Slang King!

Fans of The Fall know that Mark E. Smith has a peculiar way with language and in particular has a cracked way with song and album titles. So it's no surprise that a long-running thread on Ye Olde Fallnet assembles fake Fall song titles, albums, and even artwork.

Some of my favorites (all peculiar spelling and punctuation is intentional):

"Of Their Phalanx! Episode 7#"
"The Flaxen"
1919 Disco Man
Addendum: Rot
Adherents of Debris Field
Aerobics Instructor vs. Zeitgeist
Ailerons Deployed
Are/Am Chaotic
Bar Code Formulate
Batwalk Nacht
Benefiction
Blank Fizog
Burstwich Arse Fiend
Castle Vernacular
Cat Gut Violator
Chamber of Errors
Chipping Machine Ranger (Cut Up)
Claimant IV's Insights
Cogent Discourse Tits Up in Ditch
Cornwall Dross Horse
Cough It Up, Functionary
Crust-Choke!
D. Crypto-Knight
Daft Song
Drag Man in Gdansk
Dream-Coitus w/Cooking Show Presenter
Factotum* If Applic.
Fall Title Authentification Protocol
FD.brimmedfork
Final Represented Qty.
Flaccid Plumber in Accrington Pub
Gallic Trophy-Haulage Inc.
Gaza/Conflate 78
Hairline Plenitude Assessment Board
Ham-Fist
I Cudgel Sky Saxon
I'm an Inter-Mingler
Inasmuch
Krieg Walker-Stassen!!
Larcenist's Last Redoubt
Lost Guitarist in Pudding Shoppe
Manxchester Extent(acle)
MES Channels Dead Poetaster
Met Hasselhoff
My Malt Shuffle
Oblong Vector
Paltry Return on Service Rendered
Peg and Awl Fornicants
Physicks Defied at Last
Pilf en Rectifier
Pist M'Self
Pith of Chasm
PRCLJJ.3 (Oort Cloud)
Ring-Tone Slattern Not Without Appeal
Schlock Cartel (& Its Pitfalls)
Shatner!
Shift-Key Curses
Sloven After Kid Pouch.
Stept-Up! Trail-Forth!
The Hatred of Ombudsman Fowler
Tit Fuck Hash Key 7
Vix. Waned Sheik
Whelk Legion
7'23" Whatever Was Near Mic

I believe these tracks would be assembled onto the following albums:

And Within
Conjoined Twin Emulsifier
Crooked Gap in Eiger
Defeat the Retina - AKA The Exposure of Infinity
Marrow Transplant Rejection Queue
Partisan Slump Chronickle
The Frictionary E.P.

And here are a few of my own:

Shite Natterer (Sans Prefix)
Petomane Horse
The Winch/Whinge Retrograde
I'm Not Fookin Morrissey Am I
Flak Jacket
Drink-Reich Blighter
The Arse Whisperer
Cabin Essence*

* Not a cover...just another song that happens to have this title, which is rather MES-like if you think about it.

Title

Remember when, in the '80s, Lou Reed, of all people, appeared in an ad for some sort of scooter? This was kind of odd - not only because it sort of predated the trend of rock stars in advertising, but also because Lou had just put out what amounted to an entire album on the joys of motorcycling (New Sensations), whereas scooters seemed rather...trivial...next to actual motorcycles.

Of course, Lou wasn't the first major recording artist to be heavily influenced by motorcycles - arguably, Bob Dylan's infamous fall from his motorcycle in 1966 led to a drastic revision in his sonic approach: while his last pre-crash recording, Blonde on Blonde, still hewed largely to the carnival-like sound characterizing his early peak Highway 61 Revisited, even that album heralded a renewed simplicity in its inclusion of several storied Nashville session musicians. The first album after the crash, Nashville Skyline, was suitably haunted and autumnal: the first serious hint of mortality in the Dylan catalog, a feature everpresent from that moment on.

(Okay, yes: this post is a bit of a metapost: as many of you know, Blogger's sample labels for posts are "scooters, vacation, fall," so I wrote a post intentionally using all three concepts...)