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It was a single , not an album, but "Earache My Eye" was 'unusual'.
There's some band that put out an LP called "LP" which was later released on CD. I think they had to change the title.
There was also a record called "2 Oz of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle" by Man -- not sure how that translated.
"A Collection of Great Dance Songs" would have been a stupid title if Pink Floyd had been a relatively unknown band. Considering who they were, of course, it was not dumb, everyone would have picked it for tongue in cheek.
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All I really know is what's on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine_Tree
Of course, wiki is not definitive.
Apparently, it was a joke that they simply continued.
Now, how, exactly they chose that particular name, I cannot say. But, it seems they wanted something to fit this fictitious band they created.
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I'm sure Froese smacked himself in the forehead once he realize he'd chosen album titles that some random guy on the internet didn't understand as a teenager.
Of all the crazy titles that Froese came up with and you're upset with the German words for Time and Breathing.
You mean someone can just go and reuse titles like Moonlight on a Crawler Lane and Detroit Snackbar Dreamer?
Huh, you're right. Did not know that.
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ34.pdf
"Names of products are not copyrightable"? Really? That doesn't sound right.
Wait a minute -- trademarks are a whole different story:So I SHOULD have said, "Two of the few that CAN'T be trademarked."Originally Posted by CopyLaw.com
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We're not talking about PiL are we? They released Album, Cassette and CD at the same time if memory serves.
Uhm, yeah, that's one I've always wondered how they came up with. I've talked about this before, but maybe not recently, but it drives me crazy that took me so long to figure out that album title/cover. For those who don't know, the front cover is a diver down flag. It's used to warn boaters to stay away from the immediate vicinity because there are scuba divers in the water. Hence the album title.
The thing is, I knew about all this back when I was a kid because other than music and science fiction, scuba diving was the other thing I was always interested in from the time I was little. So I read books and magazines at the library, way before I was old enough to get certified. But it took me something like 5 years to put the pieces together, and I remember this, because they were giving away tickets on the radio to a Van Halen show (I think it might have been The Monsters Of Rock tour, in 88 or whenever it was) and that was the trivia question you had to answer, "What is the significance of the Diver Down cover?". That's when it first hit me. Because I can remember seeing the album in stores when it came out, and I thought "Diver Down? What a dumb album title!", and then when I heard that trivia question the radio a few years later, it was like well, "D'oh" wasn't part of my vocabulary yet (did it even exist?), but that's what it was like, ya know, "I coulda had a V-8" or something.
But back to my initial point, I'd love to know how they came up with that as an album title/cover. Is it supposed to be a double entendre or was it an in-joke that only the band knew the punchline to, or what? I mean, to me it's a cool cover/title, but that's only because I'm a diver. To everyone else, they're both kinda dumb.
Yeah, that's the one. Apparently they stole the idea from Flipper.
All of these -- including Yes's "90125" which used the catalog number as the title -- were reactions against the increasing corporatism of rock. There were also a number of bands (DEVO for one) who used the newly-introduced bar code as part of the artwork as a protest against being "just a number" to the suits in accounting.
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