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2nd April 2009, 11:26 PM
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Good & Bad album titles
Just judging the albums on their titles alone, list what you think are good ones and bad. Hell, you don't even have had to have listened to the album, just seen it in HMV and thought either "Heh, cool" or, for the bad ones "EW!"
The Good: Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Best title ever! Clear, clever & utterly memorable Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet. I also very much like their "It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" but I think the one i picked gets the message across more succintly Fatback Band -Yum Yum Again, just fun, simple and memorable The Bad Queen - Sheer Heart Attack . Heart attacks are massive downers - they therefore make bad album titles The Moody Blues: To Our Children's, Children's Children. Cloying, unwieldy and faintly icky. Children shouldn't be having children! Snatch - If the Party's In Your Mouth, We're Coming. EWWW! funny, with a name like Snatch, you'd figure on them being so classy too. Salt & Pepa - A Salt with a Deadly Pepa. So endearingly rubbish, this one might actually cross the line back to being good again. But not quite. Those are mine from off the top of my head. Share yours! 
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3rd April 2009, 02:37 AM
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Quick flick through the iPod reveals:
Good. Absolutely Free - FZ I just love that phrase. The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Evocative. Makes me happy. Last Train to Lhasa - Banco de Gaia Rolls off the tongue, and what 'do' you call an album of beats, farts and whistles? Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake Love it. Prep school subversive, utterly significant and tragically prophetic. Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band Bonkers, or is it? Bad. M!ssundaztood - Pink One example of many - I 'hate' numb-skull graphology in all it's forms. Heathen Chemistry - Oasis Trying to be clever and coming up with nothing, as usual - take a bow boys. The Black Album - Jay Z Wait! I see what you did there... Script for a Jester's Tear - Marillion >sigh< Send Away the Tigers - Manic Street Preachers Is this a poetic reference? Do I care any more?
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3rd April 2009, 02:47 AM
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All good calls, especially on Joni and I think the Bad Album title list may have found an early winner here because THIS gem is just epic!
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Seriously, that's just hilariously awful.  I couldn't sit down with a blank sheet of paper and come up with somethng as bad as that if I tried.
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3rd April 2009, 04:10 AM
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I'm going to try to give good and bad titles for a single band: Slayer- Good: Reign in Blood and God Hates Us All Slayer are juvenile, crass, loud and oh-so-fun. These titles should pretty much sum it up (though God Hates Us All was awful). Bad: Christ Illusion Going for the 'obnoxious teenage atheist' crowd? Alice Cooper- Good: Welcome to my Nightmare Perfectly brings to mind Cooper's 'haunted house' style. Add the stylin' Cooper-in-a-top-hat cover and you've got yourself a classic album. As far as other Cooper albums, I've got to give a shout-out to Zipper Catches Skin. What an image. Bad: Raise Your Fist and Yell How about 'no?' Rock's love-affair with itself is grotesque enough at the best of times. Demanding we rock out in the album title? That's just embarassing. Dead Kennedys- Good: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Enigmatic without being pretentious. Pessimistic without being overdramatic. A perfect title for a punk album. Bad: Bedtime for Democracy *Yawn* Come back when you're shocking, guys. And you keep railing against those 'chickenshit conformists,' Jello, you bloated, irrelevant parody of yourself.
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3rd April 2009, 04:27 AM
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I'd be hard pressed to come up with a whole list of good and bad album titles just now but off the top of my head comes
Good Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch - Frank Zappa Not massively keen on all of the content but it makes me smile when I see it on the stack. Bad Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Neko Case Great album but drives me nuts because I can never remember it properly when I'm trying to recommend it to someone.
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3rd April 2009, 04:38 AM
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Best (not mentioned so far):
REO Speedwagon -- You Can Tune a Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish Spooky Tooth -- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw (Yeah, I know. Violence against women. But I love the twist on the romantic.) Bonzo Dog Band -- The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse. Probably incomprehensibly weird to US readers (one point in its favor), but outrageous if you know the British slang. Beatles -- Revolver. Love the pun. Lyle Lovett -- Joshua Judges Ruth Worst: Chicago II, Chicago III, Chicago IV, Chicago V, etc. Enough already. The lack of imagination got very stale very quickly.
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3rd April 2009, 06:25 AM
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Wait, heart attacks are massive downers, but weasels ripping one's flesh isn't?
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3rd April 2009, 07:46 AM
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Nice to see all the Zappa love. Some of my favorite Zappa album titles not already mentioned: Baby Snakes Chunga's Revenge The Grand Wazoo Jazz from Hell Sleep Dirt Studio Tan Thing Fish Uncle Meat
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3rd April 2009, 09:20 AM
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6th April 2009, 12:13 AM
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