HIStory would probably be the top-selling example, if it counts (can the emphasis of certain letters in a word by capitalization constitute a pun?)
― del griffith, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Gary Glitter - Touch Me
(lolz in retrospect)
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Miss E... So Addictive
(off topic, and there's probably already a thread on it, but what about stuff like Fresh Cream or Who's Next, do those count? seems like those kind of titles were fairly prevalent in classic rock)
― del griffith, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Snopp Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Half Man Half Biscuit are good/ awful for this kind of thing (delete according to taste):
Trouble Over BridgewaterBack in the DHSSAchtung Bono
FWIW, I think they're national treasures and hope they keep on punning.
― Neil S, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Tony Banks - Bankstatement
Further minus points for also having a terrible literal album cover.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
don't forget Tha Doggfather!
― del griffith, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Hour of the Bewilderbeast: everything annoyingly twee and kooky about Badly Drawn Boy, in one album title.
― Neil S, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Incesticide (always hated this title)
― Euler, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
An Australian singer-songwriter Fergus Brown, named his album Burgers Frown, which was more awesome than awful. Still, depends on your patience for that kind of humour.
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
NoFX - The War on ErrorismCarter USM - 101 Damnations
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Jello Biafra - The Audacity of Hype (although I have to admit a sneaking admiration for that one)
― Neil S, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't notice Take Off Your Pants and Jacket was a pun until seeing it on this thread and saying it out loud five times.
I still don't get Tragic Kingdom.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
They're from California, home of Disney's "Magic Kingdom." It's a stretch.
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
A Salt with a Dealy Pepa
Tongue in Chic
Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins
There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On (we have a winner!)
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
This one's great ^^
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Music criticism edition:"White Blood Sells: Race and the White Stripes' Moment in the Sun""The Revolution Will Be Harmonized""Appropriate for Destruction""Remains of the Day-O""Imperfect Sound Forever""The Syncher, Not the Song: The Irresistible Rise of the Numa Numa Dance""Joy Division: An Ideal for Listening"
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I still don't get "Tragic Kingdom" either.
Or is it supposed to be a play on "Magic Kingdom"?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Nick Lowe - Bowi
― MarkoP, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
!!! - myth takes
― EDB, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Nick Lowe - Bowiwrong thread, i suppose
― V79, Thursday, 14 October 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
.....and The Rumour -Max
― sonofstan, Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
― MarkoP, Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:49 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark
believe so
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
well, they're from Anaheim too, so there's that
― del griffith, Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like I'm talking into the wind here
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
one supposes that if they were from Valencia they might've called the album Six Flags Tragic Mountain
― del griffith, Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The Presets - ApocalypsoVan Halen - OU812
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
still don't understand how 'take off your pants and jacket' is a pun
― thomp, Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Take Off Your Pants and Masturbate
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 15 October 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ok that doesnt cross the channel very well
― thomp, Friday, 15 October 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like somebody needs a chunnel!
― I'm a DUDE, Dad! (Viceroy), Friday, 15 October 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
AnniemalIntensities in Ten CitiesChef Boy-R-U-DumbArt Official IntelligenceEdutainmentThe Ecleftic (2 Sides 2 A Book)TormatoHi InfidelityHail to the ThiefThe Ego Has LandedSupersadomasochisticexpialidociousInfrared Riding Hood Electric LandladyOlder... Budweiser
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 15 October 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
snoop's first album title is classic, wtf
― swvl, Friday, 15 October 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
This should be the real album title ^^
Would be A+++
― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Especially if it were a Radiohead album.
― sonofstan, Friday, 15 October 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
One I genuinely like is The 25th of May - Lenin & McCarthy. No better title for a group of scouse Marxists.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 15 October 2010 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://culturapoliticademocratica.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/supergrassalbumart1.jpg
lovely album.crap title.
― mark e, Friday, 15 October 2010 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
PREGNANT PAUSEA beautiful selection of New Age harp music by Cheryl Gallagher especially created for relaxation, enjoyment, and stress relief during pregnancy, child-birth, lactation, and as an aid in parenting and child development. Pregnant Pause is an excellent childrens' product, a perfect baby gift, and an excellent calming influence for both mothers and children during high-stress times such as car rides, bed time, and the pre-dinner blues.
― Waldstein Sinatra (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 15 October 2010 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
This one is a little too clever for its own good. If you recall David Bowie had an album come out in '77 called Low, so this is was response to that. Just for reference, his greatest hits collection was called something like 16 All-Time Lowes. He does have an album called The Abominable Showman, which was pretty true to its title.
Some of my favorites:Let's Wrestle - In the Court of the Wrestling Let's: Definitely one of the most awkward puns (?) of all timeThe Orb - too many to count: U.F. Orb, Orbsessions, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivian, etc. etc.Deathray Davies - just the name of the band is a pretty neat/awful punKinks - All their early albums - Kinkdom, Kinda Kinks, Kink-Size, the Kink Kontroversy, huh huh huh
― frogbs, Friday, 15 October 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
This one is a little too clever for its own good. If you recall David Bowie had an album come out in '77 called Low, so this is was response to that.
...as the Rumour's Max was a response to the 'Macs Rumours
― sonofstan, Friday, 15 October 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
it took me like a year to get Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 15 October 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Take off your pants and jack it??
― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, 15 October 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CC%5CCandy%20Dulfer%20-%20Saxuality%5CCandy%20Dulfer%20-%20Saxuality.jpg
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Neil Young: Le Noise
Produced by Daniel Lanois
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
How about Licensed To Ill?
Although I kinda like that one.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't forget the Boston band Green, who released an album called "R.E.M."
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah Take Off Your Pants and Jacket took a little bit for me too, I just remember seeing the video on MTV a lot and just one day thinking, "what an odd album title...oh"
― frogbs, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
drukQs
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't get "drukQs"
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ads around glasgow at present for -
Red hot chilli pipers - Music for the kilted generation
http://www.redhotchillipipers.co.uk/MusicForTheKiltedGeneration/tabid/98/Default.aspx
― Neil A.Simpson, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
shocking. hanging's too good.
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 13 October 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
xxxxp Future Rhythm = Futurism, with a lisp
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Saturday, 13 October 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
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 PermalinkIt is?― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, September 13, 2018 6:46 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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'?
― how's life, Saturday, 13 October 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
Like it? I love it! Thanks, I'm here all week.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 October 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
Kid 606 - It’ll Take Millions in Plastic Surgery to Make Me Black
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 14 October 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
Skyclad – Oui Avant-Garde A Chance
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 13 May 2023 10:14 (one year ago) link
Oof
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 13:04 (one year ago) link
Don't know if this counts because it's: (a) the name of the band, and (b) arguably actually pretty non-awful, but it was years before I realised that Hayseed Dixie was a play on AC/DC.
― Bloody Snail, Sunday, 14 May 2023 08:11 (one year ago) link
The name is non awful until you find out that it's a pun and then it becomes awful.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 May 2023 09:15 (one year ago) link
X - Hey Zeus!
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 14 May 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
Pitbull - Rebelution
Not only a bad pun, but a useless one - Rebel, Revolution, it's already the same thing dude.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
Aren’t “b” and “v” sounds also kind of interchangeable in Spanish?
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 14 May 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
Yes
― I & I, Claudius (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
Scott B. Sympathy - Neil Yonge Street (1990)
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 18 May 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
Would've had Morrissey down as an offender here, but can only think of his video compliation Hulmerist.
― fetter, Thursday, 18 May 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
John Robinson – Funkshui
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:30 (one month ago) link
fits adjacently but i always get a smile out of beaucoup fish's uk-centric working title: tonight matthew, i'm going to be underworld. a hyper online producer shrouded in "y2k aesthetics" may wish to revive that one.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 12 May 2024 16:44 (two weeks ago) link