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

the one guy can't figure out how to do the hand goggles thing! new favorite band

j-tull.com is a double winner for terrible album titles and awful album covers. Also I once gave it a taste at one of those tower records listening stations and I have a clear memory of it being equally dreadful.

"If I Only Knew" is a tite cut from that lp

dot com albums

got a personal favourite of these, a "melodic rock band" from Wales

http://www.sainwales.com/content/sized/content/sized/remote/sain-s3-amazonaws-com-album_images-scd2215m-400x397.jpg

http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/frontrow/7675/wanker.jpg

feel like these dot com ones aren't really in the spirit of this thread

that Aynsley Dunbar one kind of wins this thread

the Magic! - Don't Kill the Magic one sucks because the cover is just their band logo instead of the lead singer dressed up as a magician in a tuxedo holding a top hat & a rabbit standing up on the gallows w/a noose around is neck and the whole crowd cheering him on while the hangman is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the Magic! - Don't Kill the Magic one sucks because the cover is just their band logo instead of the lead singer dressed up as a magician in a tuxedo holding a top hat & a rabbit standing up on the gallows w/a noose around is neck and the whole crowd cheering him on while the hangman is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

but otm

http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/chilliwack.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Dean+Friedman+-+%27Well,+Well%27,+Said+The+Rocking+Chair+-+LP+RECORD-380228.jpg

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/c1a1f3e1fdb3ab7d52873e212d3b4ae5/3088680.jpg

I dunno if we've covered these, but Oh hai Jim Capaldi

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61yHfYN768L._SY300_.jpg

http://images.plixid.com/imager/w_500/h_/6d1099ae1833c065d6c514a12c468403.jpg

I see now one of those is in the first segment of the thread.

the aynsley dunbar cover up there reminded me of the existence of this monstrosity:

http://www.stereo-records.com/user/151/photo/syousai1/9147.jpg

w/o the text the Aynsley Dunbar one would be an intriguing image, which is much more than can be said for most of these monstrosities

Fumble, "Poetry in Lotion"

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/f/fumble-poetry_in_lotion.jpg

"Fumble" indeed

Some of these I would love to have heard the thought process & meetings behind these covers/titles

Feel like a certain percentage of these are artifacts of a different era of record contracts, where any pop-rock act could get four or five LPs records out of one moderately successful single early on, and then by record four or five it's clear nobody gives a fuck about this has-been, and they'll just slap whatever together. Also drugs were probably involved somehow.

Also what are the roots of this... We're Only In It For The Money by Zappa/Mothers? Thigh no visual pun on the art

I think of it like a macroscopic elaboration of the Pepper's/MMT -> White Album -> Let It Be/Abbey Road comedown. This journey into the weird zone of pretension-to-unpretentiousness - - - just some shaggy guys who play rock and roll, but there's still a belief that the album cover has to be something, even if it's just like us walking across a street in a kind of distinctively framed shot or something. The rubicon has been crossed and you can't just go back to, y'know, My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) And Ten Other Hits! or Sing Along With Orleans or Still More From Wet Willie, except as a self-aware gesture that such things are the quasi-innocent hucksterism of an earlier era to which no band, no matter how down-to-earth their good-times bar rock might be, can consider returning.

Like basically the whole idea that "the album" is now a "thing" may in fact not really well-suited to the majority of rock bands... but they, the public, and the record companies totally bought into it for whatever other reasons.

A lot of these albums are basically "here's the last eleven blues rock jams we've cranked out in the studio and who cares what the title is."

I confess I kinda like this one, makes me want to hear the album

http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/p/h/phillipgoodhand83774.jpg

As this thread has deepened and mellowed with time, I find my earlier suspicion of records like this fading as I browse the used bins, and increasingly I'm more interested in listening to these types of albums than any others, even though I'm certain they're inessential crap even in the hands of artists I like.

I think of it like a macroscopic elaboration of the Pepper's/MMT -> White Album -> Let It Be/Abbey Road comedown. This journey into the weird zone of pretension-to-unpretentiousness - - - just some shaggy guys who play rock and roll, but there's still a belief that the album cover has to be /something/, even if it's just like us walking across a street in a kind of distinctively framed shot or something. The rubicon has been crossed and you can't just go back to, y'know, /My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) And Ten Other Hits!/ or /Sing Along With Orleans/ or /Still More From Wet Willie/, except as a self-aware gesture that such things are the quasi-innocent hucksterism of an earlier era to which no band, no matter how down-to-earth their good-times bar rock might be, can consider returning.

indeed

it's kinda funny how quick it all went like dylan and lennon and them all wanting to get "back to basics" playing blues and rock n roll and stuff, it's like you guys were only away from the basics for like 5 years!

There's something about these covers though that gives me a depressing feeling, like hanging out with a middle-aged, childless uncle for too long. I don't want records to give me that yep-this-is-all-there-is feeling.

Some of these I would love to have heard the thought process & meetings behind these covers/titles

I think many were "we need this by Friday, here's $1000 and a bag of weed..."

Also drugs were probably involved somehow.

Yep.

The art isn't trying to match the title in a super-literal way, but this is "You Should See The Rest Of The Band" by David Bromberg.

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drg100/g182/g18239o6mny.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rZFHdpgd9pI/UY8DXK17EYI/AAAAAAAAy0s/7eyLxOZjubA/s1600/Gary+Owens,+Dick+Gautier+&+More+-+Hexorcist+Devil+Of+An+Album+1974+(3).jpg

like hanging out with a middle-aged, childless uncle for too long.

otm, people who don't procreate are the worst

http://www.mihamazzini.com/EN/plosce/images/gunne0.jpg

(gatefold cover, back side is NSFW)

Sometimes I scroll through my head and smdh at how many pointless records have been made.

Stone the Crows, "Ontinuous Performance"

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/169/MI0002169926.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/613JV2K769L.jpg

... that's better.

rip leslie harvey

lol'ing at "The Hexorcist - a devil of an album"

"Shittin' Em Out" featuring a vinyl record emerging from the artist's rear.

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-480824-1216373066.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-480824-1216373090.jpeg

I had to look up that JoJO Gunne album and uh

The band's third album Jumpin' the Gunne failed to rise any higher than #169 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. This was partially attributed to a controversial cover of an overweight naked woman jumping over the band who were in a bed as she attempted to reach a baby pig. The gatefold jacket had the same woman with the album credits written on her in black marker as she cavorts with a piglet.

that bunny sigler is awwwwwesome,

and yeah, jojo gunne seem pretty fuckin gross, ha ha the woman is fat!!

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/350454803796.jpg

alternate Spanish cover, hints at just how many great titles would reveal unseen wretchedness on one of these covers

gross!

Do foreign pressings often get alternate cover art? I'm just wondering what In Through the Out Door might look like

here's an early 90s version of who cares artwork
http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1246421-02A-BIG.jpg

nice 49ers hat

trying to imagine the chat during which Grant was told, "You'll sell more records in California if you wear this thing..."

yeah he looks like he's literally wearing a baseball hat for the first time in his life