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

http://991.com/newGallery/Wet-Willie-Which-Ones-Willie-500502.jpg

Every song on D.I. Go Pop is like a horrible 70s album title.

Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band
Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
Bootsy? Player of the Year
This Boot is Made for Fonk-N

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/JethroTull-albums-toooldtorocknroll.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Aerosmith_-_Night_In_The_Ruts.JPG

Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday

I'd think Budgie's "If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules" kind of fits here.

Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns - Say Blow By Blow Backwards
even Joe Walsh gets a headache thinking bout that one

Jim Capaldi's "Whale Meat Again" was a protest song about the killing of Whales. (upthread)

Makes it worse.

think there's a faces best-of, maybe released after the 70s but recalling its syntactic constructions, good little boys ... when they're asleep

This may be the best/worst:

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/071/0000007135_350.jpg

Faces - A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse

1971, so this may be the template

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'

see also Ringo The 4th - his sixth album

Is "Sometimes I Wish we were an Eagle" a pun?

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.

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.

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

xp Oh I get it... "Which one's Willie." Which means no one in the band was named Willie. Quite a hoot/hollar combo.

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.

greg kihn to thread, surely

(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)

Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

Although they did apparently play gigs with a backdrop with "PRETENTIOUS" in big letters above them.

but that is cool

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kansas/album-point-of-know-return.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qMlKL6v2DKE/TPV-wiPyfGI/AAAAAAAAA7M/8ewBGXN8Ow8/James%20Brown%20(1979)%20-%20Take%20A%20Look%20At%20Those%20Cakes.jpg

oh man, i just got "Night In The Ruts" http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gfI3E63GIS4/TTzdFlqnb8I/AAAAAAAAAd0/hO6gMyE6Gb8/s1600/Grand+Funk+Railroad+All+the+Girls+in+the+World+Beware+%2521.jpg

http://www.thewho.info/images/75RARH-PST-RD.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Deep-Purple-Who-Do-We-Think-W-419996.jpg

http://oblada.com/storage/RS136_June1973.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1252641317684

lol @ Ride a Rock Horse

ride a rock pony amirite

Ride a Rock Horse is so fucking awful. It's just... it doesn't work, dude.

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.

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

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_N-2QLcuZbTI/SYChMNUvpLI/AAAAAAAAAQs/C9NbKYKFQY0/s400/front.jpg

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??

aerosmith tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Hard-Nutz.jpg

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...

Daltrey ftw.

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

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/THFxbWf4FKI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/JPDrEkzYU5g/s1600/cover.jpg

"Hungover & Feeling Rough As Shit" more like.

always thought "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is Spreading" was the worst but that may be like 1968

Jo Jo Gunne- So...Where's the Show?
Pilot- From the Album of the Same Name
Deep Purple- Come Taste the Band
Michael Stanley Band- You Break It...You Bought It!
Sly & the Family Stone- Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back
Kevin Ayers- Yes We Have No Mananas, So Get Your Mananas Today
The Animals- Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
Rabbit- A Croak and Grunt in the Night
Rick Derringer- If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot You
Spooky Tooth- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw
Ramatam- In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns
Black Oak Arkansas- If an Angel Came to See You, Would You Make Her Feel at Home?

it's from the 80's, but I always thought that You're Gettin' Even While I'm Gettin' Odd by the Wolf-less edition of The J. Geils Band was a dumb title.

Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

had my wires bizarrely crossed and was thinking of James Brown for all of this, that was a very bizarre reality. fantastic title/sleeve combo tho.

James Taylor's Sister!

Preceded by James Taylor’s EVOL

Does Hall and Oates's "Bigger Than Both of Us" qualify? Dig the delightfully-bonkers cover, like if the mid-'70s had their own mid-'70s, featuring the re-appearance of the Ritz crackers from the Todd Rundgren-helmed "War Babies" released a few years prior

https://www.theturntablestore.com/cdn/shop/files/23746016-014098836679cc18df2926679cc18df29317192581366679cc18df295.jpg?v=1738083379

What is the device in front of Oates - some kind of space-age TV? A particularly compact and stylish microfiche? Just a prop?

this is the best thread.

Hall’s chest hair!

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/962d80fb884b6637bfac8a8db18ed63a/5083391/david-bromberg-band-how-latell-ya-play-til-Cover-Art.jpg

David Bromberg Band- How Late'll Ya Play 'Til

I wish some enterprising *current* musician would come out with a full on album cover along these lines.

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

https://themusicshopandmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Front-The-Hudson-Brothers-Damn-Those-Kids-1978-CD.jpg

Hudson Brothers: Damn Those Kids

mr mustache with the cigar on the top right reminds me of the cheers opening credits

He reminds me of Tom Waits on the cover of Swordfishtrombones

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!"

excellent

hahahaha that one's brilliant!

I kinda want there to be a “well,” after that comma, though

They Said It Couldn't Be Done, But We Did It... But Not Well!

great back cover
https://i.discogs.com/lNR5ThNZKrbPHj4S93_b1FLsfNVlB7Fp0MmgOSVO0Y8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NzI3/MjAxLTE1OTY4MjY4/OTktOTIwMS5qcGVn.jpeg

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

that would fit well on this thread too post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

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.

yeah it's a great bit

love the guy hanging from the ceiling dropping fake snow of them

on them

agreed, that detail kinda ties the whole thing together.