http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/b/bc/Three_Dog_Night_-_Hard_Labor.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140626123157
'Hard Labor' by Three Dog Night
The title and basic concept make it seem like something that should fit here, but it comes out a little too disturbing and ends up looking more like it should Devo album cover or something? apparently this version was quickly pulled in favour of a censored edition with a large sticking plaster over the centre of the image
― soref, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
not sure if it entirely fits -- the title is just swarbrick 2 -- but I've always found the cover of this one kind of hilarious and halfassedhttp://cdn.discogs.com/F2zILJJ4Sb79YGDCn27SZKy7_Qk=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2214839-1270396262.jpeg.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
cigarette pushes it over the line into being appropriate for the thread imo
― soref, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah, i love swarbrick
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
the swarb is awesome, but...
http://eil.com/images/main/Dave-Swarbrick-Lift-The-Lid-And-567769.jpg
note the miniscule hands attempting to indeed lift the lid
― no lime tangier, Friday, 19 June 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Lol
― tylerw, Friday, 19 June 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
Given Roger Millers sort of goofy sense of humor I suppose he really took to this type of album titling
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 June 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Not to pat myself on the back but I kind of want to just retire from the thread after "Making A Name For Myself." I really don't think I can top that one. Nonetheless, a few of today's finds coming up...
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
That does seem to be the clear winner, way ahead of the back.
This genre just keeps on giving, like film noir or something, pretty much every newly rediscovered example has something to offer.
― Give 'Em Enough Rope Mother (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/gallery/290609747935.jpg
Uncle Jim's Music - There's A Song In This (1972)
http://cdn.discogs.com/BoWHAuu8fkUSSoKoWVkS-hoIl_o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/R-5205842-1409353510-1496.jpeg.jpg
Bureman & O'Rourke - Somebody Give Me A Smile (1976)
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/v/valdy-familygathering.jpg
Valdy - Family Gathering (1974) (get it??? cause he's alone!!!)
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/7/7b/Valdy_-_Valdy_and_The_Hometown_Band.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120921181515
This is, in fact, a self-titled album - but I would like special dispensation, based on the cover design, to enter it as Valdy and the Hometown Band - Folksinger Deluxe With Side of Fries (1976)
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
https://plan59.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/records-4-049.jpg
^ Spotted this one in the wild today
― feargal czukay (NickB), Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
hahaha
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
That Family one made me think, "I bet he drowned his whole family in that lake."
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
Family Gathering, sorry.
following on the brit-folk tip here is one that seems to fit
https://mainlynorfolk.info/john.kirkpatrick/images/largerec/goingspare_frr030.jpg
― salthigh, Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
have we had this? Hello - Keeps Us Off The Streets
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/866/MI0001866413.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― soref, Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
and the follow up, Hello - Again
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/761/MI0000761029.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― soref, Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
(Naturally)
― Give 'Em Enough Rope Mother (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Elton's guitarist had his own album to do...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CyvveY_A3yU/TMPXIOI2sMI/AAAAAAAABiA/xFlJ3DveT1M/s1600/Davey+Johnstone+Smiling+Face.jpg
― The Manner of Crawly (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 June 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Talking of faces, Mick's wee brother claims "You Know the Name But Not the Face"
http://www.specialistrecords.com/image/cache/data/J/jagger_chris_youknowthenamebutnottheface-800x800.jpg
― The Manner of Crawly (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 June 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
http://s5.postimage.org/rbc0laso7/gas_mask_first.jpg
gas mask their first album
xposts: john kirkpatrick also responsible for the rather verbose among the many attractions at the show will be a really high class band
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 20 June 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/364x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/i/m/image_11191.jpg
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 20 June 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Poor Valdy :(
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 June 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.discogs.com/cuAn-P2F3mB96bPUPG_6HPM8Teg=/fit-in/596x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-6107680-1411255729-4935.jpeg.jpg
Christopher Milk – Some People Will Drink Anything!
― soref, Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.discogs.com/YvJOnj32OQbnfOxh4eCjmDV_F7U=/fit-in/493x490/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-5594822-1411125771-8907.jpeg.jpg
The Swinging Blue Jeans – Brand New And Faded
― soref, Sunday, 21 June 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
i am hoping against hope that this is not supposed to be a gag about his name being "milk"
ugh
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 21 June 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
Christopher Milk wasn't a person--it was LA Glam band led by Rock Critic John Mendelsohn (whom you might remember his liner notes to Kinks albums and/or his vicious pans of early Led Zeppelin albums in Rolling Stone), his hyping of which diminished much of his journalistic cred rather quickly.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 June 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
Wow, that got to this one a few years before Cheap Trick did...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrmxYTVJ5w
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 June 2015 03:26 (nine years ago) link
Swarbrick's Lift the Lid... is especially classic bcs he's not even looking at the camera. What must the rejected shots have been like?
― mahb, Monday, 22 June 2015 08:20 (nine years ago) link
interesting blog post on Christopher Milk, had no idea he was also a musician
http://blackhairedboy.blogspot.com/2011/02/christopher-milk.html
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:27 (nine years ago) link
Vin Garbutt, folk singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough
http://cdn.discogs.com/yyHYi3rLP_ER_cKFlR185muGwSU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2206130-1411078130-5360.jpeg.jpg
Tossin' a Wobbler
http://cdn.discogs.com/B3NW2_2B7KDKRdWi83PhOSVCEH8=/fit-in/467x495/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(96)/discogs-images/R-2315078-1296133466.jpeg.jpg
The Young Tin Whistle Pest
also released an album called 'The Valley of Tees'
― soref, Saturday, 4 July 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
tossin' a wobbler sounds dirty
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 July 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/John-Kirkpatrick--Sue-Ha-Jump-At-The-Sun-483591.jpghttp://folkmonster.co.uk/albums/john_kirkpatrick/three_in_a_row_front.jpg
which makes three park benches featuring on john kirkpatrick covers!
― no lime tangier, Friday, 10 July 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Stampeders, "Ballsy"
http://image2.archambault.ca/1/1/8/B/ACH001149770.1386796341.580x580.jpg
Stevie Wright, "Black Eyed Bruiser"
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hddLTkUVdoI/TM-9b0CfyII/AAAAAAAABl8/_F6Sgj3usg4/s1600/Black+Eyed+Bruiser+-+Cover.jpg
― This Year's Model Victim (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 July 2015 10:24 (nine years ago) link
The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread prompted me to do a wiki on B.A. Robertson, where I found out about his debut album, credited to Brian Alexander Robertson, "Wringing Applause":
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2701/4123428172_162db0324b.jpg
Bizarrely this was released on Ardent Records, and seems to have been at least partly recorded at Ardent Studios, hence the involvement of Terry Manning... yet it was produced by Georg Kajanus, later frontman of Sailor! I want to hear it now!
― Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PyFJ2b7mcHk/VXaD1kfSsYI/AAAAAAAACgw/r4IzowUjLS0/s1600/1.jpg
Albert Mangelsdorff – A Jazz Tune I Hope
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Elvin Jones/Eddie Gomez: A Paycheck I Hope
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/a/albert_mangelsdorff-tromboneliness.jpg
Albert Mangelsdorff – Tromboneliness.
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of Eddie Gomez. . .http://i.imgur.com/MSXNSza.png?1
Album's really good, but that cover, boy.
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KISkxy8rL._SX355_.jpg
Bette Midler-Thighs and Whispers
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Thread has generally been great lately but "Tromboneliness" is one for the ages. I can only imagine it's a whole album of sad-trombone.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
I have an Amy Schumer-esque "I can't decide if she's hot" internal dialogue going every time I see old pics of Bette Midler
― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
If hot means that guy from Twisted Sister, then yes.
― Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah let's turn this into a 'hpt or not' thread
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
was going to mention that the cover of 'Wringing Applause' = the only picture of B.A. Robertson I've ever seen where he looks sort of hot
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
omg @ Tromboneliness thread winnah DrC otm
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Georgie Fame, "All Me Own Work"
http://www.netvinyls.com/images/large/ROK2000/ROK0001670_LRG.jpg
― Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
BA Robertson's career always seems little incomprehensible but imo it's just that he was a good networker. He seemed to be able to surround himself with super-session men - Herbie Flowers, Davy Graham, the guys from AWB, Billy Livsey, Steve Harley's band and so on. The connection with George Kajanus is that he and Robertson shared the same music publisher, Steve Morris Music. Seems like there is a lot of cross-pollination between a pretty lacklustre roster of artists - Robertson, Kajanus, Stephen Bishop, Yvonne Elliman (who also recorded at Ardent). They recorded each others songs, did a duet or two etc. eg. Robertson did a heinous vocal cover of ABBA's Arrival with Frida on the same album that Stephen Morris wrote a song or two.
It's a little embarrassing that I know even vague details of all this btw.
― everything, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
'Bang Bang' was great.
Important BA Robertson moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDK1dMNAJno
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
Aye, gerritupye Brian, cheeky article.
― Possibly Fingers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link