Weird Song/Album Titles

Some favorite Captain Beefheart song titles (though I've never actually heard most of the songs):

I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go
Tropical Hot Dog Night
Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee
A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond

Also, they stopped doing this altogether more recently, but Minus The Bear song titles used to pretty much exclusively be based on private jokes and had nothing to do with what the song was about ("Monkey! Knife! Fight!" and "Thanks For The Killer Game Of Crisco Twister" for example).

edited 30th Apr '10 9:23:50 PM by MikeK

The No More Heroes games have some... interesting song names. In particular:

Weird - "Stop Hanging DJs", "Vioectrolysis", "Pleather For Breakfast"

Awesome - "We Are Finally Cowboys"

Crazy Awesome - "Mach 13 Elephant Explosion"

edited 30th Apr '10 9:32:15 PM by Blueeyedrat

TISM, in barrowloads: 'Greg! The Stop Sign!', 'And The Ass Said To The Angel: Let's Play Kick To Kick', 'Thou Shalt Not Britney Spear', 'If You're Not Famous At Fourteen, You're Finished', 'Abcess Makes The Heart Grow Fonder', 'Saturday Night Palsy', etc.

edited 30th Apr '10 10:10:31 PM by DarkDecapodian

I haven't played the game or heard the soundtrack, but "Stop Hanging DJs" kind of makes sense if you know "Panic" by The Smiths, which ends in about 30 repetitions of "Hang the DJ".

Come to think of it, T. Rex had some pretty weird album titles. For album titles there's My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows as noted in Long Title. Possibly the weirdest song title of theirs that I know of is "Fish Heart Mighty Dawn Dart", although at first I Read That As "Fish Heart Mighty Lawn Dart", and I can't decide if that would be more or less weird.

Anything by Cake. ANYTHING. Eg:

• Satan Is My Motor
• Comfort Eagle
• Carbon Monoxide
• Hem Of Your Garment
• Commissioning A Symphony In C
• Racecar Ya-Yas
• Nugget
• Sheep Go To Heaven
• Alpha Beta Parking Lot
• Meanwhile, Rick James...

And that is but scratching the surface, my friends.

A 90's rap group called HWA (Hoez With Attitude) has ''Az Much Ass Azz U Want". I can't read that without laughing.

And then you've got any title by the Butthole Surfers. I can't believe these haven't been named yet:

• Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
• Rembrandt Pussyhorse
• Locust Abortion Technician
• Hairway to Steven
• piouhgd
• Independent Worm Saloon
• Electriclarryland

edited 16th May '10 7:19:18 PM by troperwithoutaname

Since Tool's already been mentioned, I'll nominate the following:

• Peach's only full-length album under that name, Giving Birth to a Stone
• "Dna Ts. Rednum or F.Raf" by Riverside, from the EP Voices in My Head

edited 16th May '10 7:33:51 PM by RTHSFF

Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac

The great thing about this album title: I read in the book Our Band Could Be Your Life that one band member wanted to call the album Psychic... Powerless and another wanted Another Man's Sac, so they just put the two titles together and got something infinitely weirder.

Pretty much the whole of Pin-Up Went Down's album 2 Unlimited.

• Intrusion
• Esthete Piggie
• Nearly Dead Bat Make-Up
• Cadavre Exquis
• Pussy Worship
• Get Ready To Sweep
• Yo-Yo Yes Then No
• Only Some Shitty Chemical Stuff
• Human Beat Box Deluxe
• Feat.Me/Feat.Us
• Be My Idol Then My Fall
• Serie Z I
• Serie Z II

I must add anything by Fall Out Boy or Panic! At The Disco. For instance:

• "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off"
• "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage"
• "I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You)"
• "Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here)"
• "I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)"
• "I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me"

And that's the tip of the iceberg, once again.

edited 19th May '10 3:51:25 PM by troperwithoutaname

I haven't actually heard it, but Editors have a song called "Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool".

Oh, and:

Dna Ts. Rednum or F.Raf

I just figured out that this is backwards, and it still doesn't really make sense the other way around - "Far From Understand"?

edited 24th May '10 11:16:06 AM by MikeK

Budgie has a couple:

Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
Hot as a Docker's Armpit
You're the Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk
Crash Course in Brain Surgery
If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules

edited 24th May '10 11:01:45 AM by TheSanityAssassin

How on earth did I forget Wild Beasts when I first posted here?

Their first album alone, which has its own fairly nonsensical title of "Limbo Panto", contains such gems as "Vigil For A Fuddy Duddy", "Woebegone Wanderers", "She Purred, While I Grrred" and my personal favourite, "Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants".

Also:

• Tartufi - Fear Of Tall Giraffes, Fear Of Some Birds
• Jaga Jazzist - I Have A Ghost, Now What?
• And So I Watch You From Afar - D Is For Django The Bastard

How in the hell did I forget Ministry? Their albums include such gems as The Land of Rape And Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing To Taste, Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed and the Way To Suck Eggs, and Dark Side Of The Spoon. Songs include "Jesus Built My Hotrod" and "Lay Lady Lay". And yet, Ministry is awesome.

"Lay Lady Lay" is a cover of a Bob Dylan song, believe it or not. A Bob Dylan song from the album where he sort of went country, at that. And interestingly other than adding distorted guitar and Al Jourgensen's trademark Guttural Growler vocals, they didn't really change a lot from the original. Kind of the only Dylan cover I've heard where the lyrics were originally easier to understand, come to think of it.

For whatever reason, I was suddenly reminded of Venetian Snares. He has some fairly weird album and song titles in general (Cavalcade Of Glee And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms and Chocolate Wheelchair Album), but I'm mainly going to bring up Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole. Why? Because all of the song titles are about how awful Winnipeg is. "Winnipeg Is A Dogshit Dildo", "Winnipeg Is Fucking Over", "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die", etc.

edited 31st May '10 10:00:15 AM by MikeK

John Fahey, Guitarist's guitarist. He was eccentric, and many of his songs have weird titles, but my favorite is:

"The Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Philip XV of Spain"

It's actually an awesome slide guitar/delta blues track, and well worth the listen if you can find it. It's on the "Roots of Led Zeppelin" CD.

"H to He, Who am the Only One" by Van der Graaf Generator.

"Hard Normal Daddy" and various songs by Squarepusher.

Mclusky were great with these. Favorite album title: The Difference Between You And Me Is That I'm Not On Fire. Favorite song titles: "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues", "The World Loves Us And Is Our Bitch", "Dave, Stop Killing Prostitutes".

Fuck yeah, Mclusky! I take it you've listened to Falkous and Egglestone's post-Mclusky band, Future Of The Left? They continue the bizarre but hilarious song naming trend, with such gems as "Stand By Your Manatee", "You Need Satan More Than He Needs You", "Fuck The Countryside Alliance", "Wrigley Scott" and "adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood".

edited 1st Jul '10 2:12:46 PM by Saeglopur

I hate this band but when it comes to odd titles, it's hard to beat My Mouth Is Full of Dropkicking Astronauts. Here's some track titles from their EP, Look At Me, I'm a Breakdancing Dinosaur.




*Dear Diary, Today I Broke The Skulls From Pink Haired Crocodiles

• KA ME HA ME HAAAA!!!! Damn, That Was Brutal, My Head Hurts
• Tits!!!Knifes!!! Handshakes!!!Brittany
• Wheelchair vs. Old School Mustache
• Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin, I Paint Him With Colour and Than I Play Dart With Him

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edited 1st Jul '10 2:36:53 PM by Delimanman

A Day to Remember has some rather odd song titles. i.e., -I'm Made of Wax, Larry, What are you Made of? -Mr Highway's Thinking About the End -NJ Legion Iced Tea A Skylit Drive, too: -Air The Enlightenment -The Boy Without a Demon -Pursuit Lets Wisdom Ride the Wind -Wires and the Concept of Breathing

They definitely aren't as weird as some names out there, but if you take the actual song meanings and lyrics into account...

I know of them but haven't really listened actually, Saeglopur. Glad to see they're carrying on Mclusky's strange song title tradition.

Absu - In the Name of Auebothiabathabaithobeuee

The Unpronounceable.

edited 8th Jul '10 1:43:35 PM by TheSanityAssassin

I'm Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?

They never tell us what Larry is made of. Damn it, I wanna know! I still like the song, though.