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

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."

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Harold McNair - Flute & Nut

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Is "Flute and Nut" some kind of pun?

yes

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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.

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(would love to hear the mcnair record, only know his embellishments to mostly folkish stuff of the period)

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1983 but Kenny Lynch will always be deep 70s to me...

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Kenny Lynch ‎– Half The Day's Gone And We Haven't Earned A Penny

that doesn't look half as luxurious as I imagine it was intended to

Del doing this in hip hop, feel like there might be more:

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(Wish My Brother George Was Here)

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

I know it's just the loose plastic, but I prefer to see Bobby Shew as having a super thick and dark mullet.

No idea why Gareth Hunt is on the Kenny Lynch cover, and that looks like Suzanne Danielle in the purple on the right.

Some moderately famous names inside it as well; Rick Wakeman, Jim Capaldi, Keff McCullough, Valerie Masters, Zoot Money.

Definitely Suzanne Danielle.

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!

Voted Britain's Top Jazz Flautist - bet that was a crowded competition

Just realized you were referring to Harold McNair, though Kenny is a man of many talents of course.

if you've got it, flautist

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)

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.

...and in fact there's a Mottram credit on one of the songs on the album upthread.

'Average Man', the co-write in question, is tragically absent from youtube

whole album's on spotify though! contains the line 'i am an average man, got me an average brain'

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]

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.

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.

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Dory Previn - We’re Children Of Coincidence And Harpo Marx

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 Soup
1996 Cell Mates
1997 Rock on Honorable Ones!!
1998 Tell Me When to Whoa
2000 Let's Do It for Johnny!!
2002 Drunk Enough to Dance
2004 A Hangover You Don't Deserve
2005 Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies
2005 On Your Mark, Get Set...Smoke a Cigarette (EP)
2006 The Great Burrito Extortion Case
2008 Bowling for Soup: Live and Very Attractive
2009 Sorry for Partyin'
2009 Merry Flippin' Christmas Volume 1
2009 My Wena (EP)
2010 Jaret & Erik 2010 UK Acoustic Tour Limited Edition CD
2011 Playlist: The Very Best of Bowling for Soup
2011 Fishin' for Woos
2011 Merry Flippin' Christmas Volumes 1 and 2
2011 The Dollyrots vs. Bowling for Soup
2012 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)

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Sorry for Partyin' is so perfect.

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most of those read like the titles to stand up comedy specials

stray dog - while you're down there

http://eil.com/images/main/Stray-Dog-While-Youre-Down-149478.jpg

what the heck is that even driving at

robert palmer - maybe it's live
http://img.cdandlp.com/2013/03/imgL/115909816.jpeg

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.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Blowin%27_%28album%29.jpg

Re: that Geordie cover I've never seen a picture of Brian Johnson without his AC/DC trademark hat

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Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive (1971)

Possibly a repeat...

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Foghat - In The Mood For Something Rude

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Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet

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Jona Lewie - On The Other Hand There's A Fist

A late entry from the Kursaal Flyers...

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Kursaal Flyers - A Former Tour De Force is Forced to Tour

repeat?

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Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim

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Kursaal Flyers one is awwwwwwesome

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Landscape - From the Tea-rooms of Mars... To the Hell-holes of Uranus