first post! (in a while)

So I am concocting a few political posts in the background for the future, but I wanted to put something on here to prove to myself it's not another rusted hulk in the ghost fleet of my failed blogs. Today's topic, songwriting -- a subject I am engaging more and more academically as my creative dry spells become more frequent.

For the last year or two, I have been writing and revising a bunch of songs that I am quite fond of. They're more like character sketches, or flash fiction; meant to evoke a feeling or a sensibility moreso than a story or specific person. I came up with guitar parts and sang melodies of nonsense words over them, recorded them on the quick-and-dirty, and took them with me to Europe this summer. On the plane home from Zurich, I listened to the demos on my iPod and wrote the lyrics. The songs, despite being sketched out months or years ago (starting back in late 2006) are quiet and acoustic and very different from what I was writing and recording in college. I think there are 12 or 13 that are ready for prime time, but I'm nervous about the way they sound when compared to my previous songs, which are catchier. I'd like to write at least one "traditional" song, in the pop-rock vein that I'm so comfortable in, but I worry it would disrupt the feeling of the "album" (that no one will listen to. There are five or six more "regular" songs that I already have, including another titleless wonder called "Coffee Song" which I think is great, but they will have to wait for later.)

The other big concern is the title of the quiet collection. I think a lot about song titles and album titles. What's a good title for a dozen or so contemplative, acoustic songs about love, loneliness and frustration? And how do I make the point that these are songs I write when I'm in those moods, and not the way I feel generally?

Love, Loneliness and Frustration (But Only Sometimes) is a non-starter. What are some of your favorite album titles, and what should I call mine?