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
Tinsley Ellis - Fanning The Flames (1989)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41wWaf8sWlL.jpg
― the_ecuador_three, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
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.)
― Tim, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― Tim, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
... making its third appearance on this thread!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Easily done though.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
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:
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
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
ahahaha
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
I fully believe.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
https://rainbowsoundrecords.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/r-2716-lps-front.jpg
― PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 9 February 2017 01:46 (seven years ago) link
Maybe this doesn't fit cos it gave me thee actual lols but
https://s24.postimg.org/cjipt78it/mhofeib.jpg
Mike Harding - Old Four Eyes Is Back
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 06:59 (seven years ago) link
oops
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 07:00 (seven years ago) link
Rochdale Cowboy looking pretty contemporary there.
― mahb, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link
yep: can't remember if i used that cover or the slightly more awkwardly arranged alternative that drops the !
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51v1KdcKy1L.jpg
i'm just going to assume that this title/cover is a play on "say when"
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.robhoeke.com/images/hoezen/TwoOfAKind.jpg
― willem, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Seems like people have forgotten about this other thread, several recent posts fit better there than here:
Album Covers featuring Yawnsomely Literal Cover Art in regards to said album's title.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 9 February 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
There's a lot of overlap - yawnsome literalness reflects the same basic impulses that lay behind the current thread's canonical entries.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 February 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
only major difference is this one is restricted to the 70s afaict
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 February 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
Can't find a decent sized pic of this cover I saw in the $2 bin this weekend, but could find an ad for it--go figure
http://thumbs4.picclick.com/d/l400/pict/201681321799_/Advert-8X12-New-Riders-Of-The-Purple-Sage.jpg
New Riders of The Purple Sage: Who Are Those Guys?
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 February 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
Hey Tuomas contribute or quit being a bummer
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 February 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link