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What are your favorites?

Some of mine are:

• Wire—A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck
• Atom and His Package—"Sting Cannot Possibly Be the Same Guy Who Was In the Police"
• Sun Ra—Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue

If I may throw my own hat in the ring... I'm pretty sure my old college band's music no longer exists online, but I recently went through some files on an old hard drive and found some of our ridiculous track titles. Here's a few highlights.

"Workplace Accident at the C&C Music Factory"
"Samuel L. Jesus"
"I'm Going to Use Everything I'm Saying Right Now as the Title of This Song"
"Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo"
"Another Song with an Overly Long Zany Title to Distract You from the Fact That It's Total Scenester Shit"

We thought we were so clever, haha.

I can't recall the name of the artist (some country dude I think) but I loved this:
Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart.

Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Feb 07, 2023, 06:38 AMIf I may throw my own hat in the ring... I'm pretty sure my old college band's music no longer exists online, but I recently went through some files on an old hard drive and found some of our ridiculous track titles. Here's a few highlights.

"Workplace Accident at the C&C Music Factory"
"Samuel L. Jesus"
"I'm Going to Use Everything I'm Saying Right Now as the Title of This Song"
"Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo"
"Another Song with an Overly Long Zany Title to Distract You from the Fact That It's Total Scenester Shit"

We thought we were so clever, haha.

lol. I think "Workplace Accident at the C&C Music Factory" is my favorite.

Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 07, 2023, 01:10 PMI can't recall the name of the artist (some country dude I think) but I loved this:
Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart.

:laughing:

A few that came to my mind...

Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death - Dead Kennedys
Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned
Most Things Haven't Worked Out - Junior Kimbrough
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young
We're Only in It for the Money - The Mothers of Invention


Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends - Fall Out Boy
Ghouls Night Out - The Misfits
I Sleep with Her Memory Every Night - Johnny Paycheck
(Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill - Johnny Paycheck
Santa Claus Has Got the AIDS This Year - Tiny Tim
She's Actin' Single, I'm Drinkin' Double - Gary Stewart
Small Flowers Crack Concrete - Sonic Youth
Thanks to the Cathouse (I'm in the Doghouse with You) - Johnny Paycheck
The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died - Queens of the Stone Age
We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago - Hawkwind

Quote from: Janszoon on Feb 07, 2023, 05:15 AMAtom and His Package—"Sting Cannot Possibly Be the Same Guy Who Was In the Police"

Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Feb 07, 2023, 06:38 AM"Workplace Accident at the C&C Music Factory"

Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 07, 2023, 01:10 PMI can't recall the name of the artist (some country dude I think) but I loved this:
Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart.

:laughing:

Quote from: Psy-Fi on Feb 08, 2023, 01:38 AMPhysical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

:beer:

Off the top of my head these come first to mind:

X – "The World's a Mess, It's In My Kiss"
Brian Eno – "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More"
Charles Mingus - "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue"
The Ramones – "Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World"
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Tyrannosaurus Rex – My People Were Fair and Had Sky In Their Hair, But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows
Roxy Music – "In Every Dream Home a Heartache"
The Kinks – "I'm Not Like Everybody Else"
The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Obligatory country title:

Bellamy Brothers – "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me"

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:laughing:

I like this :)

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And of course Caravan have some semi-funny (if a little dated) album titles:

If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night
Cunning Stunts

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I Hate the Capitalist System
Barbara Dane

https://folkways.si.edu/barbara-dane/i-hate-the-capitalist-system/american-folk-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian

cop killer john maus

https://youtu.be/7lw1MrMHQ9o

Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite - Killdozer

Carve the Five - Acid King

Quote from: Guybrush on Feb 09, 2023, 02:44 PMI like this :)

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I've always like the combination of the title and image on that one.

On a similar note, this one has always cracked me up:

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The title, if you can't read it, is The Cocaine Wars: 1974-1989

Quote from: TheNonSexual OccultHawk on Feb 09, 2023, 10:25 PMIntellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite - Killdozer

Carve the Five - Acid King

You know, I lurked on The Other Site for 15 years and I can't recall ever seeing anyone ever mention Killdozer. They're hometown heroes where I live, I was lucky enough to see them at a festival here after they reunited in 2008.

i saw them in portland or around 94 i think

so you're from madison?

i've only been there once but i had really special time

Quote from: TheNonSexual OccultHawk on Feb 10, 2023, 12:22 AMi saw them in portland or around 94 i think

so you're from madison?

i've only been there once but i had really special time

Nice! And yep, proud Madisonian, lived here my whole life. Glad to hear you enjoyed your visit here!

i had made friends with this guy from south africa that was traveling around america in a van and before the gig they set out three beers for the members of killdozer and this south african dude climbed on stage and chugged one of them

it still makes me laugh

he also gave me a fantastic dinosaur jr bootleg

i told him i saw nirvana open for dinosaur and he said that's the way it should be and i fully agreed then and still do

Some of my favourites so far:-

Janszoon's --Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
Mrs. Waffles's --I'm Going to Use Everything I'm Saying Right Now as the Title of This Song
Psy-Fi's --She's Actin' Single, I'm Drinkin' Double and Small Flowers Crack Concrete
ribbons'-- Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue and Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Guybrush's --Weasels Ripped My Flesh

...and here are some I like:-

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother and Astonomy Domine
Super Rail Band - New Dimensions In Rail Culture
Soft Machine - Out Bloody Rageous and Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart
John Fahey - Of Rivers And Religion
Klaatu - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three

Actually, once you start the list just goes on and on, so Beefheart, Dylan and others must wait for another day.

Oh Me Oh My... The Way the Day Goes by the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit
By Devendra Banhart

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
By Yo La Tengo

come to think of it i think the greatest album title of all time is the prophetic The Shape of Jazz to Come

"I'm Downright Amazed at What I Can Destroy With Just a Hammer"—Atom and His Package

^ That works, because when you read the title, you just have to listen to the song!

Incredible String Band had some decent album titles imo: Be Glad For The Song Has No Ending and Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air