Buddy Guy: “Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues”
“Pork Soda”-Primus
“Seas of Cheese”-Primus
“Twelve Golden Country Hits”-Ween
“God Ween Statan”-Ween
“Two Against Nature”-Steely Dan
It was a record. You put it on the turntable, and it revolved. Hence, “Revolver.”
And the Too-Ironic-For-Words Award goes to Richard Marx for his second album, Repeat Offender.
Great titles (not necessarily great albums):
“Intensities in Ten Cities” - Ted Nugent
“Night in the Ruts” - Aerosmith (sue me- I like Spoonerisms)
“Bloody Tourists!” - 10cc
“Gimme Back My Bullets” - Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Is THIS What You Want?” - Jackie Lomax
“If I Wasn’t So Romantic, I’d Shoot You” - (I think) by Rick Derringer
“Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player” - Elton John
Frank Zappa and Joe Walsh have much in common. Both brilliant guitarists who never made an album as clever as its title! Well… not quite true. “Got any Gum” was about as clever as its title, as was “Joe’s Garage.” But I loved the titles…
"You Bought It, You Name It (Walsh)
“The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get” (Walsh)
“Weasels RIpped My Flesh” (Zappa)
“Burnt Weenie Sandwich” (Zappa)
Any album with “Greatest Hits” in the title is bound to be a winner. Some of the albums on my wish list:
Bizet Greatest Hits
Chopin Greatest Hits
Gregorian Chants Greatest Hits
Grieg Greatest Hits
Mendelssohn Greatest Hits
Prokofiev Greatest Hits
Sibelius Greatest Hits
Wagner Greatest Hits
Barney’s Greatest Hits
“Joyrides for Shut-Ins” - Cavedogs
“We’re Only In It For the Money” - Mothers of Invention
It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest by the Fugs
Attempted Moustache by Loudon Wainwright III
Must’ve Been High by the Supersuckers
Also SOMEONE (I can’t remember who) had an album called “______________'s Greatest Hits, Vol. II” There was no volume I! I though it might have been Mason Williams, but a search of his discography shows no such title.
*Originally posted by RealityChuck *
**“You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish” – REO Speedwagon
“You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw” – Spooky Tooth
“The Doughnut in Grannie’s Greenhouse” – Bonzo Dog Band
“How Can You Be Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All?” – Firesign Theater
“Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers” – Firesign Theater
“More Songs about Buildings and Food” – Talking Heads
“The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus” – Spirit **
Wow. You must have been born in 1954. Thank you.
-Another
the vandals have some great ones:
Hitler Bad Vandals Good
Fear of a Punk Planet
Live Fast Diahrea
Dead Kennedy’s have some great ones too:
give me convenience or give me death
Plastic sugury disasters
fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
then a few others i like:
Ben folds five - whatever and ever amen
Revolting cocks - you goddamned son of a bitch, stainless steel providers, Linger Ficken Good, and Beers Steers and Queers
Stretch Magnifico - the lesser of two weavils
and the album i bought because of the art and the titel L7 - smell the magic (and it had a woman ramming a man’s face into her crotch)
HOORAY FOR BOOBIES! by the Bloodhound Gang, containing such wonderful songs as “You’re Pretty When I’m Drunk,” “The Bad Touch,” and “The Ballad of Chasey Lain.” (one of the hottest “adult movie” actresses ever!)
-Syko
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” - Ralph Wiggum
Also, “Big Lizard in my Backyard” and “Not Richard but Dick” by the Dead Milkmen, as well as “Electriclarryland” and “Independent Worm Saloon” by the Butthole Surfers.
And finally, the CD from which I took my name, the Red Hot Chili Peppers “BloodSugarSexMagik.”
-Syko
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” - Ralph Wiggum
I have no idea why, but one album title popped into my head when I saw the OP and it won’t go away.
Paul McCartney - Ram
I’ve never listened to the album, I don’t know what songs are on it, but I just love that name for an album.
Barometer Soup - Jimmy Buffet
Midnite Vultures - Beck
Bigger, Longer and Uncut - South Park soundtrack
And let’s not forget the Buttholes’ other inimitable titles:
Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis
Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Locust Abortion Technician
Widowmaker!
Pioughd
And then of course there is Gwar:
Hell-O!
Scumdogs of the Universe
America Must Be Destroyed
They had a video, too, entitled Phallus in Wonderland.
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Jesus & Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Hormoaning by Nirvana (rare import ep, own it)
Pretty on the Inside by Hole
Under the Pink by Tori Amos
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Incesticide by Nirvana
The titles I like tend toward either the dramatic or the silly:
Give 'Em Enough Rope The Clash
All This And World War II Movie Soundtrack, but of Beatles tunes
How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All The Firesign Theater (bought unaware of the contents, solely because of the title and cover art, which proclaimed “All Hail Marx and Lennon.” With pictures of Groucho and John, of course. Wotta find!
My Aim Is True Elvis Costello. Declaration of honesty and honor. Album cover art’s pretty nifty too.
Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd. Never heard it, but you wanted a title I liked. Ditto for “Have A Cigar.”
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Early Genesis (with Peter Gabriel, not Phil Collins). Again, never heard, but saw it in a book by Hipgnosis, the people who designed the cover. Looked really impressive.
Tales of Topographic Oceans My first Yes album. Thinking about it makes me want to break out the black light, the lava lamp, the beanbag chairs and dive back into 1975.
Oh, and one more: “All You Need Is Cash.” Which is not really an album title, unless you want to attach it to the Rutles greatest hits collection. Mention this because I remember that there’s a collection of albums inside, including Stig when he was with the Punk Floyd, showing him with a giant paperclip through his head.
“Vampires Stole My Lunch Money” by I dunno who.