Top 10@10: Great album titles
Categories: Denmark • Faroe Islands • Features • Finland • Iceland • Norway • Sweden

We are one-third through August and that means another Top 10@10, this one looking at great album titles. We consider the chosen great for various reasons: Some are fun (intentionally or not), others thought provoking (don’t worry, no really heavy thinking required) and some just plain weird.
Don’t think there’s much to add, so here we give you 10 great titles on albums released between 1992 and 2009 and invite you to share other grand examples with us and everybody else in the comments below.
Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy (NO)
Octopusdrunk And Arms To Prove It (2007)
Why: It’s just brilliant, plain and simple. Whatever it is that gets you octopus drunk AND gives you the arms to prove it we want some!
Sigur Rós (ISL)
( ) (2002)
Why: Because it’s just so delightfully arrogant not to be arsed with words and tedious explanations. Even the eight songs are untitled and the cover blank, according to legend to give the listener interpretive control to the max.
PowerSolo (DK)
It’s Raceday… And Your Pussy Is GUT!!! (2004)
Why: We have no idea what this means, but since it contains two main assets of rock’n’roll – fast cars and pussy, should you have missed it – it must be good. And then it’s really great to shout at dinner parties.
Jens Lekman (SE)
When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog (2004)
Why: As the title implies, this album, Jens Lekman’s first full length, is about women and what women have always been able to make their men, since we were domesticated sometime around the Stone Age. Lekman just admits to it…
Wig Wam (NO)
667… The Neighbour Of The Beast (2004)
Why: Well, it’s just pretty clever isn’t it? The album, incidentally, has the best song in the world on it. Or, at least a song with the title ‘The Best Song In The World’. You see what they did there?
Kira Kira (ISL)
Our Map To The Monster Olympics (2008)
Why: We like the idea that somewhere exists The Monster Olympics, and we most certainly like that Kira Kira have made a map for it. Maps are good. It’s just so much easier to get around when you’ve got a map.
Pretty Maids (DK)
Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing (1999)
Why: Because it simply nails the essence of 1980s heavy metal! And the fact that the album was released in 1999 just makes it all the more entertaining.
Turbonegro (NO)
Hot Cars And Spent Contraceptives (1992)
Why: It’s just cool in a burping, crotch-scratching, beer-can-crushed-against-forehead kind of way. Runner up in that category: Hellacopters’ ‘Supershitty to the Max!’ (1996)…
Múm (ISL)
Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know (2009)
Why: Perhaps not the cleverest or most entertaining title ever, but we like tormenting ourselves by imagining the horrifically noisy consequences of people living by this credo. But we’d like to keep it in the imaginary world, so please don’t…
Figurines (DK)
Shake A Mountain (2003)
Why: Although it was the followup, ‘Skeleton’ (2005), that really made a name of Figurines the debut did make an instant impact. The title works as a great testament to youthful self-confidence, but it’s just stupid if you take it literally (because you can’t).

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4 Comments, Comment or Ping
Great list – I especially love “()”. Just brilliant – even better than “…” (if it doesn’t exist I am hereby taking all the credits!).
Thanks Mate – we like to think it’s a good list, too (and your patent is duly noted) ;o)
What about Blink 182′s Enema of the state ?
A good bid, Sean, but since we’re only dealing with Scandinavian artists it can’t really be justified on this list ;o) But thanks for contributing…
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