Most amusing album or song titles


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Not an amusing album or song title, but an amusing story involving one:

I was in Bleeker Bobs NYC record store in '82, looking for a copy of the female Rockabilly LP entitled Wild, Wild Young Women on Rhino Records. Bob had just told me he didn't have it when Peter Holsapple of the dB's (and in the 90's a member of L.A.'s The Continental Drifters, a fantastic band that included Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson of The Bangles) walked in. I knew he was a record collector, so I asked him "Hey, know where I can find Wild, Wild Young Women?" Without missing a beat he replied "Um, St. Marks Place." Those of you familiar with NYC will get the joke ;-) .

"If You Play With My Mind You're Gonna Get Your Hands Dirty", written by Cornell Hurd (formerly of San Jose, California, an Austin tradition since 1979), recorded by the great Springfield, Missouri band The Skeletons (found on their Waiting album).

Damn ya'll, these are some great ones, many new to me.

Not a song or album title, but the lyrics in one Zappa song on the We're Only In It For The Money album (okay, there's a pretty good nominee) has the protagonist fantasizing about moving to San Francisco and "sitting in the dirt, playing bongos." I haven't heard it since the year of it's release, but found it's mocking of the Summer Of Love to be quite welcome.

I would initiate a "Funniest Guitar Solos" thread, but almost all are only unintentionally funny. One exception is the solo in The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's "In The Canyons Of Your Mind" (on their Tadpoles album), which mocks the excessive guitar soloing that was going on in Rock at the time of it's release. One of my favorite pieces of humour, written by the brilliant Vivian Stanshall.
"God May Forgive You (But I Won’t)". Written by Harlan Howard & Bobby Braddock, I first heard it by Iris Dement (Rosie Flores does a great version too). When she would perform it with John Prine, she would sing it looking directly at him. Always gets a laugh. except from some Christian Right lunatic who claims it is "one of the most evil songs ever written." Sounds like a real fun guy.