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

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)