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

at least on some of these there's something to look at apart from the horrible pun -- 'no fun aloud' is like

http://funnycrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/genericbeer-ab010709.jpg

can't not love the overreach. <3 <3 <3 hipgnosis/storm thorgerson

http://ring.cdandlp.com/french-connection-records/photo_grande/115260783.jpg
nice juxtaposition of lit cigar and petrol/gasoline line

or that ishttp://ring.cdandlp.com/french-connection-records/photo_grande/115260783.jpg
so just as well it wasn't real

or is that made safe once the flow of gas has been stopped?

Wow that might be the greatest example of this thread

Dude the liner notes on that Glenn Frey album are even better. Trust me.

http://sladecove.weebly.com/uploads/8/9/6/9/8969909/2671875_orig.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Dr+Hook+-+Sometimes+You+Win+-+sealed+-+LP+RECORD-438649.jpg

Another Slade:

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/8a549a6ed790297e33e56de4a97c38ae/3112614.jpg

PIcked up Keith Richards' autobiography in a bargain bin last weekend, and have just recently learned that he thought I've Got My Own Album To Do was a great title.

From the Glenn Frey insert (hard to read, but worth it):

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1953697-1344315116-6352.jpeg

this one i saw in a used record store and thought it was a classic of this genre:

http://eil.com/images/main/Elvin+Bishop+-+Hometown+Boy+Makes+Good!+-+LP+RECORD-423049.jpg

Hopefully, you all know that you can't party all the time, but when you do, play this song. By the way, you got any?

not 70s but that Todd Terje album qualifies

Haha for sure

joe perry
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/JoePerryProjectMusicTalking.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/JoePerryProjectRockRollsAgain.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/578/MI0001578648.jpg

BOBBY WOMACK CHINESE SOUL LICKS.

Omg those Joe Perry ones are so shitty-looking.

The one where he's at a board meeting with the corporate suits is so classic for this thread

haha, yeah, that is so perfect. good level of "who cares about the cover" vs. "we actually spent a lot of time and money on this cover"

When I was in high school, the FM rock station in San Bernardino must have taken a big pile of payola to flog that Corporate Suit Joe Perry album. Heavy rotation for several months. "Let the music do the talking" indeed. The same bag of payola cocaine also paid for several months' heavy rotation of Blue Oyster Cult's Cultösaurus Erectus.

i feel like despite all the titles/covers cited in this thread, we are --at present-- in a golden age of terrible album titles. well, maybe it was more the 2000s.

i mean surely titles like this rule the roost, so to speak

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/2OxT12VjRC8/maxresdefault.jpg

But at least that U2 one is a lyric on the album.

Worse title

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/U2_-_How_to_Dismantle_an_Atomic_Bomb_%28Album_Cover%29.png

how about

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/albums/8432/homepage_large.c20880e5.jpg

in sum: if your album title is longer than four words you need a REALLY good reason

Nominating this as an early example of the genre:

http://www.betinos.com/images/pochettes/1385040563ph.jpg

The u2 & Walkman ones aren't sassy..I feel like sass is the key to this

When I was in high school, the FM rock station in San Bernardino must have taken a big pile of payola to flog that Corporate Suit Joe Perry album. Heavy rotation for several months. "Let the music do the talking" indeed. The same bag of payola cocaine also paid for several months' heavy rotation of Blue Oyster Cult's /Cultösaurus Erectus/.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Grand_Funk_Railroad_-_On_Time.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Born_to_die_Grand_Funk.jpg

http://www.grandfunkrailroad.com/images/Album_covers/CoverGSGP.jpg

I can't find a good picture of it, but there's a Jack Bruce album called I've Always Wanted to Do This with a picture of a woman levitating above a couch

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61edAcjZ6lL.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61edAcjZ6lL.jpg

haha good singin' good playin', very nice

Frank Zappa produced that last Grand Funk album apparently, was wondering where Zappa's album titles fit with this stuff, kind of similar but a slightly different thing?

good call on zappa, he was in on the ground floor w/r/t titles that make you groan.

https://31.media.tumblr.com/776101b1b365a26437537add32bb5f19/tumblr_n4gttm15s61s7e2fco1_500.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Foo_Fighters_-_Medium_Rare.jpg

^^^ a rarities/b-sides comp, definitely closer to these titles than to, I dunno, the Beastie Boys' Some Old Bullshit.

Yeah that's got the vibe. Visual pun on dad joke

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/33054297/Coming+Home+In+A+Jar.jpg

haha what?

Already mentioned but cover is worth a look:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/002/MI0000002868.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Everybody's heard Aerosmith's "Night In The Ruts" LP but Foghat's "Cunched In The Punt" is all but forgotten.</p>— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonwurster/statuses/237656093365501952";>August 20, 2012</a></blockquote>
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It didn't.

"Everybody's heard Aerosmith's "Night In The Ruts" LP but Foghat's "Cunched In The Punt" is all but forgotten.
--Jon Wurster (@jonwurster)

I must be an idiot but the Aerosmith play on words never occurred to me.

That Lowell George one had been kicking around awhile before it was used--it was a working title for the Sailin' Shoes lp.

Can a mod change Horrible to Awesome in the thread title

Also I'm dumb & drunk explain aerosmith to me