Subscribe to Pun of the Day by email:





  Follow us on Twitter 

Puns tagged ‘music’:

12/22/11

I’m thinking of buying a cat. I’ve heard cats can be finicky. In fact, the pet store said that the cat that I want only eats religiously consecrated fish — from the superorder elopomorpha. Pretty weird. So… when I get that feline, I need sectual eelings?

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
12/08/11

After Timberlake went to that famed Ukrainian watershed - he wrote ‘Crimea River‘.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
11/18/11

Writing a symphony is a draw note process.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
11/09/11

Eminem owns two pipelines in Central Asia:

  1. Gas Uzbek
  2. ‘Stan

(what about Sallim Zashadi)?

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
05/16/11

Do botanists play the xylem-phloem?

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
03/21/11

NOISE POLLUTION?

Dear Pun Gents, I’m starting an a cappella group at our School of Natural Resources and Environment and I’d like a punny name that combines musical terms with environmental terms. ~Naomi, Ann Arbor, MI

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. A cappellecology
  2. Sound Policy
  3. Resource Distraction
  4. Do no Harmony
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 1.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
03/21/11

NO CHORUS HUMOR, PLEASE

Dear Pun Gents, my choir is getting t-shirts and I need a good pun to adorn them (high school-appropriate, please) ~Jac, Bay City

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. I’m Choired Right Now
  2. Come to Sing Sing
  3. No Harmony Done
  4. Duet, Where my Harmony?
  5. And I Love Hymn
  6. Do You  Watch the Sopranos?
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (5 votes, average: 2.40 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
03/09/11

MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT

Dear Pun Gents, I want to ask my guy friend to the prom as friends. We are both really into jazz music; I play trombone and he plays bass. I need a jazz/music pun for asking him to prom. ~Keri, Charlottetown, PEI

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Sorry, I can’t promise you sax.
  2. Keep me accompaniment?
  3. Come to the prom, but leave your boner at home.
  4. I wanted to jazz you a question…
  5. What time? Get me at 8/16
  6. This is not the night to be a Monk
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
03/02/11

MUSICAL LINEUP

Dear Pun Gents, I need a funny team name for a girls intramural softball team at my college. All of the girls are music majors or minors. Needs to be clean. ~Kassie, Brownwood, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Bar Be Eyes [RBIs]
  2. Aces of Bases
  3. Ludwig van Basethrowven
  4. Handel the Bat
  5. Bat Girls
  6. Treble Play
  7. Fever Pitch
  8. Slide Trombones
  9. SwingandaMissimo
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/14/11

RECORDER MONTALBAN?

Dear Pun Gents, I’m trying to come up with some names for a play I’m adapting and I need a name for a medieval musician. I already have Iona Lute. Need something along these lines but a male name. Thanks! ~Jess, Manchester, UK

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Martin Luter
  2. Robert Zithermann
  3. Coral Singer
  4. Armando Lin
  5. Shawm Reed
  6. See more medieval instruments here
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/08/11

THE ANSWER, MY FRIENDS…

Dear Pun Gents, we’re a trivia team needing a new name for the season. We are pretty good but awful at the music round. We are trying to incorporate a music theme this time. ~Kat, Winnipeg, MB

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. She Drives Me Quizzy
  2. The Answer, My Friends, is Blowin’ in the Wind
  3. Ain’t No Party Like a JE-O-Pardy!
  4. Trebek in the Saddle
  5. The Who (What Where When How)
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/07/11
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/06/11

TRAGICALLY HIPPO

Dear Pun Gents, I need puns incorporating hippos and current pop songs. Thank you! ~Karen, Seattle, WA

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Just the Way You Artiodactyl
  2. Back to De-Semi-Aquatic
  3. Felt Good on My Hippos
  4. What’s uglier than a hippo? A Rihannaceros.
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
12/20/10

Michael Jackson always wanted to fly like a bird. He even wrote that song, Be a Tit.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
12/19/10

Does Bono buy expensive-brand groceries?

No, he shops where the treats have no name.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (7 votes, average: 4.71 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
11/27/10

I lost the ability to sing! This situation is totally FEWBAR.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
11/26/10

PLAGUE IT AGAIN, SAM

Dear Pun Gents, I am writing a news article on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin for both a tabloid and a broadsheet but I dont know what the two headlines should be, please could you help me with some clever puns? ~Greg, London, UK

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Plague it Again, Sam
  2. On a Fluting Spree
  3. Rattaboy!
  4. The Verminator
  5. He Just Rodent To Town…
  6. Now Appearing on Kids Row
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
11/17/10

GEWURTZ + MUSIC BY…

Dear Pun Gents, we need a team name for a music-themed wine tasting and quiz. Team names are to include rock/music star/act and possibly be related to wine. We are three girls and one guy - please help! ~Catherine, Aberdeen, Scotland

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
  1. Death Cabernet for Cutie
  2. House of the Riesling Sun
  3. All Time Best Cellars
  4. Chordannay
  5. April Wine
  6. Port-ishead
  7. Brandy
  8. Glassic Rock
  9. We are the Champagnes
  10. We’re Hardcork
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (6 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
11/14/10

When Napster hit the music industry, it was like Sharenobyl.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
10/19/10

There was a famous crooner who sang exclusively about peeing. He was quite the bladdeer. Some of his hits included:

  • Urol Always On My Mind (duet with Urethra Franklin)
  • Give Piss a Chance
  • Looey Looey
  • Yellow
  • I Streamed a Dream

His name? Huddy Bedwetter .

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (5 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
09/30/10

If they didn’t have Ringo, they’d have been the Beatless.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
09/24/10

2000 years ago, pop diva Lady Cleopatra had a smash hit: Bad Romans.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
09/18/10

The monks kicked the priests out of their choir because they couldn’t carry a tunic.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06/26/10

Barbershop quartets sing a capella. But In Africa, berbershop quartets sing a cape buffalo.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06/24/10

Wasn’t there an oil rigger in that group, the Spillage People?

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
04/18/10

My Stradivarius brand bike did not come with stopping devices. I had to install some to brake the cycle of violins.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
04/12/10

Was Ireland a hotbed of glam rock?

No, Shamrock.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
04/10/10

Careful - if you kiss an Irish rock star, you might get Bono.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
03/01/10

BAND ON THE PUN

Dear Pun Gents, I need a funny band name pun. ~Mikey, Plattsburgh, NY

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Band Aid
  2. Songofabitch
  3. Of Chorus
  4. Recorduroy
  5. The Strolling Strones
  6. Living Color Me Badly Drawn Boy George Michael Jackson Five for Fighting Miss Daisy
TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/16/10

If the group included a garbage man, they would have been the Swillage People. Their music was trashy anyway.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
09/03/09

Justin Timberlake’s concerts feature everything but the kitsch ‘N Sync.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
08/16/09

I’m going on a hip-hop vacation. I have tupac fa’ sure.  But my suitcase is notoriously B.I.G. - it’s so Puffy! I better rap it up and Run to the DMV to get my car.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
07/25/09

“Hithee hither!”: proof that Michael Jackson’s “Beat it”, when translated into Olde English, is a recipe for indiscriminate violence against both sexes.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (7 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
07/12/09

Explaining how to write music is always a draw note conversation. It may treble you, so I’ll stick to bassics.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
07/05/09

So many music stores are going out of business—because they are in the CD part of town.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06/07/09

Hear about the conductor who got in trouble for slapping a woman’s bass at a party? He was flouting etiquette, acting like a bassoon, so she cried, “Oboe you don’t! I’m not your sax partner!”

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
01/13/09

John Lennon was hungry, but he wouldn’t give pies a chance. He insisted on having a yellow submarine. Paul just said ‘Let it Brie.’

John Lennon was hungry, but he wouldn't give pies a chance. He insisted on having a yellow submarine. Paul just said 'Let it Brie.'

John was hungry, but he wouldn't give pies a chance. He wanted a yellow submarine.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
12/07/08

People aren’t happy with music DRM laws against CD ripping and burning. There is a lot of disc content.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
11/19/08

I could never have predicted the success of Geddy Lee and Rush. But then again, I’m no progrocksticator.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
09/15/08

Sixteenth century musicians were often guilty of lute behaviour. And any who denied it was considered a lyre.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
09/05/08

I won’t play music for my friend Monica. I don’t want to harm Monica.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (Rate This Pun)
Loading ... Loading ...
07/26/08

When the New Kids were finally able to grow their ’soul patches’, they wrote a song about it: “Hangin’ Tuft.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (Rate This Pun)
Loading ... Loading ...
07/06/08

How would you describe most songs about farts?

Quite smell odious.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
07/04/08

The phoneticist went on American Idol, but was booed off the stage on account of his lisp. Afterward this linguist was upset, saying “I can’t believe they dipthed my thong!”

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
06/07/08

Most South Asian dance music originates from Bhangradesh.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (Rate This Pun)
Loading ... Loading ...
04/26/08

What song did Tom Jones write after misplacing his pet ungulate’s testicles?

“It’s Not a Gnu Jewel.”

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/26/08

Listening to U2 in church gives me a mass-ive Bono.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/21/08

After Ravi Shankar was seriously burned in a fire, he had to get numerous skin grafts from a caucasian donor. After the tragedy he decided to take up singeing, and he was thereafter better known as Apache Indian.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/09/08

Sex and money talk in the Indian music world, where the rock stars are often surrounded by screaming rupees, looking for a paisa the action. And ten thousand rupees certainly indicates a lak of it.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (Rate This Pun)
Loading ... Loading ...
02/01/08

Sounds effects pioneer Thomas Dolby graduated from university magna cum loud.

TerriblePretty BadOKPretty GoodHilarious (2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...