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This is a list of self-titled (often called eponymous) songs. While musical artists commonly release eponymous albums, a song whose title is exactly the same as the artist's or band's name is a rarer occurrence.
There is a special section in this list for hat tricks, where the song title, artist, and album title are all identical. (The term hat trick, borrowed from sports, indicates a grouping of 3.) There is also a self-reference category for inexact matches, and a special section for The King of Eponymous Songs.
An unusual case is the New Zealand band Shihad. In 2001, they had a song called "Pacifier" on their The General Electric album. They changed their name to Pacifier after the September 11, 2001 attacks (for marketing reasons in the U.S. to avoid confusion with a jihad). In 2004, they reverted their name back to Shihad.
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Hat Tricks
Artist name, song title and album title identical.
Icehouse's "Icehouse" (from the album Icehouse. In Australia they were called Flowers. They changed their name to Icehouse for their next album)
Orplid's "Orplid" (from album Orplid)
OSI's "OSI" (from album OSI)
Soulfly's "Soulfly", "Soulfly II", "Soulfly III", "Soulfly IV", "Soulfly V" (one from each Soulfly album, but only the first album is a hat-trick)
Train's "Train" (from album Train)
Visage's "Visage" (from the album Visage)
Warsaw's "Warsaw" (from album Warsaw)
Weird War's "Weird War" (from the album Weird War)
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Exact matches
A's "A" (from album A vs Monkey Kong)
Anthrax's "Anthrax" (from album Fistful of Metal)
Born Blind's "Born Blind" (from album One for All)
bob hund's "bob hund" (from album Omslag: Martin Kann)
Die Ärzte's "Die Ärzte" (not released, just live)
D.O.A.'s "D.O.A." (from album Hardcore '81)
Enkindel's "Enkindel" (from album "Some Assembly Required"; the band lather changed their name to The Enkindels)
Exodus's "Exodus" (from the album "Bonded by Blood")
Fleetwood Mac's "Fleetwood Mac" (from the album The Original Fleetwood Mac)
Green Day's "Green Day" (the song title preceded the band name, and was written while the band was still known as Sweet Children)
Also had a song called "Sweet Children" when they were known as Sweet Children
G-Unit's "G-Unit" (from album Beg For Mercy)
H-Bomb's "H-Bomb" (from mini-lp Coup de Metal)
In Extremo's "In Extremo" (from album Verehrt und Angespien)
In Flames' "In Flames" (from album Lunar Strain)
JFA's "Jodie Foster's Army" (from album Blatant Localism)
Jilted John's "Jilted John" (from album True Love Stories)
LFO "LFO" (from album Frequencies
Louis XIV's "Louis XIV" (from album The Best Little Secrets Are Kept)
Miljoonasade's "Miljoonasade" (from album Pesuhuoneesta keittiöön)
Nightwish's "Nightwish" (from their untitled first demo)
Stratovarius' "Stratovarius" from the album Fourth Dimension
Sworn Enemy's "Sworn Enemy" from the album As Real As It Gets
note: The song "Talk Talk" also appears on a five-song EP that's called Talk Talk, and the band itself was named after the song (written by the Hollis brothers).
Voivod's "Voivod" (from album War and Pain)
Warp 11's "Warp 11" (from album Red Alert)
White Town's "White Town" (from album Women in Technology)
X's "X" (from album Blue Blood)
Zonata's "Zonata" (from album Tunes of Steel)
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Self-referential, but inexact
AFI's "No-Dave Party" (instrumental song, Dave is the lead singer of AFI)
Anal Cunt's "Everyone In Anal Cunt Is Dumb" (from album 40 More Reasons To Hate Us)
Anal Cunt's "I'm In Anal Cunt" (from album 40 More Reasons To Hate Us)
Blur's "B.L.U.R.E.M.I." (from album 13)
Carter USM's "Elvis Lives (And Carter Break America)"
DEVO's "DEVO Has Feelings Too"
DEVO's "Devo Corporate Anthem"
Dingo's "Nimeni on Dingo" (My name is Dingo) from the album "Nimeni on Dingo"
Dream Theater's "Your Majesty" (the band's original name was Majesty)
Eminem's "My Name Is (Slim Shady)"
Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady"
Falco's "Falco Rides Again"
Fall Out Boy's "I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me" (from the album From Under The Cork Tree)
Jethro Tull's "A Song for Jeffrey," "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square," and "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey, and Me," referring to Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, childhood friend of Ian Anderson and later band member (from albums This Was, Stand Up, and Benefit, respectively).
Kyuss's "Sons of Kyuss" (Previous release)
Meatmen's "We're the Meatmen and You Suck"
Muse's "Muscle Museum" (Formed from the words before and after "Muse" in the dictionary)
NOFX "Theme From A NOFX Album"
Pigbag's "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag"
Refused's "Refused are Fuckin' Dead" (from the album The Shape of Punk to Come)
Refused's "The Refused Party Programme" (from the album The Shape of Punk to Come)
Sufjan Stevens's "A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze" (from the album Illinois)
Supersuckers' "Supersucker Drive-By Blues" (from the album "Must've Been High")
Them's "The Story of Them"
Tool's "Maynards Dick" (Maynard is the lead singer of the band)
Toy Matinee's "The Toy Matinee" and "Eenitam Yot Eht" (the previous song's title, backward)
Wu-Tang Clan's "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit" (from the album )
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Former Band Name Songs
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The King of Eponymous Songs
Bo Diddley has a particular penchant for self-reference. Along with his hat trick entry above, he has released the following songs:
"Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger"
"Bo Diddley's Hootenanny"
"Bo Diddley Put the Rock in Rock & Roll"
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See also
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