Some albums just have a title which draws you in, maybe though curiosity or they are just poetic, mysterious.
Here’s my starter:
Jimmy Buffett - Changes In Latitudes Changes In Attitudes - CD (1977)
More?
Some albums just have a title which draws you in, maybe though curiosity or they are just poetic, mysterious.
Here’s my starter:
Jimmy Buffett - Changes In Latitudes Changes In Attitudes - CD (1977)
More?
How about Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Chris Rea - God’s Great Banana Skin - CD (1992)
Graceland - Paul Simon
Gotta be about Elvis, yes? Well, not really
Always had soft spots for long album titles. Amazing thing is that you could argue there’s not a duffer amongst them.
“The Man with the Blue Post Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar”
“My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair But Now They’re Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows”
“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’ll Know Where to Land And If You Fall It Won’t Matter, Cuz You Know That You’re Right”
“Frank Sidebottom Salutes The Magic Of Freddie Mercury And Queen And Also Kylie Minogue (You Know… Her Off “Neighbours”)”
“Squirrel And G-Man 24 Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)”
and of course Chumbawamba…
“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”
Eponymous - R.E.M.
Townes Earle - The Saint of Lost Causes.
Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume
Yes by Yes.
Didn’t they have a companion album called ‘No’?
Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Caravan - The Land of Grey and Pink
Be Bop Deluxe - ‘Drastic Plastic’ (1978).
Climax Blues Band - ‘Real to Reel’ (1979).
Status Quo - ‘Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon’ (1970).
Wishbone Ash - ‘Argus’ (1972).
Edgar Froese - ‘Epsilon in Malaysian Pale’ (1975).
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
The first ten that came into my head in about a minute,all but one in my collection:
On the threshold of a dream
Six degrees of inner turbulance
Fear of a blank planet
On the Sunday of life
Sounds that can’t be made
If I were Britannia I’d waive the rules
Ars longa vita brevis
A saucerful of secrets
H to He who am the only one
Sssh…
Moody blues, Dream theater, Porcupine tree (x2), Marillion, Budgie, Nice, Pink floyd, Van der Graaf generator, Ten years after.