27 September 2015
Most Peculiar and Tasteful ALBUM TITLES
Some could almost have worked as titles for sci-fi-novels.
Funny thing was, to remind me of these fantastic titles, I found more internet inspiration from "worst titles" lists than from "best titles" lists.
Surprises me further that some of the most lyrically ambitious artists came up with quite ordinary names for all their albums.
1
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD
David Bowie
2
LABOUR OF LUST
Nick Lowe
3
YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY
The Byrds
4
MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD
Talking Heads
5
THE ROARING SILENCE
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
6
THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS
Joni Mitchell
7
RUBBER SOUL
The Beatles
8
RETURN TO FOREVER
Chick Corea
9
EVEN IN THE QUITEST MOMENTS
Supertramp
10
VERY
Pet Shop Boys
11
A WOOFER IN TWEETER'S CLOTHING
Sparks
12
EASTER EVERYWHERE
13:th Floor Elevators
13
THE BIRDS, THE BEES & THE MONKEES
The Monkees
14
A GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN
Donovan
15
IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE...
(THEN PREPARE FOR INDIGESTION)
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
16
ANOTHER MUSIC IN A DIFFERENT KITCHEN
Buzzcocks
17
SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND
Genesis
18
BUDDHA AND THE CHOCOLATE BOX
Cat Stevens
19
BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE
Brian Eno
20
2
[= overcrossing the self-titled name of their first album]
NEU!
21
DOUBLE FANTASY
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
22
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
Simon & Garfunkel
23
BACK HERE ON EARTH
Gordon Lightfoot
24
NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD CEREMONY
Leonard Cohen
25
HOUSES OF THE HOLY
Led Zeppelin
26
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING
King Crimson
27
H TO HE WHO AM THE ONLY ONE
Van Der Graaf Generator
28
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
Alice Cooper
29
HELP!
The Beatles
30
BITCHES BREW
Miles Davis and more
31
BRAIN SALAD SURGERY
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
32
BETWEEN THE BUTTONS
Rolling Stones
33
THIRTY THREE & 1/3
George Harrison
34
QUADROPHENIA
The Who
35
DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS
Belle and Sebastian
36
SECRET, PROFANE & SUGARCANE
Elvis Costello
37
RELAYER
Yes
38
OK COMPUTER
Radiohead
39
MEMORY ALMOST FULL
Paul McCartney
40
TOO LOW FOR ZERO
Elton John
41
TIME TAKES TIME
Ringo Starr
42
ACTUALLY
Pet Shop Boys
43
& YET & YET
Do Make Say Think
44
THE IDLER WHEEL IS WISER THAN THE DRIVER OF THE SCREW AND WHIPPING CORDS WILL SERVE YOU MORE THAN ROPES WILL EVER DO
Fiona Apple
45
APOSTROPHE (')
Frank Zappa
46
SWORDFISH TROMBONES
Tom Waits
47
(COME ON FEEL THE) ILLINOISE
Sufjan Stevens
48
WHAT WE SAW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
Regina Spektor
49
THIS IS
Stina Nordenstam
50
FOREVER CHANGES
Love
51
VERSION 2.0
Garbage
52
IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU
Lily Allen
53
BEAUTY AND THE BEAT
Go-Go's
54
BACK TO BLACK
Amy Winehouse
55
THE AGE OF PLASTIC
The Buggles
56
POCKET SYMPHONY
Air
57
STRATOSFEAR
Tangerine Dream
58
AFTERNOONS IN UTOPIA
Alphaville
59
LIFTED or THE STORY IS IN THE SOIL, KEEP YOUR EAR TO THE GROUND
Bright Eyes
60
MOONMADNESS
Camel
61
ANOTHER DAY ON EARTH
Brian Eno
62
NAKED NUMBER ONE
Tomas Di Leva
63
ALADDIN SANE
David Bowie
64
THE MILK-EYED MENDER
Joanna Newsom
65
SON OF A PLUMBER
Per Gessle
66
DIARY OF A MADMAN
Ozzy Osbourne
67
LOVE AT FIRST STING
Scorpions
68
ZOOLOOK
Jean Michel Jarre
69
DECEPTIVE BENDS
10cc
70
UMMAGUMMA
Pink Floyd
71
TURNSTILES
Billy Joel
72
THE TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD
Alan Parsons' Project
73
IF I COULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I'D DO IT ALL OVER YOU
Caravan
74
THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING
Elbow
75
VESPERTINE
Björk
76
THE RAVEN THAT REFUSED TO SING
Steven Wilson
77
SONG OF SEVEN
Jon Anderson
To be on this list I should have heard each album (at least once). Otherwise it would be too many titles to choose among. For same easy reason I concentrate on titles in english (or gibberish) language.
A plus but not a demand is that the contempt of actual music reflects the title well.
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11 September 2015
seVen seen : Sides of Big WAR, among Real Soldiers (or Fictional Fighters)
crazy, comic and serious
before, during or after
my Recent Movie (Re)Discoveries
Fifth Tower of 2015
through chakras
this points process system is
inspired by Sigge Eklund's 12/12/12/12 idea
Crown chakra
WHERE EAGLES DARE
[ÖRNNÄSTET]
directed by Brian G. Hutton
UK /Austria /USA 1968
written by Alistair MacLean
5 Expectation Before
5 Halfway
5 Whole just seen
3 After further Reflection
4 Repeating or Reading about
Total Process 22 /5
= 4.4
most memorable Role : VON HAPEN (Derren Nesbitt)
third EYE chakra
TRON
by Steven Lisberger
USA, Taiwan 1982
[seen for second time now,
soon two years ago first time]
4 Expectation Before
3 Halfway
5 Whole just seen
4 After further Reflection
5 Repeating or Reading about
Total Process 21 /5
= 4.2
most memorable role : DUMONT "The Pyramidical Tower Guardian" (Barnard Hughes)
Throat chakra
THE IMITATION GAME
by Morten Tyldum
UK /USA 2014
4 Expectation Before
3 Halfway
4 Whole just seen
3 After further Reflection
4 Repeating or Reading about
Total Process 18 /5
= 3.6
most memorable role : JOAN CLARKE (Keira Knightley)
Heart chakra
BAND OF BROTHERS, episode 1 + 2
different directors
USA 2001
written by Stephen Ambrose
4 Expectation Before
4 Halfway (one episode of ten)
3 Whole just seen (two episodes of ten)
3 After further Reflection
4 Repeating or Reading about
Total Process 18 /5
= 3.6
most memorable role : LT. RICHARD WINTERS (Damian Lewis)
Solar Plexus chakra
WHIPLASH
by Damien Chazelle
USA 2014
5 Expectation Before
4 Halfway
4 Whole just seen
3 After further Reflection
3 Repeating or Reading about
Total Process 19 /5
= 3.8
most memorable role : TEACHER FLETCHER (J.K. Simmons)
Sex chakra /Sacred chakra
PATTON
directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
USA 1970
written by Francis Ford Coppola
4 Expectation Before
5 Halfway
4 Whole just seen
3 After further Reflection
3 Repeating or Reading about
Total Process 19 /5
= 3.8
most memorable role : GENERAL PATTON (George C. Scott)
Root chakra
ROME, OPEN CITY
[ROMA, CITTÀ APERTA]
by Roberto Rossellini
Italy 1945
5 Expectation Before
1 Halfway
3 Whole just seen
3 After further Reflection
4 Repeating or Reading about
Total Process 16 /5
= 3.2
most memorable role : DON PIETRO PELLEGRINI (Aldo Fabrizi)
Realise that none (of these) seems to get higher value after further Reflection
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08 September 2015
04 September 2015
my 40 Favourite Elton John Songs
among them made 1969-78
as I experience this masterpieces nowadays
including Taupin's lyrics
ordered by Phases of my life
Retroactive from 2015 back to 1975
through each year they most feels or seems to Represent
39 year old
COUNTRY COMFORT
"I saw grandma yesterday down at the store
Was she really going five or eighty-four?"
38 year old
WESTERN FORD GATEWAY
37 year old
MONA LISAS AND MAD HATTERS
36 year old
THE KING MUST DIE
35 year old
WRITING
34 year old
ROCKET MAN (it's lonely here in space)
33 year old
(City living woman) YOU'RE SO STATIC
32 year old
BIG DIPPER
31 year old
TOWER OF BABEL
30 year old
SOMEONE'S FINAL SONG
29 year old
INTO THE OLD MAN'S SHOES
28 year old
SOLAR PRESTIGE A GAMMON
27 year old
AMOREENA
26 year old
TEXAN LOVE SONG
25 year old
I'VE SEEN THE SAUCERS
24 year old
HYMN 2000
23 year old
ISLAND GIRL
22 year old
PINKY
"candlelight fell like a crescent
upon your feather pillow"
21 year old
TINY DANCER
20 year old
THE BALLAD OF DANNY BAILEY
19 year old
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND (LOVE LIES BLEEDING)
18 year old
DIRTY LITTLE GIRL
17 year old
WE ALL FALL IN LOVE SOMETIMES
(including CURTAINS)
16 year old
IT'S ME THAT YOU NEED (Look in the Mirror)
15 year old
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
14 year old
THIS SONG HAS NO TITLE
"in a vast high powered rocket to the core of the sun
want to read books in the studies of men"
13 year old
PINBALL WIZARD
[penned by Townshend for Tommy]
12 year old
DAN DARE (PILOT OF THE FUTURE)
[my first computer game]
11 year old
TEACHER I NEED YOU
10 year old
(It's hard to write a song with) BITTER FINGERS
9 year old
SONG FOR GUY
8 year old
YOUR SONG
[especially a cover with Mia Martini]
7 year old
LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS
[penned by Beatle Lennon]
6 year old
CROCODILE ROCK
5 year old
SKYLINE PIGEON (over...
flowers and forest fountains)
4 year old
GREY SEAL (How does it feel to be so wise?)
3 years old
HARMONY (and me...
Baby Hello!)
2 years old
(Everybody needs a) PART-TIME LOVE
1 year old
FEED ME
0 year old
COME DOWN IN TIME
part of Country Comfort
Elton also made numbers with fitting titles asSixty Years On
or Between Seventeen And Twenty
but they just almost
feels good enough to join the fourty
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