Album titles that are puns

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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, 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 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.
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Just remembered - one for Colibri: Katy Lied by Steely Dan.

j

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It’s one of my favorite albums, and I never knew that.

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Except the album title is Catch Bull at Four. No “A.”

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Another Beatles one: Yesterday and Today (sometimes labeled “Yesterday”… and Today), which contained the song Yesterday.

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Which was followed by “Point Of Know Return.”

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Mercury poisoning. This was a greatest hits album she had to deliver to Mercury Records before she could break her contract with them.

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The klezmer music group The Klezmatics called one of their albums Jews With Horns, referring to the medieval belief that Jews had literal horns (as in Michelangelo’s Moses and the fact that they were literally Jews playing horns.

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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.

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Dan Hicks “It Happened One Bite”

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One of the greatest album covers of all time - Al Di Meola’s Kiss My Axe

Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland

Dixie Dregs - Night of the Living Dregs

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What an original idea. From 1979.

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How about a comedy album? “Stan Freberg with the Original Cast”. Images for Stan Freberg - With The Original Cast

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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show’s second album…
Sloppy Seconds

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The Replacements’ cassette-only live release The Shit Hits The Fans

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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.

The album title? Gravelands, of course.

j

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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

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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.

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I always assumed it referred to the disc revolving. What’s the other meaning? A handgun?

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Ministry’s 1989 “The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste” album is a play on the UNCF’s similar sounding, long running slogan.