# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/21 "2020-05-30T00:38:05Z")
J. Geils Band’s last album _You’re Gettin’ Even While I’m Gettin’ Odd_, maybe? > [@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. That was the first thing I thought of! > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 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)”. After David Bowie released his album _Low_, Nick Lowe put out an Ep titled [Bowi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowi). Speaking of puns on the artist’s name, singer/guitarist Michael Roe released an album titled [The Boat Ashore](https://www.amazon.com/Boat-Ashore-Michael-Roe/dp/B004HLCXL2/ref=tmm_msc_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=). ---
**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, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/22 "2020-05-30T00:41:56Z")
The Vapors - _New Clear Days_ Zep - _In through the outdoor_ (I’m guessing there was pun intent) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/23 "2020-05-30T00:43:48Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > 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)”. Nick likes his plays on words. Probably caught it from Elvis Costello. There’s _The Abominable Showman_, and \*Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit \*which I always assumed was a reference to both his clothing and his band. His song _Switch Board Susan_ is chock full of telephone puns. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/24 "2020-05-30T00:44:16Z")
Cyndi Lauper had a greatest hits compilation titled _Twelve Deadly Cyns_ ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/25 "2020-05-30T00:55:24Z")
**Who’s Next** counts. You have the question when addressing a group, “Who’s next?” and an album that also announces that it is the Who’s next --album. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/26 "2020-05-30T00:56:08Z")
Cream’s _Disraeli Gears_ in a pun on the phrase “Derailleur Gear,” used to shift gears on a bicycle. Elton John’s _Honky Chateau_. There’s a connection both between the chateau in France where it was recorded and the first single was “Honky Cat.” In France, “cat” is “chat” – like in Chateau. Hard to say if the single or the album was doing the punning. ---
**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, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/27 "2020-05-30T01:03:56Z")
> [@minlokwat](#): > > **Who’s Next** counts. > > You have the question when addressing a group, “Who’s next?” and an album that also announces that it is the Who’s next --album. I’ve always thought it meant “Who’s next to piss at the monolith?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/28 "2020-05-30T01:04:03Z")
Van Halen, _OU812_ 1960s pop singer Tommy Roe’s greatest hits compilation was _12 in a Roe_. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/29 "2020-05-30T01:12:17Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Nick likes his plays on words. Probably caught it from Elvis Costello. There’s _The Abominable Showman_, and \*Nick Lowe and his Cowboy Outfit \*which I always assumed was a reference to both his clothing and his band. His song _Switch Board Susan_ is chock full of telephone puns. Nick’s first release in 1977 was an EP titled _ **Bowi** _, a punny response to Bowie’s album _ **Low** _. ---
**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, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/30 "2020-05-30T01:13:44Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Van Halen, _OU812_ > > 1960s pop singer Tommy Roe’s greatest hits compilation was _12 in a Roe_. That reminds of Pete Best’s album “Best Of The Beatles”, which of course was a bit misleading… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/31 "2020-05-30T01:15:14Z")
Flipping through my collection, a couple catch my eye. Daft Punk - Discovery… Partially disco inspired, obviously released on a disc, and ‘discovery’ fairly describes the story attached to the album via Interstella 5555. Ghost - Seven Inches of Satanic Panic… Within the band’s fiction, released as a 7 inch single in 1969, but that’s not the only 7 inches it’s referring to (Papa Nihil (the lead singer character on that one) was a randy bastard.). Shonen Knife - 712… 7-1-2 can, through choice the readings and abbreviation, be read as naifu - knife. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/32 "2020-05-30T01:15:31Z")
The Grateful Dead’s 1974 **At the Mars Hotel** has a hidden title on the back cover: “Ugly Roomers.” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/33 "2020-05-30T01:23:45Z")
Also **Dead Set,** which was the electric counterpoint to the acoustic **Reckoning,** released in the same year. ---
**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, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/34 "2020-05-30T01:28:00Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Daft Punk - Discovery… Partially disco inspired, obviously released on a disc, and ‘discovery’ fairly describes the story attached to the album via Interstella 5555. And, similarly, Electric Light Orchestra’s _Discovery_ is very disco-flavored (being released in 1979), and members of the band, including Jeff Lynne, have suggested that the title could be parsed as “Disco Very.” ---
**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, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/35 "2020-05-30T02:56:02Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Cream’s _Disraeli Gears_ in a pun on the phrase “Derailleur Gear,” used to shift gears on a bicycle. Not really a pun, though, as “Disraeli Gears” has no meaning. Supposedly it’s just a mispronunciation by a Cream roadie. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/36 "2020-05-30T03:22:54Z")
Rock: Butthole Surfers, _Hairway to Steven_ The Go-Go’s, _Beauty and the Beat_ Little Feat, _Feats Don’t Fail Me Now_ Country: June Carter Cash, _Press On_ Johnny Cash, _Heart of Cash_ Dolly Parton, _Greatest Hits_ (before you complain, check the [album cover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Dolly_Parton_album))) David Allan Coe, _Once Upon a Rhyme_ And, while it may not strictly be a pun, it always tickled me: Joe Walsh, _The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get_ ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/37 "2020-05-30T03:39:02Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can’t Tuna Fish – REO Speedwagon Didn’t one of the Marx Brothers say that first? If you want to stretch it out into song titles, here’s this tune from April Wine that actually made it onto MTV and the playlist of my local album rock station at the time. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MjmxUSsL-qk/hqdefault.jpg "April Wine - If You See Kay (1982 video single)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjmxUSsL-qk) ---
**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, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/38 "2020-05-30T04:08:13Z")
Hayseed Dixie (whose name is, itself, a play on AC/DC) does bluegrass cover versions of rock songs, and has several punny album titles: - Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss - A Hot Piece of Grass - Weapons of Grass Destruction - Hair Down To My Grass ---
**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, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/39 "2020-05-30T04:18:56Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > Sure, but I wasn’t casting doubt; I was commenting on the nature of puns. You said “if it’s true.” It sounded like you didn’t believe it. ---
**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, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/40 "2020-05-30T04:40:20Z")
^ Then you were reading into something I didn’t claim. “If it’s true” often just means that the person saying it doesn’t know if the claim is true or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704.md?page=3)