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Uneponymous
by Paul Ohm
What's in a name? Sadly, when it comes to album titles, usually not a whole lot. The boring convention, the easy way out, the short-cut is to name an album after one of the songs on the album... But...some performers reach beyond the convention, refuse to take the easy way out and pick a name from elsewhere. Here, then, is my simple tribute to these "tiny bit more creative than the rest" artists: here is a list of albums named for something other than the name of a song on the album. (And, yes, I know that the sorting is not the best...) | ||
| The List | ||
| Alanis Morissette | Jagged Little Pill | |
| Apples in Stereo | Discovery of a World Inside the Moone | |
| Apples in Stereo | Her Wallpaper Reverie | |
| Apples in Stereo | Tone Soul Evolution | |
| Backstreet Boys | Millennium | |
| Beatles | Abbey Road | |
| Beatles | Revolver | |
| Beatles | Rubber Soul | |
| Beatles | White Album | |
| Belle and Sebastian | Fold Your Hand Child, You Walk Like a Peasant | |
| Big Audio Dynamite | Megatop Phoenix | |
| Billy Joel | Glass Houses | |
| Billy Joel | Turnstiles | |
| Bob Seger | Stranger in Town*** | |
| Catherine Wheel | Adam and Eve | |
| Catherine Wheel | Happy Days | |
| Catherine Wheel | Like Cats and Dogs | |
| Catherine Wheel | Wishville | |
| Creeper Lagoon | I Become Small and Go | |
| Creeper Lagoon | Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday | |
| Crowded House | Temple of Low Men | |
| Crowded House | Woodface | |
| Dire Straits | Making Movies** | |
| Eagles | Hell Freezes Over | |
| Hanson | Middle of Nowhere | |
| Hum | You'd Prefer an Astronaut | |
| Jewel | Pieces of You | |
| John Lennon/Yoko Ono | Double Fantasy | |
| Led Zeppelin | Coda | |
| Led Zeppelin | Houses of the Holy | |
| Led Zeppelin | In Through the Out Door | |
| Led Zeppelin | Physical Grafitti | |
| Led Zeppelin | Presence | |
| Mazzy Star | Among My Swan | |
| Pavement | Brighten the Corners | |
| Pavement | Slanted and Enchanted | |
| Pavement | Wowee Zowee | |
| Pearl Jam | all albums (Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, No Code, Yield, Binaural) | |
| Portishead | Dummy | |
| REM | Eponymous* | |
| REO Speedwagon | High Infidelity | |
| REO Speedwagon | You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish | |
| Radiohead | OK Computer | |
| Radiohead | Pablo Honey | |
| Richard Ashcroft | Alone with Everybody | |
| Soul Asylum | Candy From a Stranger*** | |
| Bruce Springsteen | Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. | |
| Bruce Springsteen | The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle**** | |
| Stereolab | Last of the Microbe Hunters | |
| Styx | Cornerstone | |
| Matthew Sweet | 100% Fun | |
| Matthew Sweet | Altered Beast | |
| Matthew Sweet | Blue Skies on Mars | |
| Matthew Sweet | In Reverse | |
| Teenage Fanclub | Bandwagonesque | |
| Teenage Fanclub | Grand Prix | |
| Teenage Fanclub | Songs from Northern Britain | |
| Teenage Fanclub | Thirteen | |
| Pete Townshend | All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes | |
| The Verve | Urban Hymns | |
| The Who | Who's Next | |
| They Might Be Giants | Miscellaneous T.* | |
| Travis | The Man Who | |
| Two Lone Swordsmen | Tiny Reminders | |
| U2 | Achtung Baby | |
| U2 | Joshua Tree | |
| U2 | Pop | |
| Luke Vibert | Throbbing Pouch | |
| Joe Walsh | But Seriously, Folks | |
| Joe Walsh | You Bought It, You Name It* | |
| Yo La Tengo | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out | |
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Key:
* Album title that mocks album titling. | ||