"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
hilton felton - a man for all reasons
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 16 February 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.djdmac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/170577334973.jpg
you could put his name on any album would make for a good album cover
― niels, Thursday, 16 February 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/fOEizVG0A0JKUNL0B2uwwkGYU5M=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4503554-1366733645-7826.jpeg.jpg
Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts - Jamming With Edward! (1972)
https://img.discogs.com/qPaygOycVPPpZyo-cxYUc4Jt3GI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9199971-1476539388-8976.jpeg.jpg
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch (1974)
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 February 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
i bought that Ry Cooder album cos the cover looked weird and interesting. it is neither of those.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 February 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link
In the liner notes to the reissue of Silk Degrees, Boz Scaggs revealed he wished Paradise & Lunch had been one of his album titles.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 February 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
http://www.musicalparadise.com/image/cache/data/CDS/IAN%20GILLAN/ian-gillan-band-clear-air-turbulence-cd-music-500x500.jpg
Ian Gillan Band: Clear Air Turbulance
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
Might have already been posted, but he's just died so here is Peter Skellern, "Holding My Own"...
http://images.eil.com/large_image/PETER_SKELLERN_HOLDING%2BMY%2BOWN-362197.jpg
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
haha wow
― tylerw, Friday, 17 February 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
That IGB cover is dope.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 February 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
i'm certain this has been posted but still, in the spirit of the thread
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/GlennFreyNoFunAloud.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 18 February 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Well, yeah (it's been posted). Frey doing something better suited to another Eagle (Walsh).
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 February 2017 06:41 (seven years ago) link
That one still floors me with how cheap it looks... the lighting, the lettering... this is a solo debut from one of the leads of a mega-selling act and looks like Donnie Iris running out his contract.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 19 February 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
http://citizenfreak.com/system/titles/logos/000/304/101/thumb/304101.jpg?1423815397this one been posted yet?
― tylerw, Monday, 27 February 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
this is a solo debut from one of the leads of a mega-selling act and looks like Donnie Iris running out his contract.
That was kind of the point, Frey was supposed to be relaunching his career as the one Eagle ready for the 80s (see: The Long Run gatefold), and that's how they thought to present him.
I've mentioned this before, but one of the more interesting tales in Marc Eliot's Eagles book regards the unique problem Asylum faced when launching Henley's solo career: Here they had the voice behind several of the biggest hits of the seventies whose own name and face wasn't that familiar to the listenership because of the way the band didn't court the press in their heyday. Suddenly they were faced with this huge charisma-vacuum of a drummer turned leading man whom they were gonna have to sell to MTV.
They made him take dancing lessons.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 February 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/0/0c/James_Taylor_-_One_Man_Dog.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080503233154
James Taylor - One Man Dog (1972). I must have flipped past two hundred copies of this in my life and never registered that it even had a title.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 05:44 (seven years ago) link