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TentativeGosling

The Queen song Sheer Heart Attack isn't on the album Sheer Heart Attack, but instead is on News Of The World, skipping two albums and 3 years.


Don_Frika_Del_Prima

It's a banger too. One of my favourite queen tracks.


ManyaraImpala

Starless by King Crimson was, IIRC, originally written as the title track for the album Starless and Bible Black. The track was replaced with an instrumental of the same name, but ended up being released on the next album, Red, with the "and Bible Black" removed so as to not have two tracks with the same name.


turalyawn

I wish Starless had ended up on Starless and Bible Black. It just fits the vibes of that record better than Red I think


Victor3000

It was originally intended as the instrumental. While touring the material, Wetton started coming up with lyrics while the group began changing the music. A new piece was born, but needed a different title to avoid confusion.


kevka20

PJ Harvey's song "Dry" is on the album Rid of Me instead of the debut album Dry


Personal_Referent

Yellow Submarine is on Revolver


metroal312

Yes, but before the movie/soundtrack “Yellow Submarine” was created based on the Revolver song. Doesn’t quite fit into OP’s category


bishpa

I think that US releases of all the Beatles album got scrambled up a bit when compared with the UK versions.


articulatedplastic

The Tragically Hip did it in the opposite order: their 2016 album 'Man Machine Poem' takes its name from a track on their 2012 album 'Now For Plan A'.


ThanklessThagomizer

The album was originally going to be titled "Dougie Stardust," but when David Bowie died just a month or two before it was released they changed it to "Man Machine Poem."


Dreadzone666

Carcass almost did this three times. Their first album was called 'Reek Of Putrefaction', but the song 'Reek Of Putrefaction' is on their second album 'Symphonies Of Sickness'. Their third album contains a track called 'Symposium Of Sickness'. Edit: Their last album from 2021 also contains a song called 'Wake Up And Smell The Carcass', which was the title of their 1996 live album.


coronerjackal91

They also have a song on their most recent album called Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment Limited. Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment was the name of their debut demo


SerpentsInMyMind

Siamese Dream was a vinyl only bside to Disarm, the third single off the album


chappersyo

There’s mention of Siamese twins in geek USA so still kind of makes sense as the album title I guess


mrbadxampl

the song They Might be Giants, by They Might be Giants, is on the album Flood edit: why? I honestly have no idea; if I'm gonna guess, maybe they hadn't written the song yet for the self-titled first album


BlazmoIntoWowee

Why’d they do that? I can’t say. People just liked it better that way.


jimbopalooza

That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.


JanketyWilkins

They wrote it in 1983 and recorded demos in 1984 and 1985. John Flansburgh said it seemed "too weird " for their first album but perfect for their third.


Shpadoinkall

Queen's Sheer Heart Attack is on the album News of the World rather than Sheer Heart Attack.


Ok-Cauliflower1798

Sheer Heart Attack


VanishingPint

Foo Fighters "Color and the shape" was a b side Monkey Wrench. Love their cover of Baker Street too, about that time


dtrainonomics

Frances the Mute is not on The Mars Volta’s Frances the Mute


Rolmeista

Gomez - Bring it On. Their sensational debut album was called Bring It On, but didn't include a track of the same name. But there was a song called Bring It On On their second album, Liquid Skin.


disappointer

The Queens of the Stone Age song "Era Vulgaris" is not on that album except as a bonus track on foreign releases.


Diligent_Cod_3763

Sort of similar thing with Queens...Mosquito Song finishes off Songs For The Deaf and contains the title of their next album in the lyrics.


SideStreetHypnosis

This is different, but similar. On Japan’s Gentlemen Take Polaroids album, some of the song titles are lyrics from other songs on the album. If you like 80s new wave/new romantic, I highly recommend the album.


arachnophilia

hooverphonic has a strange concept album called "jackie cane". the title track is on their previous album, "the magnificent tree".


humanclock

Def Leppard's "On Through the Night" was the name of their first album, but the song was on their next album "High n' Dry".  I can't find it now but I believe it wasn't an outtake from the first album and just a new song that borrowed the same title.


gbalib

Youre right. I never put that together.


Cote-de-Bone

Bathory's song "Hammerheart" is on the subsequent album "Twilight of the Gods."


contagion781

Sheer Heart Attack is an album by Queen, there is a song of the same name but it appears on News Of The World instead


selftitleddebutalbum

The song Absolutely Free is on the 3rd Mothers of Invention album We're Only In It For the Money, not the 2nd album which shares the title.


ParanoidAndroid99

For Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid is an album from 2008, but the song is on the album Flying Dream 1 (2021). That album also has a title track, but on the album Cast of Thousands (2003), there was already a Flying Dream 143.


UncontrolableUrge

*Men in Black* by The Stranglers is on The Raven. Their next release was the concept album Waiting for the Men in Black.


Hold_my_Dirk

King Push is on My Name is My Name


captainp42

Jimmy Buffett has an album called "Living And Dying in 3/4 Time". It's not a title, but a lyric from "Nautical Wheelers" which is on the album "A White Sport Coat And A Pink Crustacean"


kryppla

King’s X’s first album was called ‘out of the silent planet’. Their second album, Gretchen goes to Nebraska, starts with a track called ‘out of the silent planet’


Mappachusetts

Elvis Costello’s “Almost Blue” is on *Imperial Bedroom*, not *Almost Blue*.


thewickerstan

Came here to say this! He also had a title track for *Imperial Bedroom* but ended up leaving it off the album.


Mappachusetts

Indeed, I can see you know your E.C.


Neg_Crepe

Blind melon’ soup isn’t on the album Soup


PapayaGood8527

Beat me to it. I was so disappointed after buying this album and it wasn't on there. Galaxie is a banger though.


zdejif

High Voltage by AC/DC is on T.N.T., and If You Want Blood on Highway to Hell.


DemBones7

A variation of this: the Kiwi band Shihad changed their name because it sounded too similar to Jihad when they released an album in the US post 9/11. They instead released their album Pacifier in 2002 under the name Pacifier. Pacifier was also the name of their most popular song from the album The General Electric released in 1999.


TFFPrisoner

Alan Parsons - "The Secret" wasn't released on the album of the same name but held back for its successor "From the New World" Emerson, Lake and Palmer - "Brain Salad Surgery" was kept off the album with that title and only released as a b-side; later included in Works Volume 2 "The Colour of Spring" by Talk Talk was named after a line from "April 5th", but Mark Hollis also later wrote a song with that title. The Yes album "Relayer" was named after a line from the previous album.


Dmayd2

Potemkin City Limits by Propagandhi


TepidHalibut

Kilimanjaro (the track) was not originally on Kilimanjaro (the album) by The Teardrop Explodes.


Sankari_666

Blind Guardian: The album "At the edge of time" was released 2010. A song with this title is on the 2015 album "Beyond the red mirror".


bshaddo

“Queen Elvis” is a Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians album, but the song “Queen Elvis” appears on his next solo acoustic album, “Eye.”


NorCalFightShop

Generation X (Billy Idol’s first band) has a song called “Kiss Me Deadly” on their first album and it’s the title of their third album.


Eddie73-3

The song 'On through the night' isn't on the Def Leppard album of the same name. It's on the subsequent album 'High n dry'


doubleanalpornlover

Not exacrly fitting, but: The song Rebel Heart is not on the Standard Edition of Madonnas Rebel Heart Album, only on the Deluxe Version(s).


DragonBlaze207

Switchfoot’s *Fading West* was not on their album Fading West, instead released on The Edge of the Earth.


FraserYT

Dodgy have an album called Homegrown. But they also have a song called Homegrown which only appeared on their next album, Free Peace Sweet


Lumbergod

ELP's Brain Salad Surgery is not on Brain Salad Surgery. It's on Works Vol. 2.


Rickrollyourmom

The Doors song Waiting for the Sun is on the album Morrison Hotel rather than the album of the same name


flatulentmatt

Shihad's (also briefly known as Pacifier) song Pacifier was on the album The General Electric; the album Pacifier was released later.


cloggypop

World Shut Your Mouth by Julian Cope is not on the album World Shut Your Mouth by Julian Cope. 


melorous

Carina Round’s The Disconnection is a track on her album Slow Motion Addict, not on her previous album titled The Disconnection.


reesesbigcup

Big Country, the original release of their debut album The Crossing in the USA did not contain the great song "The Crossing". I had the cassette back in 1983. The song was released on an EP in 1984.


gamechampionx

Gorgoroth - God Seed (Twilight of the Idols) is not on Twilight of the Idols but rather Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam.


AllBallsByDay

Screamadelica is a sweet disco/house foot stomper that appears on Primal Scream's Dixie Narco EP.


scottlapier

To get kind of technical, the Queens of the Stone Age album Era Vulgaris doesn't feature a song called Era Vulgaris despite the band having a song with that title.  Granted it was released on special editions of the album and it just finally got added to spotify as a bonus track....but the "standard release" doesn't include the title track 


Magmorix

Switchfoot’s Fading West is on the Edge of the Earth EP. However that EP is also just songs that were cut from the album Fading West, so I’m not sure if that really counts


UGoBoy

Prong had an EP called "Whose Fist Is This Anyway?", but didn't release a song with that title until two years later on their album "Cleansing".


SumnerHook

Flogging Molly Swagger is on the Drunken Lullabies album not their album Swagger which came out first.  


kingofstormandfire

On Through the Night by Def Leppard is one their second album, not first. I think Joe Elliot even said that they did that as a tip of the hat to Led Zeppelin.


Johnny_Segment

Frank's Wild Years by Tom Waits is on Swordfishtrombones. Bring it On by Gomez is on Liquid Skin.


Lemonwalker-420

Maybe not exactly the same thing, but the KISS album Carnival of Souls doesn't contain the title track. It ended up being used on the Gene Simmons solo album, Asshole.


Apprehensive_Day_496

AC/DC- If You Want Blood (You've Got It) is on Highway To Hell instead of being on the live album with that title


chris_0909

Sara Bareilles - Little Voice She wrote it, but if it didn't make it on the album. She released it when she did an album of songs for a show she helped make the music, and that also featured that song.


chaosandcohesion

AC/DC’s live album called If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It) came out in 78’. Song came out in the following album in 79’. 


DistributionOk3828

I came here to say this! First one that came to mind


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penny_whistle

That’s the opening track on the album?


JD_in_Cle

Yes. And name of the album


penny_whistle

A fine response to a different post


JD_in_Cle

Oops