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
http://991.com/newGallery/Deep-Purple-Who-Do-We-Think-W-419996.jpg
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://oblada.com/storage/RS136_June1973.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1252641317684
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Ride a Rock Horse
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
ride a rock pony amirite
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.
― emil.y, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N-2QLcuZbTI/SYChMNUvpLI/AAAAAAAAAQs/C9NbKYKFQY0/s400/front.jpg
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
aerosmith tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Hard-Nutz.jpg
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Daltrey ftw.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/THFxbWf4FKI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/JPDrEkzYU5g/s1600/cover.jpg
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AafG7mBnL._SS400_.jpg
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fbuYL1Y4VSc/Sij6nmlLFQI/AAAAAAAAJGA/Ytosn7NUSIU/s320/Gilgamesh.jpg
^ Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Regatta de Blanc by the Police counts here as well.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, this one ticks every conceivable box:
http://s45.radikal.ru/i107/0903/58/41c66ddaa717.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, that looks like a still from Going Straight or something.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
Norman Stanley Fletcher meets Hipgnosis
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
.. 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
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
Crap:
http://storage.canalblog.com/93/83/443665/33139026.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
It's not the seventies. It's not an album. But:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/b612f46ca2bd6c180fe58a2070478b5b/430896.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://jamesmeredith.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/0001022326_350.jpg
^ Gene Vincent - I'm Back And I'm Proud
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
I like the Camel cover, as it's title is the punchline of a joke.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get what the puns are in the last two examples?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
Status Quo and Gene Vincent, that is.
did we not include this one yet or is it just posted as an image upthread? it's one of my favorite albums titles tbh. Lalo Schifrin ftw.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/There%27s_a_Whole_Lalo_Schifrin_Goin%27_On.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:31 (yesterday) link