Best Song and Album Titles of All Time

[Janszoon]

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

[Lexi Darling]

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.

[Trollheart]

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.

[Janszoon]

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.

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

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.

[Psy-Fi]

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

[ribbons]

Atom and His Package—"Sting Cannot Possibly Be the Same Guy Who Was In the Police"

"Workplace Accident at the C&C Music Factory"

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.

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

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"

[Lisnaholic]

[Psy-Fi]

[Guybrush]

I like this



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

[Rubber Soul]

[Toy Revolver]

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

[Toy Revolver]

cop killer john maus

https://youtu.be/7lw1MrMHQ9o

[Toy Revolver]

Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite - Killdozer

Carve the Five - Acid King

[Janszoon]

I like this

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:



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

[Lexi Darling]

Intellectuals 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.