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New Order has a long tradition of song titles that aren’t present on their lyrics. At one point their label started adding the part with the lyrics between parentheses like in “World (Price of Love)”. The “Price of Love” part was added to the single release. On their 1993 album “Republic”, the track is simply called “World”. Because they had released an unrelated track called “World in Motion” just 3 years before, the label thought it would be better to tell the two very clearly apart.
I was going to post something about New Order songs never having the song title in the song. "Perfect Kiss" is the only exception I can think of. That's a very interesting tidbit you wrote about the record label putting part of the lyrics in parenthesis as part of the title. I didn't know that.
According to Pop-up Video, "What's Up" was the lead singer's favorite phrase. And "What's Going On" was already taken (showing a picture of Marvin Gaye).
About "Blue Monday," you could say the same thing about the group's other well-known songs. Neither "Bizarre Love Triangle" nor "True Faith" feature the song titles within the lyrics.
You beat me to it :) I was going to say practically all of New Order's songs don't have the title in the song lyrics. "Perfect Kiss" has perfect kiss in the lyrics.
@christopherdieudonne I wouldn't call "Perfect Kiss" a hit, as there are really only four New Order songs known to the American mainstream: "Blue Monday" (whether the original or a 1988 remix), "Bizarre Love Triangle", "True Faith", and "Regret".
OMG for years it's been driving me crazy, I just never thought the song Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls would be called that if the name wasn't in the lyrics . I can relax now haha
The Great Gig in the Sky has no lyrics whatsoever but Clare Torry's Voice is Magnificent . Dark Side of the Moon , in case you live on the Moon and have never heard it . Albatross , Fleetwood Mac .After the Gold Rush , Neil Young .
Might not be as well known but given it was on the soundtrack to Romeo + Juliet in the mid-90s, #1 Crush by Garbage came to mind for me along with For What It's Worth
Sarah McLachlan - Possession Mamas & Papas - Creeque Alley Augie March - Victoria's Secret Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Michael Nesmith, who coincidentally cameos in The Day in the Life video, named many of his songs with titles that don't feature in the lyrics. Good Clean Fun, Papa Gene's Blues, Daily Nightly, Tapioca Tundra...
Fearless - Pink Floyd She was waiting for her mother at the station in Torino and you know I love you baby but it's getting too heavy to laugh - Shawn Phillips
Rush has a ton of songs that don't have their titles in the lyrics, some of which are quite well known, such as 2112 and The Spirit of Radio. This seems to be a common practice in prog rock, in an attempt to come off as more sophisticated.
Helena - My Chemical Romance Song 2 - Blur Basket Case - Green Day Fat Lip - Sum-41 Paradise Lost - Hollywood Undead This could be anywhere in the world by Alexisonfire White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane Adam's Song - Blink-182 Disintegration - Jimmy Eat World
Let me guess, WatchMojo: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is on this video, huh? RIP Kurt Cobain. You and the guys from Nirvana hated the song but it's one of the most defining songs of the 90s. 😅
While David Bowie's Space Oddity isn't called Ground Control to Major Tom or just Major Tom, there is the 1982 song Major Tom by Peter Schilling, which is a German song, though was also translated into English. But since it's neither a British song nor an American one, I guess WatchMojo doesn't care.
Leather & Lace by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley. It says "Give to me your leather take from me my lace". Father & Son, by Cat Stevens Whip-Smart by Liz Phair Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins
Just a nitpick but it wasn't "many thousands of years ago" when the Vikings, um, "visited" England. This is now 2025 and the first known Viking raid on the island of Great Britain happened in 789 CE--a mere 1236 years ago (although it's believed that there were raids before then but no records exist of any before 789).
hymn for the weekend by coldplay my immortal by evanescen yellow ledbetter by pearl jam superman by five for fighting one by metallica second you sleep by saybia about a girl by nirvana
I knew the Bowie song is called 'Space Oddity', Townsend's project was called 'Lifehouse' not 'Lighthouse', And what about the Madness track ' Return of the Los Palmas 7', or 'Song for whoever' by The Beautiful South?
I know What’s Going On, Unchained Melody, Viva La Vida, Blue Monday, Iris, Rapper’s Delight, Sympathy For The Devil, Immigrant Song, Space Oddity, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Baba O’Riley and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfiled Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order Juicy - The Notorious B.I.G. Baskte Case - Greenday
As a total nitpicky bit, Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" never actually says that phrase at any point in the song. Rod sings "If you want my body AND YOU THINK I'M SEXY" at every point in the song. The title is a question but, in the song, he's making an affirmative statement.
Hey, that wasn’t David Bowie that was Ziggy Stardust.😂 On a serious note. 🤔I’ve always wondered if you were to take every drawn out word, e.g. “hello” to “how low” from Smells like teen spirit and so on from every Nirvana song from every album/ song that they released (in chronological order of their release) if it would be a secret message or something 🤔
Stone Temple Pilots. Plush, Piece of pie, meat plow, interstate love song, sex type thing, tripping on a hole in a paper heart, big empty, kitchen ware and candy bars….. I could keep going but you get the idea.
Thank you Ive been waiting for this list Bohemian rhapsody Ex factor Stairway to Heaven Me against the music Hiss megan thee stallion Dilemma Bodak yellow
@dave04962 Nah, you're right. It's Mandela at its finest. I looked it up, and the lyric I thought was "Viva la vida" is actually "Be my mirror." I don't think I can be blamed for falling for it, though.
5 of the James Bond theme songs don't have the name of the movie in the lyrics. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - We Have All the Time in the World. Octopussy - All Time High Casino Royale - You Know My Name Quantim of Solace - Another Way to Die Spectre - Writing's on the Wall
Not a favourite, but the Lambada - Kaoma, which was ripped off from Llorando se fue - los Kjarkas, which IS sung as the first line in the original Spanish version.
Creed- weathered Alterbridge- metalingus Daniel powter- free loop Greenday- Good riddance, Last night on earth Linkinpark- points of authority Many of A7X songs Nelly and kelly- Delima Coldplay- the scientist And many more. These are on my playlist so watch mojo dig deeper if you upload this kind of s*** 😂
The Chauffeur is one of my all time favourites. Others by DD: - The Seventh Stranger - Palomino - To Whom it May Concern - U.M.F. There may be more but these sprang to mind.
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Gotta be Metallica- Fade to Black
Carousel by Buckcherry
The fact that number 2 on the list wasn't Song 2 by Blur is both a shame and a tragedy
I know a few: Green Day’s “Basket Case,” Butthole Surfers’ “Pepper,” and Gorillazs’ “Clint Eastwood.”
Or Blink-182's Dammit, or Sum 41's The Hell Song, or The Offspring's The Kids Aren't Alright.
@@sub-zero710 SOD - Chop Suey
Baba O'Riley by The Who, always comes to mind. People always call it Teenage Wasteland.
'Tubthumping' Chumbawamba. Remember "p155ing the night away" all too well 😅
why can’t u say pissing?
@@herphyyyobviously you can but I never took that chance! 😮
@@dave04962 why it’s not rude ?
Led Zeppelin has a ton of songs where the title is not in the lyrics
That is true indeed. Another example (and one of my main favorites): Candy Store Rock [from the Presence album (released in 1976)].
Yes.... that's....what....they.....said....in....the....video
Like Over The Hills and Far Away or D'yer Maker or Kashmir or Black Dog
True as well as countless other amazing bands, not being rude just agreeing and adding to this comment
@JBlyrics99 like Stone Temple Pilots
The fact that Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” is an absolute TRAVESTY!!! That’s the first song that pops into MY head!
Why's that song an absolute travesty? Is it just because you don't proofread your comments before you click the button?
@ why’s this post edited? 🤣
They can't include every song ever on a list of only 15, duh. (Every single video, there's always _that_ guy).
Paranoid by Black Sabbath is another prominent example of this little topic.
Also "Black Sabbath" (the song).
Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins.
Beat me to it but yes! Only vampires and rats in cages were mentioned but no butterflies -_-
For real. I remember when the song first hit big I thought it was called Despite All My Rage.@@DaNewACKisBACK
New Order has a long tradition of song titles that aren’t present on their lyrics. At one point their label started adding the part with the lyrics between parentheses like in “World (Price of Love)”. The “Price of Love” part was added to the single release. On their 1993 album “Republic”, the track is simply called “World”. Because they had released an unrelated track called “World in Motion” just 3 years before, the label thought it would be better to tell the two very clearly apart.
I was going to post something about New Order songs never having the song title in the song. "Perfect Kiss" is the only exception I can think of. That's a very interesting tidbit you wrote about the record label putting part of the lyrics in parenthesis as part of the title. I didn't know that.
Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Thieves Like Us do not contain those words in their respective lyrics.
@@christopherdieudonneanother one is Shell Shock.
@@sureshmukhi2316 Yes! That's right :)
I was surprised to see that “Pompei” from Bastille wasn’t on here.
According to Pop-up Video, "What's Up" was the lead singer's favorite phrase. And "What's Going On" was already taken (showing a picture of Marvin Gaye).
About "Blue Monday," you could say the same thing about the group's other well-known songs. Neither "Bizarre Love Triangle" nor "True Faith" feature the song titles within the lyrics.
I think "Regret" was their only major hit that had its title in the lyrics... and it only appears once.
You beat me to it :) I was going to say practically all of New Order's songs don't have the title in the song lyrics. "Perfect Kiss" has perfect kiss in the lyrics.
@@nicholasharvey1232 I don't know if "Perfect Kiss" counts as a hit but he sings "perfect kiss" at some point in the song.
@christopherdieudonne I wouldn't call "Perfect Kiss" a hit, as there are really only four New Order songs known to the American mainstream: "Blue Monday" (whether the original or a 1988 remix), "Bizarre Love Triangle", "True Faith", and "Regret".
OMG for years it's been driving me crazy, I just never thought the song Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls would be called that if the name wasn't in the lyrics . I can relax now haha
The Great Gig in the Sky has no lyrics whatsoever but Clare Torry's Voice is Magnificent . Dark Side of the Moon , in case you live on the Moon and have never heard it . Albatross , Fleetwood Mac .After the Gold Rush , Neil Young .
Linkin Park-Papercut
Limp Bizkit-Break Stuff
The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Allright
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Muse - Uprising
Ænima - Tool
Linkin Park -Catalyst
First song that popped to my mind for this list is Linkin Park's Faint.
thank you, watchmojo! I have always wanted you guys to do this video!
Might not be as well known but given it was on the soundtrack to Romeo + Juliet in the mid-90s, #1 Crush by Garbage came to mind for me along with For What It's Worth
Sarah McLachlan - Possession
Mamas & Papas - Creeque Alley
Augie March - Victoria's Secret
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
"Tomorrow never knows" By the Beatles 🙂
“Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” - Pearl Jam
Michael Nesmith, who coincidentally cameos in The Day in the Life video, named many of his songs with titles that don't feature in the lyrics. Good Clean Fun, Papa Gene's Blues, Daily Nightly, Tapioca Tundra...
"Battle Hymn of the Republic"
"Annie's Song" - John Denver
"Danny's Song" - Anne Murray
John Denver - Annie's Song should have made the list.
Also New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle".
Actually...a lot of New Order's songs are like that.
Yeah, I think their entire catalog is like that, with the exception of "Perfect Kiss"
Fearless - Pink Floyd
She was waiting for her mother at the station in Torino and you know I love you baby but it's getting too heavy to laugh - Shawn Phillips
"Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd . . . smiling". Close enough, don't you think?
@@scottbilger9294 oops, shoulda done more research
Rush has a ton of songs that don't have their titles in the lyrics, some of which are quite well known, such as 2112 and The Spirit of Radio. This seems to be a common practice in prog rock, in an attempt to come off as more sophisticated.
Frankenstein by Edgar Winter does not contain the word 'Frankenstein.' We'll see who gets that joke.
My favorite Collective Soul song is Heavy. Huge rock hit at the time, never mentions the word.
Lol, Fall Out Boy does that on a lot of their earlier albums, I’m not sure if they still do it. But they would make ridiculously long titles.
Helena - My Chemical Romance
Song 2 - Blur
Basket Case - Green Day
Fat Lip - Sum-41
Paradise Lost - Hollywood Undead
This could be anywhere in the world by Alexisonfire
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Adam's Song - Blink-182
Disintegration - Jimmy Eat World
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street.
The Cocteau Twins - Every song they ever wrote.
Let me guess, WatchMojo: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is on this video, huh?
RIP Kurt Cobain. You and the guys from Nirvana hated the song but it's one of the most defining songs of the 90s. 😅
I'm one of the only people I know who couldn't stand Nirvana. Even in their heyday, I thought they were screechy and obnoxious.
@bradleyj.fortner2203 I hear ya.
I was more into Alice in Chains or Soundgarden than Nirvana.
Awful song
@@kenterminateddq5311 and Pearl Jam.
@@kenterminateddq5311and would kill MoJo to Include Alice In Chains in any of their lists! Just like this one. Nutshell should be on here.
“Lithium” is another Nirvana song that fits this category.
Other songs are “Simply Jessie” by Rex Smith and Anthrax’s NFB/dallabnikufecin.
YYZ by Rush. Yes it is purely instrumental, and they play YYZ in Morse code as the opening element.
The logical song -Supertramp
They do sing "logical" in the song.
Pompeii by Bastille.
It's a great song and I have seen them play that song live .
Without mentioning the title: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.
Mentioning the title: SKÁLD - Grótti.
Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega.
Ronnie Milsap - "There's no Getting Over You". Actual lyric: "There AIN'T no gettin' over you".
You should do a part 2 with " Basket case " " The kids aren't alright " " Break stuff " " Paranoid " and " Mayonaise ".
Ginuwine’s “Differences”, and Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” (she does say “diner” but never says “Tom” or “Tom’s Diner” together)
You could write a long list with just New Order / Joy Division alone.
Absolutely !!
When it comes to songs where the title doesn't show up anywhere in the lyrics, Sabaton's Purple Heart comes to mind for me.
I Write Sins not Tragedies - Panic at the Disco
What about it? It was mentioned in the video.
@@lordandrewbruceofthemcinne5046 Right! The very first on at #15.
🥉
While David Bowie's Space Oddity isn't called Ground Control to Major Tom or just Major Tom, there is the 1982 song Major Tom by Peter Schilling, which is a German song, though was also translated into English. But since it's neither a British song nor an American one, I guess WatchMojo doesn't care.
"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods which also has one gratuitously long title.
Ænima - Tool
Leather & Lace by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley. It says "Give to me your leather take from me my lace".
Father & Son, by Cat Stevens
Whip-Smart by Liz Phair
Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins
My favorite songs that don't mention the title not mentioned in this video are 7 & 7 Is by Love and Legend of A Mind by The Moody Blues.
Just a nitpick but it wasn't "many thousands of years ago" when the Vikings, um, "visited" England. This is now 2025 and the first known Viking raid on the island of Great Britain happened in 789 CE--a mere 1236 years ago (although it's believed that there were raids before then but no records exist of any before 789).
Glad I'm not the only one who choked on that.
By a weird coincidence, Bohemian Rhapsody did contain in its lyrics the title of the next song to hit #1 in the UK charts - "Mamma Mia".
Jeopardy?
hymn for the weekend by coldplay
my immortal by evanescen
yellow ledbetter by pearl jam
superman by five for fighting
one by metallica
second you sleep by saybia
about a girl by nirvana
Plush by Stone Temple Pilots
Many numbered songs by the Dave Matthews Band.
I may be wrong, but what about "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath?
This is gonna be all the fall out boy panic at the disco and throw in a few Taking back Sundays I bet.
Hey! It's Mike Nesmith from the Monkees with John Lennon at 12:53
I knew the Bowie song is called 'Space Oddity', Townsend's project was called 'Lifehouse' not 'Lighthouse', And what about the Madness track ' Return of the Los Palmas 7', or 'Song for whoever' by The Beautiful South?
Monkees For Pete's Sake, Randy Scouse Git, Papa Genes Blues
Other similar songs:
+How Soon Is Now by The Smiths
+D'yer Maker by Led Zeppelin
+The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret by Queens of the Stone Age
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls & Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen are amazing songs!
@AndyHouse-v1m Wow still spouting lies & talking about yourself huh pup? You need to stop it already.
I know What’s Going On, Unchained Melody, Viva La Vida, Blue Monday, Iris, Rapper’s Delight, Sympathy For The Devil, Immigrant Song, Space Oddity, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Baba O’Riley and Bohemian Rhapsody.
I came here just to see if “What’s Up” would be included, was not disappointed.
"Hair of the Dog" -Nazareth
"The Mummer's Dance" -Loreena McKinnet
I think Rex Smith's "Simply Jessie" deserves a mention.
Wake in the morning and I say What's Up?
1. Romeo Delight
2. 5150
3. The Full Bug
4. "Dirty Movies"
5. Eruption
6. Sunday Afternoon in the Park
7. Intruder
8. 1984
9. Baluchitherium
10. Tora! Tora!
11. 316
12. Little Guitars Intro
13. Spanish Fly
14. Cathedral
15. Respect the Wind
Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfiled
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
Juicy - The Notorious B.I.G.
Baskte Case - Greenday
Da Rockwilder by Method Man and Redman. That song still goes hard.
What bout the Taylor Swift song “We are never ever getting back together”.
It needs more “ever’s” to fit with the lyrics
I think virtually any M83 song could have been on this list.
Goo Good Doll's "Iris," Coldplay's "The Scientist"
Part of me is still mad that Music for a Sushi Restaurant can’t qualify for this list
As a total nitpicky bit, Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" never actually says that phrase at any point in the song. Rod sings "If you want my body AND YOU THINK I'M SEXY" at every point in the song. The title is a question but, in the song, he's making an affirmative statement.
Susie Chapstick by Green Day (from latest album Saviors)
"I think we'll go with a little Bohemian Rhapsody gentlemen." - Wayne's World
Helena by MCR
Schism by Tool
Geek Stink Breath, Good Riddance by Greenday
Stay Together for the Kids by Blink182
Chop Suey & BYOB by SOAD
Bob Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' ~ how many people think it's called 'Everybody Must Get Stoned'? Probably a lot.
Lady in Black by Uriah Heep! The closest it gets is “oh lady lend your hand, I cried”
And then there’s some songs we rather not have their song titles said but they do anyway
Ballad of a homeschool girl by Olivia Rodrigo.
Hey, that wasn’t David Bowie that was Ziggy Stardust.😂
On a serious note.
🤔I’ve always wondered if you were to take every drawn out word, e.g. “hello” to “how low” from Smells like teen spirit and so on from every Nirvana song from every album/ song that they released (in chronological order of their release) if it would be a secret message or something 🤔
"Reptilia" ."You Only Live Once" and several by The Strokes
Stone Temple Pilots.
Plush, Piece of pie, meat plow, interstate love song, sex type thing, tripping on a hole in a paper heart, big empty, kitchen ware and candy bars….. I could keep going but you get the idea.
"legião urbana" alone would make an entire video...
Movies too
Blair witch project book of shadows
That 1st track is a banger!
"The chain" deserves a spot
The Chain says its name
Thank you
Ive been waiting for this list
Bohemian rhapsody
Ex factor
Stairway to Heaven
Me against the music
Hiss megan thee stallion
Dilemma
Bodak yellow
The phrase Stairway to Heaven IS mentioned in the song titled Stairway to Heaven: "And she's climbing the stairway to Heaven."
Seriously? STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN is totally in the lyrics.
Clint Eastwood by the Gorillaz
Also - Dirty Harry.
This list is valid! Queen takes their rightful spot at number one!
"Viva La Vida" is said within the song's lyrics. Take a better look at the chorus and you'll find it.
Although not mentioned on any lyric site I do however recall Coldplay mentioning the title very subtly 🤔 or maybe having a Mandela effect episode?
@dave04962 Nah, you're right. It's Mandela at its finest. I looked it up, and the lyric I thought was "Viva la vida" is actually "Be my mirror." I don't think I can be blamed for falling for it, though.
@AustinPayne-t4wGot a feeling we both fell for it 😅😅 Not to worry, think they missed a few classics though!
5 of the James Bond theme songs don't have the name of the movie in the lyrics.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - We Have All the Time in the World.
Octopussy - All Time High
Casino Royale - You Know My Name
Quantim of Solace - Another Way to Die
Spectre - Writing's on the Wall
Not a favourite, but the Lambada - Kaoma, which was ripped off from Llorando se fue - los Kjarkas, which IS sung as the first line in the original Spanish version.
There is an actual name for a song that doesn't mention the name of the title in the lyrics, and I have forgotten what it was called
Dilemma - Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland
Creed- weathered
Alterbridge- metalingus
Daniel powter- free loop
Greenday- Good riddance, Last night on earth
Linkinpark- points of authority
Many of A7X songs
Nelly and kelly- Delima
Coldplay- the scientist
And many more. These are on my playlist so watch mojo dig deeper if you upload this kind of s*** 😂
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods
They mentioned Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" but Weird Al's parody "Smells Like Nirvana" doesn't say the title in the lyrics either.
Suite Judy Blue Eyes ~ Crosby Stills and Nash.
The Chauffeur by Duran Duran
The Chauffeur is one of my all time favourites.
Others by DD:
- The Seventh Stranger
- Palomino
- To Whom it May Concern
- U.M.F.
There may be more but these sprang to mind.