Album titles with double meanings

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.’

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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.

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. :wink: But close enough.

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”. With a band like the Stones Roses, you can be sure to take a third, sexual, innuendo as granted.

[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.

Don’t get it.

Has Jeff Lynne or anyone with the band acknowledged this? If not, then I commend you for your creativity!

Sonofagun - I never made the connection…

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.

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”.

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!)

The back cover shows a director and cameras filming the scene. They are making a movie (a “moving picture”) of the front cover art.

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].”

That would be a 45.

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.

Actually, the album was a 33 1/3, although it did produce several 45s as singles.:slight_smile:

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Ted Nugent’s live album “Intensities in 10 Cities”. The songs came from the last 10 stops on his tour.

Lyle Lovett, Joshua Judges Ruth

It’s Andres Serrano’s Semen and Blood III, 1990 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.)