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

Norman Stanley Fletcher meets Hipgnosis

One title I always thought was bad, was:

"The quality of mercy is not strnen" The Mekons.

.. 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

Crap:

http://storage.canalblog.com/93/83/443665/33139026.jpg

It's not the seventies. It's not an album. But:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/b612f46ca2bd6c180fe58a2070478b5b/430896.jpg

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

http://jamesmeredith.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/0001022326_350.jpg

^ Gene Vincent - I'm Back And I'm Proud

I like the Camel cover, as it's title is the punchline of a joke.

I don't get what the puns are in the last two examples?

Status Quo and Gene Vincent, that is.

Gene Vincent: terrible pun on I'm Black And I'm Proud (Gene Vincent is white btw)

Not all of these are puns, Tuomas, most of them aren't

Ah, okay. Stupid me! What about the Status Quo title? Were they putting down some rival band called "The Heat"?

"If You Can't Stand This Heat" try Throbbing Gristle instead

Hard to come up with a more boring album title than this:

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/j/john_mayall-new_year_new_band_new_company.jpg

What's with all the people on the left? Are they his new company?

And does "new band" refer to the shining wristband he wears?

Status Quo: it's the lame visual gag and of course the other half of the title phrase would be ...Get Out Of The Kitchen, so it's a picture of a stove. Which is really crap and humdrum and not very dangerous at all, which pretty much sums up Status Quo imo.

Ah, okay, I didn't pay attention to the image, I though the pun was in the title.

not very dangerous at all*

*if used in the correct manner

And the hob looks a bit like a turntable, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, a bit

I think it's supposed to look like a record (well, it is a spiral)

xxp let's just say that you wouldn't want to put your hand on Status Quo and then turn them on...

And is it mounted on the top of a speaker cabinet?

In partial defence of the Quo cover:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/Spiralscratch.jpg/220px-Spiralscratch.jpg

That's a pretty stupid place to put a stove!

It's so they could boil a kettle with the sheer heat of their boogie-rock

It's to stop people putting beers on top of the amps.

a good 90 percent of the covers and titles on this thread are great

clearly the kitchen was that of Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon you rubes

I would love to hear Quo covering Lou Reed's 'Banging On My Drum'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVBNl9k2b0

Too simple for Quo

Prob'ly a thread to be had out of covers like the Quo one and this:

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/sm/smallas117221037114840.jpg

... if it hadn't been done already

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!"

Oh yeah - 70s albums with terrible visual puns featuring pictures of records xp

e.g.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kTlh6ewNL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

That's so lazy. In fact, 'records are your best buy' would have been a better title and image.

Came out in 1978 btw, so bonus points for the double pun, albeit two useless ones.

How about at least two layers of wrong?

http://991.com/gallery_180x180/10cc-Are-You-Normal--p-186369-991.jpg

That's 10cc's "Look Hear"

1) Crap pun
2) album is not called "are you normal"

etc.

3) it's a 10cc album

http://www.free-covers.org/covers/25057.jpg

String Driven Thing, "Keep Yer 'And On It"

... cover's nice but the title...

Oh yuck.

Yeah, I've only just realised what it's implying, doh!

Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of

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."

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there's also something slightly reactionary but post-60s about it, it's like "We don't really have a revolutionary bone in our bodies, but we have this vague sense that we're supposed to act like nothing matters anymore"

Also "we're getting a little old for this, but still trying to have fun!"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Sj4IRGej8SY/S076IiuImcI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/9zJ9QHqOECM/s400/caravan-cunning-stunts-1975.jpg

How the heck was Cunning Stunts not mentioned in this thread? Unless it was.