Terrible Album titles!!

[DJ Bob Hoskins]

Handily, I can just quote this old post of mine from the Terrible Album Covers thread, since it falls into both categories:

Pretty sure this was posted in one of the previous threads (and it's an easy target) but it never fails to annoy me:



As if the title wasn't bad enough, they somehow felt the need to commission a sleeve that stood out as particularly shite even at a time when shite artwork was everywhere.

Someone actually drew an arsehole on the chocolate starfish because I guess they feared the subtlety of the pun, either by itself or in combination with a picture of a chocolate starfish which didn't have an anus, would be lost on the audience.

[Butchers Blind]

Handily, I can just quote this old post of mine from the Terrible Album Covers thread, since it falls into both categories:

The fact it also says Limp Bizkit "presents" is another crime unto itself.

[DJ Bob Hoskins]

If you think "presents" is bad, imagine how much of a c...onceptual artist (we're talking a complete c...ountry singer) you'd have to be to use the words "in" or "as".







Strangely, none of the above shit titles are as shit or lazy as Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell

[jobotic]

I know it's taken from a book, but Sad Cafe is a terrible name. Shit Service Station

Wonder who wrote their Wikipedia entry

Now led by long time bassist Des Tong, the band features vocalist Barry James Thomas, Dave Day on lead guitar/vocals, Matt Steele on keyboards, Neil Shaw-Hulme on sax/vocals, and Steve Gibson on drums. They now press on to a new era with a show that brings together the great hits of the past with the matured and excellent musicianship of the present. Sad Café fans have warmly and enthusiastically embraced the new line up as the shows continue to bring new and existing fans together to share their love for this incredible band and their music.

[Midas]

Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

[Egyptian Feast]

If you think "presents" is bad, imagine how much of a c...onceptual artist (we're talking a complete c...ountry singer) you'd have to be to use the words "in" or "as".

Unless you're New York Dolls, in which case it makes perfect sense.

[Brundle-Fly]

Not terrible as such, but the post punk era had some corking pretentious ones...

The Dream Of The Blue Turtles - Sting
The Fine Art Of Surfacing - Boomtown Rats
The Age Of Plastic - Buggles
The Golden Age Of Wireless - Thomas Dolby
The Art Of Falling Apart - Soft Cell

[Sean Ymphs]

The New Radicals' Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too is pretty bad, but Gregg Alexander's previous solo album was called Intoxifornication

[lazyhour]

Cant think of a "title track" that came out BEFORE rather than after the album (like Houses of the Holy and Sheer Heart Attack)

On this note, the Porno For Pyros album "Porno For Pyros" features a song entitled "Porno For Pyros". Criminally, it wasn't also released as a single. Can anyone beat that?

Edit: there's also Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath, but again it wasn't a single. What's wrong with these twats?

[famethrowa]

I know it's taken from a book, but Sad Cafe is a terrible name. Shit Service Station

Absolutely! I've complained about it before, but got shot down by fans. Bands can't generally "pick" their name, they have to go with whatever becomes successful, but how did that even get off the drawing board?

[Pauline Walnuts]

On this note, the Porno For Pyros album "Porno For Pyros" features a song entitled "Porno For Pyros". Criminally, it wasn't also released as a single. Can anyone beat that?

Black Sabbath.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow Or A Creamed Cage In August

Which might be brilliant, it's quite hard to tell with Marc.

[lazyhour]

Didn't Bad Company have a single called Bad Company? Was that on a self-titled album?

[lazyhour]

Black Sabbath.

Damn, I didn't edit my post in time!

[famethrowa]

Talk Talk missed their chance.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Didn't The Limpz have deliberately bad artwork and album titles?

[mechanical blood goat]

Why would any band have "deliberately bad" album art? Surely it's a case of either a) band doesn't give a fuck what's on there or b) record company decision.

[Pauline Walnuts]

The former,

"We never took ourselves seriously. From the beginning we always 'joke' and make jokes. People don't understand much, but we don't give a shit. We have fun and we love it."

https://www.reddit.com/r/numetal/comments/l9aku8/many_of_the_people_who_hate_limp_bizkit_have_not/

I mean it could be a elaborate posthumous ruse to cover up their tracks, I simply don't know care.

[Brundle-Fly]

On this note, the Porno For Pyros album "Porno For Pyros" features a song entitled "Porno For Pyros". Criminally, it wasn't also released as a single. Can anyone beat that?

Edit: there's also Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath on the album Black Sabbath, but again it wasn't a single. What's wrong with these twats?

Even more heinous was when 1960s psyche rockers, The Creation signed to Creation records in 1996. The opening track of their label debut album, Power Surge was called 'Creation.' Not only did they not release said track as a single but failed to call the album, Creation.

Alan McGee never got to say, "A new musical creation, Creation from Creation by The Creation on Creation."

[lazyhour]

Even more heinous was when 1960s psyche rockers, The Creation signed to Creation records in 1996. The opening track of their label debut album, Power Surge was called 'Creation.' Not only did they not release said track as a single but failed to call the album, Creation.

Alan McGee never got to say, "A new musical creation, Creation from Creation by The Creation on Creation."

Yep, they really fucked it!

[lazyhour]

Why would any band have "deliberately bad" album art? Surely it's a case of either a) band doesn't give a fuck what's on there or b) record company decision.

Guided By Voices/solo Robert Pollard wants a word.





(Yes, that second image is the actual album cover. That's what was printed on the LP sleeve.)

Though to be fair most GbV related sleeves are excellent in their outsider collage way.

[convulsivespace]

Didn't Bad Company have a single called Bad Company? Was that on a self-titled album?

Yes, "Bad Company" from Bad Company is Bad Company's best and possibly most popular song, and they didn't even release it as a single!

[convulsivespace]

The former,

"We never took ourselves seriously. From the beginning we always 'joke' and make jokes. People don't understand much, but we don't give a shit. We have fun and we love it."

https://www.reddit.com/r/numetal/comments/l9aku8/many_of_the_people_who_hate_limp_bizkit_have_not/

I mean it could be a elaborate posthumous ruse to cover up their tracks, I simply don't know care.

Well of course it was a joke. The reason it's so awful is that it's an awful joke.

[PlanktonSideburns]

The Millwall of nu metal

[lazyhour]

Yes, "Bad Company" from Bad Company is Bad Company's best and possibly most popular song, and they didn't even release it as a single!

What the fuck is wrong with these bands? Has *nobody* got this right??

[Panbaams]

Living In A Box didn't have a long career, but they can at least claim the band name/hit single/album title trifecta.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Public Image by Public Image Ltd is on Public Image - First Edition

[lazyhour]

Living In A Box didn't have a long career, but they can at least claim the band name/hit single/album title trifecta.

Oh, you beauty!!

[Wacky Homemade Badges]

Motörhead? (By Motörhead, from Motörhead)

Got to 52 as a single, so not a hit. But still eligible?

[Sean Ymphs]

There's also 21st Century Girls, though the album was only released in Japan apparently.