses- Use Your Illusion ("Locomotive")

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 24 March 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Another Elvis Costello one that immediately comes to mind: Punch the Clock ("The Greatest Thing").

― mark 0, Saturday, 24 March 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ladytron - Witching Hour

― subtle-t, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune ("E.T.I.")

― henry s, Sunday, 25 March 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

The Thermals- More parts per million
Phoenix- It's never been like that.
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (sort of)

― I know, right?, Sunday, 25 March 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, didn't spot the Phoenix one there already.

― I know, right?, Sunday, 25 March 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Some live albums too:

ELP: "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends"
a-ha: "How Can I Sleep With Your Voice In My Head"

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 26 March 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish - from For Tomorrow
Sleeper - the It Girl - from Lie Detector

― Finefinemusic, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It (from Mirror in the Bathroom)

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (NYC)
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (Ted ...)

― mayhaps, Thursday, 29 March 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

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