Awful puns/neologisms as album titles

Seeing the Fran Healy title - Wreckorder - in the worst album covers thread reminded me how much I hate that kind of title: Eargasm, Amorica, Californication. They reveal something deathly about the artist, both pretentious and dim. Which are the worst?

Gah. Please move to ILM.

Hey! Can't you see I'm squatting here?

not quite the same as your examples, but Shit Robot just put out an album called From the Cradle to the Rave, which I think is an excellent pun

Public Enemy: Revolverlution, bad enough, was followed by New Whirl Odor.

Revolverlution's the kind of thing I had in mind - so much misguided thinking squashed into a single word.

I find the longer ones easier to forgive, like Phats and Small's legendary Now Phats What I Small Music. There's a certain knowing goofiness to extended puns whereas the one-word ones tend to think they're making a point.

Public Enemy: Revolverlution, bad enough, was followed by New Whirl Odor.

Don't forget these for both preceded by Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, which is even worse.

This should be on the REO Speedwagon C/D page. See also: Megadeth.

The worst album covers thread also has Telephantasm (Soundgarden) and, ick, Wonderlustre (Skunk Anansie).

Melon Collie etc.

just now saw this thread for the first time -- moved to ILM

Thanks WmC

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wow, i only just got californication.

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

that one is kind of hilarious because it fits the blink aesthetic -- also it was an album for 15 year old boys

REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish

Also:

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See also:

Justin Timberlake - Justified

Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis

etc.

Ministry has a few "lol joek" titles:

The Land of Rape and Honey
Dark Side of the Spoon
SphincTour
The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Houses of the Molé

justified is awful

Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven

what are those public enemy albums even like? Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age is an awesome title imo. nb: i haven't heard any public enemy.

Genesis - From Genesis to Revelation

well maybe not awesome but i appreciate the effort, and there's so much of it xp

what are those public enemy albums even like?

Muse Sick = excellent

Revolverlution = ehhh it's okay

New Whirl Odor = flush it

Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven

― more than ever convinced ilxor is a sock (ilxor), Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is pretty hilarious

George Strait - Strait to/from the Heart (which is it? I forget...)

OH GOD

Deep Purple - Purpendicular

Talking Heads - No Talking Just Head

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

also every ska record ever (or should I say, every ska SKAcord SKAver)

I didn't even get "Tragic Kingdom" was a play on words 'til last year. I was 13, I thought it was a cool & evocative title that said "everyone feels as sad and shitty as you, even pretty blonde girls."

Nelly Furtado - Whoa Nelly!

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?)

Gary Glitter - Touch Me

(lolz in retrospect)

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)

Snopp Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle

Half Man Half Biscuit are good/ awful for this kind of thing (delete according to taste):

Trouble Over Bridgewater
Back in the DHSS
Achtung Bono

FWIW, I think they're national treasures and hope they keep on punning.

Tony Banks - Bankstatement

Further minus points for also having a terrible literal album cover.

Snopp Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle

don't forget Tha Doggfather!

Hour of the Bewilderbeast: everything annoyingly twee and kooky about Badly Drawn Boy, in one album title.

Incesticide (always hated this title)

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.

NoFX - The War on Errorism
Carter USM - 101 Damnations

Jello Biafra - The Audacity of Hype (although I have to admit a sneaking admiration for that one)

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.

They're from California, home of Disney's "Magic Kingdom." It's a stretch.

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!)

Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins

This one's great ^^

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"

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

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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.

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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'?

Like it? I love it! Thanks, I'm here all week.

Kid 606 - It’ll Take Millions in Plastic Surgery to Make Me Black

Skyclad – Oui Avant-Garde A Chance

Oof

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.

The name is non awful until you find out that it's a pun and then it becomes awful.

X - Hey Zeus!

Pitbull - Rebelution

Not only a bad pun, but a useless one - Rebel, Revolution, it's already the same thing dude.

Aren’t “b” and “v” sounds also kind of interchangeable in Spanish?

Yes

Scott B. Sympathy - Neil Yonge Street (1990)

Would've had Morrissey down as an offender here, but can only think of his video compliation Hulmerist.

John Robinson – Funkshui

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.