# Your favourite clever album title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289 "2003-12-16T08:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/1 "2003-12-16T08:48:10Z")
Mine - \*\* “Electric Landlady”\*\* (1991) by Kirsty Maccoll. It sites proudly in the appropriate place amongst my Jimmi Hendrix collection. 🙂 My joint runners up are the whole oeuvre of the greatest unknown novelty band in the world, Birkenhead’s finest, Half Man Half Biscuit. Most of their album titles are puns formed from famous albums or Beatles references or both, the smartest being perhaps **“Back in the DHSS”** \*, but also “Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral”, “Trouble Over Bridgwater”# or the “Cammell Laird (+) Social Club” etc etc. Half a biscuit goes a long way though, so Kirsty wins for me - great album as well as great title! May she rest in peace. (Translations for Non-Brits: \*DHSS - Dept of Health and Social Security, the British version of Welfare. # - Small town on English-Welsh border. + - Permanently broke rusting UK ship yard) ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Alex\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_B)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/2 "2003-12-16T09:03:56Z")
_There’s A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin’ On_ by Lalo Schifrin, composer of the Mission Impossible theme. Alex. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/3 "2003-12-16T09:12:50Z")
After David Bowi **E** put out the album _Low_, Nick Low **E** put out an album called _Bowi_. . ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/4 "2003-12-16T10:37:16Z")
I’ve always liked Was (Not Was)'s album Born to Laugh at Tornados ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/5 "2003-12-16T10:45:36Z")
After Erasure put out a record of Abba covers called _Abbaesque_, the Abba tribute band Bjorn Again put out a record of Erasure covers called _Erasureish_. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/6 "2003-12-16T10:51:21Z")
It loses points for sub-Hallmark-birthday-card-humour, but Sparks’ _Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins_ might be considered ‘clever’. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/7 "2003-12-16T10:58:13Z")
Frank Zappa’s _Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch_ is great when taken in the context of the album cover. Attempt to recreate below:\*\*       \_\_         /        / /       /\_/\_\_\_ \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/8 "2003-12-16T11:20:18Z")
Charles Mingus, _Me, Myself an Eye_. The Beatles, _Revolver_ (as in a record revolving on a turntable). ---
**Author:** ![Marlow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Marlow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/9 "2003-12-16T12:17:12Z")
Matmo’s _A Chance To Cut is A Chance to Cure_. It’s an album of music created from the sounds of surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/10 "2003-12-16T12:40:02Z")
I always liked the title of REO Speedwagon’s “You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish” ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/11 "2003-12-16T12:45:31Z")
Blackfoot’s _Vertical Smiles_, with a montage of bikini-clad female crotches. Van Halen’s _For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge_ - juvenile perhaps, but I like it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/12 "2003-12-16T13:05:54Z")
John Denver, “Poems, Prayers, and Promises.” Is he a scamp or what! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/13 "2003-12-16T13:26:05Z")
ABBA’s “Voulez Vous.” Jason Graae’s “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile.” He is lying down on the cover, wearing a smile and a strategically placed straw hat. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/14 "2003-12-16T13:34:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Frank Zappa’s _Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch_ is great when taken in the context of the album cover. \*\* Give credit where credit is due: Zappa was only reproducing one of Roger Price’s [Droodles](http://www.droodles.com/). As for others, I’ll add: _You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw_ – Spooky Tooth _Lick My Decals Off, Baby_ – Captain Beefheart ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/15 "2003-12-16T13:43:59Z")
I always said that Frank Zappa and Joe Walsh would’ve been brilliant performers indeed if any of their albums had been a tenth as clever as its title. Both had lots of great album titles (I especially liked Walsh’s “The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get”). I also liked… 1. “Is THIS What You Want?” by Jackie Lomax 2. “Intensities in Ten Cities” by Ted Nugent 3. “Break Like the Wind” by Spinal Tap ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_B.Phart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Capt\_B.Phart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_B.Phart)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/16 "2003-12-16T14:13:09Z")
“668 - Neighbor of the Beast” is _so_ damn clever that lots of (obsure) bands have used it:- The Leftovers, Travis Shredd and the good ol’ homeboys, My Dog Popper, Attila the Stockbroker. To name a few. ---
**Author:** ![gyt\_fx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@gyt\_fx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gyt_fx)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/17 "2003-12-16T15:30:15Z")
Bobcat Goldthwait’s comedy CD “Sorry to insult you, but you look like bobcat goldthwait.” (Or something, I just saw tons of commercials on it.) NOFX - Punk in Drublic, Liberal Animation, War on Errorism, Pump up the Valuum. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/18 "2003-12-16T16:01:49Z")
Great title and a great album: Ashley MacIsaac _Hi[sup]tm[/sup], How are you today?_ Great title, not as great album: Ashley MacIsaac _Fine®, Thank you very much_ ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/19 "2003-12-16T16:04:24Z")
Joe Walsh: “You Bought It, You Name It.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289/20 "2003-12-16T16:12:29Z")
Comedy album titles can’t get much weirder than the Firesign Theater’s _Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers_. As far as music goes, I always thought the Vapors’ _New Clear Days_ was pretty good. The title by itself means very little; you have to see the weather map on the album cover–with suns and lightning bolts and raindrops, just like a TV weather map, but with a mushroom cloud–to get the joke. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-clever-album-title/219289.md?page=2)