ha i didn't know Cows stole that album title
― von LMO argonaut (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 June 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
gimme most of the album titles itt over pretentious nowadayz shit like Marni Stern or Fiona Apple's infamous "When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You Know That You're Right"
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 June 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
I like album titles where you go "Is that...a real word?" but you don't tell anyone and you're too embarrassed to actually look it up.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 28 June 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
there's a thread idea
― von LMO argonaut (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 28, 2013 8:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tbh Caravan probably stole it off of someone's embarrassing uncle which I think is the genesis (npi) of the joke
― dimension nickröss (DJ Mencap), Friday, 28 June 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
I love these album titles because like - - is the idea to convey that the band are just a bunch of cut-ups, some regular goofy guys who might do well as sitcom guest stars even while they make you boogie? So put 'em on and give 'em a spin!
totally OTM like "Hey pal, we're just doing a bit of rock n rollin over here nbd"
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 June 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I've got to repost the Bernie Marsden solo album from upthread because the image is missing, it is sooooo perfect, cover and everything
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~hamaki/BernieMarsden_AndAboutTimeToo-AvexAVCB66044.jpg
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Saturday, 29 June 2013 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/45650793/The+Smoker+You+Drink+The+Player+You+Get+155008.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 30 June 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
80s, not 70s...still...http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jXcIdC0TPic/Sqg2uxeEYFI/AAAAAAAAEOI/ye680qjynUk/s400/Joe+Walsh+-+Got+Any+Gum+%281987%29.jpg
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 30 June 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Kudos to Joe, he kept it real all the way into the 90s:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/86875177/Look+What+I+Did++The+Joe+Walsh+Anthology.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 30 June 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://blog-imgs-45.fc2.com/s/t/u/stupidnoiz/trower_bltf.jpg
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
They could've got Ian Gillan to sing on it and called it LGBT.
― OORT (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 09:24 (eleven years ago) link
And then replaced Jack Bruce with Country Joe McDonald and titled it McDLT.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
Or get AR Kane in to do gauzy sonic background shit, call it BLART
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
BLARKT innit
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
or perhaps M/A/R/R/S/B/L/A/R/K/T
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
don't shoot the piano player
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Not 70s, but Dave Mason "Some Assembly Required"
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-3269428-1323203326.jpeg
― Gouty_Ted, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/No_Heavy_Petting_album.jpg
Not even sure this is a pun -- the monkey is not a "heavy pet"? I don't know why they're wired together. Baffling.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
This whole thread is a pretty good nostalgia tour of mid-'80s remainder bins at mall record stores, btw.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of UFO ... didn't realize this was a pun until being reminded of the British pronunciation of faucet.
http://mimg.ugo.com/201104/6/5/0/187056/cuts/ufo-force-it_480_poster.jpg
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
The "no heavy petting" was what the sign at the swimming pool would say, but what relevance the monkey has, dunno..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
why are there so many water lines and faucets
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
not to mention the implied sexual assault
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
If she doesn't want it, faucet?
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Not a pun but what the fuck?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/WBL_whateverf.jpg
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Laing likes women, Bruce likes getting drunk, West likes eating hamburgers.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Also apparently the couple on that "Force It" cover are Genesis P Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
feel like this horrible but not 70s album title belongs:
http://img.hipersonica.com/2013/03/The-Devil-Put-Dinosaurs-Here.jpg
― original bgm, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Never knew that, but it's another Hipgnosis cover and that was Peter Christopherson's day job so I guess it's not entirely surprising.
― Filk Hollins (NickB), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
Presumably after having surgery (like getting a monkey wired to your neck) the doctors would recommend that you indulge in no heavy petting.
― Filk Hollins (NickB), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
I was just thinking that "It's All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye" would make a good one of these
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61eH1Qe7oAL._SY355_.jpg
^ first solo slbum by Alan Clarke of the Hollies. I have no idea what the title is suppose to mean, but it is truly fucking abysmal.
― Ralph Vogon Williams (NickB), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Warren Zevon's "My Ride's Here" is the sort of poignant/sad exception to the rule of this stuff
― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
what a ridiculous cover too. but awesome t-shirt
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I googled just now to make sure "It's All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye... Then It's Just Fun!" was not a Megadeth album title.
― Vinnie, Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
I have no idea what the title is suppose to mean...
Harold Allan Clarke (5 April 1942, Salford, Lancashire) is a retired British singer who was one of the founding members of The Hollies.
― Laws, yes! M-O-O-N spells (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CxXvDDPpL.jpg
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Nah, it'd be like, It's All Guns and Fame Til Someone Oozes A Lie!, and it'd be written out on a postcard with a flourish, like they could have written ''wish you were here!'' And the band are standing around, leaning on each other's shoulders chuckling at the camera. And it'd be really brown.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thehitchers.gencodesigns.com/Sleeve-Fun-and-Games_web.jpg
― Number None, Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Horrible 90s Album Titles etc., would be a good thread...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
What would define the 90s album-naming ethos -- one-word names that sound like chemical compounds?
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 11 July 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmm, tough to say...these things break apart by genre I think. Did the "we're just a fun, no-fuss party band!" thing even exist in the 90s? I guess maybe in the land of vaguely funky major label alterna-metal. Most big rock bands seemed to take on at least a little grungey bummerdom, in image if not in song. Maybe something like Sugar Ray's 14:59.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh come now, of course there was!
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/155/0000015538_500.jpg
― Moodles, Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
I'm struggling to keep myself from spamming this thread with more horrible 90s album covers
― Moodles, Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
ahahaha yes, how could I forget FUSH YU MANG. Bloodhound Gang would be a good source here too methinks. But yes - new thread? Or do we need to wait a couple decades?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
E.L.P.'s Brain Salad Surgery always struck me as a particularly awful name
― Moodles, Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
...which is also a lyric from Dr. John's "Right Place, Wrong Time." Both released in 1973. I've always wondered about this.
― Laws, yes! M-O-O-N spells (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 11 July 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
There's a collaboration you don't see too often.
Proposed (horrible) album title:
Waiter, There's an Armadillo in my Gumbo!
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 12 July 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
Check, Please!, with a picture of the band in spirited negotiations with the record company.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 12 July 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link