Carly Simon - The Bedroom Tapes (Arista, 2000)

Carly Simon - The Bedroom Tapes
Cool part? My bed's in a rest home!

Canned Heat - One More River to Cross (Atlantic/WEA, 1973)

Canned Heat - One More River to Cross
Vast crooner Hite: "Send me a coroner!"



Notes

1. We are sorry to report that vast crooner Bob "The Bear" Hite died after a concert on April 5, 1981, having snorted a vial of heroin that he apparently mistook for a different but equally dangerous drug. 
2. Alternative anagram: Coroner: "Hite's one monster cadaver!"
3. Lest we forget, the preceding anagram is Re: Man's heroin overdose at concert.
4. Also, too: Send a coroner to cover the remains.

Rod Stewart - Every Beat of My Heart (Warner Bros., 1986)

Rod Stewart - Every Beat of My Heart
Oh, retreat, ye tarts! Beware of my VD!

Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel (Atco, 1985)

Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel
I won't pen eleventh Who disc yet. Ta!



Notes

1. "Eleventh Who disc": Townshend released this solo album during the 24-year gap between the tenth and eleventh studio LPs by the Who.

Janis Joplin - The Woodstock Experience (Legacy Recordings, 2009)

Janis Joplin - The Woodstock Experience
J.J., on LP set: "Pot! Acid! Coke! Heroin! Sex! Wine!"

Kurtis Blow - Party Time? (Mercury, 1983)

Kurtis Blow - Party Time?
Subtitle it "My Rap Work."

Rod Stewart - Once In a Blue Moon: The Lost Album (Rhino Handmade, 2009)

Rod Stewart - Once In a Blue Moon: The Lost Album
Brothel: "No anal!"
Me, later: "But I use two condoms!"

Ringo Starr - Stop and Smell the Roses (RCA, 1981)

Ringo Starr - Stop and Smell the Roses
The LP's grim stat: No sales, nor orders.



Notes

1. "No sales." Although it may not be numerically exact, this claim conveys an essential truth: "On 31 December, the HMV store in London announces that despite the busy Christmas period, only 30 copies of the album had been sold with the store....Nonplussed, RCA dropped Starr in 1982. For the first time in his career, Starr was out of a recording contract – and this time, no major UK or US company would be willing to sign him."

INXS - Elegantly Wasted (Mercury, 1997)

INXS - Elegantly Wasted
Wan, tall, sexy gent dies.



Notes

1. We regret to inform you that INXS vocalist Michael Hutchence was found dead in a Sydney hotel room seven months after the release of this album.

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz (RCA, 2013)

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Crazy girl. Numb eyes.

Morrissey - Kill Uncle (EMI, 1991)

Morrissey - Kill Uncle
Sullen limey rock, sir!



Notes

1. Alternative anagram: I'm sulky loner's relic.

Rod Stewart - Vagabond Heart (Warner Bros., 1991)

Rod Stewart - Vagabond Heart
Another broad gets a VD wart!

Eric Clapton - Slowhand (RSO, 1977)

Eric Clapton - Slowhand
"Cocaine" sold thrawn LP.

Notes

1. "Cocaine" is the opening track on this thrawn LP.
2. "Thrawn": A Scots adjective meaning "crooked" or "perverse."

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley (Mercury, 1970)

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
Lady, later: "Ow! Genital sores!"

X - Under the Big Black Sun (Elektra, 1982)

X - Under the Big Black Sun
Drunk sex. Cheating. Blub!



Notes

1. Another anagram, offered solely as a curiosity: Gun Club - "Sex Beat." Drink. H.

Keith Moon - Two Sides of the Moon (MCA/Polydor, 1975)

Keith Moon - Two Sides of the Moon
K.M. of the Who notes, "I'm soon to die!"

The 150 Murderous Passions - The 150 Murderous Passions.... (United Dairies, 1981)

The 150 Murderous Passions - The 150 Murderous Passions, or Those Belonging to the Fourth Class, Composing the 28 Days of February Spent in Hearing the Narrations of Madame Desgranges, Interspersed Amongst Which Are the Scandalous Doings at the Château During That Month

Grating 80s noise record by William Bennett and S. Stapleton, honoring Sade's nauseating torture-porn epic (or dung monograph) The 120 Days of Sodom. It offers 515 harsh screeches, echo, hum and tape hiss. (Drums? Feh!) Ought to enthuse smug atheists, shit eaters and anagram authors.

 
Notes

1. This challenging title was suggested by an understandably anonymous reader.
2. This album features William Bennett of Whitehouse and Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound.

Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs (Columbia, 1979)

Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs
Needs gals! No other concern.



Notes

1. Alternative anagram: Gonorrheal connectedness.

John Lennon - Walls and Bridges (Apple/EMI, 1974)

John Lennon - Walls and Bridges
New lands honor bland jingles!



Notes

1. "New lands": In the American charts, this album -- and the bland jingle "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" -- reached #1. No other solo single by Lennon topped the charts in his lifetime. The album also reached #1 in the nearby terra nova of Canada.

Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop, 2005)

Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
Late heroines to NW dykes.



Notes

1. We're pleased to be able to report -- for once -- that "late" in this context is simply a synonym for "recent."