Queen-
the album: The Game
first track: Play The Game
Queen-
the album: The Game
first track: Play The Game
Nektar - Journey to the center of the eye?
Sparks - Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins
4Front - Malice In Wonderland
Rush - Hold Your Fire - since it's not really about not shooting a gun "Hold your fire, keep it burning bright".
Deep Purple Machine Head
Elton John Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only A Piano Player
Genesis A Trick of a Tail
How are theses examples of word play? I like the Elton John title, I guess it's clever, but not sure that counts. What does Machine Head even mean? As to Genesis, the correct title is "A Trick of THE Tail".Originally Posted by grego
UFO - Force It
Simple Minds - Real to Real Cacophony
Machine Heads are the tuning pegs on a guitar or other stringed instrument.
OK. So how is that "word play" exactly? Lot's of very clever word play mentioned in this thread. But Machine Head, I must be missing something.
Soundgarden's palindromic EP title "Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas"
^^^^ Aoxomoxoa
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Word play here is dual meaning of the phrase.
Land of Chocolate- Unikorn on the Cob
How about these lines in the Hammill Song Earthbound;
Heartbreak the anagram:
(But hero Dan had no brute boar hunted;
doubt he ran but heard no burned oath;
undo breath, do burn hate, be hard unto
burned oath, undo breath...)
Earthbound.
Threshold- Psychedelicatessan
Kansas- Vinyl Confessions
'The smell of strange colours are heard everywhere'- Threshold
"Chain-mail pants with the missing link"
(Peter and Gordon - Knight in Rusty Armour)
Roy Harper, Bullinamingvase (you can decide if that's more or less damaging than one in a china shop)
Miles Ahead
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Add me as another who doesn't understand how "Machine Head" is a dual meaning. I don't see any pun - it's just a term for part of a guitar that also happens to make a pretty cool title, isn't it?
There's loads of cute wordplay in Genesis lyrics. Just a few from SEBTP alone, some of which may not mean much to anyone outside Britain:
Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout; Beautiful Chest (arf!); robbing hood; karma-ma-mechanic; Silver Cloud; jam on his Rolls; safe way home; fine fair (fare) discount; Tess co-operates (also Tess Co-operates)...
Henry Cow- Leg End
Genesis- Nursery Cryme
Kansas- Leftoverture
A few that I came up with in a quick scan of my CD list:
D.A.D. - Helpyourselfish
Alias Eye - A Different Point of You
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Blaqk Audio - Cex Cells
Deep Purple - Purpendicular
Hoodoo Gurus - Magna Cum Louder
Kansas - Point of Know Return
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Marvelous 3 - Ready Sex Go
Marvelous 3 - Math and Other Problems
The Matches - Decomposure
Moonspell - Irreligious
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
NOFX - Pump up the Valium
Robert Plant - Mighty Rearranger
Portal - Blood Red Tape
REO Speedwagon - Live: You Get What you Play For
Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Butch Walker - Left of Self Centered
Also 'Revolver'; probably lost on an mp3 generation!
I don't get that one.
I always thought this line in "Come Together" was really clever:
Got to be good looking 'cause she's so hard to see.
Indica- A Way Away
'The smell of strange colours are heard everywhere'- Threshold
Rush's song "Anagram (For Mongo)" comprises line-by-line word play.
Ian Gillan often uses word play in individual lyrics...Deep Purple album title ABandOn fits OP's criteria.
Jody Grind - 'Far Canal'.
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