An inspiring 'Summer of Junior Year' effort

Tim, quit blogging so much. I'm going to start calling you Rob. Rob, blog more I'm going to start calling you Scott. Scott, blog just the right amount. I'm going to keep calling you my sexy self. And finally, SPAMMERS, prepare for underhanded WAR! Failing that, just stay the hell out of my comments.

Now for the topic of this post. You may have noticed if you pay attention to reviews of new albums that after a group gets big, the next album they put out is called their 'Sophomore Effort'. Naturally, I think this would be a wicked awesome band name. And just after the band got famous, they intentionally put out a terrible record so that they can laugh at reviewers predictably making fun of their name.

But as awesome as my Glam Folk band: Sophomore Effort would be, it got me thinking about the whole naming convention. Their next album isn't called their Junior Effort, and after that it isn't their Senior release. What's the deal? Why can't we stick with this high school metaphore, and even extend it. Shouldn't the tracks themselves represent various stages of the high school year? Like if the reviewer was talking about the third track on the album shouldn't he call it the Homecomming track? Or if it was the second to last, maybe the After Prom Deflowering track?

And it can definately extend beyond highschool, for instance, there could be a 'Going to State College' release, and then a 'Changing my Major to Art History to Piss off my Dad' album, capped by a 'Got Drunk Listening to Dave Matthews and Knocked Up That Butter Face' effort. But I think I've just scratched the surface of what could be a whole new categorization of music.

Feel free - nay- feel obligated to leave your own album release euphemisms.