Album Titles

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:46 pm

I was kinda thinking.... many albums are titled according to the name of one of the songs on the album, and 4 of Leonard's albums have employed that stance.
A song is sometimes used as an album title for differing reasons e.g. it is the best song on the album, it has a title that captures attention, it has a title that reflects the whole album, or the artist couldn't be bothered to think of a unique album title.

If Leonard's studio albums were each named after a song on the album my list would be as follows for a range of reasons as hinted above (I've even changed the 4 where there was a song title)

Sisters of Mercy
Bird on the Wire
Famous Blue Raincoat
Field Commander Cohen
Fingerprints
The Smokey Life
Dance Me to the End of Love
Tower of Song
Closing Time
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Undertow

There...... I've whiled away some more of my time

Pete

Jack_Cade · Post by **Jack_Cade** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:34 pm

Mine'd go:

Stories of the Street
A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes
Avalanche
Who By Fire
Death of a Ladies' Man
The Guests
Hallelujah
First We Take Manhattan
Closing Time
In My Secret Life
Dear Heather

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:36 am

Pete: Would you mind putting your toupee back on top of your head where it belongs?

Linda.

tom.d.stiller · Post by **tom.d.stiller** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:42 am

Pete: Stay theGentle Giant you are!

Linda:
a wise man is a man who knows
hair should be only where it grows

"God Shave The Queen"
tom

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:25 pm

Well, look at that! I saw Pete on the Gentle Giant website! Why didn't you tell us you had your own website, Pete?

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:15 pm

I think I've mentioned here before that my other addiction is Gentle Giant

and I've 'borrowed' this avatar before so I thought it needed airing again... probably it is an image of me in years (or weeks) to come.

Pete

p.s Tom? are you a Gentle Giant fan by any chance?

tom.d.stiller · Post by **tom.d.stiller** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:27 pm

Sorry, Pete, I'm not a fan (not even of Gentle Giant), but I remember listenening to them in the seventies, and now and then I still do. They always were interestingly different from all the rest, and so beautifully off the beat-en rock-in tracks.

I'll try to make out of Saturday next a very gentle Giant party. Will you attend? (It's not close to Matlock - but who cares? This world's a Global Village, and with a few Giant's steps it shouldn't be a problem.)

Cheers
tom

PS:

Smooth-talkin', slow-walkin' tell no lie
Cool is the fool with the eagle eye
Spending my time
Drunk and living fast
Nobody knows what lies in my past.
I'm lookin' back
My life is cryin' out
What did I do
What was I all about?