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.’
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).
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.
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”.
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].”
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.
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.)