What's the longest album title you've got/seen
Posted by: Guido Fawkes on 11 March 2011
Whilst ripping my CD, as you do these daze. I found two album titles that gave iTunes a glitch
The first was Nivarna's excellent 1968 record The Existence Of Chance Is Everything and Nothing Whilst the Greatest Achievement Is the Living of Life and So Say All Of Us
But longer still was this excellent 2008 album from folkies Chumbawamba
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.
Both definitively worth a listen, but not easy to ask for in your local record emporium
Perhaps I should stick to "L" by Steve Hillage or "U" by ISB.
All the best Guy
Posted on: 12 March 2011 by Simon R
Not sure what my favorite long album title would be, but my fave long song title must be: "Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)"
Posted on: 12 March 2011 by winkyincanada
There was that Fiona Apple album -
"When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cause you'll know that you're right".
According to Wikipedia, it held the record until Chumbawumba took it out.
Posted on: 12 March 2011 by Guido Fawkes
The Small Furry Animals released the EP
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochocynygofod which in English is
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space)
Posted on: 15 March 2011 by Colin Lorenson
One of my McLaughlin early Shakti albums is recorded live, and intro'ed by JM as
"What need have I for this
What need have I for that
I am dancing at the feet of my lord
All is bliss, all is bliss"
All is bliss would've done nicely I feel. I'm a bit worried that I can remember the exact words actually, given the chemical ingestion at that period of my life.
Posted on: 15 March 2011 by anderson.council
Posted on: 15 March 2011 by Redmires
A record I once had in my collection ..... wonder where it went ?
"My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows"
T-Rex
Posted on: 15 March 2011 by Guido Fawkes
Originally Posted by anderson.council:
Good to see you back ex-ROTF. Must confess I've not been a freqent visitor since the upgrade when I too changed my username (ex-Scottc). Can't add to your list myself but did come across this http://www.listal.com/list/rid...ly-long-album-titlesCheersScott Thanks Scott - good to see you back too. All the best Guy Posted on: 15 March 2011 by Guido Fawkes
Originally Posted by Redmires:
A record I once had in my collection ..... wonder where it went ?
"My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows"
T-Rex
A very good album in my view, as was Prophets Seers and Sages, the Angels of the AgesAll the best, Guy Posted on: 15 March 2011 by Bluebeard
Longest in my collection is an EP from the Beasts of Bourbon:
Just Right-maxi single mini album alternative mix limited edition bonus tracks more than you deserve EP.
I think their tongues were in their collective cheeks...
regards,
Giles
Posted on: 17 March 2011 by llsaw
My longest album title:
Mew - No more stories are told today I'm sorry They washed away
No more stories The world is grey I'm tired Let's wash away
Posted on: 22 March 2011 by Conortsun
From here to Infinity - Lee Ranaldo