Worst most moronic Oasis album title

JEEP ain't so bad, they got it from a negative review iirc (it's also got the hilariously butthurt "mr writer" on).

Oasis B-sides album was hilariously called 'The Masterplan'.

oh god, 'mr writer'. truly the stereophonics are history's greatest monsters.

it is weird to me that no-one talks about how Oasis have an album with a boner in the title

One I should be ashamed to still be in awe of: Free Peace Sweet

this era/strain of indie mostly went for v prosaic album titles befitting bands named things like Cast or Sleeper. however this just made attempts at flamboyance or profundity all the more amusing

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Don't Believe the Truth is untoppably stupid

Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out
These Animal Men - (Come on Join) The High Society
The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation

altho yes the title The Masterplan coupled with that cover is pretty lulzworthy

crucial thread

Giants are quite large, and depending on the size you should be able to stand on one shoulder fairly easily. Especially if you're the size of the Gallaghers.

yes but one shoulder of multiple giants?

"a shoulder of giants" is the collective term iirc

'a shower of shit'

They're all stupid. But "Be Here Now" edges over "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants" because at least the latter is noteworthy as opposed to so boring they may as well not have bothered calling it anything.

Standing In A Shower Of Shits sums up Oasis' career generally tbh

that was Heavy Stereo's abandoned second album iirc

standing in a shower of shits: the oasis singles collection

Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

the full stops really push this over the edge of stupidity

also i choose "other" "?"

Standing in a Shower of Shits would have been a great album title for Northern Upflush

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classroom full of fuddy-duddy professors and blokes who know about shit like science and stuff being taught how to write 3-chord Kinks b-sides

just noticed that music appears to be all one note. appropriate.

Snow Patrol - When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up

"you have to go there to come back" is fucking awful actually, let's not let that off the hook.

also "heathen chemistry" is terrible in a sort of different way, like you'd love to see them violently interrogated about why they called their album that and what it had to do with the music on it.

which album was that really "jaunty" one with noel playing the undertaker in the video from? i think that is the worst oasis song ever. "the importance of being idle".

xp the answer is disappointing:

The name Heathen Chemistry was taken from a second hand T-shirt that Noel had stumbled across.[1]

sounds like an entry from the 'interior life of noel gallagher' thread.

Between various songs on the album are several interludes (such as the sound of someone walking down a beach). Oasis have described these as "bits inbetween"[4]

kind of down with them putting nice sounds on a record why because they sound nice tbh

The Snow Patrol album title sounds like something Caravan or VDGG would use in the early 70s.

i'm sure the bits inbetween are better than the songs, anyway

viva brother's record was called famous first words. oof.

xp the bits in between the songs on all Oasis records are better than the songs.

eg, that lead out on side 1 of the LP version of 'Definately Maybe', classic...

Some notes:

Definitely Maybe - A reply to Bjork's "Possibly Maybe" maybe?
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? - even now, "Balamory" substitutes...
Be Here Now - is the name of a George Harrison album track (off "Living in the material world")
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants - It was "Shoulders" on the £2 coin edge inscription, probably changed for copyright reasons

Shall skip the rest, but you missed out "Familiar to Millions", "The Masterplan", "Stop The Clocks" and "Time Flies", which.. aren't .. baaaaaaaaaaaad, but then again..

probably changed for copyright reasons

there is no need to be so generous to these lunkheaded cockfarmers.

Who was first, Blur on Country House singing "Morning Glory/Different Story/Jackanory" line or Oasis's album title? And was it just coincidence?

Behind every lhcf, is a team of expert managers and solicitors that keep verry quietttt.

xpost they knew the album title, it was meant as a friendly reference as they were reasonably pally up until about a month before the singles were due out.

It will be when they release one called "The Best of" amirite?

Nah, when you've had several bouts of explosive diarrhea, you can still call the one that left your butthole least sore "the best".

A vision, that.

god, oasis released so many albums

i thought they'd stopped at, like, four. i think this is because in my head there was always 'definitely maybe' and 'morning glory' and 'the last, shit one' and 'the one before that'

don't believe the truth is the most insultingly faux-profound of all of them, i think, so it's got my vote.

This is true but on the other hand I've no idea what they were even aiming for with 'Dig Out Your Soul' so I went with that.

can imagine noel explaining "dig out your soul" as some cringe-inducing call to arms

Dig Out Your Soul came from a DJ playing Motown - related to cratedigging. It's still dumb but that's the reason for its dumbness.

A lot of these album titles consist of directives, many of them impossible.

A better title for their Best of would be "Shut the Fuck Up"

explication of these shitty album titles doesn't make them any less shitty

glad at least one person recognised the supreme shittiness of each of the options available.

Don't Believe the Truth as a call to avoid credulity seems rather too profound for a Noel Gallagher. But maybe he was thinking about what the general public was gathering from tabloid news about him, which would inevitably be 'the truth' innit?

If you think the titles are shitty wait until you hear the albums.

what's profound about Don't Believe the Truth??? not Don't Believe the "Truth", not Don't Believe That Which Unreliable Witnesses May Claim to be the Truth, not Don't Believe Carl "The Truth" Williams, but Don't Believe the Truth - Believe Things That Are Not True - Credulity is Dead Cool and Beatlesy for fuck's motherfucking fuckity fuck fuck's sake

John Lennon never believed the truth, maaaaaaan

THEY MIGHT AS WELL HAVE CALLED IT MAKE SURE YOU TAKE ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD FROM CONTROVERSIAL TV AND DAVID ICKE BOOKS YOU PILLOCKS

Foolishness for Christ refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining a monastic order. It can also refer to deliberate flouting of society's conventions to serve a religious purpose — particularly of Christianity. Such individuals were known as both "holy fools" and "blessed fools." The term "blessed" connotes both feeblemindedness and innocence in the eyes of God.

On the other hand, some people just revel in their own unrepentant stupidity out of sheer brain-apathy.

dying @ "Second Night in a Shithole"

The Truth or that which is presented as 'The Truth' is something that is constructed out of a lot of variables a lot of which will not look the same from all angles. It is not a monolithic absolute for all time. Therefore not believing something being presented to you as 'The Truth' in such a way is a better idea than accepting it outright innit?
But I don't know if that is what Noel was talking about.

There's a funny Spin interview where Noel has this long explanation about Fox News and Iraq and weapons of mass destruction and not knowing who to believe and Liam just says: "I don't know what the title means. It's a pothead thing, innit? Potheads, man — I don't know." Which handily applies to every Oasis album title.

So the next question should be, which is a more moronic name to give to your new band or solo project, Beady Eye or Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds? The Beady Eye album is called Still Speeding, Different Gear which would fit nicely into the Oasis back catalogue.

Definitely Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

How do they expect their fans to string more than seven syllables together for a start?

more to the point, i'm pretty sure the Gallaghers and their friends are near-unemployable so what else wd they do? it's the people still paying money to listen to them that worry me.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, I mean c'mon.. Wonder who was in charge of picking the Oasis album titles...?

I actually don't hate the name Beady Eye for a band. NGHFB makes me want to punch things.

I didn't know they were doing stuff with Amorphous Androgynous aka FSOL though?

There was a lot of talk about "the second album will be out 6 months after the first", but seeing as how the 'dadrock' of the first one has been 'so successful' to fans of Coldplay lite, looks like it's 'on ice'...

Beady Eye is a pretty good name for a band. Still Speeding, Different Gear is naff but at least makes sense. The pun is pitched at exactly the right level for the kind of people who would be interested in the record.

It's a pothead thing, innit? Potheads, man — I don't know.

"does NOEL GALLAGHER smoke weed" comes up on google autocomplete and the top result is from "the Italian Milan site for pure Beady Eye, Oasis, City and England fans"

― Different Geir, Still SBing (DJ Mencap), Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:41 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this is an underrated dn I made

Doesn't Noel say in the latest Q that when he finally heard the 'second album" that Anon rtc had done he decided he didn't like it so it won't be happening after all?

I always suspected Liam chose the name Beady Eye so he could have his records really close to the Beatles in the racks.

'rtc' should be 'etc'. Should have just gone for typing the whole of Amorphous Androgynous, trying to be lazy, failed dismally.

Hey! Just realized that Familiar to Millions is missing!!!

They should all be honored for their stupidity.

Who's up for a ballot poll of their lyrics

That would be fun.

Except for having to listen to or even read their lyrics.

'rtc' should be 'etc'. Should have just gone for typing the whole of Amorphous Androgynous, trying to be lazy, failed dismally.

― Rob M Revisited, Friday, September 28, 2012 11:34 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was gonna ask what homie from the R&B threads was doing w/ noel

I think you are right re: Beady Eye / Beatles conjunction, Rob M Rev