I heard or read last week that Chris Martin also wanted the album title for their new release to be "un-Google-able," i.e. an actually new title. Love it or hate it, at least he recognizes that there is a world standard litmus test for originality.

Who is... hot like your mother?

Proper use of Fail tag.

/hot

seems relevant (new window)

The explanation is that the teenage kid was horny all the time but too shy and geeky to ask girls out. Using the kind of logic typical of an adolescent whose prefrontal cortex is not fully formed, he assumed that a freshly-baked pie, being warm and moist, would simulate the sensation of having sex with a woman, and so he proceeded to stick his dick in a pie.

See? Not all that complicated after all.

Ummagumma let you finish.

• The White Stripes' Icky Thump: "Ecky thump!" is an exclamation of surprise used in certain parts of England... not coincidentally, roughly the region where Jack White's ex-wife grew up.


Hmmm. Most people know it as the name of the spoof martial arts system used in an episode of The Goodies.

Can any Northerners clarify if the exclamation is a legit one (prior to The Goodies' use?).

The meanings: Artists are pretentious pseudo intellectual assholes.

Not as confusing as "Greatest Hits" albums released by one hit wonders...

They got Icky Thump wrong, that's for sure.

It was named for a comedy sketch by the UK comedy group, "The Goodies" (new window). It's possible that Jack White never saw the show, but he may have read that that particular sketch literally caused a man to die laughing (new window).

genepool lifeboat: Proper use of Fail tag.

Good grief, this.

"It has no meaning" for the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Police album titles...

That's a fine bit of reporting there, Lou.

FTA: "So we came up with the idea of, what if you had musical digits, like xylo toes?" Martin concluded."


They must have been listening to some GZM...

/This?

So they got one wrong (White Stripes) and didn't get an answer for two others (Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd). How can I get into this "writing for the internet" thing?

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The meanings: Artists are pretentious pseudo intellectual assholes.

so, I was gonna be a dick and talk trash and suggest country music so I go to itunes (yeah yeah) and start looking at titles...I see a Toby Keith song called "Red Solo Cup" and now I am just upset at the world. Bleargh.

/happily pretentious pseudo intellectual asshole if my other choice is that mindless sh*t

Thought I'd see "Seven and the Ragged Tiger" on the list in TFA.

Still one of the most wtf album titles from when I was a kid.

"Music comes from a place we don't know," Martin told the New York Times.

In your case, Chris, it comes from other music you heard somewhere. Your creative process is first hear a song; second, replicate that song a little slower.

noit: "Music comes from a place we don't know," Martin told the New York Times.

In your case, Chris, it comes from other music you heard somewhere. Your creative process is first hear a song; second, replicate that song a little slower.

COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN has admitted the song FIX YOU on the group's new album is a copy of ELBOW's track GRACE UNDER PRESSURE.

The CLOCKS group has already confessed their new disc X+Y is heavily influenced by electronic stars KRAFTWERK, with guitarist JONNY BUCKLAND saying, "We've never so directly stolen off anyone before. We've never paid for our plagiarism."

Martin has warned fans Fix You will sound very similar to those who have listened to British band Elbow's 2003 album CAST OF THOUSANDS.

He says, "Fix You came directly from Elbow's Grace Under Pressure.

"I think their Cast Of Thousands album is one of the very few albums over the past five years that I have played in its entirety many times." (new window)


i hate coldplay so very much.

Just watched the Goodies' Ecky Thump for the first time since the 80s.
It hasn't aged well.

How is this news or of any interest?

Then again I'm surprised yahoo has lasted as long as it has.

Uzzah: The explanation is that the teenage kid was horny all the time but too shy and geeky to ask girls out. Using the kind of logic typical of an adolescent whose prefrontal cortex is not fully formed, he assumed that a freshly-baked pie, being warm and moist, would simulate the sensation of having sex with a woman, and so he proceeded to stick his dick in a pie.

See? Not all that complicated after all.

Um, I think subby means this one:



And here's a really boring, pedantic explanation: Link (new window)

mainsail: Just watched the Goodies' Ecky Thump for the first time since the 80s.
It hasn't aged well.

Having not seen an episode since the '70's I'm saddened to hear that... but not surprised.



/terrible article was terrible

rickythepenguin: noit: "Music comes from a place we don't know," Martin told the New York Times.

In your case, Chris, it comes from other music you heard somewhere. Your creative process is first hear a song; second, replicate that song a little slower.

COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN has admitted the song FIX YOU on the group's new album is a copy of ELBOW's track GRACE UNDER PRESSURE.

The CLOCKS group has already confessed their new disc X+Y is heavily influenced by electronic stars KRAFTWERK, with guitarist JONNY BUCKLAND saying, "We've never so directly stolen off anyone before. We've never paid for our plagiarism."

Martin has warned fans Fix You will sound very similar to those who have listened to British band Elbow's 2003 album CAST OF THOUSANDS.

He says, "Fix You came directly from Elbow's Grace Under Pressure.

"I think their Cast Of Thousands album is one of the very few albums over the past five years that I have played in its entirety many times." (new window)


i hate coldplay so very much.

I kind of hear it, but the Elbow version stinks in my opinion. I don't think it has the dramatic build that the Coldplay song has.

Meaning of "Tea for the Tillerman" sadly still not explained.

Unnamed side project for ex-Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins. After the album was mixed, the engineer made a notation on the tape box for the mastering engineer that the calibration tones for the tape machines were at the end of the tape, rather than at the beginning as is customary. Since the band didn't have a name at that point, they decide to go with that for the name instead.

Oh, and


"We decided that on the fourth album, we would deliberately play down the group name, and there wouldn't be any information whatsoever on the outer jacket. Names, titles and things like that do not mean a thing." - Jimmy Page

I've always wondered about Brain Salad Surgery. (ELO). Awesome album.


/and that's how I figured out Pops got high

SisterMaryElephant: I've always wondered about Brain Salad Surgery. (ELO). Awesome album.


/and that's how I figured out Pops got high

the wonders of modern internets:
According to the 1996 re-release notes, the title came from a lyric in Dr. John's 1973 hit, "Right Place, Wrong Time" (released 26 January 1973): "Just need a little brain salad surgery/Got to cure this insecurity." It replaced the working title Whip Some Skull on Yer; both titles are slang expressions for fellatio.

SisterMaryElephant: I've always wondered about Brain Salad Surgery. (ELO). Awesome album.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer ≠ Electric Light Orchestra

puckrock2000: ex-Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins

no shiat. i'd always wondered what that meant. thanks!


puckrock2000: Oh, and

pretty farking cool how Sandy Denny got her own symbol.....shame she died so early. she absolute transforms "Evermore".

Says he was just trying to get the worst title ever.

TommyDeuce: Says he was just trying to get the worst title ever.


No, that goofy ass late 90s Fiona Apple, "when the pawn gets captured by the king it don't need nothing to make no i like turtles chocolate chipp cookies are yummy because when you keep it real on the streets thats what life is all about...."

album wins that.

Yawn. boring article. new most of them already.

SisterMaryElephant: I've always wondered about Brain Salad Surgery. (ELP). Awesome album.

Brain Salad Surgery is a euphemism for fellatio.

So, we've been given a greenlight for the meanings to six album titles where we weren't really given the meanings.... That's some great reporting there, Lou....

jonathan_L: Thought I'd see "Seven and the Ragged Tiger" on the list in TFA.

Still one of the most wtf album titles from when I was a kid.

From Wikipedia: "Simon Le Bon said the album "is an adventure story about a little commando team. 'The Seven' is for us - the five band members and the two managers - and 'the Ragged Tiger' is success. Seven people running after success. It's ambition. That's what it's about."

Pants full of macaroni!! Quote 2011-10-25 07:43:35 PM


And the actual phrase itself comes from a Dr. John song.

now THIS i did not know!

/the album's original working title was Whip Some Skull On Yer - another fellatio reference

this i knew.

puckrock2000: Oh, and


"We decided that on the fourth album, we would deliberately play down the group name, and there wouldn't be any information whatsoever on the outer jacket. Names, titles and things like that do not mean a thing." - Jimmy Page

Man, what an album. I literally loved "Stairway" to death - I just can't listen to it again, as much as I still love Zep.

EighthDay: genepool lifeboat: Proper use of Fail tag.

Good grief, this.

"It has no meaning" for the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Police album titles...

That's a fine bit of reporting there, Lou.

This.