Greatest Album Title Of All Time?

[Brandon Burke]

My #1 vote goes to...

Kramer - Let Me Explain Something to You About Art

Honorable mention: Halfway to a Threeway by Jim O'Rourke

[Big Al]

Electric Larryland - Butthole Surfers

[Big Al]

Joe Maneri: Let the Horse Go & Get To Receive Yourself

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Uh, Steve, you feelin' alright? I mean, I hate to point this out, but this is sorta like Lucy reminding Schroeder that he missed Beethoven's birthday....

[clifford_thornton]

Man B, that is a good one - the cover says it all!

And for the Gibby Haynes fanatics out there, lest we forget "Hairway to Steven!"

Edited May 20, 2005 by clifford_thornton

[Aggie87]

A couple from the rock world:

REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get

Joe Walsh - You Bought It, You Name It

Chicago - Chicago VIII

(*self dignity preservation mode on* I own none of these, by the way)

[Shawn]

Butthole Surfers - Cream Corn In The Socket Of Davis

C.O.C. - America's Volume Dealer

Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

King's X - Please Come Home Mr. Bulbous

[AllenLowe]

personally, I like: "Lonesome and Dead" -

[Noj]

Portishead - Dummy

Beck - Odelay

...and how 'bout:

[joeface]

this is the topper for me, only because of how the album title completes the band name

band name: I Farm

album title: So My Kids Won't Have to

[nemo7]

jackie-o motherfucker

alchemy-shit to gold

[Gary]

Rather rude

[Chuck Nessa]

Sorry to get "serious" but I think Roscoe Mitchell's "Sound" kills the funny stuff.

[Johnny E]

I'm kinda fond of David Crosby's "If I could Only Remember My Name"

Also,

Neil Young - "Everyone Knows This is Nowhere"

Grateful Dead - "Aoxomoxoa"

Jimi Hendrix - "Axis: Bold as Love"

Jefferson Airplane - "After Bathing at Baxter's"

Psychedelic rock bands tended to have good ones.

[Alexander Hawkins]

Taking Chuck's serious cue, I think as statements of intent, alongside 'Sound', 'This is Our Music' and 'Change of the Century' are hard to beat...

My unhelpful suggestion: McClusky's 'The Difference Between You and Me is that I'm not on Fire' is pretty good.

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, Sound is a wonderful album title - especially considering the era and the aesthetic the AACM were going for. Also good is Levels and Degrees of Light (which, by the way, is a motherfucker of a record). Other serious(ly) good album titles:

Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman

Frank Wright - Uhuru Na Umoja

Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes

And I've always been slayed by Afrodisiaca - both the title and the cover concept, not to mention the music...

[JSngry]

Sound is indeed one TuffAss title.

[Alexander Hawkins]

Also good is Levels and Degrees of Light (which, by the way, is a motherfucker of a record).

Too right - listening to it right now, and it's incredible. I love Muhal's piano playing.

[gslade]

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned

Alan Shorter Orgasm yet

[Chuck Nessa]

Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes

For some silly reason I've always referred to this record as "In Tents With Porpoises".

This thread inspired me to play said Dixon date.

[AmirBagachelles]

Live Dead

[JSngry]

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned

Alan Shorter Orgasm yet

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Another TuffAss title.

[JSngry]

Tuff Ass Jazz now has some serious competition:

[Kalo]

Great find.

Love the label name: Soul-Tay-Shus Records!

[mjzee]

Roscoe Mitchell - More Cutouts

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People

Marshall Crenshaw - Mary Jean & 9 Others

Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure

John Scofield - Shinola

and, of course, Chicago XIV

[Jazzmoose]

Roscoe Mitchell - More Cutouts

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People

Marshall Crenshaw - Mary Jean & 9 Others

Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure

John Scofield - Shinola

and, of course, Chicago XIV

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Sorry, but Pure Pop for Now People is totally ineligible since the original title Jesus of Cool is superior in every way.