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 (4 weeks ago) Permalink