When you say YESWAY good things happen — like hanging out with Scottie Barnes at a dunk competition.
Often times an album is named after a song on the album like "Master of Puppets" by Metallica or The Strokes' "Is This It?"
"Nevermind" by Nirvana is not a song name but part of a lyric in "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The same with "Use Your Illusion" by Guns N' Roses is in "Locomotive."
Are there any other examples of this? Certainly there are, which ones do you know of? Any genre of course, I'm just mostly a rock fan.
Also, for the sake of discussion, is there any known reason for this choice? Why do you think the artist made this decision? Do you think there's a song on the album that would have made a better album name than the lyric?
Edit: Thank you so much for responding with the list of albums! This actually happens a lot more than I ever realized and there were so many albums that I knew already that did this and I forgot about.
I’ve always wondered this.
I’ve come to a conclusion.
I feel like it’s because when they made music before they did it surrounded by inspiration in their small little life.
Later once they get bigger, all they do is make a ton of money and tour. And their friends are changing and they are getting connected to other famous people.
I feel like they lose who they once were as people and they are not having the same life experiences or have to try as hard to make music, they just write a song and everyone will love it cause it’s them.
I feel like you are more creative as a normal person creating for fun but like your life depends on it, once you’re on tour all the time and getting money, how do you even have time to do the things that CAUSED the inspiration in the first place? It’s different inspiration at that point cause their lives are different.
Also. This is not for every artist who got big. There’s a fuck ton of exceptions too.
But it’s a well known hipster idea “their first shit was better” but a lot of times it really feels true, not even from a nostalgic point of view.
Idk. What’s your guys thoughts??