Entertainment For Lively Minds
Most Excellent Album Titles
Posted by Blandy on 17 July 2009 - 10:27am.
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?
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Pete Brown and Piblotko
"Things may come and things may go but the art school dance goes on forever".
I wasn't surre if I'd got that completely right so I Googled what I thought was the title and went through to the Beat Goes On label website and the first page that came up was a listing for the Gregson and Collister CD I've been after for a while. Which was nice.
Pete brown
Actually a fine album featuring the great Chris Spedding
No
it disnae.Jim Mullen is the geetarist on this one.
Mr Spedding was with Pete Browns Battered Ornaments. THEIR great title was "A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark".
oops
thanks you're right
Man
'2oz Of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle'
What more do you need to know about it?
Well, most HMHB albums have something going for them
'Trouble Over Bridgewater' is a good'un
As is 'Back In The DHSS'
'CSI: Ambleside' is even better
Hairway To Steven
By Butthole Surfers.
(Have no wish to hear the record, but always thought the title was great!)
Kirsty MacColl
Electric Landlady
Nick Low
Bowi
i have always said
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is as poetic as a good Zen Koan
Be glad
for the song has no ending.
Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop
by the always intruiging Luke Haines.
A cracker!
Fine, fine title - fine, fine artiste!
"Welcome To The Infant Freebase"
by Soundtrack of Our Lives always freaks me out.
I also like Alabama 3's "Exile On Coldharbour Lane".
What a surprise
that you like Infant Freebase, mr Retro Man. :)
Dessutom rockar den hatthylla. (It´s a really great album listenig wise as well).
Yes, I know I bang on about them...
but if others can keep going on about how great the Beatles/ Richard Thompson/Elbow/Neil Young/ are then I firmly believe I have a right!
That and they happen to be the greatest rock band ever ha ha...well maybe since Union Carbide Productions.
Actually just got back from a trip, saw them at Kungälv - mind blowing as usual!
And while we´re at it
Extended Revelation For The Psychic Weaklings Of Western Civilization is a pretty good title to.
I haven´t seen them live yet, even if they played at the University where I used to study a few years ago and my hometown just a month ago. The first time I had to be somewhere else that evening, where I cannot remember but I was a bit upset, and that last time I was strapped for cash due to Springsteen and a festival in Stockholm the weekend after.
But they are REALLY good live, aren´t they?
Oh yes indeed!
Best live act I have ever seen and I've seen a few greats in my 43 years! They are back in London again on August 20th at the Scala but will be in Stockholm on the 28th (although outdoors at Grona Lund), if you can catch them now give it a try as they are really on form.
Underworld
Second Toughest In The Infants. Amazing
Peter Bruntnell
Normal For Bridgewater
Let's Wrestle
The gloriously shambolic Let's Wrestle played live on Marc Riley's 6Music show earlier in the week. During the accompanying interview he expressed his delight via some hearty chuckling at their King Crimson cap-doffing album title In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's. To his further delight, the band then revealed they already have the title for its follow-up - Trout Mask Wrestlica.
It made me laugh too.
The Doobie Brothers
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits.
Good album too. Abysmal sleeve photo.
Sentimental Hygiene
by Warren Zevon.
Spinal Tap titles doesn´t count, right? Because if they do...
Also, Born To Run excited me even before I had heard it and I aslo have a soft spot for Ron Sexsmith´s Other Songs.
Surely Other Songs belongs in the Other Thread?
...I've always thought it sounded a bit half-arsed, like, "here are some songs that didn't quite make the grade for my first album" (the, er, thrillingly titled "Ron Sexsmith").
Now Cobblestone Runway - *there's* a nice title.
I actually
Like the sort of, er, subtle Canadian humour of Other Songs, even if it is a bit half-arsed (it sounds like a title Leonard Cohen forgot to use). Cobblestone Runway is a nice title, yes. Whereabouts is a beautiful word.
Exit Strategy Of The Soul - now THAT´s a title.
Beasts of Suburban
Balaclava-clad Oz rock legends TISM. They came from nowhere and then they went back. Among their recorded legacies:
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Hot Dogma
Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
De Rigueur Mortis
Australia The Lucky Cunt (Re-issue title: Censored Due To Legal Advice)
Venetian Snares
Electronic music most prolific artist(and one of the finest) I also think "A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine" has the best packaging also.
Fishead, (self-release)
Spells (1998, self-release)
Subvert! (1998, self-release)
Fuck Canada // Fuck America (1999, CLFST, split with Stunt Rock)
printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); (2000, Isolate Records)
Making Orange Things (2001, Planet Mu, collaboration with Speedranch)
Songs About My Cats (2001, Planet Mu)
Doll Doll Doll (2001, Hymen Records)
Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006 (2002, Planet Mu)
Winter in the Belly of a Snake (2002, Planet Mu)
Find Candace (2003, Hymen Records)
The Chocolate Wheelchair Album (2003, Planet Mu)
Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (2004, Planet Mu)
Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole (2005, Sublight Records)
Rossz csillag alatt született (2005, Planet Mu)
Meathole (2005, Planet Mu)
Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms (2006, Planet Mu)
Hospitality (2006, Planet Mu)
My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) (2007, Planet Mu)
Detrimentalist (2008, Planet Mu) [9]
Filth (2009, Planet Mu)
EPs
Fake:Impossible (1997, self-release)
Greg Hates Car Culture (1999, History of the Future)
Salt (2000, Zhark International)
7 Sevens.med EP (2000, Low Res)
White Label (2001, Hangars Liquides)
Defluxion / Boarded Up Swan Entrance (2001, Planet Mu)
Shitfuckers!!! (2001, Dyslexic Response)
The Connected Series #2 (collaboration with Cex) (2001, Klangkrieg)
A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine (2002, Hymen Records)
Badminton (2003, Addict Records)
Einstein-Rosen Bridge (2003, Planet Mu)
Nymphomatriarch (2003, Hymen Records, collaboration with Hecate)
Skelechairs (2004, Addict Records, collaboration with Doormouse)
Moonglow / This Bitter Earth (2004, Addict Records)
Horse and Goat (2004, Sublight Records)
Infolepsy EP (2004, Coredump Records)
Pink + Green (2007, Sublight Records)
Miss Balaton (2008, Planet Mu)
Horsey Noises (2009, Planet Mu)
Well,
there's always a couple of Flux of Pink Indians albums that qualify.
Actaully, the band name is fairly good too, hein?
Don't forget "Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral"
More HMHB wonderfulalbumtitleness
I've always been rather keen on the title of...
... the Agnes Bernelle album: "Father's Lying Dead on the Ironing Board"
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
by Flaming Lips.
Always thought it sounded vaguely euphemistic. Actually a pretty good record.
My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair...
But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows
Track 1. "Hot Rod Mama"
The Hippie dichotomy in a nutshell
"You Bought It, You Name It"
by Joe Walsh - never heard it but always thought it was a good title.
Unlike the Carlos Santana LP that I borrowed from the library as a teenager that was called "Oneness", which for a fortnight I pronounced as 'On-en-ess' before someone kindly put me right!
another badger list
yest another opportunity for me to make a list of things that I like:
Apollo 440 - Dude Descending A Staircase
Badgerlore - We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits
Because Of Ghosts - This Culture Of Background Noise
Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
The Books - The Lemon Of Pink
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Daedelus - Love To Make Music To
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Gemma Hayes - The Hollow Of Morning
Johann Johannsson - IBM1401: A User's Manual
Kira Kira - Our Map To The Monster Olympics
The Lilys - Everything Wrong Is Imaginary
Milieu - New Drugs For Nuclear Families Of The Seventies
Mum - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust
A Silver Mt Zion... - Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward
The Tiger Lillies - Bad Blood + Blasphemy
hardly seems fair really, there are so many albums out there with great titles like these