Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do

REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish or whatever the fuck that one is called
Eddie Harris - That Is Why You're Overweight

those are both pretty bitchin'. try harder.

Joe Walsh to thread.

Elvin Bishop: Hometown Boy Makes Good!

the Harris title makes sense in context with the album art, the woman's hand holding a bon-bon or truffle or whatever

but why single out the 70's? i mean there aren't many worse album titles than say 'Dongs of Sevotion' or 'Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle'

oh man prog rock totally wins this thread

Yes - Tormato
Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It
Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

Caravan also wins for 'For Girls Who Go Plump in the Night'!

ha ha, yes!

Blind Dog at St. Dunstans was a pretty dreadful album title too

OK, time to defend prog rock :

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other is a quote from artist John Minton - "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other", which isn't very quirky at all.

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

Caravan - yes awful, although I quite like the Blind Dog At St Dunstans title.

Ha yeah Joe Walsh's 'But Seriously Folks' was what immediately sprung to mind when I saw the thread title (xposts). Also:

Lowell George - Thanks, I'll Eat it Here

haha i was JUST about to post the Lowell George title

Frampton - I'm In You

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

It's a compilation, isn't it?

Not the 70s but it's hard to beat that run of three albums from Phil Collins: "Hello, I Must Be Going!", "No Jacket Required", "...But Seriously" ... which rips off Joe Walsh too!

Oh, that Phil Collins and his waging war on restaurants that don't let him in!

Think I'd refuse to pay the bill in any restaurant that let Phil Collins in

I love puns MORE than the next man but...

http://covers1.img-themusic-world.info/000/22/22311.jpg

Hate "Crisis? What Crisis?" by Supertramp

Good lord, I never realized "Whale Meat" was a pun, I just thought it was a stupid album title.

Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other is a quote from artist John Minton - "We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other", which isn't very quirky at all.

We're All Awash in a Sea of Blood would have been a way better album title

Kansas were on a roll, as Leftoverture is some painful titling, and then came Point of Know Return.

It is obviously a great album, but I have always hated the title 'Hall of the Mountain Grill'

Budgie - if I were brittania I'd waive the rules

The Lowell George one is especially bad because it was also what he wanted the first Little Feat album to be called. Amazing that he held onto it for SO LONG.

Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the decidedly non-technical content.

http://991.com/newGallery/Wet-Willie-Which-Ones-Willie-500502.jpg

Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.

Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Bootsy? Player of the Year
This Boot is Made for Fonk-N

This might be the third time in the last month I've posted this:

http://www.hollywoodmemorabilia.com/files/cache/peter-frampton-autographed-signed-im-in-you-album_596c784f83f85bbc064e0b6afdd291be.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/JethroTull-albums-toooldtorocknroll.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Aerosmith_-_Night_In_The_Ruts.JPG

Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday

I'd think Budgie's "If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules" kind of fits here.

Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns - Say Blow By Blow Backwards
even Joe Walsh gets a headache thinking bout that one

Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)

Makes it worse.

think there's a faces best-of, maybe released after the 70s but recalling its syntactic constructions, good little boys ... when they're asleep

This may be the best/worst:

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/071/0000007135_350.jpg

Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse

1971, so this may be the template

Ringo Starr - Ringo's Rotogravure

OK this isn't verbose but it's one of those albums I used to stare at as a record-store clerk, thinking 'what a dumb title'

see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album

Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?

IMO "Too Old To Rock'n'Roll, Too Young To Die" is a great title. Sums up pretty well the thoughts of the first generation who grew up with rock music, and how they dealt with not being teenagers anymore.

Man - Do You Like It here Now, Are you Settling In? and (although I kinda like this one) 2 Oz. of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle.

I've been thinking (for no particular reason) about lame 70s album titles recently and just found this thread.

For sheer crassness, I can't help thinking of "Fanx Ta Ra" by Sad Cafe:

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/119/906cd4ae57f246a291f42b96c13fafd1/l.jpg

xp Oh I get it... "Which one's Willie." Which means no one in the band was named Willie. Quite a hoot/hollar combo.

Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.

This definitely exists and is not a bootleg. It's a compilation but at least the title can't be blamed on the band, the liner notes say the label came up with it. Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.

greg kihn to thread, surely

(i realize it's hardly in the true caravan spirit, but 1978's "next of kihn" would have been a prime offender even if he hadn't gone back to the well a dozen times)

Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.

but that is cool

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kansas/album-point-of-know-return.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qMlKL6v2DKE/TPV-wiPyfGI/AAAAAAAAA7M/8ewBGXN8Ow8/James%20Brown%20(1979)%20-%20Take%20A%20Look%20At%20Those%20Cakes.jpg

oh man, i just got "Night In The Ruts" http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gfI3E63GIS4/TTzdFlqnb8I/AAAAAAAAAd0/hO6gMyE6Gb8/s1600/Grand+Funk+Railroad+All+the+Girls+in+the+World+Beware+%2521.jpg

http://www.thewho.info/images/75RARH-PST-RD.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Deep-Purple-Who-Do-We-Think-W-419996.jpg

http://oblada.com/storage/RS136_June1973.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1252641317684

lol @ Ride a Rock Horse

ride a rock pony amirite

Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.

What's to get about A Night In The Ruts? Am I missing a bad pun? Is it supposed to sound like "right in the nuts?" Because, even for a pun, that's a stretch. Why the hell would you want to call an album that??

And that James Brown cover is awesome.

That Sad Cafe reminds me of this candidate:

http://img03.shop-pro.jp/PA01005/593/product/24884146.jpg?20101121173947

and then there's this collage I found when searching for that cover:

http://img4.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/95/0b/h18h22/folder/1034626/img_1034626_29204540_0?1302445536

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N-2QLcuZbTI/SYChMNUvpLI/AAAAAAAAAQs/C9NbKYKFQY0/s400/front.jpg

What's to get about A Night In The Ruts? Am I missing a bad pun? Is it supposed to sound like "right in the nuts?" Because, even for a pun, that's a stretch. Why the hell would you want to call an album that??

aerosmith tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Hard-Nutz.jpg

Setting bad puns aside, something really galls me about BTO's "Best of BTO (So Far)" - the title's at the top of the cover and the parenthetical's at the bottom, as if to have a nice long pause to really set up this highlarious bit of comic self-aggrandization...

Daltrey ftw.

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=foot+loose+and+fancy+free+rod+stewart&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1280&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=1rdIiZAVLJYjvM:&imgrefurl=http://www.amazon.com/Foot-Loose-Fancy-Free-Stewart/dp/B00004Y6O2&docid=SSEfMXYB3kX_VM&imgurl=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wu8bFi6mL._SL500_AA300_.jpg&w=300&h=300&ei=jYEcT6vdHoXb0QHjzrDoCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=321&vpy=137&dur=215&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=105&ty=102&sig=115859656210803399850&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=137&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/THFxbWf4FKI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/JPDrEkzYU5g/s1600/cover.jpg

"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.

always thought "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is Spreading" was the worst but that may be like 1968

Jo Jo Gunne- So...Where's the Show?
Pilot- From the Album of the Same Name
Deep Purple- Come Taste the Band
Michael Stanley Band- You Break It...You Bought It!
Sly & the Family Stone- Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back
Kevin Ayers- Yes We Have No Mananas, So Get Your Mananas Today
The Animals- Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
Rabbit- A Croak and Grunt in the Night
Rick Derringer- If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot You
Spooky Tooth- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw
Ramatam- In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns
Black Oak Arkansas- If an Angel Came to See You, Would You Make Her Feel at Home?

it's from the 80's, but I always thought that You're Gettin' Even While I'm Gettin' Odd by the Wolf-less edition of The J. Geils Band was a dumb title.

Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

Many years ago somebody was trying to think of what artist had made that record and asked me but I didn't know. His attitude was that he had stumped me but my attitude was "why should I know who recorded an album with a stupid title like that?" So thanking you for clearing that up, Elvis T.

you're welcome

also, ELP Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends

Pretty sure these are where Blink 182 got the inspiration for a couple of their album names because they fit right in.

1969, but

Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark

The Animals- Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted

In a similar vein of album titles that trot out a familiar (hackneyed) phrase, try

Bloody Tourists - 10cc
Individually and Collectively - Steeleye Span
Indelibly Stamped - Supertramp

and so on...

Like Tom above I love puns MORE than the next man but... my all-time lame-pun album title (admittedly 80s) has to be Bankstatement by Tony Banks.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AafG7mBnL._SS400_.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fbuYL1Y4VSc/Sij6nmlLFQI/AAAAAAAAJGA/Ytosn7NUSIU/s320/Gilgamesh.jpg

^ Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into

I guess Regatta de Blanc by the Police counts here as well.

Robert Wyatt is probably the champion at this - Matching Mole, End of an Ear etc and *especially* Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

So bad, and yet so good..

http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk/client_files/default/man.jpg

Man, "Do You Like It Here, Are You Settling In?"

... what did these bands think they were achieving with these titles?

Oh man, this one ticks every conceivable box:

http://s45.radikal.ru/i107/0903/58/41c66ddaa717.jpg

Haha, that looks like a still from Going Straight or something.

Norman Stanley Fletcher meets Hipgnosis

One title I always thought was bad, was:

"The quality of mercy is not strnen" The Mekons.

.. until I saw one:

http://www.fotopocket.nl/fpimages/2011/09/07/cc34ad441f3b3bbbad47e25c9f94bcd8/1543858.jpg

Stupid:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Rockin%27_with_Curly_Leads.jpg

Crap:

http://storage.canalblog.com/93/83/443665/33139026.jpg

It's not the seventies. It's not an album. But:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/b612f46ca2bd6c180fe58a2070478b5b/430896.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i0WHJgYLbMA/SPsCEzxlWXI/AAAAAAAACC8/O33BKWQsY94/s400/The+Status+Quo+-+1978+-+If+You+Can%27t+Stand+The+Heat.jpg

^ top quality punnage from the Quo

http://jamesmeredith.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/0001022326_350.jpg

^ Gene Vincent - I'm Back And I'm Proud

I like the Camel cover, as it's title is the punchline of a joke.

I don't get what the puns are in the last two examples?

Status Quo and Gene Vincent, that is.

Gene Vincent: terrible pun on I'm Black And I'm Proud (Gene Vincent is white btw)

Not all of these are puns, Tuomas, most of them aren't

Ah, okay. Stupid me! What about the Status Quo title? Were they putting down some rival band called "The Heat"?

"If You Can't Stand This Heat" try Throbbing Gristle instead

Hard to come up with a more boring album title than this:

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/j/john_mayall-new_year_new_band_new_company.jpg

What's with all the people on the left? Are they his new company?

And does "new band" refer to the shining wristband he wears?

Status Quo: it's the lame visual gag and of course the other half of the title phrase would be ...Get Out Of The Kitchen, so it's a picture of a stove. Which is really crap and humdrum and not very dangerous at all, which pretty much sums up Status Quo imo.

Ah, okay, I didn't pay attention to the image, I though the pun was in the title.

not very dangerous at all*

*if used in the correct manner

And the hob looks a bit like a turntable, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, a bit

I think it's supposed to look like a record (well, it is a spiral)

xxp let's just say that you wouldn't want to put your hand on Status Quo and then turn them on...

And is it mounted on the top of a speaker cabinet?

In partial defence of the Quo cover:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/Spiralscratch.jpg/220px-Spiralscratch.jpg

That's a pretty stupid place to put a stove!

It's so they could boil a kettle with the sheer heat of their boogie-rock

It's to stop people putting beers on top of the amps.

a good 90 percent of the covers and titles on this thread are great

clearly the kitchen was that of Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon you rubes

I would love to hear Quo covering Lou Reed's 'Banging On My Drum'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVBNl9k2b0

Too simple for Quo

Prob'ly a thread to be had out of covers like the Quo one and this:

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/sm/smallas117221037114840.jpg

... if it hadn't been done already

The design meeting for that Small Faces cover must have been something:

Designer 1: "So the cover's gonna be a record on a turntable, but the pickup's an engine."
Designer 2: "Eh, it's missing something."
Designer 3: "What if the needle was gouging a tear in the record?"
Designer 2: "Hmm... Good, but it needs to be edgier."
Designer 1: "How about this, there's blood coming out of the tear!"
Designer 2: "Excellent! Now let's go and do some more cocaine!"

Oh yeah - 70s albums with terrible visual puns featuring pictures of records xp

e.g.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kTlh6ewNL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

That's so lazy. In fact, 'records are your best buy' would have been a better title and image.

Came out in 1978 btw, so bonus points for the double pun, albeit two useless ones.

How about at least two layers of wrong?

http://991.com/gallery_180x180/10cc-Are-You-Normal--p-186369-991.jpg

That's 10cc's "Look Hear"

1) Crap pun
2) album is not called "are you normal"

etc.

3) it's a 10cc album

http://www.free-covers.org/covers/25057.jpg

String Driven Thing, "Keep Yer 'And On It"

... cover's nice but the title...

Oh yuck.

Yeah, I've only just realised what it's implying, doh!

Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of

I love these album titles because like - - is the idea to convey that the band are just a bunch of cut-ups, some regular goofy guys who might do well as sitcom guest stars even while they make you boogie? So put 'em on and give 'em a spin! Or something? And yet somehow all it conveys to me when flipping through the dollar bin is "well, this looks boring and inessential as hell, I can safely skip that one."

casino otm

there's also something slightly reactionary but post-60s about it, it's like "We don't really have a revolutionary bone in our bodies, but we have this vague sense that we're supposed to act like nothing matters anymore"

Also "we're getting a little old for this, but still trying to have fun!"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Sj4IRGej8SY/S076IiuImcI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/9zJ9QHqOECM/s400/caravan-cunning-stunts-1975.jpg

How the heck was Cunning Stunts not mentioned in this thread? Unless it was.

Caravan were still doing really shit album titles in the 21st century btw, they have not lost it yet:

Ether Way (1998)
Surprise Supplies (1999)
A Night's Tale (2003)
The Unauthorized Breakfast Item (2003)

there's also something slightly reactionary but post-60s about it, it's like "We don't really have a revolutionary bone in our bodies, but we have this vague sense that we're supposed to act like nothing matters anymore"

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, June 28, 2013 11:21 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, definitely, it's very "No concept album to be found here, y'all! Just tryin' to provide some plain 'n' simple entertainment!" This doesn't apply to the prog versions of course.

Also it seems like record companies saved their laziest graphic designers and worst cardboard for records with these titles, they just always look so shabby and awful. Exceptions abound - that "Cunning Stunts" cover isn't bad aside from the title.

Cunning Stunts was obviously a Hipgnosis job

ha, I was thinking that but am not so up on my jacket designers that I was gonna stick my neck out and say it.

i feel like something about the perspective is off in the mirrors, especially the left one

ha i didn't know Cows stole that album title

gimme most of the album titles itt over pretentious nowadayz shit like Marni Stern or Fiona Apple's infamous "When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You Know That You're Right"

I like album titles where you go "Is that...a real word?" but you don't tell anyone and you're too embarrassed to actually look it up.

there's a thread idea

ha i didn't know Cows stole that album title

― von LMO argonaut (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 28, 2013 8:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh Caravan probably stole it off of someone's embarrassing uncle which I think is the genesis (npi) of the joke

I love these album titles because like - - is the idea to convey that the band are just a bunch of cut-ups, some regular goofy guys who might do well as sitcom guest stars even while they make you boogie? So put 'em on and give 'em a spin!

totally OTM like "Hey pal, we're just doing a bit of rock n rollin over here nbd"

I've got to repost the Bernie Marsden solo album from upthread because the image is missing, it is sooooo perfect, cover and everything

http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~hamaki/BernieMarsden_AndAboutTimeToo-AvexAVCB66044.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/45650793/The+Smoker+You+Drink+The+Player+You+Get+155008.jpg

80s, not 70s...still...
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jXcIdC0TPic/Sqg2uxeEYFI/AAAAAAAAEOI/ye680qjynUk/s400/Joe+Walsh+-+Got+Any+Gum+%281987%29.jpg

Kudos to Joe, he kept it real all the way into the 90s:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/86875177/Look+What+I+Did++The+Joe+Walsh+Anthology.jpg

http://blog-imgs-45.fc2.com/s/t/u/stupidnoiz/trower_bltf.jpg

They could've got Ian Gillan to sing on it and called it LGBT.

And then replaced Jack Bruce with Country Joe McDonald and titled it McDLT.

Or get AR Kane in to do gauzy sonic background shit, call it BLART

BLARKT innit

or perhaps M/A/R/R/S/B/L/A/R/K/T

don't shoot the piano player

Not 70s, but Dave Mason "Some Assembly Required"

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-3269428-1323203326.jpeg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/No_Heavy_Petting_album.jpg

Not even sure this is a pun -- the monkey is not a "heavy pet"? I don't know why they're wired together. Baffling.

This whole thread is a pretty good nostalgia tour of mid-'80s remainder bins at mall record stores, btw.

Speaking of UFO ... didn't realize this was a pun until being reminded of the British pronunciation of faucet.

http://mimg.ugo.com/201104/6/5/0/187056/cuts/ufo-force-it_480_poster.jpg

The "no heavy petting" was what the sign at the swimming pool would say, but what relevance the monkey has, dunno..

why are there so many water lines and faucets

not to mention the implied sexual assault

If she doesn't want it, faucet?

Not a pun but what the fuck?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/WBL_whateverf.jpg

Laing likes women, Bruce likes getting drunk, West likes eating hamburgers.

Also apparently the couple on that "Force It" cover are Genesis P Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

feel like this horrible but not 70s album title belongs:

http://img.hipersonica.com/2013/03/The-Devil-Put-Dinosaurs-Here.jpg

Also apparently the couple on that "Force It" cover are Genesis P Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Never knew that, but it's another Hipgnosis cover and that was Peter Christopherson's day job so I guess it's not entirely surprising.

Not even sure this is a pun -- the monkey is not a "heavy pet"? I don't know why they're wired together. Baffling.

Presumably after having surgery (like getting a monkey wired to your neck) the doctors would recommend that you indulge in no heavy petting.

I was just thinking that "It's All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye" would make a good one of these

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61eH1Qe7oAL._SY355_.jpg

^ first solo slbum by Alan Clarke of the Hollies. I have no idea what the title is suppose to mean, but it is truly fucking abysmal.

Warren Zevon's "My Ride's Here" is the sort of poignant/sad exception to the rule of this stuff

what a ridiculous cover too. but awesome t-shirt

I googled just now to make sure "It's All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye... Then It's Just Fun!" was not a Megadeth album title.

I have no idea what the title is suppose to mean...

Harold Allan Clarke (5 April 1942, Salford, Lancashire) is a retired British singer who was one of the founding members of The Hollies.

I was just thinking that "It's All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye" would make a good one of these

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CxXvDDPpL.jpg

Nah, it'd be like, It's All Guns and Fame Til Someone Oozes A Lie!, and it'd be written out on a postcard with a flourish, like they could have written ''wish you were here!'' And the band are standing around, leaning on each other's shoulders chuckling at the camera. And it'd be really brown.

http://www.thehitchers.gencodesigns.com/Sleeve-Fun-and-Games_web.jpg

Horrible 90s Album Titles etc., would be a good thread...

What would define the 90s album-naming ethos -- one-word names that sound like chemical compounds?

Hmmm, tough to say...these things break apart by genre I think. Did the "we're just a fun, no-fuss party band!" thing even exist in the 90s? I guess maybe in the land of vaguely funky major label alterna-metal. Most big rock bands seemed to take on at least a little grungey bummerdom, in image if not in song. Maybe something like Sugar Ray's 14:59.

Oh come now, of course there was!

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/155/0000015538_500.jpg

I'm struggling to keep myself from spamming this thread with more horrible 90s album covers

ahahaha yes, how could I forget FUSH YU MANG. Bloodhound Gang would be a good source here too methinks. But yes - new thread? Or do we need to wait a couple decades?

E.L.P.'s Brain Salad Surgery always struck me as a particularly awful name

...which is also a lyric from Dr. John's "Right Place, Wrong Time." Both released in 1973. I've always wondered about this.

There's a collaboration you don't see too often.

Proposed (horrible) album title:

Waiter, There's an Armadillo in my Gumbo!

Check, Please!, with a picture of the band in spirited negotiations with the record company.

"Tree Fellers Wanted" - for a trio; or even duo for maximum lolz

...which is also a lyric from Dr. John's "Right Place, Wrong Time." Both released in 1973. I've always wondered about this.

― Laws, yes! M-O-O-N spells (Dan Peterson), Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Woah, was just listening to the Dr. John track this morning and wondered the same thing

there's a who poll on the main page but i kinda realized that this iconic album is sorta one of these album titles

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/69332138/Whos+Next+The+Who.png

somehow it escaped me until now that the title is written "Who's next" not "Who's Next" or "who's next"

yeah that is kinda weird

also on the who tip you've got *eugh* all cowboys have chinese eyes

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/images/covers/cactus-one-way-or-another.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fqhRORKDqo0/TLTjJa0hg1I/AAAAAAAAC7o/hfoY1WecxKw/s320/CACTUS~3.JPG

Gross.

I know right? I was wondering if an American would ever even say "'ot", but apparently the bloke from Leaf Hound was the singer on that album.

You mean this guy?

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1689258-1354447181-9614.jpeg

Reminds me of
http://eil.com/images/main/Speedy+Keen+-+Y%27+Know+Wot+I+Mean%3F+-+LP+RECORD-439048.jpg

You mean this guy?

Dunno if you posted a picture there, but if you did, I can't see it

http://www.leafhound.net/ducks.jpg

That's the feller! Why's he got his entrails wrapped round his neck?

Maybe it's just me skimming through this thread too much, but now I want to read that as a gag title meant to evoke "Fucks in Dlight," whatever that would mean.

http://pixhost.me/avaxhome/2007-11-06/cover.jpg

They also had an album called Lie Back & Enjoy It with pretty cool fold out artwork:

http://eil.com/images/main/Juicy+Lucy+-+Lie+Back+And+Enjoy+It+-+LP+RECORD-257620.jpg

used to think this was one of the most sanctimonious titles ever, until I saw this cover:
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2627/cover_57171912112009.jpg

so a 'to do' list, maybe? first: say hi to St Peter?
…but no, that's the less common cover - the other covers and inner vinyl labels carry the version with the apostrophe.
don't know about you plebes and your worldly concerns, but…
http://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/100_9262-1.jpg

Ha totally the Eastern mystic version of that type of title. Love that album though.

http://eil.com/images/main/Utopia+(US)+-+Oops!+Wrong+Planet+-+Sealed+-+LP+RECORD-357606.jpg

http://pulmyears.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/deface.jpg

http://spintogroove.com/sites/default/files/R-3742381-1342542350-5942_1.jpeg

OMG those Utopia ones are just PAINFUL

http://i42.tinypic.com/20j3fp0.gif

Hahahaha... Here's a horror:

http://www.hallandoates.de/Covers_Albums/1972%20Whole%20Oats.jpg

I don't know if it exists, but there should certainly be one called "Try This On For Size"

Or how about "Salad Daze" with an illustration of the band from behind sitting crosslegged staring up at like a giant glowing radish or some shit

"Second Place is the First Loser"

The Frames should have done a record called "Shot Down in Frames"

"New Clear Waste"

"If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be an Airport"

Killing Joke weirdly fits this thread with ...What's THIS For?

Not an album, but the posthumous Faces box set Five Guys Walk Into A Bar..

Ha, love that title (and the set).

Great work, everyone.

Jethro Tull - Stand Up (featuring a cardboard, stand-up cutout of the band...standing up)

Yeah the Faces are so perfect for these types of titles, so loveable

http://eil.com/images/main/Tony+Banks+-+Bankstatement+-+Sealed+-+LP+RECORD-512148.jpg

iirc, "Throwback" features guitarist Alan Throw.

"New Clear Waste"

http://cranialspasm.com/recordclub/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vapors.jpg

... belongs on a horrible album titles by new wave bands thread though

also http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Ashnuclearsounds.jpg/220px-Ashnuclearsounds.jpg

and AR Kane's third album was called New Clear Child

it was rubbish btw, just in case the title doesn't serve as warning enough

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/LetItBe.jpg/220px-LetItBe.jpg
I always thought this had a "Would you fucks leave us alone now please?" kinda vibe to it.

If they'd stayed together into the 70s proper, Let It Be...Naked would have been a great title for a beigey album cover where the four Beatles are hanging around at a stuffy, fancy-dress party, all nude, but with unlikely objects blocking the naughty bits from view.

gawd i forgot about let it be...naked....what a clown

oh shit I guess it's numerically and alphabetically represented but Van Halen's OU812 is one of these

Oh...You Eight One, Two?!

Some band also did I81B4U

Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! by Killing Joke

Beatles b-side: "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"

Saw this and thought of this thread

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/511/MI0003511414.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Ha, that's fucking awful. I saw one last week and meant to post it, too:

http://www.desbarres.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Cover_ItTakesOneToKnowOne.jpg

Oh good god, I only just got what I think the "Which One's Willie?" cover is supposed to mean.

I don't get it... "which one's will he?" (will he what?)

I want to know, but I also know the answer is going to be tedious in a way only terrible 70s album titles are.

The boy is holding up the photo to his mother asking which is his father. she slept with all of them. Also a double entendre - which one is Willie vs whose 'Willie' was it.

Actually sort of clever, in the stupidest way something can be clever.

http://www.heatworld.com/images/120875_615x10000_STD/2013/8/lamin(1).jpg

I saw this and thought it was maybe a modern day version of this, but I think it's slightly too subtle? The title really needs to written in a font at least the same size as the artists name, and the cover should be a close up of the ace of clubs, with a hand pointing at the club.

needs to be in the literal covers thread.

I think join the club totally works

The Zevon title is good

Has their ever been a joint effort between two artists named Juan called "It Takes Juan to Know Juan?"

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/712/MI0001712310.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/You_Had_to_Be_There.jpg

I always groan/crack up when I see that one in the dollar bin, it's SO sloppy and bad-looking, and just screams ''...but you wouldn't have enjoyed it much!''

Um... those Juicy Lucy albums are a little disturbing

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Since_I_Saw_You_Last_Album_Cover.jpg

http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/v/a/various141207.jpg

Really, isn't Sheik Yerbouti an appropriate-as-hell album title ??? This was in the era of Shah of Iran as well... i remember a neighbor coming home from months of construction work in the Middle East with a gift tin of Shah Pistachios. Relevant, i propose.

Thinking about this thread and the Roxy one re. album covers is fun. The latter seem like the greatest visionaries ever because jesus, the gems in here.

I didn't see this one mentioned, it's v stupid and deserves mentioning

http://davexrobb.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/writer_fighter1.jpg

haha saw one of those last night in the same record bin as the one i just posted.

"gilbert o'sullivan" also very much in the spirit of these titles tbf

To wit, his 2004 compilation: The Berry Vest of Gilbert O'Sullivan.

Todd Terje keeping the spirit alive.

http://ring.cdandlp.com/french-connection-records/photo_grande/115260783.jpg

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd460/wellens/Album%20Collection/1544365.jpg

http://ughh.com/store/covers_large/STL500CD.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UdjRvPDWLNU/TbRHwyk2QkI/AAAAAAAADaM/7LR7DCBQfI0/s1600/Lee-Garrett-Heat-For-The-Feet-497185.jpg

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8446/pilottwocover9pk.jpg

it's difficult to make out at this size, but each of the heads is made up of many smaller heads, rather like the terrifying freeview advert the bbc ran several years ago

also, their *sophomore album* was called 'Second Flight' and had a big picture of a propeller on the front

In the spirit of the thread title (I think)

Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me
https://lh3.ggpht.com/_pSwUrPiqUYI/TLIXvMYjwwI/AAAAAAAAC8E/tqrodVrHJA0/s1600/evie+sands+rides+a+bicycle.jpg

Bonnie Raitt - Takin' My Time
http://www.qpratools.com/gallery/0003/bonnie_raitt-takin__my_time-front.jpg

and, simply, "ME" by Mary-Anne
http://www.theraremusicshop.com/ekmps/shops/tim_gill/images/mary-anne-patterson-me.-cd-128-p.jpg

Then there's this somewhat NSFW cover from Jo Jo Gunne: http://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/100_6836.jpg

though maybe that should've gone on the Yawnsomely Literal thread

I wonder what the thought process was behind that JJ Gunne cover art

Even though it is from '69, I'd think Colosseum's 'Those Who Are About to Die Salute You' might fit in here but then it may have also inspired AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock, We Salute You."

In the spirit of this thread, friend on facebook just suggested a band called Hot Lasagna, and I named the third album "A Third Helping of Hot Lasagna"

http://www.hotpeasnbutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Volume-2-600x600-274x274.jpg

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/w/wetwillie-manorisms.jpg

Wet Willie is a veritable goldmine for this thread

http://virginvinylrecords.com/store/images/3000/r3535.jpg

ok gonna listen to the best of wet willie on spotify now, will report back

hahah i just made the same decision, they've showed up the most times in this thread of a band where i actually have no clue what they sound like

dude does a pretty good van morrison impression, i'll give them that!

Keep On Smilin is a nice sunshiney AM Gold kinda tune I had never heard. I guess that's their hit?

Airport: a likeable enough whiteboy swamp funk jam. Nothing objectionable about this band really.

They pretty much sound like their album covers. Just a few good ole boys havin a good ole time.

But which one's Willie?!

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/259/MI0002259531.jpg

You Bought It, You Name It

https://24.media.tumblr.com/404d9fb3f4f9aa01a96894b9713547a9/tumblr_mzoboewXdU1sndzdgo1_500.jpg

ritz crackers

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/content/ebiz/universalmusic/invt/l./y./J./0731453182226/0731453182226_medium.jpg

That's a good one

And of course:

http://eil.com/images/main/Jimmy+Buffett+-+Changes+In+Latitudes+Changes+In+Attitude+-+LP+RECORD-458175.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Glenn%20Frey%20-%20No%20Fun%20Aloud%20-%20CD%20ALBUM-28621.jpg

Haaaa, totally.

oh man that's got everything...though that's an 80s record...still allowed/aloud...man that is killer

btw is anyone else kind of getting stockholm syndrome on album titles like this where i'm starting to think all albums should be by law required to have titles like this?

These kind of titles are truly post-psychedelic imo, like where do we go from here, we're all coked up let's make puns about sandwiches.

at least on some of these there's something to look at apart from the horrible pun -- 'no fun aloud' is like

http://funnycrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/genericbeer-ab010709.jpg

can't not love the overreach. <3 <3 <3 hipgnosis/storm thorgerson

http://ring.cdandlp.com/french-connection-records/photo_grande/115260783.jpg
nice juxtaposition of lit cigar and petrol/gasoline line

or that ishttp://ring.cdandlp.com/french-connection-records/photo_grande/115260783.jpg
so just as well it wasn't real

or is that made safe once the flow of gas has been stopped?

Wow that might be the greatest example of this thread

Dude the liner notes on that Glenn Frey album are even better. Trust me.

http://sladecove.weebly.com/uploads/8/9/6/9/8969909/2671875_orig.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Dr+Hook+-+Sometimes+You+Win+-+sealed+-+LP+RECORD-438649.jpg

Another Slade:

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/8a549a6ed790297e33e56de4a97c38ae/3112614.jpg

PIcked up Keith Richards' autobiography in a bargain bin last weekend, and have just recently learned that he thought I've Got My Own Album To Do was a great title.

From the Glenn Frey insert (hard to read, but worth it):

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1953697-1344315116-6352.jpeg

this one i saw in a used record store and thought it was a classic of this genre:

http://eil.com/images/main/Elvin+Bishop+-+Hometown+Boy+Makes+Good!+-+LP+RECORD-423049.jpg

Hopefully, you all know that you can't party all the time, but when you do, play this song. By the way, you got any?

not 70s but that Todd Terje album qualifies

Haha for sure

joe perry
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/JoePerryProjectMusicTalking.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/JoePerryProjectRockRollsAgain.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/578/MI0001578648.jpg

BOBBY WOMACK CHINESE SOUL LICKS.

Omg those Joe Perry ones are so shitty-looking.

The one where he's at a board meeting with the corporate suits is so classic for this thread

haha, yeah, that is so perfect. good level of "who cares about the cover" vs. "we actually spent a lot of time and money on this cover"

When I was in high school, the FM rock station in San Bernardino must have taken a big pile of payola to flog that Corporate Suit Joe Perry album. Heavy rotation for several months. "Let the music do the talking" indeed. The same bag of payola cocaine also paid for several months' heavy rotation of Blue Oyster Cult's Cultösaurus Erectus.

i feel like despite all the titles/covers cited in this thread, we are --at present-- in a golden age of terrible album titles. well, maybe it was more the 2000s.

i mean surely titles like this rule the roost, so to speak

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/2OxT12VjRC8/maxresdefault.jpg

But at least that U2 one is a lyric on the album.

Worse title

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/U2_-_How_to_Dismantle_an_Atomic_Bomb_%28Album_Cover%29.png

how about

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/albums/8432/homepage_large.c20880e5.jpg

in sum: if your album title is longer than four words you need a REALLY good reason

Nominating this as an early example of the genre:

http://www.betinos.com/images/pochettes/1385040563ph.jpg

The u2 & Walkman ones aren't sassy..I feel like sass is the key to this

When I was in high school, the FM rock station in San Bernardino must have taken a big pile of payola to flog that Corporate Suit Joe Perry album. Heavy rotation for several months. "Let the music do the talking" indeed. The same bag of payola cocaine also paid for several months' heavy rotation of Blue Oyster Cult's /Cultösaurus Erectus/.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Grand_Funk_Railroad_-_On_Time.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Born_to_die_Grand_Funk.jpg

http://www.grandfunkrailroad.com/images/Album_covers/CoverGSGP.jpg

I can't find a good picture of it, but there's a Jack Bruce album called I've Always Wanted to Do This with a picture of a woman levitating above a couch

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61edAcjZ6lL.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61edAcjZ6lL.jpg

haha good singin' good playin', very nice

Frank Zappa produced that last Grand Funk album apparently, was wondering where Zappa's album titles fit with this stuff, kind of similar but a slightly different thing?

good call on zappa, he was in on the ground floor w/r/t titles that make you groan.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/776101b1b365a26437537add32bb5f19/tumblr_n4gttm15s61s7e2fco1_500.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Foo_Fighters_-_Medium_Rare.jpg

^^^ a rarities/b-sides comp, definitely closer to these titles than to, I dunno, the Beastie Boys' Some Old Bullshit.

Yeah that's got the vibe. Visual pun on dad joke

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/33054297/Coming+Home+In+A+Jar.jpg

haha what?

Already mentioned but cover is worth a look:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/002/MI0000002868.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Hope the embed works:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Everybody's heard Aerosmith's "Night In The Ruts" LP but Foghat's "Cunched In The Punt" is all but forgotten.</p>— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonwurster/statuses/237656093365501952";>August 20, 2012</a></blockquote>
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It didn't.

"Everybody's heard Aerosmith's "Night In The Ruts" LP but Foghat's "Cunched In The Punt" is all but forgotten.
--Jon Wurster (@jonwurster)

I must be an idiot but the Aerosmith play on words never occurred to me.

That Lowell George one had been kicking around awhile before it was used--it was a working title for the Sailin' Shoes lp.

Can a mod change Horrible to Awesome in the thread title

Also I'm dumb & drunk explain aerosmith to me

Right in the Nuts

Fuuuuck this is like when I got Buck Cherry 5 yrs too late or Miles Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog

This is fucking up my whole worldview

^^Neil Schon's first solo lp, iirc.

okay i stole it

Miles Prower

Had to say it out loud before I got it.

That reminds me of a character from the old Children's Television Workshop show "The Electric Company," a detective specializing in code breaking named Fargo North, Decoder.

omg, miles prower, you just blew my mind

Lowell George: music for Art History majors.

http://eil.com/images/main/Blood+Sweat+%26+Tears+-+No+Sweat+-+LP+RECORD-496051.jpg

Okay, that's just hilarious!

/Miles Prower/

Had to say it out loud before I got it.

It took me saying it several times before I did. Jeesh...

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/233/233302_1_f.jpg

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mz9OAUY4wnPQBQ4_E8YC6aw.jpg

oh joan

That Joan Baez cover is just insane. It should be the flip picture on Black Sabbath's Never Say Die.

If I seized control of the US government I would force bands like Arcade Fire to do these kind of titles, like the whole band dressed in black and Win Butler dressed all in white, Arcade Fire - "There's One in Every Crowd"

Win Butler's solo debut, Any # Can Win!

lol

Win Butler's second solo album, The ______ Did It (cover features Butler in the center of the frame, being pointed at by a number of 1920s rich people.)

hahahaha

Alternately, ''...You Mean, I Did It?!'' with the same setup, except Win's accusers are also clutching twelve-inch records.

Grimes in bondage gear: "The Punishment Fits the Grimes"

an Arcade Fire cover would have to have an Out of Quarters joke

Win Butler - No Quarter Given

I must be an idiot but the Aerosmith play on words never occurred to me.

Or me. I assumed it was just some American thing I didn't understand (not unlike Aerosmith).

http://chartarchive.org/artwork/26108-raw.jpg

Buck Futtons

http://i.imgur.com/FOoTJ4h.jpg

aaaaahaah

Why not just call your record "Barely Give A Fuck Anymore"

ringo'd used it already iirc

Here I Am With All My Money, Also Fuck You

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2010-06/1276464849_coco-montoya-ya-think-id-know-better-1996.jpg

That's not even proper colloquial grammar

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My Name is Coco Montoya, Ya Think i'd know better, prepare to die

easy lols, but i lolled

I'm Not Left-Handed (My Guitar Is Just Upside-Down)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Photo-Finish_-_Rory_Gallagher.jpg/220px-Photo-Finish_-_Rory_Gallagher.jpg

Head East, Flat as a Pancake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_as_a_Pancake#mediaviewer/File:Flat-as-a-pancake.jpg

Euro version:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Swing_Out_Sister_-_It

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GjklYB_jB6k/SwhC8wb-m2I/AAAAAAAABW0/pJvzMFblLA0/s640/Sanford--Townsend-Duo-Glide-438025.jpg

dude on the left rules

They used the same background as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Out_for_Number_1#mediaviewer/File:Look_Out_For_1_1976.jpg

Sorry, that should be:
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140504172645/lyricwiki/images/8/88/The_Brothers_Johnson_-_Look_Out_For_Number_1.jpg

Was kinda thinking, after the Joan upthread, that it'd be cool to assemble a record collection entirely of 70s albums where the artist is in front of a blue sky background. Four hundred copies of Leo Sayer's Endless Flight, mysteriously available in every thrift store box in the lower forty-eight states, would line the walls, floors and ceiling, creating weird perspective effects where it looks like Leo, looking like a poor man's Richard Simmons, is jumping over everything else you own:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fyRykSB60oA/SuhdIbPZqJI/AAAAAAAAPNY/ICfSBJmceU4/s400/20091028-LeoSayer-EndlessFlight.JPG

Alternately, the idea may be that they've let Leo be sucked out of the back of a plane, Air Force One style. Not such an endless flight, buddy!

http://eil.com/Gallery/231008b.jpg

"Endless Flight" should be a picture of him looking at his watch on a commercial airplane

Passenger next to him is either (a) a buxom, eyelash-batting rocker babe, with Sayer mugging wild-eyed ("can you believe my luck, with this flight being endless and all?") or (b) a yakking grandma, shoving unwanted family photo album into Leo's lap (with other distractions surrounding: shrieking baby, record execs, cigar-smoking mustachioed old money type, etc). However, if photo is really cheap, everyone can just be quietly perusing an in-flight magazine.

I feel like there might also be a bell-shaped tourist in an xxxl Hawaiian shirt, his gut spilling over the armrest onto Leo

...with an implausibly large sandwich, also spilling its guts.

Was kinda thinking, after the Joan upthread, that it'd be cool to assemble a record collection entirely of 70s albums where the artist is in front of a blue sky background.

It's like the record company bussed all these artists to the mall have their pictures taken in front of that backdrop.

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/colema_orne_towhomwho_101b.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/T1S6y0k.jpg

that's a classic of this form

To Whom Who?

The track titles spell out 'music always brings goodness to us all, p.s. unless one has some other motive for its use.'

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Cher-Lloyd-Sorry-Im-Late-2014-Explicit-1200x1200.png

Got so close to "Cherry I'm Lloyd!"

Actually would be cool if the album title was "All You Have Is Your Soul" and it was a split release by Cher Lloyd and Sorry I'm Late...

I feel like the most horrible '70s-style album title in semi-recent memory is Modest Mouse's Good News For People Who Love Bad News

i always felt like this title, album art, everthing was something maybe aerosmith had had laying around for 30 years

http://cdn.albumoftheyear.org/album/just-push-play.jpg

Surprised this hasn't come up yet.

http://toscarecords.ddns.net/temp/tosca/E/160751291_o.jpg

oh ericpaws

Anticipating McCartney's "I Used To Be Gregor Samsa".

http://www.propermusic.com/cache/images/7/a/7/7a792299c079cbdce790d8df612e49bf.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Richard-Digance-Commercial-Road-306699.jpg

http://www.qpratools.com/gallery/0010/richard_digance-england_s_green___pleasant_land-front.jpg

good ones! don't know that guy

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/0/3/5/4035.jpg

I only realised after posting those that The Toast Of Christmas Past was released in 2013! Richard Digance, keeping the horrible 70s album title flame burning

why did Leo Sayer have a career? I have never understood this

Well, of course, he could dance.

Obligatory...

http://digitalseance.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/yes-tormato.jpg

Can't believe that no-one ever used it before (at least afaict), so I think if I ever made an album in the 70s, i would horribly title it Hot Dogs In Di's Car. Need to think about which terrible visual pun to go with for the cover art though.

http://www.thewho.info/images/75MD-JAE.jpg

excellent! they will also appear next to a ww2 plane on the follow up record, Never Say Di

http://eil.com/images/main/Ellis+-+Riding+On+the+Crest+Of+A+Slump+-+LP+RECORD-329094.jpg

ellis? who the fuck is ellis?

Steve, of Love Affair

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/t/tony_hazzard-was_that_alright_then.jpg

http://www.cdeuroxpress.com/images2/5013929725829.jpg

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1505192-1255291064.jpeg

saw this the other day, thought of you

http://eil.com/images/main/Steve+Cropper+-+Playin

back cover of that should be here too:

http://img14.shop-pro.jp/PA01076/467/product/39956560_o1.jpg?20120217021959

lol, i thought about it!

lol at Gerry Rafferty's 2004 indie album up there

http://eil.com/images/main/Joe+Walsh+-+So+What+-+LP+RECORD-485862.jpg

re: that steve cropper, "Special Buy" would have been a good title for somebody as well.

Pretty much the best picture of Steve Cropper ever.

Even though this one's from 2000, I think the punny title matches the spirit of this thread.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Not_Com_Mercial_front.jpg

Don't Tell A Soul and I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got sure feel humorless after these.

Notdotcomdotmercial

website titles is a whole other bag of awfulness

dwightyoakamacoustic.net

ellis? who the fuck is ellis?

― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, August 28, 2014 1:43 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol'd ftr

A George Harrison cover: grainy old snapshot of a childhood trip to the beach, showing Little George standing proudly over a recently completed excavation in the sand. A painting of adult George holds the snapshot, grinning impishly out at us. I Buried Pail.

idgi

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/haggar_merl_merlehagg_102b.jpg
whatever

Were there any albums released in the 70s entitled "Phoning It In"?

Or "Will This Do?"

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106360521/zigaboo-com-modeliste-cd-cover-art.jpg

xposts

"Outta My Head...And My Contract"

Mr. Snrub wrote this on thread Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do on board I Love Music on Oct 2, 2013

Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! by Killing Joke

What does this title mean?

http://i.imgur.com/JP7X1xu.jpg

RIP big man

contemporary, not 70s, but uuuuggghhhhhh

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/DontkilltheMagic.jpg/640px-DontkilltheMagic.jpg

Everything about Magic(!) is uuuuggghhhhhh.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sPVp7Li2HzU/TkZ5h0S9yYI/AAAAAAAAAJM/f5ZJEOLnxsE/s1600/COVER2.jpg

oh my god

Best thing about that to me is the incredibly lazily tacked on "2 Bonus Tracks" from the CD version.

that is really a first-class example

Surely there's room here for some Be-bop Deluxe...

http://img15.nnm.me/6/c/8/7/0/42d513aef28a355e84ebc783a8d_prev.jpg

And of course, the glorious Car Over The Lake album by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils

http://www.ozarkdaredevils.com/car-lake.jpg

kind of curious what an Aynsley Dunbar album sounds like, although I don't have high hopes. He's a pretty sick drummer though...

I dunno, Axe Victim doesn't seem that relevant to this thread. Aren't we talking about banal album titles? If we're getting into a list of dodgy 70s album covers (for which Axe Victim arguably qualifies), I can offer a truckload of progressive rock albums.

Axe Victim here as "visual pun on dad joke," surely?

It's a pity the Ozark album is spelled out, we should refer to The Car Over The Lake album like we do The Black Album, White Album etc

No thread on the Car Over The Lake album, surely some mistake

wow car over the lake that's incredible

piggybacking on the 70s bands releasing later albums with cringe-inducing internet references, i dunno, may be OT but i lol'd

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/JethroTull-albums-jtulldotcom.jpg

sorry :/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/JethroTull-albums-jtulldotcom.jpg

God that's so bad. I totally support the proposed dot com albums thread.

(But would be okay with it also just being the all-purpose lol90s album title thread)

what's the crap on the sides of that album supposed to read??

dying laughing at the car over the lake album

Car Over the Lake album is awesome

Can you dig the Car Over The Lake album sleeve? I knew that you could...

http://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/100_0662.jpg

the one guy can't figure out how to do the hand goggles thing! new favorite band

j-tull.com is a double winner for terrible album titles and awful album covers. Also I once gave it a taste at one of those tower records listening stations and I have a clear memory of it being equally dreadful.

"If I Only Knew" is a tite cut from that lp

dot com albums

got a personal favourite of these, a "melodic rock band" from Wales

http://www.sainwales.com/content/sized/content/sized/remote/sain-s3-amazonaws-com-album_images-scd2215m-400x397.jpg

http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/frontrow/7675/wanker.jpg

feel like these dot com ones aren't really in the spirit of this thread

that Aynsley Dunbar one kind of wins this thread

the Magic! - Don't Kill the Magic one sucks because the cover is just their band logo instead of the lead singer dressed up as a magician in a tuxedo holding a top hat & a rabbit standing up on the gallows w/a noose around is neck and the whole crowd cheering him on while the hangman is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the Magic! - Don't Kill the Magic one sucks because the cover is just their band logo instead of the lead singer dressed up as a magician in a tuxedo holding a top hat & a rabbit standing up on the gallows w/a noose around is neck and the whole crowd cheering him on while the hangman is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

but otm

http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/chilliwack.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Dean+Friedman+-+%27Well,+Well%27,+Said+The+Rocking+Chair+-+LP+RECORD-380228.jpg

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/c1a1f3e1fdb3ab7d52873e212d3b4ae5/3088680.jpg

I dunno if we've covered these, but Oh hai Jim Capaldi

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61yHfYN768L._SY300_.jpg

http://images.plixid.com/imager/w_500/h_/6d1099ae1833c065d6c514a12c468403.jpg

I see now one of those is in the first segment of the thread.

the aynsley dunbar cover up there reminded me of the existence of this monstrosity:

http://www.stereo-records.com/user/151/photo/syousai1/9147.jpg

w/o the text the Aynsley Dunbar one would be an intriguing image, which is much more than can be said for most of these monstrosities

Fumble, "Poetry in Lotion"

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/f/fumble-poetry_in_lotion.jpg

"Fumble" indeed

Some of these I would love to have heard the thought process & meetings behind these covers/titles

Feel like a certain percentage of these are artifacts of a different era of record contracts, where any pop-rock act could get four or five LPs records out of one moderately successful single early on, and then by record four or five it's clear nobody gives a fuck about this has-been, and they'll just slap whatever together. Also drugs were probably involved somehow.

Also what are the roots of this... We're Only In It For The Money by Zappa/Mothers? Thigh no visual pun on the art

I think of it like a macroscopic elaboration of the Pepper's/MMT -> White Album -> Let It Be/Abbey Road comedown. This journey into the weird zone of pretension-to-unpretentiousness - - - just some shaggy guys who play rock and roll, but there's still a belief that the album cover has to be something, even if it's just like us walking across a street in a kind of distinctively framed shot or something. The rubicon has been crossed and you can't just go back to, y'know, My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) And Ten Other Hits! or Sing Along With Orleans or Still More From Wet Willie, except as a self-aware gesture that such things are the quasi-innocent hucksterism of an earlier era to which no band, no matter how down-to-earth their good-times bar rock might be, can consider returning.

Like basically the whole idea that "the album" is now a "thing" may in fact not really well-suited to the majority of rock bands... but they, the public, and the record companies totally bought into it for whatever other reasons.

A lot of these albums are basically "here's the last eleven blues rock jams we've cranked out in the studio and who cares what the title is."

I confess I kinda like this one, makes me want to hear the album

http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/p/h/phillipgoodhand83774.jpg

As this thread has deepened and mellowed with time, I find my earlier suspicion of records like this fading as I browse the used bins, and increasingly I'm more interested in listening to these types of albums than any others, even though I'm certain they're inessential crap even in the hands of artists I like.

I think of it like a macroscopic elaboration of the Pepper's/MMT -> White Album -> Let It Be/Abbey Road comedown. This journey into the weird zone of pretension-to-unpretentiousness - - - just some shaggy guys who play rock and roll, but there's still a belief that the album cover has to be /something/, even if it's just like us walking across a street in a kind of distinctively framed shot or something. The rubicon has been crossed and you can't just go back to, y'know, /My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) And Ten Other Hits!/ or /Sing Along With Orleans/ or /Still More From Wet Willie/, except as a self-aware gesture that such things are the quasi-innocent hucksterism of an earlier era to which no band, no matter how down-to-earth their good-times bar rock might be, can consider returning.

indeed

it's kinda funny how quick it all went like dylan and lennon and them all wanting to get "back to basics" playing blues and rock n roll and stuff, it's like you guys were only away from the basics for like 5 years!

There's something about these covers though that gives me a depressing feeling, like hanging out with a middle-aged, childless uncle for too long. I don't want records to give me that yep-this-is-all-there-is feeling.

Some of these I would love to have heard the thought process & meetings behind these covers/titles

I think many were "we need this by Friday, here's $1000 and a bag of weed..."

Also drugs were probably involved somehow.

Yep.

The art isn't trying to match the title in a super-literal way, but this is "You Should See The Rest Of The Band" by David Bromberg.

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drg100/g182/g18239o6mny.jpg