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'Don't Get Weird on Me Babe' (Lloyd Cole) is one of my favorites.
'Atheists, Reconsider' (the Liars)
'Fold Your Hands, Child, You Walk Like A Peasant' (Belle and Sebastian)
I like all the silly titles.

― Nowell, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago)

STABBED IN THE FACE!

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Saturday, 4 September 2004 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Liquor in the Front... by the Reverend Horton Heat
Too Many Bunnies (Not Enough Mitten) by the Happy Flowers
I Crush Bozo by the Happy Flowers
Fishcoteque by the Jazz Butcher
Hitler Bad Vandals Good by the Vandals

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 September 2004 06:05 (twenty years ago)

meatmen, we're the meatmen and you suck
meatmen, we're the meatmen and you still suck

(actually only the second belongs in the best-album-title category, but the first is needed for context.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 4 September 2004 06:10 (twenty years ago)

AIDS Can't Stop Me by Black Nasty

― Employee #8, Saturday, 4 September 2004 06:20 (twenty years ago)

The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen - The Mekons
(cover is a monkey at a typewriter)

We hate you South African bastards - Microdisney

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Saturday, 4 September 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Skwish Skwadz - "I'm going to nail my fucking face to your car"

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Saturday, 4 September 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Kings Of Convenience - "Quiet Is The New Loud"

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 4 September 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard it, but I was thinking again yesterday how evocative and alluring Darkness On The Edge Of Town is as a title.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 September 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Mark Morrison's 'Only God Can Judge Me.' Only brilliant if you know he had recently been up in court for a series of ridiculously petty crimes.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 4 September 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago)

"The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks"
"Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em"
"Into Glory Ride"

― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago)

ONANIE BOMB MEETS THE SEX PISTOLS

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago)

"I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Dump"

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago)

My two favourites are:
Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements (Stereolab)
Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To (Spacemen 3)

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Sunday, 5 September 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

ANNIEMAL

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 September 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

"Songs About Fucking" really wins this, I think. Simple, concise and to the point. What more need be said?

― Davlo (Davlo), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:03 (twenty years ago)

The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
All Disco Dance Must End in Broken Bones, Whale
Mingus Ah Um, Charles Mingus
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Funkadelic
Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo System, Parliament
Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, Bo Diddley
The Fifth Release From Matador, Pizzicato Five (best if you don't know it's on Matador Records and think instead that it's some tripped-out prog stuff, which it almost is, except in bite-sized chunks)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Good News For People Who Love Band News, although I would have loved it much more if it weren't a lyric.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Bo Diddley Is A Lumberjack, Bo Diddley
I've Just Killed A Man I Don't Want To See Any Meat, Plan 9
Intensities In Ten Cities, Ted Nugent
Revolver, Beatles
Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow, Funkadelic
Don't Give Up Your Day Job, Jack Wagner
You Goddamned Son Of A Bitch, Revolting Cocks

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Kings Of Convenience - "Quiet Is The New Loud"

-- Tantrum The Cat (tantrumtheca...), September 4th, 2004 12:11 AM. (later)

...was ripped of a Hood song title. Hood are much more clever than KoC could ever even dream of thinking about possibly being.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I Like It When You Die

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago)

GbV "same place the fly got smashed"

and sorry it wasn't a Hood title, it was a Remote Viewer EP. now i look foolish.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago)

nectarine no. 9 "a sea with three stars"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago)

[Regarding that Jack Wagner title: He was better known as an actor on a daytime soap, "General Hospital" I believe. That was his 3rd album. His second had sold quite poorly.]

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Myonga - I gotta ask, why Revolver?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago)

WOW 2

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Music Has The Right To Children
Chocolate Synthesizer
One Nation Under a Groove
Sex Machine
What Makes a Man Start Fires?

― tipustiger, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago)

One of my recent favorites is 'Mattresslessness.'

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago)

I always liked Revolver because it can be a gun or something that revolves. Or something that has volved more than once.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Rat on! - Swamp Dogg

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago)

I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me - James Brown

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Nothingface
Evol
Blonde On Blonde
Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

(The last because when translated means Study Of The Dead: Singing About The Unhealthy. Genius!)

― piers (piers), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Revolver = 'cause it goes around and around!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

The dryer at the laundromat does that too. They must've not been thinking of that at the time.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Alba's choice is good though I haven't heard it. Also Nevermind. (Did that start the whole epidemic of people spelling "never mind" as one word?) Loveless. Oren Ambarchi's Suspension suits the music on the album really well and I like Grapes from the Estate too. Maybe Dancing In Your Head. Free Jazz, esp given that it was a new phrase at the tiem - became the name for a genre + it sounds like a rallying call.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:06 (twenty years ago)

"time"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:07 (twenty years ago)

What about Close to the Edge?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:07 (twenty years ago)

For goofy ones, how about Hooker N Heat by John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat? I haven't heard that one either.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Skullflower - "Exquisite Fucking Boredom"

― grapeshine (grapeshine), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Spinal Tap "Shit Sandwich"

― Marshall Stax (Marshall Stax), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Skinnyman: Council Estate Of Mind
Snow: 12 Inches of Snow

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Eat Shit You Fucking Redneck - Pigface

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Spinal Tap "Shit Sandwich"

-- Marshall Stax (MrMarshallSta...), September 7th, 2004.

the album was called "shark sandwich", it was the fictiotios reviewer who called it "shit sandwich".

though Tap's "Break Like the Wind" is a great title.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:32 (twenty years ago)

if rather cheeky :rim shots:

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 08:33 (twenty years ago)

Hey, don't think I'm not here anymore.
Just saying.

― Nowell, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Please Panic by the Vulgar Boatmen

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I-F "I Do Because I Couldn't Care Less"

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago)

The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out The Trash

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago)

AC/DC has a few great Album Titles

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
If you want Blood, You Got it
For Those About to Rock, We Salute You
Ballbreaker

― cw28 (cw28), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)

George Clinton - Hey Man...Smell My Finger

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago)

the one that's something like A Gunshot to the Head and Other Ways to Commit Suicide. I know that's not the exact title. Help me out here!!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Steppenwolf At Your Birthday Party

50,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Make that 50 million! Not that the first 50 thousand were wrong, either.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

"Super Bastard"

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago)

RL Burnside Ass Pocket O' Whiskey

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Agoraphobic Noseblood Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I like the 6ths trick of having those difficult-to-pronounce-titles:
(Say 'em fast)
The 6ths' "Wasps' Nests"
The 6ths' "Hyacinths and Thistles"

Also:
Butthole Surfers "Hairway to Steven"

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Four years after the fact, I would like to correct Ben Boyer by pointing out that the 6ths' album titles (as well as the title of the group itself) are meant to be difficult to pronounce without sounding like you have a lisp (like the stereotypical homosexual).

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Sunday, 7 December 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

Celibate Rifles "The Turgid Miasma of Existence" - A phrase that has made it into my everyday vocabulary.

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 7 December 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

wowee zowee

― k3vin k., Sunday, 7 December 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

there's that palace brother EP, An Arrow Through the Bitch.

― enasinben, Sunday, 7 December 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

50,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong
…
Make that 50 million! Not that the first 50 thousand were wrong, either.
― briania (briania), Wednesday, September 8, 2004 11:45 AM (4 years ago)

50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong! They've got a ton of great album titles, actually.

― Millsner, Sunday, 7 December 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

domesday payoff!
are you are missing winner?!
imperial wax solvent!
the frenz experiment (fantastic name for a pop-charts album)

― Hipster Loser-Loser (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 December 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago)

Another Music in a Different Kitchen

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 7 December 2008 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

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