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staind's album is called "14 shades of grey"? that kind of album title is simply a gift to reviewers who don't like staind (and there are quite a few). i can't think of any other artist who has named their album in a way that begs to be made fun of like this. it's like sterephonics naming their record "meat and potatoes"...what makes a band do such a thing?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the origin of Daft Punk's name something akin to this?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Artist plays into negative reviewers' hands -> Critics lazily take bait ("Staind's new album: 14 shades of dull") -> Cheap shots become very tedious to read -> Reviewers are criticized for their lazy write-offs -> Band members give selves much pity -> Staind still suck

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

And they get to sing about it all on the next record

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

So you see it's actually the other way around. WE MUST STOP STAIND BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Grape - Stupid Stupid Stupid
Mel & Kim - Respectable
NOFX - I Hear they suck live

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

U2 - Pop
N'Sync - Pop

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we had a thread like this already. I remember reading a review (i forgot who wrote it) for Happy Mondays' Yes Please that simple replied "No Thanks."

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

straitjacket fits 'blow' and yeah it blew.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Lollies were going to call their album "Suck" after a particularly virulent Swells review - so reviewers could choose whether to refer to it as "Suck The Lollies" or "The Lollies Suck" - but then someone pointed out that The Lemonheads had already done this. Sigh.

(So we ripped off the Telescopes instead cause no one would ever think of that...)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard Marx - Repeat Offender

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

PETE YORN

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Average White Band and APB (originally Another Punk Band) didn't wait for album titles to get their defence mechanisms in place.

― ArfArf, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

as did sydney's Something With Numbers

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Aptly titled singles/albums

I swear there's a thread from 2001 about this but I can't find it.

Anyway I think the clear winner here is Nas's "One Mic".

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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