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What's the worst album title, ever?

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Whilst browsing the racks of my local HMV, recently, looking for some sale bargains, I noticed a copy of the most recent Meatloaf CD. Entitled "Hang Cool, Teddy Bear" I reasoned that this must be one of the most awful album titles, ever. Now, I've no idea what the music contained within is like, but were I a fan of Mr Loaf, I think I might think twice about purchasing an album with a title like that.

So, what are the worst album titles, ever? The title could have no bearing whatsoever on the quality of the music itself. Indeed, "OK Computer" is one of my favourite albums ever, but I always thought that title sounded a bit iffy. Thirteen years on it sounds dated, and will sound even more dated in another ten years, but the music is timeless. I've never gone a bundle on "Sgt Pepper" either......

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Charlotte Church

Tissues and Issues.

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clivetemple | 21 July 2010 - 6:22am

I really thought you

were making that up. Looking it up on Wikipedia I saw this:

An early batch of the album had print errors on the right and left hand side title faces. The faces had the title "Charlotte Church : Crazy Chick", when it should have been "Charlotte Church : Tissues and Issues".

A rare issue with printing issues, perhaps ?

[Gets coat, tissues]

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SpaceBoy | 21 July 2010 - 7:37am

Inspired, so I believe, by 'Where Are You Baby'

by the mighty Betty Boo (hello Alison).

"I've used up all my tissues 'cause there's more serious of issues"

Has there ever been a more tortured example of forcing a line to scan against it's own protestations?

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stimpy | 21 July 2010 - 7:47am

When does the Betty Boo revival start?

I want to make sure I am out of the country when it does...

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Beany | 21 July 2010 - 7:49am

'Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1' by George Michael...

it's obvious, isn't it? :-)

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Patrick Crowther | 21 July 2010 - 6:23am

Case proved

Next!

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David Hepworth | 21 July 2010 - 7:30am

Volume 2

Will the day ever dawn when we are treated to LWP, Vol 2?

The compliation "Ladies and Gentleman, the Best of George Michael" was a duff title too.

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Carl Parker | 21 July 2010 - 12:49pm

It was actually 'Gentlemen'

which I took as an amusing reference to his then-recent toilet 'activities'.

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Black Type | 21 July 2010 - 1:01pm

A far better title....

Lovely review of this in NME at the time, just said,...... "Listen Without Speakers"

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jonnyartist | 22 July 2010 - 8:48pm

Close,Patrick

I remember The Two Dannys (Baker and Kelly) on Radio 1 deciding that was number 2. Number 1
Older-George Michael

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Sour Crout | 19 August 2010 - 12:24am

Lou Reed - Street Hassle

It sounded like an expression a headmaster desperately trying to impress his sixth-formers would say.

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Archie Valparaiso | 21 July 2010 - 7:14am

I don't know...

...is this not a case of the title being, by some way, better than the album?

Magic & Loss. Now there's a terrible title. A bit like Love & Theft actually. Rubbish.

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Iainso | 21 July 2010 - 12:53pm

Van Halen's

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

The schoolboy joke was sort of mildy amusing the first time you heard it. Within days it had worn so thin you could read a newspaper through it.

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mojoworking | 21 July 2010 - 7:35am

Van Halen - OU812

Was this a response to David Lee Roth's solo album Eat 'Em And Smile? Either way, it was a crap title, but I did quite like the album. Mine All Mine - Tune!

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Pink Tama | 21 July 2010 - 11:21pm

H to He, Who am the Only One

Never like the title of this Van Der Graaf Generator long player but it does contain a killer of a track, er, Killer.

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Beany | 21 July 2010 - 7:47am

Nonsense...

but it sure has stuck in my head for the last 40 years or so! I still say it to some young folks occasionally just to see the puzzled expression on their wee faces. According to wiki:

'The band explored the complete range of phonaesthetics from euphony to cacophony'. Must try that one next Friday night.

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The Californian | 21 July 2010 - 9:41am

And I thought

phonaesthetics was what Apple paid Jonathan Ive to do

[Gets coat, holding phone carefully.]

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SpaceBoy | 21 July 2010 - 11:02am

Sting's making a big for the title

I see his new LP is called Symphonicity

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Joe R | 21 July 2010 - 7:53am

That's quite good in it's own way.

Not unlike Zappa's run of live albums from the Joe's Garage era:

Joe's Menage
Joe's Corsage
Joe's Domage
Joe's XMASsage

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stimpy | 21 July 2010 - 7:57am

Almost

Symphonicities. As advertised on TV.

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Beany | 21 July 2010 - 8:14am

Point taken

That post wasn't my finest work spelling wise. For "big", read "bid" and for "Symphonicity", read "Symphonicities". Either way, I still think it's a terrible title

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Joe R | 21 July 2010 - 8:29am

And there was me thinking it's a very clever

play on the old Police album title, "Synchronicity" - especially with it containing re-workings of old Police songs that can simultaneously live alongside each other...

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Mark JF | 21 July 2010 - 8:58am

Welcome Back My Friends to

Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen

Danny Baker would no doubt disagree

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Brookster | 21 July 2010 - 7:57am

He's not the only one...

:-)

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stimpy | 21 July 2010 - 7:58am

Agree

That's all.

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Thomas the Rhymer | 23 July 2010 - 5:36pm

"Love Beach"

isn't a great LP title and the cover... well, that must win an award for one of the All Time Naffest LP Covers Ever In The Entire Known Universe (And Beyond) Award.

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Mark JF | 21 July 2010 - 11:33am

Also agree

With both points. Still, the cover was an accurate reflection of the quality of the music.

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Thomas the Rhymer | 23 July 2010 - 5:37pm

Joni Mitchell's

Miles of Aisles

It was a live album. Do you see what she did there?

AND

Donovan's A Gift From A Flower To A Garden

Great album, but even in 1967 buttocks were firmly clenched whenever the title was mentioned.

You see, Don was the flower and we, the fans, were....

Oh never mind.

See my sadly ignored thread elsewhere for chapter and verse on this one.

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mojoworking | 21 July 2010 - 8:00am

Can I select Alanis Morrisette's second album...

"Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie."

She might as well have called that "Don't Buy This Mr Ganglesprocket, You Really Won't Like It Very Much"

Surely far worse that Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1?

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ganglesprocket | 21 July 2010 - 8:11am

I disagree that it's worse...

Morrisette's album title - whilst admittedly awful - is simply nonsensical and daft.

Michael's on the other hand is a barely concealed whimper saying "Please treat me seriously, I am an artiste" that is so pitiful it hurts.

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Patrick Crowther | 21 July 2010 - 8:21am

I reckon any...

...album that gives itself a Vol I in the title is a bit up itself. See also Club Classics, Traveling Wilburys (though they redeemed themselves slightly by missing out Vol II).

The thing about LWP, is that it is a truly great album, and I don't think he needed to be so pitiful, as you put it.

Still, he does seem a rather fragile character. Bless.

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Iainso | 21 July 2010 - 12:58pm

Soul II Soul

To be fair to Soul II Soul, they continued the theme even when it made no sense (see Vol. IV):

Club Classics Volume I (1989)
Volume II: 1990 - A New Decade (1990)
Volume III: Just Right (1992)
Volume IV: The Classic Singles 88-93 (1993)
Volume V: Believe (1995)
Volume VI: Time for Change (1997)

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Red Umpire | 6 August 2010 - 1:13pm

Fiona Apple's second album

had as its title a poem of moderate length, which I will not even bother looking for, although it started 'When the pawn...' Pretentious? Pointless? Piffle? Not a bad album though.

I love Curve, but 'Pubic Fruit' was alway a bit of a worry.

Ted Nugent's live album 'Intensity In Ten Cities,' which I've never heard and probably never will. Not a clever pun. Incontinent in ten continents - see what I did there?

And was there ever a Listen Without Prejudice Vol 2?

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Sam Fiddian | 21 July 2010 - 8:38am

Pubic Fruit!!

I thought that couldn't be true but have just checked. What were they thinking?

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Mr Fade | 21 July 2010 - 12:19pm

the clue's

in the cover

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James Blast | 21 July 2010 - 1:11pm

Has to be Limp Bizkit's...

Chocolate Starfish and the hot dog flavoured water.

Did this band do anything that wasn't embarasingly awful?

Their was also that Fiona Apple cd that had a very long poem for a title.

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MrSib | 21 July 2010 - 8:45am

A prize for Mr Durst

I was going to suggest You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish but MrSib's idea is much better. A crude, oafish, lumpen, witless, lowest-common-denominator album title for a similar group, similar music, similar frontman and similar fans.

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Lenny Law | 21 July 2010 - 12:05pm

Another "Volume 1"

a rightfully obscure Aussie band from the 70's called Hush had a few local hits mostly with inferior versions of classics like "Bony Moronie" and Dave Clark's "Glad All Over"

When they released their greatest hits album it was rather grandly called "Hush Greatest Hits Volume 1"

I am still awaiting Volume 2.

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Cookieboy | 21 July 2010 - 8:50am

Prince

has had some odd album titles ("Lovesexy" anyone?) but the one usually described as "Symbol" surely takes the biscuit?

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Mark JF | 21 July 2010 - 9:02am

Win!

Edinburgh band from the late 1980s. Their album....

Uh! Tears Baby (A Trash Icon).

...and it's still in my top 10 today. Includes the best ever name of a track "It May Be A Beautiful Sky Tonight But It’s Only A Shelter For A World At Risk"

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jockblue | 21 July 2010 - 9:44am

I disagree

that title is a WIN! as is this one

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rilos | 21 July 2010 - 1:22pm

So many contenders

"Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age" - Public Enemy

"Locust Abortion Technician" - Butthole Surfers

"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" - Smashing Pumpkins

"You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Fish" - REO Speedwagon

"Viva La Vida" - Coldplay

I actually think that "Archandroid" is a fairly shocking example of the form, although it's a decent album.

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eminentdan1978 | 21 July 2010 - 10:36am

FYI…

'Hang cool teddy bear' is a quote from Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. Whether that makes it any better as an album title I really couldn't say.
For utter lack of inspiration, the Stereophonics' 'Keep Calm And Carry On' takes some beating.

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David Rothon | 21 July 2010 - 10:42am

Agreed.

See also Just Enough Education to Perform.

Sloppy, just sloppy.

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Iainso | 21 July 2010 - 1:00pm

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants...

.. to be fair any of Oasis' album titles could qualify

- I can understand why this assault on English grammar got past the Gallaghers but surely they must have proof readers?

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walker182 | 21 July 2010 - 10:51am

Vigil In The Wildnerness of Mirrors by Fish

Wilfully prog

Chocolate Starfish and the Frankfurter Flavoured Water or something like that by someone I can't recall. I always thought that sounded vile.

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Five-Centres | 21 July 2010 - 11:41am

Ooh, I've just remembered

Duran Duran's Seven and the Ragged Tiger

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Joe R | 21 July 2010 - 11:54am

John Oates - Phunk Shui.

I know which part of Mr Oates I would like to firmly plant my "Shui" upon.

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Pencilsqueezer | 21 July 2010 - 12:24pm

Anything Self-Titled!

Anything "self-titled" - just shows a lack of imagination to me and seems especially indulgent when it's a solo artist. (Quite possibly just me on this one...)

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kidpresentable | 21 July 2010 - 12:37pm
walker182 | 21 July 2010 - 12:38pm

Nope!

Even less so since I heard him murdering "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"!

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kidpresentable | 21 July 2010 - 11:32pm

More Fish....

Script for a Jester's Tear by Marillion.

Never heard the album, but a truly awful title.

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David Poole | 21 July 2010 - 12:43pm

you're lucky

I've heard it. It is ,indeed, awful.

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Sour Crout | 19 August 2010 - 12:28am

Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time

by the Notting Hillbillies. Terrible band name and album name. Probably a terrible album too, but who could be arsed to listen anyway.

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jezk | 21 July 2010 - 12:49pm

Amazed nobody's mentioned these yet

"Handbuilt By Robots" - Newton Faulkner
"Smile... It Confuses People" - Sandi Thom

Both are far too "You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps!" and annoy me enormously.

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sjp808 | 21 July 2010 - 1:00pm

Sandi Thoms Greatest Hits

Was a far more amazing title.

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MrSib | 21 July 2010 - 2:36pm

Goats Head Soup.

I WIN!
Also, it has a terrible cover. And some terrible songs.

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Iainso | 21 July 2010 - 1:03pm

For some reason we

had a copy of this on a wall at my school-maybe the 6th form common room.

Lacking any knowledge I assumed it must be "Ram Jam", which made sense to me at least.

It was a disappointment to discover I was wong ;-)

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SpaceBoy | 22 July 2010 - 8:37pm

Bubonique - 20 Golden Showers

Cathal Coughlan and Sean Hughes bonkers early 90s side-project. Thought this was hilarious at the time. Not so sure now.

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Madrid | 21 July 2010 - 1:08pm

Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms,......

.......Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain. By Chin Crisis.

My teeth ache just thinking about it.

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Gabriel Syme | 21 July 2010 - 1:22pm

...sorry...

...I just had to check that on Wikipedia, I really thought that was two albums.

So they must have toned it down for "Working with Fire and Steel" and "Flaunt the Imperfection" then?

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walker182 | 21 July 2010 - 1:47pm

erm...actually

I've just checked Wikipedia again and its

"Working with Fire and Steel - Possible Pop Songs Volume Two"

..so they stuck to their guns!

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walker182 | 21 July 2010 - 1:50pm

Nope, that's the snappy title of one album.....

The reason that it springs to mind is that it was one of my older sister's collection of cassettes that I would rifle through when I was "allowed" to use her tape recorder.

Even as a 10 year old, I can remember thinking "this is not good".

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Gabriel Syme | 21 July 2010 - 1:53pm

The serial offenders award goes to...

...Chin Crisis!

1. Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun To Entertain
2. Working with Fire and Steel - Possible Pop Songs Volume Two
3. Flaunt the Imperfection
4. What Price Paradise
5. Diary of a Hollow Horse
6. Warped By Success

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Captain Underpants | 21 July 2010 - 3:29pm

Chin Crisis?

Is this the little-heard Jimmy Hill/Bruce Forsyth duo?

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Black Type | 21 July 2010 - 11:48pm

Budgie

Oh yes. They made a truly terrible racket, with titles to match (Crash course in brain surgery!!).

My nomination is their album 'If I were Britannia, I'd waive the rules'
(groan)

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Nick Duvet | 21 July 2010 - 2:45pm

It must be an age thing

because I love Budgie and their If I were Britannia, I'd Waive The Rules LP featured strongly in my list of best album titles on another site.

Also in the "best" list were a couple of splendidly named progtastic offerings from 1970:

Fox - For Fox Sake

Jody Grind - Far Canal

Perhaps you had to be there?

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mojoworking | 22 July 2010 - 8:58am

your love of Budgie is admirable mr. mojo

seems to me there's a lot of 'good' titles in this list. Just below us for example.

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Nick Duvet | 22 July 2010 - 10:06am

Three from Caravan

For Girls who grow plump in the night
Cunning stunts
If I could do it all again I'd do it all over you.

My how we laughed.

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clivetemple | 21 July 2010 - 3:14pm

Stunning C***s?

*gets coat*

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Ola Claesson | 23 July 2010 - 4:57pm

"New Gold Dream

('81 '82 '83 '84)"

"Sister Feelings Call"

"Wall To Wall Cacophany"

"Sons And Fascination"

"Empires And Dance"

"Sparkle In The Rain"

What the twattin' heck was all that about? Jim Kerr's celebrated protuberance was clearly draining the blood from his brain for a number of years before he wised up and handed naming duties over to someone less light-headed.

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Pax Romana | 21 July 2010 - 3:18pm

"Wall To Wall Cacophany"..?

It's "Real to Real Cacophony". Which is much better, obviously.

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Fraser M | 22 July 2010 - 12:15am

actually

it's Reel to Real Cacophany, which is utter toss

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James Blast | 22 July 2010 - 7:41am

Nope;

That's a misprint on the early 2000s catalogue re-issue. The original was definitely Real To Real Cacophony; I got it out and checked.

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Fraser M | 22 July 2010 - 9:58pm

If we're going for serial offenders

I give you Felt. Their albums in order:

Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
The Splendour of Fear
The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
Ignite the Seven Cannons
Gold Mine Trash
Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death
Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Poem of the River
Train Above the City
The Pictorial Jackson Review
Me and a Monkey on the Moon
Bubblegum Perfume

Pretentious, moi? All wonderful albums however.

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Madrid | 21 July 2010 - 3:47pm

and the follow up

After Felt (and Denim) did Laurence not go on to be Go Cart Mozart, who produced the fabulously named Racing Up The Album Chart!

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grahamt | 22 July 2010 - 8:12pm

I have never heard Felt in my life....

... but those titles make want to explore the works of the Macc Lads in some detail...

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ganglesprocket | 21 July 2010 - 3:52pm

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb...

...oh, just f*ck off Bongo...

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Pax Romana | 21 July 2010 - 3:52pm

Wasn't his idea Paxy old chap.

Thought up by Damien Hirst actually, fact fans.

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jonnyartist | 22 July 2010 - 8:43pm

Can

I still want Bongo to f*ck off though?

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Pax Romana | 26 July 2010 - 10:04am

??

Is this because of something else you've misunderstood?

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jonnyartist | 3 August 2010 - 8:24am

Just remembered this...

Pretty drool huh.

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Pencilsqueezer | 21 July 2010 - 5:56pm

Commercial Suicide.

Terence Trent D'arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction)
Terence Trent D'arby's Vibrator
Terence Trent D'arby's Symphony Or Damn: Exploring the Tension Inside the Sweetness

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Androo1963 | 22 July 2010 - 9:45pm

Phil Collins

"Hello, I Must Be Going!"

Yes, please and take your shite songs and you stupid baked bean head with you

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Johnny Topaz | 21 July 2010 - 6:29pm

Er...


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shane pacey | 22 July 2010 - 3:29am

Live and Let Live

10cc Live. Ha and indeed ha.

Genesis - Three Sides Live - particularly rubbish since the UK version had four sides of live material.

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Neil Jung | 21 July 2010 - 6:44pm

Slade

'Til Deaf Us Do Part (cringe-worthy pun, but quite a good cover)

Johns Children - The Legendary Orgasm Album (maybe a contender for "best" title too)

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Rigid Digit | 21 July 2010 - 7:28pm

Band in-jokes...

Blackfoot released an album in the 80s called S.I.O.G.O. an acronym for the tasteless phrase used to greet any young lady who made the mistake of coming to see them backstage. Sorry, can't bring myself to type it in polite company. It's not that there are any swear words in it, i just leaves a nasty taste in my mouth...

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Lard | 21 July 2010 - 10:31pm

Oh dear....

...I wish I hadn't googled that now....

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MichaelC | 24 July 2010 - 10:19pm

Blackfoot

In 1984 the same band released an album called Vertical Smiles. Check out the cover and you'll get the idea.

I laughed until I stopped.

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kinkywolfgang | 25 July 2010 - 7:39am

Pretentious, moi? the second..

Space minds, new worlds, survival of America by Leroy Jenkins
One too many salty swift and not goodbye by Cecil Taylor
As falls Wichita, so falls Wichita Falls by Pat Metheny

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Declan | 21 July 2010 - 10:39pm

Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes

I adore Yes but this was an awful title for their weakest and most pretentious album - and that really is saying something. Rick Wakeman still refers to it as Toby's Tubocharged Gocart - he hated it so much he left the band. Tormato is a poor title too, but Relayer and Going For The One are ace.

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Pink Tama | 21 July 2010 - 11:27pm

Not a great title..

..but not their weakest by a long shot (It's certainly better than their first two, and miles better than any Rabin era Yesmusic.)
As for Wakeman..he's released more useless records than anyone in the history of the world.

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shane pacey | 22 July 2010 - 3:33am

including one entitled

'Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record' which featured Bill Oddie on vocals.

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stimpy | 22 July 2010 - 8:09am

Crowded House have a couple

Temple Of Low Men
Intriguer

Come to think of it "The Beatles" is a pretty dumb title for an album too.

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Mousey | 21 July 2010 - 11:56pm

Temple of Low Men

is supposedly an Eastern metaphor for the female sexual organ - this could be apocryphal, of course.

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Badlands | 22 July 2010 - 12:25am

Which is kind of why it's so bad

Are we supposed to chuckle knowingly, aware that the real title is "C**t"? (Using asterisks here to address the firewall issue).

It puts the House in the same bag as Whitesnake and Pearl Jam etc where they don't belong.

Golly gosh I'm being adamant and righteous here!

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Mousey | 22 July 2010 - 4:26am

Speaking of which

have we had "Slide It In" yet?

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Pax Romana | 22 July 2010 - 4:00pm

Not apocryphal

I remember reading that they'd found a list of euphema for naughty bits. The album was originally going to be called The Eye Which Weeps Most When Best Pleased. I think it might have been in a Q interview.

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Lenny Law | 22 July 2010 - 8:34pm

I'm not particularly keen on...

"Humanure" by Cattle Decapitation. Such a charming cover design, too.

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duco01 | 22 July 2010 - 9:30am

Tyrannosaurus Rex

My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows.

..or some kind of bollocks.

With John Peel, reading a Bolan-penned fairytale for the album's closing track "Frowning Atahuallpa (My Inca Love).

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poolhallrichard | 22 July 2010 - 11:36am

Oy Vey Baby

..by Tin Machine.

because (a) it sound far too L.A.
(b) its by Tin Machine for Chrissake!

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walker182 | 22 July 2010 - 11:47am

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

surely?

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MrChafe | 22 July 2010 - 3:00pm

although...

Let me step in here and defend China Crisis on a purely musical basis. Flaunt the Imperfection, especially, deserves a revival. Produced by Walter Becker, you know. In 1985, that made it the closest thing to a new Steely Dan album.

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Ian McGillis | 22 July 2010 - 3:18pm

"The Spaghetti Incident?"

Yes, complete with quotation and question marks. Takes band in-jokery to new heights of annoyance. Use Your Illusion, Pts I and II, are quite shite too. And it's too bad actual band names don't qualify. Guns N' Roses, with its illogical abbreviation and frankly stupid use of apostrophe, has stuck in my craw for decades now.

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Ian McGillis | 22 July 2010 - 4:24pm

a new level

Use Your Illusion takes arse titles to a new low IMO
I agree about the N' too

whiney cock obsessed Amerikan dicks, good band though - not as good or even close to Aerosmith all the same

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James Blast | 22 July 2010 - 8:12pm

Rubber Soul

tsk

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Glenbervie | 22 July 2010 - 4:29pm

What's wrong with...

... Rubber Soul? It was the inspiration for my number plate: R SOUL.

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Billybob Dylan | 22 July 2010 - 5:50pm

Battle Hymns for Children Singing

Haysi Fantayzee's finest. I think I'm the only person in the world to own it.

When it comes to worst single titles ever, surely Cocteau Twins take the prize. Twee beyond belief.

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Five-Centres | 22 July 2010 - 4:46pm

Song titles

surely part of their ethereal charm?

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Black Type | 22 July 2010 - 7:54pm

I really genuinely think that...

... "Heaven Or Las Vegas" is a brilliant title.

Oh! I see you are saying single titles. Fairy nuff.

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ganglesprocket | 22 July 2010 - 7:18pm

I'm sorry...

...but I used to like the Lemonheads till they released 'Car Button Cloth'. So dreary it makes you want to stop listening to music...

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qwahamaman | 22 July 2010 - 7:25pm

Transvision Vamp - Little Magnets versus The Bubbles Of Babble

So bad it wasn't even released

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Ricardo | 22 July 2010 - 7:36pm

Not released

in the UK perhaps. But it did appear in the US, Australia and elsewhere. It's still on Amazon as we speak.

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mojoworking | 22 July 2010 - 10:16pm

Pompous Welsh windbags (Manics not Aneurin Bevan)

'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' which contains the equally smug 'If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will be Next'.

As Paul calf would have it. 'Students. Bag O Shite!'

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DogFacedBoy | 22 July 2010 - 7:49pm

A Contender

Robbie Williams
In And Out Of Consciousness
The Greatest Hits 1990-2010

Released October, in time for Christmas and cashing in on the Take That reunion. Thanks EMI. Now f***uck off. Even has a crap cover.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Hits-1990-2010-Out-Consciousness/dp/B00...

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Beany | 22 July 2010 - 8:41pm

I've been trying like buggery...

to get him out of my consciousness for the last 15 years. Still haven't bloody managed it...

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Patrick Crowther | 24 July 2010 - 5:43pm

Roxette's Greatest Hits.....

....collection was called "Don't Bore Us, Get To the Chorus"

Enough said.

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David Poole | 22 July 2010 - 9:55pm

It´s still better than

The Pop Hits (featuring their pop hits) and The Ballad Hits (featuring their - wait for it - ballad hits).

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Ola Claesson | 6 August 2010 - 1:45pm

Bad title, sleazy cover, cheesy band

How about 'Fanx Tara' by Sad Cafe?

Dreadful!

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StormyintheNorth | 23 July 2010 - 7:31am

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

by Alanis Morrissette.

Criiiiiinnnnnggggeeeee.

A friend in college used to wear one of her concert t-shirts with the slogan Intellectual Intercourse.

Criiiiiinnnnnggggeeeee.

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Spartacus Mills | 23 July 2010 - 11:23am

Pretentious or nonsense ? Or both ?

Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters
Christmas and the beads of sweat - Laura Nyro
Outlandos d'Amour/Reggatta de Blanc/Zenyatta Mondatta - the Police
The dream of the blue turtles - Sting ( Named after a drem he had )
Shooting rubberbands at the stars - Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
In praise of older women and other crimes - Kid Creole & the Coconuts
In lust we trust - the Ark
Lotusflow3r/Mplsound - Prince ( his endless fascination with silly spelling reminds me of my school days when the pocket calculator was introduced at maths and the hight of comedy was to type a set of numbers and turn the calculator upside down so the display revealed a word - preferably a four letter one. Oh how clever we felt...but we were thirteen/fourteen years old. How old is Prince now ? )
Some of these records are quite good, but you wouldn't know it from their titles.

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Locust | 23 July 2010 - 12:26pm

Ten Summoner's Tales

Sting seemed to think we'd all be very impressed to know that he had read some Chaucer. He'd done something similar with Shakespeare, too. And Nabokov. What a strange combination of insufferable pomposity and sheer obviousness.

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Ian McGillis | 24 July 2010 - 4:03pm

Slightly more to that Sting title

You may already have realised this and not thought it worth mentioning, but anyway, it's a play on his surname, Sumner. And wasn't the album supposed to be more autobiographical than usual? If memory serves, it included All This Time, which I thought was a pretty good song.

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Rosbif | 18 August 2010 - 11:10pm

I believe that calculator number was

5318008

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Podicle | 2 August 2010 - 12:29am

Worst Album Title EVER

I believe you are all wrong. The worst album title ever was "Jesus Loves Me" by Wayne Carr.
http://www.bizarrerecords.com/galleries/dorks/carr.html
If you'll notice his picture, as well, please. What's he wearing? Something's wrong. And then take a few moments to note his name is Wayne Carr. Hmmm...Wayne Carr, Wayne Carr...

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THE Molly Judd | 24 July 2010 - 1:34am

Or...

Best album title?

Dial M For Motherfucker (Pussy Galore).

Beat that, readers!

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kinkywolfgang | 24 July 2010 - 6:38am

OK Computer a bit dodgy?

It's a hitchhikers reference!

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athorist | 24 July 2010 - 6:22pm

Gentlemen take Polaroids

Okay chaps, what's all that about then?

brilliant album that still snouds great

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James Blast | 24 July 2010 - 9:40pm

Don't know if it was actually released

But I read an interview with Mike Love which stated he had an album in the pipeline called Mike Love Not War.

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Gareth Owens | 24 July 2010 - 10:38pm

There is a BB bootleg

with that title of various odds n sods (ML being the sod)

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DogFacedBoy | 26 July 2010 - 8:57am

"Everybody Knows Sonia"

The title of the flame-haired SAW-produced songstrell's 80s album. Wonder if the phrase "In the Biblical sense" meant anything to them.

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piglu | 26 July 2010 - 2:13am

"Enema of the State"

Blink-182

Terrible name, terrible band

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Johnny Topaz | 6 August 2010 - 12:47pm

Worthless Bastard Rock

That's the name of John Butler's (lead singer of Diesel Park West) second solo album. Anyone got it????

Not sure if I really like it or not but it obviously wasn't going for the mass market. Or even a market at Mass.

Going to see the Diesel's in Putney tonight too. Worthless bastard rocks again.

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FreakGene | 6 August 2010 - 1:04pm

Decency by Diesel Park West

The first album I purchased on CD..

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Lenny Law | 6 August 2010 - 3:32pm

Decency by Diesel Park West

yes but the albums title was lifted fron the song Drowning While the World Cries Decency and thats an altogether different slant.Magnificent.

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danvillerichmond | 9 August 2010 - 11:00am

Worthless Bastard Rock

A treasure a record

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danvillerichmond | 9 August 2010 - 11:06am

Urban Hymns anyone?

Turned down by Alan Parker Urban Warrior for sounding like it's trying too hard...

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emcee fothering... | 15 August 2010 - 5:46pm

That reminds me...

A local country act called their album 'Bourbon Hymns'.

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Spartacus Mills | 15 August 2010 - 6:12pm

From a purely squeamish point of view

anything to do with maggots gets a big thumbs down from me.

So we have Funkadelic's Maggot Brain

Then there's the unfeasibly rare self titled 1971 prog/folk offering from Nuneaton duo Fresh Maggots

(and we can only pray that there were, indeed, Nuneaton) boom, crash!

Actually, Fresh Maggots probably also qualifies for the worst band name award as well. I seem to recall they claimed the name was inspired by a sign they saw outside a fishing tackle shop.

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mojoworking | 16 August 2010 - 8:26am

I recently uncovered...

An album in Barnados by anonymous singer songwriter who had called his CD "Who Cares What the Album's Called?". Which immediately made me realise how much I *did* care.

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emcee fothering... | 16 August 2010 - 7:58am

OMD - "Architecture And Morality"

"Two equally hot potatoes" as Alan Partridge once mused...

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Slotbadger | 18 August 2010 - 11:44pm

News just in

Phil Spectors wife Rachelle has just released an album called 'Out Of My 'Chelle'.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/inside-story-the-weird...

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clivetemple | 21 August 2010 - 5:30am

Peel

Hmmm, that's not great but it does remind me of one of the best album titles ever.
On Peel's Dandelion Records in '69, a record by Mike Hart who'd been in The Liverpool Scene.....'Mike Hart Bleeds'.

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ranger | 21 August 2010 - 5:42am

Oh my

Sorry to resurrect this old chestnut, but on opening iTunes today I notice McCartney's new album is 'Kisses on the Bottom'. WTF? as I believe the youngsters are apt to say. A contender perhaps ?

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Harold Holt | 28 January 2012 - 10:16am

He's having a laugh

To be fair to Macca, his tongue is firmly in his cheek there. The title is a line from the song I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter:

Kisses on the bottom
You'll be glad you got 'em

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mojoworking | 28 January 2012 - 10:39am

As long as it's just the cheek

As long as it's just the cheek

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Harold Holt | 28 January 2012 - 12:06pm

Just the one cheek

hopefully ;-)

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mojoworking | 28 January 2012 - 12:11pm

'Quite literally'

'Tongue In Cheek', then, Nicey

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Badlands | 28 January 2012 - 4:06pm

A great album from Miss Springfield but really

Everything's Coming Up Dusty is the worst album title ever. Bar none.

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JudeMaccready | 28 January 2012 - 10:33am

Lumukanda – That Was Zen - This Is Tao

also
can we forgive Stevie Wonder for 'Fullfillingness' First Finale' ?

or Elton John for ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy’

Gary Glitter - 'Touch Me' - don't go there, don't even read the map.

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Badlands | 28 January 2012 - 4:20pm

"Well, well," Said The Rocking Chair

Dean Friedman's hit album. Never liked the title. Not very 1978.

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Zanti Misfit | 28 January 2012 - 5:25pm

I thought Danny Baker

always cited this as the worst album title:

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Brookster | 28 January 2012 - 5:47pm

Frightful though many

of the above suggestions may be, you're all wrong...

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Ruff-Diamond | 28 January 2012 - 7:49pm
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