This is for my new thinkpiece, so please only serious answers. Out of all the dynamite title tracks out there, which is your favorite?
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:37 (ten years ago)
gonna go with Thick As A Brick
― rahrah avis (imago), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:38 (ten years ago)
Joni Mitchell - "Blue" + "Court and Spark" are both dynamite
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:39 (ten years ago)
Can we name tracks that are half or all of the album? Like "Close to the Edge" seems like an obvious pick but I don't know if that's what you're looking for
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:16 (ten years ago)
I Want You
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:20 (ten years ago)
Junkyard, Funhouse, Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T., Halber Menschmay think of others before too long.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:25 (ten years ago)
Black Sabbath
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:25 (ten years ago)
New Day Rising
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:29 (ten years ago)
Maggot Brain
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:33 (ten years ago)
kid a
danzig
impressions
― unknown pleasure zone (uptown churl), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:35 (ten years ago)
Death of a Ladies Man
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:40 (ten years ago)
My Generation
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:22 (ten years ago)
ooh why didn't I think of this
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:35 (ten years ago)
Marquee Moon
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:37 (ten years ago)
Metallica poll on the brain, but Ride the Lightning/Master of Puppets/And Justice for All are all up there
― lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:44 (ten years ago)
Purple Rain
Bo Diddley
Unit Structures
Superfly
Out to Lunch
Are You Experienced
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:50 (ten years ago)
The Seer
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:52 (ten years ago)
gotta go with Wish You Were Here though
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:53 (ten years ago)
Let's Stay Together
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:55 (ten years ago)
What's Going On
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:56 (ten years ago)
Station To Station
"Heroes"
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:57 (ten years ago)
White Light/White HeatHouses of the Holy
― Liquid Plejades, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 17:57 (ten years ago)
A Hard Day's Night
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)
The Man Who Sold the World
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)
A Hard Day's Night (xp!)I Am the CosmosThe Blue MaskStill Crazy After All These YearsThe Mollusk
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:14 (ten years ago)
Thunder Perfect Mind
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:21 (ten years ago)
but if polled i would have to agree with:
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, July 8, 2015 12:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also it's weird but I just thought of my all time favorite records and almost none of them have title tracks: Tilt,Laughingstock, Ege Bamyasi, Fegmania, Out of the Cool
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:23 (ten years ago)
Oh shit I have one to beat sabbath though:
Red
Also----
Up on the Sun
Bridge Over Troubled Water (bet no-one else will say that)
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:41 (ten years ago)
The Bends by Radiohead
― drummers ear ylrac (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:49 (ten years ago)
ShakaraMoanin'Love and Other CrimesCool Struttin'Journey In Satchidananda
― xelab, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:51 (ten years ago)
Straight Outta Compton
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 18:57 (ten years ago)
Control
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:02 (ten years ago)
"Red"'s a good one.
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:12 (ten years ago)
Repeater
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)
Hysteria
― harold loltermeyer (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:15 (ten years ago)
Raw Power
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:15 (ten years ago)
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
― saki, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:18 (ten years ago)
My favourite would have to be Never Too Much by Luther Vandross.
These are all up there too..
The Beach Boys - Surf's UpCameo - Word UpTalk Talk - It's My lifeGrace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm The Walker Brothers - Nite FlightsGoodie Mob - Soul FoodKraftwerk - Autobahn/Computer World/Trans Europe Express Al Green - Call Me/I'm Still In Love With You
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:25 (ten years ago)
London Calling
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:28 (ten years ago)
useful thread for knowing who has boring taste
― rahrah avis (imago), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:36 (ten years ago)
Follow the Leader
― jmm, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:45 (ten years ago)
"After the Gold Rush," "Marquee Moon," "Let's Stay Together," "Every Picture Tells A Story" (or "Gasoline Alley"), "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" (technically misses), "Pretzel Logic."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:55 (ten years ago)
Van Morrison is some kind of title track wizard.
Astral WeeksSaint Dominic's Preview
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:56 (ten years ago)
Let It Be
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:56 (ten years ago)
The White Album
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 20:50 (ten years ago)
"Bat Out of Hell"
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:08 (ten years ago)
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:13 (ten years ago)
without checking i'm gonna stick my neck out and go with "fuck all of the above"
― efreet liberal (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:37 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fz0GOh6ek
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:43 (ten years ago)
Lux Aeterna
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 21:44 (ten years ago)
I See a Darkness
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:40 (ten years ago)
Brown Sugar
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:41 (ten years ago)
D'Angelo's Brown Sugar I should say
Help!
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:50 (ten years ago)
good call on zoogz
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:52 (ten years ago)
AjaHysteriaShoot Out The LightsSOTT
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 22:55 (ten years ago)
Marquee Moon. It's the rules.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 23:27 (ten years ago)
Strange Celestial Road, Space is the Place
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 23:34 (ten years ago)
Motörhead, "Ace of Spades"Black Sabbath, "Paranoid"*Seconding Eric B. & Rakim, "Follow the Leader"Slayer, "South of Heaven"Lee Morgan, "The Sidewinder" and/or "Search for the New Land"Miles Davis, "Bitches Brew"*Seconding Yes, "Close to the Edge"
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 23:34 (ten years ago)
STAND!
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 23:59 (ten years ago)
Actually, I would second 'New Day Rising,' then pick Stand!
AlsoPurple Rain, Straight Outta Compton, Youth of America and Raw Power are all awesome songs
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)
My Husker Du pick would easily be either "Flip Your Wig" or "Everything Falls Apart."
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:15 (ten years ago)
Hounds Of Love
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:35 (ten years ago)
Gaucho
Future Games
"Faith" by The Cure
― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:36 (ten years ago)
Layla
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 July 2015 02:36 (ten years ago)
car wheels on a gravel road
― kruezer2, Thursday, 9 July 2015 15:21 (ten years ago)
AC/DC have a few:
T.N.T.Dirty Deeds Done Dirt CheapLet There Be RockHighway to HellBack in Black
― sofatruck, Friday, 10 July 2015 12:11 (ten years ago)
Thin Lizzy, "Jailbreak"
― sofatruck, Friday, 10 July 2015 12:12 (ten years ago)
Highway 61 RevisitedHarvestRain DogsStreet HassleHorses
― niels, Friday, 10 July 2015 12:39 (ten years ago)
if you could read my mind
― kruezer2, Friday, 10 July 2015 12:43 (ten years ago)
if I should fall from grace with god
― kruezer2, Saturday, 11 July 2015 19:05 (ten years ago)
Dare To Be Stupid
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 11 July 2015 19:19 (ten years ago)
Mozart, Requiem.
pretty sure it's the title track of most discs that contain it
― Ye Mad Puffin, Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:08 (ten years ago)
Dare To Be Stupid is AMAZING
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:08 (ten years ago)
Though I am also thinking about whether one should pick "my favorite song that happens to be a title track" or "the title track that is not only the best title track, but which is also the best song on that record."
Because I really like "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road." But it's not my favorite song on the album "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road." At the moment I'd probably say "2 kool to be 4gotten."
"Purple Rain" is a great song. But "When Doves Cry" is a bit better.
"Let it Be" is a great song. But "Two of Us," "Get Back," and "I've Got a Feeling" are all better songs than "Let it Be."
Then I get lost in the calculation of whether you could count as "title track" the songs whose lyrics produced the album title, but which have a different title from the album. Elvis Costello rarely has title tracks, but the album title is often taken from the best song. Like "My Aim Is True" is named after the key line in the song "Alison," which is also a great song - but "Alison" is not strictly speaking a title track.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:17 (ten years ago)
My warDamaged 1
― Stevolende, Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:39 (ten years ago)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Saturday, July 11, 2015 4:17 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fair question, I feel like Car Wheels is the type of album you could pick for a lot of things, like I would totally pick Right In Time for a 'best album opener' as well as Jackson being a great album closing track. great album overall, dunno if that is a condemnation of the tracks in between, but I would lean toward Metal Firecracker as my second favourite song on the album currently, so it shouldn't be taken as such.
anyway, back on topic....Synchro System
― kruezer2, Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:20 (ten years ago)
All dithering and musing aside I am going to have to say London Calling
― Ye Mad Puffin, Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:27 (ten years ago)
mellon collie and the infinite sadness
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:50 (ten years ago)
Waterloo
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 12 July 2015 04:57 (ten years ago)
Off The Wall
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:00 (ten years ago)
ratfucker
― rushomancy, Sunday, 12 July 2015 23:58 (ten years ago)
jack orion
― rushomancy, Monday, 13 July 2015 00:06 (ten years ago)
Okkervil River - "Title Track"*revs dirtbike obnoxiously & then roars away, with torso twisted almost completely around, giving this idiot thread the finger*
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 13 July 2015 00:07 (ten years ago)