Carrying on in the vein of "Best Album Cover", what would everyone consider to be the best Fall album title? Personally, I hate album titles that are simply the names of songs on the album. This just seems lazy, like including single tracks on an album. In the end I went for Hex Enduction Hour (again), since it is at once mysterious, emotive, gothic, imaginative and literal.

‘Wonderful’ and ‘Frightening’ aren’t words you’d usually find together in the same sentence, let alone an album title…but they’re perfect for the Fall…

PBL for me... not a fave LP, but definitely a great title. WFW 2nd...

One of my friends, upon seeing the cd, thought it was "Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fan" and thought the cover art was supposed to be an abstract representation of a fly being sucked into a fan.

HA!

Blender Sinister
The Fridge Experiment
Perverted By Luggage
Cereal Caustic

PBL; as I mentioned on the covers thread, it pretty much sums up my worldview, in addition to the fact that most of the trouble in the history of the world is caused by people who take things they read just a tad bit too serious.

PBL maybe sums up the burroughs connection-language/people as virus...
hard to go past are you are missing winner :D

Hex Enduction Hour would be my vote. Not sure what it means but it has a certain je ne sais que.

Are you not actually allowed to vote then? :D :D :D

Perverted and Hex were both contenders.. But nothing will ever replace the thrill when in the late 70s, I saw there was an album by an unheard (by me) punk band called "Live At The Witch Trials" - best title ever, along with "We're Only In It For The Money"

PBL. And I love the album too.

Perverted By Language which seems quite a popular choice

i went for the infotainment scan.....buti was ne payin much attention.....,hadi bin corrupted by lookin at previous votes...i woulda said pbl.

PBL is the best Fall album title, but the best album title by anyone, ever is the Vandals' "When In Rome Do As The Vandals"

It was a toss up between Bend Sinister and Perverted by Language.

Although I've gone for Bend Sinister (which I'm surprised to find is not that popular).

I think that Cerebral Caustic is very apt, not for that album especially, but for Fall music generally.

Bend sinister for me, begs the question "whats bending in a sinister fashion?"

I've gone for Witch Trials on the grounds that it aptly summed up the state of the music scen (sic) at the time.

PBL follwed by HEH

...probably been reading too much William Burroughs!

'Bend sinister' is actually derived from heraldry... it is a diagonal stripe on a shield that runs from left at the bottom to right at the top. 'Sinister' means 'left' usually in old fashioned stuff... so a 'bend' is a diagonal stripe that runs in the opposite sense to a 'bend sinister'... hence if you have ever watched the fantastic kid's TV programme "Knightmare" then you will know that the dungeoneers were always instructed to go right unless there was a very good reason, because "Left is Sinister!!!". :devil: You have to imagine Treguard saying that to make it sound right. ;)

Anyway, I did a quick search of the internet and found this site:

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/sId./kb...owledgebase.htm

, which explains shield heraldry in great detail. <_<

Middle Class Revolt - it could yet become pre-cog... Also abbreviates to MCR which seemed suitable for The Fall. Perverted By Language, Code: Selfish and Grotesque After The Gramme all honourable runners-up.

Worst album title, for me at least, is Levitate. Upon it's release I bought Oxymoron instead purely because it was a better one-word title. And Light User Syndrome sounds like it should be an amazing Fall title, without actually being one.

Not sure about Are You Are Missing Winner. Spent hours trying to decipher if there was some cryptic message only to conclude it was probably just a Cog Sinister/Voiceprint typo...

Toss up between LATWT and PBL...plumped for PBL only to find my second choice was doing rather well. Result!

Went for WAFWOTF. Second would've been '...Witch Trials'.

Can't understand how 'PBL' is so popular.. someone please explain!

Its cos' it says the 'P' word :ohdear:

LATWT for me
but best album title ever:

IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND. HONEST
The Fugs

RTL - just for the brilliant sub-title

i buy them just for the titles-the art work the titles are all pieces of art in my view

i threw away the cd for code selfish and put the cd cover on my wall

Funny you should say that,
I was thinking of doing the exact same thing with my copy of Middle Class Revolt....

If by "old fashioned stuff" you mean "Latin," then yeah! :lol:

Best non-Fall album title ever?

"my people were fair and had sky in there hair, but now there content to wear stars on there brows" - T.Rex
For shear cheek.

Well Latin is kind of old fashioned... :mellow:

;)

I dont think any kids programme has ever topped that one, i only just remember it but it was fantastic, i always thought how scared a child must have got being blinded and then havin "run faster the goblins catching you!" shouted at them. And your reference to latin certainly put my ignorance in its place. Screw ancient civilisations and everything they've ever supposedly done for us.

This Nation's Saving Grace wins for me, and I reckon it's primarily because of the way "Nat-ion's" is hyphenated on the cover. It seemed a bit odd and random the first time I saw it, but after thinking about it for a bit, it seems like an excerpt from a nationalistic anthem of some sort, to be sung in a pompous voice... all "parrrrum-pum-pum... this nay-shun's say-ving graaace". Which is, of course, entirely at odds with the music contained within.

I've got new respect for Bend Sinister as a title after reading this thread, though, as I'd always been told it was just the title of a Nabokov novel... seems a lot more creative and interesting now, as well as (in my mind) making Gross Chapel the album centrepiece I'd always suspected it was.

And it was the name of the Real New Fall LP that convinced me to find out more about the Fall before I'd even heard any of their songs. Not sure why, though, as it's not really "evocative" so much as, erm... oh, hang on, that's it. Reminded me of Mr. Real-Robber, the real bank robber from the last episode of the Young Ones. Come to think of it, it's not even particularly new anymore, is it? Even if the Fall weren't as prolific as they surely are, it'd be a bit strange. Curious new fans are going to be seeing it on the HMV racks in 2015 behind a dozen more recent releases and thinking "hang on, is this the new one, then?". Country on the Click makes me think of a big odometer in the middle of the United States, clicking over from 999999 to zero. Probably because it fits more neatly there than in the middle of the British Isles. That's all.

Anyone disagree with me that Heads Roll is set to be the worst title ever?

I went with Hex for all the reasons already listed by Big Chief in the first post. I also like The Unutterable, Extricate and Levitate. I like Unutterable because I like the idea of things that can't be expressed and/or shouldn't be. I like the other two because the rhyme. Hopefully, there will be a future album that rhymes with them.

A compilation album could be called Excavate. There are various other words which rhyme with Extricate and Levitate but this would involve descending into trite humour.

Or an EP could be called Truncate.

Or AYAMW could have been called Stagnate :devil:

I've gone for Room To Live, just for the subtitle. I've always thought Undilutable Slang Truth would make a great Fall album title on its own.

Agree with R. Totale that We're Only In It For The Money is a damn good album title too - sums it all up really doesn't it?

Btw, what's Call For Escape Route? Some compilation?

totales turns

dont know why