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

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

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link

gross!

u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link

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

you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link

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

tylerw, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link

nice 49ers hat

u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link

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

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link

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

u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link

it's an ok album, but man what a crazy cover to choose when you're kicking off your solo career. hello world!

tylerw, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link

Tucky Buzzard, "Warm Slash"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZcE7NhC-Jc/T8587-7_-eI/AAAAAAAAASo/Oi_Dkgkm_Q4/s1600/Tucky+Buzzard+-+Front.jpg

(Not sure 'slash' has the same connotations in the US, but the tasteful urine coloured writing should give you a clue).

... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link

haha that's awful

john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link

why didn't they just call it 'hot piss'?

john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link

Don't ask me to explain what the title means, I haven't a scooby

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/If_Tea_Break_Over.jpeg

... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link

It's the punchline to a joke about the devil

you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link

It's an old joke about a guy who ends up in hell. He is submerged in shit up to his neck, after a while he starts thinking it's not so bad, then he hears a voice saying "breaks over" and he's suddenly standing on his head. Think there is a similar Bradbury story where it alternates between unbearably hot & cold?

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link

Right, that explains the unpleasant sleeve design

... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link

... but does in no way excuse it.

... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link

'eads

Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link

i keep walking past the bus stop near where im staying and it says "both sides of the road" and it makes me think of this thread

anvil, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link

so i looked on discogs and it listed no records called that, apart from one called corpses on both sides of the road, by some people called
endometrium cuntplow

anvil, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link

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anvil, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link

endometrium cuntplow

dying

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link

Horrible 70s band names like endometrium cuntplow

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link

Has this been mentioned yet, or is it too obvious?

http://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/12/06/0073145580612_600.jpg

mahb, Thursday, 23 October 2014 08:01 (nine years ago) link

lonely guy just thinking baout things

bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:13 (nine years ago) link

^ otm. I know we've moved on from the albums actually being horrible but nothing about that album is horrible!

... and a Martin Parr photo essay (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link

Also in general I have grown to love these titles so much

u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link

every time this thread is bumped I think 'that must be all of them', but there seems to be an infinite number of these records

soref, Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link

Jojo Gunne made a career of these: two of their other titles were Bite Down Hard and So...Where's The Show?.

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link

xpost I really hope there's an infinite amount

you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link

But i will pretty much listen to any album released in the 1970s

you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link

This is basically one of these, right?

http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/john_lennon-shaved_fish1.jpg

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link

though really "Instant Karma" and "Mother" there kinda beg to be album covers on their own. "Cold Turkey" a sad missed opportunity.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link

Some 70s guys just didn't hit their stride until the 80s:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/View_from_the_ground_cover_art.jpg

http://991.com/NewGallery/America-Your-Move-527378.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/America-Perspective---Sea-403547.jpg

Gotta say these dudes seem spectacularly lucky to have scored a latter-day hit with "You Can Do Magic" - until I remembered that I was kind of baffled to imagine that someone actually greenlit four albums of America as a duo post-1980.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link

wow those are all great

u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link

That middle one reminded me of this...

http://coolalbumreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/SomePeopleCanDoWhatTheyLike.jpg

john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link

seems like we've moved on to "head-shakingly literal record cover depictions of the title"...which is I guess a big part of the records on this thread so far.

lotta overlap, but basically "awkwardly conveys agreeable inessentiality" is my main criterion here.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link

absolutely

inessential

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soref, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link

'Rise and Shine' by Kokomo seems to have an alternate cover as well?

http://lh5.ggpht.com/__GN1JnUzFBM/TIQC_9NNbnI/AAAAAAAAAe4/5QEIp1Dr0a8/s400/Page0001-12.jpg

soref, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link

"Rise and Shine," the train one, just gets better the more I look at it.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link

banal phrase + vaguely 'clever', ironic representation of the above + ambience of good-natured frolicsome sauciness was the litmus test I was trying to apply

soref, Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/31587.jpg

Bunk Dogger - First Offence

sorry, hammering the hipgnosis a bit here

john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link

nah, you're killing it today IMO!

Listening to Dr. Hook's hits now. I knew the (sublime) "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman" but there's some other good stuff... "You Make My Pants Wanna Get Up And Dance" is exactly the kind of good-times middling hit (or non-hit) that I expect to find anchoring one of these albums.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link

man bunk dogger that one is amazing

u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link


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