title track
A title track is a song which shares its name with the
It is sometimes used when the song in question is not on the album with which it shares its name, but one of the artist's other albums.[citation needed] For example, Led Zeppelin's song "Houses of the Holy" appears on the album Physical Graffiti, but not Houses of the Holy; similarly, Queen's song "Sheer Heart Attack" was released three years after the album of the same name. It can also refer to a song which shares its name with the artist (for example, Black Sabbath's song "Black Sabbath"). There is also a song entitled "Title Track" on Death Cab for Cutie's album We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, which was the original title for the song.
Some albums contain a song that, while not sharing the name of the album, contains the name somewhere in its lyrics. Examples include Metric's song "IOU" on their debut album Old World Underground, Where Are You Now which has the title as the first line, the song "One Slip" from the Pink Floyd album A Momentary Lapse of Reason that contains the line "A momentary lapse of reason that binds a life to a life...", and the song "Could This Be Magic?" on Van Halen's Women and Children First has a lyric in the chorus stating "Lonely ships upon the water, better save the women and children first."
There are also songs whose titles are an extended version of the album title or vice versa, as in the case of Evans Blue's The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends, with the track "The Pursuit", which is still considered a title track.
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