Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
― geeta, Saturday, 1 October 2011 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
Caravan also wins for 'For Girls Who Go Plump in the Night'!
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 1 October 2011 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha, yes!
Blind Dog at St. Dunstans was a pretty dreadful album title too
― geeta, Saturday, 1 October 2011 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
haha i was JUST about to post the Lowell George title
― some dude, Saturday, 1 October 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
Frampton - I'm In You
― Turrican, Saturday, 1 October 2011 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, that Phil Collins and his waging war on restaurants that don't let him in!
― Turrican, Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
I love puns MORE than the next man but...
http://covers1.img-themusic-world.info/000/22/22311.jpg
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
Hate "Crisis? What Crisis?" by Supertramp
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
We're All Awash in a Sea of Blood would have been a way better album title
― geeta, Saturday, 1 October 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Budgie - if I were brittania I'd waive the rules
― blank, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the decidedly non-technical content.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://991.com/newGallery/Wet-Willie-Which-Ones-Willie-500502.jpg
― per metal injection (Eazy), Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.
― GoshLovely, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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
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
Founding member of Norwegian power metallers TNT, who probably qualify for the thread themselves with "Realized Fantasies". Can someone enlighten me as to what the hell is going on here?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Pb-KIfp4L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
― the phantom flim-flammer (Matt #2), Monday, 7 August 2023 21:32 (seven months ago) link
eww! what's the picture on the lunchbox?
― NickB, Monday, 7 August 2023 21:53 (seven months ago) link
I can't make out the lunchbox. The overall vibe reminds me of Art Frahm, low-rent pinup artist of models with gravity defying dresses.
https://americangallery.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/a-fare-loser.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 August 2023 22:12 (seven months ago) link
That's a pretty common mishap on the bus, actually.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 7 August 2023 22:15 (seven months ago) link
And gravity embracing panties.
― nickn, Monday, 7 August 2023 22:53 (seven months ago) link
And celery. Always celery.
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:24 (seven months ago) link
80s but very definitely a 70s band.
The Kursaal Flyers, "A Former Tour de Force Is Forced to Tour".
https://i.discogs.com/BGAUE7Vmw4XxvVYEzcVn8rnjYrbba-lKVJHuSNSveFY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU5NzAy/MDAtMTQwNzY5NjEw/OC02Njk1LmpwZWc.jpeg
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:48 (seven months ago) link
Ugh
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 24 August 2023 22:36 (seven months ago) link
I kind of like that one.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 24 August 2023 22:36 (seven months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/J2xp60R/20230827-085744.jpg
Speed Limit - First Offence (The Start Of A Long Record)
― NickB, Sunday, 27 August 2023 09:58 (seven months ago) link
brummie hard rock from 1978 btw. they never made another album
― NickB, Sunday, 27 August 2023 10:00 (seven months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/XktZ9z9/Screenshot-2023-08-27-132726.png
The Pirates - Don't Munchen It!
― NickB, Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:29 (seven months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/y4nQgj5/Screenshot-2023-08-27-133015.png
The Pirates - From Calypso To Colapso
― NickB, Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:31 (seven months ago) link
those are good!
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:16 (seven months ago) link
Great titles, not so sure about the barnets
― faust sofa (Matt #2), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:30 (seven months ago) link
Not 70s and not an album but The (English) Beat and The (Paul Collins) Beat's joint 2012 tour "Two Beats Hearting as One" should be mentioned
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:45 (seven months ago) link
Nellie McKay: Hey Guys, Watch This
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 September 2023 03:27 (six months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/613w9RGIQ9L._UF1000,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg
Stefano Secchi - Da Ya Think I'm Secchi
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 18:55 (five months ago) link
lol
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 18:57 (five months ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3017087019_10.jpg
Nellie McKay - Hey Guys, Watch This
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 17:46 (five months ago) link
nice, I love new albums that adhere to the classic formula
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:08 (five months ago) link
speaking of keeping '70s formulas alive...
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1503437884_10.jpg
Katie Von Schleicher- A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:19 (five months ago) link
XP Feels like if McKay were a more prolific, an album every year type of artist, she would have a ton of these.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:21 (five months ago) link
https://groeverij.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/59.jpg
Partner – A Man-Size Job Requires A Man-Size Meal
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 29 October 2023 20:39 (four months 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 (three days ago) link
niiice
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Monday, 25 March 2024 10:54 (three days ago) link