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

Jim Price Kids

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

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

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.

No picture but...

Ian Hunter - All Of The Good Ones Are Taken

^ definitely getting a bit meta there

Last page in the Taschen book IIRC

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"

haha that's on par with "Making a Name for Myself" by Roger Miller

Did we ever get this one?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/1/1f/Ringo_Starr_Old_Wave.jpg

Ringo: Old Wave

Bobby Shew, "Outstanding In His Field"

posted in the yawnsomely literal cover art thread!

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

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)

haha, you're looking in some fun cheapie bins

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

believe Juicy Lucy has been on this thread before but for different albums

http://www.juicylucyinfo.co.uk/img/glass_wallpaper_800x600.bmp

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

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

https://images.recordsale.de/600/600/cdpix/r/roy_head-a_head_of_his_time.jpg

Roy Head: A Head of His Time

Hell of a set of lambchops

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)

apparently his son -- sundance head -- just won 'the voice'

let's hope he's ready to carry on the tradition

^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.

just taking a moment to appreciate "Sundance Head"

Surely we can lock thread now

"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

multiple xps, but 70s Linda Ronstadt, SWOON

yah no doubt she was a total babe

otm

Neil Harrison, "All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go"

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20130423/251265238376.jpg

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

This is a brand new album by a band featuring ex-Thin Lizzy dudes.

http://assets.blabbermouth.net.s3.amazonaws.com/media/blackstarridersheavyfirecd.jpg

That belongs more to the "yawnsomely literal cover art" thread.

Has this one been done yet? Saffron Summerfield, "Fancy Meeting You Here!" (1976)

http://disk-market.sakura.ne.jp/jk/2L-01982.jpg

Sandy Davis, "Inside Every Fat Man" (1974)

http://i.imgur.com/gpAm1XX.jpg

wtf is going on on that sleeve?

I think the main character is supposed to be The Duchess's cook from Alice in Wonderland

omg what a disaster

Tinsley Ellis - Fanning The Flames (1989)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41wWaf8sWlL.jpg

Not sure we've seen "I'm Just A Rock'n'Roll Singer" by Lucifer's Friend yet:

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/963/cover_749182022010.jpg

(I have half an idea this may be disqualified on grounds of irony but OMG.)

Disappointed to find this beauty does not, in fact, exist:

https://img.discogs.com/oNrBCMHAYiRplhm9iZKd4ug2Dfk=/fit-in/600x559/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2673155-1394747404-4132.jpeg.jpg

It appears to be part of the packaging for this only slightly less horrible titles thread-worthy effort, "Sold For Prevention of Disease Only" by Wilderness Road:

http://blackgemrecords.com/gallery/d/43275-9/Wilderness+Road+_Sold+For+Prevention+Of+Disease+Only_.jpg

... making its third appearance on this thread!

Easily done though.

BTW, speaking of not-quite-titles, I couldn't resist and finally bought that Valdy album Valdy and the Hometown Band which appears from the cover to be an album by Valdy and the Hometown Band entitled Folksinger Deluxe With A Side Of Fries. It's pleasant! Pleasantly inessential even. Very very Lightfoot-esque, or Jimmy Buffett in "Come Monday" mode. If you like those things, this will help you pass forty minutes nicely and the cover is better than anything either of those acts ever came up with.

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:

I grew up there and remember so much of this garbage - Rochester favorites Duke Jupiter had a couple groaners too:

http://www.dukejupiter.com/images/a-white-knuckle-ride-360px.jpg

Jukin' Bone lead singer Jumpin' Joe Whiting never stopped making this stuff: these are from 2003 and 2006 (!):

http://www.joewhitingmusic.com/Store/images/Rocket%20In%20My%20Pocket.jpg

http://www.joewhitingmusic.com/Store/images/Have%20Love%20Will%20Travel.jpg

i swear i did not intentionally juxtapose those two cd covers in a way that makes it look like joe whiting has a gigantic world-sized ass and tiny little baby legs, but i regret nothing

ahahaha