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

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whatever they were going for there it pisses me off

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link

not even going to look up the covers for Birth Control's many other awful titles, including Operation, Rebirth, Backdoor Possibilities, Rock On Brain, Believe In The Pill, and Knock Knock!! Who's There?.

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link

"Believe in the Pill" has a foetus in a dustbin, from memory.

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link

Absolutely everything about that band was terrible.

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link

Never heard of these guys, they definitely have some wacky looking records. Their record "Count on Dracula" cover looks like it could have been the prequel to Sabbaths "Born Again".

earlnash, Saturday, 27 May 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link

That's horrifying wow

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 May 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link

Holy shit I just looked up their other covers

Unreal

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 May 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link

Does Dan Auerbach's new "Waiting on a Song" count?

LimbsKing, Thursday, 1 June 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link

If the album cover is Dan sitting at bus stop made of musical notes

President Keyes, Thursday, 1 June 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link

Infinite Content needs a dishonorable mention in here just for being a lazy as fuck album title

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 June 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link

ok so that album is called Everything Now which is even lazier

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/UTsaEKW.jpg?1

The joke here is that her middle finger's raised a little bit, right? Like when kids hold up three fingers and say "read between the lines."

the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 4 June 2017 10:21 (six years ago) link

Kursaal Flyers, "Chocs Away!" (1975)

http://skullrecords.de/images/product_images/original_images/kursaal_flyers-chocs_away-lp.jpg

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 12 June 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link

CAPTAIN PARALYTIC AND THE BROWN ALE COWBOYS - MIKE HARDING

http://media.oxfam.org.uk/images/products/HighStDonated/Zoom/hd_100794803_01.jpg?v=1

André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 23 June 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link

omg WHAT, why would anybody choose THAT elton john title to... wow. the tracklisting for that is also pure gold btw.

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link

that's dude's a comedian though, with other albums called Flat Dogs and Shaky Pudden, and Foo Foo Shufflewick & Her Exotic Banana

President Keyes, Friday, 23 June 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link

ehhh still counts imho, a great many people who had their own album to do were hoping to get a chuckle out of us. just a bit of fun from those low-stakes, shaggy cut-ups and their easy-going rockin'.

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link

btw re: the Stanky Brown Group brought up slightly upthread:

https://img.discogs.com/2ehC98xyvMLMrjZp_K3Koknpneg=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2615226-1484583974-4817.jpeg.jpg

If The Lights Don't Get You the Helots Will (1977)

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link

("Misery Loves The Stanky Brown Group" would have also been good tbh. I just can't imagine being at one of these jokers' concerts and being like, shit yeah, I gotta get in the merch line and take me home a copy of that!)

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link

Turns out the Oxfam online store is a trove of this stuff. Another "comedy" album

RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY -- BILLY CONNOLLY

http://media.oxfam.org.uk/images/products/HighStDonated/Zoom/hd_100767468_01.jpg?v=1

André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 23 June 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link

album covers from the 70s done in a claustrophobic style

Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 23 June 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link

Previously displayed upthread, I spotted I Didn't Know They Still Made Records Like This in the wild:
https://img.discogs.com/Ffz07bv3yKb7KGp1i1EdUUw_Pq0=/fit-in/600x601/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6349009-1424112499-7145.jpeg.jpg

Confused that there was no artist listed on the spine, I realized is was a label sampler from Warners. Looking it up on Discogs, the whole Warners Lost Leaders series from 1969 to 1980 has a pulse on album naming through the decade. The Big Ball from 1970, with Tull and Family and a whole bunch of GTOs captures the nudge-wink bluster. Troublemakers with Gang of Four and PiL and Devo captures 1980 right down the the hazard stripes on the cover. Supergroup in 1976, Collectus Interruptus in 78, before the dinosaurs are truly under siege from New Wave.

https://www.discogs.com/label/41348-Loss-Leaders

I suppose 1975 is peak Got My Own Album to Do aesthetic.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Sunday, 25 June 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link

Excellent.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link

Extra points for The Whole Burbank Catalog riffing on The Whole Earth Catalog.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 June 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link

Got My Own Album to Do aesthetic tracks tightly with the rise and fall of embroidered denim.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Sunday, 25 June 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link

Well done bendy! Yeah I remember it being hard to look that one up... oddly, I also saw it out in the wild again recently, tho it could have been the same copy as I saw the first time...

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link

Looking more at Lost Leaders, and derailing a bit, 1979s Al La Carte really reaches for Roxy Music, but only lands Robert Palmer on the tracklist

https://img.discogs.com/4RfTgHjoziONkVSc81r7gq_5_mI=/fit-in/590x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1854371-1358714900-2780.jpeg.jpg

Though it does confuse al la carte and hors d'oeuvre, in a yawnsomly literal way.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 26 June 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link

Re: Roxy, I guess Atlantic (sister to Warners & the band's US label at the time) releases were off limits for those sets, and their first two albums (released here on Reprise and Warners, respectively) were too old to merit excerpting.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 26 June 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link

is that the L.A. hard rock band A La Carte?

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link

Nope, just another Warners sampler.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Monday, 26 June 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link

Since we have an oven chips thread on the go, let's kill two birds with one stone ...

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/images/largerec/themanwhoputtheengine_fe065.jpg

... somewhat in the vein of Mike Harding but the guy wrote "January Man", which is one of the greatest songs ever written.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link

Wow...this is a weird one and as a fan of the thread, I don't seeing this one before.

Black Oak Arkansas - I'd Rather Be Sailing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZA5BN-3f-k

earlnash, Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

i think i need to find a copy of this!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/I%27d_Rather_Suck_My_Thumb.jpg

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link

Excellent, I'm looking for a copy too.

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 08:06 (six years ago) link

Does this fit?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Bollingsuiteforflutejazzpianotrio.jpg/220px-Bollingsuiteforflutejazzpianotrio.jpg

Not a horrible title, really, except that the cover art transmutes it into a lame dad pun.

didgeridon't (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link

A friend of my Dad had that record, and the cover freaked me out as a seven year old. I knew it was implying something, but I couldn't quite figure it out. Recently found it for a quarter.

Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link

his flute suite was a sequel to his toot suite btw

http://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/Alb.31445600/500x500.jpg

plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51w9rPnx8XL.jpg

Syl & Jimmy Johnson: Two Johnsons Are Better Than One!

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 July 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link

can't remember if we've already had Judge Dread, but in case we haven't

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/537/MI0001537173.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Dreadmania: It's All In The Mind

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/488/MI0002488554.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Working Class 'Ero

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/115/MI0002115982.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Bedtime Stories

soref, Friday, 28 July 2017 07:00 (six years ago) link

yikes, don't think i've ever heard of him, looks dodgy as hell. is he some sort of roy chubby brown type deal?

plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 28 July 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link

he did smutty comedy ska/reggae tracks. I like 'Big Six':https://youtu.be/K5w8zV9Uoos

soref, Friday, 28 July 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link

fuck me that's a tough listen

plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 28 July 2017 07:23 (six years ago) link

great find for this thread though

﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 July 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link

Leigh Stirling ‎– In The Wings

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7cxS3LrTv0s/hqdefault.jpg

I'm not sure if this should count or not, the title itself is pretty unremarkable but I feel like there's some kind of terrible pun I'm missing? otherwise, why is there a picture of him standing on a jetty rather than anything in any way related to the phrase 'in the wings'?

soref, Friday, 28 July 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link

Materializing. Is he dead or something?

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link

that was a posthumous realease after he was killed in a failed birdman attempt off the end of bognor pier - sadly he didn't have it 'in the wings' that day.

plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 28 July 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link

just looked this up on discogs and it seems to be one of the first albums that Daniel Lanois was credited on (as engineer). idk if he appears on the cover.

soref, Monday, 31 July 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link


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