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

"An Act of Goddo", beautiful...it's like watching Stef Curry hit a three pointer

A Canadian of my acquaintance was stunned to realise I'd heard of Goddo, I stunned him further by communicating my knowledge of Harlequin, Zon and Coney Hatch too.

Zon - Back Down to Earth, an unpromising title becomes a work of art

https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/e2a9d4c9-39f3-4c34-89ff-4cdf9116627d.jpg

Back cover has some extra literalness
https://i.discogs.com/9KylB-womktNXhHmSQmb-V6yXEcQUArzBwBWWddqumw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwNTAz/NjQtMTMyOTU4NTU4/Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

the guitar valet is what makes it, i'm dying

goddo still goddit imo
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273bd9c475f2204f3a45ff9cc02

> why the weird spelling of 'live'?

Goddo gotta get a G in there?

Goddo works in mysterious wgays

Given these last two bands, has it been discussed that Ontario was probably the most “own album to do” place on earth?

This thread has had a lot of great revives, but daaaaamn! Hat’s off

Bobby Broom - Clean Sweep (1981)

https://www.guitarrecords.jp/data/guitarrecords/product/20240626_701995.JPG

https://i.discogs.com/O24KqmeCnErDfJfopzC2nSEtqPTfI03yqIsf4X7DPV0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:459/w:458/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMDI1/NTgtMTE5MjE5MTk2/Ni5qcGVn.jpeg

Brakes - For Why You Kicka My Donkey?

https://i.discogs.com/SYBUlSA90F0XGgKdo4aOwtCdcEjsTaJMBOg1Sf0xnWQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyMTYw/MjQtMTY1NzIyMjU0/OS0zOTk5LmpwZWc.jpeg

ZON - I'm Worried About the Boys!

https://i.discogs.com/nM2PUXcNG4CcnHnd1OyF3hL2hS71wBV-nL2CKA0Cm6c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMwMzY4/MzAtMTU4MjY0NzI4/NS0zNjg5LmpwZWc.jpeg

Aren't we all.

https://i.discogs.com/f4xQgZVGosEQcn6hwTaH3m-BjIRsX_IoFVroTQ7DuRY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwNTAz/NjQtMTU4NDc5OTYy/NS05MTkyLmpwZWc.jpeg

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/e9641e8fba78eae7759ffc182a20533d/1833973/whitsuntide-easter-next-time-you-play-a-wrong-note-make-it-a-short-one-Cover-Art.jpg

Whitsuntide Easter- The Next Time You Play a Wrong Note...Make it a Short One.

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/08bfee7151b2af8ddadf59db4c698cba/2017687/baby-where-did-all-the-money-go-Cover-Art.jpg

Baby- Where Did All the Money Go?

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/87747ef081f9f1e4f3e67ff5f32ff869/1809520/darts-everyone-plays-darts-Cover-Art.jpg

Darts- Everyone Plays Darts

except for those who play pinball?

lol, loving all of these. the exclamation point on "I'm worried about the boys!" is so choice.

lol, loving all of these. the exclamation point on "I'm worried about the boys!" is so choice.

and the record has a cover of Sweet Jane!

Kate Taylor - It’s In There…And It’s Got To Come Out!

https://img.hmv.co.jp/image/jacket/400/12/3/6/980.jpg

I think this is the inner record sleeve

https://juststuffisell.com/cdn/shop/products/il_fullxfull.4094358608_rxda_800x.jpg

very strange one and she looks like paula poundstone in the second one

James Taylor's Sister!

James, Kate. Livingston.. all singer songwriters. Alex seems to have only been a singer.

had my wires bizarrely crossed and was thinking of James Brown for all of this, that was a very bizarre reality. fantastic title/sleeve combo tho.

James Taylor's Sister!

Preceded by James Taylor’s EVOL

Does Hall and Oates's "Bigger Than Both of Us" qualify? Dig the delightfully-bonkers cover, like if the mid-'70s had their own mid-'70s, featuring the re-appearance of the Ritz crackers from the Todd Rundgren-helmed "War Babies" released a few years prior

https://www.theturntablestore.com/cdn/shop/files/23746016-014098836679cc18df2926679cc18df29317192581366679cc18df295.jpg?v=1738083379

What is the device in front of Oates - some kind of space-age TV? A particularly compact and stylish microfiche? Just a prop?

this is the best thread.

Hall’s chest hair!

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/962d80fb884b6637bfac8a8db18ed63a/5083391/david-bromberg-band-how-latell-ya-play-til-Cover-Art.jpg

David Bromberg Band- How Late'll Ya Play 'Til

I wish some enterprising *current* musician would come out with a full on album cover along these lines.

this is the best thread.

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otm

https://themusicshopandmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Front-The-Hudson-Brothers-Damn-Those-Kids-1978-CD.jpg

Hudson Brothers: Damn Those Kids

mr mustache with the cigar on the top right reminds me of the cheers opening credits

He reminds me of Tom Waits on the cover of Swordfishtrombones

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0MDzJkaRXUzK4QiCP_rpG7nGAIUd4A1gsHxHsYRlGSiDiqM3xlHs5sL0&s=10

The Dells: "They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But We Did It!"

excellent

hahahaha that one's brilliant!

I kinda want there to be a “well,” after that comma, though

They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But We Did It... But Not Well!

great back cover
https://i.discogs.com/lNR5ThNZKrbPHj4S93_b1FLsfNVlB7Fp0MmgOSVO0Y8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NzI3/MjAxLTE1OTY4MjY4/OTktOTIwMS5qcGVn.jpeg

Checking them out on Discogs, the Dells had some fun album sleeves! Including a Jack Davis special (w/The Dramatics)

https://i.discogs.com/Q3wVwO7lWNpL2HF82ByK-ihzkrNfjVUfq0qdeTX5FUg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzNTY0/MTctMTUwNTY2OTc4/My05NDczLmpwZWc.jpeg

that would fit well on this thread too post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

more back covers should be behind-the-scenes views of the front cover shoot... really fits with the deliberately self-deflating ethos of having one's own album to do. but a worthwhile idea for bands in general.

yeah it's a great bit

love the guy hanging from the ceiling dropping fake snow of them

on them

agreed, that detail kinda ties the whole thing together.