Best song that shares its name with both the artist and album title?

[u/JayZilla2830]

I've been thinking about this a lot recently, but I want to know what the best song is that has the same name as both the artist and the album it's on.

For example: The song "Iron Maiden" by the band Iron Maiden off the album Iron Maiden. Or "Motörhead" by Motörhead off Motörhead.

Now that the title seems clearer (or should be, anyways), I think it's personally "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath that is the best out of all the songs I could find. Arguably popularized an entire genre of music (and a sub-genre too in doom metal), put Sabbath on the map, and is still quite frightening even to this day.

But, that's my opinion on this. Here's a short list of all the artists I could find that match the criteria. I'm probably missing some, but what do you think?

Black Sabbath

Iron Maiden

Motorhead

Bad Religion

Bad Company

Hellyeah

The 1975

Soulfly

Gloryhammer

Evelyn Evelyn

Angel Witch

Body Count

Metal Church

Pennywise

Deicide

Electric Wizard

Run The Jewels

[u/Klemac]

Bad Company by Bad Company on Bad Company

[u/getdemsnacks → u/Klemac]

I read this in Marcus's voice

[u/QuentinEichenauer]

I like quirky songs, so Living in a Box.

[u/ML______]

Public Image

[u/The_Legendary_Sponge]

Run the Jewels

[u/JayZilla2830 → u/The_Legendary_Sponge]

Had a feeling I was forgetting one of them. Adding it to the list now!

[u/MajorMajorMajorJnr]

Grinderman off the album Grinderman by Grinderman (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' side project away from Th Bad Seeds)

[u/Vanilla-Chick → u/MajorMajorMajorJnr]

a truly primal and raw experience. that album is pure fury

[u/mcjimmybingo]

Talk Talk

[u/celston80 → u/mcjimmybingo]

Soooo

Talk Talk - Talk Talk - Talk Talk

[u/kforno24]

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath

[u/Zestyclose-Listen810]

Big Country’s “In a Big Country” from the album Big Country

[u/RubrikCruber → u/Zestyclose-Listen810]

Unfortunately the album was called "The Crossing"

[u/Schemer321]

Cigarettes after Sex

[u/Speechisanexperiment]

Angel Witch from Angel Witch by Angel Witch is a killer track. Glad that made the list.

[u/polomarkopolo]

Bad Company by Bad Company off the album Bad Company

[u/ThatFilthyApe]

Bad Company probably leads here. 

I'll offer Icehouse by Icehouse (after they renamed from Flowers for the US release because Flowers was already in use) off the album Icehouse.

[u/Born2Late13 → u/ThatFilthyApe]

This was going to be my offer. Go Icehouse!

[u/outofdate70shouse]

Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden from the album Iron Maiden.

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath.

Motorhead by Motorhead from the album Motorhead.

[u/browsef]

Porno for Pyros

[u/larobj63]

For me the best one that fits the category is Black Sabbath.

[u/smart_fart_part]

Slim Shady.

[u/sundae_diner → u/smart_fart_part]

Cool song.  What album was it on?

[u/Namelessbob123 → u/sundae_diner]

I’m shady is on The slim shady lp

[u/penderhead]

Middle Brother by Middle Brother on their album, Middle Brother

[u/therealthenewman]

Middle Brother by Middle Brother on the album Middle Brother

[u/themadbeefeater]

Blackfield by Blackfield on Blackfield

[u/marktrot]

Ray Manzarek followed the Doors with a wonderful under-appreciated band called Nite City

[u/KaelasDad]

Big Shoulders - Big Shoulders

[u/turnbulljs → u/KaelasDad]

Which album?

[u/TheZac922]

God’s Hate

[u/WesWordbound]

I'm a fan of Bo Diddley from Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley.

[u/FlobbleChops]

Murder Inc, from the album Murder Inc, by the band Murder Inc.

[u/Beefcake52]

KGLW , the first track on the album KG by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

KGLW, the last track on the album LW by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

[u/NuncleMine]

Wilco

[u/Derail185]

Doesn't quite fit but I'll still nominate it

The band Shihad had a song Pacifier on their 1999 album The General Electric. They were about to have a chance at the US market and record an album over there when 9/11 happened and they were told "Shihad" sounded too close to "jihad" (funnily enough they got the name Shihad after mishearing the word Jihad in the David Lynch Dune movie). So anway they decided to change their name to Pacifier and released a self titled album called Pacifier.

So the band was Pacifier, the album was Pacifier but the song Pacifier was on the previous album.

Unless you count live albums where the song Pacifier appears on the album Pacifier Live by Pacifier.

But the band later changed back to Shihad so actually never mind.

Good song though.

[u/Sydmatt]

Cold Slither

[u/Relevant-Result3226]

[u/JayZilla2830 → u/[deleted]]

The purpose of the post wasn't to find out how many songs like that there were, but just to see what people thought the best one was. Since there are quite a few out there, I just thought it'd be an interesting discussion to have, that's all.

[u/PhasmaFelis → u/[deleted]]

Not at all? The question was which one is best, not "who can list the most."

[u/PhasmaFelis → u/[deleted]]

No one said otherwise.

[u/rotato]

Children of Bodom wrote a song called Children of Bodom, but they've never released a self titled album

[u/Former_Most_5570]

Usher confessions