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Boogn1sh
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Location: Chicago
- #1
- Posted: 10/02/2009 23:29
- Post subject: Favorite Album Titles
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I was wondering what some of your favorite album titles are. You don't even have to like the album. But I'm curious what factors make an albums title memorable or particularly interesting.
Some of my favorites:
I like these cause they're cheap zingers that make me smile:
Caravan-If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention- We're Only In It For the Money
Paul Simon- There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Rolling Stones- Let it Bleed
I like these because they accurately describe the contents of the album:
Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Syd Barret- The Madcap Laughs
Big Black- Songs About Fucking
Robert Wyatt- Rock Bottom
I like these because they illicit a unique emotional response when I hear them:
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Frank Sinatra- Sings For Only the Lonely
Notorious B.I.G.- Ready To Die
Leonard Cohen- Death of a Ladies Man
Sly and the Family Stone- There's a Riot Goin' On
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RFNAPLES
Level 8
Gender: Male
Age: 76
Location: Durham, NC, USA 
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badfaith
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Location: Kent 
- #3
- Posted: 10/03/2009 01:27
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Just spat my coffee all over keyboard!!!!
That caravan title...you'd want that on your gravestone wouldn't you?!!
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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
Gender: Male
Age: 40
- #4
- Posted: 10/03/2009 02:33
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Some favourites of mine:
Sarah Blasko - The Overture And The Underscore
The Church - Uninvited, Like The Clouds
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Elbow - Asleep In The Back
Neil Finn - Try Whistling This
David Ford - I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused
Keane - Under The Iron Sea
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform
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Mr. Shankly
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Auburn, Washington 
- #5
- Posted: 10/03/2009 04:28
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Off the top of my Head:
Revolver
Synchronicity
Never Mind the Bollocks
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mutations
The Village Green Preservation Society
Number One Record (very tongue in cheek)
Give 'Em Enough Rope
Daydream Nation
All Things Must Pass
Exile on Main Street
The Who Sell Out (one of the best packaged albums too)
Oddessy and Oracle
Forever Changes
Utopia Parkway
Are you Experienced?
After the Gold Rush
A Love Supreme
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CellarDoor
Shoe-Punk Loner
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Location: Marseille 
- #6
- Posted: 10/03/2009 08:53
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Unknown Pleasures
Perfect title, perfect cover, perfect production, perfect lyrics, well, perfect in every way actually !
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joannajewsom
Location: Philadelphia
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- Posted: 10/03/2009 12:51
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Most misleading titles:
Blonde on Blonde- Bob Dylan (Where's my lesbian porn?)
Stormcock- Roy Harper (Where's my gay porn?)
Hounds of Love- Kate Bush (Where's my beastiality porn?)
Chuck Berry Is on Top- Chuck Berry (Where's my Chuck Berry porn?)
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ffudnebbuh
level 8
Gender: Male
Location: Boston 
- #8
- Posted: 10/03/2009 14:26
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Funkadelic "One nation under a groove"
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Boogn1sh
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Location: Chicago
- #9
- Posted: 10/03/2009 17:46
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badfaith wrote: | Just spat my coffee all over keyboard!!!!
That caravan title...you'd want that on your gravestone wouldn't you?!! |
Heh indeed it's the perfect gravestone line. Other equally interesting Caravan titles: For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night....Cunning Stunts
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Boogn1sh
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Location: Chicago
- #10
- Posted: 10/03/2009 17:57
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joannajewsom wrote: | Most misleading titles:
Blonde on Blonde- Bob Dylan (Where's my lesbian porn?)
Stormcock- Roy Harper (Where's my gay porn?)
Hounds of Love- Kate Bush (Where's my beastiality porn?)
Chuck Berry Is on Top- Chuck Berry (Where's my Chuck Berry porn?) |
LOL I feel kind of dumb for having never thought of Blonde on Blonde in that way. That title always brought some sort of textural image to mind, sometimes you overlook the most obvious thing about something when you've already defined and categorized it in your mind....heh Chuck Berry porn
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