Albums That Aren't

Here's a new verbal game (nothing's too Trivial, folks!) that some music fans out there in Wonderland might enjoy...

Titles of albums that never were. Whether one word or a few or a sentence, each should strive to be clever: a pun, a character quirk verbalized, a culture reference connected, something unexpected.

Some samples I've dreamed up to get you started:

The Beatles Scarab

Blind Faith It's a Miracle! (second album, years later)


The Byrds Brancusi or Hitch (as in Alfred Hitchcock)

Nat Cole Old King Cole (collection of early Nat tracks)

Cream Creme de la Cream (greatest hits repackage)

Bob Dylan Dylan Four Dollars or Thomas

Dr. John The Doctor Will See You Now or Medical History (for a career overview anthology)

Thelonious Monk The Onliest Monk or The Loneliest Monk

Gram Parsons Gram Cracker or Bye-Bye, Country Boy

The Rolling Stones No Moss or maybe better... No Mas


Sonny Rollins Roads Scholar or Be Striding the World (both play off his famous Saxophone Colossus LP)

Denny Zeitlin Practice, Practice, Practice (Jazz pianist who is also a psychiatrist)


I look forward to your ideas; submit them via Comments, and in a week or two I'll post the best ones. (Shouldn't be hard to improve on my samples!)

By the way, the game needs a name. "None Such" occurs to me. Or "Off the Record." Or one meant to be obscure and needing to be deciphered: "Noel Peace." (Which would be "No LPs," of course.)