Album titles that are incomprehensible until you see the cover

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Now that the "cover connections" thread seems to have dried up for a while, maybe it might be time for another thread feat. cover pics?

What got me thinking of this was reading a bit about The Mekons, and being confused about the title of their debut album: "the quality of mercy is not strnen". I tried to look for different ways of reading, for crap puns etc, but all I could come up with was that it was a corruption of Shakespeare's line "The quality of mercy is not strained", from The Merchant of Venice. But what was the point of writing "strnen" instead of "strained"? AMG gave me the answer...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c370/c37087393sm.jpg

Do you know any more albums with titles that seem utterly incomprehensable when separated from the cover art?

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 12 September 2002 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"A Sea With Three Stars" by Nectarine No.9? I'm not posting the picture!

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 12 September 2002 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Weasels Ripped My Flesh"

― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Thursday, 12 September 2002 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.jazzbutcher.com/images/sfishco.gif

Records like "Music From Big Pink" "Hollywood Town Hall" "Mason's California Lunch Room" .. where the album cover shows a building or a street sign of a place you've never heard of...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 12 September 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishcoteque was a pretty good chipper but its closed now.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 12 September 2002 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishcoteque closed? Are you sure? When did this happen?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 12 September 2002 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Peter Tork's Back. (I don't know how to post pictures, but suffice it to say it's a picture of his back).

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 September 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

b-b-but in that example, surely the title has a meaning without the pic (unless Tork never went away of course). there's another thread about 'visual puns' on LP covers somewhere...

― zebedee (Jeff W), Thursday, 12 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishco appears to have been closed for a month or two. I was hoping they were on a summer holiday but I think it's still shut. Sob.

It's just round the corner from a studio where a whole lot of those early Creation records were recorded, fact fans.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 September 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tork never went away.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 12 September 2002 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc200/c266/c266441sfdp.jpg

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 12 September 2002 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

sad cafe - 'fanx, ta-ra'
someone clever with computers
can maybe find the picture.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 12 September 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

the sad café one is on this page:
http://www.geocities.com/rbeaufoy/sadcafe.html
(it's geocities, so remote-linking the pic may not work)

Also, here's the Visual puns on album covers thread I referred to before, where the same LP gets a plug!

― zebedee (Jeff W), Thursday, 12 September 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 12 September 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Err...

http://spaceagepopagogo.tripod.com/Breuer_Mallet_Front.jpg

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 12 September 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

TOL CORMPT NORZ NORZ NORZ...

― Lek Dukagjin, Thursday, 12 September 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Delighted to report finding the Fishco alive and well the other night. Mmmmmmm.... plaice....

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f361/f36125z6234.jpg

Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch"

I always found this a bit clever, actually.

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

zats a gud zappa kover, ole!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm dumb. Explain the Zappa cover to me?

― mei (mei), Thursday, 3 April 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch.

― man, Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

the horizontal line inside the box is the waterline.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Re: the Mekons cover....
You must of heard of the idea, you know the one that says that if you get an infinite number of monkeys and put them in front of an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time, at some point one of them will write the works of Shakespeare. The monkey on the Mekons cover is one of the infinite number.

― eebee, Thursday, 6 November 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

oh!

― typo acapulco (gcannon), Thursday, 6 November 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Fat Boys Are Back
Foreigner, Head Games
Jonah Jones, I Dig Chicks

― Dylan, Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the thread and was going to say, the Mekons album. I think that one owns this thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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