Worst album title

Over the years there have been some truly awful album titles. My personal gong for the worst album title would go to Stevie Wonder for Fullfillingness' first finale. What the hell does it mean because frankly my dears I havent got a clue?
What else is absolutely terrible?

The new Extreme comeback album

is called Saudades de Rock. Apparently it's prononoumnced Sow-dodge.
Yeurrgghhh.

Niks | 18 September 2008 - 12:16pm

beggars belief

mind you they always were an awful band with some of the worst sleeve designs I've ever seen.

dannyboy3000 | 18 September 2008 - 8:19pm

Be Here Now

Fuck Off Then

Andy Barrons | 18 September 2008 - 12:18pm

Other offences to be taken into consideration

Standing on the shoulder of Giants (sic)
Dig Out Your Soul (this one at least makes sense when Gallagher Senior explains it)
Don't Believe the Truth (Ladies and Gentlemen I do believe we have a winner)

Gatz | 18 September 2008 - 12:27pm

unchecked Kookiness

Fiona Apple's

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing before he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right

Apple claims to have written this as a self justifying poem, but really there is can be no justification (self or otherwise)for this kind of behaviour.

backwards7 | 18 September 2008 - 12:37pm
eddie g | 18 September 2008 - 12:41pm

Just Silly

Aoxomoxoa

+ High School Musical 3 - aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!

Beany | 18 September 2008 - 1:02pm

Cosmos Cringe

The Cosmos Rocks, Queen and Paul Rodger's new album, hurry and buy while stocks last.

David Wright | 18 September 2008 - 4:10pm

The Chocolate Invasion by

The Chocolate Invasion by Prince

Lots of "scat" singing on that one, probably.

Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic by Prince; Put In2 The Bin Puhlastic more like.

Andy Lynes | 18 September 2008 - 4:16pm

Good selection of candidates here:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15116_20-worst-album-titles-all-time.html

In addition, anyone interested in Beyonce's "B-day"? Or you can take your pick from anything by the Police.

Boney M's "Boonoonoonoos" is truly baffling, but for sheer teeth-grinding slapability, I'd say it was a toss-up between Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness", and Westlife's "Allow Us To Be Frank".

Cadabra | 18 September 2008 - 4:45pm

The list

you linked to includes Village Green Preservation Society. What's wrong with that?

Carl Parker | 18 September 2008 - 9:53pm

that Westlife one

is abominable. I always hated Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit. Fnaar fnaar. retch.

badartdog | 18 September 2008 - 5:34pm

That Fiona Apple one...

...surely takes the prize for exhibiting the most breathtaking amount of pretension. As for Marc Bolan, 'Prophets Seers And Sages- The Angels Of The Ages' is also smirk-inducing.

Heavy metal has had some staggeringly awful album titles; Dragonforce's 'Ultra Beatdown' springs to mind, though Metallica's 'Death Magnetic' isn't much better as a title.

In the 'Allow Us To Be Frank' category, see also Robbie Williams' swing album, with the groansome title 'Swing When You're Winning' (a pun on an earlier album title of his...). This can be found at a boot sale/charity shop near you.

I have an old copy of Mojo where an irate reader wrote in to berate Charles Shaar Murray's effusive review of 'Be Here Now', finishing with the legend 'Was There Then'. That wasn't anyone on this board was it??

The titles 'The Essential Michael Bolton' or 'The Essential Barry Manilow' fill me with dread.

JJ | 18 September 2008 - 5:38pm

"Essential"

Surely "The Essential Michael Bolton" and "The Essential Barry Manilow" are just oxymorons.

Cadabra | 18 September 2008 - 9:36pm

Zinc Alloy

Dear old Marc Bolan seems to be chalking up a fair few entries here. As well as "My people..." and "Prophets..." in 1974 he also treated us to "Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow".

Chris Young | 18 September 2008 - 5:54pm

Didn't that album also have a second title?

I think it was 'Or A Creamed Cage In August' - I could check because I've (ahem) still got a copy of that in a box in the loft!

Mike Hull | 19 September 2008 - 3:09pm

Smashing Pumpkins

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

Pompous arses.

Lee Rimmer | 18 September 2008 - 7:09pm

Tap Root Manuscript

and Jonathan Livingston Seagull ( I think) show Neil diamond is definitely more of a singles artist.
It's Better Than Working by Mud always seemed a tad ironic in a way I'm not quite sure of. Dylan's last three albums whilst decent have had fairly boring titles imho like Modern Times, Love and Theft and Time Out of Mind. Funnily enough my mates' other half went to see Dylan a couple of years ago and complained after he 'didn't play enough from Essential.' It took us a while to work out what she meant - an album title shared with a lot of artists.
Oh, and Still The Same by Rod is a bog-awful title.
The Limp Bizcuit one is probably the worst album title ever though. You'd be hard-pushed to come up with any more infantile/more off-putting. (Not that I needed any encouragement to be put off)

dannyboy3000 | 18 September 2008 - 8:18pm

For sheer pretension

they don't come much worse than Listen Without Prejudice (volume 1)

Carl Parker | 18 September 2008 - 9:56pm

Self-Titled???

I hate the notion of the self-titled album. "We named it after ourselves! It's all about me, me, me!" If they don't have the imagination to come up with an album title, how are they going to manage to fill 40+ minutes with original music and words?

kidpresentable | 20 September 2008 - 2:15pm