Here is the fifth and last in the series of weird and wonderful music titles found in SUNCAT. The answers to last week’s quiz are:

• Classical music – Ovation.
• Hip-hop – Wax poetics.
• Reggae – Boom-shacka-lacka.
• Pop music – Swing like 60!
• Soul – Angry voices.

Here are some other weird and wonderful music titles.

• Suspect device
• Tapioka.
• Twisted nerve.
• The Black sheep review.
• Ugly planet.
• Blue yodel / Indiana University Folksong Club.
• Voice of Buddha.
• Bag of tricks & candysticks.
• Wool city rocker : Yorkshire’s rock magazine.
• Young, fast, and scientific.
• Blurt : a mighty organ.
• Jazz not jazz.
• Breach of the peace.
• Elvis Costello information service.
• Remember don’t sleep.
• Cool and strange music! magazine.
• Cosmik debris magazine.
• Bored stiff till ’77.
• Crazy rhythm : the newsletter of the Crazy Cavan ’n’ The Rhythm Rockers Fan Club.
• A fanzine called white lemonade.
• Foggy notions.
• Box and fiddle.
• No-title.
• Situation vacant.
• Gordon’s Koolsville magazine : doo wop, rockabilly, hillbilly, western swing, surf.
• Mad rat magazine.
• Strutters quarterly.
• The fader.
• Strange things are happening.
• Texas hotel burning.
• The devil’s music.
• Pink Flamingo.
• Bim bam boom : the magazine devoted to the history of rhythm & blues.
• Earshot.
• Insomniac.
• In the key of now.

The SUNCAT team hope you enjoyed our ‘Let There Be Music’ series. For more music serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.

Here is the third in the series of weird and wonderful music titles found in SUNCAT.

The answer to last week’s quiz question, which was to name the title given in the post which refers to rave music, is:

The positive energy of madness.

For this week’s quiz can you guess which musical genres the following titles refer to?

• Leap : the magazine for Britain’s club casualties
• No depression
• Elemental.
• No more masterpieces.

Here are some other weird and wonderful music titles.

• Rocking chair.
• Piping world.
• Less than zero.
• 5678 country : the dance magazine for country & line dance.
• Let’s be adult about this.
• Life in a void.
• A little angry in a very nice place.
• TCDS. (Terribly complex drainage system.)
• Life in the jungle : the magazine of the official Walter Trout Band Fan Club.
• Loose lips sink ships.
• Manchester la la la.
• Bald cactus.
• Mega thrash megazine.
• The devil’s music.
• Mounting tension.
• New musickal excess : NMX.
• Blah blah blah.
• Flying Dutchman.
• Off-White Lies.
• K-bar-T country roundup.
• One two testing.
• Incredible shrinking fabzine.
• Club sandwich : Wings own paper.
• Pretty but schizo.
• Bleak horizon zine.
• Rapid eye movement.
• The Jazzologist.
• Let’s catch the beat!
• Remember who we are.
• Coal country crier.

Look out for the fourth in the series of music serials coming soon! For other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.

If, like us at SUNCAT, you love music, whether it is (alternative) rock, punk, pop, soul, blues, gospel, funk, rap, hip-hop, reggae, jazz, classical or country, take a look at some of the really weird and wonderful music titles below. There are so many to be found in SUNCAT that there is going to be a whole series of them!

Just for fun, can you tell which title(s) refer to each of the following genres: gospel; jazz; hip-hop; psychedelic rock; country; and folk?  N.B. Only one or two titles apply to each genre. Answers will appear in the next ‘Let There Be Music’ blog post.

• Adverse effect
• All the Madmen newsletter
• Rose tinted windows
• And don’t run away you punk!!!
• Different drummer.
• Assess your weapons.
• No more of that.
• BigO : before I get old.
• Strawberries for tea.
• Bigwig.
• XLR8R : defining America’s electronic music underground.
• The Birth of tragedy.
• The Shindig in the barn.
• Blank reception.
• Who’s who in Christian hip-hop : artists directory.
• Concrete beaches.
• Here be monsters : HBM.
• Rocking chair.
• Grinding halt.
• What time does the revolution start?
• Blue yodeler.
• Pure popcorn!
• You can!
• A bucketful of brains.
• Full tilt boogie.
• Toastie cuts.
• Autoharp.
• New gandy dancer.
• Syntax : never satisfied always occupied.
• But that’s downbeat and ridiculous, Sharon!
• Careless talk costs lives.
• Why are we sleeping? : a digest of Kevin Ayers.
• Blues & rhythm, the gospel truth.
• Nuff za nuff.
• Circus rock immortals.

Look out for the second in the series of ‘Let There Be Music’ posts coming soon! For other music serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.