REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish or whatever the fuck that one is calledEddie Harris - That Is Why You're Overweight
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
those are both pretty bitchin'. try harder.
― wasabi pea-sized masculinity (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Joe Walsh to thread.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 1 October 2011 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Elvin Bishop: Hometown Boy Makes Good!
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 October 2011 04:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
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'
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 1 October 2011 04:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man prog rock totally wins this thread
Yes - TormatoGentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of ItCaravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
― geeta, Saturday, 1 October 2011 05:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
― geeta, Saturday, 1 October 2011 05:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Caravan also wins for 'For Girls Who Go Plump in the Night'!
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 1 October 2011 05:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha ha, yes!
Blind Dog at St. Dunstans was a pretty dreadful album title too
― geeta, Saturday, 1 October 2011 05:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― |III|||II|||I|I||| (Matt #2), Saturday, 1 October 2011 08:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 1 October 2011 08:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i was JUST about to post the Lowell George title
― some dude, Saturday, 1 October 2011 11:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Frampton - I'm In You
― Turrican, Saturday, 1 October 2011 11:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
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!
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, that Phil Collins and his waging war on restaurants that don't let him in!
― Turrican, Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Think I'd refuse to pay the bill in any restaurant that let Phil Collins in
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love puns MORE than the next man but...
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hate "Crisis? What Crisis?" by Supertramp
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good lord, I never realized "Whale Meat" was a pun, I just thought it was a stupid album title.
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
We're All Awash in a Sea of Blood would have been a way better album title
― geeta, Saturday, 1 October 2011 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kansas were on a roll, as Leftoverture is some painful titling, and then came Point of Know Return.
― Mike Love's Jagger (Spectrist), Saturday, 1 October 2011 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
It is obviously a great album, but I have always hated the title 'Hall of the Mountain Grill'
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Saturday, 1 October 2011 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Budgie - if I were brittania I'd waive the rules
― blank, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― cwkiii, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the decidedly non-technical content.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
― per metal injection (Eazy), Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.
― GoshLovely, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber BandAhh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!Bootsy? Player of the YearThis Boot is Made for Fonk-N
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
This might be the third time in the last month I've posted this:
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
― geeta, Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd think Budgie's "If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules" kind of fits here.
― earlnash, Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns - Say Blow By Blow Backwardseven Joe Walsh gets a headache thinking bout that one
― Paul, Sunday, 2 October 2011 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)
― Mark G, Monday, 3 October 2011 08:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Makes it worse.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
think there's a faces best-of, maybe released after the 70s but recalling its syntactic constructions, good little boys ... when they're asleep
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
This may be the best/worst:
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse
1971, so this may be the template
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
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'
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 10 October 2011 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
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:
― Daniel Giraffe, Sunday, 22 January 2012 07:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp Oh I get it... "Which one's Willie." Which means no one in the band was named Willie. Quite a hoot/hollar combo.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 January 2012 08:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 22 January 2012 12:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
greg kihn to thread, surely
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
(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)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
So bad, and yet so good..
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, "Do You Like It Here, Are You Settling In?"
... what did these bands think they were achieving with these titles?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh man, this one ticks every conceivable box:
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha, that looks like a still from Going Straight or something.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Norman Stanley Fletcher meets Hipgnosis
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
One title I always thought was bad, was:
"The quality of mercy is not strnen" The Mekons.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
.. until I saw one:
Stupid:
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Crap:
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's not the seventies. It's not an album. But:
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ top quality punnage from the Quo
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ Gene Vincent - I'm Back And I'm Proud
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like the Camel cover, as it's title is the punchline of a joke.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't get what the puns are in the last two examples?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Status Quo and Gene Vincent, that is.
Gene Vincent: terrible pun on I'm Black And I'm Proud (Gene Vincent is white btw)
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not all of these are puns, Tuomas, most of them aren't
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, okay. Stupid me! What about the Status Quo title? Were they putting down some rival band called "The Heat"?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
"If You Can't Stand This Heat" try Throbbing Gristle instead
Hard to come up with a more boring album title than this:
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
What's with all the people on the left? Are they his new company?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
And does "new band" refer to the shining wristband he wears?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, okay, I didn't pay attention to the image, I though the pun was in the title.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
not very dangerous at all*
*if used in the correct manner
And the hob looks a bit like a turntable, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, a bit
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it's supposed to look like a record (well, it is a spiral)
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxp let's just say that you wouldn't want to put your hand on Status Quo and then turn them on...
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
And is it mounted on the top of a speaker cabinet?
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
In partial defence of the Quo cover:
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's a pretty stupid place to put a stove!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's so they could boil a kettle with the sheer heat of their boogie-rock
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's to stop people putting beers on top of the amps.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
a good 90 percent of the covers and titles on this thread are great
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
clearly the kitchen was that of Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon you rubes
― Touched By Angel Rangel (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would love to hear Quo covering Lou Reed's 'Banging On My Drum'.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Too simple for Quo
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Prob'ly a thread to be had out of covers like the Quo one and this:
... if it hadn't been done already
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
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!"
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah - 70s albums with terrible visual puns featuring pictures of records xp
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
e.g.
That's so lazy. In fact, 'records are your best buy' would have been a better title and image.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Came out in 1978 btw, so bonus points for the double pun, albeit two useless ones.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
How about at least two layers of wrong?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's 10cc's "Look Hear"
1) Crap pun2) album is not called "are you normal"
etc.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
3) it's a 10cc album
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
String Driven Thing, "Keep Yer 'And On It"
... cover's nice but the title...
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yuck.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've only just realised what it's implying, doh!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of
― earlnash, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
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."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 April 2013 03:49 (3 weeks ago) Permalink