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

oh my god, seventies roger miller albums. i love his 60s sides but i had no idea.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/75439824/Dear+Folks+Sorry+I+Havent+Written+Lately+Coverart.jpg

Dear Folks, Sorry I Haven't Written Lately (1973)

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/44a7a685b74eb316042dc1b56a7980e4/3051303.jpg

"Painted Poetry" (1977)

and... (drumroll)... (sorry for huge image but this is just irresistible)

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/r/roger_miller-making_a_name_for_myself(1).jpg

Making A Name For Myself (1979)

Wow... that is... I'm speechless... they don't come much better...

I've sort of specialized in abysmal UK nonentities of the 70s on this thread but I think I might have run out of them :( someone prove me wrong please.

lol at the making a name for myself cover... dog looks super embarrassed. A+

Oh Tom I thought you'd found an inexhaustible motherlode of abysmal UK nonentities, don't say the supply has ended.

Yeah, Making A Name For Myself is so good that it seems anticlimactic to post this one (don't think it's been done yet?)

http://o.scdn.co/300/b08b462f15664f66d217ec38cee9e9e7ac37c619

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/b/bc/Three_Dog_Night_-_Hard_Labor.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140626123157

'Hard Labor' by Three Dog Night

The title and basic concept make it seem like something that should fit here, but it comes out a little too disturbing and ends up looking more like it should Devo album cover or something? apparently this version was quickly pulled in favour of a censored edition with a large sticking plaster over the centre of the image

not sure if it entirely fits -- the title is just swarbrick 2 -- but I've always found the cover of this one kind of hilarious and halfassed
http://cdn.discogs.com/F2zILJJ4Sb79YGDCn27SZKy7_Qk=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2214839-1270396262.jpeg.jpg

cigarette pushes it over the line into being appropriate for the thread imo

haha yeah, i love swarbrick

the swarb is awesome, but...

http://eil.com/images/main/Dave-Swarbrick-Lift-The-Lid-And-567769.jpg

note the miniscule hands attempting to indeed lift the lid

Lol

Given Roger Millers sort of goofy sense of humor I suppose he really took to this type of album titling

Not to pat myself on the back but I kind of want to just retire from the thread after "Making A Name For Myself." I really don't think I can top that one. Nonetheless, a few of today's finds coming up...

That does seem to be the clear winner, way ahead of the back.

This genre just keeps on giving, like film noir or something, pretty much every newly rediscovered example has something to offer.

http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/290609747935.jpg

Uncle Jim's Music - There's A Song In This (1972)

http://cdn.discogs.com/BoWHAuu8fkUSSoKoWVkS-hoIl_o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5205842-1409353510-1496.jpeg.jpg

Bureman & O'Rourke - Somebody Give Me A Smile (1976)

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/v/valdy-familygathering.jpg

Valdy - Family Gathering (1974) (get it??? cause he's alone!!!)

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/7/7b/Valdy_-_Valdy_and_The_Hometown_Band.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120921181515

This is, in fact, a self-titled album - but I would like special dispensation, based on the cover design, to enter it as Valdy and the Hometown Band - Folksinger Deluxe With Side of Fries (1976)

https://plan59.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/records-4-049.jpg

^ Spotted this one in the wild today

hahaha

That Family one made me think, "I bet he drowned his whole family in that lake."

Family Gathering, sorry.

following on the brit-folk tip here is one that seems to fit

https://mainlynorfolk.info/john.kirkpatrick/images/largerec/goingspare_frr030.jpg

have we had this? Hello - Keeps Us Off The Streets

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/866/MI0001866413.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

and the follow up, Hello - Again

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/761/MI0000761029.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

(Naturally)

Elton's guitarist had his own album to do...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CyvveY_A3yU/TMPXIOI2sMI/AAAAAAAABiA/xFlJ3DveT1M/s1600/Davey+Johnstone+Smiling+Face.jpg

Talking of faces, Mick's wee brother claims "You Know the Name But Not the Face"

http://www.specialistrecords.com/image/cache/data/J/jagger_chris_youknowthenamebutnottheface-800x800.jpg

http://s5.postimage.org/rbc0laso7/gas_mask_first.jpg

gas mask their first album

xposts: john kirkpatrick also responsible for the rather verbose among the many attractions at the show will be a really high class band

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/364x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/i/m/image_11191.jpg

Poor Valdy :(

http://cdn.discogs.com/cuAn-P2F3mB96bPUPG_6HPM8Teg=/fit-in/596x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-6107680-1411255729-4935.jpeg.jpg

Christopher Milk ‎– Some People Will Drink Anything!

http://cdn.discogs.com/YvJOnj32OQbnfOxh4eCjmDV_F7U=/fit-in/493x490/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5594822-1411125771-8907.jpeg.jpg

The Swinging Blue Jeans ‎– Brand New And Faded

Christopher Milk ‎– Some People Will Drink Anything!

i am hoping against hope that this is not supposed to be a gag about his name being "milk"

ugh

Christopher Milk wasn't a person--it was LA Glam band led by Rock Critic John Mendelsohn (whom you might remember his liner notes to Kinks albums and/or his vicious pans of early Led Zeppelin albums in Rolling Stone), his hyping of which diminished much of his journalistic cred rather quickly.

Wow, that got to this one a few years before Cheap Trick did...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrmxYTVJ5w

Swarbrick's Lift the Lid... is especially classic bcs he's not even looking at the camera. What must the rejected shots have been like?

interesting blog post on Christopher Milk, had no idea he was also a musician

http://blackhairedboy.blogspot.com/2011/02/christopher-milk.html

Vin Garbutt, folk singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough

http://cdn.discogs.com/yyHYi3rLP_ER_cKFlR185muGwSU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2206130-1411078130-5360.jpeg.jpg

Tossin' a Wobbler

http://cdn.discogs.com/B3NW2_2B7KDKRdWi83PhOSVCEH8=/fit-in/467x495/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2315078-1296133466.jpeg.jpg

The Young Tin Whistle Pest

also released an album called 'The Valley of Tees'

tossin' a wobbler sounds dirty

http://eil.com/images/main/John-Kirkpatrick--Sue-Ha-Jump-At-The-Sun-483591.jpg
http://folkmonster.co.uk/albums/john_kirkpatrick/three_in_a_row_front.jpg

which makes three park benches featuring on john kirkpatrick covers!

Stampeders, "Ballsy"

http://image2.archambault.ca/1/1/8/B/ACH001149770.1386796341.580x580.jpg

Stevie Wright, "Black Eyed Bruiser"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hddLTkUVdoI/TM-9b0CfyII/AAAAAAAABl8/_F6Sgj3usg4/s1600/Black+Eyed+Bruiser+-+Cover.jpg

The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread prompted me to do a wiki on B.A. Robertson, where I found out about his debut album, credited to Brian Alexander Robertson, "Wringing Applause":

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2701/4123428172_162db0324b.jpg

Bizarrely this was released on Ardent Records, and seems to have been at least partly recorded at Ardent Studios, hence the involvement of Terry Manning... yet it was produced by Georg Kajanus, later frontman of Sailor! I want to hear it now!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PyFJ2b7mcHk/VXaD1kfSsYI/AAAAAAAACgw/r4IzowUjLS0/s1600/1.jpg

Albert Mangelsdorff ‎– A Jazz Tune I Hope

Elvin Jones/Eddie Gomez: A Paycheck I Hope

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/a/albert_mangelsdorff-tromboneliness.jpg

Albert Mangelsdorff ‎– Tromboneliness.

Speaking of Eddie Gomez. . .
http://i.imgur.com/MSXNSza.png?1

Album's really good, but that cover, boy.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KISkxy8rL._SX355_.jpg

Bette Midler-Thighs and Whispers

Thread has generally been great lately but "Tromboneliness" is one for the ages. I can only imagine it's a whole album of sad-trombone.

I have an Amy Schumer-esque "I can't decide if she's hot" internal dialogue going every time I see old pics of Bette Midler

If hot means that guy from Twisted Sister, then yes.

yeah let's turn this into a 'hpt or not' thread

was going to mention that the cover of 'Wringing Applause' = the only picture of B.A. Robertson I've ever seen where he looks sort of hot