Songs that mention albums.

First things first, we’re not talking cases of songs mentioning their accompanying albums (Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit mentioning Nevermind, for example), I’m after cases where songs mention albums by other artists.

An example therefore would be The Great Valediction by Flop which mentions Live At Leeds by The Who.

 

“How Do You Sleep?” by John Lennon mentions Sgt Pepper.

 

Johnny Rivers, Summer Rain

All summer long we were dancing in the sand
Everybody just kept on playing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

 

Sgt Pepper and Are You Experienced are mentioned right away in “Time Flies” by Porcupine Tree.

 

Yo La Tengo - “Drug Test”

“I see myself with headphones on
I'm listening to Wake of the Flood (2x)
Now I'm high”

 

Mike Keneally's song "Aglow" mentions the Zappa album "Sheik Yerbouti", last line of verse right before the guitar solo. Here's the last two lines from said verse . . .

"We'll jump through hoops of molten love and fall asleep
We'll wake right up and play side four of Sheik Yerbouti"

 

Neil Young - "Buffalo Springfield Again" (referring to the album and/or expressing nostalgia for the band)

 

The Who
You Better You Bet
“ I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T. Rex.
To the sound of old T. Rex, oh, and Who’s Next.”

 

Baby Britain by Elliott Smith:

The light was on but it was dim
Revolver's been turned over
And now it's ready once again
The radio was playing "crimson and clover"

 

Thompson Twins "Love On Your Side" references "playing all your favorite records" then briefly goes into "In The Name of Love".

 

The National's "Don't Swallow the Cap" mentions Let It Be and Nevermind.

 

Katy Lies. Well, almost

 

George Thorogood mentions his John Lee Hooker record collection in One Bourbon , One Scotch & One Beer .

 

Ryan Adams' cover of Style

"You Got that Daydream Nation Look in Your Eyes"

 

Nada Surf's song "Blonde On Blonde" mentions...wait for it...Blonde On Blonde

 

Pulp's "Bad Cover Version" references Scott Walker's album "'Til the Band Comes In" in a less-than-enthusiastic way...

Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV
The second side of "'Til the Band Comes In"
Like an own-brand box of cornflakes
He's going to let you down, my friend

...and the Pulp album that the song's on, "We Love Life", was produced by Walker.

 

"...got my Kiss records out." "Surrender" by Cheap Trick

 

The Hold Steady - Joke About Jamaica
“Houses of the Holy”

 

Does it count if the album title is from a song off the album?

That Day Is Done mentions Flowers In The Dirt,
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter mentions Kisses On The Bottom.
Two albums by Paul McCartney

Also, his Chaos And Creation In The Backyard album almosts gets its titles from two songs on the album, Fine mentions Chaos And Creation and Promise To You Girl mentions Backyard.

 

Alanis Morrisette was listening to his "Joni"....wonder which one though??

 

No. That's a distinction made at the outset by the OP.

 

The very last song Sandy Denny wrote and recorded is an example of this. It feels wrong posting a link somehow though. The song"s called "Makes me think of you" and I have to assume every word represents 100% the truth of her pretty desperate last weeks with us.
Joni Mitchell's "Blue" is the album in question.

 

"Sing a song for me, one from Let It Be" ("Be Here Now" by Oasis).

 

Bill Callahan self-references the album he's singing on (Apocalypse) in the last line of "One Fine Day" the last track. But you won't get it straight away – he sings the catalogue number!!!

 

Rick Astley on ‘The Good Old Days’ from his last album:

Down the yellow brick road
I drive a yellow taxi to a yellow submarine
Just for fun
A supertramp symphony
A full beggars banquet
Or a night at the opera