# Favorite Album and Song Titles of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284 "2019-10-04T21:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/1 "2019-10-04T21:24:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/2 "2019-10-04T21:30:08Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/3 "2019-10-04T21:35:50Z")
Album: Nirvana, _Nevermind_ Song: Courtney Barnett, “Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence” ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/4 "2019-10-04T21:35:55Z")
Album: Mahavishnu Orchestra - _Between Nothingness and Eternity_ Song: Cream - “Pressed Rat and Warthog” ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/5 "2019-10-04T21:39:18Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/6 "2019-10-04T21:54:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/7 "2019-10-04T22:05:27Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Title: The Former Glenn Miller Singers Re-union in Hi-Fi. I have no idea where to file this LP. “F”? “G”? “M”? \ Don’t file it, buy one of [these](https://www.hobbylobby.com/Home-Decor-Frames/Frames-Photo-Albums/Shadow-Boxes-Display-Cases/Black-Wood-Record-Album-Frame/p/39998?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpsmK282D5QIVDLbICh09YgOWEAQYBCABEgJi-_D_BwE) and hang it on the wall. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/8 "2019-10-04T22:06:04Z")
Not a Ted Nugent fan, but I like the play of “Intensities in Ten Cities” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/9 "2019-10-04T22:06:25Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/10 "2019-10-04T22:41:06Z")
Todd Rundgren: “The Ever-Popular Tortured Artist Effect” I have the LP in my classroom… where the art students hang out:) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/11 "2019-10-04T23:04:51Z")
REM: Fables of the Reconstruction with the flip side titled Reconstruction of the Fables. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/12 "2019-10-04T23:13:12Z")
Album: _[The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51l4MJz0TwL.jpg)_, Joe Walsh Song: “[Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2Pw9E3bL8),” Primitive Radio Gods ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/13 "2019-10-04T23:14:21Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > 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.) 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. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/14 "2019-10-04T23:56:02Z")
Song: _The Second Great Torsion Bar Overland Of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending_ - Will Ackerman Album: _Sentimental Hygiene_ - Warren Zevon ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/15 "2019-10-05T00:12:23Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/16 "2019-10-05T00:32:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/17 "2019-10-05T00:44:24Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > 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.” Sort of the reverse of Nigel Tufnel’s “Lick My Love Pump.” ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/18 "2019-10-05T01:14:12Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Not a Ted Nugent fan, but I like the play of “Intensities in Ten Cities” 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’. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/19 "2019-10-05T01:34:18Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Caldris\_bal\_Comar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Caldris\_bal\_Comar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caldris_bal_Comar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284/20 "2019-10-05T01:47:49Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-album-and-song-titles-of-all-time/841284.md?page=2)