Oct 25 2008
Guilty Pleasure: Overly Catchy Album Titles
Today’s guilty pleasure column is all about a concept rather than an artist or an album. The concept I want to celebrate today is the overly catchy album title. Some great albums have been released throughout history with very simple, plain names. Think Blueprint, Criminal Minded, or The Chronic. The titles of the albums themselves aren’t particularly interesting, but they are classic albums because they are unique in their musical superiority over other, more snappy titles released at the same time. And then there are albums that grab your attention with the elaborate title, but turn out to be duds. Think Dearest Christian, I’m So Very Sorry For Bringing You Here,Love Dad,
or Golden Arms Redemption.
But every so often you get that rare gift of a classic album filled with bangerific songs, that also has an album title that is just a little too catchy for it’s own good. Either way, the album titles themselves, whether they support classic or craptastic albums, are worth something. So here is my list of the top 10 overly catchy album titles. Enjoy.
10. ATLiens
9. Stillmatic
8. People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
7. I Wish My Brother George Was Here
6. Capital PUNishment (It takes special skill to use the word pun as a pun)
5. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Niggaz (the … is classic)
4. Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black
3. License to Ill
2. The Don Killuminati:The 7 Day Theory (Pac at his creepy prophetic heights)
1. Whut?Thee Album (Redman even spelled two out of three words wrong on his debut)
I’m sure there are more, so this list shouldn’t be taken as definitive. But it’s a good start. Now see if you can come up with a couple on your own, and post them as comments to this post. I’ll take the best couple of responses and re-post them next week.
