Cool album names?

[willdabeast21]

Yeah, I started a thread a while ago about good album covers, and it got on pretty good, so I started thinking, what about the name of the album
We aren't talkin' self-titled here, were talking albums with cool/weird/awesome names.
Some of my favorites include -
Type-O Negative's The Origin of Feces, that's just great in so many ways
Pantera's Cowboys From Hell has always been a favorite of mine
Dream Theater's Greatest Hit...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs is pretty good
You also can't say no to Appetite for Destruction
Megadeth's Peace Sells...But Who's Buying is my favorite Megadeth name, though I always like their album names
Call me Canadian, but I like The Tragically Hip's Road Apples quite a bit
And finally, Frank Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh

I'll add more when I remember them
Thoughts?

Edit - I'd also like to include -
Modest Mouse's This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
Dinosaur Jr's You're Living All Over me
Arctic Monkeys' Who the **** are the Arctic Monkeys?
Eagles of Death Metal's Death by Sexy
I Set My Friends on Fire's You Can't Spell Manslaughter Without Laughter
Strapping Young Lad's No Sleep Til Bedtime
Mclusky's The Difference Between Me and You is That I'm Not on Fire

[Cubecubed]

Good Apollo I'm burning star IV, volume one: from fear through the eyes of madness.

:D

[overcookedbacon]

Every single Modest Mouse album title is pretty great.

This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
The Lonesome Crowded West
The Moon & Antarctica (not really that great, but still)
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Even their EPs have some great names:

Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks
The Fruit That Ate Itself
No One's First And You're Next
Sad Sappy Sucker
Building Nothing Out Of Something.

Admittedly the last two are compilations and not EPs, but still great names.

Some of my other favorites:

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
The Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People

And of course, Cap'n Jazz's "Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over."

[Alright_Computer]

Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass is my go-to awesome album name.

[Cubecubed]

yo la tengo's i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass is my go-to awesome album name.

that. Is. Awesome.

[ffwarrior47]

Big Fat Box o' **** - Crotchduster

[timmay9]

Spaceman 3-Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To

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[Alright_Computer]

that. Is. Awesome.

It helps that the album is equally awesome, too.


Spaceman 3-Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To

/thread

Ah, if only that one wasn't a compilation, I would remember it more often.

[afterstasis]

i don't think you can beat "stabbed in the face" (from the wolf eyes/panicsville split).

[Chainedsoulz]

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Cool, right? OK
(IMO of course)

The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit To This Memory
Linkin Park - MMM...Cookies: Sweet Hamster Like Jewels From America!

The Linkin Park one comes from their Fanclub (Linkin Park Underground) and that was this years release. It has nothing to do with Linkin Park, all it was was Chester and Mike goofing around in the studio making weird songs.

[Satoshi]

Spiritualized- Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
toe-The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety
Gym Class Heroes-As Cruel As School Children
Japandroids-Post-Nothing
Mono-One Step More And You Die
New Radicals-Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
toe-Songs,Ideas We Forgot


that's all I can think about right now :)

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Psychostick - We Couldn't Think of a Title

pretty cool too.

[CommonCriminal]

Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
of Montreak - Satanic Panic in the Attic
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Taxpayer - Don't Steal My Night Vision
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy


to name a few

[willdabeast21]

Every single Modest Mouse album title is pretty great.

This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
The Lonesome Crowded West
The Moon & Antarctica (not really that great, but still)
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Even their EPs have some great names:

Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks
The Fruit That Ate Itself
No One's First And You're Next
Sad Sappy Sucker
Building Nothing Out Of Something.

Admittedly the last two are compilations and not EPs, but still great names.

Some of my other favorites:

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
The Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People

And of course, Cap'n Jazz's "Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over."

I was just gonna mention Modest Mouse, they always have good names

[cscwell107]

Blink 182- Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

[Fragory123]

Diablo Swing Orchestra's Sing Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious is my all time favorite.

[neckermanncj]

Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever - Explosions In The Sky


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[rowtheboat]

Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse - Buckethead

[Kasil]

Arctic Monkeys - Who the F**k are the Arctic Monkeys?

Not a studio album, but hey.

[ffwarrior47]

This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For - Bring Me The Horizon.

[Evilbottom]

Dinosaurchestra - Lemon Demon
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S*** Gold - Atmosphere
Systematic Chaos - Dream Theater (S*** album, cool name)
The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Up The Downstair - Porcupine Tree

Thats all I've got

[Tego1in]

Action/Adventure- Dealership.
Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles

[KingProgdor]

I Can See Your House from Here-Camel
Crisis? What Crisis?-Supertramp

The first two that come to mind.

[Soratar]

Two Lefts Don't Make A Right... But Three Do.

[ant423]

Impeach my Bush - Peaches

[jamie30jamer]

Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses-Slipknot
Down on the Upside-Soundgarden
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap- Ac/Dc
No Parole From Rock n Roll-Alcatrazz
Penikufesin-Anthrax (roughly translates to Nice F***in Ep backwards lol)
Inquisition Symphony-Apocalyptica
Seasons in the Abyss-Slayer
Reign In Blood-Slayer
We Sold Our Souls For Rock N Roll-Black Sabbath

Also just for the Helluvit
Bananas-Deep Purple

[willdabeast21]

Arctic Monkeys - Who the F**k are the Arctic Monkeys?

Not a studio album, but hey.

New favorite name, that's amazing.
I'm actually considering buying that for my collection, despite not liking the Arctic Monkeys

[bradylicious9]

The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy




lol, this is what i thought of.

[neckermanncj]

Most post rock albums have sick names

[Alright_Computer]

Most post rock albums have sick names

I find quite a few post-rock album names to be overly long and pretentious, but there's different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[MrFruitLord]

Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses-Slipknot
Down on the Upside-Soundgarden
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap- Ac/Dc
No Parole From Rock n Roll-Alcatrazz
Penikufesin-Anthrax (roughly translates to Nice F***in Ep backwards lol)
Inquisition Symphony-Apocalyptica
Seasons in the Abyss-Slayer
Reign In Blood-Slayer
We Sold Our Souls For Rock N Roll-Black Sabbath

Also just for the Helluvit
Bananas-Deep Purple

None of those are cool.

[willdabeast21]

None of those are cool.

Reign in Blood is good

[DrewLee865]

Mercyful Fate- Don't Break the Oath
Morbid Angel- Altars of Madness
Mastodon- Crack the Skye
Sunn O)))- Monoliths and Dimensions
Immortal- Pure Holocaust
The Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatorium
King Crimson- Larks' Tongues in Aspic

[Sweetsamara]

Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear- Reverend Horton Heat

[Tank9088]

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness- Smashing Pumpkins

[Reaper Eclipse]

The Ultimate Sin - Ozzy
In Utero - Nirvana
Sound of Madness - Shinedown
Scars & Souvenirs - Theory of a Deadman
L.D.50 - Mudvayne
The Beginning of All Things To Come - Mudvayne
The End of All Things to Come - Mudvayne
Every Man For Himself - Hoobastank
For(N)ever - Hoobastank
Phobia - Breaking Benjamin
Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin
Tri-Polar - Sick Puppies
February Son - Oleander
Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses
Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces - Seether
Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed
The Sickness - Disturbed
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Death Magnetic - Metallica
Vena Sera - Chevelle
Sci-Fi Crimes - Chevelle
Survival of The Sickest - Saliva
Blood Stained Love Story - Saliva
Cinco' Diablo - Saliva
A Modern Way of Living With The Truth... - The Exies

[Bub]

Swoon - Silversun Pickups

[willdabeast21]

The Ultimate Sin - Ozzy
In Utero - Nirvana
Sound of Madness - Shinedown
Scars & Souvenirs - Theory of a Deadman
L.D.50 - Mudvayne
The Beginning of All Things To Come - Mudvayne
The End of All Things to Come - Mudvayne
Every Man For Himself - Hoobastank
For(N)ever - Hoobastank
Phobia - Breaking Benjamin
Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin
Tri-Polar - Sick Puppies
February Son - Oleander
Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses
Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces - Seether
Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed
The Sickness - Disturbed
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Death Magnetic - Metallica
Vena Sera - Chevelle
Sci-Fi Crimes - Chevelle
Survival of The Sickest - Saliva
Blood Stained Love Story - Saliva
Cinco' Diablo - Saliva
A Modern Way of Living With The Truth... - The Exies

Aside from Tri-polar, none of those really did anything for me

[timmay9]

Yo La Tengo's I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass is my go-to awesome album name.

I've always loved that one. I'll come up with a list in a second.

[dreamtheater4life58]

I love Porcupine Tree's album names....
Up The Downstair
The Sky Moves Sideways
Stupid Dream
Lightbulb Sun
In Absentia

I also like the name Dopethrone- Electric Wizard... idk why tho.

Bridge Across Forever- Transatlantic is nice as well

[macamatic]

The Beginning of All Things To Come - Mudvayne
It's actually The Beginning of All Things To End.

Tool's Ænima was always a favorite of mine. It's a cool word, and, especially when viewed with the title track ("Ænema"), has a fascinating meaning.

[40FootWolf]

Some of my favorites:

Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed by Los Campesinos!
The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips
To Mega Therion by Celtic Frost
The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by the Dead Kennedys
Songs For the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age
The Sound of Perseverance by Death
Slaughter of the Soul by At The Gates
Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise by Emperor
Locust Abortion Technician by The Butthole Surfers
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Three of a Perfect Pair by King Crimson

[Snitsky]

(The black dahlia murder)
Unhallowed
Miasma
Nocturnal
Deflorate

I think all of their album names are real cool , they are all just 1 cool sounding word

Lamb of God - Wrath

Again , just 1 cool word

Machine head - The blackening

Just sounds cool to me

As I lay dying - An ocean between us

Has a nice ring to it

[TEJC36]

I can't believe nobodies mentioned:

You Can't Spell Manslaughter Without Laughter - I Set My Friends on Fire
The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against the Machine
A City Dressed in Dynamite - That Handsome Devil

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[unforgettablesound]

When God Gives You Lemons, You Paint That **** Gold - Atmosphere

Edit: Someone already posted this. Oh well.
Good album though.

[Wiiman95]

That one album by Korn. You know, THE ONE THAT DOESN'T HAVE A NAME! :D

[willdabeast21]

You Can't Spell Manslaughter Without Laughter - I Set My Friends on Fire


That's going on the original post, I can't believe I forgot

[WiiOwnU]

The Sword's album Gods of the Earth has always been one of my favorite album names...

Also Death By Sexy, which is in the first post, lol

[MrFruitLord]

Ummagumma always sounded cool to me, as did A Saucerful of Secrets.

[Gatorguy91]

Living Well Is The Best Revenge & Forget What You Know - Midtown
Deja Entendu - Brand New

Also aforementioned Modest Mouse everything.

[Nitz13]

I think all of the SSPU ones are really cool
Pikul
Carnavas
Swoon

Also:
Armistice - Mute Math
Blood Mountain - Mastadon
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

[DeadPhoenix223]

Metallica "...And Justice For All"
Megadeth... well, almost all of Megadeth's albums.

[ShadowChaosControl]

Dr. Steel 2: Electric Boogaloo- Dr. Steel
I lol'd when I seen the album name

[Duke Shingles]

No Sleep Til Bedtime-Strapping Young Lad
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys-Traffic

[willdabeast21]

No Sleep Til Bedtime-Strapping Young Lad


That's going in the original post, I love Strapping Young Lad

[Duke Shingles]

That's going in the original post, I love Strapping Young Lad

Devin Townsend is a mad genius.

[Prototype16]

I like Continuum by Prototype

[willdabeast21]

Devin Townsend is a mad genius.

And he's Canadian, so its all good

[nerry]

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

[rowtheboat]

Everyone Should Be Killed

[Lameboy19]

Hits From the Bow - Arsonists Get All The Girls

[DrewLee865]

Necrotism-Descanting the Insalubrious

[neckermanncj]

"No more stories
Are told today
I'm sorry
They washed away
No more stories
The world is grey
I'm tired
Let's wash away" - Mew


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[tridentgum0]

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food

[overcookedbacon]

mclusky - "The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire"

[neckermanncj]

mclusky - "The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire"

hahaha! :D i LOL'ed

[willdabeast21]

mclusky - "The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire"

Lmfao, that's going in the original post

[keith54]

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.

Is that really an album name??? Whose the artist/band?

[willdabeast21]

Is that really an album name??? Whose the artist/band?

Dead Kennedys I believe

[Kush_TT]

just skipped through the entire thread so i don' know if this has been said (sorry if it has)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

[WhiffleBallTony]

Necrotism-Descanting the Insalubrious

Necroticism, not Necrotism.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

mclusky - "The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire"

That's not cool.


That's ****ING AWESOME!

[ExpertDrummer]

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese - PRIMUS

Pork Soda - PRIMUS

Evil Empire - Rage Against The Machine

Those came to mind REALLY fast

[tridentgum0]

Is that really an album name??? Whose the artist/band?

Dead Kennedys.

[maddoggnick96]

Love Songs for the Retar*ed by The Que*rs

That caught my eye when I was looking at cd's

E.M.F. by GG Allin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.M.F._(album))
Stands for: "Eat My F***"
Also, look at the tracklist

[willdabeast21]

Love Songs for the ******ed by The *****s

That caught my eye when I was looking at cd's

E.M.F. by GG Allin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.M.F._(album))
Stands for: "Eat My F***"
Also, look at the tracklist

Thats funny

[cdestey]

Drowningman - Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
Scissorfight - Mantrapping For Sport And Profit
Pigface - Welcome To Mexico... A**hole
Pigface - Eat S*** You F***ing Redneck
Twodeadsluts Onegoodf*** - The Homorobotic Adventure Squad Presents Songs For Blasting Lasers And Fighting Evil Doers
Twodeadsluts Onegoodf*** - I Stuck My Boner in the Blender
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
Donnie Dumphy - I Loves Doin' Wheelies

[willdabeast21]

Drowningman - Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
Scissorfight - Mantrapping For Sport And Profit
Pigface - Welcome To Mexico... A**hole
Pigface - Eat S*** You F***ing Redneck
Twodeadsluts Onegoodf*** - The Homorobotic Adventure Squad Presents Songs For Blasting Lasers And Fighting Evil Doers
Twodeadsluts Onegoodf*** - I Stuck My Boner in the Blender
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
Donnie Dumphy - I Loves Doin' Wheelies

One of these things is not like the other.....
All good names though

[cdestey]

One of these things is not like the other.....
All good names though

Donnie Dumphy's the f***in man
Knocked out Dr. Buckingham

[I_Use_Shamwows]

Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age

Come on man......

[HeIsEdrid]

I'm surprised these haven't been mentioned:

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Devo - Question: Are We Not Men? Answer: We Are Devo!

They both happen to be cool albums in general, too. :D

[hiimSMAP]

Devo - Question: Are We Not Men? Answer: We Are Devo!

This and Who the F**k are the Artic Monkeys are my favorites.

[stuntmandrew]

A lot of great album names from early punk bands:

The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
Circle Jerks - Golden Shower Of Hits
The Vandals - Live Fast, Diarrhea
NOFX - Punk In Drublic
Pansy Division - That's So Gay
Rocket From The Crypt - Paint As A Fragrance
Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?

A lot more I'm not thinking of at the moment.

[Koenn]

You're all wrong, the single coolest album name in the history of music is Electric Six's

(deep breath)

I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master.

[CyanFunk]

Frank Zappa's We're in it Only for the Money
Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell
Mutiny's Mutiny On the Mamaship

[mxza1000]

Steal this Album- SOAD

[Francesca]

Too much "What's in my CD Visor Right Now" in this thread.

It's hard to describe what makes an album title cool. Depends on the who, what, and when.

I've seen some good examples in the thread:

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Devo - Question: Are We Not Men? Answer: We Are Devo!
Frank Zappa - We're in it only for the Money
GYBE - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
NOFX - Punk In Drublic
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols


You need one or more of clever, self-referential, thematic, memorable; all without it looking dated 10 years after the fact.

Some others of note not yet mentioned:

Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell
Filter - Title of Record
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Joe Walsh - You Bought it, You Name it
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!
The Propellerheads - decksandrumsandrockandroll
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge


The albums themselves aren't necessarily good, but the titles sure are. That's what you remember.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Steal this Album- SOAD

Every time I see that, I get "I wonder how many people actually STOLE this album" running through my head. Every time.

[Wiiman95]

I'm thinking of a Certain album by the band Korn. If you like Korn, you should know what album I'm talking about. Sure, it wasn't that good, but it had the BEST album name of all time.

[Idiostock]

Every time I see that, I get "I wonder how many people actually STOLE this album" running through my head. Every time.

Not going to lie, that one took my downloading virginity.

[DJPooka]

There's a few album names that I like which I've not seen in this list:-

White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000: Songs of Love, destruction and other synthetic delusions of the electric head
Front Line Assembly - FLA[vour] of the weak
Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... ...But Nothing Is Lost

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Not going to lie, that one took my downloading virginity.

It's like they want you to steal it. :p

It's been so long, and since I don't to it anymore. I don't remember what was the first thing I downloaded.

[a_bull_on_parade]

Nirvana's - Incesticide

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

NOFX - White Trash, Two Hebs and a Been

Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything

Rollins Band - The End Of Silence

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Here's a new one:

Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow

That's their new album name that drops in April of 2010.

[TheLovelyNoise]

singapore sling - life is killing my rock n' roll
the walkmen - everyone who pretended to like me is gone

[HeavyMetalKing]

Psychostick--The Flesh Eating Roller Skate Holiday Joy Ride

[LegendofRock3021]

Gehenna - The War of the Sons of Light and the Suns of Darkness

[tridentgum0]

National Suicide - The Old Family is Still Alive

[goodbyetonight]

Action Action - Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion and An Army of Shapes Between Wars
Atreyu - Fractures in the Facade of Your Porcelain Beauty
Boys Night Out - Broken Bones and Bloody Kisses
Chevelle - This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
Deadsy - Phantasmagore
Losprophets - thefakesoundofprogress
The Beautiful Mistake - Light a Match, For I Deserve to Burn
Noise Ratchet - Til We Have Faces
Powerman 5000 - Mega!! Kung Fu Radio and The Blood Splat Rating System
Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation

[ffwarrior47]

I'm not sure if these were mentioned but:

I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! - BrokenCYDE
If Guns Are Outlawed, Can We Use Swords? - Attack Attack!

Terrible bands, funny album names. :p

[goodbyetonight]

I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! - BrokenCYDE

I had to download that just to see if it was really as bad as everyone said it was. It wasn't...it was worse. :eek: