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

joe perry
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/JoePerryProjectMusicTalking.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/JoePerryProjectRockRollsAgain.jpg
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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:

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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

Right in the Nuts

Fuuuuck this is like when I got Buck Cherry 5 yrs too late or Miles Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog

This is fucking up my whole worldview

^^Neil Schon's first solo lp, iirc.

okay i stole it

Miles Prower

Had to say it out loud before I got it.

That reminds me of a character from the old Children's Television Workshop show "The Electric Company," a detective specializing in code breaking named Fargo North, Decoder.

omg, miles prower, you just blew my mind

Lowell George: music for Art History majors.

http://eil.com/images/main/Blood+Sweat+%26+Tears+-+No+Sweat+-+LP+RECORD-496051.jpg

Okay, that's just hilarious!

/Miles Prower/

Had to say it out loud before I got it.

It took me saying it several times before I did. Jeesh...

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/233/233302_1_f.jpg

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mz9OAUY4wnPQBQ4_E8YC6aw.jpg

oh joan

That Joan Baez cover is just insane. It should be the flip picture on Black Sabbath's Never Say Die.

If I seized control of the US government I would force bands like Arcade Fire to do these kind of titles, like the whole band dressed in black and Win Butler dressed all in white, Arcade Fire - "There's One in Every Crowd"

Win Butler's solo debut, Any # Can Win!