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I'm inclined to believe that the best record title is 'Let's Have A Picnic And Barbecue Some Corrupt Not Self-Programming Dee-Jays' which is a (mostly rubbish) compilation I have...

Perusing the Incorrect Music site I came across A.K. Sharif's "Ronald Racist Rambo Mad Dog Baby-Killer Reagan, Part One" which I think is also pretty good.

How's about you folks?

(I'm assuming the weekend rule no longer stands, apologies if it does)

― emil.y, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"god says fuck you"

forever, and hence.

― jess, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For once I don't nominate Loveless! It's a great title, but I wouldn't say the very best. I would pick either the Associates' ever- wonderful Sulk, Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Echo and the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain or the Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Worst Case Scenario" dEUS

― nathalie, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Couldn't even begin to think of best, but recent good ones have been:

We Have the Facts and We Are Voting Yes, which sort of bothered me because I'd previously written a song called "Vote Yes to a Bleaker Tomorrow," and

Teeny Shiny, even thought it'd have been so much better from N'Sync than Melt-Banana.

I've also always liked Music for Airports, You Turn Me On, and pretty much everything from McCarthy and the Television Personalities.

― Nitsuh, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Steal This Album" - The Coup, "Little Darla Has a Treat For You" compilation series, "If You're Feeling Sinister" - B&S. I like those a lot.

― Phil-Two, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really love things with punctuation in them! 'Three Dollar Bill, Y'All', 'Wasting Pigs is Radical, Man','Ha! Ha! Ha!','Project:Mersh','Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are Devo!',and the immortal 'Cybill Does It...To Cole Porter', by, respectively, Limp Bizkit, Flaming Lips, Ultravox, Minutemen, Devo and C. Shephard. So are mathematical signs ('Flesh + Blood', '...The Solution = Let it Be'). (Exception - 'Miss E...So Addictive', crap.)Oh, almost forgot 'Here...At Last...The Bee Gees...Live'.

― dave q, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and of course glitch is great for this. From Hecker's [OT] xackpy breakpoint and IT ISO161975 to what might really be my favorite title ever, which is Fennesz Plays. As if it's a jazz session or something.

― Nitsuh, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't really like long titles containing clever jokes. A title must summarize or carry an strong impression to be really good. "Some Girls Wander by Mistake" I've always liked. "The Queen is Dead", of course. "The Holy Bible", that's quite good. "The Marble Index". John Cale has good titles. "Honi Soit", "Paris 1919", "The Academy in Peril". I love the pun "The Acamedy in P(earl Harbour)", it's quite an adequate distortion. "Sticky Fingers". "The Contino Sessions". "Hyacinths and Thistles".

― Simon, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, and "Panzer Division Marduk". The most appropriate combination of cover picture, album title and music, closely followed in relevance by "Music for Airports".

― Simon, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stupid People Shouldn't Breed

― Jerry, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Intensities in ten cities - Ted Nugent

― Billy Dods, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"doomed bunkerloops." fookin' ace, that one.

― jess, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

News of the World, Highway to Hell (there was no album title like that ever at the time), Here on the Now Frontier, South of Heaven, Revolver, and my personal favorite: Q: Are We Not Men A: We are Devo!

― Luptune Pitman, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Regardless of whether I actually like the records or not:

"My Early Burglary Years" "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant" "The Poison Boyfriend" "Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus" "Trouble Over Bridgwater" "Let The Snakes Crinkle Their Heads To Death"

― Dickon Edwards, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Intensities in ten cities is a cool title! Q: Are we not men ... also .. and the punctuated titles in general ... things with references to technology and machinery and urban development ie 'Inner City Guitar Perspectives', 'Trans-Europe Express', 'Radioactivity' etc

― maryann, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie-Black Randy

― Arthur, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boy, I admit, I'd never thought I'd see something reference a Skatenigs album in any context!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seriously?....'Blood on the tracks'...lets you know what you're getting Unseriously?....'Suicide pact...you first'

― Mat O, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like "Surrender" as an album title. I like one word titles like that. I love all those cheesy(not the music....well not just the music) 80s New Order album titles like "Movement". Vanishing Point is a good name for an album because it reminds me of that weird film. I like "Rock Action" aswell, that's pretty funny.

― Ronan, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suckdog, 'Drugs Are Nice'
Pigface, 'Welcome to Mexico...Asshole'
Prince, 'For You'(geddit?)

― dave q, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I have the Pet Shop Boys album please?

The Daft Punk albums cleverly divulge the contents, and if you like punning titles Flaming Lips - Soft bulletin and Kirsty Macoll - Electric Landlady.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Punning titles are generally terrible, except Jimmy Buffett's 'A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean'

― dave q, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anal Cunt, Everybody Should Be Killed, I Like It When You Die, and It Just Gets Worst. The latter wins the Truth in Advertising Award.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That should have been It Just Gets Worse. So much for insomnia.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Let it Come Down' is the worst, dullest, most predictable and tired title ever. It's even been used before by a member of the Sm*shing P*mpk*ns for fuck's sake.

― dave q, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Swans also have a song called 'Let It Come Down' - taken from a Paul Bowles novel, I think.

― Andrew L, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I seem to remember The Fuk Notz releasing an album titled "Let's play Scratch 'n' Sniff with Granpas butt"!!!! There was also an album by another beat combo, delightfully titled "Dail M For Motherf@£%er"!!! Moreover, what about LL Cool J's recent "G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Time)"?!?!?!

Definately much better than "Subject A contradicted by Subject B in same sentence" type titles (eg "Elegant Slumming", "Definately Maybe", etc., etc., ...)

Old Fart!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!!!, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sunrise on the Sufferbus!

― Mickey Black Eyes, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Exile on Main Street"

― Sean, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

spooky tooth had an album which on the cover said 'you broke my heart...' and when you turned it over, it said '...so i busted your jaw.'

― piscesboy, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surf's Up, Beach Boys

― dleone, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you gotta love keiji haino's metaphysical ridiculitude in titles like:
if a billion curses already exist, you should draw out the billion and first prayer.
execration that accept to acknowledge
i said, "this is the son of nihilism"
screaming in a black jacket, i am the japanese roy orbison
(i made one of those up.)

seriously, though: _half machine lip moves_, _god says fuck you_ (can't get much more to the point than that), _one man drives while the other man screams_ (i think), _rainbow electronics_, _amplifier worship_, _piper at the gates of dawn_, _under the sign of the black mark_, and most recently wolf eyes _dread_ (truth in fucking advertising). bonus: best label name ever - tray full of lab mice.

― your null fame, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Black Music for White People
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove and Maggot Brain

― M. Matos, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'White Music', XTC. Like, what the fuck does it MEAN?

― dave q, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

_Rode Hard and Put Up Wet_ by Squirrel Bait; and _I'm Not Me, But I Play Me On TV_ by 63 Eyes. Both wonderful records, BTW. (OK, the last one's a tape, not a record.)

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The World Won't Listen.

― the pinefox, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'drugs are nice'? Suckdog kind of bear the same relationship to my understanding of reality as the Smiths do. They are both kind of corny and kind of clever simplifications of a desperate reactionary position. What do you think?

― maryann, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Vic Godard compilation, "Twenty Odd Years"

― scott p., Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Teen Babes from Monsanto-Redd Kross

― Arthur, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always had a great fondness for titles that are complete sentences incorporating the band's name, the foremost example of which, I suppose, would have to be 'The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.' The Kingsbury Manx just released what is probably the latest entry in this title genre, the lovely 'The Kinsbury Manx Let You Down.'

A sentimental favorite is 'I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One,' which has always seemed to perfectly match the album's content: expansive beauty, pulsing, full of ardor and slightly off.

― Martin Swope, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jandek ready for the house.

― jørn hjørungnes, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't heard the record, but Tim mentioned Herbert's "Let's All Make Mistakes" on the genre-defining comps thread and I thought that was an excellent title. If it was an emo record, I'd have to think twice.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Motorhead have great titles ('Bomber', 'Overkill', 'Iron Fist', 'Orgasmatron', 'Bastards', 'No Remorse') even if the music is kind of boring and shitty.

Other great metal titles - 'Pleasure to Kill', 'Apocalyptic Raids', 'Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious', 'Butchered at Birth', and anything German or Japanese from the 70s ('Attack Rock Soldiers', 'Metal Pounding Doom' etc.)

― dave q, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"What We Did On Our Holidays", the second Fairport Convention album.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Rainbirds: "Call Me Easy, Say I'm Strong, Love Me My Way, It Ain't Wrong"

― chris, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Trapdoor Fucking Exit" - too obvious? Also I like "Millions Now Living Will Never Die"

― Ralan, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can thank the Jehovah's Witnesses for that last one.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Believe this was discussed and settled several months ago at an ILM pub meet. Obviously the correct answer is "I Got Erection". Because unlike the records you're all mentioning, which presumably all have some point to them beyond the title, the entire and only point of listening to "I Got Erection" is to say you're listening to a song called "I Got Erection".

― Ian, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm kind of hoping someone will turn:

Genes said trend micro technicians dissected the Nimda worm

which I read in a Reuters news article today, into an album title. One for Stereolab, maybe?

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'This Film's Crap, Let's Slash The Seats'

― DavidM, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And just when I was going to suggest the new Kingsbury Manx LP "Let you down" as a great album title, someone beats me. But hell, it's on permanent play in my house just like their first album was this time last year.

― Rob M, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight months pass...

"Doggystyle"

"Squirrel & G Man 24 Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)"

"Licensed To Ill"

― Nick, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified All The Records On The Radio Are Shite Satan Kidney Pie

― Mr Swygart, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rembrandt pussyhorse

― Ron, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to third Music For Airports: it's unassumingly poetic and completely utilitarian all at once. Other decent ones that spring immediately to mind: Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
Bjork - Vespertine
DNTel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities
Ned, Ocean Rain sounds like a douche.

― Mark, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, jesus hell.

Formatting schmormatting.

― Mark, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Boredoms - Super æ

― o. nate, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Waiting for the Electrician (Or Someone Like Him)- Firesign Theatre

5000 Spirits: Or The Layers of the Onion- Incredible S

Liquid Acrobats as Regards the Air- Incredible String Band

― Joe, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted

Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped

Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex

Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby

Kiss - Double Platinum

Elvis Presley - 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong

― J Blount, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hairway to steven - butthole surfers let 'em eat bogshed - bogshed

― dbini, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

unquestionably "Free Your Mind, and Your Ass Will Follow".

― Shaky Mo Collier, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, Ocean Rain sounds like a douche.

I thought you wouldn't have a problem feeling fresh.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite album title ever is Bow Wow Wow's See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Admit it: Gaunt's album I Can See Your Mom From Here is the clear winner here.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

2nd place: Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh goody! Another chance to pimp my Beck fanboy-osity! Stereopathetic Soulmanure gets the nod here.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thirteen years pass...

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― soref, Saturday, 14 November 2015 23:29 (ten years ago)

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― daily growing, Sunday, 15 November 2015 00:51 (ten years ago)

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