I’m speaking of album titles which look like one thing in print, but sound like something else when spoken aloud.
For example, Aladdin Sane by David Bowie, which also sounds like “A lad insane,” or Sheik Yerboutie by Frank Zappa, which also sounds like “Shake your booty.”
What other examples can Dopers come up with?
ELO - Discovery = Disco? Very!
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Another Zappa: Zoot Allures, which sounds like the French Zut alors! (loosely, “Damn!”)
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“Who’s Next.”
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Metallica Load
Elvis Costello’s All This Useless Beauty. First the name of a song, second alluding to the fact that the songs on the album had been written for other people, and third meaning what Costello thought about the prospects for the success of the album.
My all-time favorite band is a space-rock outfit from the 90s called HUM. Before they hit their stride and honed in on what would be their sound, they had a rougher first album.
They called it Fillet Show. (get it?)
David Bowie’s Low was a visual pun, with the “Low” on a photograph of Bowie in profile.
Actually, no. Spell it out for me, please.
The working title for the 1974 Grateful Dead studio album From the Mars Hotel was Ugly Roomers.
The pun “Ugly Rumors” was spelled out in the cover art in stylized Aztecan text, as rotated mirror writing.
This is the album that gave us the iconic “U.S. Blues” and “Scarlet Begonias,” in addition to the lesser concert favorites “Ship of Fools” and “China Doll.”
Don’t get it.
Don’t get it.
Don’t get it.
Don’t get it.
Van Halen - OU812
Beatles - Rub Her Soul? Is that it?
HUM - Fill A Show. I think.
Who’s next? You’ve never stood on queue before? Also referring to Who’s Next being their next album, following Tommy.
OK. That’s a pretty tenuous double meaning.
ETA: 'Round these parts people would say “next please” or just “next” or just look up and raise eyebrows.
“Who” is used to mean both the name of the group, and the question “Who?” It’s The Who’s next album, while the cover photo shows the group having just urinated against a concrete pillar, implying the question, “Who’s next to take a piss?”
It’s clearer in the context of the cover art.
Nope. Doesn’t work for me at all. And WHO isn’t familiar with the album cover?
ETA: Its their next album. I can’t believe they intended any other meaning.
Revolver is better.
(For those who don’t get it, the record revolves on a turntable )
