If you made a CDR of all of a band's/artist's title tracks, then which band/artist would have the best one?

Actually, forget it.

Chicago. Substitute "Chicago now" by the fall.

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
Maggot Brain
America Eats Its Young
Cosmic Slop
Up for the Down Stroke
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Chocolate City
Let's Take It to the Stage
Mothership Connection
Hardcore Jollies
Dr. Funkenstein
Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
Funkentelechy / The Placebo Syndrome
One Nation Under a Groove
Motor Booty Affair
Gloryhallastoopid
Uncle Jam Wants You
Trombipulation

... that's what I call entertainment

JailBreak
High Voltage
Let There Be Rock
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
(no title track for powerage. too bad, it's my favorite album)
Highway to Hell
Back in Black
For Those About to Rock ...
Flick of the Switch
Fly on the Wall
Who Made Who
That's the Way I want my Rock n' Roll ("blow up your video" is the pre-chorus which is the title of the album)
Razor's Edge
Ball Breaker
Stiff Upper Lip

Kinda falls apart after "For those about to Rock ..." but it was worth a shot.

Blue Train
Giant Steps
My Favorite Things
Africa
Impressions
Crescent
A Love Supreme
Sun Ship
Kulu Se Mama
Ascension
Om
Stellar Regions

I'm sure I'm leaving a few out, but you get the idea.

Yeah, I would definitely be willing to suffer through "Graffiti Bridge" for "Dirty Mind" "Controversy" "Sign Of the Times" "Purple Rain" etc. etc. ETC.... Prince would be a great one for this, for sure.

1. 25 O'Clock

At least, it would be around 4 minutes of fun though.

Closing Time
Heart of Saturday Night
Nighthawks at the Diner
Foreign Affair(s)
Small Change
Blue Valentine(s)
Heartattack and Vine
(This) One('s) from the Heart
Swordfishtrombones
Rain Dogs
The Black Rider
Alice

I'd listen to that.

Neil:

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Deja Vu (CSNY)
After The Gold Rush
Harvest
Time Fades Away
Tonight's The Night
On The Beach
Long May You Run
Comes A Time
Everybody's Rockin'
Old Ways
This Note's For You
American Dream (CSNY)
El Dorado (EP)
Harvest Moon
Sleeps With Angels
Looking Forward (CSNY)
Silver & Gold
Are You Passionate?
Prairie Wind

Don't know enough of his later stuff to say whether this is any good, Bowie and P-Funk and Waits still rule the thread...

1. Sex Mad
2. The Day Everything Became Nothing
3. Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed
4. 0 + 2 = 1
5. The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy (feat. Jello Biafra)
6. Would We Be Alive? (Residents cover)
7. Dance Of The Headless Bourgiouse

Not the winner here, though.

1. Nervous Breakdown
2. Jealous Again
3. Six Pack
4. Damaged I
5. My War
6. Family Man
7. Slip It In
8. In My Head
9. Loose Nut
10. The Process Of Weeding Out

1. Three Imaginary Boys
2. Boys Don't Cry
3. Seventeen Seconds
4. Faith
5. Pornography
6. The Walk
7. The Top
8. Disintegration
9. Never Enough
10. Bloodflowers

How can you justify "never enough"?

Bend the rules a bit and you can add the following:

"Close to Me" (for the "head on the door" lyric)
"Hey You!!!" (for the "kiss me kiss me kiss me" lyric)
"To Wish Impossible Things" (for the "wish" ref)
"Killing An Arab" (for the "Standing on a beach"/"staring at the sea" lyrics)

that's pretty good, all in (he says, of his favourite band).

1. Room to live
2. Shift Work

1. "Ace of Spades"
2. "Overkill"
3. "Bomber"
4, "Iron Fist"
5. "Another Perfect Day"
6. "Orgasmatron"
7. "Rock'n'Roll"
8. "1916"

You could do worse.

Exploring the Axis
Moonhead
Sack Full Of Silver
Ruby Sea
Red Sun
+ Fish Song ("...the one that got away")

Little Feat:

1. Sailin' Shoes
2. Dixie Chicken
3. Feats Don't Fail Me Now
4. Time Loves A Hero
5. Down On The Farm
6. Let It Roll
7. Representing The Mambo
8. Shake Me Up
9. Ain't Had Enough Fun
10. Chinese Work Songs

Don't know the last few but the first 7 are solid

Sonic Youth could almost work for this if you were generous with all their almost-title-tracks ("Confusion Is Next," "Schizophrenia," "Hyperstation," "My Friend Goo," etc.)

Cool thread. I'll rep for Bruce:

The E Street Shuffle
Born To Run
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
The River
Nebraska
Born In The USA
Tunnel Of Love
Human Touch
Lucky Town
The Ghost Of Tom Joad
The Rising
Devils and Dust
Magic
Working On A Dream

Neurosis' would be pretty solid imo

How about Rush?

1. Fly By Night
2. 2112
3. A Farewell To Kings
4. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres
5. Natural Science: Permanent Waves
6. Presto
7. Roll the Bones
8. Test For Echo
9. Vapor Trail

Well, I guess it starts out well enough...

actually, Yes' would be short, sweet, and thoroughly awesome

oh wait

KING CRIMSON

actually, thinking beyond "In The Court", "Red" and maybe "Discipline", er, rong.

and now I find out that "Big Generator" has a title track ;_;

since noone listed out all the Prince ones, what the hell:

1. For You
2. Dirty Mind
3. Controversy
4. 1999
5. Purple Rain
6. Around The World In A Day
7. Sign O' The Times
8. Lovesexy
9. Graffiti Bridge
10. Diamonds & Pearls
11. Come
12. Chaos & Disorder
13. Emancipation
14. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
15. Rainbow Children
16. One Nite Alone
17. Xpectation
18. Musicology
19. Planet Earth

honorable mentions to "Christopher Tracy's Parade," "Gold," "Dream Factory," and "Shockadelica" (guy believes in title tracks so strongly he wrote one for someone else's record!).

the prince one is kind of amazing in terms of first half highlights/second half lowlights.

1. for you
2. dirty mind
3. controversy
4. 1999
5. purple rain
6. around the world in a day
7. sign o' the times
8. lovesexy
9. graffiti bridge
10. diamonds & pearls
11. come
12. chaos & disorder
13. emancipation
14. rave un2 the joy fantastic
15. rainbow children
16. musicology
17. 3121
18. planet earth

xp!

haha sorry dude :(

wow, metallica would only have a 4 track ep

i bet you could get some great jazz comps this way, since it was pretty common practice to name the record after the standout tune

yeah, probably same goes for a lot of pre-'album era' rock and pop LPs released on the back of popular singles

Bob Dylan doesn't have as long or good a list as he should:

The Times They Are a-Changin'
Highway 61 Revisited
John Wesley Harding
Nashville Skyline Rag
New Morning
Saved
Shot Of Love
Under The Red Sky
World Gone Wrong

Depeche Mode:

Black Celebration

...and that's it.

U2

because they would have

THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE

1. The Bends
2. Kid A

would be a really weird introduction for someone who'd never heard of Radiohead before.

not gonna at least give 'em Airbag?

and of course Morning Bell/Amnesiac

(and My Iron Lung)

1. Rid Of Me
2. Dry
3. To Bring You My Love
4. Is This Desire?
5. White Chalk
6. A Woman A Man Walked By
7. Dance Hall at Louse Point (not heard this).

Would be one fucking awesome EP.

Duh.

1. "Iron Maiden"
2. "Killers"
3. "The Number of the Beast"
4. "Powerslave"
5. "Caught Somewhere in Time"
6. "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
7. "No Prayer For the Dying"
8. "Fear of the Dark"
9. "Brave New World"
10. "Dance of Death"

Well, guess the first half is pretty solid.

l0u1s, an EP named after an album cut that's included on it obviously does not count

Robyn Hitchcock

1. Underwater Moonlight
2. I Often Dream Of Trains
3. Listening To The Higsons ["Gotta Let This Hen Out"]
4. Airscape ["Element of Light"]
5. A Globe Of Frogs
6. Birds In Perspex ["Perspex Island"]
7. Jewels For Sophia
8. Luxor
9. Olé Tarantula!
10. Goodnight Oslo

Bonus Cuts not appearing on album with that title:

11. Black Snake Diamond Rock ["Black Snake Diamond Röle"}
12. Queen Elvis I
13. Queen Elvis II
14. You & Oblivion

Actually pretty good except for "Luxor."