I'm the father mentioned in this - which is something my son Samuel Cardwell posted on his Facebook recently after a short discussion we'd just had. ~ DC Cardwell

This morning my father and I were talking about how rubbish it would have been if people had kept calling albums things like 'With the Beatles' and 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,' and I got to wondering what it would have been like if Bob had kept using 'The +Adjective+ Bob Dylan' formula throughout his long career. I think it would have gone something like this:

The Hillbilly Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

The Political Bob Dylan (The Times They Are A Changin')

The Sarcastic Bob Dylan (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

The Dreamin’ Bob Dylan (Bringing It All Back Home)

The Growlin’ Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited)

The Surreal Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde)

The Garagey Bob Dylan (The Basement Tapes)

The Countrified Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding)

The Weird-Voiced Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline)

The Desultory Bob Dylan (Self Portrait)

The Optimistic Bob Dylan (New Morning)

The Cinematic Bob Dylan (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)

The Desultory Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (Dylan)

The Married Bob Dylan (Planet Waves)

The Divorced Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks)

The Collaboratin’ Bob Dylan (Desire)

The Shrill Bob Dylan (Street Legal)

The Evangelical Bob Dylan (Slow Train Coming)

The Devotional Bob Dylan (Saved)

The Hymnal Bob Dylan (Shot of Love)

The Reggae Bob Dylan (Infidels)

The Downhill Bob Dylan (Empire Burlesque)

The Regrettable Bob Dylan (Knocked Out Loaded)

The Forgettable Bob Dylan (Down In The Groove)

The Revitalised Bob Dylan (Oh Mercy)

The Giddy Bob Dylan (Under the Red Sky)

The Musicological Bob Dylan (Good As I Been To You)

The Musicological Bob Dylan Vol. 2 (World Gone Wrong)

The Bleak Bob Dylan (Time Out Of Mind)

The Pre-War Bob Dylan ("Love and Theft")

The Languid Bob Dylan (Modern Times)

The Cajun Bob Dylan (Together Through Life)

The Joyeux Bob Dylan (Christmas in the Heart)

...when it comes to an album.

Anything less, and it feels like you've been short-changed.

11 tracks is an encore, and nobody minds that.

12 up, and the audience has gone home.

Agree?

At lunchtime today, I was listening to the new Britney Spears album (lucky me). While doing so, I wondered what exactly the point of the album was.

There are certain acts (primarily pop and usually aimed at the teen market) whose albums contain two or three hit singles and then a load of filler. This isn't true for all pop - the most recent Lady Gaga and Robyn albums are pretty strong from soup to nuts - but it is the case for many.

So, why do these people still record albums? In a market where single sales are booming and album sales are down, an established artist such as Britney Spears could surely not bother with the full 12 track, 40 minute LP and just concentrate on the songs people want to hear. Then, every few years, she could release a compilation featuring nothing but big hits.

So, has anyone done this before and if not, why not? Or, am I just being naive and the reason no-one does it is because albums are where the money is?

Today for the first time since I can remember, I'm going to listen to an Album from beginning to end. Please kindly step forward Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. What album would you choose?

A posting in the "Is it possible for stuff to be too cheap?" thread raised a thought. Does anyone know if any music journalist or DJ has ever suffered any sanction from a record company for unloading promo copies to second hand shops? Presumably the easy penalty is to stop supplying the records to the offender. I suppose there is a potential civil penalty through the courts for profiting from the product.
I'm not complaining at all as I've been a grateful beneficiary of a fair bit of material bought through 2nd hand shops over the years. Especially in the days of vinyl, when the opportunity to pick up recent release, pristine albums at half the normal retail price was a especially welcome.
The question remains; what was / is the real point of stamping / stickering albums in this way?

Have a butchers at the whole set on flickr. I particularly like the Enya one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bltpicons/sets/72157622801622434/with/46961...

OK, this may have been done before, but I'm a newbie here and can't be arsed to trawl through and look.

What's the creepiest album sleeve ever?

I'm sure there must be hundreds (if not thousands!) of contenders, but I'm starting off with this one:

Eeeww...makes my flesh crawl...

If you were to list your most played albums, would this differ greatly from what you would declare as your all time favourites. This is my "Top Played" list and of course it is skewed towards albums of the last century as I have had much more time to play them!
There are certain albums that I would not have thought of listing as my favourites! OVER TO THE MASSIVE.....

PINK FLOYD Dark Side Of The Moon 1973
PINK FLOYD The Wall 1979
Jeff BECK There And Back 1980
The BEATLES Beatles "White Album" 1968
SUPERTRAMP Even In The Quietest M. 1977
PINK FLOYD Animals 1977
Steve HARLEY Love's A Prima Donna 1976
David GILMOUR David Gilmour 1978
PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here 1975
SUPERTRAMP Crisis ? What Crisis ? 1975
Steve HARLEY Timeless Flight 1976
John MARTYN Grace And Danger 1980
GOLDFRAPP Felt Mountain 2000
ROLLING STONES Goat's Head Soup 1973
Judie TZUKE Welcome To The Cruise 1979
Joni MITCHELL Wild Things Run Fast 1982
STEELY DAN Two Against Nature 2000
John MARTYN On The Cobbles 2004
PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother 1970
Robert FRIPP Exposure 1979

Here's a question that threw me today, having moved away from old smokey some 6 years ago. Where do you go to buy Black Metal albums in London these days? Didn't there used to be some basement in Camden somewhere that did that? I don't actually know what black metal is to be honest, but thought I'd try to be helpful.

Anyone else have nostalgic memories of the comedy album? A genre made near obsolete by the time VHS reared its cleanable head.

They were often to be found in the one slim shelf in the corner of the record shop. Often mixed in with Learn To Speak French, Acker Bilk and Moira Anderson records. The only chance in the pre-video age for you to keep a permanent record of the likes of Hancock's Half Hour, Monty Python and Steptoe and Son. Or a rare chance to hear comedians swear like actual human beings (I still remember the classroom thrill of secret C90 Derek and Clive trading by whoever was old enough to get hold of a copy). I've still no idea who Blaster Bates was though.

In recent years I have bought three seemingly 'lost' albums (or in one case, 'a collection of recorded material', rather than an album). All of them, in my opinion, range from at least very good to excellent, so surely the artists deserved more recognition in their own time. Have record companies/music-industry types always been so blind?

Remarkable stories envelop each album and their eventual release. I'll not go into great detail as these tales are told elsewhere far more eloquently than I could ever tell them. Let's just say fires, lost masters and lost artists are involved somewhere and somehow.

The three albums are The Dragons - 'BFI', Rodriguez - 'Cold Fact', and Pisces - 'A Lovely Sight'.

My question is simply, does anyone know of other 'lost' albums that were eventually released years after being recorded? Or maybe even some that still haven't seen the light of day?

An interesting question surfaced in Facebook some time ago. Basically, can anyone think of any solo album recorded by a member of a band, while that band remained in existence, that was superior to the band's own album output. I cant myself. A friend suggested Every Picture Tells a Story by Rod Stewart, recorded when he was still with The Faces. Remember, its got to be a record put out while the band was still ongoing. So artists who went completely solo after a band broke up are not (NOT) included. Let the discussion begin.

Saw the http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/boring-album-titles
thread and it reminded me of the best album title ever.
"Trouble over Bridgewater" by Half Man Half Biscuit.

It's clearly the best ever, because it contains pretty much the pure essence of HMHB - it's a twist on something recogniseable and widely known, it references somewhere off the beaten track (of mainstream music), it's quintissentially English and it's funny.

Is there a better title out there anywhere?

These are rather clever, non?

The full set can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlepixel/sets/72157594269138651/

How talented people are really.

Hello everyone apologies if this is old news for you but this rang a few bells for me.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17075_every-album-ever.html