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"Man-Erg."  I love the song, but I'm sure Hammill could've come up with a better title.
 
That, and Big Big Train's "Powder Monkey."  Again, a wonderful song, but it took me a while to get past the title and enjoy the song for what it was.
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Symphony X for their band name and every one of their albums.
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A Stained Soul Cringes at the Small Details in the Mirror of Embarrassment.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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I've found nearly every one of these criticisms dumb and baseless. 
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2010 at 22:35
Originally posted by himtroy himtroy wrote:

I've found nearly every one of these criticisms dumb and baseless. 

This. and this again. and again. Dead
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Points: 26471 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 16:44
Originally posted by himtroy himtroy wrote:

I've found nearly every one of these criticisms dumb and baseless. 
who recorded that one?
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 16:52
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Points: 178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2010 at 22:13
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:


Dark Side Of The Moon

I generally dislike the use of the word dark in any song/album title. Always meant to imply thats its deep stuff and very important. I'll be the judge of that!
Except that in this case they used "dark" for the other sense, the literal sense. Geek "Dark" as in "not exposed to light".


 

Not really the point though.Its still the same word and used in the context of measuring sanity (or the loss of it).Its not about the moon is it?
Lunacy, term meaning mental illness,

stemming from the prefix Luna. A term leftover from ancient times when the moon was thought to cause insanity and mental problems.



 

So its actually a very good metaphor. I'll scrub that from my list.Smile


Schizoid is a term still in use in modern Psychiatry - used to describe a personality type. Different from Schizophrenia which is a psychotic illness,obviously.
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Originally posted by Mr. Maestro Mr. Maestro wrote:

"Man-Erg."  I love the song, but I'm sure Hammill could've come up with a better title.
 
That, and Big Big Train's "Powder Monkey."  Again, a wonderful song, but it took me a while to get past the title and enjoy the song for what it was.
Geek I don't know the song, but a "powder monkey" was a boy on a British man 'o war (in the days of sail) whose job it was to prepare, then, in the heat, smoke & chaos of battle, run and fetch the gunpowder charges (paper or cloth cylindrical cartridges of the stuff) from the mid-ship magazine for the gun crews. It was dangerous, hot, exhausting work.
 
(You couldn't keep all the gunpowder near the burning hot, oftimes-exploding cannons, obviously.)
 
Boys were smaller and fleet of foot -- perfect for running in the very low headroom and confined spaces of the gun decks. Gun decks would have sand sprinkled on the floor to aid traction and absorb the inevitable rivers of slippery blood. Choking smoke. Stifling heat. Deafening noise. Deadly flying, screaming red hot metal, giant jagged splinters, gouts of flesh, limbs and bones flying through the air and on you -- and if the lad wasn't fast enough with the powder, he could expect a good whack up the side of the head.
 
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For the record, a "brass monkey" was a square brass tray with raised edges, for the neat, pyramidical stacking of cannon balls (on land). Thus "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" meant that it was sufficiently cold to make the iron cannon balls contract enough to come tumbling down from their stacks. (The secondary sexual connotation was also there, but it was not the primary meaning, which was derived from the soldier's harsh everyday world.)
 
A great many of our English expressions originated with the old Royal Navy, sailing in general, and warfare -- though often the origins and meanings are lost to time. See "square meal,' "touch and go," "son of a gun," etc -- all from the glory days of British sail and naval warfare. Smile


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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 00:07
Huh, I guess I don't have any irritations with titles very much. Now show me a picture of a hipster and I'll want to shove that PBR down their greasy v-neck shirt.
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 06:33
How about band names? My "favourite" is I POOH. 
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Originally posted by Mr. Maestro Mr. Maestro wrote:

"Man-Erg."  I love the song, but I'm sure Hammill could've come up with a better title.
 
That, and Big Big Train's "Powder Monkey."  Again, a wonderful song, but it took me a while to get past the title and enjoy the song for what it was.
Geek I don't know the song, but a "powder monkey" was a boy on a British man 'o war (in the days of sail) whose job it was to prepare, then, in the heat, smoke & chaos of battle, run and fetch the gunpowder charges (paper or cloth cylindrical cartridges of the stuff) from the mid-ship magazine for the gun crews. It was dangerous, hot, exhausting work.
 
(You couldn't keep all the gunpowder near the burning hot, oftimes-exploding cannons, obviously.)
 
Boys were smaller and fleet of foot -- perfect for running in the very low headroom and confined spaces of the gun decks. Gun decks would have sand sprinkled on the floor to aid traction and absorb the inevitable rivers of slippery blood. Choking smoke. Stifling heat. Deafening noise. Deadly flying, screaming red hot metal, giant jagged splinters, gouts of flesh, limbs and bones flying through the air and on you -- and if the lad wasn't fast enough with the powder, he could expect a good whack up the side of the head.
 
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For the record, a "brass monkey" was a square brass tray with raised edges, for the neat, pyramidical stacking of cannon balls (on land). Thus "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" meant that it was sufficiently cold to make the iron cannon balls contract enough to come tumbling down from their stacks. (The secondary sexual connotation was also there, but it was not the primary meaning, which was derived from the soldier's harsh everyday world.)
 
A great many of our English expressions originated with the old Royal Navy, sailing in general, and warfare -- though often the origins and meanings are lost to time. See "square meal,' "touch and go," "son of a gun," etc -- all from the glory days of British sail and naval warfare. Smile
 
Ah. I see. Now that album makes a great deal more sense.

Thank you for the especially vivid explanation.
 
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Points: 1303 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 20:38
A lot of stuff by Mogwai:

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
You're Lionel Richie
George Square Thatcher Death Party
I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend

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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 21:01
Originally posted by Jake Kobrin Jake Kobrin wrote:

A lot of stuff by Mogwai:

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
You're Lionel Richie
George Square Thatcher Death Party
I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend

Dead

That's just comical nonesense Wacko
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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 23:46
Originally posted by andyman1125 andyman1125 wrote:

Originally posted by Jake Kobrin Jake Kobrin wrote:

A lot of stuff by Mogwai:

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
You're Lionel Richie
George Square Thatcher Death Party
I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
I Love You, I'm Going to Blow Up Your School
Stupid Prick Gets Chased by the Police and Loses His Slut Girlfriend

Dead

That's just comical nonesense Wacko

But it's funny, Not cringe inducing. At least to me.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2010 at 02:17
Completely off-topic, but:

Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

For the record, a "brass monkey" was a square brass tray with raised edges, for the neat, pyramidical stacking of cannon balls (on land). Thus "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" meant that it was sufficiently cold to make the iron cannon balls contract enough to come tumbling down from their stacks. (The secondary sexual connotation was also there, but it was not the primary meaning, which was derived from the soldier's harsh everyday world.)


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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2010 at 04:47
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



Excellent - many thanks; I love having intelligent friends

Thanks.
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If I Could Do It Again, I'd Do It All Over You
 
Too graphic, too juvenile - cringe-inducing.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

Coyote by Kayo Dot
 
 
there are no coyotes on the album.... though there is a lot of caterwauling and howling.
 
 
 
 

Quoted by Toby Driver from an interview, "Like I mentioned above, Coyote has two sides of meaning – the fictional, narrative side, but then also the side that is an analogy to the really tragic process of its creation. It’s called Coyote because mythologically speaking, Coyote is the god of chaos and creation, in a way he is Loki, he may lead astray. He evokes the smell of warm musky woods and soft needle beds. The music on the album is all like this. It’s important to note that the music also comes from a specifically conceptual place – this music is supposed to be using the aesthetic of 1980’s goth bass but in a modern-classical or through-composed context. So we would like people to approach this album knowing this – think about that sound that was created by the Cure, Joy Division, and others – and then blast it into the 21st century and advanced-music world!"

That being said, I actually find all of his works titled masterfully.
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