In this video, I share my favorite record album titles. This time, it's not about the music or the artwork or the sound quality, just the title of the albums.
Great selections! Not many can pronounce that Dead album title…I sure can’t. Live at Cook County is a good album, so is Night hawks. My fave title is Lowell George’s “Thanks, I’ll Eat it Here”.
"Intensities In 10 Cities", which also happens to be one of my all-time favorite album titles, is one of the few live albums that is not a "greatest hits live" package but a collection of previously unreleased songs recorded live in concert. That's why none of the hits are there. Ten songs, each one recorded in a different city, hence the album title. Not a huge favorite of mine, but I like it. Guitar World magazine placed it at the 9th spot in their "10 of the best live albums every rock fan needs to hear" list. Two other album titles that I love are Rush's "Moving Pictures" because of its triple entendre with the cover and back cover art, and Frank Zappa's "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch", because that's what the minimalistic drawing on the album cover represents.
Absolutely loved this. Brilliant observations and sequencing. Especially loved Nobody Cares and In Your Face. I didn’t get IYF until you pointed it out and then I laughed out loud.
You mentioned ring wear a couple of times. The band "The Explorers Club" released a couple of albums with pre-installed ring wear. "Grand Hotel" and "Freedom Wind".
I love numbers: Bee Gees' 1st, Van Halen II, Black Sabbath's Vol. 4, even Stone Temple Pilots No. 4, and don't let me talk about Led Zeppelin... but my all-time favorite is ''Penis Envy'' by Crass.
That Ted Nugent live album was the worst... the worst idea ever, release a live album of all unreleased tracks... I wonder why nobody hasn't done that before, or since...
Zero Tolerance For Silence - A great album title from Pat Metheny. But the worst album I've ever heard. It's astounding how anybody could be that good, yet produce such drek. Physical Graffiti - A great title, great cover, and great music I googled weird album titles. I found one I think you'll like. Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick.
Some of my favorites: The Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls For Rock N Roll Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven (I could include most of their album titles) Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope Big Black - Songs About F***ing The Dwarves - Blood, Guts, and P**** My favorite Flaming Lips title is Hit To Death In The Future Head. In A Priest is my favorite of their albums.
Great Video! Actually, "Hell Bent For Leather!" was the title of Frankie Laine's Columbia album that had "Rawhide" on it, along with other gunfighter and cowboy songs.
Some personal favorites: "You Bought It -- You Name It" by Joe Walsh (Is it any good? I've never heard it) "Psonic Psunspot" by The Dukes Of Stratosphear "A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing" and "Kimono My House" by Sparks "Our Personal Favorite World-Famous Hits" by Daniel Amos (Never heard of them? That's why the title is funny) I think the last lime I ever heard anyone called a snot was in 1986 when my boss called me one because, apparently, I was being a smart aleck.
Spooky Tooth-You broke my heart so I busted your jaw. Pure Prairie League-Live Takin the Stage. Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Not Fragile J Geils Band-Blow Your Face Out. ZZ Top-Tres Hombres. Rolling Stones-Voodoo Lounge. Kansas-Leftoverture. Poison-Look What the Cat Dragged In. Little Feat-Feats Don't Fail Me Now. The Outlaws-Bring It Back Alive. Dr.Hook-Sloppy Seconds. Ac/Dc-Ballbreaker. Frank Zappa-Sheik Yerbouti. Black Oak Arkansas-Raunch n Roll.
Great list! I've heard that "Not Fragile" was a response to the Yes album "Fragile" and the guys from BTO said that rock music should never be described as "fragile".
Songs About Fuc*ing By Big Black is a title guaranteed to not get your record stocked at Walmart. El Pintor by Interpol is clever ( LP & Tour ) & love the 8 track !
My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair... But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows by Tyrannosaurus Rex was always a favorite long title of mine.
Kingdom Come - In Your Face is probably the fave of many of us when it came out. just wrong but not at the same time. its like a running joke with a friend of mine.
Let me add: Black with Sugar, The Bill Black Combo, McLemore Avenue Booker T and The MG's, Historical Figures And Ancient Heads, Canned Heat , Edgar Winter's White Trash - Roadwork , Elvis Presley - 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong , Emo Philips - E=MO² , Grand Funk Railroad - E Pluribus Funk ,...................................can i come back...............just thru the G!
Talk about back skipping jukeboxes, in the Seventies at college, there was a Seeburg machine in the Student Union snack bar that repeated "Misty Blue" by Dorothy Moore. There was always some joker in the crowd who deliberately picked the tune. It was a nice song, but not fifteen times in a row. Problem solved by unpluging the jukebox.
Rocket From The Crypt "Scream, Dracula, Scream!" Jesus and Mary Chain "Psychocandy" Sturgill Simpson "Metamodern Sounds In Country Music" The Godfathers "Birth, School, Work, Death" You beat me to that essay of a title to that Fiona Apple album.
I also like Chumbawamba "Never mind the Ballots... Here's the rest of your life". Also "Pictures of starving children sell records" was a thought-provoking title.
I am a huge 13th Floor Elevators and Roky fan, but I always thought the occasional misspelling making Elevator singular sounds better. "13th Floor Elevator"
Some cracking titles there Robert. A few others I like are Musta Notta Gotta Lotta by Joe Ely,Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room by Dwight Yoakam and Script For A Jesters Tear by Marillion
I remember being put off by The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majusties Request. Because it said Satanic on the album. But in December of 2017, I ordered the 50th anniversary edition with the lenticular cover. My 2 most favorite songs are Citadel and She's A Rainbow. I gotta say that Wings Venus and Mars is a cool album title.
Ever heard of The James Gang - Bang? By chance I recently found Tangerine Dream by the british Kalaidoscope (the US band was awsome, too) and was surprised about the high quality of this.
My favorite title is “Eat A Peach” from the Allman Brothers Band, both because it’s a tribute to the then-recently deceased Duane Allman, and because I personally love peaches 😂
I'm sure someone has already pointed out that "At the Mountains of Madness" is an H.P. Lovecraft story title. I think it's also the title of the band "H.P. Lovecraft" second album. H.P. Lovecraft has to be the most rock band pilfered author.
I agree with the Moody Blues title “On the Threshold of a Dream.” My fav BOC title is Fire of Unknown Origin. Another one of my fav titles is Marilyn Manson’s Golden Age of Grotesque. And I never realized what was going on in that WHO’s Next cover😂
loved this. I have bought album's just for the title, and cover Pearl Harbiur Don't follow me I'm loss too, Nina Hagen Nunsexmonkrock. Also you need to listen to the lamb lies down on broadway just once great live lp.
Great video! One of my favorites is Love's Forever Changes - another classic blend of band name and album title (as love does forever change...), although not as seriously hilarious and amusing as the Kingdom Come album.
I saw Ted Nugent on the Intensities In 10 Cities tour. It sucked! They played way too much from that album which also sucked. Not sure who was singing at that time, I think it was just Ted. (I just checked and Charlie Huhn was still in the band but he couldn't save the show for me)
Another jukebox story, back in the late 60’s we used to eat at this White Castle in Jersey City. They had these mini jukebox’s on the counter. The b side of Sunshine of your Love “SWLABR” would stick right in the instrumental section of the song. We would play it and sit there eating and watch as one by one people would realize something was wrong. It would go on for 5 to 10 minutes sometimes.
I'm a big fan of the Ohio Players (music and album covers) and I think the entire package for 'Everybody Up' is my all time favorite. The album cover is pretty much typical for the Ohio Players, then you have the photo of the band on the inside of the gatefold, and to cap it off the music is incredible.
@kissterio it was at ACL Festival in like 2016 I think. Die Antwoord was there too, so I actually walked off during multiple bands. At least we had Willie Nelson that weekend!
I thought I liked OK Computer (maybe because I heard so many UA-camrs tell me that it was."mind-blowing"), but last time I listened to it I was not impressed. Will probably have to listen to it again.
Loads of fun. An album title that always make me laugh when I hear it (or think of it to be honest) is Marilyn Manson’s “Smells Like Children.” I suppose it is one that works a bit better if you see the cover art, which is hilariously weird. And I know Marilyn Manson is on the cancel list now. But since I was never a listener of his, I don’t care.
Good titles Robert, great Frankie Laine maybe do Wanted Man next, I've seen help bent for leather live many times my fav first priest album title, Stained Class also another good title Three Sides To Every Story by Extreme
Ha, I was just explaining the Satanic Majesties title to someone yesterday. That's an amazing point about Revolver, wow. Always something spinning. Sinatra getting emo, haha. WOAH, that Dead Boys 8-track is RARE! Definitely one I'd love to find. Love that album.
In refrence to your Revolver comment. If you think about it old hard drives spun in a circular fashion up until SSD drives and now the music no longer revolves. The original iPod had that circular pad on the front you spun around to navigate.
LOL, yeah, snotty is a great word that needs to be brought back. Combine it with another favorite word of mine - snotty git. I prefer the Grateful Dead's album title Steal Your Face, although that recording has generally been plagued by sibilance. I think my favorite Zappa album title is Waka Jawaka. I just love saying it. And I love the Coil album title, Queens of the Circulating Library.
Some of these are songs & some are 78s. I dig way back. I'd Rather Kiss A Fish - The Casters Ode To Sensible Wiley - Kurt Wellness Your Mama Don't Dance And Your Daddy Married A Bowlegged Ballerina - Leggins & Mossina True Blue When Convenient - The Politicos The Xmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) - Not King Cole Like Playing Soccer With Handcuffs On (I Wouldn't Have Touched It Anyway) - The Never Minds Don't Knock Me Down Till I've Danced - The Goof Offs Stardust.. And Other (Non-Platinum Hits) - The Curmudgeons Whale of A Whiskey - Happy All The Time Barbershop Quartet Burnt Flapjacks Again - Surry I. Married Crooked Teeth Kinfolk - The Possum Pickers
Have he run out of of comedy material? The hot sause, covered in whip cream, and Twas The Night Before Christmas poem wasn't bad. Whatever became of the Jeff Wicher videos? He really put a lot into them with his Deep Dives. I guess it's hard to average tens of thousands of views on here. It helps if you are a good looking woman. Lp collectors need 5,000 lps as much as they need 5,000 scissors. Only having just one lifetime don't cut it. They need more lifetimes to listen to all those lps they foolishly bought, enough times to really get into them.
I was thinking of "Selling England by the Pound" for Genesis. "White Sport Coat and"Pink Crustacean" (which I'm not sure is a album) from someone i don't like. "Lark Toungues in Aspic" deserves mentioning. "Everyone's got a Family, Meet Mine" is a good title to a good album by Johnny Paycheck.
robert i have some titles for you."expressway to your skull"by buddy miles 1968,"you broke my heart so i busted your jaw"by spooky tooth1970,"lick my decals off baby"by captain beefheart and his magic band1970,"you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish"byREO speedwagon 1978,snake rattle &roll"by crawler 1978,"screeming for vengence" by judas priest 1982 and "if i can do it all over again i'll do it all over you" by caravan 1971
I've always liked album titles that kind of sum up, or evoke what the album sounds like, but also just sound cool. Maybe some examples would be: Van Halen - Fair Warning Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (They were also great with alliteration, like Between The Buttons and Beggars Banquet) Neil Young - Ragged Glory The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace Nirvana - Bleach Tad - God's Balls Flaming Lips - Hear It Is (also Clouds Taste Metallic) And garage rockers The Gories have 1 of the coolest album titles: I Know You Fine, But How You Doin'
The Rain Parade title came from these little yellow plastic signs you see in the BART train stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Something to do with the third rail of the train. Matt Piucci got it directly from that. And that Ted Nugent album (which I've also never heard) is like REM's New Adventures in Hi-Fi. It's an album of all new material recorded live on tour, hence none of the classics. [Edit: looks like someone beat me to that last great nugget of knowledge!]
I like your videos but i just wonder you have many albums that the cover are in bad shape, lots of ringwear osv, do you buy them used or what, whats the story behind that?, fan from Norway. 😆😆😉
Don't you just love it when there's an album title you like for reasons you simply can't explain? Those are my favorites. Here are some that I like (warning - long list): -Green Day: "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" -Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Return of the Dream Canteen" and "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan" -Blink-182: "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" 🛫👖🧥 -R.E.M.: "Automatic For The People" -Pavement: "Slanted and Enchanted" and "Terror Twilight" -Yo La Tengo: "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass" and "New Wave Hot Dogs" -Sonic Youth: "Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" -The Fall: "Hex Enduction Hour" and "Live at the Witch Trials" -Oasis: "Definitely Maybe" -Blur: "Modern Life is Rubbish" -The Verve: "A Storm in Heaven" -Metz: "Up On Gravity Hill" -The Chats: "Get F*cked"
@@RobertFithen Is that true? Here I thought that title was just a bunch of words that sounded cool together! Another fun fact about that same album - supposedly, to save costs it was recorded over the master tapes of another Sonic Youth album (I believe it was "Sister"). Apparently, its quiet production means you can still hear parts of the old album in some places!
Going back to when I was just a kid. I always thought Razamanaz by Nazareth was silly sounding. Maybe that's why I liked that over Hair Of The Dog. Another good one to bring up at a party is Oh No! It's Devo. Like suddenly the party became a huge let down by having Devo show up to ruin everyones fun. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 have some bizarre names as well. My favorite is Wormed By Leonard. Like, what? But nothing tops their last album title. Just like that one you mentioned. It's just weirdness and way too long. Guess its more known as Bob Noodle. But the entire title is way too long. Of course I will get it wrong here...Larry & Bob Noodle Presents The Whatever The Hell They Called This Album And The Dirt Brown Band. Not sure if video albums count, but how can you go wrong with Pussy Galore's Maximum Penetration? That even tops their album Dial M For Motherf***er (just incase) But, and speaking of Butt. How about Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland. Or the censored cover with B***H*** Surfers instead. Never knew about it until I saw it on Letterman when they played Pepper. Because Dave showed the alternate cover to it. You Axed For It - The Mentors Death Won't Solve Your Problems - No Trend The Amazing Underwater Adventures Of Aqua Kitty And Her Friends - Heavy Vegetable Can't Stand - The Rezillos The Third Reich & Roll - The Residents 668 The Neighbor Of The Beast - My Dog Popper Cancer Planet Mission - Gaye Bikers On Acid Something Green And Leafy This Way Comes - S.N.F.U. Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death - Dead Kennedys Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star - Sonic Youth Stairway To Hamilton - B.A. Johnston
Great list! I always liked that "Give Me Convenience..." title for a compilation. I'd never heard those Pussy Galore titles before. I would have included those.
Love this episode! Zeppelin "Presence" Alice Copper "Killer" A bunch of GG Allin records so ridiculous I won't even write it here. Also " God Bless Tiny Tim" just a few of my faves. Judas Priest " Point of Entry" Dont even know what that means. 👍 Once again Fithen
Great idea for a post! I can't believe REO's "You Can Tune A Piano..." didn't make your list. But seriously, folks . . . Re: Intensities in 10 Cities, it would have been repetitive to include most of the hits you mentioned, as they'd just been on his Gonzo live album 3 years before. But agreed - great title. Other titles I like: The Wonder Stuff - The Eight-Legged Groove Machine. Love this as a debut album title. Two albums later they'd add a 5th member, thus making the "8 Legged" part obsolete. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder. It was just something that, at the time, made me wonder "what is that about", and made me want to hear it and find out. Pretty bold. Two Kinks titles: (1) Face to Face - I just love the multiple possible meanings which could be applied to its collection of songs. It brought you face to face with the songs' various characters. Or, it was like a camera, moving from face to face of each of the characters. (2) Schoolboys In Disgrace - another title that just made me wanna get the album and find out what the hell it was about. The cover image didn't hurt either; any young boy coming across this one in the album racks thought "this looks like a pisser".
@@RobertFithen It won't make you forget "Tommy" or "The Wall" any time soon, but it is a clean, simple, entertaining narrative with some pretty good songs to boot (save one, "Education", which imo goes on way too long). Plus, it's semi-biographical, as it's based on when schoolboy Dave got his girlfriend pregnant. It also exposed barbaric British headmasters in song ("Headmaster", "The Hard Way") years before Pink Floyd or The Smiths did.
I’ve wondered about the title of Revolver. In my mind it’s a play on words. This was the time when the Beatles were changing their sound. I know people say they had two parts of their band history, but I’ve always thought of it as three; The early stuff, the later stuff and a small transitional two album period. The title Rubber Soul sounds like a beginning of a change. Change to the core. They were still evolving when they put out Revolver. But their sound went deeper than Rubber Soul. They evolved there and when they went deeper they revolved (or evolved again) for the sound they were looking for. I think after the debacle with the “We’re more popular than Jesus…” remark by John, I think they just didn’t want to use the word evolve. Not a popular word in the Bible Belt. I don’t know if that’s true or I just pulled that out of my butt, but that is my hypothesis.
Hi Robert, I dig your rants. My pals and I would go on like this back in the 20th century, which was a lot of fun. An album that reminds me of the early to mid 70’s the most is Rod Stewart’s, Never A Dull Moment from 1972 (I’m sure you’re probably familiar with this album). It was more organic than the T.Rex/Ringo big band boogaloo production style that was part of a lot of British music of that day. We would put this album on while working on the car in the yard, hearing great attitude from Ron Wood’s guitar. Anyways, appreciate the rants, keep them coming!
You’re Never Alone With a Schizophrenic by Ian Hunter. Good album too.
Great selections! Not many can pronounce that Dead album title…I sure can’t. Live at Cook County is a good album, so is Night hawks. My fave title is Lowell George’s “Thanks, I’ll Eat it Here”.
"Intensities In 10 Cities", which also happens to be one of my all-time favorite album titles, is one of the few live albums that is not a "greatest hits live" package but a collection of previously unreleased songs recorded live in concert. That's why none of the hits are there. Ten songs, each one recorded in a different city, hence the album title. Not a huge favorite of mine, but I like it. Guitar World magazine placed it at the 9th spot in their "10 of the best live albums every rock fan needs to hear" list.
Two other album titles that I love are Rush's "Moving Pictures" because of its triple entendre with the cover and back cover art, and Frank Zappa's "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch", because that's what the minimalistic drawing on the album cover represents.
Absolutely loved this. Brilliant observations and sequencing. Especially loved Nobody Cares and In Your Face. I didn’t get IYF until you pointed it out and then I laughed out loud.
You mentioned ring wear a couple of times. The band "The Explorers Club" released a couple of albums with pre-installed ring wear. "Grand Hotel" and "Freedom Wind".
As a kid I got in trouble for saying either sex pistols or never mind the...
I love numbers: Bee Gees' 1st, Van Halen II, Black Sabbath's Vol. 4, even Stone Temple Pilots No. 4, and don't let me talk about Led Zeppelin... but my all-time favorite is ''Penis Envy'' by Crass.
That Ted Nugent live album was the worst... the worst idea ever, release a live album of all unreleased tracks... I wonder why nobody hasn't done that before, or since...
Neil Young did: Time fades away, one of his best records.
Zero Tolerance For Silence - A great album title from Pat Metheny. But the worst album I've ever heard. It's astounding how anybody could be that good, yet produce such drek.
Physical Graffiti - A great title, great cover, and great music
I googled weird album titles. I found one I think you'll like. Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick.
Some of my favorites:
The Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People
Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls For Rock N Roll
Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven (I could include most of their album titles)
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
Big Black - Songs About F***ing
The Dwarves - Blood, Guts, and P****
My favorite Flaming Lips title is Hit To Death In The Future Head. In A Priest is my favorite of their albums.
I almost used some of those. Great list.
Great Video! Actually, "Hell Bent For Leather!" was the title of Frankie Laine's Columbia album that had "Rawhide" on it, along with other gunfighter and cowboy songs.
I have it. Lol
Scary Monsters(and Super Creeps). Kingdom Come sux.
Some personal favorites:
"You Bought It -- You Name It" by Joe Walsh (Is it any good? I've never heard it)
"Psonic Psunspot" by The Dukes Of Stratosphear
"A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing" and "Kimono My House" by Sparks
"Our Personal Favorite World-Famous Hits" by Daniel Amos (Never heard of them? That's why the title is funny)
I think the last lime I ever heard anyone called a snot was in 1986 when my boss called me one because, apparently, I was being a smart aleck.
"A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing" should have been on my list.
my dad had an original of that Stones album. i later bought the 8 track of Sticky Fingers
Ry cooder jazz is a trad jazz lp
A great sonic recording of music that I cant stand listening too
Spooky Tooth-You broke my heart so I busted your jaw.
Pure Prairie League-Live Takin the Stage.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Not Fragile
J Geils Band-Blow Your Face Out.
ZZ Top-Tres Hombres.
Rolling Stones-Voodoo Lounge.
Kansas-Leftoverture.
Poison-Look What the Cat Dragged In.
Little Feat-Feats Don't Fail Me Now.
The Outlaws-Bring It Back Alive.
Dr.Hook-Sloppy Seconds.
Ac/Dc-Ballbreaker.
Frank Zappa-Sheik Yerbouti.
Black Oak Arkansas-Raunch n Roll.
Great list! I've heard that "Not Fragile" was a response to the Yes album "Fragile" and the guys from BTO said that rock music should never be described as "fragile".
Songs About Fuc*ing By Big Black is a title guaranteed to not get your record stocked at Walmart. El Pintor by Interpol is clever ( LP & Tour ) & love the 8 track !
How about The Halfer Trio album F- - k? Has a pretty in-your-face cover as well.
"A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing" has always been a favorite. Enjoyed this video.
favorite "Fire of Unknown Origin" title and album
I blew out a pair of speakers with it.
needed an up grade anyway
My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair... But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows by Tyrannosaurus Rex was always a favorite long title of mine.
That's a great title!
Kingdom Come - In Your Face is probably the fave of many of us when it came out. just wrong but not at the same time. its like a running joke with a friend of mine.
Good video! Especially liked your recreation of the Whos Next album cover!!! The next dog who passes that tree will go crazy!!!
Let me add: Black with Sugar, The Bill Black Combo, McLemore Avenue Booker T and The MG's, Historical Figures And Ancient Heads, Canned Heat , Edgar Winter's White Trash - Roadwork , Elvis Presley - 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong , Emo Philips - E=MO² , Grand Funk Railroad - E Pluribus Funk ,...................................can i come back...............just thru the G!
1. Take your Pants off and Jacket by Blink 182. Not a big fan of the band but that title is awesome.
2. Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins by Sparks
Talk about back skipping jukeboxes, in the Seventies at college, there was a Seeburg machine in the Student Union snack bar that repeated "Misty Blue" by Dorothy Moore. There was always some joker in the crowd who deliberately picked the tune. It was a nice song, but not fifteen times in a row. Problem solved by unpluging the jukebox.
Rocket From The Crypt "Scream, Dracula, Scream!"
Jesus and Mary Chain "Psychocandy"
Sturgill Simpson "Metamodern Sounds In Country Music"
The Godfathers "Birth, School, Work, Death"
You beat me to that essay of a title to that Fiona Apple album.
REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish
The Didjits have two of the best imho with "Que Sirhan Sirhan" and " Full Nelson Reilly".
"Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash" - The Replacements
The follow-up was "The Replacements Stink"
Some great album titles: Metamatic; Life's Hard and Then You Die; The Golden Age of Wireless; A Walk Across the Rooftops; Little Earthquakes
I have to add We’re only in it for the money
The Smoker You Drink the Player You Get - Joe Walsh and ...
The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon - Sopwith Camel
this is the best video you have ever made. thank you.
I also like Chumbawamba "Never mind the Ballots... Here's the rest of your life". Also "Pictures of starving children sell records" was a thought-provoking title.
I am a huge 13th Floor Elevators and Roky fan, but I always thought the occasional misspelling making Elevator singular sounds better.
"13th Floor Elevator"
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend Robert ❤😊 also my favorite year from the 2010s is 201p 2010 to be honest ❤😊
Henrietta Collins and the Wife-beating Childhaters- "Drive By Shooting"..an EP from Henry Rollins.
Some cracking titles there Robert.
A few others I like are Musta Notta Gotta Lotta by Joe Ely,Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room by Dwight Yoakam and Script For A Jesters Tear by Marillion
Alright Robert. Great video. It could have gone on a lot longer. How about Captain Beefheart’s Lick My Decals off Baby!
I remember being put off by The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majusties Request. Because it said Satanic on the album. But in December of 2017, I ordered the 50th anniversary edition with the lenticular cover. My 2 most favorite songs are Citadel and She's A Rainbow.
I gotta say that Wings Venus and Mars is a cool album title.
Ever heard of The James Gang - Bang?
By chance I recently found Tangerine Dream by the british Kalaidoscope (the US band was awsome, too) and was surprised about the high quality of this.
GREAT titles Robert, would add "Ride the Lightning" Metallica and Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction "Tattooed Beat Messiah"
Veruca Salt's first 3 album names were kind of fun homages to classic songs/albums: American Thighs, Eight Arms to Hold You and Resolver.
Cunning Stunts by Caravan 😛
Can't think who recorded it (Camper Van Beethoven?), but I seem to remember a live album called Their Best Songs Played Too Fast.
My favorite title is “Eat A Peach” from the Allman Brothers Band, both because it’s a tribute to the then-recently deceased Duane Allman, and because I personally love peaches 😂
I'm sure someone has already pointed out that
"At the Mountains of Madness" is an H.P. Lovecraft story title.
I think it's also the title of the band "H.P. Lovecraft"
second album.
H.P. Lovecraft has to be the most rock band pilfered author.
How about Kinks' "Give The People What They Want". Or "Rhyme Pays"?
I agree with the Moody Blues title “On the Threshold of a Dream.” My fav BOC title is Fire of Unknown Origin. Another one of my fav titles is Marilyn Manson’s Golden Age of Grotesque. And I never realized what was going on in that WHO’s Next cover😂
favorite "Fire of Unknown Origin" title and album
I blew out a pair of speakers with it.
loved this. I have bought album's just for the title, and cover Pearl Harbiur Don't follow me I'm loss too, Nina Hagen Nunsexmonkrock. Also you need to listen to the lamb lies down on broadway just once great live lp.
Houses Of the Holy and Physical Graffiti are great names….and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is a cool nabe.
Great video! One of my favorites is Love's Forever Changes - another classic blend of band name and album title (as love does forever change...), although not as seriously hilarious and amusing as the Kingdom Come album.
"You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish"-REO Speedwagon and "You bought it, you name it"-Joe Walsh
I saw Ted Nugent on the Intensities In 10 Cities tour. It sucked! They played way too much from that album which also sucked. Not sure who was singing at that time, I think it was just Ted. (I just checked and Charlie Huhn was still in the band but he couldn't save the show for me)
My favorite is Alice Donut - Dry Humping the Cash Cow. I've never heard the record, but I love that title.
Another jukebox story, back in the late 60’s we used to eat at this White Castle in Jersey City. They had these mini jukebox’s on the counter. The b side of Sunshine of your Love “SWLABR” would stick right in the instrumental section of the song. We would play it and sit there eating and watch as one by one people would realize something was wrong. It would go on for 5 to 10 minutes sometimes.
The backskipping song at Waffle House was Rosanne Cash "Seven Year Ache" during the instrumental section, too.
I'm a big fan of the Ohio Players (music and album covers) and I think the entire package for 'Everybody Up' is my all time favorite. The album cover is pretty much typical for the Ohio Players, then you have the photo of the band on the inside of the gatefold, and to cap it off the music is incredible.
Jeez. I can't figure out why so many people like Radiohead. That's one of the few bands I walked out on.
Horrible band. Worse than Coldplay and REM 😅
@kissterio it was at ACL Festival in like 2016 I think. Die Antwoord was there too, so I actually walked off during multiple bands. At least we had Willie Nelson that weekend!
I thought I liked OK Computer (maybe because I heard so many UA-camrs tell me that it was."mind-blowing"), but last time I listened to it I was not impressed. Will probably have to listen to it again.
Santana's "Borboletta" is definitely a weird album title. What does that mean anyways? 🤔😂
Talking Heads-Fear Of Music, The Jesus and Mary Chain-Hate Rock and Roll are 2
Loads of fun. An album title that always make me laugh when I hear it (or think of it to be honest) is Marilyn Manson’s “Smells Like Children.” I suppose it is one that works a bit better if you see the cover art, which is hilariously weird. And I know Marilyn Manson is on the cancel list now. But since I was never a listener of his, I don’t care.
Thirteen floor . . . Always found this group's name odd as this, and its multiples are where a building's machinery is located.
Good titles Robert, great Frankie Laine maybe do Wanted Man next, I've seen help bent for leather live many times my fav first priest album title, Stained Class also another good title Three Sides To Every Story by Extreme
Golden earring- Moontan , Slade - stomp,your hands and clap,your feet. Ten Years After - a space in time
You've missed the best one: 'Val Doonican Rocks - But Gently'.
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Type o Negative - Orgin of The Feces
Ha, I was just explaining the Satanic Majesties title to someone yesterday.
That's an amazing point about Revolver, wow. Always something spinning.
Sinatra getting emo, haha.
WOAH, that Dead Boys 8-track is RARE! Definitely one I'd love to find. Love that album.
Revolver has always reminded me of a Smith and Wesson revolver. Never thought about it being a spinning record.
In refrence to your Revolver comment. If you think about it old hard drives spun in a circular fashion up until SSD drives and now the music no longer revolves. The original iPod had that circular pad on the front you spun around to navigate.
LOL, yeah, snotty is a great word that needs to be brought back. Combine it with another favorite word of mine - snotty git. I prefer the Grateful Dead's album title Steal Your Face, although that recording has generally been plagued by sibilance. I think my favorite Zappa album title is Waka Jawaka. I just love saying it. And I love the Coil album title, Queens of the Circulating Library.
I've read that they initially wanted to name the "Steal Your Face" album "Head Fuck" but there's no way Warner Bros. would allow that.
Sheik Yer Bouti and Weasels Ripped My Flesh by Zappa.
Awesome. Sum 41- Does This Look Infected?
Hi Infidelity has always been one of mine :-)
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
One of mine, (the) Faces "A Nod's as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse".
Some of these are songs & some are 78s. I dig way back.
I'd Rather Kiss A Fish - The Casters
Ode To Sensible Wiley - Kurt Wellness
Your Mama Don't Dance And Your Daddy Married A Bowlegged Ballerina - Leggins & Mossina
True Blue When Convenient - The Politicos
The Xmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) - Not King Cole
Like Playing Soccer With Handcuffs On (I Wouldn't Have Touched It Anyway) - The Never Minds
Don't Knock Me Down Till I've Danced - The Goof Offs
Stardust.. And Other (Non-Platinum Hits) - The Curmudgeons
Whale of A Whiskey - Happy All The Time Barbershop Quartet
Burnt Flapjacks Again - Surry I. Married
Crooked Teeth Kinfolk - The Possum Pickers
Have he run out of of comedy material? The hot sause, covered in whip cream, and Twas The Night Before Christmas poem wasn't bad. Whatever became of the Jeff Wicher videos? He really put a lot into them with his Deep Dives. I guess it's hard to average tens of thousands of views on here. It helps if you are a good looking woman. Lp collectors need 5,000 lps as much as they need 5,000 scissors. Only having just one lifetime don't cut it. They need more lifetimes to listen to all those lps they foolishly bought, enough times to really get into them.
I was thinking of "Selling England by the Pound" for Genesis.
"White Sport Coat and"Pink Crustacean" (which I'm not sure is a album) from someone i don't like.
"Lark Toungues in Aspic" deserves mentioning.
"Everyone's got a Family, Meet Mine" is a good title to a good album by Johnny Paycheck.
"Armed and Crazy" is another very descriptive Johnny Paycheck album title.
robert i have some titles for you."expressway to your skull"by buddy miles 1968,"you broke my heart so i busted your jaw"by spooky tooth1970,"lick my decals off baby"by captain beefheart and his magic band1970,"you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish"byREO speedwagon 1978,snake rattle &roll"by crawler 1978,"screeming for vengence" by judas priest 1982 and "if i can do it all over again i'll do it all over you" by caravan 1971
I had never heard of the Caravan one before. I would have listed that one.
Yo La Tango. "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass."
I've always liked album titles that kind of sum up, or evoke what the album sounds like, but also just sound cool. Maybe some examples would be:
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (They were also great with alliteration, like Between The Buttons and Beggars Banquet)
Neil Young - Ragged Glory
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Nirvana - Bleach
Tad - God's Balls
Flaming Lips - Hear It Is (also Clouds Taste Metallic)
And garage rockers The Gories have 1 of the coolest album titles: I Know You Fine, But How You Doin'
Those are great titles.
Intensities in 10 Cities was a live album of new material, not including the cover songs.
Spooky Tooth - You broke my heart, so... I busted your jaw.
Also Missing Persons - Spring Session M, which is an anagram to the band's name.
I had no idea that's why that Missing Persons album was called that.
@@RobertFithen You're welcome!
You Broke My Heart So ... I Busted Your Jaw by Spooky Tooth
I’ve always liked the Joe Walsh album title: The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get
I forgot that one.
In Your Face is actually a pretty good album!
The Tell tale hearts: Big Noses and Pizza Faces. Classic.
Ohhh! This is a fun game
Cradle of Filth’s “Bitter Suites to Succubi” is an awesome album title. You may not like the music (I do), but that title is awesome!
It is!
Surprised Walmart would have Damn..
I thought it would be too vulgar for them.
I think they stopped selling/ demanding censored albums when the financial flowcharts came back.
The Rain Parade title came from these little yellow plastic signs you see in the BART train stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Something to do with the third rail of the train. Matt Piucci got it directly from that. And that Ted Nugent album (which I've also never heard) is like REM's New Adventures in Hi-Fi. It's an album of all new material recorded live on tour, hence none of the classics.
[Edit: looks like someone beat me to that last great nugget of knowledge!]
I always heard the third rail was the one the had the power so if you came in contact with it, you would be severely shocked.
@@RobertFithen That's exactly right
Why is the Who's Next cover "hilarious"?
I like your videos but i just wonder you have many albums that the cover are in bad shape, lots of ringwear osv, do you buy them used or what, whats the story behind that?, fan from Norway. 😆😆😉
The Judas Priest and Santana albums, I've had since the 90's and bought them for around $1. The record inside is in great condition.
Don't you just love it when there's an album title you like for reasons you simply can't explain? Those are my favorites.
Here are some that I like (warning - long list):
-Green Day: "1,039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours"
-Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Return of the Dream Canteen" and "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan"
-Blink-182: "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" 🛫👖🧥
-R.E.M.: "Automatic For The People"
-Pavement: "Slanted and Enchanted" and "Terror Twilight"
-Yo La Tengo: "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass" and "New Wave Hot Dogs"
-Sonic Youth: "Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star"
-The Fall: "Hex Enduction Hour" and "Live at the Witch Trials"
-Oasis: "Definitely Maybe"
-Blur: "Modern Life is Rubbish"
-The Verve: "A Storm in Heaven"
-Metz: "Up On Gravity Hill"
-The Chats: "Get F*cked"
Great list. I remember reading somewhere that the Sonic Youth title was supposed to describe the members of the band.
@@RobertFithen Is that true? Here I thought that title was just a bunch of words that sounded cool together!
Another fun fact about that same album - supposedly, to save costs it was recorded over the master tapes of another Sonic Youth album (I believe it was "Sister"). Apparently, its quiet production means you can still hear parts of the old album in some places!
Going back to when I was just a kid. I always thought Razamanaz by Nazareth was silly sounding. Maybe that's why I liked that over Hair Of The Dog.
Another good one to bring up at a party is Oh No! It's Devo. Like suddenly the party became a huge let down by having Devo show up to ruin everyones fun.
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 have some bizarre names as well. My favorite is Wormed By Leonard. Like, what? But nothing tops their last album title. Just like that one you mentioned. It's just weirdness and way too long. Guess its more known as Bob Noodle. But the entire title is way too long. Of course I will get it wrong here...Larry & Bob Noodle Presents The Whatever The Hell They Called This Album And The Dirt Brown Band.
Not sure if video albums count, but how can you go wrong with Pussy Galore's Maximum Penetration? That even tops their album Dial M For Motherf***er (just incase)
But, and speaking of Butt. How about Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland. Or the censored cover with B***H*** Surfers instead. Never knew about it until I saw it on Letterman when they played Pepper. Because Dave showed the alternate cover to it.
You Axed For It - The Mentors
Death Won't Solve Your Problems - No Trend
The Amazing Underwater Adventures Of Aqua Kitty And Her Friends - Heavy Vegetable
Can't Stand - The Rezillos
The Third Reich & Roll - The Residents
668 The Neighbor Of The Beast - My Dog Popper
Cancer Planet Mission - Gaye Bikers On Acid
Something Green And Leafy This Way Comes - S.N.F.U.
Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death - Dead Kennedys
Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star - Sonic Youth
Stairway To Hamilton - B.A. Johnston
You're too good for recognition by the host.
Great list! I always liked that "Give Me Convenience..." title for a compilation. I'd never heard those Pussy Galore titles before. I would have included those.
Love this episode! Zeppelin "Presence" Alice Copper "Killer" A bunch of GG Allin records so ridiculous I won't even write it here. Also " God Bless Tiny Tim" just a few of my faves. Judas Priest " Point of Entry" Dont even know what that means. 👍 Once again Fithen
And Zeppelins In through the out door. I'm just saying
"Point of Entry" has an odd album cover in the US with a roll of computer paper laid out.
Saw this in my feed and knew what was#1! Awesome video!
Great idea for a post! I can't believe REO's "You Can Tune A Piano..." didn't make your list. But seriously, folks . . .
Re: Intensities in 10 Cities, it would have been repetitive to include most of the hits you mentioned, as they'd just been on his Gonzo live album 3 years before. But agreed - great title.
Other titles I like:
The Wonder Stuff - The Eight-Legged Groove Machine. Love this as a debut album title. Two albums later they'd add a 5th member, thus making the "8 Legged" part obsolete.
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder. It was just something that, at the time, made me wonder "what is that about", and made me want to hear it and find out. Pretty bold.
Two Kinks titles: (1) Face to Face - I just love the multiple possible meanings which could be applied to its collection of songs. It brought you face to face with the songs' various characters. Or, it was like a camera, moving from face to face of each of the characters. (2) Schoolboys In Disgrace - another title that just made me wanna get the album and find out what the hell it was about. The cover image didn't hurt either; any young boy coming across this one in the album racks thought "this looks like a pisser".
I always liked the title "Schoolboys In Disgrace", but still don't have the album. It's not easy to find.
@@RobertFithen It won't make you forget "Tommy" or "The Wall" any time soon, but it is a clean, simple, entertaining narrative with some pretty good songs to boot (save one, "Education", which imo goes on way too long). Plus, it's semi-biographical, as it's based on when schoolboy Dave got his girlfriend pregnant. It also exposed barbaric British headmasters in song ("Headmaster", "The Hard Way") years before Pink Floyd or The Smiths did.
I’ve wondered about the title of Revolver. In my mind it’s a play on words. This was the time when the Beatles were changing their sound. I know people say they had two parts of their band history, but I’ve always thought of it as three; The early stuff, the later stuff and a small transitional two album period. The title Rubber Soul sounds like a beginning of a change. Change to the core.
They were still evolving when they put out Revolver. But their sound went deeper than Rubber Soul. They evolved there and when they went deeper they revolved (or evolved again) for the sound they were looking for. I think after the debacle with the “We’re more popular than Jesus…” remark by John, I think they just didn’t want to use the word evolve. Not a popular word in the Bible Belt.
I don’t know if that’s true or I just pulled that out of my butt, but that is my hypothesis.
Sounds good to me.
Sounds like a little too much reading into things.
Atmosphere. "when life gives you lemons you turn that shit into gold."
lol I wasn't familiar with that one.
❤ aliens ate my Buick T Dolby😂
Thank you Robert.
Hi Robert, I dig your rants. My pals and I would go on like this back in the 20th century, which was a lot of fun. An album that reminds me of the early to mid 70’s the most is Rod Stewart’s, Never A Dull Moment from 1972 (I’m sure you’re probably familiar with this album). It was more organic than the T.Rex/Ringo big band boogaloo production style that was part of a lot of British music of that day. We would put this album on while working on the car in the yard, hearing great attitude from Ron Wood’s guitar. Anyways, appreciate the rants, keep them coming!