I’ve just been looking through my old LPs and noticed that I seem to have a large number with strange and probably drug-induced titles. Anyone beat these:

Weasels ripped my flesh (Zappa)
Hot Rats (Zappa)
U (Incredible String band)
The 5000 Spirits or the layers of the onion (ISB again)
The hangmans beautiful daughter (ISB)
Liquid Acrobat as regards the air (ISB)
Trout mask replica (Captain Beefheart)
Swordfish trombones (Tom Waits)
Be glad for the song has no ending (Mike Heron)
Myrrh (Robin willamson)
A glint at the Kindling (Robin Williamson)
Disraeli Gears (Cream)
Songs of love and hate (leonard Cohen)

There’s more, but that’ll do for now ….

Peter Gabriel’s early work had some interesting titles. Sort of….

Some are self-consciously wacky, like MAD Colin from the Fast Show.

Have you heard of Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline by Gomez?

Ive heard that Gomez album name before. Seasick Steve – I started out with nothin’ and I still got some of it left.

Beautiful Freak – Eels.
A crow left of the murder – Incubus.
Gutter Phenomenom – Everytime I Die.
I am a bird now – Antony and the Johnsons.

Pink Floyd’s classic “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict”

WTF 😆

Aah, but that’t a song title, not an album title. That would go on forever ….

Galactic Ass Creatures from Uranus – Detroit Grand Pubahs

google the album cover as well, although it’s not particularly safe for work

Gong – Camembert Electrique.

Post-rock is the place for “weird” titles

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You Black Emperor

Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward – Silver Mount Zion

Beer and Sex and Chips and Gravy by the Macc Lads

swadey – i work with this fella (he works with audience response keypad systems). he has always had a really (and i mean frighteningly) dry sense of humour. calls himself Mutley. turns out he IS Mutley from the Macc lads, hence the sense of humour. he wrote most of their lyrics. took me 3 years to work this out, he’s not embarrassed by it, just keeps it quiet!

Gong, Incredible String Band bloody hippies

I like
“Dig a hole in the substrate and tell me what you see” – Jim White
and anything by Stereolab –
“Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky night”
springs to mind.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/hit-and-hope-design-challenge

Anything by An*l C*nt

Incredible String band – they were a ‘guilty secret’ when I was a mod and only supposed to like soul music (and only certain sorts of that!). Still like ’em, though (and Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Richard thompson and various other 60’s survivors.

Oh what a lovely pie – Cosmic Psychos

How about:

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips

or

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust by Sigur Ros

The Sigur Ros one translates as “with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly”

Spaghettification – Chocolate Weasel

mrmichaelwright – you are honoured. “No more sheep til Buxton”….

Dirk wear white sox

The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback From Guya
by Bread Love and Dreams.

tiny music, songs from the vatican gift shop – stone temple pilots

or the strangest in my collection…

Great truckin’ songs of the renaissance – tism

gogol bordello
super taranta!

Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water – Limp Bizkit

Those are not my bongos – by Fu*k

also

Pardon my french – also by Fu*k

“The mysterious tale of how i shouted ‘Wrong eyed Jesus!'” another classic title by Jim White. Very wordy fella, always interesting. When i bought that album, i ran right back to the record store to seek out his back catalogue, only to be told, that’s it, it’s a debut release – shocking! A man who sounds like he was born in a recording studio.

Hamburger 3: the night she returned. By Flesh-D-Vice

And I missed the Cosmic Psychos in Hobart last year cos I was at uni. Dig out the Mud Cows bid for some good tunes of theirs + Sprung Monkey. “I’m just the man who drank too much”

Ummagumma by Pink Floyd.
The Uplift Mofo Party Play by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
This is the day…this is the hour…this is this! by Pop Will Eat Itself.

First one I thought of was Trout Mask Replica when I saw the thread.

Ludicrous title on this one – http://tinyurl.com/ah5qrd

Mezzanine by Massive Attack,
Steal this Album by System of a Down,
Peloton by The Delgados

and, saved the best for last;

Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse.

The new Half Man Half Biscuit album is called “CSI Ambleside”. 😆

The Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus by Spirit

Attack of the Grey Lantern by Mansun.

Dubnobasswithmyheadman by Underworld

People other than me recommending Sparklehorse and Jim White – wonderful! 🙂

How about I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in this Dump, by Shivaree?

Hard to believe we have got so far in this thread without mentioning the mighty Happy Mondays with: Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out).

I also like ‘For All the ****-Up Children of This World We Give You Spacemen 3’

Blazing fires and helicopters on the frontpage of the newspaper. There´s a war going on and I´m marching in heavy boots by Suffocate For **** Sake

Houston We Have A Drinking Problem by Bad Astronaut

Hooray For Boobies by Bloodhound Gang

Smells Like Children by Marilyn Manson

how about

Locust Abortion Technician by The Butthole Surfers.