Are you ready to get into the swing of things?
To help us loosen up and swing with this new direction of Rock Town Hall, I thought I’d propose a novel edition of our ongoing “Last Man Standing” series. What I’m looking for are famous rock album titles that are either already unwitting porno titles, or to which you’ve applied your devilishly clever wit to pornify them. So, for example, you would get full marks for Blonde On Blonde in the unwitting porno title category and full marks for, oh, Porn In the USA or Rub ‘er Hole in the witty reconstruction category.
Here’s what you get the RTH raspberry for: album titles that are already, clearly, purposely pornified: F*ck Like a Beast or Sticky Fingers, for example. You also get RTH demerits for just changing the word “rock” to “cock.” Lastly, please avoid the temptation to stroke your beard thoughtfully, tamp your rock intellectual pipe, and orate about the sexy origins of the term “rock and roll.” Enough already!
Let’s begin!
Between the Buttplugs
Well, there’s Squeeze’s classic third album, ANALBANGAL…
Dylan’s John Wesley Hard-on
… remember when Guns N Roses came out of the closet with “Appetite For Erection”?
In the “Unwitting” category: Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Coming.”
Yes, that *was* an album title, potential pince-nezzers!
“The Who Sing ‘My Penetration'”
Abby Blowed
Hershey Highway To Hell – AC/DC
A respect for healthy and safe ground rules is important to even – no, especially – the new, swingin’ type of reader and contributor the Hall is soliciting, so I hope I’m not totally out of line by wondering whether this would best be contested under Battle Royale rules, and whether degree of difficulty should be taken into consideration for actual, unedited album titles.
That said: 1963’s Warm and Willing by Andy Williams.
Was Music From the Big Pink intentionally a double entrendre or just that friggin house?
Queen’s- “Jizz”
The Who – It’s Hard
Velvet Gloves and Spit, Neil Diamond, which I am thankfully not making up.
If anything, I’m now trying to un-know that it even exists.
Good question, Alexmagic. We had considered structuring this as a Battle Royale, but the combination of unintentional and intentionally pornified entries would have made the judging next to impossible.
Stevie Wonder, Sinnervisions
Speaking of the Divinyls, when they were at the height of their fame here in Oz, circa the ‘Pleasure and Pain’ single and the ‘What A Life’ album, (’85 or so), a mate told me how he’d been to an earlier concert where frontwoman Chrissie Amphlett urinated on stage. Always wondered if it was an urban legend or if it really happened.
Homefront,
Now that’s the kind of hot rock discussion we expect from Down Under!
In the Unwitting category, Bill Evans’ “At Shelly’s Manne Hole”
Mind you, he a jazz cat, so maybe I’ve disqualified myself.
Prince, “Scat Man”
Cum Together
Huh, what do you know? Now I have closure:
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1491503.htm
The Cream of Clapton
This discussion reminds me a lot of a website called Name That Porno (namethatporno.com), where the same premise is applied to movie titles in that there are categories for both double entendre titles as well as movie titles that are changed. Anyway here are a few of mine.
In the “changed” category, we have:
1) Prince – Diamonds and Pearl Necklaces
2) The Replacements – Pleased to Eat Me or Pleased to Beat Me Off
And in the “no change necessary” category, we have:
1) The Who – Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy (or was that purposeful?)
2) The Beach Boys – 15 Big Ones
3) Bob Dylan – Desire
All unchanged:
Coming Live – Peter Frampton
When All The Pieces Fit – Peter Frampton
I’m In You – Peter Frampton
And of course…
Frampton’s Camel
Honey Lingers, Voice of the Beehive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ppXJwH0jIs&feature=related
SheBop by Cyndi Lauper
Beat It, Michael Jackson
for some poprock examples
“Saturday Night Beaver”
Dork Slide In The Moon
Now THAT’s funny, Mockcarr!
Do they have to be albums? If not, Shocker in Gloomtown – GBV
And in the “changed” category: Madonna’s Greatest Tits
Face Chancres – The Who(re)
What’s Going On My Ding A Ling –
Marvin Gaye/Chuck Berry
Please Mind The Ballocks
All too often, in this Internet age, people say “LOL!” without meaning it. But, Mockcarr, that ridiculous “Face Chancres” semi-pun made me laugh out loud, a lot. Don’t ask me why, ’cause it’s one of your worst puns ever. But kudos for eliciting a genuine belly laugh from me.
HVB