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AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I find it interesting how the latest (and last) Present album is titled This Is Not The End when in fact it actually is due to the death of Roger Trigaux. What are some other misleading album titles out there?

I'm guessing it means that Roger Trigaux' death is not the end (of course it can have multiple meanings). And I don't find it misleading.

Ween's "12 Golden Country Greats" - now that's misleading as there's only 10 songs on the album. 

Well, I thought I read that the intention was to continue the band even though he was in bad health but it turns out the band doesn't exist any more (if I'm not mistaken) due to his death. 

I initiallly thought that too but apparently "the final cut" is some kind of Shakespeare reference. I'm not a Shakespear expert so I don't know any specifics but I remember hearing that.

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I guess Focus 8 (2002) was called so, because the Akkerman/ van Leer album from 1985 was apparently a side project (even though it included the two principle lights), so the numbering continued straight from Con Proby (1978), which was number 7.

But in 2005, they recorded Focus 8.5 'Beyond The Horizon' which was another side-project, although it included all the relevant band members... however this wasn't released until 2016, after 9 and 10, so needed to be called 8.5.

A year later, in 2017, they released the double 'Focus Family Album', which seemed to follow a very similar writing style to Focus 8.5, with most of the main tracks a joint band collaboration, but for some reason  couldn't be called Focus 11....

I think I've been mislead...

I don't wish to split hairs about this and you do have a point but my initial impression of that title based on the fact that Roger passed away is that it was a bit misleading. As you say there could be multiple interpretations of it and we can also say that about a lot of titles we might think of as misleading. If a band puts out an album called 20 jazz funk hits and it's clearly not jazz funk then yeah that could be seen as misleading unless one is in on the joke. 

Although not prog how about the worst of Jefferson Airplane?

Peter Hammill - pH7

 

This is actually Peter Hammill's eighth album, not his seventh album as suggested by the title. However, having studied chemistry, I have never regarded "pH7" as referring to a seventh album, and have always assumed it referred to the pH of neutral water, which fits in with the underlying theme of normality throughout the album.

 

 

You may already know this, but the track Houses of the Holy was recorded during the sessions of the album of the same name, but is one of the few tracks (about a quarter of them) on Physical Graffiti that were recorded earlier and initially discarded, but included on the latter album to make it long enough for two discs. This is why a couple of tracks have that older Robert Plant vocal style before he made a deliberate change in his singing to preserve his voice.

The idea that Genesis had a sense of humour is funny in itself. Personally I never understood that title either although I assumed the point was that 3 sides were taken from the Abacab tour (so an actual concert perhaps) and the forth side had previous unreleased archive material. I didn't see it as a 'joke' tbh.

And there are earlier cases of a title track appearing on a follow up album, like Frank Zappa's Absolutely Free song appearing on We're Only in it for the Money in 1968.

I always thought it was a chemistry reference too (which it probably is) but also assumed it was his seventh(I never bothered counting). Then again maybe PH wasn't think of Fool's Mate as his first album. Who knows.