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== [[Film]] ==
* ''Autumn in New York''
* ''[[Brazil (Filmfilm)|Brazil]]'' (the Terry Gilliam movie).
* ''Blue Hawaii''
* ''[[Blue Velvet]]''
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* ''[[I'm Not There]]''
* ''[[In the Bleak Midwinter]]'' (though it was retitled ''A Midwinter's Tale'' in the US)
* ''[[In the Mood Forfor Love]]'' (As far as the original title is concerned.)
* ''It Takes Two''
* ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand''
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* ''Paper Moon''
* ''Peggy Sue Got Married''
* ''[[Pretty in Pink (Film)|Pretty in Pink]]''
* ''[[Pretty Woman]]''
* ''P.S. I Love You''
* ''Satisfaction''
* ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'' (covered by The Stray Cats)
* ''[[Stand Byby Me]]''
* ''Sweet Home Alabama''
* ''Take This Job And Shove It''
* ''Taking Care of Business''
* ''[[Things to Do Inin Denver When You're Dead]]'' went from [[Warren Zevon]] song to the title of a 1995 film. Then [[John Cale]] wrote a song about the film, which would have counted as an inversion if he hadn't shortened the title to just "Things."
* ''Walk The Line''
** Bonus! There was also a 1970 movie starring [[Gregory Peck]] titled ''I Walk the Line''.
* ''[[White Christmas (Film)|White Christmas]]''
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* Almost all [[Jukebox Musical|Jukebox Musicals]]: ''[[Mamma Mia]]'', etc.
* One might expect ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' not to include "London Bridge." Yet in the original production, its music was part of the [[Opening Ballet]]. In the recent revival produced by Cameron Mackintosh, it was actually sung in the middle of "Get Me To The Church On Time."
* ''[[Jerusalem (Theatretheatre)|Jerusalem]]''
* The folk opera ''Down in the Valley'' by Kurt Weill and Arnold Sundgaard. All the narration is sung to the tune of "Down in the Valley." Four other American folk songs are also included.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'' was named after the line of their song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjX_zJNYw8g&feature=player_embedded When You're Gone.]
* ''[[Twisted Metal]]: Black'' uses the Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black" for its ending theme.
* ''Burnout Paradise'''s Paradise City is named after the [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Guns N' Roses]] song used for the theme tune.
 
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* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'': See the article
* ''[[The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service]]'': All the manga chapters are named after obscure japanese pop/rock songs, with each volume commonly containing chapters named after songs by the same artist or other similar relations.
* ''[[Kamichu!]]'': Each episode shares its title with the name of a J-pop song from the '80s or early '90s.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''Some Kind of Wonderful''
* ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]'' (would have used David Bowie's song of that title, but he didn't think much of the film- very loosely based on him and Iggy Pop- and refused to clear it.)
* ''[[My BoyfriendsBoyfriend's Back]]''
* ''Love Will Tear Us Apart'' by Yu Lik-wai (although not the original title)
* ''All Tomorrow's Parties'' (idem)
* ''[[Murder Byby Numbers]]''
* ''[[All That Jazz]]'' has the same title as a song from [[Chicago|another musical]] by [[Bob Fosse]]. But it doesn't use that song.
* ''[[Boogie Nights]]'' was named after the Heatwave song, though it's not on the soundtrack.
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** ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' uses (mostly) [[The Eighties|'80s]] songs for its episode titles. This changes in seasons 9 and on, as many episodes are named for songs from the 00s.
** ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' titles its episodes after songs, mostly by Stephen Sondheim.
** ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy]]'' also uses song titles.
** ''[[Lost]]'' used the titles "House of the Rising Sun" and "Born to Run" without the songs (though the lyrics of the former certainly would have echoed the episode.)
** [[One Tree Hill]] uses song titles/lyrics/album names as episode titles, as well as being named after a [[U 2U2]] song.
** ''[[Covert Affairs]]'' named all the Season One episodes (except the pilot) after [[Led Zeppelin]] songs, and their Season Two episodes after [[REM]] songs.
* ''[[I DreamofDream of Jeannie]]'' (the original [[Theme Tune]] was simply named "Jeannie", and [[Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics|the lyrics weren't used at all]])
* Every episode of ''[[ALF (TV)|ALF]]'' was named for a song title.
* ''[[Who Wants to Be Aa Millionaire?]]''
* British sitcom ''September Song''. The song in question was already being used by a rival broadcaster's ''May to December''.
 
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* [[Deep Purple]]
* ''Strangers in the Night'', UFO album
* NWOBHM and early speed metal bands had a tendency to be named after a song by an iconic band. Examples include Chinatown and Black Rose ([[Thin Lizzy]] songs), Heavy Pettin' and Obsession (UFO albums), Exciter ([[Judas Priest (Music)|Judas Priest]] song), Overkill ([[Motorhead (Music)|Motorhead]] song), and Machine Head ([[Deep Purple]] album).
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Rock of Ages (Theatretheatre)|Rock of Ages]]''
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Painkiller]]'' (from the [[Judas Priest (Music)|Judas Priest]] song).
* ''[[Rock of Ages (Videovideo Gamegame)|Rock of Ages]]''
 
== [[Web Comic|Webcomics]] ==
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