Best CD name ever

Subject: Best album name ever
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 07:40 PM

Australian group The Roaring Forties have a CD of sea shanties and forebitters called Life Of Brine. My candidate for best album name ever.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Arkie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 07:55 PM

Won't go so far as to claim best ever, but it did get my attention: New World Records "Don't Give the Name a Bad Place".

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 08:22 PM

Not a CD but Muckram Wakes had an album caalled

"Warbles, Jangles & Reeds"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Beer
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 08:23 PM

Not Folk I guess but I always liked Eric Burton Declares War and Johnny Rivers Realization. When it comes to Folk Music, there are to many to mention.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Celtaddict
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 10:35 PM

When Adam McNaughtan took two albums he made in the early 70s, 'Words, Words, Words' and 'The Glasgow I Used to Know' and made them into one CD, decades later, he titled it "The Words I Used to Know."

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Charles J. Fish
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 11:13 PM

I've always been fond of Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica," just because it's so weird. Props go also to Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and David Frieberg's "Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun."

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 11:28 PM

Art Thieme's "The Older I get, the Better I Was"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Zhenya
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 12:25 AM

A few I like:

"Traditional Music of the Future" by No Strings Attached.

"The Rest is Yet to Come" by the Double Decker Stringband

and of course:

"Old Hag, You Have Killed Me" by The Bothy Band

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 12:47 AM

The other night at music a band title popped into my head: 'Flailin' and Thrashin'.

Think they'll sell?

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 02:38 AM

The Chieftains Harpists eponymous waxing...
Derek Bell plays with himself.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Anglo
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 02:42 AM

I vote for Art Thieme.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Anglo
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 02:43 AM

(I do like Life of Brine, though, especially since I'm a shanty singer).

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:18 AM

I've always liked a skiffle record entitled "Songs about trains, women, alcohol and death".
Just about sums up the repertoire!

RtS

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:16 AM

Unsolicited advert!

Roaring Forties "Life of Brine" via paypal for those who want a copy!

sandra (friend & fan of the Forties)

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:42 AM

One Clinton Hammond, Pat Stewart, and I had planned, but never got around to recording: Last Call, Me Arse!.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: van lingle
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 05:42 AM

Art's "Outright Bold-faced Lies" on Kicking Mule.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: van lingle
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 05:44 AM

...that was vinyl.

Danu's "Think Before You Think"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 05:49 AM

Richard Durrant & Nick Lynn's album (recently re-released) "Incessant scratching, picking and squeezing..."

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 06:25 AM

Veteran concertina player, Kitty Hayes' and uillean piper Peter Laban's 'They'll Be Good Yet' taken from an overheard remark by box player Jackie Daly who said it after a magnificent set by the duo at our local session.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 06:52 AM

By the way, I did try to change the Subject from "Best CD name ever" to "Best album name ever," it just didn't work. Vinyl suggestions are welcome.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 06:54 AM

In which case, The life and transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (John Fahey) springs instantly to mind.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Folkiedave
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 01:30 PM

Peggy Seeger and Irene Pyper-Scott as a duo known as "No Spring Chickens" and their record "Not Commercially Viable".

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 01:34 PM

"Incessant scratching, picking and squeezing..."

perfection

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 01:34 PM

Roy Harper; "Come out Fighting, Ghengis Smith"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 02:34 PM

Clive John, "You always know where you stand with a buzzard"

From the same period, I always liked the title "Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you", although I don't know the album itself.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Rog Peek
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 02:38 PM

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash - Pogues

Rog

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 02:50 PM

Ian Hunter's "You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Art Thieme
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:31 PM

I want the thank the academy and all the people who voted for me!

Love,

Art

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: RolyH
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:32 PM

Oyster Band "English Rock 'n Roll the Early Years - 1800-1850"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Rich
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:43 PM

A mate of mine made an album called 'Bright Lights, Big Settee' which I liked.

He was also in a band called 'The Inflatable Arm Band' which still makes me smile everytime I think of it.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 03:44 PM

Old Vinyl LP by Leon Rosselson and Adrian Mitchell.


A Laugh a Song, and a Hand Grenade


JM

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: michaelr
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:29 PM

If there's ever a collection or retrospective of my band's recordings, I'll call it "Greta's Tits".

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Splott Man
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 03:47 AM

Trouble over Bridgwater by Trevor Lucas...

also an album name used by Half Man Half Biscuit, which has got to be one of the best band names ever.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Woody
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 03:58 AM

I always liked Bauhaus' Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:46 AM

That was Trevor Crozier, Splott Man, but you probably know that! You beat me to it (well the title at least :-)

mention of Half Man Half Biscuit though reminds me of their album "Back in the DHSS"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:49 AM

"The Rusty Razor" by Goats Don't Shave

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Splott Man
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:55 AM

Thanks Kevin, faulty memory at work there.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Deckman
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:39 AM

"SONGS I SING AFTER DARK" Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,MC Fat (at work)
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:08 AM

wasn't there an album called 'Home and Deranged'

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: jonm
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:37 AM

"Popular to Contrary Belief" was apparently coined by John Tams for the Dransfields.

Budgie's "Britannia Waives the Rules."

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: TheSnail
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:22 AM

Electric Landlady - Kirsty MacColl
Golden Grates - Roaring Jelly

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Vic Smith
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:38 AM

Best album title ever?
No competition!
Outright winner:-
Hackney Martians Buddy, Can You Spare A Qeb?zog

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: rich-joy
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:19 AM

I think "Home and Deranged" was from the wonderful English Country Blues Band!

Cheers, R-J

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:16 AM

Thanks to Jim for the mention. Another one mentioned by Jackie Daly with it's title taken from George Melly's book : 'Rum, Bum and concertina'

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: RTim
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:25 AM

Didn't Pink Floyd have one called - "Far Canal"? Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: davyr
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:39 AM

Fairport's "Expletive Delighted".

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: TheSnail
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:40 AM

In that case... Brighton band The Fox's only album was For Fox Sake.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: RTim
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:20 AM

I forgot about The Kipper Family and "Norfolk and Good" Tim R

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:45 AM

"33 1/3 Revolutions per Minute"

I wonder if the next generations will understand the reference.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: robomatic
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:48 AM

Fahey: "Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories"

but my fave:

Bloodhound Gang: "One Fierce Beer Coaster"

both were worthwhile albums

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Cats
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 02:50 PM

Jon Heslop's 60th Birthday Cd was called 'Even Superstars Buy Toilet Cleaner'

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Bainbo
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:00 PM

Apparently (according to Kathryn Tickell) the Northumbrian shepherds Joe Hutton (Northumbrian pipes), Willie Taylor (fiddle) and Will Atkinson (mouth organ) wanted to call their album Joe and his Two Willies. (This may not carry the same connotations for American English-speakers.)

Anyway, the record company baulked at it, and it ended up being called Harthope Burn, after a local beauty spot.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: treewind
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:37 PM

...Which reminds me of the High Level Ranters' Four in a Bar.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: treewind
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:40 PM

We've got an album in the pipeline of material mostly from Cambridgeshire and the Fens and were wondering about calling it Down the Drain.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Folknacious
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:42 PM

"I think "Home and Deranged" was from the wonderful English Country Blues Band!"

A member of which, Rod Stradling, had a solo album called "Rhythms Of The Wold" (he's from Stroud in the Cotswolds). And their label, Rogue Records, apparently put out a pair of West African compilations, one called "Jali House Rock" and the other "There's A Griot Going On" (I read all this in a letter in The Word recently, so I hope it's true!)

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Nick E
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:11 PM

While not folk (This being a folks site and all, thought the thread does not ask for best Folk CD tile) I just always liked...
More Songs About Buildings And Food
The Talking Heads

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Celtaddict
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 12:42 AM

I have long admired Jim Wearne's album of traditional Cornish songs, "Heroes, Lovers, and Ducks"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:17 AM

Mr Smith Thanks for the mench!!(We considered calling ourselves the Cambridge Heathens at one point)

Hows about the pub rock band Kursall Flyers, who had to reform to pay a tax bill, and released an LP called
"A Tour De Force is Forced to Tour"

Also Caravans 3 LP's
"In the land of the Grey and Pink"
"Cunning Stunts"
"Girls who grow plump in the night"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Zhenya
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:56 AM

I'm a bit surprised no one has yet mentioned these 2 albums from the Klezmer group The Klezmatics:

"Rhythm and Jews"

and

"Jews with Horns"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Hamish
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:53 AM

Craobh Rua had a few good 'uns:

If Ida Been Here Ida Been There;
No Matter How Cold And Wet You Are As Long As You're Warm And Dry;
The More That's Said The Less The Better.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Surreysinger
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 07:35 PM

Folknacious ... it;s true, believe!!
Ralphie - according to a posting that Gavin Atkin put up on concertina.net you very nearly ended up as the Woolwich Fairies ... or did you not wish to admit to that one??

Trawling through the thread at that place on a similar vein, I found mention of a Brighton group called "Christians in search of filth" ... rather liked that!!!!

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Surreysinger
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 07:38 PM

Sorry - just realised this is the wrong thread .. its best CD not best band name (doh! easily confused,me ... however, the second sentence is relevant to Ralphie's observations, I suppose, even if the third ain't relevant to this thread .....)

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Fossil in NZ at work
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 10:12 PM

Michael Chapman: "Live and Unhinged"

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Zhenya
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:35 AM

Just found while browsing through the Elderly Instruments catalogue -

a guitar CD called "My Favorite Martin".

(Admittedly, you probably have to be of a certain age to get the humor in this one.)

My Favorite Martin

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: van lingle
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 07:56 PM

"Taking Shallowness to New Depths" by the Bonafides.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 08:03 PM

Our fine local old-time / contra band, the Privy Tippers, has a new cd out entitled, "Straddling the Muffin-Biscuit Line". (Muffins being more northern, biscuits more southern... a-la-Mason-Dixon.)

~ Becky, back in Tucson

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Y_Not
Date: 30 Nov 08 - 08:26 PM

Tony Nyland
"Follow That... With a Bucket and Shovel".

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: rich-joy
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:56 AM

I just came across this 1981 LP :

"A Good Run for Your Money" by Dr Bowser's Brown Bowel Oil Band
(English Country & Playford Tunes)

found at
http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/2008/10/by-gonzo_31.html


Cheers, R-J

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Colin Randall
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 05:18 AM

Another Leon Rosselson nomination:
Wo Sind Die Elefanten?

   ..the phrase having been taken (or imagined; not sure if it was songwriter's licence) from a BBC Learn German book.

Great title matched by the quality of the songs.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 07:33 AM

After Elton John released his Capt Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboys,

Mike Harding released his folk alternative;

Capt Paralytic and the Brown Ale Cowboys.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 09:33 AM

I always liked Pat Sky's "Harvest of Gentle Clang."

BTW, if anyone can tell me a legitimate source for a CD copy of this album, pm me. All I can find are black market CR-R copies made from the oricinal vinyl. Even Pat Sky doesn't know of a legitimate re-release source since he (as of a couple of years ago) hasn't authorized any re-releases.

SC

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: GUEST,Wayne
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:45 AM

R.E.O. Speedwagon's The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog & a Chicken.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Midchuck
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 11:59 AM

I like Art's and the Pogues' titles, but I'm also partial to one by Gregg Keeler called Songs of Fishing, Sheep, and Guns in Montana. That covers about everything in the state.

Peter

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Arkie
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 12:15 PM

I don't know if it ever was made into a CD but Mudcat's Bill in Alabama had a cassette some years ago with his family band called "You Must Be Present to Attend". The title caught my eye but I literally wore out the tape because I liked the music.

Subject: RE: Best CD name ever
From: Tangledwood
Date: 08 Jan 09 - 04:56 PM

Not folk but for a name contender "Bach in the Bight" by StringyBach has to be up there.

For non-Aussies I'll just point out that there is a tree called stringybark, and the large body of water to the south of the continent is The Great Australian Bight. One of the tracks on the CD is "The Barque in the Bight".