# Album titles with double meanings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207 "2019-11-09T16:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/61 "2019-11-10T12:30:39Z")
I think this will be my final contribution and it’s not actually an album title but I have to mention it. Back in the eighties I read an interview with the British skinhead / Oi! band **The 4-Skins** who as you could guess comprised of four skinheads. The interviewer asked ‘_What’s it like being a 4-Skin?_’ Getting the inevitable answer ‘_It has it’s drawbacks_.’ TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/62 "2019-11-10T12:39:14Z")
Rush - **Moving Pictures**. Guys in overalls are hauling paintings in or out of a museum. (They’re moving the pictures.) Meanwhile bystanders are crying. (Because the paintings are so moving.) Flip the album over and the back cover photo shows that the whole thing is a movie set. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/63 "2019-11-10T13:00:44Z")
Camilo Lara (of the band Mexican Institute of Sound) released an album called _Soy Sauce_, meaning\* “I Am a Willow Tree” in Spanish (the pun was deliberate, he explained to the press). Yes, I know, Nava. 😉 But close enough. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/64 "2019-11-10T23:37:39Z")
I don’t know if it’s a bit too far fetched, but the Stone Roses second album was called “Second Coming”, surely mocking the fact that almost 5 years had elapsed since their famous and groundbreaking debut album, and clearly playing on the Jesus aspect of one of the most famous songs of that first album, “[I Am The Resurrection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ajn-NXtdc)”. With a band like the Stones Roses, you can be sure to take a third, sexual, innuendo as granted. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/65 "2019-11-11T09:12:40Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Rush - _Moving Pictures_. Guys in overalls are hauling paintings in or out of a museum. (They’re moving the pictures.) Meanwhile bystanders are crying. ( **Because the paintings are so moving**.) … [My \*\*emphasis \*\*added.] Wow, I never made that connection. Not sure about that one - Rush isn’t known for their cheeky sense of humor. I suppose it’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/66 "2019-11-11T09:13:57Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > British post punk band **The Teardrop Explodes** had a compilation album referencing the front man **Julian Cope** called **Floored Genius**. > > TCMF-2L Don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/67 "2019-11-11T09:15:18Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ELO - Discovery = Disco? Very! Has Jeff Lynne or anyone with the band acknowledged this? If not, then I commend you for your creativity! ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/68 "2019-11-11T09:17:40Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Revolver is better. > (For those who don’t get it, the record revolves on a turntable ) Sonofagun - I never made the connection… ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/69 "2019-11-11T09:20:48Z")
Not sure if this qualifies, but it’s in the ballpark: “_You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish_” by **REO Speedwagon**. Album cover is a (presumably dead) fish with a tuning fork in its mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/70 "2019-11-11T13:00:35Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > [My \*\*emphasis \*\*added.] Wow, I never made that connection. Not sure about that one - Rush isn’t known for their cheeky sense of humor. I suppose it’s possible. Rush isn’t known for their cheeky sense of humor? :dubious: But I can see your point. Of the three pictures being moved, one is the Rush red star with naked guy logo, and the other is dogs playing poker. Only the picture of Joan of Arc burning could really be considered “moving”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/71 "2019-11-11T13:48:05Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Has Jeff Lynne or anyone with the band acknowledged this? If not, then I commend you for your creativity! ELO keyboardist Richard Tandy coined the nickname, but it seems the punctuation was wishful thinking on my part. (Just learned Fun Fact: the gentleman on the back cover drawing his scimitar is the one-and-only Brad Garrett!) ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/72 "2019-11-11T14:31:43Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Rush isn’t known for their cheeky sense of humor? :dubious: But I can see your point. Of the three pictures being moved, one is the Rush red star with naked guy logo, and the other is dogs playing poker. Only the picture of Joan of Arc burning could really be considered “moving”. The back cover shows a director and cameras filming the scene. They are making a movie (a “moving picture”) of the front cover art. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/73 "2019-11-11T14:59:23Z")
The Moody Blues’ _ **Sur la Mer** _. Supposedly, when discussing how to begin working on the album, one band member said, “On the C [meaning the musical note].” ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/74 "2019-11-11T15:53:51Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Sonofagun - I never made the connection… That would be a 45. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/75 "2019-11-11T16:16:12Z")
Jim Capaldi’s second solo album was _Whale Meat Again_, a take-off on Vera Lynn’s WWII standard “We’ll Meet Again,” one of the biggest songs in British history. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/76 "2019-11-11T16:47:52Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > That would be a 45. Actually, the album was a 33 1/3, although it did produce several 45s as singles.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/77 "2019-11-11T18:47:23Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/78 "2019-11-11T18:50:23Z")
Ted Nugent’s live album “Intensities in 10 Cities”. The songs came from the last 10 stops on his tour. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/79 "2019-11-12T01:11:00Z")
Lyle Lovett, _Joshua Judges Ruth_ ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/80 "2019-11-12T01:56:51Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Triple entendre, then. 😉 I’m not that familiar with Mapplethorpe’s _oeuvre_. It’s [Andres Serrano’s Semen and Blood III, 1990](https://www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/andres-serrano/semen-and-blood-iii) so not necessarily also a viral load. The cover of Reload is also a Serrano artwork called Piss and Blood (some say it’s number XXVI.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207.md?page=5)