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

Getting back to Starcastle...

http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/les%20goupes/S/Starcastle/Real%20To%20Reel/Real%20To%20Reel.jpg

[Starcastle lead singer Terry] Luttrell has said he co-wrote the classic REO song "Golden Country" with Richrath before he left the band in 1972. Richrath is listed as the sole writer of the song, and vehemently denies that Luttrell was a co-writer. The subject matter of Golden Country is actually one of the main issues that led to Luttrell being let go from the band. Luttrell thought that Gary Richrath was writing songs that were too politically motivated, and wanted to focus on less controversial material. One night, the differences between Luttrell and REO Speedwagon came to a head. REO Speedwagon had a gig that was a significant drive from their home in Champaign, Illinois. During the performance, Terry became agitated and refused to continue singing. The band was forced to quit the set and cut the show short. This angered the club owner, and he refused to pay the band for performing. On the drive back, Richrath began an argument with Luttrell over costing the band the performance money. Richrath, and the rest of the band, were extremely upset because the money that they had would be spent on gas getting home, and they would be completely broke. Luttrell became upset and became combative. Richrath ordered that the car be pulled over so he could fight Luttrell. When the car stopped, Luttrell fled into a corn field. Richrath suggested out of anger that they just drive away and leave Luttrell to find his own way home. Surprisingly, no one in the band disagreed, and they drove off leaving him in the field. No one within the band talked to him after that. It was one of the most unique firings of a front man in Rock n' Roll history.

what are these politically motivated REO Speedwagon songs, I wonder

omg, that story

"Keep On Lovin' You" is Richrath's defense of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution.

lol

This thread needs to be its own coffee table book.

I think xhucx wrote a big thing on Starcastle, Kansas, and some other "cornfield prog"

Found it, really great

http://www.wonderingsound.com/spotlight/prog-on-the-prairie-midwestern-bands-roll-over-beethoven/

This thread needs to be its own coffee table book.

titled 'why punk happened'

lol

"Prog on the Prairie" - good stuff in there, though there's some tics that bug me (particularly the gendering of the early/good stuff vs. "housewife hits"). I also wonder about continuing to insist on this "prairie" quality - Topeka's not New York, no, but it was more populous in 1970 than, say, contemporary Columbus, and people talked about Times New Viking without pretending it was some big riddle that people west of New York play something other than country-fried boogie ramblings.

OTOH he did lead me to this one from Head East:

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/87570.jpg

I love this thread but I'm not convinced I even get about half these covers.

titled 'why punk happened'

I wonder how many of these acts made an attempt to 'go new wave'

http://www.elbarriodiscstore.com/wp-content/uploads/001115.jpg

The Jaggerz - We Went To Different Schools Together

http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/OCEAN_LP-COV.jpg

Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand

http://helium.lunarpages.com/~funky4/pictures/ironleg/biffrose_pic.jpg

Biff Rose - The Thorn In Mrs Rose's Side

http://record.ticro.com/record/jacket/T00000653.jpg

Trade Martin - Let Me Touch You

Here's a terrible cover gag i actually really like:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bT46ySKAL._SY300_.jpg

NRBQ - At Yankee Stadium

(rear sleeve has a picture taken through binoculars of them sitting in the back row)

Also today I have 'The Pushbike Song' by the Mixtures stuck in my head and i totally blame this thread

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/65673052/Dont+Call+Us+Well+Call+You.jpg

Bah, my images won't post. There's also a Guru Guru album, "Don't Call Us We Call You", but that earns an exemption from this thread because of cute mangled use of English.

cover connection with the sassafras one you posted yesterday there

Skyhooks had a good run of these titles:

Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (1975)
Straight in a Gay Gay World (1976)
Guilty Until Proven Insane (1978)
Hot for the Orient (1980)

http://eil.com/images/main/Bill-Bruford-Feels-Good-To-Me-488760.jpg
Bill Bruford - Feels Good To Me

Wait...what's happening there?

He's engaging in a pleasurable sensation

Man, I would love to find out if there was some particular album marketing guru with a pamphlet or a trade show stump speech that drove these albums, getting record execs fired up for the vast sales potential lurking in blah photos of their blah-looking musicians alongside dopey titles.

Brand X on a roll:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Roll#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X_Morrocan_Roll.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_They_Hurt%3F#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X-Do_They_Hurt.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_There_Anything_About%3F#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X_-_Is_There_Anything_About.jpg

Oh ffs, seriously?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/45725977/Morrocan+Roll.jpg

http://covers1.img-themusic-world.info/000/18/18307.jpg

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/660/cover_57052982010.JPG

morrocan roll is good but will never beat this effort from foghat:

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/cover/d80/27007_foghat_foghat_rock_n_roll.jpg

I think the Brand X covers are by Hipgnosis, which is kind of at the other end of the spectrum of these kind of covers to the super half-arsed stuff like that Foghat album

do ppl prefer stupid, crass puns with incredibly half-arsed covers or stupid, crass puns with super elaborate expensive looking covers?

more like crass buns amirite

that Foghat cover made me realise that Cosi Fan Tutti-Frutti by Squeeze is sort of one of these, but about 10 yrs too late:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Cosi_fan_tutti_frutti_album.jpg

lol at that REO Speedwagon story. Seems like they had their own Mike Love until they wished him into the cornfield

Brian Wilson keepin' the tradition alive...

haha i once made a joke around "pier pressure" as an album title and none of my friends got it

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/83809459/Different+Moods+Of+Me.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4144CP9FKQL.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4144CP9FKQL.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hLAW4d7rwDo/UXjVWKTxrMI/AAAAAAAAFKE/2bJjb1LJB3Q/s1600/Stretch-76-f.jpg

"How Late'll Ya Play'til" is soooooo good.

http://www.planetperplex.com/img/gold_wrong.jpg

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/h/henry_gross-plug_me_into_something.jpg

"An amp's okay, I guess."

also just for 2x gross factor:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/508/MI0001508088.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Really "needs" the gatefold. Also: there are like, twelve Stampeders LPs.

http://akaguymarks.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/7/2/5272003/9380692_orig.jpg

would buy that one for sure, any album that promises the artist "goes bananas" in any fashion is already on the right track.

Wonderfully over-literal.

http://www.secondhandlps.de/pix_rb_soul/robinson_smokey_pocketful.jpg