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

I'm more likely to listen to a Cardiacs album tbh.

https://www.recordmania.net/media/covers/FRN86379.jpg

The Counts - "What's Up Front That - Counts"

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DAUsJTi2L.jpg

Phil Everly - Star Spangled Springer (1973)

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/p/phileverly-philsdiner.jpg

Phil Everly - Phil's Diner (1974)

https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/e/everly_phil_mysticlin_101b.jpg

Phil Everly - Mystic Line (1975)

None of these seem egregiously of this thread, but given how superfluous a Phil Everly solo career already seems to me, they're kinda tickling me.

These are terrible enough to rate inclusion. I certainly almost choked on my lunch.

that last everly one

O_O

has this one made it on here yet?

http://cdn.discogs.com/bjN_P5qKdFS5614VBUpU0YAdah8=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-1343615-1211312935.jpeg.jpg

Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night

no, and ugh

ew

Wow

https://www.google.com/search?q=laugh+when+you+want+stiller&biw=1280&bih=657&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ZSaXVM-lEoyANq2ggKgJ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=lDaT5Vn2jIHTpM%253A%3BBg3nUGF0jKoNgM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fecx.images-amazon.com%252Fimages%252FI%252F51kfSd6kKML._SY300_.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.amazon.com%252FLaugh-When-You-Like-Stiller%252Fdp%252FB0009HLCAQ%3B300%3B300

ah hell

http://therisingstorm.net/audio/whenscopescollide.jpg

feel like there should be a top ten groan-worthy titles. That one and the Caravan would make my list.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Acquiring_the_Taste_front_cover.jpg

Of course, 'Acquiring the Taste' is not in and of itself an outright horrible title, but when coupled a cover depicting the thinnest of thinly veiled allusions to salad tossing it adds up to a true prog grossout as only could have been produced in the 70s.

Prog, why you so nasty?

ok that is super grossout

refuse to believe that is caravan's 1st appearance here

I put the prog titles in a whole different group from most of what we've seen in this thread.

The album cover has some innuendo in that it is made to look like a tongue licking an anus. However, when opened completely, it is actually a tongue licking a peach.

eddie harris - i'm tired of driving

so many of these titles are just things your parents say

Gentle Giant's album concepts improved remarkably when they moved on from peach licking to extremely mundane stuff like "whatever happened to our buddies in school?" and "what if we did a whole album about interviews?" Plus the great Watergate record & the failed relationships record.

x-post --- I was trying and failing to post a pic of Stiller & Meara's comedy album with the title "Laugh When You Want." Are they saying we can play this "comedy album" anytime we want? An adventure like this is unheard of in the 20th century.

you can laugh when you want to. you can leave your friends behind.

cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine

The album cover has some innuendo in that it is made to look like a tongue licking an anus. However, when opened completely, it is actually a tongue licking a peach.

― mookieproof, Sunday, December 21, 2014 7:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i love these explanations as if ppl go around licking peaches all the time..

phil everly cover a precursor to an 80s variant of these, which I imagine has been posted?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A6H7DA14L.jpg

the drops of drool on the gentle giant are really what makes it gross imo

actually its about tongue-licking a peach #GentleGiant

hahaha

http://eil.com/images/main/The-Hudson-Brothers-Totally-Out-Of-Co-491556.jpg

#GentleGiant

... that's the Hudson Brothers btw, best image I could find (xp)

kkk guy in background? wtf

Even more objectionable, Bernie Taupin's in the background.

Which Hudson Brother was Sonic Youth's "Swimsuit Issue" about?

The Counts - "What's Up Front That - Counts"

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is such a dope record though

Even more objectionable, Bernie Taupin's in the background.

Was wondering about that, then looked closer and saw it was originally released on Elton & Bernie's vanity label, The Rocket Record Company.

re: the Counts, it looked promising, maybe I'll stop back at the shop and grab it if it's cheap.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SNGFN97SL.jpg

Joe Cocker: Luxury You Can Afford

We need to see the open gatefold to see the extent of Caravan's 'joke'

http://caravan.get-ctrl.com/sites/4c5ab81e-6108-4aa1-bcae-27ae0a000002/img/thumbs/50fd4b08-6090-4000-991f-7aa90a000002_960x.jpg

Special circle of hell for gatefold punchline "jokes," between that and Jo Jo Gunne and "Did He Fall..." it's just an awful cavalcade of failure.

Hudson Brothers seems like it's going for a live-action version of one of these: post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s - lookit all these wacky characters! It's a mad, mad, mad, mad album! But you just can't convey the same density of little heads in this format. And yeah, uh, the Klansman. No thanks.

thought Joe Cocker was Griff Rhys-Jones for a moment there

suggestban caravan

thought Joe Cocker was Griff Rhys-Jones for a moment there

Cocker's not a cunt tho

btw Caravan are an f'n awesome band despite the late period album covers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab_It_for_a_Second#mediaviewer/File:Golden_Earring_-_Grab_It_for_a_Second.jpg
Golden Earring - 'Grab it for a Second'

ehh the cover's not that great anyway

cover isn't in the vein but "Whoa, Nellie!" by Nellie Furtado is kind of in this zone, saw it at at secondhand store the other day

man though dr casino I'm listening to that Phil Everly solo stuff right now and it's pretty nice!

hahaha i remember lolling at that Furtado title at the time...surely couldn't have been her idea, ugh.

If I were to check out only one Phil Everly solo record above, which should it be? "Phil's Diner" is the most appealing I gotta say...just a nice guy on a road trip getting a kick out of seeing his name on a sign...