what album has the best song titles?

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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.

Bodhisattva
Razor Boy
The Boston Rag
Your Gold Teeth
Show Biz Kids
My Old School
Pearl of the Quarter
King 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 Heaven
8 Skull & Crossbones
9 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 one
1. "Black Snakes" 4:41
2. "Ratman, The Weightwatcher" 2:52
3. "The Sloths" 6:42
4. "The Jam" 4:29
5. "Hedges" 3:48

Side two
1. "Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I" 3:05
2. "Future Pilots" 4:17
3. "A Portrait of You" 4:49
4. "Words of Love" 4:49
5. "Café Twenty-One" 3:53
6. "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 3:13
The Day We Danced In Your Swimsuit 2:00
Werewolves 2:54
Do All The Good Ones Have Muslim Names? 4:35
Hamartia, My Ass 2:00
Before Her Reformation 1:45
You May Get All The Ladies But I Got My Shit Together 2:09
Archivist Of Smoke 1:40
Catch Me, I'm A Prick 2:18
Suddenly, Everyone's A Smoker 3:41
West Allis Book Of The Dead 1:29
Another Friend You Fuck 2:38
Here's To Evil, Clink 3:28
Please Stop Blaming Your Personal Problems On Films 4:19
Mother 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)" 03:05
2. "To Dethrone the Witch-Queen of Mytos K'unn (The Legend of the Battle of Blackhelm Vale)" 06:45
3. "As the Vortex Illumines the Crystalline Walls of Kor-Avul-Thaa" 06:35
4. "Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule" 07:23
5. "Journey to the Isle of Mists (Over the Moonless Depths of Night-Dark Seas)" 01:11
6. "The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire" 06:03
7. "And Lo, When the Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth, Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud the Citadel of the Obsidian Crown (Episode: VIII)" 06:28
8. "Summoning the Guardians of the Astral Gate" 06:09
9. "In the Raven-Haunted Forests of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign and the Hues of Sunlight Never Dance" 06:29
10. "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 04:41
7. 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)


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