Best CD name ever

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".