Most Cringe-Inducing Song/Album Titles
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Topic: Most Cringe-Inducing Song/Album Titles
Posted By: Tychovski
Subject: Most Cringe-Inducing Song/Album Titles
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 18:43
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Makes you wonder what on Earth were they thinking? What on Earth were they on? Makes you cover the title with your hand when reading the back cover? Launches the Cheese-Meter into the sky? Inspired by Rockalaxy from 7 Of 4's Contact. I know you can do better than that - let's see them! ------------- Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974, it's a scientific fact. |
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Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 19:30
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Falling into Infinity (Dream Theater album), it's such a cliche for a title. Safe as Milk (Captain Beefheart album). Is milk safe? By the way, Captain Beefheart is also a lame name for a band. 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson song). The most pretentious song title ever. It's not 21st century, neither is it schizoid. ------------- 
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 05:22
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"what on Earth were they thinking":
Spooky Tooth - You broke my heart so I busted your jaw
obviously not thinking at all:
Gnidrolog - In spite of Harry's toenail
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 05:24
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Love Beach ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 06:14
| Mechanically Separated Chicken on Headshear's debut album. I cringe every time I read that title. |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 17:09
I could not disagree more. |
paganinio wrote:Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 17:32
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Most-cringe inducing song - Confortubly Numb - Scissor Sisters, they should be brough to the plank
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 04:00
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Roselora is a bot. btw I can't believe no one's mentioned If I Had To Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You yet.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 04:15
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Coyote by Kayo Dot
there are no coyotes on the album.... though there is a lot of caterwauling and howling.
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 04:39
I rate 21st Century Schizoid Man as one of the best song titles ever.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 04:52
I like the title...and seeing that is what this thread is about, it's relevant. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 14:11
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Without Hope You Cannot Start the Day by Yes gets my vote for the song with the worst title and for the album I'd have to say VDGG's The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other
......ok, I'll run and hide now
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 14:17
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Death Of Mother Nature Suite
great peice of music but couldn't they have thought up something better? Not exactly a snappy title that rolls off the tongue
Dark Side Of The Moon
I generally dislike the use of the word dark in any song/album title. Always meant to imply thats its deep stuff and very important. I'll be the judge of that!
Works Volume One
Bloody awfull title. No imagination and threatening to inflict a whole series of weighty and ultimately over indulgent stuff on the world. No wonder the critics had a field day.
Abacab
Not going to even bother explaining this one. It is a slight consolation though that take away the ab at the end and replace it with rap.
90125
Can't be bothered to think up a name so we'll use the catologue number instead. Van Halen had the best comeback on this with their 'OU812' . Brilliant!
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 14:33
Except that in this case they used "dark" for the other sense, the literal sense.  "Dark" as in "not exposed to light". |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 02 2010 at 01:41
Not really the point though.Its still the same word and used in the context of measuring sanity (or the loss of it).Its not about the moon is it?
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 02 2010 at 02:58
It is about the moon in the first degree of meaning, then, by implication (it's a metaphor) it refers to sanity. So no, it's not the same as all those bullsh*t titles you were referring to, like: Dark Passion Play Dark Millenium Dark Deceiver The Dark Chapter Dark Shadows etc. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: December 02 2010 at 04:11
Captain Beefheart is not a band. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: December 02 2010 at 04:12
Lunacy, term meaning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness - mental illness , stemming from the prefix Luna. A term leftover from ancient times when the moon was thought to cause insanity and mental problems. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 02 2010 at 14:28
So its actually a very good metaphor. I'll scrub that from my list.
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Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: December 03 2010 at 05:44
Wait, you're calling classic, epic metal songs such as "A Dark Passage" and "Journey Through the Dark" (both by Blind Guardian) pretentious? If so, just look at their lyrics. It's even more pretentious: "I feel cold Facing the darkness The light's gone away Deep in his castle he said" -------------
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Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 12:39
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"Man-Erg." I love the song, but I'm sure Hammill could've come up with a better title.
That, and Big Big Train's "Powder Monkey." Again, a wonderful song, but it took me a while to get past the title and enjoy the song for what it was. ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 12:43
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Symphony X for their band name and every one of their albums. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 15:38
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A Stained Soul Cringes at the Small Details in the Mirror of Embarrassment. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 16:29
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I've found nearly every one of these criticisms dumb and baseless. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 04 2010 at 22:35
This. and this again. and again.  ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 16:44
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 16:52
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Posted By: Heathcliffe
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 22:13
Schizoid is a term still in use in modern Psychiatry - used to describe a personality type. Different from Schizophrenia which is a psychotic illness,obviously. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 05 2010 at 23:57
 I don't know the song, but a "powder monkey" was a boy on a British man 'o war (in the days of sail) whose job it was to prepare, then, in the heat, smoke & chaos of battle, run and fetch the gunpowder charges (paper or cloth cylindrical cartridges of the stuff) from the mid-ship magazine for the gun crews. It was dangerous, hot, exhausting work.
(You couldn't keep all the gunpowder near the burning hot, oftimes-exploding cannons, obviously.)
Boys were smaller and fleet of foot -- perfect for running in the very low headroom and confined spaces of the gun decks. Gun decks would have sand sprinkled on the floor to aid traction and absorb the inevitable rivers of slippery blood. Choking smoke. Stifling heat. Deafening noise. Deadly flying, screaming red hot metal, giant jagged splinters, gouts of flesh, limbs and bones flying through the air and on you -- and if the lad wasn't fast enough with the powder, he could expect a good whack up the side of the head.
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For the record, a "brass monkey" was a square brass tray with raised edges, for the neat, pyramidical stacking of cannon balls (on land). Thus "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" meant that it was sufficiently cold to make the iron cannon balls contract enough to come tumbling down from their stacks. (The secondary sexual connotation was also there, but it was not the primary meaning, which was derived from the soldier's harsh everyday world.)
A great many of our English expressions originated with the old Royal Navy, sailing in general, and warfare -- though often the origins and meanings are lost to time. See "square meal,' "touch and go," "son of a gun," etc -- all from the glory days of British sail and naval warfare. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 06 2010 at 00:07
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Huh, I guess I don't have any irritations with titles very much. Now show me a picture of a hipster and I'll want to shove that PBR down their greasy v-neck shirt.
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 06 2010 at 06:33
| How about band names? My "favourite" is I POOH. |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: December 06 2010 at 14:44
Ah. I see. Now that album makes a great deal more sense.
Thank you for the especially vivid explanation. ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: December 06 2010 at 20:38
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A lot of stuff by Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will You're Lionel Richie George Square Thatcher Death Party I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 06 2010 at 21:01
That's just comical nonesense  ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 06 2010 at 23:46
But it's funny, Not cringe inducing. At least to me. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 02:17
Completely off-topic, but:
Excellent - many thanks; I love having intelligent friends 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 04:47
Thanks. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 08:23
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If I Could Do It Again, I'd Do It All Over You
Too graphic, too juvenile - cringe-inducing. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Xaxaar
Date Posted: August 22 2011 at 16:57
Quoted by Toby Driver from an interview, "Like I mentioned above, Coyote has two sides of meaning – the fictional, narrative side, but then also the side that is an analogy to the really tragic process of its creation. It’s called Coyote because mythologically speaking, Coyote is the god of chaos and creation, in a way he is Loki, he may lead astray. He evokes the smell of warm musky woods and soft needle beds. The music on the album is all like this. It’s important to note that the music also comes from a specifically conceptual place – this music is supposed to be using the aesthetic of 1980’s goth bass but in a modern-classical or through-composed context. So we would like people to approach this album knowing this – think about that sound that was created by the Cure, Joy Division, and others – and then blast it into the 21st century and advanced-music world!" That being said, I actually find all of his works titled masterfully.
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Posted By: criticdrummer94
Date Posted: August 22 2011 at 17:32
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The Lamb Lies Down of Broadway Tormato Love Beach Thrak -------------  
MY IDOLS |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 22 2011 at 18:11
| We Can't Dance and "I Can't Dance" by Genesis, guilty on all counts. |
Posted By: hobocamp
Date Posted: August 22 2011 at 21:42
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The Crunge
Just one vowel away.... But besides that - WTF are those lyrics doing outside a five-year-old's imagination? |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: August 24 2011 at 00:46
Oh god... |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: August 24 2011 at 00:49
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: August 24 2011 at 01:56
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Cunning Stunts - Caravan, horrible pun!
------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: EchidnasArf
Date Posted: August 24 2011 at 04:40
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"Warm Wet Circles" - Marillion... I don't care what the song is about, just don't name it "Warm Wet Circles". ------------- http://didyouseethosebats.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Did You See Those Bats? (a few songs from my band's live radio show) 
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