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

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

Many years ago somebody was trying to think of what artist had made that record and asked me but I didn't know. His attitude was that he had stumped me but my attitude was "why should I know who recorded an album with a stupid title like that?" So thanking you for clearing that up, Elvis T.

so is this supposed to be like an old gangster movie or abbott & costello movie "why, you, i oughta.." or is it something else? it could be shropshire slang that i don't know.

sorry, not 70s. Y U I Orta is the title. an album i've never listened to!

https://i.discogs.com/-01XX8qjZB9v4nYWMoBmm4tD5C0tiob51Nspjj2i8wo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1ODAx/NTctMTYyMTEyNjEz/My05ODg5LmpwZWc.jpeg

The former. Why is the question though.

... sorry, Y.

its a bad and confusing album title.

Phrase is associated with the Three Stooges i think?

Right, but I think Scott and Tom are wondering why they named the record that. Sounds more like a Slade album name.

Oh yeah totally.

Just found this:

YUI Orta was probably one of the first albums with a title that was a play on words, like Van Halen’s OU812. Whose clever idea was that?

Mick kept on saying that to Carola, the girl he was with at the time. And we had no title for that record whatsoever, so I just said, “Well, we’ll call it that then.” But no one could figure it out. I realized then that we’d done the wrong thing, but it was too late. I wouldn’t have minded, but I’d never heard [of the expression] either. He just kept on doing it with this girl he was with, “Why You I Orta.” I said, “What’s that?” He said, “It’s the Three Stooges.” Some albums just don’t have titles, and it becomes a major problem at the last minute. I guess that’s why that got stuck on there.

i think even slade would have gone "yeah, i dunno....."

Probable alternate titles:

Hunter-Ronson
Ronson-Hunter
Play It Like Ya Got It
'Ere's Some Songs For Ya

before they went down the pub and came up with the eventual pick, as it seemed like a good idea when they were pissed and no-one could be bothered to go back and change it.

haha xpost, I was almost right

i feel like the three stooges weren't the only people to use that but maybe they did invent it. they said it a lot anyway. feels like every gangster in every 40s comedy said it. along with "saaaay, what's the gag?" when someone attempted some sort of trickery.
anyway i probably first heard it during a looney tunes cartoon.

is that how they pronounce "oughta" where mick ronson was from? "orta". he was from Hull. i just looked it up. because that's the other thing that makes it even more confusing.

actually there are totally people here who would do that too. the people who pronounce "water" as "worter".

Let's not start trying to explain a Hull accent.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/rutlesriki/images/7/7f/Solo.JPG/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1200?cb=20200930205058

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/rutlesriki/images/7/7f/Solo.JPG/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1200?cb=20200930205058

i feel like the three stooges weren't the only people to use that but maybe they did invent it. they said it a lot anyway. feels like every gangster in every 40s comedy said it. along with "saaaay, what's the gag?" when someone attempted some sort of trickery.
anyway i probably first heard it during a looney tunes cartoon.

― scott seward, Saturday, August 17, 2024 5:06 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

in every old movie ever

both of these tropes show up in the first few posts there!

is that how they pronounce "oughta" where mick ronson was from? "orta". he was from Hull. i just looked it up. because that's the other thing that makes it even more confusing.

actually there are totally people here who would do that too. the people who pronounce "water" as "worter".

― scott seward, Saturday, August 17, 2024 2:10 PM

Is this equivalent to the UFO "Force It" album title (faucet, get it?). Are UFO from Hull? I didn't get that one until I saw it in the "things you were really old ..." thread.

No one says faucet in the UK.

Tap?

Spinal Faucet

'Ere's Some Songs For Ya

Lols at this.

Saw this one the other day

https://i.discogs.com/laMDOUr9pFh5Fz50W02VdNLXI7fbUEfMlKvRgAxEuj0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:574/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNTQ2/NzMtMTY2ODc2ODk2/Mi0xNjYxLmpwZWc.jpeg

Completely disgusting foods our parents ate and a song titled "Jailbait"? Sign me up!

https://i.discogs.com/iFbTGD3QFO7NRpeipLrCJ8lrm8Yam4ua4f2Pfan6xYQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:574/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMxNTQ2/NzMtMTY2ODc2ODk3/Ni03OTE0LmpwZWc.jpeg