# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/61 "2020-05-30T20:58:05Z")
One that might be a pun, and one I’m certain must be (I have no evidence for either). **Catch A Bull At Four** by **Cat Stevens**. I had a realization one day - it’s Catch A Bullet For. Except seemingly it isn’t: > [@](#): > > Catch Bull at Four is the sixth studio album by Cat Stevens. In the United States it spent three weeks at number one on Billboard’s album chart. The title is taken from one of the Ten Bulls of Zen If it was anyone other than Cat Stevens, you would say this explanation was bullshit (sorry) - but hey, it’s Cat. Still, hard to believe there isn’t a pun in here somewhere. [The Bulls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls), BTW, as you ask. And then there’s\*\* the fourth Roxy Music album\*\* and, in my opinion, the worst of the original five studio works. All of the others\* have as their core subject matter romance and wistful memories of lost love etc etc - Ferry’s strong suite. Number four was far more overtly sexual in its subject matter, which (IMHO) just doesn’t work. (NSFW: Here’s [the cover](http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7103) by the way). The title? Country Life. Now _Shakespeare_ used that pun. BTW, if you’re up for a spoonerism, there’s an ancient album by **Caravan** called **Cunning Stunts**. j - - we can debate For Your Pleasure elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/62 "2020-05-30T21:22:50Z")
Just remembered - one for **Colibri** : **[Katy Lied](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied)** by **Steely Dan**. > [@](#): > > The album cover features a picture of a katydid, a “singing” (stridulating) insect related to crickets and grasshoppers. This is a pun on the album’s title, which is paraphrased from a line of “Doctor Wu”: “Katy lies, you can see it in her eyes”. j ---
**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, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/63 "2020-05-30T21:32:08Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Just remembered - one for **Colibri** : **[Katy Lied](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Lied)** by **Steely Dan**. > > j It’s one of my favorite albums, and I never knew that. ---
**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, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/64 "2020-05-30T21:35:14Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > One that might be a pun, and one I’m certain must be (I have no evidence for either). > > **Catch A Bull At Four** by **Cat Stevens**. I had a realization one day - it’s Catch A Bullet For. Except seemingly it isn’t: > > If it was anyone other than Cat Stevens, you would say this explanation was bullshit (sorry) - but hey, it’s Cat. Still, hard to believe there isn’t a pun in here somewhere. [The Bulls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls), BTW, as you ask. > > e. Except the album title is _Catch Bull at Four_. No “A.” ---
**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, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/65 "2020-05-30T21:45:32Z")
Another Beatles one: _Yesterday and Today_ (sometimes labeled _“Yesterday”… and Today_), which contained the song _Yesterday._ ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/66 "2020-05-30T22:47:47Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > “Leftoverture” by Kansas. Which was followed by “Point Of Know Return.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/67 "2020-05-30T23:42:59Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > What’s the pun in _Mercury Poise?_ Mercury poisoning. This was a greatest hits album she had to deliver to Mercury Records before she could break her contract with them. ---
**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/68 "2020-05-30T23:43:59Z")
The [klezmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klezmer) music group _The Klezmatics_ called one of their albums [_Jews With Horns_](https://img.discogs.com/k9X3U2VFekofcfl55yJ4innkMAM=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1285439-1532885947-9048.jpeg.jpg), referring to the medieval belief that Jews had literal horns (as in Michelangelo’s [Moses](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/%27Moses%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU310.jpg/240px-%27Moses%27_by_Michelangelo_JBU310.jpg) and the fact that they were literally Jews playing horns. ---
**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 31, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/69 "2020-05-31T00:09:58Z")
Two from Germany: “BRDigung” was an album by the 80s fun punk band Crackers. BRD was/is the abbreviation for Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Federal Republic of Germany, and the homophone \*Beerdigung \*means funeral. Udo Lindenberg - Udopia I think that’s self-explanatory. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/70 "2020-05-31T00:17:01Z")
Dan Hicks “It Happened One Bite” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/71 "2020-05-31T01:38:33Z")
One of the greatest album covers of all time - Al Di Meola’s [_Kiss My Axe_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8oro5Tv6u0&list=PL94gOvpr5yt1wFZtA_hDCekz4k1RAVS-l) Butthole Surfers - _Electriclarryland_ Dixie Dregs - _Night of the Living Dregs_ ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/72 "2020-05-31T01:46:55Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Mercury poisoning. This was a greatest hits album she had to deliver to Mercury Records before she could break her contract with them. What an original idea. [From 1979.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZWgadswjmk) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/73 "2020-05-31T04:45:49Z")
How about a comedy album? “Stan Freberg with the Original Cast”. [Images for Stan Freberg - With The Original Cast](https://www.discogs.com/release/7930542-With-The-Original-Cast/images) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/74 "2020-05-31T05:09:11Z")
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s second album… _Sloppy Seconds_ ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/75 "2020-05-31T06:29:20Z")
The Replacements’ cassette-only live release _The Shit Hits The Fans_ ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/76 "2020-05-31T20:55:49Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Except the album title is _Catch Bull at Four_. No “A.” I’ve only spent decades unconsciously adding the indefinite article to that title. Thank you. Less likely to be a pun, then. In that case, a replacement. An album by The King, in which the deceased Elvis Presley, having spent time making new (also deceased) friends and jamming with them, returns to earth in the body of Belfast postman James Brown in order to make an album of his new (deceased) friends’ music. Or something like that. Maybe this will explain it better: Elvis sings [Whiskey In The Jar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD4uCYZy5-0). The album title? **Gravelands** , of course. j ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/77 "2020-05-31T23:36:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As an aside, Ringo suggested calling it _After Geography_, since the Stones had just put out _Aftermath._🙂 I used to think The Rolling Stones _Let It Bleed_ was a riff on The Beatles _Let It Be_; while the latter song was recorded before the Stones released their album and might have been known to Keith and Mick, there’d be little reason to riff on an as yet unreleased Beatles album/song (and the working title for the Beatles record was initially _Get Back_). There is Genesis’ _Selling England By The Pound_ ---
**Author:** ![uncle\_squeegee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b5e925/32.png) [@uncle\_squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncle_squeegee)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/78 "2020-06-01T03:12:12Z")
After David Bowie released "Low,’ Nick Lowe put out an EP called “Bowi.” Not quite a pun, but it was the funniest thing I learned from Lowe’s memoir. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/79 "2020-06-01T05:39:57Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > The Beatles _Rubber Soul_ > > _Revolver_ has a double meaning. I always assumed it referred to the disc revolving. What’s the other meaning? A handgun? ---
**Author:** ![KMS94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ad7895/32.png) [@KMS94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KMS94)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/80 "2020-06-01T18:19:10Z")
Ministry’s 1989 “The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste” album is a play on the UNCF’s similar sounding, long running slogan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704.md?page=5)