Album: “It’s All Balcones Fault” by Balcones Fault. No apostrophe – both the album and the band are named after the Balcones Fault Zone. The album had five guys pictured on it, and I always wondered which one was Balcone, but it turns out there was no Balcone. I won the LP at a county fair in 1981. I don’t remember ever actually listening to it though.
Song: “Take This Job and Shove It” by Johnny Paycheck (written by David Allan Coe). Really sums it up nicely.
Album: Flower Travellin’ Band - From Pussies to Death in 10,000 Years of Freakout (yeah, it’s a bootleg)
Song: Sonic Youth - “Come and Smash Me Said the Boy With the Magic Penis”
Album: Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart
Song: “The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception”, Mott the Hoople
Album: Nilsson “Schmilsson”
Runner-up: Wilco “Schmilco”
Album: Jona Lewie, On the Other Hand, There’s a Fist.
Song: Klaatu, “Sub-Rosa Subway.”
album:* Talking with the Taxman About Poetry* - Billy Bragg
song: All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
Couple of my favorites (both albums):
Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket - Blink 82
Single: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly And The Family Stone
Album: Well, when Wilko Johnson was told he had pancreatic cancer and very few months to live, he got in touch with Roger Daltrey to say, You know we always said we would record an album together? We better do it right now. The album was recorded with haste and released as Going Back Home, but the majestic working title was:
Roger, Wilko, and out.
Wow. Beat that.
j
ETA: if you didn’t know, he survived the cancer and is still with us.
Say what you will about death metal band Abscess, but they know titles.
Buffett edition:
Album: A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
Song: The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
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The Volcano Suns were going to call their album “Blown by Fans” but were persuaded not to.
It’s hard to single out just one of each.
Album: I’m not a Frank Zappa fan, but he had some wonderful album titles (“Weasels Ripped My Flesh,” “Burnt Weeny Sandwich,” “Sheik Yerbouti,” “Ship Arriving Too Late To Save a Drowning Witch”)
Song: one of my favorites is “I Had a Bad Experience With the C.I.A. And Now I’m Going To Show You My Feminine Side” by the Swirling Eddies
Something about this post made me recollect - yeah, up there vying for the lifetime achievement award (with Zappa) are The Fall. A few albums:
Live At The Witch Trials
Hex Enduction Hour
The Light User Syndrome
Imperial Wax Solvent
Some singles/EPs:
Bingo-Master’s Break-Out!
How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
No Xmas for John Quays
(We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
Spoilt Victorian Child
And that just made me remember how much I like How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’.
j
The OP didn’t explicitly say that the album had to be a music album. So I’ll add a couple of Firesign Theatre albums: Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers and I Think We’re All Bozos on This Bus.
John Prine has some good song titles:
[ul]
[li]Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard[/li]
[li]Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)[/li]
[li]The Oldest Baby in the World[/li]
[li]Yes, I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You[/li][/ul]
Song: “Opera in Vout (Groove Juice Symphony),” Slim Gaillard.
Album: Skullfuck, the Grateful Dead. (Warner Bros had a problem with this title for some reason, so it was released in 1971 as Grateful Dead. Us deadheads call it either Skullfuck or Skeleton and Roses, due to the cover art. As it’s a double album, it was also a favorite for cleaning your dope)
Wish I’d thought of that!
Which reminds me, I was in Los Angeles last weekend, and in a spare moment, I swung by the corner of Pico and Alvarado.
In the midst of our “stickin’ it to the man by listening to Firesign” phase, we took our first road trip to L.A.: “Whoa, look, Pico and Alvarado! Antelope (Valley) Freeway (“1/64 mile, 1/128th Mile…”)! And all the streets that Nick Danger drives down!”
Speaking of which, Nick shows up on the album “How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All?” I also like “Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death!” and “In The Next World, You’re On Your Own”.
Did you walk into a great stone building?
Album: George Clinton.* Hey Man, Smell My Finger.
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Song: Merle Haggard & George Jones. *We Must Have Been Drunk (When We Said We’d Stop Drinkin’)
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