One of my favourite punsome album titles of all time is FAR CANAL by late 60s band Jody Grind. It seemed terribly risqué at the time (1970) and we loved the cheeky progsters for managing to slip it past the censors.
Any similar examples?
http://i.imgur.com/lFZgg66.jpg
In The Summertime hitmakers Mungo Jerry released a 1971 LP titled Electronically Tested.
Oh, how we sniggered.
Y’see “electronically tested” was the proud claim of rubber johnny merchants Durex at the time.
http://i.imgur.com/K1RaOeG.jpg
Not really that cheeky, more nasally but quasi Aussie prog band spectrum had an alter ego :The Indelible Murtceps (Spectrum / Murtceps geddit, wonder how ong that took to come up with). More of a dance band requiring less kit they put out one album.It’s pretty crappy except for the 13 minute ode to having a toke Some Good Advice. Anyway here’s the album cover.
http://imgur.com/IjVSlY3
Not even an album but the best example I can think of this sort of thing is John Lahr’s biography of Joe Orton – Prick Up Your Ears. Much later a probable inspiration for the Lord Mayor of London’s Your Arsenal, with its suggestive microphone deployment on the cover.
“Prick Up Your Ears” was the original title for the screenplay Orton was commissioned to write for the HJHs…it eventually became the unproduced “Up Against it”
Progsters Caravan were well known for their clever album titles and the spooneristic Cunning Stunts was one of the best
http://i.imgur.com/GfA5Lse.jpg
Funny, I was thinking of Caravan too but the song title ‘ If I could do it again, I would do it all over you’. Charming.
That’s also the name of their second album.
And let’s not forget their 1973 album For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night
I suppose The Who’s Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy qualifies for this thread.
True story: someone once asked me “Those kids on the cover, is that the Who when they were young?”
Yeah, because they all knew each other at school and posed as a band.
http://i.imgur.com/CFpjPOt.jpg
It’s the only Who album anybody needs.
how ’bout this ?
http://imgur.com/BmoOaI2
Howard Werth and the Moonbeams’ King Brilliant. It’s how you say it.
In 1970, art-pop group The Fox had an album on Fontana called “For Fox Sake”. It’s ‘collectable’, but not all that great.
Oh yes, good call!
http://i.imgur.com/KPU5EwZ.jpg
Van Halen – For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Stack Waddy – Bugger Off
And the truly shocking:
The Invincible Beany Man – The 10 Year Old D.J. Wonder
I like Bugger Off best of all, even though it’s not a play on words.
Awesome album. I liked the track “Hey, Rock n’Roll” best.
I think Britney did something called If You Seek Amy.
Many years before that, bluesman Memphis Slim came up with If You See Kay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8JKCqWVOo
Told this before, but I sat beside him at a U.S. Embassy dinner in Mozambique. He’d been paid to play that evening by some U.S. Cultural body to prove the superiority of the capitalist system, no doubt. The host, a great friend of mine, was a very cheery, affable bear of a man who was probably more of a Van Halen fan. My recollection is that Memphis didn’t seem particularly enthused by those present and was rather taciturn, if not sullen, throughout. Don’t think he liked whitey very much. The hostess, becoming slightly nervous at his lack of interaction with the rest of the party, nervously enquired -‘why do they call you Memphis’ ? ‘It’s where I’m from’ was the grunted response. We all went back to looking at the cutlery.
The wonderful Voice Of The Beehive album, ‘Honey Lingers’.
Richard Thompson’s album on the theme of London life is called Mock Tudor. The ‘official bootleg’ of a live show from the tour, available through his website, is called Semi-Detached Mock Tudor.
When Moby Grape’s First album was released it’s cover had this picture:
http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd449/jimathomas/moby-finger.jpg
It got scrapped and re-released with this image:
http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd449/jimathomas/moby-censored.jpg
You’ll notice even in the original that “they” tinted the Stars n’ Stripes – which has turned into an Isis flag in the “censored” version.
Here’s (I think) the Sundazed reissue:
http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t642/burtkocain/Moby%20Grape_zps9sphluwg.png
so they have. Cheers HPS
Americans have an irrational fear of the erect finger which is quite baffling to us. Alice Cooper’s Love It To Death was censored in a similar way.
http://i.imgur.com/GvvASEo.jpg
Raised The Odd Eyebrow
Dick Cheese By The Hard Ons
There’s a very subtle play on words going on here …
“Very Subtle” this one – for the “oldies” heh heh heh
It’s not rude but Electric Landlady by Kirsty MacColl makes me laugh almost every time it’s mentioned.
Not forgetting her last, Tropical Brainstorm.
Just looked for the Sweet Folk and Country label, as I can’t post pictures from work can I suggest you look for PAT NELSON “MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE” LP SFA 004
I strongly recommend that no one does this. I did it so you don’t have to