This thread needs to be its own coffee table book.
titled 'why punk happened'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:14 (eleven years ago)
lol
― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:31 (eleven years ago)
"Prog on the Prairie" - good stuff in there, though there's some tics that bug me (particularly the gendering of the early/good stuff vs. "housewife hits"). I also wonder about continuing to insist on this "prairie" quality - Topeka's not New York, no, but it was more populous in 1970 than, say, contemporary Columbus, and people talked about Times New Viking without pretending it was some big riddle that people west of New York play something other than country-fried boogie ramblings.
OTOH he did lead me to this one from Head East:
http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/87570.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 November 2014 02:33 (eleven years ago)
I love this thread but I'm not convinced I even get about half these covers.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 6 November 2014 05:35 (eleven years ago)
I wonder how many of these acts made an attempt to 'go new wave'
― john mortimer impression (soref), Thursday, 6 November 2014 08:49 (eleven years ago)
http://www.elbarriodiscstore.com/wp-content/uploads/001115.jpg
The Jaggerz - We Went To Different Schools Together
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:24 (eleven years ago)
http://theband.hiof.no/band_pictures/OCEAN_LP-COV.jpg
Ocean - Put Your Hand In The Hand
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:32 (eleven years ago)
http://helium.lunarpages.com/~funky4/pictures/ironleg/biffrose_pic.jpg
Biff Rose - The Thorn In Mrs Rose's Side
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:37 (eleven years ago)
http://record.ticro.com/record/jacket/T00000653.jpg
Trade Martin - Let Me Touch You
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:40 (eleven years ago)
Here's a terrible cover gag i actually really like:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bT46ySKAL._SY300_.jpg
NRBQ - At Yankee Stadium
(rear sleeve has a picture taken through binoculars of them sitting in the back row)
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:52 (eleven years ago)
Also today I have 'The Pushbike Song' by the Mixtures stuck in my head and i totally blame this thread
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 09:57 (eleven years ago)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/65673052/Dont+Call+Us+Well+Call+You.jpg
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 10:16 (eleven years ago)
Bah, my images won't post. There's also a Guru Guru album, "Don't Call Us We Call You", but that earns an exemption from this thread because of cute mangled use of English.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 10:20 (eleven years ago)
cover connection with the sassafras one you posted yesterday there
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 10:40 (eleven years ago)
Skyhooks had a good run of these titles:
Ego Is Not a Dirty Word (1975)Straight in a Gay Gay World (1976)Guilty Until Proven Insane (1978)Hot for the Orient (1980)
― john mortimer impression (soref), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:45 (eleven years ago)
http://eil.com/images/main/Bill-Bruford-Feels-Good-To-Me-488760.jpgBill Bruford - Feels Good To Me
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:52 (eleven years ago)
Wait...what's happening there?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:59 (eleven years ago)
He's engaging in a pleasurable sensation
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)
Man, I would love to find out if there was some particular album marketing guru with a pamphlet or a trade show stump speech that drove these albums, getting record execs fired up for the vast sales potential lurking in blah photos of their blah-looking musicians alongside dopey titles.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)
Brand X on a roll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Roll#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X_Morrocan_Roll.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_They_Hurt%3F#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X-Do_They_Hurt.JPGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_There_Anything_About%3F#mediaviewer/File:Brand_X_-_Is_There_Anything_About.jpg
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:04 (eleven years ago)
Oh ffs, seriously?
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:05 (eleven years ago)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/45725977/Morrocan+Roll.jpg
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:06 (eleven years ago)
http://covers1.img-themusic-world.info/000/18/18307.jpg
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:07 (eleven years ago)
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/660/cover_57052982010.JPG
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:09 (eleven years ago)
morrocan roll is good but will never beat this effort from foghat:
http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/cover/d80/27007_foghat_foghat_rock_n_roll.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:10 (eleven years ago)
I think the Brand X covers are by Hipgnosis, which is kind of at the other end of the spectrum of these kind of covers to the super half-arsed stuff like that Foghat album
― john mortimer impression (soref), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)
do ppl prefer stupid, crass puns with incredibly half-arsed covers or stupid, crass puns with super elaborate expensive looking covers?
― john mortimer impression (soref), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:17 (eleven years ago)
more like crass buns amirite
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:18 (eleven years ago)
that Foghat cover made me realise that Cosi Fan Tutti-Frutti by Squeeze is sort of one of these, but about 10 yrs too late:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Cosi_fan_tutti_frutti_album.jpg
― john mortimer impression (soref), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:22 (eleven years ago)
lol at that REO Speedwagon story. Seems like they had their own Mike Love until they wished him into the cornfield
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)
Brian Wilson keepin' the tradition alive...
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 November 2014 05:11 (eleven years ago)
haha i once made a joke around "pier pressure" as an album title and none of my friends got it
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 7 November 2014 06:02 (eleven years ago)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/83809459/Different+Moods+Of+Me.jpg
― Leon Septamost, Friday, 7 November 2014 08:01 (eleven years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4144CP9FKQL.jpg
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Friday, 7 November 2014 20:35 (eleven years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hLAW4d7rwDo/UXjVWKTxrMI/AAAAAAAAFKE/2bJjb1LJB3Q/s1600/Stretch-76-f.jpg
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Friday, 7 November 2014 20:49 (eleven years ago)
"How Late'll Ya Play'til" is soooooo good.
http://www.planetperplex.com/img/gold_wrong.jpg
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/h/henry_gross-plug_me_into_something.jpg
"An amp's okay, I guess."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:13 (eleven years ago)
also just for 2x gross factor:
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/508/MI0001508088.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
Really "needs" the gatefold. Also: there are like, twelve Stampeders LPs.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:21 (eleven years ago)
http://akaguymarks.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/7/2/5272003/9380692_orig.jpg
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 13 November 2014 19:46 (eleven years ago)
would buy that one for sure, any album that promises the artist "goes bananas" in any fashion is already on the right track.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 13 November 2014 19:48 (eleven years ago)
Wonderfully over-literal.
http://www.secondhandlps.de/pix_rb_soul/robinson_smokey_pocketful.jpg
― Pheeel, Friday, 14 November 2014 00:14 (eleven years ago)
This is probably more in line with the thread(except released in 1988)
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/Nuge%20-%20If%20You%20Can
― Pheeel, Friday, 14 November 2014 00:32 (eleven years ago)
GUH
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 November 2014 00:59 (eleven years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Badfingeralbums-ass.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 November 2014 06:02 (eleven years ago)
You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It is an album by British pop group Hotlegs.The album was released in 1976 after Hotlegs, a three-piece band from Stockport, near Manchester, had added a fourth member, Graham Gouldman, changed its name and achieved international chart success as 10cc.The album was a revised version of Hotlegs' debut album, Thinks: School Stinks, which had included the band's hit single "Neanderthal Man".
The album was released in 1976 after Hotlegs, a three-piece band from Stockport, near Manchester, had added a fourth member, Graham Gouldman, changed its name and achieved international chart success as 10cc.
The album was a revised version of Hotlegs' debut album, Thinks: School Stinks, which had included the band's hit single "Neanderthal Man".
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 November 2014 06:04 (eleven years ago)
Thinks: School Stinks is brilliant
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 November 2014 16:15 (eleven years ago)
Used to have "You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It" - there's a track on it with three movements called "Suite F.A."
― everything, Friday, 14 November 2014 20:10 (eleven years ago)
Of course, it's an early line-up of 10CC so...jokes.
― everything, Friday, 14 November 2014 20:12 (eleven years ago)
Something subtly so bad about the Henry Gross one, it's like "I literally just fucked this hot chick, now I'm ready to rock, I am a hero"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 November 2014 21:05 (eleven years ago)
Plug me into something! Show me to the stage! Gimme something to write on! Hello? Hello! Is this thing on? Where's my tea? Shannon!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 November 2014 23:55 (eleven years ago)