those stupid milton babbitt titles always irked
― ilxinho (nakhchivan), Saturday, 16 October 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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??
― Tuomas, Sunday, 17 October 2010 09:08 (thirteen years ago) link
not gonna lie, i found most of the items itt to be hilarious.
― marc iv, Sunday, 17 October 2010 09:33 (thirteen years ago) link
King L = "fucking hell"
― henry s, Sunday, 17 October 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― mark e, Sunday, 17 October 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
The Presets - Apocalypso
Mental As Anything - Apocalypso
― Mary Lynn Ice Cube (sic), Sunday, 17 October 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Duke, Sunday, 17 October 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Bola - KSBola - SoupBola - MauverBola - Gnayse
― t. weiss, Monday, 18 October 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
don't forget a bowl of yew tea!
― Waldstein Sinatra (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 18 October 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― mark e, Friday, October 15, 2010 4:23 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
CunninLynguists
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Monday, 18 October 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Paul, how could you forget All Set?:P This stuff just makes me love Babbitt even more.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 18 October 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
There are a million jazz records that are puns on the musician's name.
― Katy Lied, Lady Died (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 October 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― shecky naw (tremendoid), Monday, 18 October 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Monday, 18 October 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/004/191/0000419164_350.jpg
― Mark, Monday, 18 October 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Sunday, October 17, 2010
And Caravan's Cunning Stunts now that you mention it.
― nickn, Monday, 18 October 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the fox - for fox sake
pretty racy title for 1970
― hot chip emergency (electricsound), Monday, 18 October 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost - Sundar, I forgot All Set -- not sure if I'd class it among the esoteric math puns and the regular-language puns.
― Waldstein Sinatra (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 18 October 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
and or
― Waldstein Sinatra (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 18 October 2010 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Virgin Fugs
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Monday, 18 October 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― Frank Kogan, Monday, 18 October 2010 06:40 (thirteen years ago) link
another sax-related one, I'm afraid:
Sparks - Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh shit, just noticed that the Sparks one has been mentioned before on the thread. Sorry.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Have we had Ramsey Lewis' Tequila Mockingbird?
― sonofstan, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
two decades later it occurs to me that Digital Underground's Future Rhythm is a pun
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
It is?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
Stevie Jackson - (I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 14 September 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
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.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 14 September 2018 02:29 (five years ago) link
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
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 October 2018 13:49 (five 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
― 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