Album titles that promise things

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And do they deliver?

Al Green-Explores Your Mind (yes)

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

wait...no.

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Franz Ferdinand's new 'un.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Disco Inferno - "D.I. Go Pop"--does it deliver? Uhh....errm...sort...of...?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" did what it said on the tin.

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Stereolab - The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"
Indeed they did.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you can promise that something will happen in the past - "Played." Sorry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

age of chance - 1000 years of trouble.

released in 1987 and still living up to it in my household, everytime i put it on .. the trouble i get ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

If a promise is taken to mean an assurance of something that will happen, none of the above qualify. Most are descriptions of things that are happening. A great deal of album titles "promise" that the album is good and/or interesting (e.g. "you could have it so much better with"), or "promise" that the album has a certain kind of music (e.g. "sings the Who Sell Out"). The closest I could come to straight-up promises were the following:

Chicks on Speed - Chicks on Speed Will Save Us All (though that's more prediction than promise)
Crass - Yes Sir, I Will (now that's a promise, innit?)

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch to call "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus" a promise. If it were something like "Charles Mingus Prevents Cavities and Clears Up Herpes Sores" that'd be different.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

try harder!

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

You're Gonna Miss Me: The Best of Roky Erickson

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

I'd hate to think "Rectal Anarchy" lived up to it's title.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

You're Gonna Miss Me: True. Stacy Sutherland is definitely missed and Tommy Hall was missing for a while.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Fuzzbox - We've Got a Fuzzbox & We're Gonna Use It

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed: nope

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die: doubtful

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots: for three songs or so

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Tortoise, It's All Around You, depending on what "it" is.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

pet shop boys "please" (yes)

― ball4, Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

"Who Will Save the World? The mighty Groundhogs" - yes.

― Allen Baekeland (Allen Baekeland), Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

whoever said that they were going to be "your new favorite band" (get out of here)

strokes - is this it? (yes, and it was good while it lasted)

― randy mamola, Saturday, 8 October 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Re: the Strokes title, a question is not a promise.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 8 October 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

THE DICTATORS GO GIRL CRAZY!

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 8 October 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Modest Mouse "Good News for People who Love Bad News"

― salexander / sophie (salexander), Saturday, 8 October 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Gravatar - "Now the Road of Knives" - yeah, that's what you get when you put it on.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

Broken Social Scene - Feel Good lost. Perhaps. . . I'd say yes.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002WAW.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' "You're Gonna Get It"

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 9 October 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

explosions in the sky - those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever

― andrew_g, Sunday, 9 October 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

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