Albums names

kingofbizzare wrote: zabriskiepoint wrote: Dark Side of the Moon is one hell of a title, so is Per un Amico and Lark's Tongue in Aspic. (A Lark is a snake and an Aspic a bird, right?) A lark is a bird and my grandma told me recently that Aspic is gelled tomato juice, so apparently it's a food dish of some sort.

Lark's Tongues In Aspic is one of my all time favorite album titles. (By the way, a lark is a kind of bird renowned for it's beautiful voice and aspic is a kind of nasty fatty gelatin like the slime that comes off of a canned ham. The title is a metaphor, as if they're saying we have the tongues of a lark to sing but we also have ugliness around us)

Another of my favorite titles is also by KC: Starless And Bible Black

No meantion of "Selling England By the Pound"?

I also like Hawkwind's "Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin", although the album wasn't that great.

Someo Therguy wrote: kingofbizzare wrote: zabriskiepoint wrote: Dark Side of the Moon is one hell of a title, so is Per un Amico and Lark's Tongue in Aspic. (A Lark is a snake and an Aspic a bird, right?) A lark is a bird and my grandma told me recently that Aspic is gelled tomato juice, so apparently it's a food dish of some sort.   Lark's Tongues In Aspic is one of my all time favorite album titles. (By the way, a lark is a kind of bird renowned for it's beautiful voice and aspic is a kind of nasty fatty gelatin like the slime that comes off of a canned ham. The title is a metaphor, as if they're saying we have the tongues of a lark to sing but we also have ugliness around us) Another of my favorite titles is also by KC: Starless And Bible Black

Re the meaning of "Larks' Tongues In Aspic", I found the following on the Web:

Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:33:29 -0500
From: "Weissenburger - Jeremy S." <jeremysw at umd5 dot umd dot edu>
Subject: Larks' Tongues In Aspic origin
>In ET 256 Matthew Carton wanted to know "What The Hell Does It Mean":

It is my understanding is that Jamie Muir named the song.  After hearing it
in its total form, he was asked what it sounds like, and he said, "Why,
Larks' Tongues In Aspic, of course."

And so they named it that.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, folks.  Would you rather they named it
"Instrumental #1?"

--Jeremy

The song of the Sky Lark is indeed considered beautiful. Aspic is a jelly made from meat or fish stock, and is used to bind chunks of food in moulds, terrines etc. So the title works on a number of levels.

BTW, medieval cuisine included roasted larks:

"Feasting at King Henry VIII's court late in his reign became the scandal of Europe. In one day, the King and his courtiers disposed of 11 whole double sides of beef, six sheep, 17 hogs and pigs, 540 chickens, 15 swans, six cranes, 384 pigeons, 648 larks, 72 geese, four peacocks, 3,000 pears and 1,300 apples." (Lyon, Sue (Ed.) (1989). Shakespeare's England. Marshall Cavendish, New York, N.Y.)

but it was the Romans who used to eat larks' tongues. Here's a recipe for a Roman appetiser:

http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/arl_roman_recipes-1000_l arks_tongues.htm

Poor larks!

Some of the album titles I like (not all Prog):
- In The Court Of The Crimson King
- Starless And Bible Black
- Larks' Tongues In Aspic
- The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys [with an honorary mention to Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory]
- Brain Salad Surgery
- Dark Side Of The Moon
- Obscured By Clouds
- Photos Of Ghosts
- Illusions On A Double Dimple [Dimple is a brand of Scotch]
- Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
- All the Moodies' albums from Days Of Future Passed to Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
- Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
- Quark, Strangeness And Charm
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- If I Were Brittania I'd Waive The Rules
- An Ecstacy Of Fumbling [A nod at Wilfred Owen's poem or a double entendre? Or both, perhaps?]
- From The Tea Rooms Of Mars To The Hell Holes Of Uranus
- God Shuffled His Feet [excellent album, by the way]

• Disco Volante
• The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
• Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
• Ummagumma (Pretty name, although it means "f**k you")
• Nightfall In Middle Earth