The quality of the song/album is not the point. It’s all in the title itself.
My nominees:
Album: Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. (Even though they stole it from Kenneth Grahame.)
Song: Jethro Tull: Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day).
It looks like I stopped being obsessed with titles sometime in the mid-1970s.
Album: Electric Light Orchestra: The Night The Light Went On In Long Beach.*
Song: Hoagy Carmichael: That Guinness-book record holder for longest song title; I will spare you.
(*if you have/hate that album, it was re-mastered a while back and it’s like night and day. Highly recommended live album.)
Album: Nirvana, Nevermind
Song: Courtney Barnett, “Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence”
Album: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity
Song: Cream - “Pressed Rat and Warthog”
Album: The Dickies, Stukas Over Disneyland (I didn’t know who they were at the time, I just saw the cover and title and had to buy it).
Song: Blue Oyster Cult, “The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein’s Castle at Weisseria” (The most umlaut-errific metal song title ever)
Title: The Former Glenn Miller Singers Re-union in Hi-Fi. I have no idea where to file this LP. “F”? “G”? “M”?
Song: Baby Bitch (Ween). Cuts right to the chase.
Don’t file it, buy one of these and hang it on the wall.
Not a Ted Nugent fan, but I like the play of “Intensities in Ten Cities”
Title: You Can Tune a Piano but You Can’t Tuna Fish by REO Speedwagon
Song: “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving on a Pict” by Pink Floyd
Todd Rundgren: “The Ever-Popular Tortured Artist Effect”
I have the LP in my classroom… where the art students hang out:)
REM: Fables of the Reconstruction with the flip side titled Reconstruction of the Fables.
Album: The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get, Joe Walsh
Song: “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand,” Primitive Radio Gods
Good to know – I’m a long-time ELO fan, but I’d never bought that album, as I’d always heard it was terribly recorded.
Song: The Second Great Torsion Bar Overland Of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending - Will Ackerman
Album: Sentimental Hygiene - Warren Zevon
Not sure about an album title, but song: Frank Zappa, “I Promise Not to Come in Your Mouth”
What makes it awesome is the description in the liner notes, which says something along the lines of “a sensitive instrumental designed for easy listening with a glass of wine by the fire.”
Albums:
Nick Lowe - The Abominable Showman
Bootsy Collins - Ahh… The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
Songs:
The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
New Pornographers - Valkyrie in the Roller Disco
Edguy - Sabre & Torch
Panic! At the Disco - There’s a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought of It Yet
Sort of the reverse of Nigel Tufnel’s “Lick My Love Pump.”
Australian band TISM released a live concert video, which they titled ‘Incontinent in ten continents’.
As for song, they also have - "(He’ll never be an) Old Man River’, which starts with the line ‘I’m on the drug that killed River Phoenix’.
Album: Sentimental Hygiene by Warren Zevon
Song: “How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?” by Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
Song: “Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell” by The Offspring.
Album: 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory by the Dropkick Murphys.
