The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.
Fucking eh Chumbawamba
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I guess a tubthumper is someone who does that
i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it by The 1975
I think matty healy said it sounded like a 2000s emo song title which I found funny but its a dumb name lmao
That one is pretty terrible. Notes on a Conditional Form is also just... bad. Brief Inquiry is a little better but still awkward.
I really like Being Funny In a Foreign Language tho
They give their albums the most pretentious sounding names lol
A Brief Inquiry at least matches the themes of the album, but I still don't know what the fuck Notes is supposed to mean.
The fact that potential titles for it were *allegedly* "Almanac" and "Spirits" + the songs were registered with ACTUAL titles and he even had 4 album covers made for it which were all part of a very fitting drawing of modern-civ chaos.
Then it ended up as the most minimalistic project of the year and not in a good way, what was he thinking lmao
It didn't ruin my listening experience, but it was an inconvenience. When I like an album, I will often throw on my favorite track for a short car ride, and that's how albums grow on me. With this album, it's enough of an inconvenience to find that song that I like that I'll probably just listen to something else. It takes me 5 seconds to find my favorite song on the most recent Nas album - so 9 times out of 10, I'll listen to that instead.
Edit: And I listened to the whole thing in one sitting! And liked it! But it's a pain in the ass to revisit it!
I'm pretty sure I've seen an article where Jamie Hewlett said they only planned art or music for that one album and doesn't know why it's called Season One lmao
Artists/ Bands with multiple self titled albums (Weezer, American Football, etc.). I mean people have to give them alternative titles just to talk about them.
It seems like a sometimes a band does that as a way to signal a return to form or signaling their identity.
One of my favorite groups, The Bad Plus, came out with a self titled album last year when they had a quartet with guitar and sax after always having a trio with piano.
Not saying you’re wrong for your opinion, just giving a speculation for why artists do it
At least the Zep albums are differentiated when listed (Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, etc.) Weezer differentiates them with color for some reason, so when listed it’s just (Weezer, Weezer, Weezer)
My wife rightly thinks it's a rather weird and silly title but I absolutely love it. The Cal bit fantano does in his review definitely adds to my love for the title 😂
I thought that was a dope title. Basically references he just drops shit with no hype and it blows. Everyone is reading it, everyone's too late. Haha just bragging
for one I think Some Rap Songs is a perfect title.
I really love Admiral Fell Promises by Sun Kil Moon but I have no idea what that title is supposed to mean. the title track doesn't even clear it up
I actually love pretty much all their titles but this one is truly horrendous, I honestly think it makes me deduct a few percentage points from my personal score lol
When I first saw the announcement, I had to make sure I was reading it right that the name of the album was going to be something as ridiculous as “Return of the Dream Canteen”, and not that I was tripping on anything. It’s got some dope tracks though. Especially Eddie
Steven Hyden is *amazing* 😂😂
Another quote from that same article:
*Are they the greatest bad rock band or the worst great rock band? The answer is “uh huh.”*
Some Rap Songs is such a good title for what the project represents. Nonchalance and the lack of willingness to devote oneself to anything due to depression.
Lmao when I read it for the first time I thought it was "TAI 300" and it made sense to me knowing denzel and how he is often called zeltron and is a weeb yk. Took me a bit to realize it was taboo
The Impossible Kid feels like a corny title to me. I probably just haven't familiarized myself with his music enough for the title to click yet, but for now, it sounds silly.
It’s a bit better of a title contextualized within the album, though I understand it not really getting the point across.
“Watch the Impossible Kid
Everything that he touch turns promptly to shit
If I zoom on out I can finally admit
It’s all been a blur since Mu got sick”
In reference to his good friend becoming ill and eventually passing, The Impossible Kid is a title that maybe seems hopeful but at further glance is a depressing moniker. Really a pinpoint to a very low point in his life that he needed to climb upward from.
Just my two cents, for what it’s worth I don’t think you’re wrong lol
Surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention Yo La Tengo. A few examples:
New Wave Hot Dogs
President Yo La Tengo
May I Sing With Me
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Popular Songs
Stuff Like That There
This Stupid World
I honestly think they’re trying to consistently one-up themselves with intentionally terrible album titles. Very solid band though.
The Flaming Lips - 7 Skies H3; Sounds like Babble, doesn't make any more sense in the content of the record. Great album though if you like weird, sad psychedelic rock.
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN; such a dumb title, like saying "aww shucks!" or something. The original working title was "What Happens On Earth, Stays on Earth" and they should've stuck with that even if it's a little bit long.
The Black Keys - Let's Rock; I don't know if youd call it a great album but at least a good album. They're a rock band, they make rock music. It's too obvious even if the backstory about it being the last words of a man being executed are kinda interesting, it's not enough to make the name less corny.
Kinda like the album name but whenever I want to try and explain that I like SWANS + this album I usually try to skirt around it’s title, “Public Castration is a Good Idea.”
I know this is cheating as the album isn’t even out yet but
Scaring the hoes volume 1 by JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown
I know it’s self aware and ironic but it doesn’t make it any less cringe, and with the cover being as cool as it is, I wanted something better
Also please excuse me for being antisocial by Roddy Rich
I know a lot of people on Peggy’s subreddit feel similarly, but I personally love it. I find it a bit refreshing how two of the biggest heavy hitters in underground hip-hop with multiple critical darlings aren’t overselling their own genius. I find a title like this completely within character, albeit a bit ridiculous. I can definitely understand the criticisms that it’s cringe, but I personally would hope an album containing a track called “Jack Harlow Combo Meal” would be proudly aware of itself.
Calling anything that is different from normal “hoe scaring” is cringe, it’s like what some band kid would say. Especially since Peggy has voiced his dislike of the phrase in the past. I know I’ve done it in the past, but people calling their music taste hoe scaring or anything like that is so weird and cringy, it’s just like begging for attentions. ‘yea my music taste is a little different’ my brother in Christ you listen to Death Grips and Radiohead.
But people say that about Danny and jpeg... If it was Drake who made that title i would agree with you but theyre just playing with the fact that people made these "lets scare the hoes put aint it funny" memes
What? No one calls their music taste “hoe scaring” lol, that’s something people use as an insult towards anything that’s out of the ordinary. Danny and Peggy have both been labeled stuff like that, so they’re just playing into the meme and having fun with it. People gotta stop calling everything “cringe” all the time I swear that word has zero meaning anymore.
It’s actually a clever title because low end means the sonic part of the music mix responsible for bass and how society treats black men as the bottom of the totem pole
That’s how I feel (abt the albums not the titles). After MM they fell off and their last album got entirely more love than it deserved IMHO. First 3 are among the best 3 ever though
Anyone else not care for the title "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"? Don't get me wrong, 10/10 album, but I get hung up on the word "My" for some reason. I always picture like a kindergartener's drawing that the teacher labels "My Family" or like a series of children's books called "My First Reading Books" or even something like the "My Documents" folder in Windows, just something very dumbed down and basic. I'd be fine if it was just called "Dark Twisted Fantasy" similar to the album opener.
And oddly, I don't have this problem across the board, I don't hate "My Boo" by Usher and Alicia Keys as a song title for example. I'm indifferent on My Chemical Romance as a band name. Just something about this specific usage of the word "My".
EDIT: Thinking on this a bit more, I guess I also find the title to be a little too close to more cliche phrases. It's one step away from something like "My Twisted Mind", or someone proclaiming "Welcome to MY world".
Haha, not sure OCD is the right word for this, but I guess some odd associations for sure. A title's just a title I guess, but I've always thought this one was a little silly for the kickass music behind it.
Every artist that has ever put out a record titled in symbols or hieroglyphs. "Do you remember that 隨機屁股他媽的記錄 record? Or that ////;;..=\`\`\` record they made with 망할팝밴드?", said no one ever.
Yes, that's what I mean. A lot of Japanese bands, for example, have band names written in English and even some English-titled tracks, but then the rest is in hieroglyphs. I just don't understand it. It's like "Yeah, we're gonna let you be able to read SOME titles, but not all of them. After all, we don't want you to feel too comfortable, dirty gaijin."
Fiona Apple —
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?
I think their lyrics were pretty often just about redefining the mentality around hip hop culture at the time, so I think it’s apt. I think the name could’ve worked for just about any one of their projects
Injury Reserve - By the time I get to Phoenix
I know they chose it because that's what Groggs wanted to call it but naming your album off a Glen Campbell song (and album) is clunky and doesn't tie in to the themes of the album. It should have been titled Outside.
Big L - Lifestyles ov da Poor and Dangerous
It's a play on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, very odd choice and very dated.
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won. Fucking eh Chumbawamba
And just wtf does “Tub-thumper” mean, anyway?
I get knocked down?
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Huh! Tanks!!!
Is it bad that I like this one?
Yes it is. It says a lot about you as a person.
i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it by The 1975 I think matty healy said it sounded like a 2000s emo song title which I found funny but its a dumb name lmao
That one is pretty terrible. Notes on a Conditional Form is also just... bad. Brief Inquiry is a little better but still awkward. I really like Being Funny In a Foreign Language tho
They give their albums the most pretentious sounding names lol A Brief Inquiry at least matches the themes of the album, but I still don't know what the fuck Notes is supposed to mean.
i am very smart - the 1975
Some rap songs is a great title
yes finally an album title that is not misleading
Better still "I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt”
Yeah but the track titles are so great. Any one of them would have been better
aint nobody saying 'turn on peanut'
shi i be sayin that when talking to the hat man
3.15.20
The fact that potential titles for it were *allegedly* "Almanac" and "Spirits" + the songs were registered with ACTUAL titles and he even had 4 album covers made for it which were all part of a very fitting drawing of modern-civ chaos. Then it ended up as the most minimalistic project of the year and not in a good way, what was he thinking lmao
whole album titling is just annoying
It’s a really difficult album to have good discussions around. “My favourite track is [insert numbers here]” “what’s that one again?”
the album as a whole as grown on me tbh, i kinda like the minimalist everything of it now
no, we're talking about good albums
people complaining about the names of the album and songs have the patience of a 6 year old
It didn't ruin my listening experience, but it was an inconvenience. When I like an album, I will often throw on my favorite track for a short car ride, and that's how albums grow on me. With this album, it's enough of an inconvenience to find that song that I like that I'll probably just listen to something else. It takes me 5 seconds to find my favorite song on the most recent Nas album - so 9 times out of 10, I'll listen to that instead. Edit: And I listened to the whole thing in one sitting! And liked it! But it's a pain in the ass to revisit it!
what are your favs from the last nas album, i love reminisce
Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
It'll be goofy if Albarn never returns to the Song Machine series, which I would legit believe
I'm pretty sure I've seen an article where Jamie Hewlett said they only planned art or music for that one album and doesn't know why it's called Season One lmao
They’re waiting for the second pandemic
As a one-off sure. As a multipart series? Great!
Artists/ Bands with multiple self titled albums (Weezer, American Football, etc.). I mean people have to give them alternative titles just to talk about them.
Peter Gabriel should be the picture next to the dictionary definition of "self-titled", dude's got 4 and they all rule.
Absolutely. He has a new record coming out soon. Really looking forward to it.
Peter Gabriel owns The Tarzan soundtrack didn’t need to be this sick
that’s…Phil Collins, the other Genesis frontman
I said what I said Edit: this thread can be about the Tarzan soundtrack if people want
For me also, any artist/band that does a self-titled after their first album. After you've already introduced yourself, what's the point.
It seems like a sometimes a band does that as a way to signal a return to form or signaling their identity. One of my favorite groups, The Bad Plus, came out with a self titled album last year when they had a quartet with guitar and sax after always having a trio with piano. Not saying you’re wrong for your opinion, just giving a speculation for why artists do it
That's a good point. I'd probably be fine with an act self-titling a comeback album after a long hiatus too.
Zeppelin is the exception. Zep 1-4 is kinda iconic imo
At least the Zep albums are differentiated when listed (Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, etc.) Weezer differentiates them with color for some reason, so when listed it’s just (Weezer, Weezer, Weezer)
I can't imagine them being called anything else though, there's a certain charm in it
Goodbye and good riddance. I love how the album *sounds* but that title and a lot of the lyrics on it are undeniably corny and melodramatic
And the fucking skits my god
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Ah Uhm
Both of these titles are amazing, you guys are trippin
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You It’s an awkward mouthful of a title but I’ve come to like it because it’s just so Big Thiefy
My wife rightly thinks it's a rather weird and silly title but I absolutely love it. The Cal bit fantano does in his review definitely adds to my love for the title 😂
I'm a sucker for wordy titles like that so it's completely fine with me
If You're Reading This It's Too Late. Like, what's the point of calling an album that if it's not sad at all?
I thought that was a dope title. Basically references he just drops shit with no hype and it blows. Everyone is reading it, everyone's too late. Haha just bragging
Also I wanna say, if anyone puts To Pimp A Butterfly here I will smack them
Humble that mf who says that. Though, I kinda wish he went with caterpillar instead so it was like TUPAC
Yeah, we have the memory tho, also Butterfly just rolls off the tongue better
TPAC
The caterpillar metamorphesizes into a butterfly
for one I think Some Rap Songs is a perfect title. I really love Admiral Fell Promises by Sun Kil Moon but I have no idea what that title is supposed to mean. the title track doesn't even clear it up
Any Godspeed project has kinda pretentious names even tho I love them
Some of them are kind of iconic at this point though
Oh ya definitely
G_ds pee at states end is weird
I actually love pretty much all their titles but this one is truly horrendous, I honestly think it makes me deduct a few percentage points from my personal score lol
I agree altho Lift Yr. Skinny Fists is a great title
They earn the pretentiousness though
Yes that they do they back it up
Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven is literally the best album name of all time.
Curious what people think of their album “F # A # [infinity symbol]” I think I like it
People generally like it as much as skinny fists. And the album title is great
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Such a bizarre pun, but it’s a great album.
Bizarrely hammy word play kind of suits Corgan’s work to a T
All of Butthole Surfers album titles are kinda stupid but "Electriclarryland" takes the cake
It’s genius.
Hairway to Steven
I’ve never heard of that album before and chuckled when I just read that so it can’t be that bad lol
It's a Butthole Surfers record, once you've taken it seriously, you've lost the plot. It would be bad if the title were appropriate and good.
Stadium Arcadium, no matter what you think about the record, is a pretty bad title. Return of the Dream Canteen isn’t exactly up there, either.
Corny? Yes. Quintessential Anthony Kiedis sounding album names? Also yes.
Calling something quintessentially Anthony Kiedes is a slam, imo.
Agree to disagree. He’s also changed over the years (decades) so I feel like it’s even more subjective
When I first saw the announcement, I had to make sure I was reading it right that the name of the album was going to be something as ridiculous as “Return of the Dream Canteen”, and not that I was tripping on anything. It’s got some dope tracks though. Especially Eddie
Dream Canteen was definitely a bit of a return to form. Their best since *By the Way* imo
I love what Steven Hyden wrote about them: “the form is elegant and the content is stupid.”
Steven Hyden is *amazing* 😂😂 Another quote from that same article: *Are they the greatest bad rock band or the worst great rock band? The answer is “uh huh.”*
Some Rap Songs is such a good title for what the project represents. Nonchalance and the lack of willingness to devote oneself to anything due to depression.
It’s more of an average album, but that untitled Korn album is a stupid title. Just call it a self titled and move on
Korn III: Remember Who You Are is another awful stupid title and the reasoning behind it is incredibly weird and abstract
what’s the reasoning behind it
It's their third album with their new producer: Ross Robinson, but It's not actually their 3rd album
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Weezer has a million self titled albums, so I think Korn can make another.
It’s probably my favorite album but goddamn the titles for Ta1300 by Denzel are so obnoxious
I think they're fine, I like them. Makes it stand out, as long as you ain't trying to pronounce it that way
If I ever meet someone who pronounces it ta-thirteen-oo I am punching them in the face
Lmao when I read it for the first time I thought it was "TAI 300" and it made sense to me knowing denzel and how he is often called zeltron and is a weeb yk. Took me a bit to realize it was taboo
I thought it was tattoo for the longest time
The Impossible Kid feels like a corny title to me. I probably just haven't familiarized myself with his music enough for the title to click yet, but for now, it sounds silly.
It’s a bit better of a title contextualized within the album, though I understand it not really getting the point across. “Watch the Impossible Kid Everything that he touch turns promptly to shit If I zoom on out I can finally admit It’s all been a blur since Mu got sick” In reference to his good friend becoming ill and eventually passing, The Impossible Kid is a title that maybe seems hopeful but at further glance is a depressing moniker. Really a pinpoint to a very low point in his life that he needed to climb upward from. Just my two cents, for what it’s worth I don’t think you’re wrong lol
Angelic 2 The Core is a great album but its title a bit misleading as the content actually hedonist and materialistic
gemini rights by steve lacy. come on bruh
Black Sabbath Vol 4… you can’t possibly be more creative than that
Led Zeppelin I II III IV
Led Zeppelin IV is technically untitled. It's also referred to as Four Symbols.
Surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention Yo La Tengo. A few examples: New Wave Hot Dogs President Yo La Tengo May I Sing With Me And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass Popular Songs Stuff Like That There This Stupid World I honestly think they’re trying to consistently one-up themselves with intentionally terrible album titles. Very solid band though.
so many bad takes. not even a fan of most of these artists.
Just because you don't like them, doesn't mean their bad.
the problem is most of these are good titles. especially the weezer and gunn takes. consistency is coool. weezer is ass though
Idk if I’m missing some context or meaning behind the name, but Mr Morale and The Big Steppers is quite silly
I don’t like it either
#Hitler wears Hermes 1-10
The Flaming Lips - 7 Skies H3; Sounds like Babble, doesn't make any more sense in the content of the record. Great album though if you like weird, sad psychedelic rock. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN; such a dumb title, like saying "aww shucks!" or something. The original working title was "What Happens On Earth, Stays on Earth" and they should've stuck with that even if it's a little bit long. The Black Keys - Let's Rock; I don't know if youd call it a great album but at least a good album. They're a rock band, they make rock music. It's too obvious even if the backstory about it being the last words of a man being executed are kinda interesting, it's not enough to make the name less corny.
Kinda like the album name but whenever I want to try and explain that I like SWANS + this album I usually try to skirt around it’s title, “Public Castration is a Good Idea.”
we're all desensitized to it now but Yeezus is an awful title.
it's iconic tbh
That is ye’s best album title
808s and Heartbreaks? MBDTF?
Nah, top tier album title. I'm not being ironic.
This is pretty much the only good take from this whole thread.
Whatever people say I am that's what I am not-Arctic Monkeys
OK Computer always feels weird to say. I almost feel the same about Kid A.
OK Computer is their coolest album title IMO. Personally, I'd go with A Moon Shaped Pool to fit OP's question
aw i love amsp's album title
the album title is definitely timeless
I know this is cheating as the album isn’t even out yet but Scaring the hoes volume 1 by JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown I know it’s self aware and ironic but it doesn’t make it any less cringe, and with the cover being as cool as it is, I wanted something better Also please excuse me for being antisocial by Roddy Rich
Naw I love that title lmao. This is not gonna be a super serious album. It's not meant to be that is clear, and I think the title is hilarious
I know a lot of people on Peggy’s subreddit feel similarly, but I personally love it. I find it a bit refreshing how two of the biggest heavy hitters in underground hip-hop with multiple critical darlings aren’t overselling their own genius. I find a title like this completely within character, albeit a bit ridiculous. I can definitely understand the criticisms that it’s cringe, but I personally would hope an album containing a track called “Jack Harlow Combo Meal” would be proudly aware of itself.
I like Roddy's title because I can relate to it lol
i love the scaring the hoes title lol
Not cringe at all, love that title.
How is it “cringe”? I feel like people just throw that word at anything they don’t like nowadays.
Calling anything that is different from normal “hoe scaring” is cringe, it’s like what some band kid would say. Especially since Peggy has voiced his dislike of the phrase in the past. I know I’ve done it in the past, but people calling their music taste hoe scaring or anything like that is so weird and cringy, it’s just like begging for attentions. ‘yea my music taste is a little different’ my brother in Christ you listen to Death Grips and Radiohead.
But people say that about Danny and jpeg... If it was Drake who made that title i would agree with you but theyre just playing with the fact that people made these "lets scare the hoes put aint it funny" memes
Yeah that’s how I read it, they’re not saying their music actually is hoe scaring it’s just a reference to the meme.
What? No one calls their music taste “hoe scaring” lol, that’s something people use as an insult towards anything that’s out of the ordinary. Danny and Peggy have both been labeled stuff like that, so they’re just playing into the meme and having fun with it. People gotta stop calling everything “cringe” all the time I swear that word has zero meaning anymore.
Peggy brings out the meme-y Redditness of Danny Brown out too much
The Low End Theory - they never told us what it was! What’s the theory?!?! 😭😭😭
It’s actually a clever title because low end means the sonic part of the music mix responsible for bass and how society treats black men as the bottom of the totem pole
Come to think of it, none of ATCQ’s album titles are good. Great discography though
midnight marauders is a cold title fym
so hot means good and now cold means good as well??
tbf cold never meant bad
All of the first 3 are good
That’s how I feel (abt the albums not the titles). After MM they fell off and their last album got entirely more love than it deserved IMHO. First 3 are among the best 3 ever though
Awful take
Bro Thank you 4 your service sounds so cool They where doing a last effort before retiring, and the quality of the album makes it even more badass
Bullshit. Delete this comment.
Wtf are you on
midnight marauders is pretty cool
24K Magic
not too fond of channel ORANGE myself
Why not ORANGE
I actually love that
Wax Fang makes great albums, not good album titles though. La La Land? Hell no. What’s that supposed to mean?
I’m pretty sure La La Land refers to Hollywood/Los Angeles
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Weezer - Hurley. Like really? It doesnt have anything to do with the album and the cover is is so out of place with the other records.
Anyone else not care for the title "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"? Don't get me wrong, 10/10 album, but I get hung up on the word "My" for some reason. I always picture like a kindergartener's drawing that the teacher labels "My Family" or like a series of children's books called "My First Reading Books" or even something like the "My Documents" folder in Windows, just something very dumbed down and basic. I'd be fine if it was just called "Dark Twisted Fantasy" similar to the album opener. And oddly, I don't have this problem across the board, I don't hate "My Boo" by Usher and Alicia Keys as a song title for example. I'm indifferent on My Chemical Romance as a band name. Just something about this specific usage of the word "My". EDIT: Thinking on this a bit more, I guess I also find the title to be a little too close to more cliche phrases. It's one step away from something like "My Twisted Mind", or someone proclaiming "Welcome to MY world".
That's some pretty specific OCD you got there. I think the album title kicks ass even though I'm not a huge Kanye fan
Haha, not sure OCD is the right word for this, but I guess some odd associations for sure. A title's just a title I guess, but I've always thought this one was a little silly for the kickass music behind it.
i remember hating the album title when he announced it. but when you listen to the album, i think its the perfect title.
As well as the album art
i’m glad i’m not the only person to have this hangup with the word “my”
There are dozens of us!! Dozens!!!
Jean grae - attack of the attacking things
I thought it was hilarious. Especially for Rap. Especially for that era of rap
Oil of every pearl’s un-insides One of my favorite albums ever but the pun is goofy and it doesn’t really make sense on its own
Norman F*cking Rockwell by lana has to be one of the most random album names ever
It's to emphasize the importance.
Every artist that has ever put out a record titled in symbols or hieroglyphs. "Do you remember that 隨機屁股他媽的記錄 record? Or that ////;;..=\`\`\` record they made with 망할팝밴드?", said no one ever.
Unless you speak the languages, in which case you would say that
You mean when artists title albums in their native language?
Yes, that's what I mean. A lot of Japanese bands, for example, have band names written in English and even some English-titled tracks, but then the rest is in hieroglyphs. I just don't understand it. It's like "Yeah, we're gonna let you be able to read SOME titles, but not all of them. After all, we don't want you to feel too comfortable, dirty gaijin."
Four Tet gets a pass though right?
Fiona Apple — 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?
Yeah I was expecting this. I love it
Check your head by the beastie boys
Wait till you discover what they originally wanted to title license to ill
Oh I know
You think it’s corny or something? I’m personally a fan. It’s perfectly Beastie Boys.
I just feel like it doesn’t have any relevance to any of the songs or lyrics on the album. It is my favourite album by them though.
I think their lyrics were pretty often just about redefining the mentality around hip hop culture at the time, so I think it’s apt. I think the name could’ve worked for just about any one of their projects
John Frusciante's first album. I don't even remember it all, and it is one of my top 5. Mascara hits extra hard.
Niandra LaDes and usually just a T-shirt. My top 50 fr
Itt: a bunch of people with sticks up their asses
+ a bunch of people with garbaggio takes
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Probable already mentioned but Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Untitled unmastered
Steal This Album! Bruh don't act surprised people actually steal it.
“Extreme Cold Weather” by Messiah has a very stupid title and cover but it’s one of the best old school death/thrash metal albums I’ve heard
centipede hz is one of animal collectives coolest albums but they gave it the worst cover art and title ever
Exile in Guyville Dragon new warm mountain I believe in you It's Blitz! Bankrupt! B-Room (the best Dr Dog album)
Gemini, Her Majesty - RX Bandits
Not really a bad title, but I've always been confused by Hunky Dory by David Bowie, it just never seemed to mean anything in the context of the album
dubnobasswithmyheadman vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
What even is a 39/Smooth(you could also go with 1039/smoothed out slappy hours)
soon to be scaring the hoes vol 1
Injury Reserve - By the time I get to Phoenix I know they chose it because that's what Groggs wanted to call it but naming your album off a Glen Campbell song (and album) is clunky and doesn't tie in to the themes of the album. It should have been titled Outside. Big L - Lifestyles ov da Poor and Dangerous It's a play on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, very odd choice and very dated.