The most pretentious album title of all time is?

[pokerfan]

My vote is for...

The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music from the Past as Performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis de Sade

Come again? This crackpot title -- probably the longest ever concocted for a jazz album -- actually is a front for a not-so-dangerous, hard-swinging album in which Schifrin invents or borrows 18th-century classical themes and sets them into big band or small-combo contexts. Such is Schifrin's chameleonic mastery that his own inventions are a match for the themes of the period, and he is tasteful enough not to overload the window dressing and keep the rhythm section loosely swinging nearly all the time. Once, Lalo tries something wacky; on "Beneath a Weeping Window Shade," he has singer Rose Marie Jun intoning a madrigal-like Francis Hopkinson song against some avant-garde multiphonic flute from Jerome Richardson, ministrations from a string quintet, and Schifrin's own comments on harpsichord. There is also a stimulating pastiche "Aria" that sounds like Schifrin arguing with Heitor Villa-Lobos and Henry Purcell in 9/8 time. With the cream of New York's jazz session men of the '60s on board -- including the inimitable Grady Tate on drums, Richardson on flute and tenor, Gene Bertoncini on guitar, and J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding on trombones -- and Creed Taylor's production dictating the distinctive timbres, jazz buffs will have a fine time with this collision of the centuries, which leans heavily to the jazz side. The album was reissued on CD as part of Verve's limited Elite Editions series.
~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

[NightWatcher]

1. a close second is Fiona Apple's When the Pawn.....

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he'll win the whole thing before he enters the ring
There's no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Pawn

[Archae]

2. Anything by Spinal Tap

But that is part of the gag. :D

[Initech]

9. Two word review: shit sandwich.

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

11. Nigel was influenced by Mozart and Bach

(Nigel is playing a soft piece on the piano)
Marty: It's very pretty.
Nigel: Yeah, I've been fooling around with it for a few months.
Marty: It's a bit of a departure from what you normally play.
Nigel: It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why.
Marty: It's very nice.
Nigel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...
Marty: What do you call this?
Nigel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".

:rofl:

[mitchum]

3. "Architecture and Morality" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

pretty grandiose coming from a couple of limey twits playing diasposable pop with a digital synth

[mix]

10. i will always have a soft spot for them

Enola Gay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8kiQyByUTg&feature=related

[madinmaryland]

4. Anything by Rush. (the Band)

[mitchum]

5. "HIStory" by you know who

[Scurrilous]

6. Kenny G - Greatest Hits n/t

[Glorfindel]

7. Pretentious? "Houses of the Holy" by Led Zeppelin? Hard to say...

"Piper at the Gates of Dawn" by Pink Floyd comes to mind as does "Their Satanic Majesties Request" by The Rolling Stones.

[Initech]

8. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

[Kutjara]

12. "Tales from Topographic Oceans" - Yes

Deep in WTF-country with that one.

[EastTennesseeDem]

13. Their Satanic Majesties Request

The title is just one of the album's minuscule failures in one-upping Sgt. Pepper.

[Bluzmann57]

15. The Beatles didn't make a pimple on Jagger's rear end

In my opinion, the Beatles were one of the more overrated bands ever. The Stones were a tough gritty Blues based band who never tried to hide their roots. I mean they are called "The Rolling Stones" after a line in a Muddy Waters song, as in "A Rolling Stone Gathers no Moss." And the Glimmer twins still put out new stuff. Or at least they did a couple of years ago. Remember "Sweet Neocon"?
Long live Rock and Roll!

[Cant trust em]

21. Actually I think Sweet Neocon is a really boring song

Of course, I like the politics, but it's kinda surface level.

Oh No, Not You Again is a fucking rocker though.

As much as I love the Stones, I love the Beatles more.

[Initech]

16. I really like that album, very underrated.

[Cant trust em]

22. It's not their best work, but there are good songs on it.

She's a Rainbow is one of my favorite Stones songs.

[MilesColtrane]

14. The guy who wrote the music for "Mannix", Mission:Impossible", and "Enter the Dragon"...

...doesn't need me to defend him, but...

The title of the album is clearly a take off on the Peter Weiss play, "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade".

Being that it's either a tribute or a parody, I really don't think you could consider it pretentious.

[blogslut]

18. Yep

A brilliant musical play, BTW.

[Frank Cannon]

28. You are correct, sir. And don't forget "Dirty Harry" and the original theme...

to Starsky and Hutch.

There are plenty of talentless and pretentious pudknockers in the musical world who fully deserve scorn and ridicule. Lalo Schifrin is not one of them.

[datasuspect]

17. "My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their

Brows"

Tyrannosaurus Rex

[mitchum]

29. THAT'S the winner...I think even Robert Plant must have snickered at that one

[Strong Atheist]

19. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. what is up with you tonight?

did you lose a bet or something.........

[Strong Atheist]

23. See my latest journal

entry... x(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. dude...

you are bonkers :rofl:

[Strong Atheist]

25. Thank

you!

:hug:

[Richardo]

26. Their Satanic Majesties Request

Really? Satan wants to hear Rolling Stones songs?

[mitchum]

30. It's a terrible record, but I always thought the title was a clever play on the original phrase

Well, clever for rock...

[Heidi]

27. "The Very Best of David Hasselhoff."