Does creative song titles = wonderful bands?

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So we know that the Flaming Lips, in the days before they became popular, had some wonderful song and album titles, like 'The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By the Gnat' and 'Guy Who Got A Headache and Accidentlly Saves the World'.

There's also an amazing group from round here (Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies) who also have some amazing titles. For example 'Hurrah! Another year, surely this one will be better than the last; the inexorable march of progress will lead us all to happiness ...' is the title of their mini album and song titles like 'Certainly If Anything Is Going To Be Falling From The Sky It Ought To Be Rain'

So does extremely long and creative titles correspond with amazing bands?

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolutely not. Witness Coheed & Cambria.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yes! see: the locust "who wants a does of the clap?" vs. korn - "alone", or "broken".

― vinnie bobereeno (vinnie bobereeno), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yes i am kidding. it doesn't matter.

― vinnie bobereeno (vinnie bobereeno), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs have already taught us that the answer is no. And Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies sounds dreadful. Unless you're in the band, in which case you shouldn't be advertising your band here. What's so "amazing" about them?

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

YMSS are lovely postrock-ness with an absolutely amazing live show. They're one of the few bands that can lift me up emotionally (usually i'm not that emotionally attached to my music)

and no I'm not in the band

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

see that description makes sense for why you would like them

long-ass song titles are not the key to the kingdom, all the post-rock goons have those

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 7 August 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

as always, gary numan rules this thread.

then again, you've also gotta account for reo "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish" speedwagon

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 7 August 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

YMSS are brilliant! I've just bought their album and it kicks absurd levels of ass. THIS is music that approaches the standard set by Mansun's 'Six', Oceansize's 'Effloresce' and Cardiacs' 'Sing To God' in terms of anything-can-happen-next song-structure, outrageous creativity and thrill-a-second musical joyriding.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

GOOD song titles usually = wonderful bands. but "creative" does not always = good. witness coheed & cambria.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Anal Cunt to thread rebuttal!

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

If you want to see a collection of brilliant song titles attached to almost-unlistenable songs, check out the 11 separate albums (under three pseudonyms) that Ryan Adams put on his website in December.

― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

i think one of YMSS lives near me. they're mates with 65DaysOfStatic who I'm acquainted with too. Get me namedropping.

Anyway, Minus The Bear have great names for songs but manage to bring out the most tepid emo-lite shit i've ever heard.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

i'm friggin sick of song titles like 'Guy Who Got A Headache and Accidentlly Saves the World'

or album titles like "i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass"

pretentious - pretending to be, like, too creative to be expressed in less than six words

― surmounter (rra123), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ten Grand was really good at these kinda song titles:

"Hands Off the Merch"
"I Will Seriously Pay You To Shut Up"

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

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