By which I mean insightful or quirky or amusing or pertinent titles.
I nominate 'A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit gets to a Diamond' by Captain Beefheart.
A couple of Joe Walsh album titles I liked:
‘The Smoker you Drink the Player you Get’
‘You Can’t Argue with a Sick Mind’
(Neither being tracks on the album)
'Live Dead' by those who were Grateful.
> DACHSHUNDS WITH ERECTIONS, CAN'T CLIMB STAIRS. by. Les Barker.
>
Was that not the punch line of a Billy Connolly joke?
Can I be the first to suggest a half man half biscuit album title.
Trouble over Bridgewater.
> Loving that.
A title that always stuck in my mind from 1978....
Made me want to listen to it for the first time in maybe about 25 yrs.... amazing playing from Gary.
This thread could end up devoted to HMHB.
All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away strip.
Caravan
For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night.
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
> Can I be the first to suggest a half man half biscuit album title.
Pretty much any HMHB song / album would qualify imo.
> This thread could end up devoted to HMHB.
> All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away strip.
Joy Division Oven Gloves.
Back in the DHSS
A lilac Harry Quinn. But only because I have a Harry Quinn (in red)
"What were once vices are now habits" The Doobie Bros
COTTON PRINCESS AND SEVEN MIDGETS VS. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY ESKIMOS by Mercan Dede
'Songs for the deaf' - QOTSA
'The correct use of soap' - Magazine
'Press the eject and give me the tape' - Bauhaus (their live album)
Edit: and of course the self explanatory 'album' by PiL
Just for a great title and brilliant bouncy tune I nominate
Marmaduke Duke
rubber lover
Pointless Walks to Dismal Places - Prolapse
Never, and Not Even Then - Graham
Fiona Apple’s second and fourth album titles
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle - Nirvana
Hooker With A Penis - Tool
If White America Told The Truth For Just One Day Its World Would Fall Apart - The Manic Street Preachers (when they were good)
Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky - Red Hot Chili Peppers (when they were good)
Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins (as above)
* So, you can probably guess what era I grew up in *
Aaaaand,
If you want an eye opening afternoon, you can google the metal/grindcore band Anal C*** and wait for your visceral offence at their song titles to be ridden over roughshod by laughing your ass off.
Ian Dury: There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Masters of the Universe
Brainstorm
Rush 2112
Hemispheres
for the artwork as well as the titles.. not really witty..just tremendous appeal.
But of course and how could I forget seeing as how we've virtually gone back to the 70's or 80's and the nukes are charged up and pointing east Putin.
... Rocket to Russia. inarticulate speech of the Heart van m.
Album: Electric Landlady - Kirsty MacColl.
Song : Messin' With the Kid (after which my mate named a Focal Buttress route on Lundy), Rory Gallagher, and not , in spite of later rumours, Gary Glitter or Rolf Harris.
Surprised no one has come up with this one yet:
Pink Floyd - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
> Album: Electric Landlady - Kirsty MacColl.
> Song : Messin' With the Kid (after which my mate named a Focal Buttress route on Lundy), Rory Gallagher, and not , in spite of later rumours, Gary Glitter or Rolf Harris.
Or Michael Jackson.
> Or Michael Jackson.
I'm forever blowing bubbles...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Michael_Jackson_and_Bub...
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
From Soft Machine’s album Bundles:
Land of the Bag Snake
The Man who Waved at Trains
If you leave me, can I come too? - Mental As Anything
FHITA. Jimi Hendrix. Have a guess at the song title!
Hairway to Steven - Butthole Surfers
> Hairway to Steven - Butthole Surfers
Came into my head a split second before scrolling down to this. Spooky!
I like punny ones.
Dickie Davis Eyes - hmhb
Keep on Rotting in the Free World - Carcass
Sells Like Teens Hear It - Public Enemy
She was a praying mantis and he was a JCB.
Another Les Barker. (Not so much of a song as a poem set to music)
' A blaze in the northern sky ' - Darkthrone
'Trout mask replica' - Captain beefheart and the magic band.
'The moons milk in four phases ' - Coil
'The Ape of Naples' - Coil
'Sheik Yerbouti' - Frank Zappa
"Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie" - Fairport Convention.
"Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch" Zappa.
Knees up mother earth, by The Knights of the occasional table.
Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry
Bloody hell Knights of the Occasional Table. I have their “Eden” EP as championed by John Peel. The radio single mix is good the four additional remix tracks are crap and they weren’t that good even in 1994. Still a good call though !
> This thread could end up devoted to HMHB.
No-one Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your F*ckin Hedge Cut.
I haven't listened to them since the 90s, so you're probably right. It's a great name though. IIRC Fraser Clarke of Parallel Youniversity was involved, hence all the wordplay.
Megadeth, obvs
Killing is my business, and business is good!
Peace sells, but who’s buying?
Countdown to extinction
> This thread could end up devoted to HMHB.
> All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away strip.
4AD 3D CD
Raw Melody Men, anagrammatical of New Model Army
They Can't All Be Zingers - Primus 'Best Of' album.
'The Beatles' is not likely to be recognised by most people but if you call it 'The White Album' then the penny drops. Subtle (genius?) marketing by a band at the top of their game.
"We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" - Morrissey (who else)
A Specific Ocean - Super Furry Animals
I Feel Like A Francis Bacon Painting - Honolulu Mountain Daffodils
Earl's a Winger - Richard Digance
There was a band called The Moonlighters, who had a song called 'Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car and Drive Myself to Drink'. Rather liked the rhythm of that.
Then there's the John Otway & Wild Willie Barratt classic 'Beware of the Flowers Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You (Yeah)'
> There was a band called The Moonlighters, who had a song called 'Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car and Drive Myself to Drink'. Rather liked the rhythm of that.
Austin De Lone wrote that song, and had previously done a version of it with his band 'Eggs Over Easy.' That band more-or-less started the pub rock scene in London in the early '70s. 'The Moonlighters' came a bit later and consisted of members of 'Eggs Over Easy' along with friends from other bands.
Austin De Lone is still playing, and a couple of years ago made a good record - 'Transatlanticana' - with Bill Kirchen.
Wow! Thanks for that. I knew nothing about the band and had always assumed they were American. I'll keep an eye out for Austin de Lone.
It's Nice In Nice - The Stranglers
Dream Theater - Greatest Hit (and 21 other pretty cool songs)
Bernard cribbins - going quietly bonkers (B side to right said fred)
A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld, the orb
Really?
I genuinely thought that one was very naff when I was 16 and it was new. Do you think it is really cool and quirky and so on?
Fitter Stoke Has A Bath / Hatfield and the North
It fitted with the music, the like of which I'd never heard before.
> It fitted with the music, the like of which I'd never heard before.
fair enough, works better than that stupid Pink Floyd one from Ummagumma that always gets mentioned on these threads and which, musically, is a load of crap!
> fair enough, works better than that stupid Pink Floyd one from Ummagumma that always gets mentioned on these threads and which, musically, is a load of crap!
Yes!
Another title I liked was Fahrenheit 303 by Orbital. I fell in love with techno or whatever you want to call it at a very imprressionable time of life!
How about "A bell is a cup until it is struck" which, I think, is an album title from Can but I confess I don't know the music , just remember the title from endless hours of browsing through second hand music stores in Glasgow in the eighties.
Or one which Spotify threw at me the other day "My head is my only house unless it rains" which is another from Captain Beefheart
Or inspired by mentions of Robert Wyatt and Hatfield and the North ( a great band name) what about Soft Machine's "Plus belle qu'un poubelle"
Another title I always found enormously evocative was "The north star grass man and the ravens" from Sandy Denny's album of the same name.
Or from Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece album - "You don't pull no punches but you don't push the river" ?
Two margarines on the go.
I can't go back to savoury now.
Classic John Shuttleworth.
"There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight" from Framed by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
The Past Sure is Tense, another Capt. Beefheart one and a gem of a song.
Yerself Is Steam - Mercury Rev
I love the name that Robert Wyatt chose for his band after Soft Machine. He called it 'Matching Mole' which is a play on the translation of Soft Machine into French - 'Machine Molle'. His biography is a great read BTW. 'North Star' etc - brilliant title & album - Sandy at her finest.