reading latest guardian note on joy orbison i was thinking about other artists whose name is a pun. album names are also welcome.
joy orbisonjicheal macksonwevie stondersnenetian vnares(that's another moniker of venetian snares)
― gwidon, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)
Brian Jonestown MassacreThomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
― Jack Kirby's Orangutan Surfing Civilization (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)
REO Speeddealer
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)
Camper Van Beethoven
― one boob is free with one (daavid), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)
Folk ImplosionDonna SummerCourtney Love
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)
Dandy WarholsDread ZepplinThe Beatles All those pun-k rock names: Polly Styrene, Barb Wire, Pearl E. Gates….
Also, the Pet Shop Boys' first two album titles were conceived as elaborate jokes, as in a customer walks into a record store and asks for "The Pet Shop Boys, Please...." A year later the clerk sees the same customer and asks "You here for the new ... um ...Depeche Mode wasn't it?" The customer says, "No, The Pet Shop Boys, Actually..."
― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 22:37 (sixteen years ago)
Shyza Minelli
― mmmm, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)
How could we forget Gnarls Barkley?
― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)
Brute Force (punny name) and his great Spoonerism/convoluted pun title "The King of Fuh"
― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)
wait shakey mo, i get the reference of thomas jeff slave apts, but i dont get the pun!
― 69, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:17 (sixteen years ago)
badly born droid
― wilter, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:19 (sixteen years ago)
john cougar concentration camp
― max, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:20 (sixteen years ago)
yeah I guess it isn't really a pun
― Jack Kirby's Orangutan Surfing Civilization (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)
Masonna
― sarahel, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)
Kathleen Turner OverdriveThe Wynona Riders
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)
AC/D-She
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)
Bipolar bear
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)
pocahaunted
Mary Tyler Morphine
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)
Judas PriestessLez Zeppelin
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:41 (sixteen years ago)
kylie minoise
― wilter, Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)
"courtney love" isn't a spoof. lois and, er, courtney apparently came up with the name together and then they both went on to use it separately, unintentionally so i suppose
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)
Beatless
― dad a, Thursday, 19 November 2009 01:33 (sixteen years ago)
Dark Side of the Spoon by Ministry.
― I am flesh and blood. You are software and circuitry. (chap), Thursday, 19 November 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)
(Which I think is a pretty decent pun)
― I am flesh and blood. You are software and circuitry. (chap), Thursday, 19 November 2009 01:39 (sixteen years ago)
Ministry had a whole cottage industry of those things. Rio Grande Blood, Houses of the Mole, The Last Sucker... Al never met a bad pun he didn't like.
― Van Slyke Paidbreed (J3ff T.), Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:19 (sixteen years ago)
I pointed this out on some old Cover Connections-type thread: All three of Ugly Kid Joe's albums based their parodic titles on landmark rap albums. (As Ugly as They Wanna Be, America's Least Wanted, Menace to Sobriety). And as an a bonus, their very bandname was a direct takeoff on hair-metallers/tourmates Pretty Boy Floyd.
Also, a name that fills me with inexplicable glee: The Tex Pistols
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:52 (sixteen years ago)
Speaking of that, The Celibate Rifles.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:54 (sixteen years ago)
^my favourite one
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:55 (sixteen years ago)
Oh man, Celibate Rifles/Sex Pistols - I can't believe I never got that until now!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 20 November 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2536997398_3eae4107a9_o.jpg
― Number None, Friday, 20 November 2009 02:59 (sixteen years ago)
do not get
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Friday, 20 November 2009 03:13 (sixteen years ago)
My favorite of these has always been "Hairway to Steven."
^came here to post that.
The Bowie one is not the pun, this one clearly is:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SCoJhFWjb4I/AAAAAAAAIvI/nc7z45-5he4/s400/nick+lowe.jpg
― willem, Friday, 20 November 2009 10:52 (sixteen years ago)
Electric Landlady of course.
― tomofthenest, Friday, 20 November 2009 11:00 (sixteen years ago)
I'm feeling really thick. What's the spoof in "Donna Summer"?
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Friday, 20 November 2009 11:03 (sixteen years ago)
Johnny Marr
― tomofthenest, Friday, 20 November 2009 11:09 (sixteen years ago)
^also referenced in a cat's miaow ep title
― mighty angus sampson (electricsound), Friday, 20 November 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)
electricsound are you on the Anorak forums? think you'd like it there
― tomofthenest, Friday, 20 November 2009 11:19 (sixteen years ago)
The Shite Wipes
― James Mitchell, Friday, 20 November 2009 11:20 (sixteen years ago)
xpost i am not. the name is a little offputting tbh :)
― mighty angus sampson (electricsound), Friday, 20 November 2009 11:21 (sixteen years ago)
He's talking about this guy: http://www.myspace.com/djdonnasummer
― Herman G. Neuname is the first European president (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 November 2009 11:22 (sixteen years ago)
Too Much Joy had Son Of Sam I Am and Cereal Killers. Green Eggs And Crack might be my favorite of the titles they used, but it doesn't quite fit the criteria. Though their absolute best is the unused title for what became Cereal Killers - Don't Worry Bea Arthur.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 20 November 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)
That is an awesome fact that I had never known before about a band that means quite a lot to me. Thank you.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 20 November 2009 13:21 (sixteen years ago)
I believe I learned that from the Rolling Stone review of the album. I was chuffed to see them get reviewed and it was such a great factoid it stuck with me all these years.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 20 November 2009 13:37 (sixteen years ago)
― indie spare (electricsound), Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:48 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Does it not riff on 'courtly love'?
― 19349 things paedophiles like to complain about (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 November 2009 13:47 (sixteen years ago)
Who the hell is Lois?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 20 November 2009 14:40 (sixteen years ago)
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Friday, 20 November 2009 14:45 (sixteen years ago)
Girls AloudSean Na NaThe Aints (spinoff from the Saints)The Great Unwashed (spinoff from the Clean)
Also:
http://www.nerdalertrecords.com/catalog/images/FLIPPERLIVE.jpg
― dad a, Friday, 20 November 2009 15:17 (sixteen years ago)
Girls Aloud
What is this a spoof of?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 20 November 2009 15:20 (sixteen years ago)
Nevermind, I get it.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 20 November 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 20 November 2009 14:40 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
K Records folky indie type from the 90s
― 19349 things paedophiles like to complain about (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 November 2009 15:24 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.ratsnest.com/pictures/albums/Erasure%20-%20Abba-Esque.jpghttp://991.com/newgallery/Bjorn-Again-Erasure-ish-303010.jpgLock Thread!
― mottdeterre, Friday, 20 November 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)
Which reminds me of The Undead - Live Slayer (spoof on Slayer's Live Undead)
― HOOS University (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:00 (sixteen years ago)
Band names that are parodies of other bands' names
― dad a, Friday, 20 November 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)
Um, we've not mentioned disco one-hit wonders Lipps, Inc. Which leads me to this hypothesis: The worse the pun the more crap the act.
― mottdeterre, Friday, 20 November 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)
^^^ I agree with the implication that Lipps, Inc. is an awesome pun.
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Friday, 20 November 2009 19:47 (sixteen years ago)
I never ever stopped dancing to "Funky Town."
― mottdeterre, Friday, 20 November 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)