Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun (Warner Bros., 1968)

Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun
Hateful men had oft eaten drugs.



Notes

1. Alternative anagram: Dung! Don't eat the shameful fare.

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (Warner Bros., 1968)

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Nasal man's work overtries.

Rod Stewart - An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (Mercury, 1969)

Rod Stewart - An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
Wanton dodo! I noted your two rectal venereal warts.



Notes

1. "Two rectal venereal warts": This is not the first time we've been privy to uncomfortable details about this sensitive topic. And it may not be the last. 
2. Alternative anagram: "Don't worry, luv...we won't eat a crooner's tainted load!"

The 5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic (Soul City, 1968)

The 5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic
5 ethnic icons did some hit tunes on LP!

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills (Columbia, 1968)

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Horrid hippy bitch'll mangle each bad song, then rot.



Notes

1. Alternative anagram: That hip songbird! (L. Cohen balled her, right?)
2. "L. Cohen": Leonard Cohen deeply regrets describing his "relationship" with Janis Joplin in the song "Chelsea Hotel #2": "There was the sole indiscretion, in my professional life, that I deeply regret, because I associated a woman’s name with a song, and in the song I mentioned, I used the line 'giving me head on an unmade bed while the limousines wait in the street,' and I’ve always disliked the locker-room approach to these matters, I’ve never spoken in any concrete terms of a woman with whom I’ve had any intimate relationships. And I named Janis Joplin in that song, I don’t know when it started, but I connected her name with the song, and I’ve been feeling very bad about that ever since, it’s an indiscretion for which I’m very sorry, and if there is some way of apologising to the ghost, I want to apologise now, for having committed that indiscretion." Perhaps he'll feel better knowing that her album title beat him to it.

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (Parlophone, 1964)

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Hey, lads! The band's a great hit!



Notes

1. Alternative anagram: Tarty ladies shag the band, eh?

Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment (Sonobeat, 1968)

Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment
Experts--no simps!--jeer the unnervingly white bore.

Nico - The Marble Index (Elektra, 1969)

Nico - The Marble Index
Minx debt: Cale, heroin.



Notes

1. "Cale": John Cale arranged this album and played most of the instruments on it.
2. Here's an alternative version:

Nico's The Marble Index
Blond hair excites men!

The 5th Dimension - The Age of Aquarius (Soul City, 1969)

The 5th Dimension - The Age of Aquarius
Unique 5-star hit! Someone had a gift, eh?

The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Pye, 1968)

The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
I think Ray's keen to evoke a gentler English past. Kitsch reverie!



Notes

1. Thanks to Paul for suggesting this title.

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone, 1967)

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The LP art gently blabs Paul's secret: He's been O.P.D.!



Notes

1. "O.P.D." stands for "officially pronounced dead." As Turn Me On, Dead Man notes, "On the inside photo, Paul is wearing a patch with the letters 'O.P.D.,' interpreted as "Officially Pronounced Dead'....[T]his phrase is the equivalent of 'Dead On Arrival' in British police jargon."

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (RCA, 1967)

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
I will jeer S.F. stoners' crap. O, plain failure!

Notes

1. Alternative anagram: Rep: "Unfair era! S.F. police will jail stoners!"

Don Rickles - Speaks! (Warner Brothers, 1969)

Don Rickles Speaks!
Kids lack response!

Notes

1. Alternative anagram: Crank's posse liked.
2. Also: "Knockers" sales dip. (This is clearly a reference to Rusty Warren's contemporaneous Knockers Up series of albums.)

Timothy Leary - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (ESP-Disk, 1966)

Timothy Leary - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Rotten man lured youth to ruin. No pity!

Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (Columbia, 1969)

Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
At a gig, I'm ill on junk, booze and jism. I sample coma!

John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Wedding Album (Apple, 1969)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Wedding Album
Bed-in? An odd honeymoon, J.L.! Go annul now, 'k?



Notes

1. From Wikipedia: "'Amsterdam,' the second side, consists of interviews, conversations and captured sounds during the couple's famous 'Bed-In' honeymoon, after being married on 20 March of that year."

George Harrison - Electronic Sound (Zapple, 1969)

George Harrison - Electronic Sound
He's recording noise! O, true clangor!



Notes

1. Alternative anagram: Or, "Ol' G.H. cuts a record in noise genre."

Charley Musselwhite - Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band (Vanguard, 1967)

Charley Musselwhite - Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band
Beware, chums, lest those caddish, mindless, chalky white bluesmen scathe your ears.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (Apple, 1968)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins
Oh no! Run-down junkies condone 1st vision of yoni 'n' lingham!

Notes

1. "Run-down junkies": Lennon later described this album cover as a picture of "two slightly overweight ex-junkies in the nude."