Budgie - if I were brittania I'd waive the rules
― blank, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the decidedly non-technical content.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
― per metal injection (Eazy), Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.
― GoshLovely, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
This might be the third time in the last month I've posted this:
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
― geeta, Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)
― Mark G, Monday, 3 October 2011 08:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Makes it worse.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
This may be the best/worst:
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 10 October 2011 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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:
― Daniel Giraffe, Sunday, 22 January 2012 07:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
greg kihn to thread, surely
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
(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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man, i just got "Night In The Ruts"
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol @ Ride a Rock Horse
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
ride a rock pony amirite
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.
― emil.y, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Sad Cafe reminds me of this candidate:
and then there's this collage I found when searching for that cover:
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
aerosmith tbh
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Daltrey ftw.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, okay, I didn't pay attention to the image, I though the pun was in the title.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
not very dangerous at all*
*if used in the correct manner
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
And the hob looks a bit like a turntable, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, a bit
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it's supposed to look like a record (well, it is a spiral)
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxp let's just say that you wouldn't want to put your hand on Status Quo and then turn them on...
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
And is it mounted on the top of a speaker cabinet?
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
In partial defence of the Quo cover:
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's a pretty stupid place to put a stove!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's so they could boil a kettle with the sheer heat of their boogie-rock
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's to stop people putting beers on top of the amps.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
a good 90 percent of the covers and titles on this thread are great
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
clearly the kitchen was that of Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon you rubes
― Touched By Angel Rangel (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would love to hear Quo covering Lou Reed's 'Banging On My Drum'.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Too simple for Quo
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Prob'ly a thread to be had out of covers like the Quo one and this:
... if it hadn't been done already
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
The design meeting for that Small Faces cover must have been something:
Designer 1: "So the cover's gonna be a record on a turntable, but the pickup's an engine."Designer 2: "Eh, it's missing something."Designer 3: "What if the needle was gouging a tear in the record?"Designer 2: "Hmm... Good, but it needs to be edgier."Designer 1: "How about this, there's blood coming out of the tear!"Designer 2: "Excellent! Now let's go and do some more cocaine!"
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah - 70s albums with terrible visual puns featuring pictures of records xp
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
e.g.
That's so lazy. In fact, 'records are your best buy' would have been a better title and image.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Came out in 1978 btw, so bonus points for the double pun, albeit two useless ones.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
How about at least two layers of wrong?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's 10cc's "Look Hear"
1) Crap pun2) album is not called "are you normal"
etc.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
3) it's a 10cc album
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
String Driven Thing, "Keep Yer 'And On It"
... cover's nice but the title...
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yuck.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've only just realised what it's implying, doh!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of
― earlnash, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love these album titles because like - - is the idea to convey that the band are just a bunch of cut-ups, some regular goofy guys who might do well as sitcom guest stars even while they make you boogie? So put 'em on and give 'em a spin! Or something? And yet somehow all it conveys to me when flipping through the dollar bin is "well, this looks boring and inessential as hell, I can safely skip that one."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 April 2013 03:49 (3 weeks ago) Permalink