Album titles that are puns

[EinsteinsHund]

In the tribute album thread, Thudlow Boink helpfully posted a link to a wikipedia list, and I noticed that many of those albums have (mostly bad) puns as titles. The worst is the Jeff Lynne tribute album “Lynne Me Your Ears”. :smack: Later I listened to David Bowie and thought of his album “Aladdin Sane”, and thus the idea for this thread was born.

So, what you’ve got? The more cringeworthy, the better.

[Colibri]

Frank Zappa’s Sheik Yerbouti and Zoot Allures

[EinsteinsHund]

@Colibri

Frank Zappa’s Sheik Yerbouti and Zoot Allures

Damn, I should’ve thought of them, I own both.

[Colibri]

The Beatles Rubber Soul

Revolver has a double meaning.

[EinsteinsHund]

@Colibri

The Beatles Rubber Soul

Is it? “Rubber soul” and “rub a soul”? Never was aware of that.

[running_coach]

Weird Al-Alpocalypse

[x-ray_vision]

OU812 was a response to David Lee Roth’s album Eat 'Em and Smile.

ETA: Not technically a pun.

[running_coach]

@EinsteinsHund

Is it? “Rubber soul” and “rub a soul”? Never was aware of that.

Look at your shoes. Or an overcooked fish.

[EinsteinsHund]

@running_coach

Look at your shoes. Or an overcooked fish.

:smack: Got it.

[running_coach]

Jimmy Buffet-Licence To Chill

[Colibri]

@EinsteinsHund

Is it? “Rubber soul” and “rub a soul”? Never was aware of that.

No, not that. “Rubber Soul” in reference to the fact that it wasn’t real “soul music,” but manufactured, and also a reference to rubber-soled shoes.

[x-ray_vision]

@running_coach

Look at your shoes. Or an overcooked fish.

But is that what they were going for? If not, I don’t think it counts. Lots of titles could be puns.

If it’s true that they were going for Colibri’s explanation, then I’d give the pun designation a* maybe*. But I’m a hard sell.

I think these count:

Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

Aladdin Sane

[74westy]

You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish – REO Speedwagon

Kinda surprised that didn’t come out in the first 10 posts.

Speaking of Jimmy Buffet, Does A White Sports Coat and a Pink Crustacean count?

[hajario]

The Grateful Dead had an album called Reckoning.

[Colibri]

@x-ray_vision

If it’s true that they were going for Colibri’s explanation, then I’d give the pun designation a* maybe*. But I’m a hard sell.

Would you believe Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr? From Wiki:

The album title was intended as a pun combining the falseness intrinsic to pop music and rubber-soled shoes.[29] Lennon said the title was McCartney’s idea and referred to “English soul”.[20] In a 1966 press conference, Starr said they called the album Rubber Soul to acknowledge that, in comparison to American soul artists, “we are white and haven’t got what they’ve got”, and he added that this was true of all the British acts who attempted to play soul music.[187] McCartney recalled that he conceived the title after overhearing an American musician describing Mick Jagger’s singing style as “plastic soul”.[20][nb 12] In Phillip Norman’s view, the title served as “a sly dig at their archrivals (and private best mates) the Rolling Stones”, with the added implication that the Beatles’ “variety” of soul music “at least was stamped out by a good strong northern [English] Wellington boot”.[190]

[Colibri]

Tom Waits’ Foreign Affairs

[running_coach]

@hajario

The Grateful Dead had an album called Reckoning.

Alternate title: Ahead

references “Deadheads”

[x-ray_vision]

@Colibri

Would you believe Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr? From Wiki:

Sure, but I wasn’t casting doubt; I was commenting on the nature of puns.

[kenobi_65]

Nick Lowe released a compilation album in 1984 entitled “16 All Time Lowes”.

[Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank]

Most Greg Kihn album names are a pun on his name.

RocKihnRoll & Kihnspiracy had his hits, “The Breakup Song” & “Jeopardy”.