# Album titles that are puns **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704 "2020-05-29T23:59:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/1 "2020-05-29T23:59:05Z")
In the [tribute album thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=897052), **Thudlow Boink** helpfully posted a [link to a wikipedia list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tribute_albums), 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/2 "2020-05-30T00:03:03Z")
Frank Zappa’s _Sheik Yerbouti_ and _Zoot Allures_ ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/3 "2020-05-30T00:06:24Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Frank Zappa’s _Sheik Yerbouti_ and _Zoot Allures_ Damn, I should’ve thought of them, I own both. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/4 "2020-05-30T00:09:24Z")
The Beatles _Rubber Soul_ _Revolver_ has a double meaning. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/5 "2020-05-30T00:10:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The Beatles _Rubber Soul_ Is it? “Rubber soul” and “rub a soul”? Never was aware of that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/6 "2020-05-30T00:11:36Z")
Weird Al-_Alpocalypse_ ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/7 "2020-05-30T00:11:45Z")
OU812 was a response to David Lee Roth’s album _Eat 'Em and Smile_. ETA: Not technically a pun. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/8 "2020-05-30T00:12:38Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Is it? “Rubber soul” and “rub a soul”? Never was aware of that. Look at your shoes. Or an overcooked fish. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/9 "2020-05-30T00:15:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Look at your shoes. Or an overcooked fish. :smack: Got it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/10 "2020-05-30T00:19:03Z")
Jimmy Buffet-_Licence To Chill_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/11 "2020-05-30T00:20:53Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/12 "2020-05-30T00:22:54Z")
> [@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_ ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/13 "2020-05-30T00:24:34Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/14 "2020-05-30T00:26:33Z")
The Grateful Dead had an album called Reckoning. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/15 "2020-05-30T00:27:23Z")
> [@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:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Soul) > [@](#): > > 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] ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/16 "2020-05-30T00:28:43Z")
Tom Waits’ _Foreign Affairs_ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/17 "2020-05-30T00:29:04Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > The Grateful Dead had an album called Reckoning. Alternate title: Ahead references “Deadheads” ---
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> [@Colibri](#): > > Would you believe Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr? From [Wiki:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Soul) Sure, but I wasn’t casting doubt; I was commenting on the nature of puns. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/19 "2020-05-30T00:31:07Z")
Nick Lowe released a compilation album in 1984 entitled “[16 All Time Lowes](https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/discos-vinilo/tc/2018/01/02/19/107920395_1514916497.jpg)”. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/20 "2020-05-30T00:34:40Z")
[Most Greg Kihn album names are a pun on his name.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greg_Kihn_Band#Discography) RocKihnRoll & Kihnspiracy had his hits, [“The Breakup Song”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLFfSDEA26o) & [“Jeopardy”.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6wL9tjcMs) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704.md?page=2)