Thursday, August 16, 2007

album titles

the Rolling Stones, as artless as they can sometimes be, have some very good album titles. They're fun to say, and fun to hear other people say:

Tattoo You
Exile on Main St.
Between the Buttons
Some Girls
Their satanic Majesties Request
Goat's Head Soup

Perhaps the king of long-winded album titles is none other than Michael Nesmith:

Pretty Much Your Average Ranch Stash
And the Hits Just Keep On Comin'
From a Radio Photon to an Engine Wing
Tantamount to Treason
Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma

Elvis Costello had a good run:

Armed Forces
Get Happy!!
Trust

Steely Dan has some good ones:

Countdown to Ecstacy
The Royal Scam
Katy Lied


other faves

Chutes Too Narrow
Blonde on Blonde
The Discovery of World inside the Moone

ok, I could be here all night.

here are 2 bad titles:

Are You Passionate?
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

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