Everything about Magic(!) is uuuuggghhhhhh.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sPVp7Li2HzU/TkZ5h0S9yYI/AAAAAAAAAJM/f5ZJEOLnxsE/s1600/COVER2.jpg
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 September 2014 09:25 (nine years ago) link
oh my god
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Best thing about that to me is the incredibly lazily tacked on "2 Bonus Tracks" from the CD version.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
that is really a first-class example
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Surely there's room here for some Be-bop Deluxe...
http://img15.nnm.me/6/c/8/7/0/42d513aef28a355e84ebc783a8d_prev.jpg
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
And of course, the glorious Car Over The Lake album by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils
http://www.ozarkdaredevils.com/car-lake.jpg
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
kind of curious what an Aynsley Dunbar album sounds like, although I don't have high hopes. He's a pretty sick drummer though...
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, Axe Victim doesn't seem that relevant to this thread. Aren't we talking about banal album titles? If we're getting into a list of dodgy 70s album covers (for which Axe Victim arguably qualifies), I can offer a truckload of progressive rock albums.
― doug watson, Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Axe Victim here as "visual pun on dad joke," surely?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
It's a pity the Ozark album is spelled out, we should refer to The Car Over The Lake album like we do The Black Album, White Album etc
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
No thread on the Car Over The Lake album, surely some mistake
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
wow car over the lake that's incredible
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
piggybacking on the 70s bands releasing later albums with cringe-inducing internet references, i dunno, may be OT but i lol'd
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/JethroTull-albums-jtulldotcom.jpg
― unknown pleasure zone (uptown churl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
sorry :/
― unknown pleasure zone (uptown churl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
God that's so bad. I totally support the proposed dot com albums thread.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
(But would be okay with it also just being the all-purpose lol90s album title thread)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
what's the crap on the sides of that album supposed to read??
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
dying laughing at the car over the lake album
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Car Over the Lake album is awesome
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
Can you dig the Car Over The Lake album sleeve? I knew that you could...
http://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/100_0662.jpg
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
the one guy can't figure out how to do the hand goggles thing! new favorite band
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
j-tull.com is a double winner for terrible album titles and awful album covers. Also I once gave it a taste at one of those tower records listening stations and I have a clear memory of it being equally dreadful.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
"If I Only Knew" is a tite cut from that lp
― salthigh, Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
dot com albums
got a personal favourite of these, a "melodic rock band" from Wales
http://www.sainwales.com/content/sized/content/sized/remote/sain-s3-amazonaws-com-album_images-scd2215m-400x397.jpg
― well-behaved wingmen really hate Mystery (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/frontrow/7675/wanker.jpg
― Vernon Locke, Friday, 26 September 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
feel like these dot com ones aren't really in the spirit of this thread
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 September 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link
that Aynsley Dunbar one kind of wins this thread
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Friday, 26 September 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
the Magic! - Don't Kill the Magic one sucks because the cover is just their band logo instead of the lead singer dressed up as a magician in a tuxedo holding a top hat & a rabbit standing up on the gallows w/a noose around is neck and the whole crowd cheering him on while the hangman is all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 September 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 September 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
but otm
http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/chilliwack.jpg
http://eil.com/images/main/Dean+Friedman+-+%27Well,+Well%27,+Said+The+Rocking+Chair+-+LP+RECORD-380228.jpg
http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/c1a1f3e1fdb3ab7d52873e212d3b4ae5/3088680.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 06:30 (nine years ago) link
I dunno if we've covered these, but Oh hai Jim Capaldi
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61yHfYN768L._SY300_.jpg
http://images.plixid.com/imager/w_500/h_/6d1099ae1833c065d6c514a12c468403.jpg
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 September 2014 07:19 (nine years ago) link
I see now one of those is in the first segment of the thread.
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 September 2014 07:24 (nine years ago) link
the aynsley dunbar cover up there reminded me of the existence of this monstrosity:
http://www.stereo-records.com/user/151/photo/syousai1/9147.jpg
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 28 September 2014 07:38 (nine years ago) link
w/o the text the Aynsley Dunbar one would be an intriguing image, which is much more than can be said for most of these monstrosities
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 28 September 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
Fumble, "Poetry in Lotion"
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/f/fumble-poetry_in_lotion.jpg
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 September 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
"Fumble" indeed
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Some of these I would love to have heard the thought process & meetings behind these covers/titles
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 September 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Feel like a certain percentage of these are artifacts of a different era of record contracts, where any pop-rock act could get four or five LPs records out of one moderately successful single early on, and then by record four or five it's clear nobody gives a fuck about this has-been, and they'll just slap whatever together. Also drugs were probably involved somehow.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
Also what are the roots of this... We're Only In It For The Money by Zappa/Mothers? Thigh no visual pun on the art
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 September 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
I think of it like a macroscopic elaboration of the Pepper's/MMT -> White Album -> Let It Be/Abbey Road comedown. This journey into the weird zone of pretension-to-unpretentiousness - - - just some shaggy guys who play rock and roll, but there's still a belief that the album cover has to be something, even if it's just like us walking across a street in a kind of distinctively framed shot or something. The rubicon has been crossed and you can't just go back to, y'know, My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) And Ten Other Hits! or Sing Along With Orleans or Still More From Wet Willie, except as a self-aware gesture that such things are the quasi-innocent hucksterism of an earlier era to which no band, no matter how down-to-earth their good-times bar rock might be, can consider returning.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Like basically the whole idea that "the album" is now a "thing" may in fact not really well-suited to the majority of rock bands... but they, the public, and the record companies totally bought into it for whatever other reasons.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
A lot of these albums are basically "here's the last eleven blues rock jams we've cranked out in the studio and who cares what the title is."
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 September 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
I confess I kinda like this one, makes me want to hear the album
http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/p/h/phillipgoodhand83774.jpg
― The Count has shot himself (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
As this thread has deepened and mellowed with time, I find my earlier suspicion of records like this fading as I browse the used bins, and increasingly I'm more interested in listening to these types of albums than any others, even though I'm certain they're inessential crap even in the hands of artists I like.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
I think of it like a macroscopic elaboration of the Pepper's/MMT -> White Album -> Let It Be/Abbey Road comedown. This journey into the weird zone of pretension-to-unpretentiousness - - - just some shaggy guys who play rock and roll, but there's still a belief that the album cover has to be /something/, even if it's just like us walking across a street in a kind of distinctively framed shot or something. The rubicon has been crossed and you can't just go back to, y'know, /My Girl (Gone Gone Gone) And Ten Other Hits!/ or /Sing Along With Orleans/ or /Still More From Wet Willie/, except as a self-aware gesture that such things are the quasi-innocent hucksterism of an earlier era to which no band, no matter how down-to-earth their good-times bar rock might be, can consider returning.
― The "5" Astronomer Royales (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 September 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
indeed
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
it's kinda funny how quick it all went like dylan and lennon and them all wanting to get "back to basics" playing blues and rock n roll and stuff, it's like you guys were only away from the basics for like 5 years!
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
There's something about these covers though that gives me a depressing feeling, like hanging out with a middle-aged, childless uncle for too long. I don't want records to give me that yep-this-is-all-there-is feeling.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link