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

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

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.

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.

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."

I confess I kinda like this one, makes me want to hear the album

http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/p/h/phillipgoodhand83774.jpg

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.

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.

indeed

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!

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.

Some of these I would love to have heard the thought process & meetings behind these covers/titles

I think many were "we need this by Friday, here's $1000 and a bag of weed..."

Also drugs were probably involved somehow.

Yep.

The art isn't trying to match the title in a super-literal way, but this is "You Should See The Rest Of The Band" by David Bromberg.

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drg100/g182/g18239o6mny.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rZFHdpgd9pI/UY8DXK17EYI/AAAAAAAAy0s/7eyLxOZjubA/s1600/Gary+Owens,+Dick+Gautier+&+More+-+Hexorcist+Devil+Of+An+Album+1974+(3).jpg

like hanging out with a middle-aged, childless uncle for too long.

otm, people who don't procreate are the worst

http://www.mihamazzini.com/EN/plosce/images/gunne0.jpg

(gatefold cover, back side is NSFW)

Sometimes I scroll through my head and smdh at how many pointless records have been made.

Stone the Crows, "Ontinuous Performance"

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/169/MI0002169926.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/613JV2K769L.jpg

... that's better.

rip leslie harvey

lol'ing at "The Hexorcist - a devil of an album"

"Shittin' Em Out" featuring a vinyl record emerging from the artist's rear.

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-480824-1216373066.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-480824-1216373090.jpeg

I had to look up that JoJO Gunne album and uh

The band's third album Jumpin' the Gunne failed to rise any higher than #169 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. This was partially attributed to a controversial cover of an overweight naked woman jumping over the band who were in a bed as she attempted to reach a baby pig. The gatefold jacket had the same woman with the album credits written on her in black marker as she cavorts with a piglet.

that bunny sigler is awwwwwesome,

and yeah, jojo gunne seem pretty fuckin gross, ha ha the woman is fat!!

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/350454803796.jpg

alternate Spanish cover, hints at just how many great titles would reveal unseen wretchedness on one of these covers

gross!

Do foreign pressings often get alternate cover art? I'm just wondering what In Through the Out Door might look like

here's an early 90s version of who cares artwork
http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1246421-02A-BIG.jpg

nice 49ers hat

trying to imagine the chat during which Grant was told, "You'll sell more records in California if you wear this thing..."

yeah he looks like he's literally wearing a baseball hat for the first time in his life

it's an ok album, but man what a crazy cover to choose when you're kicking off your solo career. hello world!

Tucky Buzzard, "Warm Slash"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZcE7NhC-Jc/T8587-7_-eI/AAAAAAAAASo/Oi_Dkgkm_Q4/s1600/Tucky+Buzzard+-+Front.jpg

(Not sure 'slash' has the same connotations in the US, but the tasteful urine coloured writing should give you a clue).

haha that's awful

why didn't they just call it 'hot piss'?

Don't ask me to explain what the title means, I haven't a scooby

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/If_Tea_Break_Over.jpeg

It's the punchline to a joke about the devil

It's an old joke about a guy who ends up in hell. He is submerged in shit up to his neck, after a while he starts thinking it's not so bad, then he hears a voice saying "breaks over" and he's suddenly standing on his head. Think there is a similar Bradbury story where it alternates between unbearably hot & cold?

Right, that explains the unpleasant sleeve design

... but does in no way excuse it.

'eads

i keep walking past the bus stop near where im staying and it says "both sides of the road" and it makes me think of this thread

so i looked on discogs and it listed no records called that, apart from one called corpses on both sides of the road, by some people called
endometrium cuntplow

Have: 4
Want: 2
Avg Rating: 5.0 / 5
Ratings: 2
Last Sold: Never
Lowest: --
Median: --
Highest: --

endometrium cuntplow

dying

Horrible 70s band names like endometrium cuntplow

Has this been mentioned yet, or is it too obvious?

http://static.qobuz.com/images/covers/12/06/0073145580612_600.jpg

lonely guy just thinking baout things

^ otm. I know we've moved on from the albums actually being horrible but nothing about that album is horrible!

Also in general I have grown to love these titles so much