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

Yikes

Yeah that might epitomize the 80s continuation/transformation of this aesthetic. Grayer and more brightly-lit, but otherwise the same old shit.

more awkward than horrible...

http://img.boredbee.net/imager/w_500/h_/c08d3bcbda981920ab6cb824360016c5.jpg

Nick Straker Band - Future's Above My Head

The cat's name is Fingers

re: Dale Miller.

Watering a plant over the bed seems...not ideal?

oh shit! http://www.musictap.net/2016/10/26/two-ron-wood-70s-solo-albums-to-reissue-as-2cd-deluxe-sets/

I blame this thread

*prompts massive reissue series based on thread*

I actually got Now Look and I've Got My Own Album to Do a couple months back. They are pretty good records.

have we had this yet:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1c/Jake%27s_Progress_%28album%29_coverart.jpg/220px-Jake%27s_Progress_%28album%29_coverart.jpg

Jake's Pregress, by Jake Thackery

Thackray also had a posthumous box-set called "Jake In A Box"

(xp) fabulous album btw

Jake's Progress, obviously, not whatever I typed yesterday. Pun on (a) rake's progress, I guess.

Oddly, having never heard him before, he was on the radio twice in 24 hours, yesterday.

...is he some sort of singing rural Northern English veterinarian?

Yorkshire's answer to Jacques Brel, basically. Sadly missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWdT-i4GFE

Don't think this one made it on here (couldn't find it at least, sorry if it's here):

http://acerecords.co.uk/images/klondike-pete-some-o.jpg

Triple hit of blokiness, self-deprecation and pun

Why'd it take me years to remember that this record fit here?

Michael Wendling - Who Could Eat at a Time Like This?

https://img.discogs.com/sTgIi1XAK7sMFNW6ez0Mr4gMtqQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5329923-1408241453-5010.jpeg.jpg

Prob because the painting is obscures the title in several ways...

Not 70s but I think the title definitely channels the same awfulness:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Heavy_Entertainment_Show_cover.png

(Robbie Williams - 'Heavy Entertainment Show')

http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/images/496_tightlyknit_lp_us_front.jpg

Climax Blues Band - Tightly Knit

http://toscarecords.ddns.net/temp/tosca/S/wk34-20120828048.jpg

Spooky Tooth - You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw

https://media2.wnyc.org/i/521/521/l/80/1/bream-bach.jpg

have we had this one already? or was it another classical album that puns on the "x plays y" theme?

julian bream recover is phenomenal there. wes anderson most likely owns it.

Terry Stamp, "Fatsticks"

http://ring.cdandlp.com/latchkeykid/photo_grande/114347233.jpg

didn't know JS Bach looked like David fricke

It doesn't say which Bach, does it? Based on that photo it's more likely to be Johann Christian than Johann Sebastian:

http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/kunst/thomas_gainsborough_183/portrait.jpg

Is that Foucault on the Climax Blues Band cover?

Discipline and Punnish

probably a repeat but i saw this again at the weekend and remembered how much i hated the title:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41A2KHMXHEL.jpg

The Knack - ...But The Little Girls Understand

I don't think that really fits - it's just an old blues line from Howlin Wolf etc.

https://vinylconnect.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_4269.jpg

Skyhooks - Ego Is Not A Dirty Word (1975). Sorry for the huge image but the next step down is all like washed-out and illegible 300x300 pixel ones shot at a funny angle. And man, that back cover.

Their complete studio discography:

Living In The 70's (1974)
Ego Is Not A Dirty Word (1975)
Straight In A Gay Gay World (1976)
Guilty Until Proven Insane (1978)
Hot For The Orient (1980)

I don't think that really fits - it's just an old blues line from Howlin Wolf etc.

yeah but (1) it's p creepy and gross, and (2) the cover is a really shit pun on it amirite? (i.e. the woman is under a mic stand)

the cover is a really shit pun on it amirite? (i.e. the woman is under a mic stand)

Not everything is a pun, Nick.

i know i know but there are only two things on the cover - a girl and a stand - and they are arranged on two different levels so you know you know

also the person on the cover is sharona who is described in the song my sharona as a 'pretty little thing' so you might resonably conclude that the creep who writes the lyrics for the knack might possibly describe her using the irksome term 'little girl' so eh ...the little girls under a stand am i labouring this much?

haha wow ok I totally missed that the first time lol

xp

Skyhooks - Ego Is Not A Dirty Word (1975). Sorry for the huge image but the next step down is all like washed-out and illegible 300x300 pixel ones shot at a funny angle. And man, that back cover.

Seems like the front cover artist missed the cue on drawing one of the hands missing a finger?

Shit, good call... maybe the fifth hand over from the left, though it's sort of hard to sort out that whole clump of hands right there. If it is a thing, it's much subtler than the cover as a whole would suggest is possible.

the Skyhooks were masters of the form!

this thread always cheers me up

The hand closest to the POV looks like a right hand and is only showing 4 fingers, and the nail polish matches. I see a thumb and the next 3 fingers. It could be the pinky is the one cut off rather than just out of view.

Green fingernailed hand in the middle there is actually a severed hand being waved around by someone else. Red fingernailed hand second from left has three fingers and a thumb only. What this means I dunno.

Also follows that the visual of the band on stage would be from the letter-writer's point of view.

The PS on the letter is "I will wave" so I'm going with the idea that the foregrounded fingertips are Denise's.

I wonder if the band wanted to show the finger stump but the label said no way, and the art was changed.

So so happy with this series of posts.

many x's and p: that Terry Stamp album is actually pretty cool, with Ollie Halsall from Patto on guitar. And Stamp was in Third World War. But that doesn't change the cover.

http://s.ecrater.com/stores/26865/4ca39cd5b38b4_26865n.jpg

Ian Gomm - Gomm With The Wind