Awful puns/neologisms as album titles

AR Kane - New Clear Child

Hah way to beat me by 9 seconds!

You snooze, you lose.

Don't forget the Boston band Green, who released an album called "R.E.M."

They're from Chicago!

(I used to work with the lead singer.)

Ministry - Dark Side of the Spoon

Which is actually quite funny, I think.

White Lion - Mane Attraction

My poor fingers! Gag reflex just typing that.

o_0 @ ppl not getting Take off Your Pants and Jacket. From the band whose previous album was called Enema of the State, ffs.

ugh, so many of these make me want to die or kill

even the ones that are great records, like Hairway to Steven

In the contemporary classical arena, composer Milton Babbitt is the unrivaled master of terrible punning titles. Among his worst:

Four Play (a title that, regrettably, has been used by numerous others too)
My Complements to Roger
Sheer Pluck (Composition for Guitar)
The Joy of More Sextets
Whirled Series
Beaten Paths for solo marimba
None But The Lonely Flute
Septet, But Equal

There's also a whole string of comparatively sober titles that are actually puns on mathematical concepts (Partitions, Ensembles, Reflections, Images, Canonical Form).

Talking Heads - No Talking Just Head

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

not a talking heads album -- the pun is the whole thing here. david byrne kept them (i think it was credited to THE HEADS? anyway, it was weymouth/franz/harrison) from using the name. it's a little dumb, but it would have been dumber as a talking heads record title.

i think it was credited to THE HEADS?

yes. not a terrible album tho -- I like the track with Andy Partridge on it, anyway...

Most of Greg Kihn's albums:

Next of Kihn (1978)
Rockihnroll (1981)
Kihntinued (1982)
Kihnspiracy (1983)
Kihntagious (1984)
Citizen Kihn (1985)

Babylon And On

And the visual puns accompanying Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti

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those stupid milton babbitt titles always irked

never mind album titles, what about band names - King L being one i like to remember whenever i need a laugh.

I don't get this one??

not gonna lie, i found most of the items itt to be hilarious.

King L = "fucking hell"

re King L : the band were on a major label as well (post Danny Wilson outfit for Gary Clarke, before he formed Garbage soundalike, Transister, another puntastic band)

The Presets - Apocalypso

Mental As Anything - Apocalypso

NOFX -- Punk In Drublic

Along the same lines, I'm quite sure there was a punk band with a song called "Punk and Disorderly", but I can't remember exactly.

Bola - KS
Bola - Soup
Bola - Mauver
Bola - Gnayse

don't forget a bowl of yew tea!

never mind album titles, what about band names - King L being one i like to remember whenever i need a laugh.

― mark e, Friday, October 15, 2010 4:23 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

CunninLynguists

Paul, how could you forget All Set?:P This stuff just makes me love Babbitt even more.

There are a million jazz records that are puns on the musician's name.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/9c8eac888d16f489c29dbb5cbdc.jpg

on top of the prodigious wordplay here i once used it to pun on "jazz canon" (someone mispelled it cannon iirc) ...lol!

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Friday, October 15, 2010 4:45 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

this is a classic classic album title fuiud

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/004/191/0000419164_350.jpg

CunninLynguists

― thistle supporter (mcoll), Sunday, October 17, 2010

And Caravan's Cunning Stunts now that you mention it.

the fox - for fox sake

pretty racy title for 1970

xpost - Sundar, I forgot All Set -- not sure if I'd class it among the esoteric math puns and the regular-language puns.

and or

Virgin Fugs

is that a pun? or just a terrible album name. either way

Gucci Mane Jewelry Selection (presumably a pun on Jury Selection, and it's not a bad title)

another sax-related one, I'm afraid:

Sparks - Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins

Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet

Oh shit, just noticed that the Sparks one has been mentioned before on the thread. Sorry.

Have we had Ramsey Lewis' Tequila Mockingbird?

One I genuinely like is The 25th of May - Lenin & McCarthy. No better title for a group of scouse Marxists.

just dug out this album and gave it a spin expecting it to suck,
and yeah, it's easy to rip into their EMF/Jesus Jones groove,
however, there is a track, 'why?' that uses news snippets re hillsborough from the time that hits really hard.

two decades later it occurs to me that Digital Underground's Future Rhythm is a pun

It is?

Stevie Jackson - (I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson

I can't decide if the band name Neil Young and the Restless is really a cheesy reference to the soap opera or just a coincidence.

Double pun going on here - trombone and bossa nova? Bill Watrous With the New Bill Watrous Quartet, "Coronary Trombossa!" Also good of the Bill Watrous Quartet to allow him to play with them.

https://img.discogs.com/oYw-kCMAeVUBL7S4pcoBNO9hoiI=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3508393-1333226488.jpeg.jpg

shocking. hanging's too good.

xxxxp Future Rhythm = Futurism, with a lisp

two decades later it occurs to me that Digital Underground's Future Rhythm is a pun

― Οὖτις, Thursday, September 13, 2018 6:09 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is?

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, September 13, 2018 6:46 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like a lisping 'futurism'?

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