Horrible album titles that pun on the artist's name

I'm sold.

https://cloud10.todocoleccion.online/musica-cds/tc/2018/01/26/23/110683183.jpg
Joe Sample - Sample This

I guess it's not so horrible, really... I mean, with a name and a career like his, it was almost inevitable he'd release an album with this title.

https://img.discogs.com/VeOmQCUg2L48mU0eF-fS78Jntcw=/fit-in/280x280/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2442148-1284285543.jpeg.jpg

Peter Nero - Hail the Conquering Nero

that is killing me for some reason

https://img.discogs.com/2oRxFIA9I1l1vH01REGEdNLqN0k=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3782264-1495187522-8127.jpeg.jpg

Cleveland Eaton, "Plenty Good Eaton"

https://img.discogs.com/pQ3Mkysw6o3FPOvDBvSji5hmBfA=/fit-in/475x475/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2007707-1288811093.jpeg.jpg

plz tell me he has a free jazz album called Eaton Out

Paul Gurvitz - Rated PG

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/717/MI0000717212.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/NVzihNqiVlVy35bHhhaVtqg8H4M=/fit-in/600x628/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1884244-1250020721.jpeg.jpg

George Duke - Dukey Treats

https://img.discogs.com/QMMN-iJ_0x2xZFqJgtWPFgMGTis=/fit-in/600x624/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1884244-1250020751.jpeg.jpg

That one has always confused me... Is "Dukey treats" a pun on some pre-existing term, or did he simply add his name as a qualifier, like in his song from the '70s, "Dukey Stick"?

Dog treats -> "doggy treats" -> Dukey treats?

Wasn't the first thing that came to my mind...

I mean, it's even made of chocolate.

That's not chocolate...

I'm afraid it's a pun on dookie (in the American sense).

Guy spent too much time in Frank Zappa bands obviously.

No doubt

He even has a certain kind of grin on the cover.

https://img.discogs.com/tG2skZUHwRTwhDYMawy4GnRhG5E=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-6699637-1424912377-5326.jpeg.jpg

John Dawson Read: Read On

Could also go over in the 'Yawnsomely Literal' thread.

Buddy Rich, "Buddy & Soul"
+1 for one of the better puns in the Jazz pun subgenre
-10 for not actually doing Body & Soul on the record

https://img.discogs.com/WZBNUkGQ3S0AmyfEQZ9jOwROT14=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2661442-1295464428.jpeg.jpg

Kaleidoscope - When Scopes Collide

King Promise has a bright future - you could say he's showing a lot of potential

https://miro.medium.com/max/800/1*o1tQ3EJ9jzEOM-6cWTxwPQ.jpeg

Very good album tho! If you have never listened to “My Lady” you should rectify asap.

Nigeria’s latest breakout star Omah Lay just dropped his first EP:

https://www.swiftloaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Omah-Lay-Get-LayD-Album.jpg

blargh
(though I look forward to checking it out!)

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p960x960/107705391_2192071954271464_3986698281927806618_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=u-L1UWMuenoAX8ULVII&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&_nc_tp=6&oh=26ee1ef29e189b70ba8bc9d6a79e112a&oe=5F2C41EE

Horace Silver- Horace-Scope

Jerry Hahn, "Hahn Solo"

https://img.discogs.com/UnV7xGGtNsUqoTXxC_CC2-1FyZE=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7920827-1451694352-5907.jpeg.jpg

Yeah that's pretty bad, gotta hahnd it to him.

Pete Best - Best of the Beatles. You will note the cunning lack of his actual name on the front cover.

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20160121/161953497014.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Chuck_Berry_Is_on_Top_cover.jpg

https://www.atlasrecords.co.uk/user/products/large/SEV444/SEV444%20(204).jpg

not an album, but deserves a mention:

https://blackwells.co.uk/jacket/l/9780008429973.jpg

Secombe one is IMPRESSIVE

Agreed! Also, that Pete Best cover is legally actionable.

yeah the secombe one is great.

At first glance, I thought Secombe was carrying a sawn-off shotgun.

Comme se, comme saw

https://img.discogs.com/a25KDPdU53a66Oje3w_u-g4_8n0=/fit-in/599x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1476720-1242747784.jpeg.jpg

Phil Keaggy ‎– Ph'lip Side

unforgivable

Crikey.

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

woooof

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/

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

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

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

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)

https://img.discogs.com/mBWPQ5rz3XbgiDpL17W5_V_7YMY=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-366079-1467108123-5314.jpeg.jpg

Dennis Coffey ‎– Instant Coffey

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