Many years ago, a friend, while playing Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstasy for me for the first time, passed the record sleeve to me and asked me to consider whether or not the song titles were the best collection of song titles I'd ever seen. He had a tendency to pose this type of question, but for some reason this one always stuck with me. And I got where he was coming from. Something indefinable, vaguely poetic about those titles, presented as a group, in that order. Anyway, if you've ever read the tracklisting of an album and felt something similar, post it here.
BodhisattvaRazor BoyThe Boston RagYour Gold TeethShow Biz KidsMy Old SchoolPearl of the QuarterKing of the World
Note: This thread is not for albums where the song titles are thematically linked (e.g. Mike Watt "Hyphenated-Man", Boredoms Super æ) or form a sentence (e.g. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Kid, Ornette Coleman To Whom Who Keeps a Record.)
― cwkiii, Sunday, 16 February 2020 02:53 (five years ago)
1 Russian Asshole 2 Roman Castevet 3 Woodstock Monster 4 Moon & Milk-Bar 5 Bad Blossom 6 Russian Asshole 7 Here Comes The Heaven8 Skull & Crossbones9 Russian Asshole~Sa-To-Ri
― brimstead, Sunday, 16 February 2020 03:02 (five years ago)
You do realize this thread's going to be a magnet for sarcastic responses, right? (Selected Ambient Works II, that Sufjan Stevens album).
My honest answer is Double "Nickels on the Dime", but having 40 song titles to work with is probably cheating.
― enochroot, Sunday, 16 February 2020 04:06 (five years ago)
Side one1. "Black Snakes" 4:412. "Ratman, The Weightwatcher" 2:523. "The Sloths" 6:424. "The Jam" 4:295. "Hedges" 3:48Side two1. "Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I" 3:052. "Future Pilots" 4:173. "A Portrait of You" 4:494. "Words of Love" 4:495. "Café Twenty-One" 3:536. "Gynaecology in Ancient Greece" 3:55
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Sunday, 16 February 2020 04:11 (five years ago)
dis-* – The Historically Troubled Third Album
I'm Not Sagan 3:13The Day We Danced In Your Swimsuit 2:00Werewolves 2:54Do All The Good Ones Have Muslim Names? 4:35Hamartia, My Ass 2:00Before Her Reformation 1:45You May Get All The Ladies But I Got My Shit Together 2:09Archivist Of Smoke 1:40Catch Me, I'm A Prick 2:18Suddenly, Everyone's A Smoker 3:41West Allis Book Of The Dead 1:29Another Friend You Fuck 2:38Here's To Evil, Clink 3:28Please Stop Blaming Your Personal Problems On Films 4:19Mother Of Mercy 0:50
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 February 2020 05:24 (five years ago)
Even if I'd never heard a note of Game Theory's Lolita Nation, I'd love it just for its track listing:
Kenneth—What's The Frequency? Not Because You Can Shard Go Ahead, You're Dying To Dripping With Looks Exactly What We Don't Want To Hear We Love You Carol and Alison The Waist and the Knees Nothing New The World's Easiest Job Look Away Slip The Real Sheila Andy In Ten Years Watch Who You're Calling Space Garbage Meteor Mouth Pretty Green Card Shark Where They Have To Let You In Turn Me On Dead Man Mammoth Gardens Little Ivory Museum of Hopelessness Toby Ornette All Clockwork and No Bodily Fluids Makes Hal A Dull Metal Humbert In Heaven Every Elephant Baby Wants To Be So Full Of Sting Paul Simon In The Park With Canticle But You Can't Pick Your Friends Vacuum Genesis DEFMACROS HOWSOMETH INGDOTIME SALENGTHS OMETHINGL ETBFOLLOW AAFTERNOO NGETPRESE NTMOMENTI FTHINGSWO NTALWAYSB ETHISWAYT BCACAUSEA BWASTEAFT ERNOONWHE NEQBMERET URNFROMSH OWLITTLEG REENPLACE 27 One More For Saint Michael Choose Between Two Sons Chardonnay Last Day That We're Young Together Now, Very Minor
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 16 February 2020 16:48 (five years ago)
1. "Black Dragons Soar Above the Mountain of Shadows (Prologue)" 03:052. "To Dethrone the Witch-Queen of Mytos K'unn (The Legend of the Battle of Blackhelm Vale)" 06:453. "As the Vortex Illumines the Crystalline Walls of Kor-Avul-Thaa" 06:354. "Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule" 07:235. "Journey to the Isle of Mists (Over the Moonless Depths of Night-Dark Seas)" 01:116. "The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire" 06:037. "And Lo, When the Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth, Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud the Citadel of the Obsidian Crown (Episode: VIII)" 06:288. "Summoning the Guardians of the Astral Gate" 06:099. "In the Raven-Haunted Forests of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign and the Hues of Sunlight Never Dance" 06:2910. "At the Altar of the Dreaming Gods (Epilogue)" 02:29
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 February 2020 17:15 (five years ago)
A recent one that I dug:
1. The Supremacy of Pure Artistic Feeling 04:28 2. Certainty of Paradise 02:29 3. No Analog Nor Precedent 04:04 4. Watcher At the Well 04:20 5. Nobody Who Matters Cares 04:32 6. Have You Considered Punk Music 04:41 7. Have You Considered Anything Else 04:21 8. Raw Contempt 03:36 9. Slavish Devotion to Form 02:58 10. The Right Kind of Adult 04:02
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Sunday, 16 February 2020 18:12 (five years ago)
6. Have You Considered Punk Music 04:417. Have You Considered Anything Else 04:21
lol
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 February 2020 18:15 (five years ago)
I don't like many of these, I must admit.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 February 2020 18:22 (five years ago)