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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Another one is Three Sides Live by Genesis since the original UK version was all live. They didn't think the US audience would understand the British humor so they put a fourth side with studio tracks on it instead. 

The idea that Genesis had a sense of humour is funny in itself. Personally I never understood that title either although I assumed the point was that 3 sides were taken from the Abacab tour (so an actual concert perhaps) and the forth side had previous unreleased archive material. I didn't see it as a 'joke' tbh.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Pink Floyd - A Collection of Great Dance Songs


Ah good old Floydian sarcasm!



Although not prog how about the worst of Jefferson Airplane?


Not to mention 'The Worst of Ashton Gardner & Dyke'.

https://www.discogs.com/master/348065-Ashton-Gardner-Dyke-The-Worst-Of-Ashton-Gardner-Dyke
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Another one is Three Sides Live by Genesis since the original UK version was all live. They didn't think the US audience would understand the British humor so they put a fourth side with studio tracks on it instead. 


Maybe would have been more confuddling if they'd called it 'Three Sides Live; One Side Dead'.
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Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

King Crimson's Starless and Bible Black album, which doesn't include the song "Starless". Smile


So many album titles are not included in the song titles or lyrics, nor do they really reflect the theme of the album.

See also: 'Meddle' by Pink Floyd, or Brain Salad Surgery by ELP... tho the title song did turn up later on Works vol.2. Similarly with LZ's 'Houses of the Holy' which I think was the first time that the title track of one album actually turned up on the follow-up release.
You may already know this, but the track Houses of the Holy was recorded during the sessions of the album of the same name, but is one of the few tracks (about a quarter of them) on Physical Graffiti that were recorded earlier and initially discarded, but included on the latter album to make it long enough for two discs. This is why a couple of tracks have that older Robert Plant vocal style before he made a deliberate change in his singing to preserve his voice.

And there are earlier cases of a title track appearing on a follow up album, like Frank Zappa's Absolutely Free song appearing on We're Only in it for the Money in 1968.
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^Yep indeed.
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Peter Hammill - pH7
 
This is actually Peter Hammill's eighth album, not his seventh album as suggested by the title. However, having studied chemistry, I have never regarded "pH7" as referring to a seventh album, and have always assumed it referred to the pH of neutral water, which fits in with the underlying theme of normality throughout the album.
 
 


I always thought it was a chemistry reference too (which it probably is) but also assumed it was his seventh(I never bothered counting). Then again maybe PH wasn't think of Fool's Mate as his first album. Who knows. 
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Taï Phong - Return of the Samurai
Not a return by any means. Khanh Maï is the only founding member left, with the drummer Stéphan Caussarieu gone at that point. The music doesn't resemble 70s Taï Phong in any way.

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