Here is the list of albums from 1981 whose titles don't seem so bad. You might remember a few weeks back when I listed those others from 1981 in a classic blog that people around the world simply won't stop talking about.

So here are all the fine, fine albums that were also released in 1981: a year that is now long ago. Enough that the Rush album listed is up for a 30th Anniversary Edition in perfect sync with this column. 

25) Rush - Moving Pictures: From the front cover where people are literally moving pictures to the actual songs on the album -- "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," "YYZ" - Rush get the most of their Canadian citizenship by returning Mark Twain to where he belongs: in a rock tune. If that last sentence didn't make any sense to you, Welcome to the Wacky World of Rock Criticism! You're going to love it here!

24) Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith: What? WHAT? WHAT!!!! Nope. Still can't hear you. Motorhead are visiting.

23) The Gun Club - The Fire of Love: There are people

Naturally, there are those who believe I have gone on too long, but like Ozzy Osbourne once said, You Can't Kill Rock 'n' Roll! Or the parasites who leech off its very blood!

Having done the seminal and quite brilliant Ten Bands Who Broke Up When They Were Done blog, I now offer a look at the bands that have treaded on too long.

The main requirement to make this list is when a band is no longer really a band, when its main members are long gone and there are nothing but people who weren't there in the beginning to help them soldier on.

10) The Pretenders: I can't blame Chrissie Hynde for still calling the group The Pretenders after the death of her guitarist and bassist. It had only been two albums and her own name likely didn't yet have any selling power. But decades later, it's time to stop calling it The Pretenders. It's you, Chrissie. Jeez, even your album Break Up the Concrete had session pro Jim Keltner on drums. Sure, Martin Chambers came back to tour, but what kind of band

Each year makes its presence felt in its own peculiar way. 1981 apparently believed in the power of the terrible album title. Now, I will agree to do a second list that pays note to those albums released in 1981 with better album titles, but I thought it best to start with what was a big trend back at the beginning of the 1980s.

25) Styx - Paradise Theatre: Oh, let's face it, you put anything in front of the word Styx and it automatically sucks.

24) Olivia Newton John - Physical: I would've been more interested if she'd followed up this album of aerobic exercises with an album of brain-teasers called Mental.

23) The Knack - Round Trip: Nothing like an album title that concedes your entire career has been done. Now, I've always liked the Knack far more than the reviews they got at the time and I think they deserved better, but I guess I'm supposed to think that because a record is round, this experience is then a round trip. They should've called this album Art War.

22) Frank

This is a tricky list. Because it doesn't mean what you might think. It's more about people who fit the pose of what rock n' roll represents. This is why Bruce Springsteen can't make the list. He's too wholesome. Brian Wilson is too much of an introvert. Bono is only a classic annoyance. Jerry Garcia and Frank Zappa are too weird and are anti-stars. Jimi Hendrix is impossible to imitate, though some pathetically try. Johnny Rotten is too British. Joe Strummer is too socially conscious. (Paul Simonon came in at #11). David Bowie is too artsy. Paul Simon is too short. Randy Newman doesn't "rock." Van Morrison is...well, look at him. Mick Jagger is too uppity. Ozzy is too Ozzy. Dio is too metal. The Ramones are too conceptual. Eric Clapton is too country club. Kiss are too cartoony. Prince is too girly. The Beatles are too pop. Elvis is too 1950s, which may sound like a dumb reason, but the way "classic rock" has been re-written, the music doesn't even start until Let It Bleed.

I know,