Budgie - if I were brittania I'd waive the rules
― blank, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)
The Lowell George one is especially bad because it was also what he wanted the first Little Feat album to be called. Amazing that he held onto it for SO LONG.
― cwkiii, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:37 (fourteen years ago)
Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy is pretty ridiculous, especially considering the decidedly non-technical content.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)
http://991.com/newGallery/Wet-Willie-Which-Ones-Willie-500502.jpg
― per metal injection (Eazy), Saturday, 1 October 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)
Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.
― GoshLovely, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:36 (fourteen years ago)
Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber BandAhh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!Bootsy? Player of the YearThis Boot is Made for Fonk-N
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)
This might be the third time in the last month I've posted this:
http://www.hollywoodmemorabilia.com/files/cache/peter-frampton-autographed-signed-im-in-you-album_596c784f83f85bbc064e0b6afdd291be.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/JethroTull-albums-toooldtorocknroll.jpg
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:20 (fourteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Aerosmith_-_Night_In_The_Ruts.JPG
― jer.fairall, Sunday, 2 October 2011 00:22 (fourteen years ago)
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
― geeta, Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)
I'd think Budgie's "If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules" kind of fits here.
― earlnash, Sunday, 2 October 2011 03:59 (fourteen years ago)
Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns - Say Blow By Blow Backwardseven Joe Walsh gets a headache thinking bout that one
― Paul, Sunday, 2 October 2011 04:21 (fourteen years ago)
Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)
― Mark G, Monday, 3 October 2011 08:49 (fourteen years ago)
Makes it worse.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:32 (fourteen years ago)
think there's a faces best-of, maybe released after the 70s but recalling its syntactic constructions, good little boys ... when they're asleep
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Monday, 3 October 2011 13:43 (fourteen years ago)
This may be the best/worst:
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/071/0000007135_350.jpg
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:04 (fourteen years ago)
Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse
1971, so this may be the template
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:18 (fourteen years ago)
Ringo Starr - Ringo's Rotogravure
OK this isn't verbose but it's one of those albums I used to stare at as a record-store clerk, thinking 'what a dumb title'
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:20 (fourteen years ago)
see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album
― dismissible objects one fucks with (m coleman), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:21 (fourteen years ago)
Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 10 October 2011 14:51 (fourteen years ago)
IMO "Too Old To Rock'n'Roll, Too Young To Die" is a great title. Sums up pretty well the thoughts of the first generation who grew up with rock music, and how they dealt with not being teenagers anymore.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:21 (fourteen years ago)
Man - Do You Like It here Now, Are you Settling In? and (although I kinda like this one) 2 Oz. of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle.
― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)
I've been thinking (for no particular reason) about lame 70s album titles recently and just found this thread.
For sheer crassness, I can't help thinking of "Fanx Ta Ra" by Sad Cafe:
http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/119/906cd4ae57f246a291f42b96c13fafd1/l.jpg
― Daniel Giraffe, Sunday, 22 January 2012 07:18 (fourteen years ago)
xp Oh I get it... "Which one's Willie." Which means no one in the band was named Willie. Quite a hoot/hollar combo.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 January 2012 08:33 (fourteen years ago)
Gentle Giant - Pretentious - For the Sake of It. Never heard of this, probably a bootleg if it exists.
This definitely exists and is not a bootleg. It's a compilation but at least the title can't be blamed on the band, the liner notes say the label came up with it. Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 22 January 2012 12:42 (fourteen years ago)
greg kihn to thread, surely
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:22 (fourteen years ago)
(i realize it's hardly in the true caravan spirit, but 1978's "next of kihn" would have been a prime offender even if he hadn't gone back to the well a dozen times)
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 14:25 (fourteen years ago)
Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:39 (fourteen years ago)
Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.
but that is cool
― akm, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:48 (fourteen years ago)
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kansas/album-point-of-know-return.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:55 (fourteen years ago)
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qMlKL6v2DKE/TPV-wiPyfGI/AAAAAAAAA7M/8ewBGXN8Ow8/James%20Brown%20(1979)%20-%20Take%20A%20Look%20At%20Those%20Cakes.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:56 (fourteen years ago)
oh man, i just got "Night In The Ruts" http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 16:57 (fourteen years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gfI3E63GIS4/TTzdFlqnb8I/AAAAAAAAAd0/hO6gMyE6Gb8/s1600/Grand+Funk+Railroad+All+the+Girls+in+the+World+Beware+%2521.jpg
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.thewho.info/images/75RARH-PST-RD.jpg
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:08 (fourteen years ago)
http://991.com/newGallery/Deep-Purple-Who-Do-We-Think-W-419996.jpg
― henry s, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:10 (fourteen years ago)
http://oblada.com/storage/RS136_June1973.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1252641317684
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:12 (fourteen years ago)
lol @ Ride a Rock Horse
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)
ride a rock pony amirite
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:14 (fourteen years ago)
Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.
― emil.y, Sunday, 22 January 2012 17:58 (fourteen years ago)
What's to get about A Night In The Ruts? Am I missing a bad pun? Is it supposed to sound like "right in the nuts?" Because, even for a pun, that's a stretch. Why the hell would you want to call an album that??
And that James Brown cover is awesome.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)
That Sad Cafe reminds me of this candidate:
http://img03.shop-pro.jp/PA01005/593/product/24884146.jpg?20101121173947
and then there's this collage I found when searching for that cover:
http://img4.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/95/0b/h18h22/folder/1034626/img_1034626_29204540_0?1302445536
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:37 (fourteen years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N-2QLcuZbTI/SYChMNUvpLI/AAAAAAAAAQs/C9NbKYKFQY0/s400/front.jpg
― Lady Writer, Male Seether (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:40 (fourteen years ago)
aerosmith tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:43 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Hard-Nutz.jpg
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:01 (fourteen years ago)
Setting bad puns aside, something really galls me about BTO's "Best of BTO (So Far)" - the title's at the top of the cover and the parenthetical's at the bottom, as if to have a nice long pause to really set up this highlarious bit of comic self-aggrandization...
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:07 (fourteen years ago)
Daltrey ftw.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:16 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=foot+loose+and+fancy+free+rod+stewart&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1280&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=1rdIiZAVLJYjvM:&imgrefurl=http://www.amazon.com/Foot-Loose-Fancy-Free-Stewart/dp/B00004Y6O2&docid=SSEfMXYB3kX_VM&imgurl=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wu8bFi6mL._SL500_AA300_.jpg&w=300&h=300&ei=jYEcT6vdHoXb0QHjzrDoCw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=321&vpy=137&dur=215&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=105&ty=102&sig=115859656210803399850&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=137&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:38 (fourteen years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/THFxbWf4FKI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/JPDrEkzYU5g/s1600/cover.jpg
― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 22 January 2012 21:39 (fourteen years ago)
"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Sunday, 22 January 2012 22:57 (fourteen years ago)
always thought "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is Spreading" was the worst but that may be like 1968
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Sunday, 22 January 2012 23:29 (fourteen years ago)
I wish some enterprising *current* musician would come out with a full on album cover along these lines.
― omar little, Monday, 11 May 2026 17:39 (one month ago)
this is the best thread.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, May 11, 2026 11:54 AM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 May 2026 17:40 (one month ago)
https://themusicshopandmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Front-The-Hudson-Brothers-Damn-Those-Kids-1978-CD.jpg
Hudson Brothers: Damn Those Kids
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 June 2026 04:38 (two weeks ago)
mr mustache with the cigar on the top right reminds me of the cheers opening credits
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 3 June 2026 05:06 (two weeks ago)
He reminds me of Tom Waits on the cover of Swordfishtrombones
― Vast Halo, Wednesday, 3 June 2026 14:33 (two weeks ago)
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0MDzJkaRXUzK4QiCP_rpG7nGAIUd4A1gsHxHsYRlGSiDiqM3xlHs5sL0&s=10
The Dells: "They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But We Did It!"
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 June 2026 23:56 (two weeks ago)
excellent
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 04:08 (one week ago)
hahahaha that one's brilliant!
― the first of many brazen movies (stevie), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 06:55 (one week ago)
I kinda want there to be a “well,” after that comma, though
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 07:13 (one week ago)
They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But We Did It... But Not Well!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 08:33 (one week ago)
great back coverhttps://i.discogs.com/lNR5ThNZKrbPHj4S93_b1FLsfNVlB7Fp0MmgOSVO0Y8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NzI3/MjAxLTE1OTY4MjY4/OTktOTIwMS5qcGVn.jpeg
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 10:12 (one week ago)
Checking them out on Discogs, the Dells had some fun album sleeves! Including a Jack Davis special (w/The Dramatics)
https://i.discogs.com/Q3wVwO7lWNpL2HF82ByK-ihzkrNfjVUfq0qdeTX5FUg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzNTY0/MTctMTUwNTY2OTc4/My05NDczLmpwZWc.jpeg
― the first of many brazen movies (stevie), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 10:18 (one week ago)
that would fit well on this thread too post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 10:23 (one week ago)
more back covers should be behind-the-scenes views of the front cover shoot... really fits with the deliberately self-deflating ethos of having one's own album to do. but a worthwhile idea for bands in general.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 10:49 (one week ago)
yeah it's a great bit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 13:52 (one week ago)
love the guy hanging from the ceiling dropping fake snow of them
― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 14:13 (one week ago)
on them
― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 June 2026 14:14 (one week ago)
agreed, that detail kinda ties the whole thing together.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 June 2026 15:25 (one week ago)
https://i.discogs.com/tMeye7MdYHQLZnnoFDWTzn4xlOC3EMuAdRnENLAWutM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwMjc0/ODEtMTU4ODM0NzUy/Ni01NzI5LmpwZWc.jpeg
Ellis: Riding On The Crest Of A Slump
― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 June 2026 22:33 (one week ago)
The men without hats look very dejected to be without hats, but they do have great footwear. What is leftmost man standing on?
― bendy, Tuesday, 16 June 2026 15:32 (six days ago)
looks like the back of a chair
― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 15:46 (six days ago)
before the slump they could afford a whole chair
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 15:49 (six days ago)
probably had to spend that budget to get Roger Daltry as producer
― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 15:51 (six days ago)
!!! woah that's wild I've never even heard of this band
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 16:02 (six days ago)
"Half a Chair to Stand On" would be a good own album to do title
― bendy, Tuesday, 16 June 2026 16:05 (six days ago)
The follow-up album Why Not? is an A+ example of pseudo self-deprecation album titling too
― duffel coat music (Matt #2), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 16:11 (six days ago)
Named after vocalist Steve Ellis who was in blue-eyed soul 60s band, the Love Affair.
― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 16:52 (six days ago)
https://disk-market2.sakura.ne.jp/jk/2L-04587b.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 18 June 2026 18:59 (four days ago)