if you like the 'Birth Comes To Us All' then you can buy a rare vintage promo t-shirt featuring the cover:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/175686563/good-rats-birth-comes-to-us-all-vintage?ref=shop_home_active_18
Included with this t shirt is an authentic plastic rat that was thrown into the audience at The Paradise rock club in Boston.
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N661IRB4iDs/SYnln1xvXiI/AAAAAAAAAAk/7vSDhF-TVRM/s320/4outof5doctors2ndopinion.jpg
this is from 1982 but in keeping with the spirit of the thread imo:
4 Out Of 5 Doctors - 2nd Opinion
(their second album, naturally)
― authentic plastic rat (soref), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 12:56 (eight years ago) link
the 'two necks but one adam's apple' thing is kind of freaking me out
― authentic plastic rat (soref), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
Apologies if this has already been posted, but I spotted this one out in the wild the other day:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81u8%2Bgxq-QS._SL1500_.jpg
Ian Hunter - You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
I love the ones that come with quote marks around the title
― authentic plastic rat (soref), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
My friend who's coming to town was telling me about how his gf might or might not be able to join us for dinner because she's also visiting some friends she hasn't seen in a long time and has limited time, and my first thought was "that's alright, she's got her own album to do."
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/Harold-McNair-Flute--Nut-471243.jpg
Harold McNair - Flute & Nut
― feargal czukay (NickB), Sunday, 6 September 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.discogs.com/FuR2i9VpDQ0wl4p3qLlCb3jLWN8=/fit-in/587x599/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-1780825-1355267485-7238.jpeg.jpg
― J. Sam, Sunday, 6 September 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Is "Flute and Nut" some kind of pun?
― Sharia Law and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 7 September 2015 00:57 (eight years ago) link
yes
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 7 September 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
http://s.productreview.com.au/products/images/t/500/cadbury-fruit-and-nut_4fcd5f4016ec6.jpg
― new noise, Monday, 7 September 2015 02:30 (eight years ago) link
sometimes I think about a sort of spinoff/cousin thread of jazz records whose titles are bad puns on the artists' names. Would be a long thread.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 7 September 2015 03:05 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81I08egYByL._SY355_.jpg
(would love to hear the mcnair record, only know his embellishments to mostly folkish stuff of the period)
― no lime tangier, Monday, 7 September 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
http://cloud1.todocoleccion.net/discos-vinilo/tc/2015/01/05/13/47052749.jpg
― no lime tangier, Monday, 7 September 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/w/wright_bern_mrwright~_101b.jpg
― J. Sam, Monday, 7 September 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
1983 but Kenny Lynch will always be deep 70s to me...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/klynch.jpg
Kenny Lynch – Half The Day's Gone And We Haven't Earned A Penny
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
that doesn't look half as luxurious as I imagine it was intended to
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
Del doing this in hip hop, feel like there might be more:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61jAYl7QAAL.jpg
(Wish My Brother George Was Here)
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
it's somewhere in the UK and there's no leaves on the trees, so it was probably about 5°C at the time too, brrrrr xp
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
I know it's just the loose plastic, but I prefer to see Bobby Shew as having a super thick and dark mullet.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 9 September 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
No idea why Gareth Hunt is on the Kenny Lynch cover, and that looks like Suzanne Danielle in the purple on the right.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 11 September 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
Some moderately famous names inside it as well; Rick Wakeman, Jim Capaldi, Keff McCullough, Valerie Masters, Zoot Money.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Friday, 11 September 2015 11:34 (eight years ago) link
Definitely Suzanne Danielle.
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 11 September 2015 11:44 (eight years ago) link
No idea why Gareth Hunt is on the Kenny Lynch cover
Testament to Kenny Lynch's legendary clubbability I would guess, Kenny's on the cover of "Band on the Run" of course!
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 11 September 2015 11:49 (eight years ago) link
Voted Britain's Top Jazz Flautist - bet that was a crowded competition
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 11 September 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
Just realized you were referring to Harold McNair, though Kenny is a man of many talents of course.
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 11 September 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
if you've got it, flautist
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2015 12:47 (eight years ago) link
Overused fact I know about Kenny Lynch - first person to ever record a Beatles cover (maybe why he's on the front of Band on the Run)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 11 September 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
more lynch trivia weirdness:
[in 1978] he wrote '"Love Crazy", the theme used for Carry On Emmannuelle, and "You Can't Fight It", the vocal version of the theme to the John Carpenter film Assault on Precinct 13. He also oversaw the production for Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard's comedy version of You're the One That I Want which reached 22 in the UK charts in September 1978. In the early 1980s, Lynch formed a songwriting partnership with former tennis player Buster Mottram, a long-time white nationalist political activist.
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
...and in fact there's a Mottram credit on one of the songs on the album upthread.
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
'Average Man', the co-write in question, is tragically absent from youtube
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Friday, 11 September 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
whole album's on spotify though! contains the line 'i am an average man, got me an average brain'
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
lol wikipedia
While Mottram was still playing professionally, he became known for his right-wing views. He expressed support for the National Front, supported the policies of Enoch Powell,[1] and applied, unsuccessfully, for the Conservative parliamentary candidacy in several constituencies.[1] He subsequently formed a songwriting partnership with the black entertainer Kenny Lynch writing the song Average Man.[2]In November 2008, he was expelled from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) after attempting to broker an electoral pact with the British National Party. UKIP leader Nigel Farage called Mottram's offer "astonishing", declaring the party to be non-racist.[3]
In November 2008, he was expelled from the UK Independence Party (UKIP) after attempting to broker an electoral pact with the British National Party. UKIP leader Nigel Farage called Mottram's offer "astonishing", declaring the party to be non-racist.[3]
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 11 September 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
In my experience, this is because jazz artists tend not to give a rat's ass about anything other than the music itself -- song titles, cover art, etc. It's almost an entirely different motivation.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 11 September 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00316XFF2.01-A17SFUTIVB227Z._SX420_SCLZZZZZZZ_V400101228_.jpg
Dory Previn - We’re Children Of Coincidence And Harpo Marx
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 02:52 (eight years ago) link
In the flash-forward category, 90s/00s pop-punk might be kinda shooting fish in a barrel, but even by those standards, I really have to give it up to the horribly-named Bowling For Soup, who have twelve studio albums (as many as the Beatles!) plus comps and EPs and basically it is just a beautiful parade:
1994 Bowling for Soup1996 Cell Mates1997 Rock on Honorable Ones!!1998 Tell Me When to Whoa2000 Let's Do It for Johnny!!2002 Drunk Enough to Dance2004 A Hangover You Don't Deserve2005 Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies2005 On Your Mark, Get Set...Smoke a Cigarette (EP)2006 The Great Burrito Extortion Case2008 Bowling for Soup: Live and Very Attractive2009 Sorry for Partyin'2009 Merry Flippin' Christmas Volume 12009 My Wena (EP)2010 Jaret & Erik 2010 UK Acoustic Tour Limited Edition CD2011 Playlist: The Very Best of Bowling for Soup2011 Fishin' for Woos2011 Merry Flippin' Christmas Volumes 1 and 2 2011 The Dollyrots vs. Bowling for Soup2012 One Big Happy (w/ The Dollyrots & Patent Pending)2013 Lunch. Drunk. Love.2014 Songs People Actually Liked – Volume 1 – The First 10 Years (1994–2003)
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 September 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/K05tjKQ.jpg
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Saturday, 19 September 2015 07:00 (eight years ago) link
Sorry for Partyin' is so perfect.
― sleepingsignal, Saturday, 19 September 2015 08:04 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Xn56oX4.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 19 September 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
most of those read like the titles to stand up comedy specials
― balls, Saturday, 19 September 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
stray dog - while you're down there
http://eil.com/images/main/Stray-Dog-While-Youre-Down-149478.jpg
― brimstead, Saturday, 19 September 2015 23:45 (eight years ago) link
what the heck is that even driving at
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 September 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
robert palmer - maybe it's livehttp://img.cdandlp.com/2013/03/imgL/115909816.jpeg
― brimstead, Saturday, 19 September 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
I used to own that Stray Dog album, I remember not a thing about it. I think the guitarist went on to do the theme music for Thirtysomething.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 20 September 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Blowin%27_%28album%29.jpg
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 10:03 (eight years ago) link
Re: that Geordie cover I've never seen a picture of Brian Johnson without his AC/DC trademark hat
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.discogs.com/JX5ft5fLyN9GN5RrG5RpIN4xi8o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-2555209-1291484689.jpeg.jpg
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive (1971)
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
Possibly a repeat...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HZ4SJ1RYL.jpg
Foghat - In The Mood For Something Rude
― Ray Chard (NickB), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SI0300%2BzL._SY355_.jpg
Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet
― Ray Chard (NickB), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
http://www.lpcd.de/10/F9051_01.jpg
Jona Lewie - On The Other Hand There's A Fist
― Ray Chard (NickB), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link