Name the best album NAME that isn't a track

[GhostOfTomJoad 9327]

Sometimes an album's name is just as powerful & important as the music. It might be even evocative if the album's title isn't the name of a track on the album. So no Born to Run or Sgt. Pepper's or What's Going On or London Calling qualify.

So what album titles made you say "I've gotta have THAT one;" maybe without having heard the songs on it? My submissions include:

Blood on the Tracks

Exile on Main Street

Rumours

Appetite for Destruction

 

Edited March 30, 2020 by GhostOfTomJoad

[smuggs 9353]

[Chad Fuck 17684]

Can I get a call on "Houses of the Holy"? 

Not a track on the titled album, yet name of the track on another.

 

[Earl Haffler 591]

Eat a Peach

[hullabelew 3724]

Old 97s are GREAT about this.  Their album names are always just one phrase from the album.  LOVE that.  

[GhostOfTomJoad 9327]

1 hour ago, smuggs said:

Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! Although rap has never been my thing, that album came out like an atomic bomb on the pop music landscape. PE let you know from the get go they were going to shake things up. Great submission.

[Deej 76800]

Paul's Boutique 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Sticky Fingers. (Stones)

Murmer (REM)

File Under: Easy Listening (Sugar)

[AustinMT 952]

[Chad Fuck 17684]

Nevermind

 

[PRONG HORN 3146]

2 hours ago, Earl Haffler said:

Eat a Peach

 

[GhostOfTomJoad 9327]

1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

Nevermind

 

I'm torn on this one. The album changed music for a decade +. Cast off title. Which is an homage to the punk, we don't give a fuck so what's the point attitude. 

It's the cheeky kinda title that the 'mats did a decade-plus earlier with 'Tim' or 'Pleased to Meet Me.' I get it, but I don't.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Dire Straits

[Pato del Muerto 52506]

It’s dark and hell is hot

full moon fever

Viva terlingua 

tres hombres

Edited March 30, 2020 by Pato del Muerto

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

"Get Yer Ya Yas out" has had to have been mentioned already

[Chad Fuck 17684]

I'm torn on this one. The album changed music for a decade +. Cast off title. Which is an homage to the punk, we don't give a fuck so what's the point attitude. 
It's the cheeky kinda title that the 'mats did a decade-plus earlier with 'Tim' or 'Pleased to Meet Me.' I get it, but I don't.

I got it. And it sounds like you did too.

[Rip76 4928]

Dark Side of the Moon

Badmotorfinger

Moving Pictures

News of the World

Physical Graffiti 

[Bartles 769]

Women and Children First

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

The White Album (and The Black Album)

[Deej 76800]

Smell the Glove

[BurntOrangeCrush 1011]

Vulgar Display of Power

[davidg 4038]

STP - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

[C-Man 27230]

Joy Division | Unknown Pleasures

Radiohead | OK Computer

Beastie Boys | Licensed To Ill

Pixies | Surfer Rosa

Nirvana | Nevermind

Wilco | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[Pato del Muerto 52506]

Hooray for Boobies

Joshua tree

Edited March 31, 2020 by Pato del Muerto

[Rimbo 25941]

ZZ Top's First Album

[Al_4_ISU 12464]

Turnpike Troubadours - A Long Way From Your Heart

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South

Counting Crows - August & Everything After

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

Pearl Jam - Vs.

[noharleyyet 2838]

Can't Buy A Thrill

Sticky Fingers

Rubber Soul

Viva Terlingua

[Dennis Taylor 18829]

 

 

[strangulation! 1716]

Led Zeppelin 1

Led Zeppelin 2

Led Zeppelin 3

etc

[Iceman 2715]

Play Deep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(the Outfield)

[Chad Fuck 17684]

[abuelo gringo 321]

The Tree of Forgiveness

 

Get well, John.

Edited March 31, 2020 by abuelo gringo

[smuggs 9353]

[Iceman 2715]

Multiple Metallica albums....

[WhatTheBuck 28783]

Too many to mention. (Hot Rats?) 

How about a great track title that wasn't the name of the album? From Shakti with John McLaughlin:

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 

[Dennis Taylor 18829]

 

good name, even better cover

[Deej 76800]

5 hours ago, strangulation! said:

Led Zeppelin 1

Led Zeppelin 2

Led Zeppelin 3

etc

You know you're badass when you don't even have to give your first four albums a title. 

[Iceman 2715]

On 3/30/2020 at 12:02 PM, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Appetite for Destruction

 

hell, were any of G&R's albums title with a cut from them?

 

I'd also submit Love at First Sting by the Scorps.

[Pato del Muerto 52506]

Most of the Van Halen discography, but I think women and children first as mentioned above is more of the attention getter than diver down or ou812 or even FUCK. 
 

thought I had a good one, but there actually is a track called madman across the water. 

[Pato del Muerto 52506]

And can I get a ruling on this one?

 

there is a track called whipped cream. 

[EuroHorn 3265]

[DougO 5250]

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by DougO

[DougO 5250]

 

[CooterBrown 18014]

Self Titled

[TwiceHorn 31488]

On 3/30/2020 at 4:08 PM, Deej said:

Paul's Boutique 

Hello Nasty.

[stc 1462]

Yo La Tengo- I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass

Mogwai- hardcore will never die but you will

[Rimbo 25941]

Devo's Greatest Misses

To complement their Greatest Hits:

 

It's really all about the artwork.

[Beantown Express 2.0 6559]

Pink Floyd-Animals

simple and to the point

[Grandioso 2592]

On 3/30/2020 at 2:01 PM, hullabelew said:

Old 97s are GREAT about this.  Their album names are always just one phrase from the album.  LOVE that.  

Wreck Your Life is such a good fucking album name.

[Paul Wesley 3278]

I seem to recall some big-band record from the 50's (?).  Just tried to google who it was, with no luck.  

I'm probably not getting it exactly right, but the album title was something like:

"Music for people who have $2.99"

[Biff Tannen 45691]

Jar of Flies