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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
^ 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.