Just because I was thinking of CD (or Album for the older crowd) titles, I decided to start a thread for the best ones. Not really caring about the quality of the music, just CDs where you go “What a cool name for a CD”.
My 2 favorites:
“Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” - Blink 182
“Intensities in Ten Cities” - Ted Nugent
Anybody else wanna play?
“Katy Lied”- Steely Dan
“I oughtta give you a shot in the head for making me live in this dump” - Shivaree
Pardon My French - Fuck
The Pathetic Aesthetic - The Librarians
Eponymous - REM
The Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top - Liars
The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus EGG - The Flaming Lips
More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads
Bombay 2 - Electric Vindaloo - Various Artists
Building Nothing out of Something - Modest Mouse
Through Being Cool - Saves the Day
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death- Dead Kennedy’s
“You broke my heart, so I busted your jaw” By Spooky Tooth
“You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish” By REO Speedwagon
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - godspeed you black emperor!
“Songs About Fucking” Big Black
But if we want to get really old, I think “Revolver” is an excelent name for a record album.
In Through The Out Door - Led Zepplin
Ghost in the Machine - The Police
Emergency Third Rail Power Trip by Lawsuit.
Hairway to Steven - The Butthole Surfers
Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven
Eat Shit You Fucking Redneck - Pigface
Rabies - Skinny Puppy
Trompe Le Monde - The Pixies
The Flaming Lips: A Collection Of Songs Representing An Enthusiasm For Recording…By Amateurs
The Electric Eels- God Says Fuck You
Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen
Diesel Boy: *Sofa King Cool *
The Cramps: Big Beat From Badsville
Dead Milkmen: Beelzebubba & Metaphysical Graffiti
Letters to Cleo: Aurora Gory Alice
Ministry: The Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Taste, Psalm 69 The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge & Five Dollar Bob’s Mock Cooter Stew
Nashville Pussy: Let Them Eat Pussy
Nirvana: Incesticide
NOFX: *Punk in Drublic *, *45 or 46 Songs That Weren’t Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records *
Reverend Horton Heat: Liquor in the Front
Skatenigs: Stupid People Shouldn’t Breed
Smashing Pumpkins: *Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness *
Soul Asylum: Let Your Dim Light Shine
Tripping Daisy: I Am An Elastic Firecracker, *Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb *
The Sound of Speed - Husker Du
You Goddamned Son of a Bitch - Revolting Cocks
FYI, RollingStone.com has what they consider to be the best 50 album titles.
It is annoying because they do not provide a list (or at least I couldn’t find it) but rather you have to go page by page for each one.
More thoughts:
I think the award for the most guts needs to go to:
Negativeland - U2
The name of the band was printed very small, and the album title very large. Needless to say, they got their asses sued off, and a very long legal battle ensued, which is told in their book “Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2”. I foolishly picked this album up in 91 and didn’t buy it, thinking it was by the actual band U2; when I realized my mistake, the record had been pulled from the shelves. I can’t think of another band that brought so much crap on themselves over an album title, so, in my book, they get the gold star.
A good summation of the event can be found here
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Decidedly Belated Response – Who Bootleg
-Coffeeguy