But what other arsage has there been that makes even these look reasonable?
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― gazuga, Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. Several giants, one shoulder.They were a 'Thalidomide Baby' giants. Siamese quadruplets. Brrr.
― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)
― hstencil, Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― charlie va, Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)
How awful for the mother!
― charlie va, Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 14 September 2002 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)
I think most albums have quite bad titles. Are You Passionate? is awful yes. Southern Hummingbird is a good, evocative title, though Tweet is a duff artist name.
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)
"J.E.E.P. (Just Enough Education To Perform)"
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― david h (david h), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― JM, Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)
I LOVE The Shape of Punk to Come!
― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 15 September 2002 03:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 15 September 2002 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)
exhibit a: IMAGINATE
exhibit b: GARAGE MAHAL
i rest my case.
― minna (minna), Sunday, 15 September 2002 05:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave q, Sunday, 15 September 2002 06:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 15 September 2002 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 15 September 2002 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 15 September 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)
That's the worst.
― mike a, Sunday, 15 September 2002 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)
― Venga, Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)
― Venga, Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Venga, Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)
100% Ginuwine
― geeg, Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)
I debating writing this, but wtf: yesterday I was drifting in and out of thought (how else can I describe it) and remembered seeing an album when I was a wee lad by Kim Carnes, who had that hit "Betty Davis Eyes". This I'm pretty sure was the follow-up lp, otherwise I probably wouldn't have noticed it; who notices lps by Kim Carnes? I mean even freaks like me. So the album was called "Voyeur", and featured a cover portrait of Ms. Carnes looking staunch. Even back then I questioned this title, and now that I know what it means a lot better I'm even more amazed. I'm mean it's not a great title but not the shittiest either, but why? I mean what is it saying about Kim Carnes? If she were a songwriter (she's just a singer, no? why bother looking it up), maybe it could be alluding to her keen observations and character studies, but somehow I don't think this what was she had in mind. I mean why try and package Kim Carnes as a voyeur? What does this mean? Yes, I really did think about this. I don't even care about Kim Carnes (who does?)
― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 September 2002 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Rob M, Sunday, 15 September 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)
- LISTEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE (aka Listen Without Purchasing) by G.Michael
- ACHTUNG BABY by U2
- I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVE NOT GOT by Sinead O'Connor
- PSYCHO-CIRCUS by Kiss
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 September 2002 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 15 September 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)
Why? Cos it was a lazy last-minute afterthought and cos it's trite to the extreme.
― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 15 September 2002 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)
Ladies & Gentlmen:Demolition
He's making it really hard to be a fan...
― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Monday, 16 September 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)
No, they will not. And the album cover is equally besides-the-point and false. Fuck you, band, those two girls have nothing to do with anything.
When will a band release an album called 'Songs'? It would be the shit.
― Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Monday, 16 September 2002 05:05 (twenty-three years ago)
Isn't that the name of the new Gorky's Zygotic Mynki record?
Worst album title I can think of -- REO Speedwagon, You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish.
― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 16 September 2002 06:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 16 September 2002 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)
Others:
Swing When You're WinningCalifornicationThe Ecleftic (2 Sides 2 A Book)
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 16 September 2002 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Norman, Monday, 16 September 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)
long album titles SuXoR.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 16 September 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― Patrick, Monday, 16 September 2002 11:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 16 September 2002 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)
REVOLVERLUTION
Could it ever get worse than that?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 September 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)
Anything with trite buzzwords, for example, Information Superhighway Revisited by New Bomb Turks (parody or no parody, please let's never use the phrase "Information Superhighway" again).
Anything with tired 90s phrases, for example, Whatever by Aimee Mann. I'm reminded of the episode of the Simpsons with the fake sitcoms, "Talk to the Hand (featuring David Faustino)" and "Don't Go There."
― Ernest P., Monday, 16 September 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)
ladies & gents we have a contenda!
― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 16 September 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Steph (Steph), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― Steph (Steph), Friday, 20 September 2002 05:45 (twenty-three years ago)
- NIANDRA LADES AND USUALLY JUST A T-SHIRT- SMILE FROM THE STREETS YOU HOLD- TO RECORD ONLY WATER FOR TEN DAYS.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 September 2002 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)
Similarly: Devendra Banhart's Oh Me Oh My...the Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit, which suxx because to my great surprise it's NOT a Christmas album from the young bewhiskered savant.
― Neudonym, Monday, 24 February 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― schnell schnell, Monday, 24 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)
But "Performance and Cocktails" is marginally worse.
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― tom (other one), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm partial to Mark Eitzel's Caught In A Trap And I Can't Back Out 'Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby, myself.
REO Speedwagon win, not just for Tuna fish, but also for Hi In-Fidelity.
also:Juliana Hatfield Three, Become What You AreI Mother Earth, Scenery and FishSmashing Pumpkins, Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Musicanyone for This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours?
I was going to add Cowboy Junkies, Whites Off Earth Now!!, but that one's actually totally brilliant.
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)
destruction- I dont get it ?Please explain, I hate it when I dont get something !
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Face Value Hello I Must Be Going No Jacket Required But Seriously Serious Hits Live Both Sides Dance Into The Light Hits A Hot Night In Paris
All from the same guy....
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Yeah, i hate Phil Collins. blech.
Peter Gabriel too. Up. So. Us. Pretentious as Fuck.
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)
- Does anyone know what this was supposed to mean ?
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)
Alanis Morissette because she's a fraud and she should learn what the word 'ironic' really means.
...and the Sinead O'Connor albums.... esp 'I Do not want' and the hideously titled (and packaged) Universal Mother.
― russ t, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― TeddyBoy, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)
Jay-Z's Streets is Watching always bugged me. Surely it should be Street ARE Watching , no?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)
Travis "The Invisible Band"
― Nick H, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)
You say this like it's a bad thing!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)
I think it meant that Hammer's rhyming skills were so deadly that people were begging him to show mercy on other MCs.
― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Yes, I can barely stand the overblown pomposity of the word "adore".
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)
"Slippery When Wet" always struck me as particularly shit.
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)
and the name of the new Marco V single c:\del *.mp3 isn't too brilliant either.
― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)
Any album title that's also a URL is automatically bad. See: Trick Daddy's www.thug.com, Pitchshifter's www.pitchshifter.com, R. Kelly's TP-2.com, Marillion's marillion.com, C-Murder's C-P-3.com, etc. etc.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 27 February 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― russ t, Thursday, 27 February 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 6 March 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)
And now the NME is reporting that Thom is saying that the record won't be titled either of those things. Thus: ILM has changed history. Also thus: Ed's a lurker. *grandiosity alert*
― Neudonym, Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeeze, Sunday, 20 April 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Not yet mentioned (I think):Travis - The Man Who... (there's a story behind this one but really, who cares?)Nelly Furtado - Whoah! NellyRadiohead - OK ComputerRadiohead - Kid ACast - Mother Nature Calls
― Tijn, Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)
(Oh well, quite a good description of their career at that point anyway)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 April 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Monday, 21 April 2003 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)
Lalo Schifrin - The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music from the Past as Performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis de Sade
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 3 February 2012 05:09 (thirteen years ago)
BETH JEANS HOUGHTON & THE HOOVES OF DESTINY - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Friday, 3 February 2012 08:47 (thirteen years ago)
Saw this in the ILM 2011 albums poll:
We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
― Tuomas, Friday, 3 February 2012 09:34 (thirteen years ago)
De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 3 February 2012 11:01 (thirteen years ago)
"We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves" makes sense as it's a Beckett quote, and John Maus is into all that stuff.
― Sounds Of The Baskervilles (dog latin), Friday, 3 February 2012 12:30 (thirteen years ago)