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)
Jo Jo Gunne- So...Where's the Show?Pilot- From the Album of the Same NameDeep Purple- Come Taste the BandMichael Stanley Band- You Break It...You Bought It!Sly & the Family Stone- Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm BackKevin Ayers- Yes We Have No Mananas, So Get Your Mananas TodayThe Animals- Before We Were So Rudely InterruptedRabbit- A Croak and Grunt in the NightRick Derringer- If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot YouSpooky Tooth- You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your JawRamatam- In April Came the Dawning of the Red SunsBlack Oak Arkansas- If an Angel Came to See You, Would You Make Her Feel at Home?
― President Keyes, Monday, 23 January 2012 00:11 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:14 (fourteen years ago)
Doobie Brothers What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:19 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― BIG JOJO aka the road runner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:50 (fourteen years ago)
you're welcome
also, ELP Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:55 (fourteen years ago)
Pretty sure these are where Blink 182 got the inspiration for a couple of their album names because they fit right in.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:59 (fourteen years ago)
1969, but
Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments - A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark
― Andy K, Monday, 23 January 2012 02:26 (fourteen years ago)
The Animals- Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
In a similar vein of album titles that trot out a familiar (hackneyed) phrase, try
Bloody Tourists - 10cc Individually and Collectively - Steeleye SpanIndelibly Stamped - Supertramp
and so on...
Like Tom above I love puns MORE than the next man but... my all-time lame-pun album title (admittedly 80s) has to be Bankstatement by Tony Banks.
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 08:13 (fourteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AafG7mBnL._SS400_.jpg
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:08 (fourteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fbuYL1Y4VSc/Sij6nmlLFQI/AAAAAAAAJGA/Ytosn7NUSIU/s320/Gilgamesh.jpg
^ Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:10 (fourteen years ago)
I guess Regatta de Blanc by the Police counts here as well.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:16 (fourteen years ago)
Robert Wyatt is probably the champion at this - Matching Mole, End of an Ear etc and *especially* Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:19 (fourteen years ago)
So bad, and yet so good..
http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk/client_files/default/man.jpg
Man, "Do You Like It Here, Are You Settling In?"
... what did these bands think they were achieving with these titles?
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:28 (fourteen years ago)
Oh man, this one ticks every conceivable box:
http://s45.radikal.ru/i107/0903/58/41c66ddaa717.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:52 (fourteen years ago)
Haha, that looks like a still from Going Straight or something.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:00 (fourteen years ago)
Norman Stanley Fletcher meets Hipgnosis
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:03 (fourteen years ago)
One title I always thought was bad, was:
"The quality of mercy is not strnen" The Mekons.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:08 (fourteen years ago)
.. until I saw one:
http://www.fotopocket.nl/fpimages/2011/09/07/cc34ad441f3b3bbbad47e25c9f94bcd8/1543858.jpg
Stupid:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Rockin%27_with_Curly_Leads.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:11 (fourteen years ago)
Crap:
http://storage.canalblog.com/93/83/443665/33139026.jpg
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:19 (fourteen years ago)
It's not the seventies. It's not an album. But:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/b612f46ca2bd6c180fe58a2070478b5b/430896.jpg
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (fourteen years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i0WHJgYLbMA/SPsCEzxlWXI/AAAAAAAACC8/O33BKWQsY94/s400/The+Status+Quo+-+1978+-+If+You+Can%27t+Stand+The+Heat.jpg
^ top quality punnage from the Quo
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 11:22 (fourteen years ago)
http://jamesmeredith.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/0001022326_350.jpg
^ Gene Vincent - I'm Back And I'm Proud
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:05 (fourteen years 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 (two days ago)
"Half a Chair to Stand On" would be a good own album to do title
― bendy, Tuesday, 16 June 2026 16:05 (two 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 (two 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 (two days ago)