Album titles that act as mini-reviews of the album and do you agree with that review

Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (it's decent)
Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To (no way)
Devo - Something For Everybody (so long as everybody likes loud jerky technopop)
The Tangent - Not as Good as the Book (the book that comes with the album is indeed quite good...)
The Orb - Okie Dokie, It's The Orb on Kompakt (yep, exactly what you'd expect too)
Stereolab - Not Music (don't sell yrself short!)
Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell (I wish it was that cool)

The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People (the music is great)
Howlin' Wolf - This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album (yes, it is)

I think Zappa has a few of these.

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life (if you'd heard them you wouldn't think they were Best Band You Ever Heard in Your Life, put it that way)

Captain Beefheart - Unconditionally Guaranteed (far from it)

The Housemartins - Now That's What I Call Quite Good (um I guess?)

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (that lasted about 20 years)

not music was the first one that came to mind! i actually really like that one, honestly. even more than its' associated "proper" album, chemical chords.

in my opinion, stereolab also has another one in transient random noise bursts with announcements. and i would only add one word to the beginning of the title to make it more accurate: pleasant.

lindisfarne's nicely out of tune is a good one. it's supposed to be self-deprecating, but i quite like the album. pretty decent post-csn beardy guy folk rock.

Polysics - Weeeeeeeeee!!! (pretty much sums it up yeah)

brother jack mcduff — sophisticated funk (nah, pretty standard funk)

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life

Since this was a live album, I always thought it was a comment on disappointing ticket sales from the tour (sort of like Ministry's In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up). I saw the Zappa tour, ftr. It was the last one before he died.

Born Against's best of is The Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure.

While that might be true, they're also one of the best hardcore bands that ever played music, so...

Michael Jackson - Bad (it's good)

(though not as good as Thriller)

Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster
(not even a good beer coaster)

My friend pointed this one out iirc

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lol

Feel like compilations with titles that include the genre they represent should be ruled out

Neil Michael Hagerty - Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll (yep, he sure does)

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food (apt summary, self-effacing irony and all)

Not an album title but a band name: Abysmal really wasn’t that bad.

what songs about food do Talking Heads have? that's always confused me

Psycho Kipper

This Must Be The Plaice

(Nothing But) Flour

Stereolab - Not Music (don't sell yrself short!)

The Verve - This Is Music (accurate)

Shinichi Atobe - From the Heart, It's a Start, a Work of Art

Nah, it's just a formulaic dub techno album.

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (I suppose the title track is fairly funky... arguably... but there's only 13 tracks anyway)
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats (It is country but there's only 10 tracks this time)

'ugly but honest' - carissa's wierd (indeed)
'ones and sixes' - low (arguable ratings for the tracks within)

Beastie Boys - Some Old Bullshit (accurate)

what songs about food do Talking Heads have? that's always confused me

"Pulled Up":

Keep that wonderful food on the table
There's really no hurry I'll eat in a while

"The Big Country":

Look at that kitchen and all of that food
Look at them eat it, I guess it tastes real good

Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To (no way)

come on now.

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (Yes, broadly, and your version will do just fine.)

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life

Since this was a live album, I always thought it was a comment on disappointing ticket sales from the tour (sort of like Ministry's In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up). I saw the Zappa tour, ftr. It was the last one before he died.

― shared unit of analysis (unperson)

it was his last tour because he was such a shitty manager. the entire band demanded he fire the bass player, who was apparently an asshole, and zappa responded by cancelling the rest of the tour, swearing he'd never tour again, and spending the rest of his life doodling around on the synclavier. anyway his cancellation of the west coast leg of the tour is what the album title was a reference to.

Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats (It is country but there's only 10 tracks this time)

― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.)

i thought the reference was to the band, who ween did think were all country greats?

I have heard that too but there seems some dispute over it.

especially since there were 12 songs recorded during the session

I think they just liked the idea it would confuse people

Just like The Traveling Wilburys' second album being called "Volume 3".

Circle - Triumph, here's a full review that confirms it

Wipers - The Circle

it's round!

gary burton — alone at last (yep.)

bobby hutcherson — solo / quartet (again: yep.)

B-52's - Good Stuff (not really)

every reggae album called some variant of "XXX meets YYY in a ZZZ style"

Replacements - Stink (no, they rock)

there was an interview where thurston points at individual sonic youth members as he says "experimental", "jet set", "trash", and "no star", but I forget which ones are which.

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Modern Romance - Burn It! (definitely agree, best thing you could do with the album)

also true of the Monkees - Pool It!

Wham! - Fantastic! (yeah, it's alright)

Cockney Rejects "Greatest Hits Vol 1"

Qualifies both ways: it wasn't their greatest hits it was their debut album, but it was volume one as two and three followed (three was a live album, so maybe.. They were the greatest hits by then?)