I had impression this would have its own topic, as it is something we've discussed with friends for decades. The great noise song/album titles.
Quoted from band name topic, and butchered the message just to have couple reference points:
Quote from: Bloated Slutbag on November 12, 2022, 04:32:10 PM
More seriously, I don't think the name alone ever meant squat. Rather it's the name in combination with the sounds that will elevate. That is, possibly elevate the sounds, or possibly elevate the name or more probably elevate both, the name and the sounds.
I mean. If Gerogerigegege were just some fucking grindcore band I would never have been even the slightest bit arsed to bother. But attach that name to something like Senzuri Champion and, well. Champion.
Track titles can go a distance, I'm Herpes, Yes I Am, as of course will artwork.
I do feel that there is connection of good name, good titles, good noise. Something fairly unbroken and organic, that Gerogerigegege name and what he did, or SBOTHI, has some sort of symbiotic existence. Name itself may have laid the foundation for liking it. And the name emerged from same aesthetic core as the sounds.
Anyways, to song titles, certainly there is abundance of all sorts of song titles what appeals greatly.
Gerogerigegege is responsible of some of most striking. All time favorite being:
"Car Sex MacDonald Drive In Let's Go"
In category of absurd and bizarre, Smell & Quim being one of absolute sleaze masters. Early stuff was perhaps even darker tones, like "Old Enough To Bleed, Old Enough To Butcher", "Sucking A Dead Man's Cock"... but more you go forward, the bizarre humor becomes.. hmm not sure should I say obvious, but just funnier. When there is track called "The Phallic Pakistani Lesbian Amputee", it feels like this might be good!
No surprise, I have soft spot for darker and brutal content. Of course big part of stuff is very generic. Why something feels just generic corpse or death song title, while some combination of words seems like best there is?
GO often has track titles that are just very simple reference to some historical moment or concept. Great songs, great stuff, but first time I got Save Our Slaves, and noticed "Kill Useless Nations", it was pretty damn harsh.
"To Rid Them All And To Wash Their Filth From My Body", not only the title, but how sound accompanies this utterly hateful emotion.
"Pleasure Corpse", as example for simplest track title, that is for me one of the best.
"A Return to Slavery"
etc..
While some of the absolute lowest of the low obscenities can get old quick, and make you yawn, but lets say when CD reissue of Taint – Savage Weapons came, and seeing the track titles listed in neat digipak cover, it was like holy shit! Looking those titles and listening the harsh electronic dirt - and perfect match.
But then again, something very simple, but unexpected. Something slightly witty, always works.
"No Risk, No Return", but could pull out plenty from same artist!
