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This has nothing to do with the cover art, nor the music on the actual album. It's not my favorite record of theirs, nor are they my favorite band....

DIAL 'M' FOR MOTHERFUCKER by Pussy Galore

That's my choice. Yours?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 October 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Redd Foxx - "LAFF YOUR (picture of donkey) OFF"

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 October 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - (I)Besides(/I)

The working tile of (I)Alternative(/I)

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

obv. that should have been proper tags...

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It Had Been an Ordinary Enough Day in Pueblo, Colorado - AMM

(The very first one that came to my mind when I saw the thread title)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Gabriel -- because by the third time it was actually pretty funny.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll just cheat in pick five instead of one.

Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord Is Dead
The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade
GYBE - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and sorry, but i've gotta mention one more:

mark eitzel, caught in a trap and i can't back out 'cause i love you too much, baby

title: yeah!
album: meh!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Funkadelic, Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow

I have a special love for album titles, like this one, that are physically split between the front & back cover, or between both halves of a gatefold. Others: Skynyrd's First and...Last, Cheap Trick In Colour...and Black & White, If You Want Blood...You've Got It (AC/DC), etc.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Further props to PSB for Please and Actually, both named for the snigger factor of walking into the store and saying, "I'd like the Pet Shop Boys' 'Please'" or "Do you have the Pet Shop Boys' 'Actually'?? Har har har.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Adding to Myonga, there's also R.E.M.'s wrap-around, circular title "Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables..."

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Pram "The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small". shame about the content of the record.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

er that should be "The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small... Stay as You Are"

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Marvin Gaye's hate-filled "Here, My Dear" has got to be up there, too.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I was always partial to a different Pussy Galore title, because when you were browsing the tape section the spine of the tape read:
"Pussy Galore Right Now"

― Edward Bax, Friday, 22 October 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rentals, Return of The Rentals, only because it took me, like, two years to get the joke.

― Phil Dennison (Phil D.), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

'Sophtware Slump'

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

A great title, but sad under the circumstances: 3-Way Tie (For Last

― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 October 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

re: return of the rentals (1995)

oh, now i get it.

― f ath, Friday, 22 October 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hands down I pick Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet's Sport Fishin'.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Friday, 22 October 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the pigeon is the most popular bird

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 22 October 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

the bird is the most popular finger

Actually, I'm incredibly fond of Super æ as a title. And as an album.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 22 October 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The ongoing joke at my place refers to - I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me - James Brown/1968. So that one.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Killdozer - Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of my favorite metal titles:
Antaeus, Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan
Mortician, Hacked Up For Barbecue
Aborted, Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (it's like a two-for-one-special!)

― max davenport (axehead), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a Riot Going On

― Sympatico (shmuel), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

floating widget - praises to the riff monolith
devo - q: are we not men? a: we are devo.

― ave satani (lemike), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Skullflower - "Exquisite Fucking Boredom"

― grapeshine (grapeshine), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember you once proposed 'Eat My Own Hair' as an album title, Alex. Or was it a band name? Oh well. It's great anyhow.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Mondays - "Squirrel & G-Man Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)"

Donna Summer - "On The Radio" (because on the sleeve she's actually sitting on a fucking radio)

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Mott the Hoople - Shouting and Pointing

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

... which also has one of my favourite sleeves, featuring the band Shouting and, errrrrrrr, Pointing:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007WE5.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

... it's Mott of course and nott Mott the Hoople

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Shouting and Pointing. Yes, a classic.

Mott the Mott

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 22 October 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Squirrel and G-Man 24 Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 22 October 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I always had a strange fondness for Fishbone's "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'd Swear He Was the Center of the Universe"

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 22 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/47496.jpg

the little boy in me still likes this one.

― william (william), Friday, 22 October 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favorite things about Joan of Arc is their tendency toward ballsy, artistic statement-like album titles which they take to a purposefully funny extent.
So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
Live in Chicago 1999 (a studio album and 'live' is meant to be pronounced like 'give')
In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Friday, 22 October 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night

The Monks: Black Monk Time

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Saturday, 23 October 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Is This It?
Wowee Zowee

― metfigga (metfigga), Saturday, 23 October 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Music Has The Right To Children
Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
Chicago XXV: What's It Gonna Be, Santa?

― tipustiger, Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money.

still amuses me as a title.

― Piers (piers), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OK Computer

sorry.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm so disappointed that it has gone so far unstated: 'songs about fucking'.

honerable mention: 'they threw us all in a trench and put a monument on top'.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Saturday, 23 October 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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

Incredible String Band - 5000 Spirits: Or the Layers of the Onion

Spooky Tooth - You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks/The Fucking Pricks Treat Us Like Cunts
My Daughter, The Broad
The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha! who is that last one by?

spooky tooth (i think)had that one that said
'you broke my heart...' and thn on the other side it had
'...so i busted your jaw'.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Least We Can Do... = Van Der Graaf Generator

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 23 October 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

EAT SHIT YOU FUCKING REDNECK

― DJ Mencap0))), Saturday, 23 October 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that an album title or has somebody pissed you off?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 October 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Everybody Wants to Shag The Teardrop Explodes by none other than The Teardrop Explodes.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

NOFX - Punk in Drublic

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot to add Squarepusher's Hard Normal Daddy.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sugarshit Sharp

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Saturday, 23 October 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ancient Melodies of the Future
Tinker to Evers to Chance (Game Theory compilation)
The Chief Assassin to the Sinister
License to Ill
Half-Smiles of the Decomposed

And two of the worst:

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Chef Boy R U Dumb

― jeremiah (jeremiah), Saturday, 23 October 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste

― spap oop (ernestp), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Too Beautiful to Burn"... only because i burned a copy of this for a friend and then got the joke when i labeled it.

― mattp, Saturday, 23 October 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

eighteen years pass...

https://www.reggae-vibes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Dennis-Alcapone-%E2%80%8E%E2%80%93-My-Voice-Is-Insured-For-Half-A-Million-Dollars.jpg

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 21 August 2023 20:10 (two years ago)

is this proto-Viper the Rapper??

― frogbs, Monday, 21 August 2023 20:34 (two years ago)

not their hugest fan, but the mountain goats have some supreme ones. especially fond of "get lonely" - great album cover too

― tremolo, Monday, 21 August 2023 21:17 (two years ago)

xpost holy shit, forgot that viper existed. "you'll cowards don't even smoke crack". i mean... cmon

― tremolo, Monday, 21 August 2023 21:18 (two years ago)

I could name like 50 of his but this one always stands out to me

https://i.discogs.com/_gseeZvgI2mD3mV4peWTYJs0SqgytRefCmC3zyozVHY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNjM3/MzQxLTE1MTk4Mjk2/ODgtODEwNy5qcGVn.jpeg

― frogbs, Monday, 21 August 2023 21:27 (two years ago)

some recent album titles by chicago rapper chris crack

battery operated simps
good cops don't exist
white people love algorithms
crackheads live longer than vegans
being woke ain't fun

― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 August 2023 21:32 (two years ago)

Scientist Wins The World Cup (among a few others of his)

― nashwan, Monday, 21 August 2023 21:43 (two years ago)

Did I Shave My Legs For This?

― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:13 (two years ago)

Lol, good one!

― Ansible Dave’s Killer Breadboard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:35 (two years ago)

Raise Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

I'm Not Selling Out, I'm Buying In

Power, Corruption and Lies

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:42 (two years ago)

“I’ve got my own record to do” c’mon admit it’s a great title

― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 21 August 2023 22:50 (two years ago)

Rrröööaaarrr

― brimstead, Monday, 21 August 2023 23:17 (two years ago)

"Wasps' Nests" by The 6ths

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 00:08 (two years ago)

Always been partial to “Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole”

― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 02:22 (two years ago)

+1 on that sixths album title.

I don't know if they toured that in Europe, but it would have been interesting to hear how that got mangled (un-mamgled?) by non-english speakers.

― enochroot, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 08:07 (two years ago)

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