Arctic Monkeys release their somewhat eagerly anticipated Favourite Worst Nightmare album this coming Monday, 23 April. Expectations are that the album will sell up to 250,000 copies in its first week, and thus help revive moribund sales figures for the first quarter of the year. It has already, of course, been bestowed with a five-star review in Q.
All well and good, but Favourite Worst Nightmare? It sounds like the title of an ’80s thrash metal album. It follows, of course, a long tradition of major bands saddling themselves with rubbish album titles (the grammatically horrendous Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, anyone?) and prompts Q to ask, what is the worst
record title of all time?
Smashing Pumpkins' Melon Collie And The Infinite Sadness? Oof.
Posted by statetrooper at 09:43AM | April 18, 2007
What's so bad about Favourite Worst Nightmare?
New White Stripes is called 'Icky Thump' - surely that's far worse? And what's with the pearly king and queen outfits?
Posted by escapeartistsneverdie at 09:47AM | April 18, 2007
Any overblown prog rock odyssey. Coheed And Cambria called their last album 'Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness'.
Posted by ultraviolet_t at 10:36AM | April 18, 2007
Sparklehorse, 'Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot'. Try asking for that in a record shop.
Posted by grauniad at 10:39AM | April 18, 2007
cannibal corpse's beyond ridiculous butchered at birth. hardly one for the christmas list, is it?
Aha Shake Heartbreak- Kings of Leon
Safe as Fuck- Goldie Lookin Chain
The Uplift Mofo Party Plan- RHCP
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?- Oasis
And finally, the worst of all album titles, certainly of the last year...
B'day- Beyonce
Surely someone could have just typed that into google just to check...
Posted by galvers at 03:23PM | April 18, 2007
give the monkeys a break, at least they are trying to portray something with their title and are branching out a little bit. Most other bands are so conservative these days, snow patrol: eyes wide open! come on.
Posted by phillip roper at 04:06PM | April 18, 2007
I forget the whole title and the artist but the title was like 40 words long and took up the entire cover of the album. That's just stupid
Posted by Taylor Shull at 04:08PM | April 18, 2007
i think the worst album is S Club 7 - greatest hits.....what a rubbish album name. You go phil roper....your the boss!
Posted by james allen at 04:09PM | April 18, 2007
hi my name is seren my email address is watese2003@cranleigh.org...please email me what you think are the best album titles...i am compiling a list.
Posted by Seren Waters at 04:12PM | April 18, 2007
somewhere in the land of no rap - Schooly -D
Posted by darren at 07:09PM | April 18, 2007
my favourite title is 'fuck off and die' by napalm death. shit music though.
Posted by badger legs at 09:04PM | April 18, 2007
Wet Wet Wet once did an album called Popped In...Souled Out!
Crap title...piss off!
Posted by bitch_alert at 08:52AM | April 19, 2007
devastatin' dave's "zip zap rap" album. what does it matter? as an artist myself i wouldn't worry about the label i put on my album...just as most people are critical about labelling an artist...
Posted by christie at 11:04AM | April 19, 2007
ever heard of Irony? it's a pretty close thing to Favourite Mistake thing, you know? something you hate that becomes the part of you which you can't ignore. really, i do have a real favourite nightmare, but i'm sure Monkeys didn't mean the actual dreaming process.. anyway, it's taken from their new track 'D Is for Dangerous'. check it out, and oh yeah, - what about the worst music mag title, Q?! p.s. i think the Arctics' first one was a bit pretentiouslly daft. but who cares, lads rock.
Posted by Au at 08:37PM | April 19, 2007
'My people were fair and had sky in their hair, but now they're content to wear stars on their brows'
Tyrannosaurus Rex's seminal late sixties title manages to be both one of the best and the worst of all album titles. They just don't have the imagination these days....
Posted by keith at 09:00PM | April 19, 2007
Cannibal Corpse have many sick titles- Prostitute disfiguration as an example so its gotta b them.
Fiona Apple's 1999 album title must be unique in being longer than the album it was attached to. "When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and if You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and if You Fall It Won't Matter, 'Cuz You'll Know That You're Right". Good effort that woman...
Posted by danny at 05:46PM | April 21, 2007
It surely has to be ' See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!' by Bow Wow Wow
Posted by Ben at 03:24PM | April 23, 2007
I think as shit album titles go, Arctic Monkeys had alot to live up to after the name of their first album, easily the worst album title of all time. EASILY. They may have nearly exceeded it with this? Next Oasis -- haha -- not even the next Strokes.
Posted by Adam at 06:20AM | April 28, 2007
ofcourse it's "Favorite worst nightmare". it sounds really stupid and besides absolutely meaningless
Posted by marrr at 08:19AM | April 29, 2007
the new album is awesome! the old one was just original but FWN prove us then arctic monkeys was just not a crapy band that make a big sucess!
their great * * * * *
key track:
teddy picker
this house is a circus
505
my favourites
Posted by monica at 12:12AM | May 1, 2007
"Hooray For Boobies" by The Bloodhound Gang. Not the worst album title ever, you might think, until it flashes up on the cash register at Virgin Megastore for everyone to see.
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Arctic Monkeys release their somewhat eagerly anticipated Favourite Worst Nightmare album this coming Monday, 23 April. Expectations are that the album will sell up to 250,000 copies in its first week, and thus help revive moribund sales figures for the first quarter of the year. It has already, of course, been bestowed with a five-star review in Q. 
