# I have a new favorite album title! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246 "2004-07-21T21:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/1 "2004-07-21T21:06:00Z")
It’s “Weasels Ripped My Flesh,” by Frank Zappa. (1970) Anyone know a title by any artist that can top this one? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/2 "2004-07-21T21:10:50Z")
I have never even heard the album, but I was always amused by the album by [Joe Ely](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002NX1/002-8426565-1708820?v=glance) called **Musta Notta Gotta Lotta** ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/3 "2004-07-21T21:15:21Z")
Well, it’s not really ONE album title. But… [**Lambchop**](http://www.lambchop.net/) just released two albums simultaneously: 1)Aw, C’mon 2)No, You C’mon. ---
**Author:** ![Boldface\_Type](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@Boldface\_Type](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boldface_Type)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/4 "2004-07-21T21:22:48Z")
‘Trouser jazz’ - Mr Scruff ‘Music is rotted one note’ - Squarepusher ‘All I know is that it isn’t a vacuum cleaner’ - Spunk ‘Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch’ - Zappa ‘I am not a doctor’ - Moloko And if we allow song titles, then Archie Shepp’s ‘Rufus swung his face at last to the wind, then his neck snapped’ would take some beating. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/5 "2004-07-21T23:27:17Z")
_Emergency Third Rail Power Trip_ by Lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/6 "2004-07-22T00:20:50Z")
Not quite valid, but the CD called “Music for Scattered Brains” has the title printed across front and back of the CD case, so the front just reads “Music for Scat” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/7 "2004-07-22T00:23:53Z")
I don’t think anything quite beats Big Black’s _Songs about Fucking_. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/8 "2004-07-22T00:26:02Z")
I bought a vinyl album not long ago just for the title alone: **Bongo! Bongo! Bongo!** I doesn’t get much more 60’s than that, man. (The music is substandard, but the cover, is sweet.) ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/9 "2004-07-22T00:33:45Z")
One of my favorites is Shivaree’s [\*I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump \*](http://www.hollywoodandvine.com/shivaree/av.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/10 "2004-07-22T00:45:12Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > I don’t think anything quite beats Big Black’s _Songs about Fucking_. One more album you can’t buy at Wal-Mart. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/11 "2004-07-22T00:47:07Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I bought a vinyl album not long ago just for the title alone: > > **Bongo! Bongo! Bongo!** > > I doesn’t get much more 60’s than that, man. > > (The music is substandard, but the cover, is sweet.) I have an album just like that, but it’s called **Like, Bongos.** I have it framed:) ---
**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:** [July 22, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/12 "2004-07-22T03:03:45Z")
“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 “The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get” by Joe Walsh “Lick My Decals Off, Baby” by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band “Martin Mull and his Fabulous Furniture Live in Your Living Room” and “Days of Wine and Neuroses” by Martin Mull “First Pull Up, then Pull Down” by Hot Tuna (usually dubbed “Electric Hot Tuna Recorded Live,” but “First Pull Up . . .” was the name on the spine) “More Songs About Buildings and Food,” by the Talking Heads. And, of course: “See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!” by Bow Wow Wow ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/13 "2004-07-22T03:10:11Z")
I like these 2: _Flight of the Cosmic Hippo_ and _UFO Tofu_ by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/14 "2004-07-22T03:11:12Z")
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, by The Flaming Lips. Also, best album cover ever: [Peace and Love](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005S6D.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg), by The Pogues. If you can’t tell why, Look at his fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/15 "2004-07-22T06:53:26Z")
**Sheik Yerbouti** _Frank Zappa_ **He Who First Smelt It Dealt It** _Caravan_ **Girls That Grow Plump In The Night** _Caravan_ ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/16 "2004-07-22T12:24:17Z")
**Got Any Gum?** Joe Walsh ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/17 "2004-07-22T16:01:25Z")
_I Like It When You Die_ by Anal Cunt. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/18 "2004-07-22T16:29:59Z")
“Smell the Glove” by Spinal Tap ---
**Author:** ![mbacko1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@mbacko1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbacko1)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/19 "2004-07-22T17:12:51Z")
I always liked: \*Up the Downstair \* by Porcupine Tree \*Live Ethereal Cereal \* by Ozric Tentacles \*You (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 3) \* by Gong ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246/20 "2004-07-22T17:16:41Z")
I’ve always thought the best match between cover art and album title was Pantera’s [Vulgar Display of Power](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JOH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-new-favorite-album-title/256246.md?page=2)