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

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

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

haha wow

That IGB cover is dope.

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

Well, yeah (it's been posted). Frey doing something better suited to another Eagle (Walsh).

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.

http://citizenfreak.com/system/titles/logos/000/304/101/thumb/304101.jpg?1423815397
this one been posted yet?

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.

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.

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered edition of “Can I Have My Money Back?”, the classic debut solo album by the legendary singer-songwriter GERRY RAFFERTY. Recorded in 1971 for Transatlantic Records, the album followed Rafferty’s two albums as a member of The Humblebums with Billy Connolly.

wowwwwwwwwww that's a good one

And that makes total sense re: Frey and Henley. IMHO Frey looks like a complete lame-o trying to be the clean-cut Man of the Coming Decade (the iron-pumping probably didn't help matters) but I guess it worked out for him, and as a general rule I would have much preferred it if most of these artists continued having their own albums to do, long hair and all, than try to get hip to the sleek new styles.

obvious pun I missed:

http://www.soundfinder.jp/img/products/102136/1339858800/4fdd8ab9-56dc-4e94-a35b-047d7697bade/679380.jpg

The part of the pun I didn't get until last week was "two sides" = sides of a record.

(fun fact: the late Miguel Ferrer plays drums on one song)

listening to Clear Air Turbulence by Ian Gillan Band right now, lord the 70s really were a time, just like this goes between like hard rock and metal and AOR and jazz fusion at will, there's no other time an album like this could be made (and only by a self-indulgent rock star who was already established)

pretty good stuff

Another Deep Purple solo project that is deep within that got-my-own-rockopera-metal-ballet-AOR-jazzfusion-to-do aesthetic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSEW_4c2o1Y

The version of Butterfly Ball on Amazon Prime comes up with delightful "promotional use only" subtitles every 20 minutes or so.

that screen cap alone looks amazing

glover was the one that tried to push purple in a "funk" direction i think

The part of the pun I didn't get until last week was "two sides" = sides of a record.

(fun fact: the late Miguel Ferrer plays drums on one song)

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:24 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And not the pun that Moon had previously accidentally driving over his limo driver and killed him? I guess that isn't really a pun

was looking up the personnel on the Ian Gillan Band record, and Ray Fenwick, the guitarist, had his own (very fine) entry in this genre:

Keep America Beautiful, Get a Haircut

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KKCDAf4Iqlg/hqdefault.jpg

Already posted!

The cover of Two Sides of The Moon has a hole cut out where the car window is. The inner sleeve can be reversed to show two different images through the hole. The other side has his naked butt sticking out.

Already posted!

― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Wednesday, March 1, 2017 1:45 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oops! man i hope we aren't running out, i thought this was the world's only infinite resource

Came across this one today with Tom Jones flashing the horns because "Memories Don't Leave Like People Do".

http://images.genius.com/5dc6c6c45f9dd81fba144b636b17dbc9.1000x1000x1.jpg

Battlefield Band, "Home Is Where the Van Is"

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/images/largerec/homeiswherethevanis_comd2006.jpg

Tom Jones getting dark with that cover

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PpqCTstsL._SY355_.jpg

Cozy Powell: Octopuss

Speedy Keen - Y'Know What I Mean?

http://www.parareco.com/data/parareco/product/41ba8411b1.JPG

or rather, Y'Know Wot I Mean?

Bruce Spelman - You Don't Know What You're Paddling In.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20100603/230482400628.jpg

Tony Kelly - I Never Got

http://st.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/l/02/01/VSCD-5192.jpg

You never her

The swans are indifferent to his never having gotten.

thanks for posting that Tom Jones cover, i listened to that album yesterday and it was nice

Not only was that Tony Kelly album posted before but the follow up post was almost exactly the same. We're going round in circles!

http://streamd.hitparade.ch/cdimages/highlight-round_in_circles_s.jpg

Meanwhile, for no apparent reason, Lon & Derrek Van Eaton are asking, "Who Do You Out Do".

http://www.recordsmerchant.com/lp/amlh64507f.jpg

this cover really is quite something

http://www.wetwilliemusic.com/images/MilesofSmiles.png

The tune 'We Got Love' off that Tom Jones record is quite good. It's a total Issac Hayes/Barry White production and that moogy bass in the right channel and scratchy guitar in the left is pretty funky.

I know it's not an album title but I never knew this was a thing

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/952/MI0001952940.jpg

The 70s were a dark time

Two the Hard Way kinda fits

Also "All Man and Woman"?

got that from here btw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst

That list needs correction: it lists the wrong "Jagger" song from 2011.

"Stupid Hoe", Nicki Minaj (2011)

no citations

that list is far out

BTO's not fragile was a 'nuk nuk' riposte to fragile by yes

or rather...

In a 1995 interview, Randy Bachman indicated that he thought that using the word "fragile" as a title for a rock album, as Yes had done with their 1971 album Fragile, was "strange."[1] He thought that BTO music could be "dropped and kicked" without breaking, so, without intending any commentary about Yes, the band "tongue-in-cheek" called their next album Not Fragile.

Bachman Turner Overdrive - No Homo

bachman turner overdrive - old americans

I think the Yes album cover actually had a picture of the world breaking, which is true; I mean, the world is a fragile place as far as the ecology and things like that. So it's not us against the band Yes. We just thought that was kind of a strange title, so we thought we'd call ours Not Fragile.

And that's how rock and roll albums get made.

bachman turner overdrive - old americans
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, March 4, 2017 5:28 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ay hoser, that's old Canadians