Most pretentious song title ever

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"Jacques Derrida" - Scritti Politti

― Lady Grinning Soul, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

And second prize goes to that Pink Floyd song about furry animals grooving with a Pict.

― Lady Grinning Soul, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony Braxton owns this.

― Ess, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"We Are the World"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Love Music"

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Take your pick

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Roly Poly"!

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Common's "I Am Music" (which is a song I love btw)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart"

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

or perhaps "Dominion/Mother Russia", it's a toss up.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ladies and gentlemen, from the band that once dared to state "Peccatum performs art for the sake of art", the most atrocious and pretentious concept ever envisioned brings you:

Peccatum "An Ovation to Art" (hilarious review here)

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

'A Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal'
--Theater of Tragedy.

I win.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

How did this thread get so far without "If you tolerate this your choldren will be next"?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

children, even.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Any band that doesn't name its songs. Like Sigur Ros. Or has symbols for the names. Dumb nuts.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow"

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Former Ice-T posse member Divine Styler had an early 90s records called "Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light" (yikes!), which sadly doesn't have a title track, but did have this humdinger:

"Am I an Epigram For Life?"

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony Braxton owns this

His tunes mostly have names like "Composition 123". How is that pretentious?

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i originally thought don caballero's titles were pretentious, but i've come around and i know just think that they're fuckin' funny (note:expletive necessary)

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

His tunes mostly have names like "Composition 123". How is that pretentious?

A lot of them are also named with symbols, using chemical notation much of the time. As I understand it, these are represented typographically as numbered compositions.

― Ess, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Continuing the trend of egocentric song titles: "I Am The Resurrection" by the Stone Roses

― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm never sure if Cocteau Twins titles are funny or pretentious (probably both). I mean: "The great spangled fritillary", " Frou-frou foxes in midsummer fires", "Ella megalast burls forever", "A kissed-out red floatboat", "Ooze out and away, onehow", etc...

― Seb, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

How did this thread get so far without "If you tolerate this your choldren will be next"?

haha because I already mentioned "ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart" but def. "If You Tolerate This..." is pretty high up there. ACTUALLY I'm pretty sure that if we take actual songs into account then "If You Tolerate This..." WINS the competition for wankiest Manics' song. I mean the middle bit! "ANNNNNNND on the streets toniiiiite an old man praaaaaaaaaaaays....WITH newspapah cuttings of his glory daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays.......ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND if you tolerate THIS..." haha now I have to go listen to that song.

"If I can shoot rabbits/Then I can shoot fascists"!!!!!!!!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, it's not nearly as pretentious as "4st.7lb." never mind.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't "If You Tolerate This, your Potroast will Spoil" (or whatever it was) a quote, though? That lets them off the hook, I think.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow

I thought this was Manilow being ironic, seeing as he didn't write most of his songs. Can anybody confirm this?

― Ben Dot, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Map Ref. 41°N 93°W

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 18 September 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh loads of Dead Can Dance titles are wanky: "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book", "In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated", "Enigma Of The Absolute" etc. Brendan Perry should be shot for many of those.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 September 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit. peepee beat me to it.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 18 September 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

haha when i first found out magnetic fields had a song called "the death of ferdinand de saussure" i went "what a bunch of WANK!!!!" it turned out to be funny as shit though. why won't stephen merritt be my boyfriend?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 18 September 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow
I thought this was Manilow being ironic, seeing as he didn't write most of his songs. Can anybody confirm this?

-- Ben Dot (co.uk), September 17th, 2003.

He didn't even write this song. Beach Boy Bruce Johnston did.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 18 September 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

How about Kleenex Girl Wonder's "Why I Write Such Good Songs"? (Which actually is a completely amazing song.)

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 18 September 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

4'33"

(ha. i think i win.)

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Thursday, 18 September 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i think 'love and the russian winter' is the
all time classic pretentious lp title, but only
and i guess unfairly (seeing as i used to like
him in the early days) as it's by simply red.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 18 September 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The most ego-centric/pretentious album title ever: T Power's "The Self-Evident Truth of an Intuitive Mind".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 September 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, I kind of think naming the songs on an album after the textures suggested by photographs which are linked to the songs by different coloured sections of a pie chart comes pretty close to the top...

Step forward Aphex Twin for Selected Ambient Works Vol 2.

― Alan Stephen (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

as far as the Manics go, what of "Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier"?

it's the semi-colon that does it

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 18 September 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"You Will. You?Will. You? Will. You?Will."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 27 September 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Caught With The Meat In Yr Mouth"~deadboys

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 27 September 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Gestation: Mythos" by Maxwell

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 27 September 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day)" by Klaatu and Carpenters.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 September 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the best song title I've ever heard!! I'm going to download that now! (it's great, right, geir?)

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 27 September 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Wilt - "When The Fields Have Burned Through My Eyes"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 27 September 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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