and it's the title of their greatest hits comp!
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 04:38 (seven years ago) link
That is a pretty strange one. Didn't know much about the band, but they also had this one, which is pretty weird too. They must be some stoner fishermen when not bringing the country rawk jams.
https://i.scdn.co/image/b589e4c92dd592b99bee2f6f2e36d01e2493514a
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 04:48 (seven years ago) link
I think this thread is definitely proof that the record industry in the 70s ran on some serious drugs, apparently just as much in the art department as A&R.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
The Car Over The Lake Album has definitely been the subject of extensive admiration in this thread before, but I am never, ever, not happy to see it.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
At this point, it would be a pretty good sized shelf of LPs.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 05:11 (seven years ago) link
...or a bitchen Tashen coffee table book.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 05:25 (seven years ago) link
Are those Ozark Mountain Daredevils titles puns?
― wrinkled sweater guy (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 08:29 (seven years ago) link
i just can't believe this thread keeps giving.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 08:38 (seven years ago) link
Well Nuclear Fishin' (FISSION) clearly is, but the other one...?
― mahb, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 09:01 (seven years ago) link
Jim Price Kids
― andrew m., Tuesday, 17 January 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Maybe Ted Taylor's "Keepin' My Head Above Water" has just enough of a jobbing musician vibe to make it (plus one of my all-time favourite covers):
http://thumbs4.picclick.com/d/l400/pict/381398088811_/EX-EX-Ted-Taylor-Keepin-My-Head-Above-Water-1978.jpg
― Tim, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Thread is clearly way too big to check whether something you've found has already been mentioned, so if someone who isn't me wants to list them all feel free, thx
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
I started a spreadsheet one time - half-finished IIRC, similar to my attempt to get down all of the claustrophobic 70s/80s movie posters before the links got broken. With both there was also an idea of getting the dates in there so you could be really precise about the dawn, high point, and decline of the genre. Really important stuff - I should get back to those at some point. Sigh.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:18 (seven years ago) link
No picture but...
Ian Hunter - All Of The Good Ones Are Taken
^ definitely getting a bit meta there
― NickB, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Last page in the Taschen book IIRC
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:30 (seven years ago) link
A case in point, this must surely have been posted before,
https://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/18ddcf7ec3b6390bccfe0bb37bec41e6/3790673.jpg
Bobby Shew, "Outstanding In His Field"
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
haha that's on par with "Making a Name for Myself" by Roger Miller
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
Did we ever get this one?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/1/1f/Ringo_Starr_Old_Wave.jpg
Ringo: Old Wave
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
posted in the yawnsomely literal cover art thread!
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 03:12 (seven years ago) link
Red Island - In Pursuit of the Wild Bologna (1978)
https://img.discogs.com/71de8_8Jjh-GdTSmDhzQxo4HzXA=/fit-in/300x305/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6907567-1440193211-6062.jpeg.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 06:45 (seven years ago) link
Oh, that's good!
Has anyone else had the experience of discovering some no-name 70s band in the cheapie bin and getting excited because they seem like the kind of act that surely would have at least one of these titles, and then suffering a small disappointment when it becomes clear that they don't? Today's downer: Syracuse-based Jukin' Bone, who surely would have gotten around to it had their recording career lasted a little longer.
OTOH, Googling them led me to some of their home-town peers, whose one album is at least a step in the direction of one of these titles:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kcVfUZ67FzY/T0HtT0JZwTI/AAAAAAAABYo/YBsYdlNx2so/s1600/Front+Cover+copy.jpg
Brandywine - Aged (1970)
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
haha, you're looking in some fun cheapie bins
― niels, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
i need to start thinking of probably hundreds of rap albums from the 80s and early 90s that fit this
Ant Banks - Sittin' on Somethin' Phat
http://www.rapmusicguide.com/amass/images/inventory/1885/Sittin%20On%20Somethin%20Phat%20%28Cover%29.jpg
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
though there's something different about the spirit, it has less of that "oi mate this album's just 'avin' a laff innit?" vibe to rap ones
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
I feel like a lot of rap ones are coming from a "this is going to blow your mind!" place whereas the 70s ones are more "fuck we gotta call the record something" place
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
definitely
Del's "I Wish My Cousin George Was Here" is one that fits the 70s vibe but most don't
http://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61jAYl7QAAL.jpg
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
Seventies were all about reaching new levels of casual. I take them as laid back jabs at titles like Tales of the Topographic Ocean, Tapestry, After the Gold Rush and Billion Dollar Babies. Just having a good time over here.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
I think this was discussed somewhere at the start of this (now substantial) thread. There is a 'we don't take ourselves and all of this too seriously' vibe.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
believe Juicy Lucy has been on this thread before but for different albums
http://www.juicylucyinfo.co.uk/img/glass_wallpaper_800x600.bmp
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
xp
Yeah, definitely, it's very "No concept album to be found here, y'all! Just tryin' to provide some plain 'n' simple entertainment!" ― Doctor Casino, Friday, June 28, 2013
― Doctor Casino, Friday, June 28, 2013
totally OTM like "Hey pal, we're just doing a bit of rock n rollin over here nbd"― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 28, 2013
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 28, 2013
― new noise, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
https://images.recordsale.de/600/600/cdpix/r/roy_head-a_head_of_his_time.jpg
Roy Head: A Head of His Time
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 January 2017 09:31 (seven years ago) link
Hell of a set of lambchops
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 January 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
Roy Head also offers us:
https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2/9/8/8/98826030-feb5-012b-b8df-0050569439b1.jpg
Head First (1976)
and
https://img.discogs.com/d15E7MnsSFHHyZCOYhDaEZauDyg=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-7668690-1446332130-2399.jpeg.jpg
The Many Sides of Roy Head (1980)
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 21 January 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
apparently his son -- sundance head -- just won 'the voice'
let's hope he's ready to carry on the tradition
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 January 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
^He might! I used to see him sit in with Roy at his shows--He'd introduce himself as "I may be his son, but I don't dance!", which has to be part of the "IGMOATD" of stage banter.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 January 2017 21:52 (seven years ago) link
just taking a moment to appreciate "Sundance Head"
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Sunday, 22 January 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
Surely we can lock thread now
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 22 January 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
"I may be his son, but I don't dance!"
That should be his album title
Don't you dare lock this thread don't take this away from me
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 22 January 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
multiple xps, but 70s Linda Ronstadt, SWOON
― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 12:21 (seven years ago) link
yah no doubt she was a total babe
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
otm
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Neil Harrison, "All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go"
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20130423/251265238376.jpg
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Honorable mention for The Guess Who, Artificial Paradise (1973), which doesn't have much of its own title to do, but which in its elaborate fake sweepstakes packaging gestures towards a The Who Sell Out kind of deal - but without designs on a Concept audible on the record. Ho ho, see, we're just hacks in it for a quick buck - no art found here, just some blues-rock jams and unconvincing genre exercises!
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VmZspgHfL.jpg
http://paradise-records.ocnk.net/data/paradise-records/product/20151106_d851dc.JPG
https://plastinka.com/images/cache/be/plastinka/110684_2_1h600.jpg
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 January 2017 00:20 (seven years ago) link
This is a brand new album by a band featuring ex-Thin Lizzy dudes.
http://assets.blabbermouth.net.s3.amazonaws.com/media/blackstarridersheavyfirecd.jpg
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 4 February 2017 01:31 (seven years ago) link
That belongs more to the "yawnsomely literal cover art" thread.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 4 February 2017 11:46 (seven years ago) link
Has this one been done yet? Saffron Summerfield, "Fancy Meeting You Here!" (1976)
http://disk-market.sakura.ne.jp/jk/2L-01982.jpg
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
Sandy Davis, "Inside Every Fat Man" (1974)
http://i.imgur.com/gpAm1XX.jpg
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
wtf is going on on that sleeve?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:25 (seven years ago) link
I think the main character is supposed to be The Duchess's cook from Alice in Wonderland
― Number None, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
omg what a disaster
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 06:22 (seven years ago) link