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

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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)

dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 November 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link

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)

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link

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.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link

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

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link

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?

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Monday, 21 November 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link

haha wow ok I totally missed that the first time lol

xp

Οὖτις, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link

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?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 09:32 (seven years ago) link

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.

dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link

the Skyhooks were masters of the form!

this thread always cheers me up

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link

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.

nickn, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link

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.

everything, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link

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

nickn, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link

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

everything, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link

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

nickn, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link

So so happy with this series of posts.

dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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.

rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 9 December 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link

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

Ian Gomm - Gomm With The Wind

Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link

A couple of better threads for artist name puns.

Awful puns/neologisms as album titles

Horrible album titles that pun on the artist's name

nickn, Friday, 9 December 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link

solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ILX

niels, Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link

Look, I know it's 2011, but can we get an honorable mention here?

http://i63.tinypic.com/ftmpu1.jpg

rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link

lolz

tylerw, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:08 (seven years ago) link

The background lady has one too!

jmm, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link

I think that is the same dude from the Mars Volta cover.

Nazareth deserves some props here for having not one but three album titles that utilize the shortened 'n' in place of and.

1973- Loud 'n' Proud
1976- Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll (previously mentioned) & Play 'n' the Game

And speaking of "and" what the heck was 'Johnny Winter And' all about? That is a different level of band name and also seems to fit here in some ways.

Arthur Baker's Kingdom Come - 'Galactic Zoo Dossier' from '71 is another one that fits here and would have worked nicely as a Budgie album title.

earlnash, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link

I love how overworked the visual gag is. He can't have hair! Otherwise it will be confusing. And, uh, better put a little ladder on also.

jmm, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link

Excellent stuff.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link

holy shit. that Steve Miller album cover. so amazing.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link

looks like he was in a weird lawnmower accident and had to have his head stitched back together

don't take my kindness for wokeness (seandalai), Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link

by the hare

don't take my kindness for wokeness (seandalai), Thursday, 15 December 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link

Did we have this one yet?

http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/ca779b3da4fa1e170e157562e1d6ead1/1351708.jpg

Al Stewart - 24 Carrots

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 15 December 2016 02:15 (seven years ago) link

lol

niels, Thursday, 15 December 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link

http://www.geocities.jp/procolharum_1967/Solo/garynomorefearofflying.jpg
Gary Brooker - No More Fear of Flying

willem, Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link

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.

― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, December 9, 2016 6:49 AM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn patto & third world war that's some serious 70s deep cut heavy rock power

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 December 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link

ahahah that brooker is really close, just in terms of staging, to how i was picturing the hypothetical reshoots for "Endless Flight" here: Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do

walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 15 December 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link

Second, or possibly third, appearance itt for Garth Hewitt, this time with his 1982 opus, "Record of the Weak":

http://www.garthhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Record_of_the_We_514883103b7a8.jpg

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 16 December 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link

Michael de Albuquerque, "We May Be Cattle But We've All Got Names"

http://disk-market.sakura.ne.jp/jk/3L-01669.jpg

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 16 December 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link

Haha. Dude looks like my uncle in the late 1970s.

rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 December 2016 07:49 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Today I managed to see Christopher Milk's "Some People Will Drink Anything!," Hot Legs' "You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think Of It," and the Jaggerz' "We Went To Different Schools Together," all within the span of five minutes' browsing. Warmed my heart, it did.

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 1 January 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link

was transfixed by the 70s-ness of this in local record shop, first solo album by Lindisfarne singer

http://i.imgur.com/GJXjr7o.jpg

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link

woah that cover is gonna haunt me

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link

reminds me of this book cover

http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1201810798l/2714571.jpg

soref, Sunday, 1 January 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link

sadly, afaik Denny Laine never attempted a horrible 70s album title punning on that book.

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 January 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link

^would buy. very nearly picked up this (posted way upthread) when i spotted it the other week. might go back and see if it's still there.

no lime tangier, Monday, 2 January 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link

omfg adam, that is a PRIZE

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 January 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link

Yes that's amazing.

Been listening to 80s & 90s Rush today & real realized that it's 15 years too late but Presto is totally one of these http://img.rush.com/wp-content/uploads

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 2 January 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link

http://www.rekord.net/cover/bigthumbs/rekord.42502.jpg

Chas & Dave - One Fing'n'Annuver

NickB, Monday, 2 January 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/__GN1JnUzFBM/TSegUyo2fiI/AAAAAAAAA68/JUL1xwL2CF4/s400/Page0009.jpg

Supercharge - Local Lads Make Good

NickB, Monday, 2 January 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link

https://backwoodrecords.jp/photo/1471695529rrio349569.jpg

Ashton, Gardner, Dyke & Co. - What A Bloody Long Day It's Been

NickB, Monday, 2 January 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link

http://img.cdandlp.com/2014/12/imgL/117282346.jpg

http://img.cdandlp.com/2014/12/imgL/117282346-2.jpg

Potliquor - First Taste (cover and half of gatefold)

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 January 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link


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