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

that's a good album

Great image - that Blues Image album on a turntable. I have to check that one out!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QI8Ty0F3-48/SRe_wzqeYaI/AAAAAAAAA7w/GvRrL0fqm18/s400/Image1.jpg

I thought I had a pretty deep and wide knowledge of 70s crap but this thread just keeps turning up more and more of it.

http://eil.com/images/main/Sassafras-Expecting-Company-445160.jpg

can't find the bands-in-front-of-brick-walls thread so i'll post it here...

http://www.groovytunesday.com/dbx/brownsville.jpg

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

i have no words for that btw, pretty much the worst of the good old 70s though

Ought to mention that the follow up to that was called So...Where's the Show? which is so this thread it hurts

This thread is one more reason never to doubt the reasoning behind the Eagles' success again.

http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/r/i/rickderringer459600.jpg

Rick Derringer - If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot You

Tucky Buzzard's immortal 'Warm Slash' has already appeared upthread, but this one is pretty good as well: 'Alright on the Night' (not 'knight' for some reason)

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb123/mkostek/70sLPs/tbuzzardallrightsssaw.jpg

sorry, didn't realise that would be so big. it has a touch of the 'busy/claustrophobic caricature movie poster' about it as well imo

Apparently, Liz Damon's Orient Express had a 1979 album called Warning: This Album Could be Hazardous to Your Ego! but I haven't been able to find an image yet...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nNjerhKitNw/S5ebhAv-T3I/AAAAAAAACoQ/EfQ-4YHpaaA/s1600/Real%2BTo%2BReel.jpg

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/804/cover_56201414112009.jpg

http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0315/91/b83d6bc0a48a8f6255060aa4c0ab9691.jpg

convinced we've seen those same three guys before, maybe eating a burger or something?

thought I'd seen that real to reel pun somewhere else:

Real to Reel may refer to:
Real to Reel (Marillion album)
Real to Reel (Starcastle album)
Real to Reel (Tesla album)
Real to Reel (soundtrack), the soundtrack from the film Sound City

Love did an album with that title as well.

Starcastle was a progressive rock band from Champaign, Illinois, which formed in 1969. They received extensive airplay and frequently played in the St. Louis area. The lineup included Terry Luttrell who was vocalist with REO Speedwagon *closes tab*

hahahaha

Sadly, of those bands, only Marillion and Tesla actually adorn their covers with reel-related imagery. Mr. Stookey (the former Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary) actually seems really confused since he's not even near a source of electricity. How is the real going to reach the reels?

Oh no, wait, there's one on the Love cover too, my bad.

ah, I thought old Stookey looked familiar

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_UaafB8EKCg/UEL5biaBMHI/AAAAAAAAAe4/TSDY_jcNYLY/s1600/Front+Cover+copy.jpg

Brownsville Station - No BS

I can't read that cartoon strip, would guess I'm not missing much?

http://musicmp3spb.org/images/e/east_of_eden/fhere_we_go88203e83ec8a27d29f72bd.jpg

East of Eden - Here We Go Again...

At least the cartoon strip took some work and would give you something to look at for a few minutes of the bus ride home from the record store, which is more than can be said for most of these "bad photo with one-liner title" covers. But by the standards of record-cover comic strips it is still darned lazy and cheap-looking.

xpost "No Training Gear To Be Left Dressing" would also be good.

here we go again... is just about the laziest title ever. one of those guys in east of eden played the violin on baba o'riley iirc. could even be the guy with his hand down his trousers?

he definitely looks like he's having a fiddle down there imo

Getting back to Starcastle...

http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/les%20goupes/S/Starcastle/Real%20To%20Reel/Real%20To%20Reel.jpg

[Starcastle lead singer Terry] Luttrell has said he co-wrote the classic REO song "Golden Country" with Richrath before he left the band in 1972. Richrath is listed as the sole writer of the song, and vehemently denies that Luttrell was a co-writer. The subject matter of Golden Country is actually one of the main issues that led to Luttrell being let go from the band. Luttrell thought that Gary Richrath was writing songs that were too politically motivated, and wanted to focus on less controversial material. One night, the differences between Luttrell and REO Speedwagon came to a head. REO Speedwagon had a gig that was a significant drive from their home in Champaign, Illinois. During the performance, Terry became agitated and refused to continue singing. The band was forced to quit the set and cut the show short. This angered the club owner, and he refused to pay the band for performing. On the drive back, Richrath began an argument with Luttrell over costing the band the performance money. Richrath, and the rest of the band, were extremely upset because the money that they had would be spent on gas getting home, and they would be completely broke. Luttrell became upset and became combative. Richrath ordered that the car be pulled over so he could fight Luttrell. When the car stopped, Luttrell fled into a corn field. Richrath suggested out of anger that they just drive away and leave Luttrell to find his own way home. Surprisingly, no one in the band disagreed, and they drove off leaving him in the field. No one within the band talked to him after that. It was one of the most unique firings of a front man in Rock n' Roll history.

what are these politically motivated REO Speedwagon songs, I wonder

omg, that story

"Keep On Lovin' You" is Richrath's defense of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution.

lol

This thread needs to be its own coffee table book.

I think xhucx wrote a big thing on Starcastle, Kansas, and some other "cornfield prog"

Found it, really great

http://www.wonderingsound.com/spotlight/prog-on-the-prairie-midwestern-bands-roll-over-beethoven/

This thread needs to be its own coffee table book.

titled 'why punk happened'

lol

"Prog on the Prairie" - good stuff in there, though there's some tics that bug me (particularly the gendering of the early/good stuff vs. "housewife hits"). I also wonder about continuing to insist on this "prairie" quality - Topeka's not New York, no, but it was more populous in 1970 than, say, contemporary Columbus, and people talked about Times New Viking without pretending it was some big riddle that people west of New York play something other than country-fried boogie ramblings.

OTOH he did lead me to this one from Head East:

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/87570.jpg

I love this thread but I'm not convinced I even get about half these covers.

titled 'why punk happened'

I wonder how many of these acts made an attempt to 'go new wave'

http://www.elbarriodiscstore.com/wp-content/uploads/001115.jpg

The Jaggerz - We Went To Different Schools Together

http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/OCEAN_LP-COV.jpg

Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand

http://helium.lunarpages.com/~funky4/pictures/ironleg/biffrose_pic.jpg

Biff Rose - The Thorn In Mrs Rose's Side

http://record.ticro.com/record/jacket/T00000653.jpg

Trade Martin - Let Me Touch You

Here's a terrible cover gag i actually really like:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bT46ySKAL._SY300_.jpg

NRBQ - At Yankee Stadium

(rear sleeve has a picture taken through binoculars of them sitting in the back row)

Also today I have 'The Pushbike Song' by the Mixtures stuck in my head and i totally blame this thread

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/65673052/Dont+Call+Us+Well+Call+You.jpg

Bah, my images won't post. There's also a Guru Guru album, "Don't Call Us We Call You", but that earns an exemption from this thread because of cute mangled use of English.