# Album titles that are puns

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/81 "2020-06-01T19:35:07Z")

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**Cereal Killer** , Green Jelly/Green Jello  
**Grave Disorder** , The Damned  
**Licensed to Ill** , Beastie Boys

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**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/82 "2020-06-01T19:49:38Z")

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> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> I always assumed it referred to the disc revolving. What’s the other meaning? A handgun?

That’s by far the most common meaning of the word “revolver.” If you said “revolver” a record wouldn’t be the first thing I thought of.

It’s been suggested that it also indicates that the focus shifts from one Beatle to another next in each song, which is also implied in another proposed title, _Four Sides to the Circle._

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**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-that-are-puns/854704/83 "2020-06-02T01:57:11Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> That’s by far the most common meaning of the word “revolver.” If you said “revolver” a record wouldn’t be the first thing I thought of.\*

Agreed, but in the context of “the name of this new Beatles album” it was the first thing I thought of. Maybe because in 1966 I was first and foremost a record geek.

> [@Colibri](#):
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> It’s been suggested that it also indicates that the focus shifts from one Beatle to another next in each song, which is also implied in another proposed title, _Four Sides to the Circle._

Interesting. I’d never heard/read about that. It might also have been an appropriate title for (what immediately came to be called) The White Album.

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