5/23/2023 Question of the day

[petrea_mitchell]

Title Track Day: Title tracks, or the songs after which an album is named, are often the greatest singles/best tracks on the album. Do you have a favourite title track? Or can you name a title track that is definitely NOT the best track on the album? Is the concept of a title track a thing of the past given how most people listen to music now?

You know, I can't even think of many albums I listened to back in the day that had titles in common with many of their songs.

Favorite title track: I'll probably think of something else after posting this, but the first one that springs to mind is "Minus Ten and Counting".

Title track which is definitely not the best: "A Wolfrider's Reflections" may actually have been my least favorite song on the album of the same name.

I don't think they'll be obsolete as long as things resembling albums still get released. I mean, with the upsurge in all sorts of physical media, I think they're less endangered than they were 10 years ago.

Comments

[delosharriman]

Further support for the proposition that You Can't Prove Anything By (the example of) Neil Young :

During the production of his (unwatchable mess of a) movie, Human Highway, he was jamming with Devo (which is at least as bizarre as it sounds) on a version of his song Hey Hey My My, when one of the Mothersbaugh boys dropped in the phrase "rust never sleeps", from a Rustoleum paint advertising campaign he'd been doing artwork for. Neil liked it so well that, not only did he perform the song with that phrase in it thenceforward (although it's missing from the album version, which had already been released), but he also made the phrase the title of his next album.