Worst album title in this week's UK Top 40

Anything with the syllable "Taint" in it is gonna create subconscious nose-wrinkles for a start.

first two are the worst imo.

Anything with the syllable "Taint" Plan B in it is gonna create subconscious nose-wrinkles for a start.

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Have always hated the use of "The Very Best of".

Plan B title = minor Prog rock also-ran's forgotten solo debut

Kasabian = oh fuck off

Paolo Nutini is horrific but only if you call to mind the concept of Paolo Nutini, i.e. not really the title on its own

Boyzone title likewise - horrible but mainly in the context of the Boyzzzzzzz

"For Your Entertainment" = cliche on toast

Biffy Clyro = empty, meaningless, slightly self-important sounding...and then there's the title, boom boom

The Stone Roses = yeah, cheers for that

Oh hang on, Scouting for Girls have got a new album. I'm voting for them even if it's not the worst title because well y'know

Weller's title is pretty fucking shit too, but he isn't in Scouting for Girls

I have no idea wtf Port Isaac's Fisherman's Freinds is and frankly I'm too frightened to google it

tainted cherry, ew

The Very Best of Billy Ocean

truly despicable

37) Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions

^this

That's a decent Billy Ocean collection, at least the 70s hits are on there.

So it turns out that Port Isaac's yadda yadda yadda is actually proper folky sea shanties and not some raggle-taggle revivalists who've been out on tour with Sanford and Sons? Not them then.

There's a high percentage of tossbags this week: James fucking Last? Paolo Nutini? Mumford & Sons?

xpost damn I was hoping to have an excuse to make a "Port Isaac's Fishermen's Friends suck" joke...

James Last is a fucking star up against some of these. Admittedly my opinion of him was radically altered by the rather good documentary that BBC4 ran a while back.

Given the choice between Last and Bieber I'd have to pick Last, but that's really not saying much.

Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear got my vote but Kasabian were a close second.

If I was voting for who I hate the most it would have to Plan B I keep hearing his single everywhere, his vocals really make me angry

And special hate is reserved for Plan B for ruining a perfectly good song with a shit rhyme "like that song by The Zutons, Valerie" - would it really have killed ya to sit down for a few more minutes and come up with something better?

Why is the Stone Roses album back? Was there a 20th anniversary promotion thing last year? Tv ad?

I would have voted for Mumford & Sons because they and their album title are just so punchable. But Plan B takes it, because the title reminds me that his album is a shitty half-arsed "concept".

Much hatred for PlanB and his sub Lauren Hill Tripped Over A Thesaurus bullshit, and his big stupid face.

Oops Lauryn

Let's just take a second to remember this is a guy who called his first album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words.

He really must be stopped.

Why is the Stone Roses album back?

20th anniv. reiss last year, peaked at #5, has gradually slipped down the chart as students who weren't even born in 1989 are hoodwinked into buying what would be the most over-rated album in history had Oasis not existed.

heh, OK.

My vote goes to Paul Weller's Wake Up The Nation, btw. Just because I can't stand it when musicians do the "national conscience" thing. Like American Idiot.

I Am ... Sasha Fierce, because I hate these conscious adopt-a-character things, unless it's Bowie

And the Kasabian one should obviously be titled West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Obviously.

there are some bad titles there, not least the o_0 one at the top (who the hell gave diana vickers a record deal and why), but the one that actually indices rage is

12) Glee Cast - Glee The Music: The Power of Madonna

I FUCKING HATE GLEE, STOP RUINING MY FAVOURITE SONGS AAAARGGHHHHHHHHHHHH have they seriously done an ENTIRE ALBUM OF MADONNA SONGS WHY WHY WHY WHY KILLLLL

also, beyoncé >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> bowie, as if that even needs stating

hang cool teddy bear is the most annoying

>Paolo Nutini is horrific but only if you call to mind the concept of Paolo Nutini.

Spent most of the weekend decorating, with the radio on, and every time Nutini's ghastly croak came round I had to descend the stepladder and retune.

The Dianne Vickers one: tree not tainted enough, it seems. But, good luck to her..

OK, my choice be:

Imagine that Scouting for Girls are a really good mand, and have a fairly good name.

That album title "Everyone wants to be on TV" is wow insight. TEN YEARS AGO!!!

i.e. that one.

Cheryl Cole's album being called 3 Words instead of Three Words vexes me way more than it should

U need 2 chill

"Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree", huh?

i hate glee! i don't understand the appeal at all! [via 'community']

It's brilliant, but I don't really care about explaining why things appeal.

(Enjoyment of amateur musical theatre kids plus huge sentimentalism I think, plus some quality zings.)

What's up with the Bad Company/Free split?

Two members of Free were later in Bad Company.

Should have covered all bases and went for "The Very Best of Free & Bad Company & Mott the Hoople (But Only the Mick Ralphs' Songs... Not the Ian Hunter Ones)"

.. and that single by Queen...

.. because it'll never be added to any of the "Queen's Greatest Hits" CDs.

Didn't know that about Free and Bad Company. I had figured the record was just haphazardly thrown together by one of those hip "cassette labels". But what are they doing on your albums chart?

It's classic rock, man

Seriously though, putting titties on your album cover does give me a conflicted urge to buy your album, Welsh metallers Bullet for my Valentine.

Why in God's name is Mantovani in the UK Top 40????

It's classic easy listening, man

The title cannot be much worse than "Wake Up The Nation", even though it's not at all a bad album.

I'd rather have Mantonvani and James Last in the UK Top 40 than Paolo Nutini, Scouting For Girls, Mumford & Sons etc etc etc

EXACKLY

20th anniv. reiss last year, peaked at #5, has gradually slipped down the chart as students who weren't even born in 1989 are hoodwinked into buying what would be the most over-rated album in history had Oasis not existed.

Still bitter because your beloved repetitive dance music with zilch tunes (by its fans deemed the one and only future of music) dominated only a few years in the late 80s/early 90s, then disappeared again?

Touched a raw nerve there?

Well, it seems Stone Roses and Oasis did with some people, when they discovered what they thought was the future appeared to become a fad instead.

I agree that Stone Roses and Oasis were a fad

Kids getting into Oasis & Stone Roses in 2010 = Teds in 1976

my 17-yr-old cousin is super-siked about seeing ian brown soon. eye-roll etc but then the contemporary competition is s.thing called the mumford and sons, nah mean?

How about kids getting into Bad Company in 2010? xp

Jitterbug revival in the 90s

I agree that Stone Roses and Oasis were a fad

The return of the melody wasn't though. Even when Britpop faded, the pop acts that dominated the late 90s instead were also all about verse-chorus dominated tunes.

Yes, that's right Geir, dance has had little or no influence on pop music since the early 90s

Hang on, are we talking about the UK, the US, Norway or the merry old land of Oz?

Cos I know for a fact that dance completely disappeared in Oz.

Speaking of the 1990s, these guys seem to be trying pretty hard for Tripping Daisy or Cracker or something here:

http://i44.tinypic.com/2iu445z.jpg

I assume he's referring to the Commonwealth of England, from 1649 onwards (xp)

Difficult choice, but voting for 'The Element of Freedom'. Woolly, anonymous, pompous. Plan B pomposity at least concrete & a bit silly.

(Hard not to vote for Mumford and Sons tho - girlfriend a fan of the album, so I've heard like 40+ mins of that dismal wordy fiddly-strummy sincerity more than once. It's fucking vile.)

Still bitter because your beloved repetitive dance music with zilch tunes (by its fans deemed the one and only future of music) dominated only a few years in the late 80s/early 90s, then disappeared again?

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 10 May 2010 10:59 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Don't think I've ever seen snoball post anything about dance music of any kind, apart from anything

It's a conspiracy, I tells ya

Difficult choice, but voting for 'The Element of Freedom'. Woolly, anonymous, pompous. Plan B pomposity at least concrete & a bit silly.

Thinking about it some more, if The Element of Freedom were a concept album about some scientists finding a chemical element that made people free, then the consequences of that (some good, some bad), I wld be more down with the title.

Not voting for Vickers, a contender, because the title made me mildly curious as to why and how the cherry tree was tainted.

OK let me clear one thing up:

HMV are selling the deluxe 2CD plus DVD edition of the Stone Roses album for £7.

I daresay Fopp are doing similar.

Wonder what the ginormous LP plus CDs, DVDs and usb thingy is going for in Fopp at the mo?

Still bitter because your beloved repetitive dance music with zilch tunes (by its fans deemed the one and only future of music) dominated only a few years in the late 80s/early 90s, then disappeared again?

lol

Geir accusing other people of 'bitterness' there - you went on a fucking 'early 00s R&B' thread just to complain

He was asleep in the thread next door.

Hang Cool Teddy Bear ftw

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=35056

Yah, should have been called Lust in Piece or something.

Hang Cool Teddy Bear reminds me of Fall Out Boy

Yes, that's right Geir, dance has had little or no influence on pop music since the early 90s

Since the late 90s, dance music has been melodic.

http://www.uncountedthemovie.com/images/goalposts.jpg

Can't wait for Geir Hongro's 'Melody Flash', out in all good bookshops from this summer.

Since the late 90s, dance music has been melodic.

And how are you measuring this? Number of "dance" hits that charted with "melody"? Dubious, as ever.

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