One of the last times I was up in Montreal, I was having drinks amongst some members of a local rock band- let’s call them Rolf Crusade- who’d devised a pretty childish word game, wherein you substitute a word in a given album title with the word “dump”.

One of the last times I was up in Montreal, I was having drinks amongst some members of a local rock band- let’s call them Rolf Crusade- who’d devised a pretty childish word game, wherein you substitute a word in a given album title with the word “dump”. Examples are, but not limited to, PJ Harvey’s “To Bring You My Dump”, Gravediggaz’s “6 Feet Dump”, Brian Eno’s “Another Green Dump”, Queen’s “Sheer Dump Attack”, Radiohead’s “Hail to the Dump”, and Velvet Underground’s “White Light/White Dump”, amongst countless others. Completely infantile, yes, but quite addicting.

So last night, while, funny enough, i was taking a dump, I had the nerve to take the game to the next level: removing the predicate entirely while retaining the reference to defecation. This time, the scatological humor is entirely suggested which ratchets up the intensity of an album titles potential shit allusions.

It isn’t so much a game as something to think about while you wait to board a train, or tire of the waiting room copy of a reader’s digest. Examples include, but again, are never limited to: Busta Rhymes’ “The Coming”, Wolf Parade’s “Apologies to the Queen Mary”, Islands’ “Return to the Sea”, Neil Young’s “After the Goldrush”, Hot Chip’s “Made In the Dark”, Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”, The Breeders’ “Last Splash”, The Smiths’ “Louder than Bombs”, and on and on it goes. This fun activity also works as an ice-breaker, in socially awkward situations. Won’t you give it a go?

-Nick Diamonds I S L A N D S
Howie Doo

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