Eponymous Songs
- Minor Threat - "Minor Threat"
- Bad Religion - "Bad Religion"
- Beastie Boys - "B.E.A.S.T.I.E. Boys"
- Big Country - "In A Big Country"*
- Talk Talk - "Talk Talk"
- Tin Machine - "Tin Machine"
- Living In A Box - "Living In A Box"
- Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath"
- Dag Nasty - "Dag Nasty"
- The Monkees - "The Monkeys"
- The Ramones - "R.A.M.O.N.E.S."*
- Motorhead - "Motorhead"
- Descendents - "Descendents"
- Madness - "Madness"
- Belle & Sebastian - "Belle & Sebastian"
- Iron Maiden - "Iron Maiden"
- Murphy's Law - "Murphy's Law"
- Green Day - "Green Day"
- Butthole Surfers - "Butthole Surfer"*
- General Public - "General Public"
- King Apparatus - "King Apparatus"
- Dr. Octagon - "Dr. Octagon"
- They Might Be Giants - "They Might Be Giants"
- The Pharcyde - "The Pharcyde"
- Bad Company - "Bad Company"
- The Selecter - "The Selecter"
- Sigur Ros - "Sigur Ros"
- Aphex Twin - "Aphex Twin"
- Pet Shop Boys - "Pet Shop Boys"
- Porno For Pyros - "Porno For Pyros"
*Close enough.
Many thanks to the men and women of FilePile for helping compile this list.
snivlem
minor threat. What a great band.
wednesday
november, 24 2004
Anil Dash
I think "Wang Chung Tonight" and "My Name is Prince", though not technically eponymous, should count too.
wednesday
november, 24 2004
john
Bob Hund - 'Bob Hund'
M.I.A. - 'M.I.A.'
Squarepusher - 'Squarepusher Theme' (if that counts)
wednesday
november, 24 2004
david thorpe
egyptian head - "egyptian head"
wednesday
november, 24 2004
Mark
My favorite is Pennywise - 'Pennywise' from the album 'Pennywise.'
wednesday
november, 24 2004
Rick Fletcher
Green Day has done it twice. Sort of. They were originally called "Sweet Children" and have a song of the same name. The song wasn't recorded until after the name change, though.
wednesday
november, 24 2004
CDB
You're missing the highly irrelevant "Visage" by Visage. Only relevant because of the Ultravox connection.
thursday
november, 25 2004
Steve Portigal
I can't confirm, but I vaguely remember The Village People having a song "Village People"
thursday
november, 25 2004
fargone
Gwar -- "Gwar Theme"... who can forget those sick bastards.
friday
november, 26 2004
Chad K
does HUSKER DU's song titled "Do You Remember" count? It is after the english translation of their name... inspired by some obscure dutch board game...
friday
november, 26 2004
kimdog
In the ongoing vein of almost but not quite- Dirt Bike Annie- "Time to Rock with Dirt Bike Annie"
friday
november, 26 2004
Duck_Lips
I would add "Icehouse" to this list if anyone remembers them. Band used to be named Flowers, but I remember them from early days of MTV. Band name Icehouse, song, Icehouse, album: Icehouse
friday
november, 26 2004
mat
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious (see also: Monk's Mood, Monk's Dream, Monk's Point, and Monk Speaks)
Public Enemy - Public Enemy Number 1*
sunday
november, 28 2004
stella ru
What about Stray Cats by Stray Cats?
sunday
november, 28 2004
Chris
JFA: JFA
Lard: The Power of Lard (close enough)
The Selecter: The Selecter
Shelter: Shelter
And, I've heard All play "All," "No, All" and "All-o-gistics" on several occasions. I think they're eponymous enough given the All - Descendents continuum.
monday
november, 29 2004
Orange
Beggars and Thieves released a song called
Beggars and Thieves from the album
Beggars and Thieves....
I laughed my ass off when I saw it on MTV back in 1989 :)
monday
november, 29 2004
Diana
Joy Electric - "Joy Electric Land"
monday
november, 29 2004
Andrew
How many of these songs come from self-titled albums (like the song 'Bad Company" by the band "Bad Company" on the album "Bad Company" and the other examples mentioned in previous comments)?
tuesday
november, 30 2004
MacDara
Methinks you have forgotten 'Meat Puppets' by the Meat Puppets, from their album 'Meat Puppets' (a triple header!).
wednesday
december, 1 2004
Daryl
An embarrassing choice, but does The Monkees' "(Theme From) The Monkees" count?
Wang Chung's song - nominated by Anil Dash above - is called "Everybody Have Fun Tonight", so it's definitely out.
thursday
december, 2 2004
Dave
"Rammstein" by Rammstein
tuesday
december, 7 2004
matt
Iron Savior - Iron Savior
tuesday
december, 21 2004
spill
If you're adding 'Thelonious', 'Monk's Mood', 'Monk's Dream', 'Monk's Point', and 'Monk Speaks' by Thelonious Monk, you might as well include 'Blue Monk' as well.
thursday
february, 10 2005
martin
There's "Immaculate Fools" by Immaculate Fools and a close one with "The Associate" by The Associates.
monday
april, 4 2005
fern
Two more triple plays: Blue Murder and Damn Yankees
monday
june, 20 2005
TheRealSlimBrady
Pacifier - Pacifier
Although at the time they were called Shihad, and have since changed their name back to Shihad.
sunday
july, 31 2005
boozoob
honorable mentions?
* wham! - whamrap
* vanilla ice - ice ice baby
btw the one by stray cats was stray cat strut wasnt it?
friday
august, 5 2005
Glitch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_with_the_same_name_as_song_artists
Includes hat tricks
thursday
october, 27 2005
Mike
"Night Ranger" by Night Ranger
"Queen of the Ryche" by Queensryche.
wednesday
june, 7 2006
Vidiot
"They Might Be Giants", by They Might Be Giants.
friday
october, 6 2006
jeelz
'Mr Blobby' by Mr Blobby
sunday
october, 14 2007
Janis
(1) In 1971, the Chairmen of the Board had "Chairman of the Board" which went to #42 on U.S. Hot 100 and #10 on the R&B chart.
(2) From Portugal, the queen of fado for 5 decades, Amalia Rodrigues, recorded one of many versions of the song written in tribute to her, "Amalia."
saturday
august, 9 2008