Were on a prince board, so we know that he's one of them. But who are some others??

Todd Rundgren has some interesting song/album titles...

When it comes to unique song titles, I seriously doubt anyone even comes close to FRANK ZAPPA.

PDogz said:

Lil B

The Artist.

TISM.

Unique, yes. But unique is not always a good thing.

This thread is redundant without giving examples.

I'd say Tori Amos qualifies. Anyone who can sing "The Power of Orange Knickers" and make it sound devastatingly beautiful is a genius in my eyes.

MattyJam said:

This thread is redundant without giving examples.

I would agree. Frank Zappa has approximately 91 studio albums, with several Live albums over a 45 year period, with song titles such as:

"Wowie Zowie"
"The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet"
"Ritual Dance of the Child-Killer"
"Nullis Pretii (No commercial potential)"
"The Duke of Prunes"
"Amnesia Vivace"
"Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin"
"Soft-Sell Conclusion"
"Big Leg Emma"
"Status Back Baby"
"Son of Suzy Creamcheese"
"Lumpy Gravy"
"Duodenum"
"Bored Out 90 Over"
"Very Distraughtening"
"White Ugliness"
"Kangaroos"
"Envelops the Bath Tub"
"Sink Trap"
"Gum Joy"
"Local Butcher"
"Gypsy Airs"
"Hunchy Punchy"
"Foamy Soaky"
"Concentration Moon"
"Harry, You're a Beast"
"What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?"
"Flower Punk"
"Hot Poop"
"Nasal Retentive Calliope Music"
"Let's Make the Water Turn Black"
"The Idiot Bastard Son"
"The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny"
"Jelly Roll Gum Drop"
"Stuff Up The Cracks"
"Secret Greasing"
"Uncle Meat"
"The Voice of Cheese"
"Nine Types of Industrial Pollution"
"Zolar Czakl"
"Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague"
"Sleeping in a Jar"
"Electric Aunt Jemima"
"A Pound for a Brown on the Bus"
"Ian Underwood Whips It Out"
"Call Any Vegetable"
"The Idiot Bastard Son"
"Hot Rats"
"Peaches en Regalia"
"Willie the Pimp"
"Little Umbrellas"
"It Must Be a Camel"
"Burnt Weeny Sandwich"
"Weasels Ripped My Flesh"
"Didja Get Any Onya?"
"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask"
"Toads of the Short Forest"
"Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula"
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"
"Transylvania Boogie"
"Chunga's Revenge"
"The Mud Shark"
"Bwana Dik"
"Latex Solar Beef"
"Lonesome Electric Turkey"
"Mystery Roach"
"Tuna Fish Promenade"
"Half a Dozen Provocative Squats"
"Shove It Right In"
"Lucy's Seduction of a Bored Violinist & Postlude"
"Dental Hygiene Dilemma"
"Penis Dimension"
"A Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes"
"Dew on the Newts We Got"
"Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce"
"Billy the Mountain"
"Waka/Jawaka"
"The Grand Wazoo"
"Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus"
"Camarillo Brillo"
"I'm the Slime"
"Zomby Woof"
"Dinah-Moe Humm"
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"
"Nanook Rubs It"
"St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast"
"Cosmik Debris"
"Excentrifugal Forz"
"Stink-Foot"
"Penguin in Bondage"
"Pygmy Twylyte"
"Echidna's Arf (Of You)"
"Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?"
"Florentine Pogen"
"Evelyn, a Modified Dog"
"Debra Kadabra"
"Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy"
"Sam With the Showing Scalp Flat Top"
"Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead"
"Zoot Allures"
"Titties & Beer"
"I Promise Not to Come in Your Mouth"
"The Illinois Enema Bandit"
"The Adventures of Greggery Peccary"
"RDNZL"
"Regyptian Strut"
"Sleep Dirt"
"Broken Hearts Are for Assholes"
"Rat Tomago"
"Bobby Brown Goes Down"
"Rubber Shirt"
"The Sheik Yerbouti Tango"
"Baby Snakes"
"Tryin' to Grow a Chin"
"Jewish Princess"
"Bogus Pomp"
"The Central Scrutinizer"
"Crew Slut"
"Wet T-Shirt Nite"
"Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"
"Keep It Greasey"
"He Used to Cut the Grass"
"Watermelon in Easter Hay"
"Easy Meat"
"Panty Rap"
"Treacherous Cretins"
"Soup 'n Old Clothes"
"The Deathless Horsie"
"Pinocchio's Furniture"
"Harder Than Your Husband"
"Goblin Girl"
"Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear"
"Charlie's Enormous Mouth"
"Drowning Witch"
"Teen-Age Prostitute"
"The Dangerous Kitchen"
"Tink Walks Amok"
"Mōggio"
"The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou"
"The Jazz Discharge Party Hats"
"Sinister Footwear II"
"Stevie's Spanking"
"Baby, Take Your Teeth Out"
"Frogs with Dirty Little Lips"
"The Crab-Grass Baby"
"Wistful Wit a Fist-Full"
"Alien Orifice"
"Aerobics in Bondage"
"G-Spot Tornado"
"Damp Ankles"
"Sexual Harassment in the Workplace"
"Chalk Pie"
"In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky"
"Winos Do Not March"
"Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk"
"Dickie's Such an Asshole"
"The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves the Stage"
"Put a Motor in Yourself"
"They Made Me Eat It"
"Saliva Can Only Take So Much"
"Hot & Putrid"
"A Tunnel into Muck"
"Waffenspiel"
"Dio Fa"
"Bossa Nova Pervertamento"
"Skweezit Skweezit Skweezit"
"T'Mershi Duween"
"Scratch & Sniff"
"Diplodocus"
"Soul Polka"
"Space Boogers"
"Feeding The Monkies at Ma Maison"
"Samba Funk"
"Worms From Hell"

*Oops, had listed "The Illinois Enema Bandit" twice, guess that title just strikes me as VERY unique, lol. Still, this is just a small sampling of his total output.

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sextonseven said:

PDogz said:

When it comes to unique song titles, I seriously doubt anyone even comes close to FRANK ZAPPA.

Cocteau Twins not only come close, but leave Zappa in the dust. Their song titles are all gibberish.

I see that Cocteau Twins indeed have some very unique song titles. But as far as who has the MOST unique song titles, I would still award that distinction to Frank Zappa.

Not that I'm a huge fan, but I've always thought Morrissey had the best titles.

Song titles from the Cocteau Twins' singles collection, From Lullabies to Violaine:

"Feathers-Oar-Blades"

"Alas Dies Laughing"

"It's All But An Ark Lark"

"Peppermint Pig" (7" Version)

"Laughlines"

"Hazel"

"Sugar Hiccup" (12" Version)

"From The Flagstones"

"Hitherto"

"Because Of Whirl-Jack"

"The Spangle Maker"

"Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" (Alternate Version)

"Pepper-Tree"

"Aikea-Guinea" (Alternate Version)

"Kookaburra"

"Quisquose"

"Rococo"

"Pink Orange Red"

"Ribbed And Veined"

"Plain Tiger"

"Sultitan Itan"

"Great Spangled Fritillary"

"Melonella"

"Pale Clouded White"

"Eggs And Their Shells"

"Love's Easy Tears"

"Those Eyes, That Mouth"

"Sigh's Smell Of Farewell"

"Orange Appled"

"Iceblink Luck"

"Mizake The Mizan"

"Watchlar"

"Evangeline"

"Mud And Dark"

"Summer-Blink"

"Winter Wonderland"

"Frosty The Snowman"

"Bluebeard"

"Three-Swept"

"Ice-Pulse"

"Bluebeard" (Acoustic Version)

"Rilkean Heart" (Acoustic Version)

"Golden-Vein" (Acoustic Version)

"Pink Orange Red" (Acoustic Version)

"Half-Gifts" (Acoustic Version)

"Feet-Like Fins" (remixed by Mark Clifford)

"Seekers Who Are Lovers" (remixed by Mark Clifford)

"Violaine" (remixed by Mark Clifford)

"Cherry-Coloured Funk" (remixed by Mark Clifford)

"Tishbite"

"Primitive Heart"

"Flock Of Soul"

"Round"

"An Elan"

"Violaine"

"Smile"

"Tranquil Eye"

"Circling Girl"

"Alice"

PDogz said:

sextonseven said:

Cocteau Twins not only come close, but leave Zappa in the dust. Their song titles are all gibberish.

I see that Cocteau Twins indeed have some very unique song titles. But as far as who has the MOST unique song titles, I would still award that distinction to Frank Zappa.

It's funny that I never once interpreted the thread title as "most" meaning highest in number instead of strangest. If it means the former then Zappa does indeed get the crown.

sextonseven said:

PDogz said:

When it comes to unique song titles, I seriously doubt anyone even comes close to FRANK ZAPPA.

Cocteau Twins not only come close, but leave Zappa in the dust. Their song titles are all gibberish.

As are most of their lyrics, or what I mean is that they are for the most part unintelligible.

Fucking love them though, always have.

The Flaming Lips have some pretty mental song titles including...

chrome plated suicide

hari krishna stomp wagon

hells angels cracker factory

the spontaneous combustion of john

shaved gorilla

talkin' 'bout the smiling deathporn immortality blues

pilot can at the queer of god

psychiatric explorations of the fetus with needles

and many many more.

sextonseven said:

PDogz said:

I see that Cocteau Twins indeed have some very unique song titles. But as far as who has the MOST unique song titles, I would still award that distinction to Frank Zappa.

It's funny that I never once interpreted the thread title as "most" meaning highest in number instead of strangest. If it means the former then Zappa does indeed get the crown.

Cocteau Twins definitely sound like an interesting band. I appreciate that you've made me aware of them, and I will definitely check them out.

PDogz said:

When it comes to unique song titles, I seriously doubt anyone even comes close to FRANK ZAPPA.

Excellent choice. I never would've thought of Frank, but you are absolutely correct!

You also have to toss in New Order.

Empress said:

PDogz said:

When it comes to unique song titles, I seriously doubt anyone even comes close to FRANK ZAPPA.

Excellent choice. I never would've thought of Frank, but you are absolutely correct!

In my opinion, that's one of the main things about Zappa. Unless the song is named after a person, there's nothing common about any of his titles. Nearly all of his song titles are quite odd in some way, and unquestionably unique (...as was his approach to music - and life, for that matter).

I would say the band Anal C*nt's song titles are very much unique. I can't say I've ever listened to one of their songs nor do I plan to, but their song titles are made for this topic.

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TTD.

David Bowie

Bjork

Radiohead

Lana del Rey, lol

P-Funk

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aardvark15 said:

P-Funk

Indeed!

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