The Crappy Album Title Thread (aka What On Earth Were They Thinking Of?)

positively MBV-esque

What, crap?

those would be two howlingly awful album titles ^^^^^^^^

LOLz

Be Here Now has to be the worst, surely?

oh hang on now, they managed to surpass it with Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

Didn't some band just release an album called "Everything That People Say We Are, We Aren't"? What if people say they're great?

Heathen Chemistry < Standing on the Shoulder of Giants < Don't Believe the Truth < Be Here Now < (What's the Story) Morning Glory? < Definitely Maybe <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< any other album title ever

Tuomas yes that was by the Antarctic Mongeese

tuomas, that's because alex turner is a master of irony, and the self-proclaimed spokesman for our entire generation.

'favourite worst nightmare' is actually a hair-tearingly awful title. fuck them and their cheeky pretentious pseudo-deprecation.

'pretentious' used here in its correct context. not in an NME 'ooh my it reeks of PROG' context.

"The Best Party Ever"
"How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"

"Chocolate Starfish & the Hotdog-flavored Water"

or whatever the hell it was called...turns my stomach...

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Especially terrible since it followed one of the all-time best titles, "Revolver."

B'day

"Chocolate Starfish & the Hotdog-flavored Water"

^^ teh win

I hate self-titled albums by A) Bands making their major label debut, and B) come-back albums

Also for some reason the first album name that popped into my head was "Load" by Metallica. Just seeing the name of that album was the nail in the coffin that their self-titled album built.

Sara, rockapads OTM, bleurgh

Disraeli Gears
Surrealistic Pillow
Something/Anything?
The Kink Kronikles

This has been done before, and someone nominated You've Gotta Go There To Get Back, which I thought was a fabulous title. And now I find myself reacting in the same way to the similar It Won't Be Soon Before Long.

Muse Sick 'n Hour Mess Age is pretty awful.

"I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"

Great White's Once Bitten... and ...Twice Shy twofer was bad.

I can't think of anything ever that was worse than that Limp Bizkit album, though.

when the king hits the pawn blah blah blah

You can tune a piano...but you can't tuna fish

Even if and especially when

From the underground...and below

"Luther burbank performing arts center blues"

Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Good album, bad title.

"Be Here Now" is a good title, if only the music had the immediacy of the title.

Anyway, post-Fear Public Enemy dookie upon this thread.

the medieval baebes go fucking mental

I really don't like album titles that consist of single, tough-sounding monosyllabic words like "Pump" and "Core." I always hear them in this 90s smarmy commercial announcer voice - "Get new titles like PUMP, and CORE for just 11.99 at the WIZ"

Whatever that Our Lady Peace album was called, something like Happiness... Is Not A Fish You Can Catch.

It's the ellipsis that really lend it gravitas.

Even if and especially when

I quite like that one, actually. It's a great album too.

Aoxomoxoa
Be Not Nobody
Yourself or Someone Like You
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
1. Outside - The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper-Cycle
Hey Man... Smell My Finger

<I>The Kink Kronikles</I>

This brings up a good point about the Kinks. Did they have any good album titles? Nothing memorable that I recall.

Crap, I mastered the new coding when we first got it and I've since regressed for some reason.

free
peace
sweet

You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish.

I just don't get it. It seems like some dumb play on words - like "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" - except that any way I turn it, it doesn't make a lick of sense. Indubitably the worst. Indubitably, I say!

It's followed very closely by Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Melon Collie refers to what? Some sort of fruity pooch? Doesn't sound so sad to me, chrome-dome.

"Chocolate Starfish & the Hotdog-flavored Water"

First thing I thought of when I saw this thread title, actually. The cover does not help its case, either.

This brings up a good point about the Kinks. Did they have any good album titles? Nothing memorable that I recall.

Something Else By the Kinks was sort of clever because it could be interpreted as either "Our new album's something else, man!" or else as "Here's another fucking album from the Kinks."

But otherwise....yeah, pretty dire. Lots of words that should begin with C being spelled with a K.

All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
Pinker and Prouder Than Previous
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
whitechocolatespaceegg

Come on now The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is a good title.

So are "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)", "Everybody's in Showbiz" and "Muswell Hillbillies"!

Nope

"Transcendental Blues" by Steve Earle, that's a crappy album title. I guess it was supposed to be a mixing of the heavenly and the earthly, but instead it just sounds confused, and clueless, like the artist thought it would sound smart or something. It doesn't.

I think Hotdog-Flavored Water wins. If I was more hung over, that would make me want to throw up.

I said it before on the old thread, but you'd have to go a long way to find anything as crap as "Dongs of Sevotion"

"Bloodflowers" sounds like a 14 year old Cure fan naming a new Cure album.

Beaucoup Fish. And the originally intended title was so great as well.

I too thought of the Hot Dog Flavored Water one when I saw the thread title, but before we give them too much credit, remember that the icky-food-album-title idea was amply explored by Primus.

I don't see as we can get out of here without someone mentioning "Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants".

<I>Frogstomp</I>.

WHAT ARE YOU LIKE 8???

I don't see as we can get out of here without someone mentioning "Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants".

Like the Kinks, Stevie Wonder is normally so good that you can't get enough distance to notice how lame some of his titles and gimmicks can be.

RE: The Kinks. Some of the titles mentioned in defense only look good in hindsight...because you remember the albums as being magnificent! "The Kinks Are The Village..." sounds like just another hastily named 60s album that reeks of being picked by their publicist or management. I would laugh at the pretentiousness of "Arthur (Or the Decline..." if any other band did it and I hadn't heard the album.

"Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness" was hardly a very intelligent title either, in spite of the wordplay. But surely, Limp Bizkit's ripoff of it for their own awful 2001 album was worse.

I've only got one thing to say, Phil Collins

Hot Dog Water was also my first thought, closely followed by REO Speedwagon's You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish

Wow, I never realized one of REO's post-hitmaking albums was titled The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight And He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand And Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights And If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land And If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

Ted Nugent's live album "Intensities in Ten Cities"

There must be a ton of horrific prog album titles out there ie Marillion's "Script For A Jester's Tear" and the like

"Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors" (doesn't beat "Script For A Jester's Tear" however)

OTM re Stevie. Fulfillingness' First Finale? Songs in the Key of Life? Original Musiquarium? Wonderful albums, but really -- such dumb titles.

BTW, when he was in 7th grade my kid was assigned to find a poem about perseverance. He put that Fiona Apple title in stanza form and got an A.

Intensities in Ten Cities-good title, good album.

icky thump

a one way ticket to hell and back

does this look infected