Significant Anagram/Music
Examples of Significant Anagrams in Music include:
- Brian Eno[1] is fond of wordplay and anagrams:
- "King's Lead Hat" is an anagram of Talking Heads.
- Before and After Science is probably an anagram for "Arcane Benefits of Class," though there are other theories.
- On Passengers (Eno and U2) album Original Soundtracks 1, some of the movie descriptions are attributed to "Ben O'Rian."
- Jazz pianist Bill Evans frequently titled songs with anagrams of the names of people in his life. For example, "Re: Person I Knew" in honor of his producer Orrin Keepnews.
- The Doors' song "LA Women" has repeated occurrences of the phrases "Mr. Mojo risin'"—an anagram of Jim Morrison.
- The band New End Original was a short-lived side project of onelinedrawing, which was Jonah Matranga.
- Damon Albarn has made guest appearances on Elastica albums under the pseudonyms Dan Abnormal and Norman Balda. "Dan Abnormal" was also the name of a song from Blur's 1995 album The Great Escape
- LoudBomb is the electronic side-project of Bob Mould.
- The band John Squire formed after The Stone Roses was called The Seahorses. While he claimed it was just a coincidence, it was often pointed out that this was an anagram for "he hates roses", as well as "the rose ashes". Squire actually got sick enough of this speculation that he briefly dropped the "the" from the band name, just so "he hates roses" would no longer work as an anagram.
- Menomena's debut album is called I Am The Fun Blame Monster!. It's an anagram of "The First Menomena Album".
- Mike Doughty's album Haughty Melodic is an anagram for "Michael Doughty".
- Missing Persons' album title Spring Session M is an anagram for the name of the band itself.
- Aphex Twin is also rather fond of this, particularly the titles of songs from ...I Care Because You Do.
- From that album - "Wax The Nip" = Aphex Twin, "The Waxen Pith," "Wet Tip Hen Ax," "Next Heap With" = The Aphex Twin, "Acrid Avid Jam Shred" = Richard David James, and "Cow Cud Is A Twin" = Caustic Window.
- Another case of an album being named for an anagram of the artist's name: Imogen Heap's I Megaphone.
- All of the track names of Kid 606's Songs About Fucking Steve Albini are anagrams of "Miguel De Pedro", who is Kid 606. For example, "Lou Reed Gimped" or "Odd Ripe Legume"
- Minus Story's album My Ion Tuss, an anagram for the band name itself.
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- ↑ anagram of "one brain"