# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/81 "2019-11-12T03:28:14Z")
Robert Wyatt had a lot of examples. After he left Soft Machine, he formed the group Matching Mole, whose name derived from the French _Machine Molle_ – their translation of “Soft Machine.” Their first album was also called _Matching Mole_ His first solo album was _The End of an Ear_, and he also released _Ruth is Stranger than Richard_. _Dondestan_ was a reference to the Spanish phrase “Donde estan?” (“Where are they?”) Another possibility of his was _Rock Bottom_, which was recorded after an accident where he was paralyzed from the waist down. It could have referred to that portion of his life; he had been a heavy drinker (falling from a 4th floor window while drunk), and could easily have been considered the low point of his life. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/82 "2019-11-12T06:52:56Z")
Neil Diamond, _Hot August night._ Not only the first line of one of his songs, but also a description of the weather at the concert. ---
**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 12, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/83 "2019-11-12T09:27:18Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Don’t get it. The lead man in **The Teardrop Explodes** , **Julian Cope** , showed musical ability across a range of genres plus is considered knowledgeable in a number of academic subjects. A genius if you will. However depending on his notoriously changeable mood (and his drug consumption which historically has been significant) he can present anywhere on the scale of eccentric / savant / mentally ill… Hence “ **Floored Genius** ” is a “_Flawed Genius_” - To ‘justify’ the pun the cover image showed Cope in a fairly typical pose, for him, crouching in a huddle on the stage (on the floor - He’s a genius on the floor.) TCMF-2L ---
**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 12, 2019, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/84 "2019-11-12T09:38:49Z")
Since I’m back I’ll add one more. UK metal band **Judas Priest** released an album, **Killing Machine** , which was renamed **Hell Bent for Leather** (also the name of one of the tracks) in the US. “_Leather_” (and the artwork for the album cover) references **Judas Priest** had by then started wearing leather and studs stage costumes. “_Hell Bent for Leather_” as an expression implies speed and recklessness and **Judas Priest** were changing their musical direction towards what would now be considered Thrash or Speed Metal. “_Bent_” references lead singer **Rob Halford** ’s gayness - If I recall correctly he was not openly ‘out’ at the time the album was released. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/85 "2019-11-12T10:45:42Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > **Britney Spears** has **If U Seek Amy** (phonetically F U C K Amy)… > [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Phonetically, it’s F U C K \*\*me. > \*\* Actually, phonetically it’s **If You Seek Amy**. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/86 "2019-11-12T12:28:56Z")
The album cover for Head Games by Foreigner depicted a different type of “head”. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/87 "2019-11-12T13:17:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Neil Diamond, _Hot August night._ Not only the first line of one of his songs, but also a description of the weather at the concert. Along those lines is _One Fair Summer Evening_ by Nanci Griffith. Recorded live on a fair summer evening at a fair. ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/88 "2019-11-12T21:03:21Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Beatles - Rub Her Soul? Is that it? > > HUM - Fill A Show. I think. Well, bless your heart. You never heard of fellatio? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/89 "2019-11-12T21:14:08Z")
> [@TimfromNapa](#): > > You never heard of fellatio? No but Im willing to learn. :eek:🙂 ---
**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 12, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/90 "2019-11-12T21:32:24Z")
> [@eunoia](#): > > 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.) That Serrano is such a card.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/91 "2019-11-12T21:48:36Z")
An early Electric Light Orchestra album: _A New World Record_ The title can also mean “a record from the new world.” ---
**Author:** ![ynot49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b782af/32.png) [@ynot49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ynot49)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/92 "2019-11-14T11:39:09Z")
Has an erect penis approaching a vaginal opening drawn on its cover - ok, alright, this is strictly not a double meaning, but you get the thrust of what I am saying. I didn’t see it, Mum did, and told me. She had listened to the album, and commented that ‘they’re not Brook Benton’ - she is right. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/93 "2019-11-14T12:28:08Z")
I think it’s well past the ‘approach’ phase. More like a retreat. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/94 "2019-11-14T13:43:16Z")
Southern rock band Grinderswitch made an album in Macon, Georgia and called it Macon Tracks. ---
**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 14, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/95 "2019-11-14T16:11:43Z")
> [@ynot49](#): > > Has an erect penis approaching a vaginal opening drawn on its cover - ok, alright, this is strictly not a double meaning, but you get the thrust of what I am saying. > I didn’t see it, Mum did, and told me. She had listened to the album, and commented that ‘they’re not Brook Benton’ - she is right. I see one phallic object approaching a second phallic object (the ice shaft). Let’s play tipsies. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/96 "2019-11-14T16:57:32Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > They called it [Fillet Show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillet_Show). (get it?) Not as often as I used to. ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/97 "2019-11-14T19:30:41Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > … (Just learned Fun Fact: the gentleman on the back cover drawing his scimitar is the one-and-only Brad Garrett!) Confirmed by Mr. Garrett himself: [https://mobile.twitter.com/realbradgarrett/status/876345657488924673?lang=en](https://mobile.twitter.com/realbradgarrett/status/876345657488924673?lang=en) ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/98 "2019-11-14T19:32:22Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > 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. Thanks for explaining it, otherwise I never would’ve figured it out in a million years… ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/99 "2019-11-14T20:47:04Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > 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. Probably better known by dopers as the song playing over the [nuclear explosion montage at the end of Dr. Strangelove](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YgdrhrCM8). ---
**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 14, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207/100 "2019-11-14T21:04:02Z")
> [@ynot49](#): > > ( **Uriah Heep album ‘Demons and Wizards’** ) Has an erect penis approaching a vaginal opening drawn on its cover - ok, alright, this is strictly not a double meaning, but you get the thrust of what I am saying. > I didn’t see it, Mum did, and told me. She had listened to the album, and commented that ‘they’re not Brook Benton’ - she is right. Welcome to the Dope! Cannot unsee! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-titles-with-double-meanings/843207.md?page=6)