Horrible album titles that pun on the artist's name

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Spinoff from the "I've Got My Own Album to Do" thread. This should be a nearly infinite goldmine of groaners. The 70s (again) was the heyday for this, but def bonus points for any entries from the post-punk world.

Let's kick it off with a debut album whose title must cause a [url="http://www.allmusic.com/album/whole-oats-mw0000650229";]stomach-churning regret[\url] every time Daryl & John remember it.

hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link

Dammit.

hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link

Lalo Schifrin – There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On
Slade – Slayed?
Miles Davis – Miles Ahead

schlep and back trio (anagram), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link

See also: Miles in the Sky, Miles Smiles

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link

Nick Lowe - 16 All-Time Lowes (I love this title by the way)

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link

Complete discography:

1976 Greg Kihn
1977 Greg Kihn Again
1978 Next of Kihn
1979 With the naked eye (as Greg Kihn Band)
1980 Glass House Rock (as Greg Kihn Band)
1981 Rockihnroll (as Greg Kihn Band)
1982 Kihntinued (as Greg Kihn Band)
1983 Kihnspiracy (as Greg Kihn Band)
1984 Kihntagious (as Greg Kihn Band)
1985 Citizen Kihn
1986 Love And Rock And Roll
1989 Kihnsolidation: The Best of Greg Kihn
1992 Kihn of Hearts
1994 Mutiny
1996 Horror Show
2012 Kihn Family Christmas

Riga Tony (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link

Split Enz - The Living Enz, The Beginning of the Enz, Enz of an Era, Oddz and Enz, Rear Enz (most of these are comps but still)

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link

1978	Next of Kihn	
1981 Rockihnroll
1982 Kihntinued
1983 Kihnspiracy
1984 Kihntagious
1985 Citizen Kihn
1991 Unkihntrollable (Greg Kihn Live)
1992 Kihn of Hearts
2000 True Kihnfessions
2011 Kihnplete (Post Beserkley Records)

ha dammit xp

What the hell is Kihn of Hearts supposed to mean anyway?

pplains, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link

all 700 Conrad Schnitzler albums I guess

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link

King of Hearts? (xp)

Riga Tony (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link

I think Kihn Family Christmas isn't a pun...

Riga Tony (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link

Mickey Jupp - Juppanese

also, not an album title, but this is an ad for another of Jupp's records:

http://www.mickeyjupp.co.uk/scrapbook_images/jupp_get_2.jpg

soref, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:31 (eight years ago) link

How did he never come up with Fun Kihn: White Boy?

pplains, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link

Nick Lowe - 16 All-Time Lowes (I love this title by the way)

― frogbs, Tuesday, October 27, 2015 1:24 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it seems a wasted opportunity that Lowe only ever did one of these, he could have taken it to Greg Kihn levels if he'd tried

Lowe profile (photo of Nick in profile)
Lowe and bee hold (photo of Nick holding a bee)
Aim high, shoot Lowe (Nick clutching his chest as he is shot by a stoner with a gun)
etc

soref, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link

This should get an honorable mention:

http://i.imgur.com/JHN6ymU.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link

Tommy Keene - Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 1983-2009

Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link

lets not forget The Orb here

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link

HOF-worthy entry right here:

http://www.vinylhistory.com/rock/peanut_butter_consp_spreading_c.jpg

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link

that one is kinda good! it works on more than one level

♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link

well, I admit that I like most of the album titles mentioned ITT so far

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link

Complete discography:

1976 Greg Kihn
1977 Greg Kihn Again
1978 Next of Kihn
1979 With the naked eye (as Greg Kihn Band)
1980 Glass House Rock (as Greg Kihn Band)
1981 Rockihnroll (as Greg Kihn Band)
1982 Kihntinued (as Greg Kihn Band)
1983 Kihnspiracy (as Greg Kihn Band)
1984 Kihntagious (as Greg Kihn Band)
1985 Citizen Kihn
1986 Love And Rock And Roll
1989 Kihnsolidation: The Best of Greg Kihn
1992 Kihn of Hearts
1994 Mutiny
1996 Horror Show
2012 Kihn Family Christmas

― Riga Tony (Tom D.), Tuesday, October 27, 2015 1:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fuck Kihn Hell!

Turrican, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link

Kink-Size
Kinkdom
Kink Kontroversy
Kwyet Kinks
Kink Kronikles

bodacious ignoramus, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link

Less of a pun and more of shameless attempt to rip people off:
http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Cash-in4.jpg

MarkoP, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link

Instead of "His Orchestra", they should've gone with The Pastrana Band Which Is Delicious.

pplains, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link

Philip Glass - Glassworks

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/f922e5621b3de59e89a57cbfb620df1b/1314310.jpg

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link

Ted Nugent - Full Bluntal Nugity

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IAg%2BjgQaL._SY300_QL70_.jpg

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link

Top marks for getting a pun out of 'Nugent' there

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link

The Who - Who's Next
The Who - Who are You
Pete Townsend - Who Came First

mizzell, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link

Do tribute albums count? If so...

Deadicated - A Tribute to the Grateful Dead

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0002/104/MI0002104990.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link

Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/L/Little_Feat/little_feat_failf.jpg

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link

More Who:

Who's Last
Who's Missing
Who's Better, Who's Best

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link

nilsson schmilsson

flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link

Yessongs
Yesterdays
Yesshows
Yesyears
Essentially Yes

Three Word Username, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link

Don't forget the boxed set - In a Word...Yes.

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link

Speaking of the Who:

http://i.imgur.com/gmvGCle.jpg

pplains, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link

there is no way this is not the thread winner:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S2NPN009L.jpg

Haino Corrida (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link

goddamn:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S2NPN009L.jpg

Haino Corrida (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link

Moon is another thread HOF inductee
xpost

a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/2pacalypse_now.jpg

Spottie, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link

Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/c82c8032e61251b762a3aeed2b5779e5/2875685.jpg

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link

There are a shitload of jazz records like this, wouldn't get any more work done before I leave if I start posting them.

on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/754/MI0002754030.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Mael Intuition - The Best of the Sparks 1974-76

soref, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link

I quite like that one - as well as continuing the 'mael' pun, I guess the fan could be seen as a callback to the cover of 'Kimono My House' (which much be their best known album in UK by some margin)?

soref, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link

Lowe profile (photo of Nick in profile)
Lowe and bee hold (photo of Nick holding a bee)
Aim high, shoot Lowe (Nick clutching his chest as he is shot by a stoner with a gun)

Escalation of absurdity causes IRL LOLZ, news at 11

hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link

Crikey.

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Monday, 28 December 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link

crossbar on the H is so thin i can't even see it; was trying to figure out what the fuck PII'LIP SIDE meant

Lee626, Monday, 28 December 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link

woooof

ffolkes (map), Monday, 28 December 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link

but then he came back with this, a live double album of his 2006 (?) Swiss tour, a Switzerland-only release:

https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=1820x1280:format=jpg/path/se78601c8423d63e9/image/i7f5679582f8b545e/version/1548420352/image.jpg

I want to believe that’s a brilliant pun, either by him or his Swiss fandom, and not some kind of mistake

https://www.kaegi.com/en/

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link

but then he came back with this, a live double album of his 2006 (?) Swiss tour, a Switzerland-only release:

🖼

I want to believe that’s a brilliant pun, either by him or his Swiss fandom, and not some kind of mistake


A brilliant pun would be “Phil-lections”.

Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link

"Ph'lip" -- you know, that way people are always pronouncing Philip.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link

I actually have a friend whose name is Philip, and his pals call him Flip

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link

https://www.kaegi.com/en/

oooh, that's the stuff! the Schweizerdeutschness of “Kägi” was brilliant enough in itself, but this adds another sweet layer of Swissness to it. the pun is most definitely intended.

does seem most likely that it’s a fan-made thing tho, since this album has all the looks of a bootleg. it is mentioned on Keaggy’s Wikipedia page, but neither his website nor Discogs lists it.

I can only find it here, “the biggest Christian lp/mc/cd (web)shop of the German-speaking world”, where it’s status is “currently unavailable”:
https://www.bensound-musikshop.com/ccm/solisten-ccm/phil-keaggy/

A brilliant pun would be “Phil-lections”.

his classical album: Philharmonics and Philigrees
his christmas album: Keaggy Eleison (probably too blasphemic for him tho)

obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link

and to follow up with more dennis coffey, not a pun but this made me laugh hard...

https://img.discogs.com/43lS1zR3iavUMaQFXR5vaRyUQSU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-563605-1467039595-8533.jpeg.jpg

Dennis Coffey ‎– Finger Lickin Good

visiting, Thursday, 31 December 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link

eww

Four Jacks and a Jill (morrisp), Friday, 1 January 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link

yeah let's go back to Instant Coffey, that's a beautiful cover.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 January 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link

Horrible album titles that pun on another artist's name. An album of covers of Bread songs by Jack Jones:

https://www.discogs.com/Jack-Jones-Bread-Winners/master/841470

Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Monday, 4 January 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link

awesome

Doctor Casino, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81u435FBMYL._SX355_.jpg

Excellent album though.

birdistheword, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link

Forgot the tags - trying this again:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81u435FBMYL._SX355_.jpg

birdistheword, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link

Ozzy's got some too, but they can be endearing in how dumb they are:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lbQNy0f-L.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41yun0sdWSL.jpg

birdistheword, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

Doubling up on the puns here.

Milla Thyme - Everything has its Thyme

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1138863042_16.jpg

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:07 (two years ago) link

^that cover design feels like a very sad echo/variation of this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Elvis_Presley_LPM-1254_Album_Cover.jpg

smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 06:19 (two years ago) link

also would work well with a doomed-to-fail MC Hammer comeback album

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 06:40 (two years ago) link

seven months pass...

Joe Newman, I Feel Like a Newman:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Feel_Like_a_Newman#/media/File:I_Feel_Like_a_Newman.jpg

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 5 December 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link

four months pass...

haha!

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 11 April 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Oh that’s good (bad).

DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 30 April 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link

He got there before Shakira with that title

Josefa, Monday, 2 May 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link

Robert Ellis Orrall: Speedwagon

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link

oh yes, songs like “Can’t Fight This Feeling”, “Keep On Loving You”, “Roll With The Changes”, “Ridin’ The Storm Out” and hell, “Blazin’ Your Own Trail Again” would finally come to full fruition when done by Mr Orall Fixation.

xp

middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 05:04 (one year ago) link

Another Ellis:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Ellis_in_Wonderland.jpeg

Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 05:16 (one year ago) link

seven months pass...

Melanie: Unchained Melanie

https://images.genius.com/6f8ef3d6061e8bc9e9862f013d0b72d9.1000x1000x1.jpg

Gavin Cracck, A Sniff Of Cracck

missed opportunity to go for yawnsomely literal cover art in regards to said album’s title

I did see Xhaka crotchgrab (breastcrawl), Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

great find!

budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link

Not horrible, but I happened to be listening to it this morning. Really nice record btw. He also did Farmer's Market if that's worse.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Modern_Art_%28Art_Farmer_album%29.jpg

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

Ouch.

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 09:04 (ten months ago) link

You can't really make out the title on this one - Blythe Spirit by Arthur Blythe

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Blythe_Spirit.jpg

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 May 2023 09:30 (ten months ago) link

four months pass...

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1204248722_10.jpg

Aaron Dooley / Dooley Noted.

Think this mught be AD's fist mention on ILX, which would be a shame.

fetter, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 12:56 (six months ago) link

five months pass...

Ouch.

Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:00 (three weeks ago) link

Dang that’s hott stuff

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:00 (three weeks ago) link

(Several hotness points revoked for the final track being titled “Poop Deck”)

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:02 (three weeks ago) link


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