Following the Stereophonic stinkers poll, here's another band who seem unable to give an album a good title.

Don't Believe the Truth is my least favourite (what's wrong with the truth, lads?) but Familiar to Millions is also comically awful. Your thoughts?

(Don't worry – this is the last poll in the 'series'.)

No Fall version?

:o

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants .

It's just... wretched.

What about Phil Colllins?

I was torn between Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, for its Giants-Sharing Shoulders, and Heathen Chemistry, for it's 70's prog title.

I've gone for HC.



Can we do Dodgy albums next Stephen? ;)

Familiar to millions gets worse the more you consider it, but I think, Reset your Clocks, might have sounded a bit better, than the above. Whats the story, is not so bad a title, though.

Be Here Now.

I can't stand 'deep' titles that mean nothing. Around the time of Britpop there seemed to be a lot of forgettable bands who released songs with supposedly profound, but ultimately forgettable, names like 'Let It Flow' or 'She Said'. I can't even remember the names of these bands now.

Forgettable title tends to mean forgettable song.

Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

Badly, badly wrong. And a crap album.

It has to be Dont Believe The Truth - thats just downright silly. :grrr:

Makes you think, though, dunnit?

I mean like.... maybe we should be more... like... questioning... of stuff...

And here I thought they had only one album with one song they just kept bringing out.

Has there been a most mondo-retardo pretentious profound statement manic street preachers album title poll yet?

yeah but like, if its the truth, surely we should believe it

But, the Manics might point out, whose truth are we talking about? Because my truth is different to yours, and, like, Castro's truth is different to, you know, Arthur Scargill's or whatever, but it's all part of the same universal spirit of truth and the dignity of the decent working man who's just trying to get by amid the pressures of opression from corporations and the enviroment and that. But you should always be questioning reality and stuff. :mellow:

You just gotta be who you gotta be
You just gotta say what you gotta say
You just gotta do what you gotta do
You just gotta follow your own way

These words of wisdom © Country Folk and I will sue Gallagher/Weller/Ashcroft when they nick 'em for their next album. :angry:

with his new haircut doesn't Liam look like Frank in Shameless

http://www.mojo4music.com/newissue/

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/new...n_the_move.html

i was in disgust by the 2nd album .. i had mistook em for a much cooler band from just down cleggs lane...

oasis were like the plastic face incarnate... and only for the worst side.

Liam Gallagher claims that Oasis would only release their next album for free over his "dead body".

And how depressing is this?: 'The frontman claimed that the band has been inspired by the classic seventh albums of the Beatles (Revolver) and The Rolling Stones (Beggars Banquet). He said: "There's lots of cool parts, man. Really, we're throwing everything at it. It's gonna be cool, man."

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Interestingly enough(?), Lily Allen also thinks it's wrong to let fans decide how much they pay for an album: "You don't choose how to pay for eggs. Why should it be different for music?"

all of them

well we do have a tradition of busking though... and the busker never says... hey that song was 50p u robbin bastard :devil2:

I can´t say I care enough about Oasis to let their album titles annoy me.

At the risk of opening up a whole can-of-worms, I happen to believe that there are universal truths, therefore, the statement dont believe the truth is a fallacy.

:lol:

Liam Gallagher influenced to launch music career after out-of-body experience involving John Lennon.

Too many fucking drugs. :zip: :nahnah:

Something I've always wondered about oasis is WTF is a "WONDERWALL"?

It was a film...and a soundtrack album by George Harrison.

It's all an offensive Slade rip off. (At best)

Well yes, I knew that, but it doesn't aid understanding, really, does it? I mean, what does "And after all, you're my film and soundtrack album by George Harrison" mean?

I blame pink floyd for taking a brick out of the wall. Shouldve left it where it was.
The grass aint no greener.
You just put yourself in a shadow, believing it might be.

Proud to say I haven't heard anything later than "What's the Story" but do think the 1st album had it's moments of promise.
:rolleyes:

They made a great debut album and then beleived all their hype and went right down the trash can!!

A marginal improvement occured when Andy Bell joined and you could hear the ride inlfuence in some of the later work but that aside, they do nothing for me.

Agree with the above. The first LP contained a rare energy, then Noel G thought he'd become an amalgam of Bacharach/Lennon/Marr and actually started to think instead of just doing.

Ahhhh, according to Wiki:

The story of the film revolves around the reclusive, eccentric scientist Oscar Collins (MacGowran), whose next-door neighbours are a pop photographer (Quarrier) and his girlfriend/model (Birkin), named Penny Lane. Discovering a beam of light streaming through a hole in the wall between them, Collins follows the light and spots Penny modelling for a photo shoot. Intrigued, he begins to make more holes, as days go by and they do more photo sessions. Oscar gradually becomes infatuated with the girl, and feels a part of the couple's lives, even forsaking work to observe them. When they quarrel and the couple split, Penny takes an overdose of pills and passes out, and Oscar tries to come to her rescue.

So there is an actual wall involved. Now I begin to understand.

Absolutely.


This band makes me think, for a moment, of an alternative universe where satire has taken over and is no longer able to be recognized... I always ask myself- How did this happen?

But there is this- Long long ago, in a universe far far away, I walked into the Uptown bar in Minneapolis to see them perform their last song of the evening, a cover of I am the Walrus. They were damn good for that one song, let me tell you. Everything since is embaressing.

I'm with you Fred :)

Oasis announce new album title!

What's worse...the album title or the first single?! <_<

It's the Style Council isn't it?

Granted 'Don't Believe The Truth' is pretty mind-boggling, but 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants' has long been an anti-favourite.

Gallagher, N. claims never to have read any books "I've lived a life instead". Nohing wrong in not having read a book per se, but his justifaication for it marks him out as a prize Twat.

And I bet he thinks he's being original in saying that.