BLOG: Viva La Vida… and the worst album titles ever

Coldplay’s album title might be clunky, but it’s not as bad as these

Michael Leonard, Tue 17 Jun 2008, 12:51 pm UTC

Badfinger + Ass = sales disaster

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavoured Water
Scat-obsessed garbage as imagined by a five-year-old. And as for the album's title…

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
What does this mean? That there's a terminally unhappy dog that resembles a misspelt fruit? It means absolutely nothing, that's what it means.

Leonard Cohen – Ten New Songs
The songs are not new now though, are they Len? Think it through, man…

Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present And Future: Book I
Yes, Jackson can rewrite history. Literally. Without a hint of ego, of course.

Jefferson Airplane - The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane
An in-joke by the band, for a Greatest Hits collection, that should have stayed an in-joke. Let's hope the label's marketing department were all fired.

Kingdom Come - In Your Face
Ignore the fact that this is lifeless Zep-by-numbers. It's the imagery derived from the album title - say it right after the band's name - that is beyond redemption.

Kiss - You Wanted The Best, You Got The Best
Yes, I did want "the best." Now, how do you explain the music on this album?

Blink 182 -Enema Of The State
What was it about the early noughties and bum jokes?

REO Speedwagon - The Earth, A Small Man, His Dog And A Chicken
Is this the punchline to some in-joke? Or is the album the joke? We have no idea and we're not going to find out.

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
No thanks. We'll just take off the CD.

Beyoncé - B-Day
We can only assume Beyonce nor anyone at her record company understands French? Crappy title. Literally.

Peter Gabriel – all solo albums
The seven albums being: Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel, So, Us and Up. Thirty years to think of four letters? Gabriel must be rubbish at crosswords.

Aerosmith - Just Push Play
We know how a CD player works. Guys, you forgot to include the preface saying "earn money, go to shop, buy CD player, buy CD, remove CD from case" etc…

Incubus - Fungus Amongus
There's room for improvement on this awful title. But not mushroom, etc…

Filter - Title Of Record
So why wasn't this album credited to Name Of Artist? Filter – you are simply lazy and you cannot complete any task.

GG Allin And The Scumfucs - Eat My Fuc
One for Mothers' Day? Maybe not.

That's probably the worst. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends doesn't seem so bad now. Even if it still makes me think of Ricky Martin.

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User comments (3)

SimonJohnOwen

Sun 22 Jun 2008, 2:38 pm UTC

No Ted Nugent on this list ? This man released the famous albums ' Penetrator ' and ' If You Can't Lick 'Em...Lick 'em ' !

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BlindLemonAde

Tue 17 Jun 2008, 7:16 pm UTC

Tyrannosaurus Rex - My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows.
Overblown twaddle from Mr Bolan, who abbreviated the name to "T Rex" and found teenybop fame...

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ChrisVinnicombe

Tue 17 Jun 2008, 4:22 pm UTC

Maybe not one of the worst, but certainly one to rival Fiona Apple for length:
Soulwax - Most of the remixes we've made for other people over the years except for the one for Einstürzende Neubauten because we lost it and a few we didn't think sounded good enough or just didn't fit in length-wise, but including some that are hard to find because either people forgot about them or simply because they haven't been released yet, a few we really love, one we think is just ok, some we did for free, some we did for money, some for ourselves without permission and some for friends as swaps but never on time and always at our studio in Ghent.

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