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
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/JethroTull-albums-toooldtorocknroll.jpg
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Aerosmith_-_Night_In_The_Ruts.JPG
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
― geeta, Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)
― Mark G, Monday, 3 October 2011 08:49 (twelve years ago) link
Makes it worse.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
This may be the best/worst:
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/071/0000007135_350.jpg
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 10 October 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Daniel Giraffe, Sunday, 22 January 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 22 January 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
greg kihn to thread, surely
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
(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 (twelve years ago) link
Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.
but that is cool
― akm, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kansas/album-point-of-know-return.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qMlKL6v2DKE/TPV-wiPyfGI/AAAAAAAAA7M/8ewBGXN8Ow8/James%20Brown%20(1979)%20-%20Take%20A%20Look%20At%20Those%20Cakes.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, i just got "Night In The Ruts" http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gfI3E63GIS4/TTzdFlqnb8I/AAAAAAAAAd0/hO6gMyE6Gb8/s1600/Grand+Funk+Railroad+All+the+Girls+in+the+World+Beware+%2521.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thewho.info/images/75RARH-PST-RD.jpg
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://991.com/newGallery/Deep-Purple-Who-Do-We-Think-W-419996.jpg
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://oblada.com/storage/RS136_June1973.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1252641317684
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Ride a Rock Horse
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
ride a rock pony amirite
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.
― emil.y, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N-2QLcuZbTI/SYChMNUvpLI/AAAAAAAAAQs/C9NbKYKFQY0/s400/front.jpg
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
aerosmith tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Hard-Nutz.jpg
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Daltrey ftw.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/THFxbWf4FKI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/JPDrEkzYU5g/s1600/cover.jpg
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
always thought "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is Spreading" was the worst but that may be like 1968
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Sunday, 22 January 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
Jo Jo Gunne- So...Where's the Show?Pilot- From the Album of the Same NameDeep Purple- Come Taste the BandMichael Stanley Band- You Break It...You Bought It!Sly & the Family Stone- Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm BackKevin Ayers- Yes We Have No Mananas, So Get Your Mananas TodayThe Animals- Before We Were So Rudely InterruptedRabbit- A Croak and Grunt in the NightRick Derringer- If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot YouSpooky Tooth- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your JawRamatam- In April Came the Dawning of the Red SunsBlack Oak Arkansas- If an Angel Came to See You, Would You Make Her Feel at Home?
― President Keyes, Monday, 23 January 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
you're welcome
also, ELP Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure these are where Blink 182 got the inspiration for a couple of their album names because they fit right in.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
this is actually for the awesomely-named 70s organ album thread:
https://i.ibb.co/BCDzcpj/20231111-160610.jpgSteve Lowdell - Getting Seventymental Over You
Not sure who that shops thinks they're going to sell that to tbh, some mad pricing there
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 13 November 2023 22:50 (four months ago) link
(i passed on it btw and instead bought the sabbath cd behind it for my son, super hard to find sabbath cds for cheap here normally, but that was four quid)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 13 November 2023 22:53 (four months ago) link
^ oh it was vol 4!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 13 November 2023 22:54 (four months ago) link
A true original. pic.twitter.com/KnvujRMTxa— Joshua Hunt (@viajoshhunt) January 11, 2024
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2024 23:48 (two months ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/7s5JPy3RI89IK6VYk5qjg1UubVA9KHTG3DfhV9LnoZY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc4MTQy/ODUtMTQ0OTMzNzU4/Ny01NTI2LmpwZWc.jpeg
the new society band - shoves it in your ear!
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 18 January 2024 10:58 (two months ago) link
First read that as "The New Society Bald" and thought that was a really good band name
― silverfish, Thursday, 18 January 2024 14:36 (two months ago) link
I first thought "bard," also a good name.
― nickn, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:40 (two months ago) link
New Kings of Leon:
https://theindiemasterplan.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PSX_20240222_175824.jpg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:26 (one month ago) link
did this ever make it in here?
https://i.ibb.co/Wc5r3Mk/20240126-133229.jpgRoger Chapman - Mango Crazy
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:20 (one month ago) link
Or this?
https://i.ibb.co/GxzpX5z/20240126-134419.jpgBrakes - For Why You Kicka My Donkey?
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:23 (one month ago) link
I'm sure I'd have remembered that one.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:24 (one month ago) link
wtf does it even mean?
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:26 (one month ago) link
Who cares, it's genius.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:51 (one month ago) link
But that’s a zebra, sir
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 25 February 2024 21:03 (one month ago) link
Nearest I can get to a meaning for the title is via #DailyAfricanProverbs:
https://simonjavanokelo.com/2022/11/28/if-a-donkey-kicks-you-and-you-kick-back-you-are-both-donkeys-african-proverbs-afiapodcast/
Thread proves it can still deliver!
― doleful lundgren (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 February 2024 21:12 (one month ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/B4tymtUd_h-xCwe6CwlwFKezvbTuRtp9gP3y6theZDI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3MzEy/MzItMTMwMDE1NDEz/MS5qcGVn.jpeg
Dr. John - Hollywood Be Thy Name
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 14 March 2024 05:35 (two weeks ago) link
Oh I quite like that actually
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 14 March 2024 11:04 (two weeks ago) link
Nice contemporary incarnation of the phenomenon:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1380711331_10.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:13 (one week ago) link
https://cdn.season-of-mist.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/J/o/Joyner-Lucas-Not-Now-I-m-Busy-CD-134933-1-1686129116.jpg
Joyner Lucas: Not Now, I'm Busy
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 March 2024 04:32 (four days ago) link
niiice
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 25 March 2024 10:54 (four days ago) link
the "george duke is mid" discourse upthread sucks. justice for dukey treats
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 March 2024 20:33 (yesterday) link
did we not include this one yet or is it just posted as an image upthread? it's one of my favorite albums titles tbh. Lalo Schifrin ftw.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/There%27s_a_Whole_Lalo_Schifrin_Goin%27_On.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:31 (yesterday) link