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List of bands that perform a song with the same name as their band

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Name		Song Name		Comments		Submittor Name
B-52's		52 Girls		It's on the band's self-titled debut. "B-52" is Georgia slang for a beehive hairdo. A live favorite.		Smelma Pitz
B. Bumble and the Stingers		Bumble Boogie		From 1961. A take on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee."		Joe
Backstreet Boys		Everybody (Backstreet's Back)		From their 1997 album Backstreet's Back. I really like the Backstreet Boys, but boy howdy, it's hard not to know that's they're back with this song.		Celeste
Bad Company		Bad Company		From the album, you guessed it, Bad Company.		JD
Bad Religion		Bad Religion		Another self-titled song. From their 1983 album "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?".		Kenny
Bang Camaro		Bang Camaro		Off the album also called Bang Camaro		Evan
Beastie Boys		Beastie Groove		An early song of theirs, released in 1984.		Evan
Beastie Boys		(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)		Line from the song: "Oh, mom, you're just jealous/It's the Beastie Boys!"		crazydon
Belle and Sebastian		Belle and Sebastian		Yep...another exact self-titled song. Appears on their 2005 album "Push Barman to Open Old Wounds."		nally
Berlin		Dancing In Berlin		I wouldn't exactly call it a "vanity song". But it obviously mentions the city of Berlin Germany from which the band took its name (even though the band itself is not actually from there).		Edward
Big Country		In A Big Country		Their best known song.		Ethan Mawyer
Billy Joel		The Ballad of Billy the Kid		From his debut album, Piano Man. Obviously not about Joel himself, but Joel's fictionalized story of 19th-century outlaw Billy The Kid.		Cassandra
Black Grape		Reverend Black Grape		Band name isn't mentioned in the actual song, though.		KingTT
Black Sabbath		Sabbath Bloody Sabbath		Appears on the album of the same name.		Themorus
Black Sabbath		Black Sabbath		from the album 'Black Sabbath'		Anonymous Bob
Blue Oyster Cult		Let Go		This track was on their 1983 album "The Revolution By Night", and the the chanted letters "B, O, C" is an acronym for the band's name. Ironically, the lyrics were not written by the group, but by Ian Hunter.		neptunevsmars
Blue Oyster Cult		Blue Oyster Cult		From the album "Imaginos" (released in 1988)		SteveYCS
Blue Tears		Blue Tears		From the band's eponymous 1990 debut album. Rest in peace, Gregg Fulkerson!		Joey F.
Blur		Dan Abnormal		"Dan Abnormal" is an anagram of Blur's lead singer's name Damon Albarn.		B1982
Bo Diddley		Bo Diddley		Also had another hit with "Hey, Bo Diddley".		oldtimer
Boston		Rock And Roll Band		The opening line: "Just another band out of Boston."		nally
Boyz II Men		Motownphilly		Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD (also mentioning ABC, which is Another Bad Creation; and BBD, which is Bell Biv DeVoe)		crazydon
Breaking Wheel		The Breaking Wheel		At the time of the song's release, the band was known as Artillery, but they changed their name to Breaking Wheel so as not to be confused with the thrash metal band, Artillery		Evan
Britney Spears		Gimme More		At the very beginning, she says, "It's Britney, b1tch!" It's the first track off her Blackout album.		Flipside
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos		Buckaroo		Instrumental country hit from 1965.		Susan
Butthole Surfers		Butthole Surfer		From "Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac".		Agrimorfee

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