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
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
1969, but
Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark
― Andy K, Monday, 23 January 2012 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 SpanIndelibly 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.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 08:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess Regatta de Blanc by the Police counts here as well.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Robert Wyatt is probably the champion at this - Matching Mole, End of an Ear etc and *especially* Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
So bad, and yet so good..
Man, "Do You Like It Here, Are You Settling In?"
... what did these bands think they were achieving with these titles?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh man, this one ticks every conceivable box:
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha, that looks like a still from Going Straight or something.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Norman Stanley Fletcher meets Hipgnosis
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
One title I always thought was bad, was:
"The quality of mercy is not strnen" The Mekons.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (4 weeks ago) Permalink