# Wierd/cool album titles, or stuff you just don't get. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 25, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-cool-album-titles-or-stuff-you-just-dont-get/51787 "2001-01-25T23:44:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-cool-album-titles-or-stuff-you-just-dont-get/51787/21 "2001-01-27T02:08:25Z")
A slight deviation, but kind of cool just the same. Once upon a time, as many Dopers will know, there was a pub rock band called The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Then the lead singer, Alex Harvey, got a serious back injury and was out of action for over a year. The remaining four members of the band completed an album without him (wishing him ‘get well soon’ on the sleeve!). The album was called ‘Fourplay’, which is neat enough. But it was always officially catalogued and listed as by ‘The Sensational Alex Harvey Band without Alex’. I’ll wager this is the only time in rock music history that someone is mentioned twice in the band’s name but isn’t on the album at all. Very poor album by the way, IMHO, except for one track, ‘Love you for a lifetime’, which is superb and sadly untraceable in mp3 form. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-cool-album-titles-or-stuff-you-just-dont-get/51787/22 "2001-01-27T05:12:26Z")
“Dongs of Sevotion” by Smog ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-cool-album-titles-or-stuff-you-just-dont-get/51787/23 "2001-01-27T08:14:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Elkman \* > > \*\*I seem to recall an album called “Scrape the Foetus Off The Wheel”. I don’t know if this was the group or the album title, but it has stuck with me since high school. Also a really good indie album by a group called SNFU titled “If You Swear You’ll Catch No Fish”. \*\* > > Well…that album was also the name of the band, at the time. It’s a project of Jim Thriwell(sp?), also seen as You’ve got Foetus on your Breath and Foetus Inc. \*\* I think this has to count as great (or awful? no I think great) band names, not album titles. The names of “Scraping Foetus of the Wheel”'s albums were “Hole” and “Nail”. I think there was a live album, “Foetus Over 'Frisco” Jim Thirwell has also been Wiseblood and Clint Ruin. He was also in a porn film with Lydia Lunch (who he was living with at the time). He’s really a very nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-cool-album-titles-or-stuff-you-just-dont-get/51787/24 "2001-01-27T08:27:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by E d’Mann \* > \*\*An old one from Brian Eno; _Here Come the Warm Jets_. > > It features such songs as: > > _Needles In the Camel’s Eye_ > _The Paw-Paw Negro Blowtorch_ > _Dead Finks Don’t Talk_ > > and my personal favorite, > _Baby’s On Fire_ > \*\* Ah. What a great album. But no stranger a title than “Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy”. “Music For Airports” is also a cool title but I don’t want to mention it because I’m still pissed off such a strange, funny mind as Eno’s abandoned lyrics for that ambient crap. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wierd-cool-album-titles-or-stuff-you-just-dont-get/51787.md?page=1)